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Finishing Well: Embracing the Journey Towards Victory

Explore strategies on how to finish well, drawing insights from inspirational passages and teachings by Pastor Dave Jansen. Learn how to overcome obstacles and stay focused on your goals, empowered by faith and grace.

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Finishing Well: Embracing the Journey Towards Victory

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  1. Finishing Well Pastor Dave Jansen July 14, 2019 Series: Facing the Unfinished

  2. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. • --2 Timothy 4:7-8 (NIV)

  3. On that same day, December 18, the Lord sent this second message to Haggai: “Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth. I will overthrow royal thrones and destroy the power of foreign kingdoms. I will overturn their chariots and riders. The horses will fall, and… (cont’d) • --Haggai 2:20-23 (NLT)

  4. …their riders will kill each other. • “But when this happens, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, I will honor you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant. • I will make you like a signet ring on my finger, says the Lord, for I have chosen you. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!” • --Haggai 2:20-23 (NLT)

  5. Leaders need extra encouragement to finish well

  6. How can we finish well?

  7. How can we finish well?

  8. How can we finish well? • 1. See the finish

  9. Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth. I will overthrow royal thrones and destroy the power of foreign kingdoms. I will overturn their chariots and riders. The horses will fall, and their riders will kill each other. • --Haggai 2:21-22 (NLT)

  10. How can we finish well? • 1. See the finish

  11. I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. • --Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT)

  12. How can we finish well? • 1. See the finish

  13. Since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and… (cont’d) • --Hebrews 12:1-3 (NLT)

  14. …perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up. • --Hebrews 12:1-3 (NLT)

  15. How can we finish well? • 1. See the finish

  16. How can we finish well?

  17. How can we finish well? • 2. Serve to the finish

  18. When this happens, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, I will honor you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant. • --Haggai 2:23 (NLT)

  19. How can we finish well? • 2. Serve to the finish

  20. I am bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem. I don’t know what awaits me, except that the Holy Spirit tells me in city after city that jail and suffering lie ahead. But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God. • --Acts 20:22-24 (NLT)

  21. How can we finish well? • 2. Serve to the finish

  22. How can we finish well?

  23. How can we finish well? 3. Seal the finish

  24. I will make you like a signet ring on my finger, says the Lord, for I have chosen you. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!” • --Haggai 2:23 (NLT)

  25. How can we finish well? 3. Seal the finish

  26. “As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “I will abandon you, Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. Even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off. I will hand you over to those who seek to kill you, those you so desperately fear—to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the mighty Babylonian army.” • --Jeremiah 20:24-25 (NLT)

  27. How can we finish well? 3. Seal the finish

  28. When you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. • The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he • will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. • --Ephesians 1:13-14 (NLT)

  29. How can we finish well? 3. Seal the finish

  30. I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the • day when Christ Jesus returns. • --Philippians 1:6 (NLT)

  31. How can we finish well? 3. Seal the finish

  32. Finishing Well Pastor Dave Jansen July 14, 2019 Series: Facing the Unfinished

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