Built to Withstand | Built For This: Week Three | Pastor Jon Dupin

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What if the breakthrough you need is on the other side of not giving up on your faith, marriage, or calling?

This episode is a sermon from Pastor Jon Dupin of Waymaker.Church, part three of the 'Built For This' series. He opens by asking listeners if they're ready to give up on faith, relationships, or callings, framing perseverance as the path to breakthrough. The teaching centers on Philippians 1:6, where Paul expresses confidence that God will complete His work in believers, emphasizing this is due to God's power, not human performance. Pastor Jon introduces a key theme: the gospel is about 'faithful finishes,' not just new beginnings, illustrated by a story of a woman flying from Vancouver to be baptized at the church. He then shifts to personal narrative, recounting the church's struggles in 2020, including pandemic divisiveness, two suicides in the congregation, and members leaving their faith. He describes a low moment seeing a donor wall with names of people who had departed, questioning if the ministry was worth it. In response, he shares a lesson God gave him: 'I never promised you easy. I promised you I'd be with you.' The sermon analyzes three reasons people give up: being discouraged by delays, becoming joyless from comparing to others, and getting forgetful from weariness in doing good work. Pastor Jon warns that giving up on God-assigned tasks costs maturity and joy. He then tells a poignant story about his granddaughter Renly's birth with a life-threatening heart defect, highlighting how churches rallied around his family, demonstrating God's presence in hardship. The message turns to Nehemiah 6, where the wall was rebuilt in 52 days despite opposition, attributing success to 'the help of our God.' Pastor Jon stresses that God helps believers persevere and gets the glory, not human effort. He jumps to Nehemiah 12, describing the joyous celebration after the wall's completion, with music and rejoicing heard far away, as a model for church celebration. The sermon closes by tying perseverance to testimony, renewal, and Jesus' own endurance on the cross, urging listeners not to quit because God is at work in them for great finishes.

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A sermon on staying put when delay, comparison, and weariness try to talk you out of it.

This sermon frames endurance as the real measure of faith, tracing a line from Philippians 1 into Nehemiah 6 and Nehemiah 12 to ask what happens when delay, comparison, and weariness start to drain a person.

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