Don’t Quit: read this in my church’s bulletin

Too many quit or want to stop when the going gets rough. In most cases, one never really quits the problem. One may move away from it, but it follows a person, often much of one's life. The obstacle is still there. However: * You cannot quit being a Christian: Once a true Christian, always a Christian. You did not earn it. It was a free gift of salvation if you trusted Jesus' finished work on the cross as payment for all your sins. However, too many quit being Christ-like. "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." John 10:28-29 % You cannot quit because the enemy has nothing to offer. There are only two sides - Satan's and God's. If one is truly saved by faith, he cannot get unsaved and be on the loser's side. "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." Ephesians 6:13 * You should not quit because victory may be just around the corner. Troubles and tribulations are part of the school of life. You may be very close to passing the "test" and going on to life's next lesson. Do not quit now. "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly king-dom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." II Timothy 4:18 * You cannot quit when you make a mistake. Just get back in the saddle and try again. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or fam-ine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For 1 am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principal-ities, nor powers, nor things pre-sent, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39 * You cannot quit now; you will miss the harvest. Maybe your problem will be over one day, and you will reap a blessing from the tribulation. Perhaps it will be tomorrow or the day after. Spiritual fruit does not always come the day it is planted. "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." I Corinthians 15:58 Also: John 15:4.