Pastor Josh here.
I would like to give you a preview of our Sunday morning service
on October 13 here at Middletown
Baptist Church.
We're going to be continuing our sermon series in two corinthians.
We will be in two corinthians, chapter six.
And we're going to start in verse number three.
We're going to see what Paul says through the inspiration of scripture
about what it means to be a successful
minister of the gospel.
Now, all of us are called to be ministers.
All of us are called to be ambassadors, as we saw in chapter
five.
And as ministers of the gospel, we have a message to preach
to the world.
We have a message to display to the world.
And so anytime we do something for God, we are called to be successful.
But the true test is what are we defining success as?
Is success, popularity?
Well, this passage of scripture is going to tell us, no,
it's not popularity is success, painlessness.
No, the Bible says that there is going to be pain, there's going
to be struggles.
And so what Paul is going to describe here in this passage is
the true test of success is faithfulness.
And how can we be faithful?
Well, we can be faithful through having patience or endurance.
And so we're going to look at this week what it means to be a Christian
who is focused on enduring difficulties,
to present ourselves faithful to God
in the midst of ministering to him
with that message of the gospel.
Sometimes it's not easy to exercise endurance.
It's not easy to be patient.
But the Bible says that that is something that we must have in
our life as the focus, because as
the Bible tells us in many occasions,
God calls us to exercise that patience,
to that endurance, so that we can keep
our eyes fixed on the eternal rewards
and not those that are here and now
on this side of heaven.
So I encourage you to come out and learn from scripture what it
means to be a faithful minister of
the message of the gospel and how
we can have endurance as christians
here today.
So I'll be praying for you, hope to see you this weekend.
If you're not able to be there in person, we will be replaying this
on Monday morning.
And also we'll be live streaming on YouTube and on Facebook.
Take care.
Have a wonderful weekend.