feast: Motivation to Endure
John O. Reid
Given 16-Oct-11; Sermon #FT11-07; 35 minutes
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John Reid, focusing on Luke 21:9, encourages the development of patience, perseverance, and endurance in the horrific times ahead, safe-guarding the precious calling God has given us. We have been mandated to endure to the end, processing all the trials and tests which we will be called upon to endure. God is in complete charge of the types and intensities of trials we are given. We are promised a way to endure anything placed upon us. To endure the horrors of a prisoner of war camp, one needs to have hope, faith in God, and a clear vision of a better future.Faith requires obedience as well as acceptance of the truth, as is seen in the examples of Abraham and Moses and the cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 11. We need to have prophetic vision of what will happen to physical Israel and to the Israel of God. Isaiah 35 provides a glorious vision to bring us hope, when all will be healed and restored, and the earth will be refreshed to paradise and justice will at last be attained. The vision of the Israel of God will be to become heirs with Jesus Christ, children of God the Father. Our weaknesses have to be dealt with as we cope with our toxic environment which wears on us incessantly. In these trying times, we need to stay in contact with one another, realizing that God will never leave us. We should never lose the vision nor give up.
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Acts 26:1-7 Assembling of ourselves together Chazown Endurance Faith in God Faith Fellowship I Corinthians 10:4,13 Hebrews 10:23-25; 11:7, 24-25, 32-37;12:1; 13:5 Highway of holiness Hope ,faith vision Hope Isaiah 11: 35:1-10 John 17:3 Jude 3 Korean prison camps Love wax cold Luke18:8 21:9 Matthew 4:4 Mark 13:13 Morse code Paradise Paul’s vision Perseverance POW camps Proverbs 29:11 Psalm 71:1-6 Revelation 3:7-12; 15:2-4 Romans 8:16-18 Salvation Sea of glass II Corinthians 12:1-4 II Chronicles 16:9 Temptation Titus 2:11-14 Vision of a better future Vision Zeal for good works Zech 9:9-12
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