TITLE:  How Not to Quit
TEXT:  Titus 1:10-16
PROPOSITION:  There are many reasons not to quit serving God.
QUESTION:  Why?
KEY WORD:  Reasons
SCRIPTURE READING:  Same

 INTRODUCTION:

1. Worn out, stressed out, tired, can’t go on, ready to throw in the towel?
2. So was Titus – false teachers, gossip, insubordinate – You can’t work with these people! Just quit.
3. Jeremiah 20:9 – Jeremiah was ready to quit, sit by the road, stop being God’s prophet
4. Mothers, fathers, spouses, students, workers, and Christians – all who are ready to quit – THIS SERMON IS FOR YOU!

 HERE ARE SOME REASONS NOT TO QUIT:

1. God punishes those He loves –
   Hebrews 12:6 – whom the Lord loves, he chastens
2. I will regret it in a few days –
   I will be acting on impulse, instability, insincerity
   Right of rescission – change your mind
3. I will disappoint other people –
   Others have confidence in me at church
   My family, friends, and co-workers
   God will be disappointed
4. I will be ungrateful to Christ –
   After what Christ went through for me
   Salvation, preparing a place for me in heaven
   All the material blessings
5. I will be ungrateful to all who got me this far –
   Encouragement, support, family
   Friends, teachers, employers
   All who trusted me, helped me along the way, had patience to train and help
6. I might lead others to quit –
   My influence, others looking to me
7. I will miss the blessings of heaven –
   Name blotted out, lose my reward
   Later end is worse than first –2 Peter 2:20
8. I will not like the feeling of separation from God –
   Prayer life hindered
   Feeling that God has left me alone, dangling
9. If I quit, I will be tempted into deeper sins –
   Farther from God
   Harder to return
10. I will be rejecting Jesus –
    Jesus is with me when I am discouraged
    If I quit, I will be rejecting Jesus

Conclusion:

1. Don’t quit – There are more reasons to keep on keeping on, than to quit
2. God, Jesus, this church, your family, friends and many others need you to keep going.