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  (SERMON CLIP) LAYING HOLD OF THE PROMISES EVEN IF IT GETS YOU KILLED
  by Tim Conway
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of trusting God
throughout history, especially in times of missionary advances and
evangelistic outreach. It highlights the reality that trusting God may
lead to persecution or even death, but ultimately, it is better to die
trusting God than to live in safety without faith. The message
encourages pastors to lead their churches in faith, reminding them of
the greatness of God and the power of His promises.

Topics: "Trusting God in Adversity", "The Cost of Faith"
Scripture References: Hebrews 11:6, Matthew 10:28, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Philippians 1:21, Psalm 56:3

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of trusting God throughout
history, especially in times of missionary advances and evangelistic
outreach. It highlights the reality that trusting God may lead to
persecution or even death, but ultimately, it is better to die trusting
God than to live in safety without faith. The message encourages pastors
to lead their churches in faith, reminding them of the greatness of God
and the power of His promises.

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Church has been, all you have to do is look through history. All you
have to do is look through history at every single time there has been
any sort of major missionary advance, any sort of church that has really
been a light in this world. Every time there is some great evangelistic
outreach in this world, all through history, every time there has been a
real upheaval, guaranteed, look, open up your history books, open up the
Christian history and read, somebody was raised up by God who had faith.

Always, always, that's always trusting God. Trust God. And brother, I'll
tell you this, trusting God might get you killed, or it might get
somebody in your church killed.

And Jesus never said it wouldn't. He never said that. We want to protect
our people, but our people are expendable for the glory of God.

And when I say expendable, I'm not talking about throwing them away. I'm
talking about what more glorious death would they ever die than to die
for Christ. It might get you killed.

It might. Jesus never said it wouldn't. But brother, would it not be
better to die trusting God than to be caged up safe and secure within
your Calvinistic walls of a church who won't put their trust in a
sovereign God of Scripture.

Brother, that's far better, far better, far better. Brother, play the
man as you pastor this church. You have a big God.

Don't ever forget it. You have a big God, and this book is full of His
promises. You latch onto those promises.

Because the John G. Patons and the William Careys, despite what the
crowd had to say, they latched onto the promises, the Hudson Taylors,
the men and the women that have turned this world upside down, they laid
hold on those promises, and they found they had a big God. And it cost
many of them their lives. Though it cost you your life, that doesn't
diminish the greatness of God.

In fact, when you'll choose to trust God even to the death, there's no
better way to glorify Him than to give Him all. Brother, that's my
charge to you. Lead the church in faith.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/zef13JE1FD0.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/tim-conway/sermon-clip-laying-hold-of-the-promises-even-if-it-gets-you-killed/
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