A post from long ago...March 13, 2006
We have been enjoying the word of the Lord concerning being ready and persevering for the gaining of our souls when the Lord comes back. Our souls still need salvation (1 Peter 1:9) and all those who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted (2 Timothy 3:12, Matthew 5:10). The day of the Lord fast approaches! It is by endurance that we will be saved. It doesn't matter if we exercised our spirit 5, 10, 20 years ago or how many recoveries we experienced. There is no retirement from our day by day salvation. Today is the day for recovery! Today is the day for salvation! God declared it and designated it, Hallelujah!
Hebrews 4:7
"He again designates a certain day, today, saying in David after so long a time, even as He has said before, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.''
Luke 21:36
"But be watchful at every time, beseeching that you would prevail to escape all these things which are about to happen and stand before the Son of Man."
Luke 21:19
"In your endurance you will possess your souls."
Hebrews 10:36-39
"For you have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, you may obtain the promise. For in yet a very little while the Coming One will come and will not delay. But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul does not delight in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to ruin but of them who have faith to the gaining of the soul.''
Revelation 3:10
"Because you have kept the word of My endurance, I also will keep you out of the hour of trial, which is about to come on the whole inhabited earth, to try them who dwell on the earth."
May we be those who are not dwelling on the earth during that great and terrible day (Zephaniah 1:4, Revelation 6:17, Jeremiah 30:7, Joel 2:11, 2:31-32)
Let us keep the word of His endurance.
