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May 2, 2005 - Will You Endure?
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables (2 Timothy 4:3 – 4).”
We cannot, and must not apologize for the Word of God. We should not be ashamed of the Gospel for which God has made us ambassadors and has entrusted His precious Word to us! There is nothing more powerful or more exciting than the Word of God. Some may have forgotten the real purpose of their life. It is not just to be happy, get married, get a well paying job and drive a nice car. It is not to just to have a family and belong to a successful church. The real purpose of our lives is to bring glory to God. Amen! How wonderful that should be to us, that God has chosen us to serve Him, and if need be suffer and die for Him. As Paul encourages us: “Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution (2 Timothy 3:12).”
O Lord that you will make us stand under the trials and tribulations that surely will come upon us. You alone Lord Jesus can deliver us from the snares of the devil. You alone have the words of eternal life. Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. Amen! Let us not be like those who are excited about the whole Christian experience, but when persecution comes they fall away as Jesus announced:
“…yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles (Matthew 13:21).” They stumbled over the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God’s word cannot be a lamp to our feet or a light on our path (Psalm 119:105) if we don’t abide in it, and use it, and learn it and love it. How can we be mature and able servants (bond-servants of Christ) if we do not uphold and defend the Word of God with all that is in us? “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16 – 17).” Amen.
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