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  (CLIP) 5 POWERFUL REMINDERS FOR CHRISTIANS
  by Shane Idleman
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of moving forward in
faith despite setbacks, difficulties, and discouragement. It encourages
believers to persevere and finish strong by relying on God's
omnipresence, eternal promises, and unfailing love. The message
highlights that even in afflictions and challenges, God is at work in
us, sustaining and upholding us with His strength and authority.

Topics: "Perseverance in Faith", "God's Sustaining Strength"
Scripture References: Psalm 139:7, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 4:8, Romans 8:38, Job 13:15

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of moving forward in faith despite
setbacks, difficulties, and discouragement. It encourages believers to
persevere and finish strong by relying on God's omnipresence, eternal
promises, and unfailing love. The message highlights that even in
afflictions and challenges, God is at work in us, sustaining and
upholding us with His strength and authority.

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CONTENT
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That's why it's so important as a believer. Here's the key to spiritual
victory, guys. Move forward despite setbacks.

Move forward despite difficulties. And move forward despite
discouragement. No matter what comes, you have to fight that good fight
of faith and stay on that narrow road.

That's how we get through life. How do you finish strong, Shane? You
persevere. Yes, you may fall, but you get back up.

And so I want to give you five powerful reminders. This will help you.
From the Bible, I didn't have the whole verse, but David said, where can
I go to flee from your presence? Where can I go? Nowhere.

God is everywhere. He said, if I go to the other parts of the sea, even
you are there. If I get the wings of an eagle and fly and go, even you
are there.

If I make my bed in hell, oh God, even you are there. And Paul reminds
us, for our light affliction is but for a moment working for us a far
greater eternal weight and glory for the things that we see are
temporal, but the things that we don't see are eternal and that God is
working in us. We are hard pressed on every side.

Welcome to the club, but not crushed. You're perplexed, but not in
despair. You're persecuted, but not forsaken.

You're struck down, but you're not destroyed. Praise God. Nothing can
separate us from God's love.

Neither height, nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come can ever separate me from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus. Thank God. Thank God.

And like Job said, though he slay me, yet why trust him? This is just a
good reminder you can learn scripture anywhere. I learned all this 22
years ago holding a stop sign for six weeks. Stop, go.

Stop, go. In Palmdale. I can see there's no cars coming for miles.

I just look. Just look. Just look.

Okay. Go. Stop.

Go. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of scriptures. You guys can do
it.

Make the time. Well, I'm a commuter. The commuting is the best time.

You can listen to the whole Bible in a week, or at least the New
Testament, and then repeat, repeat, or put. Now they have all of Psalms
on YouTube. Just listen to the, I mean, you can saturate your mind in
the Word of God.

Then these things, this becomes your foundation. So as I'm going through
the difficulties, that's the rock. That's the foundation.

Though I slip and fall, God upholds me with his right hand. He pulls me
up. Though the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, he may fall.

And the Lord pulls him up by his right hand, signifying the side of
strength and authority.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/NTaG8RNU4vk.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/shane-idleman/clip-5-powerful-reminders-for-christians/
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