“It is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.” Let’s pray:
Lord, thank You for Your words to us today. Thank You for encouraging us and for building our endurance in our study. Lead me, Lord.
Please read Matthew 10:16-22
A Hard Road before Them
16 “Listen carefully: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves [have no self-serving agenda]. 17 Beware of men [whose nature is to act in opposition to God], for they will hand you over to the courts and flog you in their synagogues; 18 and you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given you within that [very] hour; 20 for it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Persevered and Endured
21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will rise up and rebel against their parents and cause them to be put death. 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of [your association with] My name, but it is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.”
The road for the apostles was very much like this. Praise God that ours isn’t quite this way. Yet He would likely say the same thing. We are “like sheep among wolves” and must be careful, “but it is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.”
Perseverance in faith as taught in the Scriptures. Endurance as it’s built in the Scriptures. Trust Him through it all.
Want to go back to the Matthew chapter list? Or perhaps a longer study in Ezekiel?