Wednesday, March 5, 2025

πŸ’₯ Enduring to the end ... as long as God chooses to leave us on this earth.


Matthew 24:13  But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
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Hebrews 3
 
6 But Christ as a son over HIS own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear HIS voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted ME, proved ME, and saw MY works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said,
They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known MY ways.

11 So I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into MY rest.

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you
an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
 
(We leave God when we allow unbelief into our heart.)  So fight to hold onto belief in truth of God through the scriptures!
 
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13  But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said,
To day if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
Through their own stubbornness some throw away their own salvation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

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But with WHOM was HE grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware HE that they should not enter into HIS rest, but to them that believed not?

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
 
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It it important for each of us to work into our lives daily that which feeds our belief in the word of God.  (Keeping in our minds scriptures and concepts of God, building our faith in God to the end.)
 
Hebrews 10:36   For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 
 
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Jude
 
1  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, HE hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of HIS saints, 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against HIM.

16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers
(imitators) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19 These be they who separate themselves
(joining the church but not called by the Spirit of God), sensual, having not the Spirit.

20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:

23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

24 Now unto HIM that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of HIS glory with exceeding joy,

25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.


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