Don’t Give Up (Linton Hall)

Galatians 6:9 CSB – Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

James 4:17 CSB – So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.

Jesus encourages us to not give up in John 16:33

What is the good we are called to do?
– Encourage one another Hebrews 3:13
– Love deeply and without strings I Corinthians 13:4-7
– Don’t stop meeting together Hebrews 10:24-25

What about “at the proper time?”
– This life (Apri)
– The next life (Frederick Douglass, MLK, Jr.)

Conclusion

Hebrews 11:32-12:3 CSB -And what more can I say? Time is too short for me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, 33 who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight. 35 Women received their dead, raised to life again. Other people were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection. 36 Others experienced mockings and scourgings, as well as bonds and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated. 38 The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and on mountains, hiding in caves and holes in the ground.

39 All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

12:1 Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, 2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.