So, the substance and evidence are unimportant to them, and they may never start a journey to find the truth. Why? It could be many personal reasons related to lifestyle, perception of what it means to be a believer, peer pressure, etc. Probably the most significant barrier to belief i...
Satan comes immediately and takes away the wordthat wassown in their hearts.These likewise are the onessown on stony groundwho, when theyhear the word, immediately receive it with gladness;and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation...
Peace. “Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace” (Judges 6:24). “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Fa...
Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer. (Romans 12:12) We know that all things work for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, so that he might be th...
10Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth. Read ChapterAll Versions Matthew 24:30-31 30“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. An...
And to think, this promise awaits His faithful believers who endure. On Patmos, God gave Apostle John a vision for our future. “Then the one seated on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new...I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end...the one who conquers...
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: thenspake I with my tongue, 4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what itis; thatI may know how frail Iam. 5Behold, thou hast made my daysasan handbreadth; and mine ageisas nothing before...
And we must endure the process patiently, always looking to Him who controls the circumstances of our lives, and framing them from the divine perspective so that we will not lose hope. We realize the process of the Lord’s discipline is purposeful, for “those who have been trained by it...
Some even hold Scripture’s position to be an “archaic, historically conditioned mentality” or “outdated” in regard to the biological and social domain, the text notes. It also notes that “it is deduced by some” that the “exclusive enhancement” of the heterosexual un...
If this is true, then how can Protestants believe in the erroneous teaching of “Once saved, always saved?” If salvation occurred at a specific point in time when we accepted Jesus as personal Lord and Savior, there would be no need to endure to the end. We would already be saved. ...