Don’t Give Up Lets Finish Up

 Jesus’ Time Line to His Finish Line

  • First Sign of water to wine marked the onset of last 3 yrs of Messiah’s life
  • With the last sign Resurrection of Lazarus, final month began
  • We look upon the Savior’s Sufficient Sacrifice FATHER FORGIVE

Jesus Said – I have to Finish His Work

My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.  Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.  Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
John 4:34-36

have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me.
John 5:36  

Calculate Cost & Finish the Work

Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.
Luke 14:28-30  

Why not Finish

  • God did not call – you called yourself
  • Lost Vision
  • Hard heart
  • Distractions – tares & thorns
  • Persecution
  • Pleasures or cares
  • Missed God promptings

 “It is finished.”
Right before Jesus looked up to heaven and he cried out to his father, into your hands I commit my spirit and he breathed his last, right before that Jesus said this. He said, tell a tetelestai, Greek he said, “It is finished.” I did everything you sent me to do Dad. I finished the race. How did he do it?
He wasn’t running for himself. He was running for his father

Jesus on cross – It is finished
Hanging on the Cross

  •  Hanging on the cross, when they at him and mocked him and shamed him, he just took another step and said, father, forgive them for they don’t even know what they’re doing.
  • From the very moment he started he had pre-decided I’m always ready, I’m always consistent, I’m always devoted, I’m always generous, I’m always faithful, and when I commit I don’t quit because I am a finisher.

If God’s For US Who can be against?
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?  (32)  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
Romans 8:31-32

Race Set Before Us

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,  fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:1-2

being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6
 

Connect group discussion questions

  1. Which part of the message was the most impactful for you and why?
  2. Read 2 Corinthians 8:10-11. What have you started that you still need to finish?
  3. What’s your typical attitude when you’re starting something new, as compared to when you need to finish something up?