CHARACTER LESSON 16: Closing Thoughts
- Hal Habecker
- May 27
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 3
Selected Studies in Aging – How Did Characters in the Bible Finish in Life?
Hal Habecker, Finishing Well Ministries
The attached video watching guide below is designed to follow the study. Every Scripture I mention is already included, but please feel free to take your notes as you listen and think about what is being said.”
Hal Habecker
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Lesson intro
Closing Thoughts: A Summary - Preparing to Finish
What do you want to do about it? God used ALL the characters we've looked at in their later years. Some did not finish well. Let's learn from them.
PREPARE NOW TO FINISH
We will end well if we live each day well. God ordains the length of our lives.
"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done." - C.S. Lewis
APPLY THE SCRIPTURES TO YOUR AGING SEASON
"If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it" (Luke 9.23-24).
KNOW GOD'S PURPOSE FOR YOU
Exercise it. Develop it. Live it. Excel in it. It's your identity in Christ.
Do you have a 25-year gameplan?
Remember: "Spiritual failure is never a blowout, but always the result of a slow leak." Howard G. Hendricks "
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom" (Psalm 90.
