The Need of Endurance

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The Need of Endurance
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• The Need of Endurance

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The Need of Endurance

• (Heb 1036 NKJV) For you have need of endurance,
  so that after you have done the will of God, you
  may receive the promise

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• Jesus spoke of the alternatives to endurance.

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In the parables of the soils.

•  (Mat 133-9 NKJV) Then He spoke many things to
  them in parables, saying "Behold, a sower went
  out to sow. 4 "And as he sowed, some seed fell
  by the wayside and the birds came and devoured
  them. 5 "Some fell on stony places, where they
  did not have much earth and they immediately
  sprang up because they had no depth of earth.

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In the parables of the soils.

•  (Mat 133-9 NKJV) 6 "But when the sun was up
  they were scorched, and because they had no root
  they withered away. 7 "And some fell among
  thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.
  8 "But others fell on good ground and yielded a
  crop some a hundredfold, some sixty, some
  thirty. 9 "He who has ears to hear, let him
  hear!"

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Some never accept the word, and as a result are
never saved, and do not have to endure.

• (Mat 134 NKJV) "And as he sowed, some seed
  fell by the wayside and the birds came and
  devoured them.

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Some began the Christian life, but did not have
the endurance to stay with it.

• (Mat 135-6 NKJV) "Some fell on stony places,
  where they did not have much earth and they
  immediately sprang up because they had no depth
  of earth. 6 "But when the sun was up they were
  scorched, and because they had no root they
  withered away.

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The cares of this world choked the word

• (Mat 137 NKJV) "And some fell among thorns, and
  the thorns sprang up and choked them.

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Other seed fell on good ground and yielded a
good crop.

•  (Mat 138 NKJV) "But others fell on good ground
  and yielded a crop some a hundredfold, some
  sixty, some thirty.

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The challenge is to be able to endure.

•  (Heb 1032-36 NKJV) But recall the former days
  in which, after you were illuminated, you endured
  a great struggle with sufferings 33 partly
  while you were made a spectacle both by
  reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you
  became companions of those who were so treated
  34 for you had compassion on me in my chains,
  and joyfully accepted the plundering of your
  goods,

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The challenge is to be able to endure.

•  (Heb 1032-36 NKJV) knowing that you have a
  better and an enduring possession for yourselves
  in heaven. 35 Therefore do not cast away your
  confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you
  have need of endurance, so that after you have
  done the will of God, you may receive the
  promise

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• How do we endure?

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We need to look to Jesus.

•  (Heb 121-3 NKJV) Therefore we also, since we
  are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
  let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
  so easily ensnares us, and let us run with
  endurance the race that is set before us, 2
  looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
  our faith, who for the joy that was set before
  Him endured the cross, despising the shame,

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We need to look to Jesus.

•  (Heb 121-3 NKJV) and has sat down at the right
  hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider Him
  who endured such hostility from sinners against
  Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in
  your souls.

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The race is a marathon race.

•  (Heb 121 NKJV) Therefore we also, since we are
  surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let
  us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so
  easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance
  the race that is set before us,
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What helped Jesus get through it all?

• (Heb 122 NKJV) looking unto Jesus, the author
  and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that
  was set before Him endured the cross, despising
  the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of
  the throne of God.

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Serious problems are coming.

• (Mark 137-8 NKJV) "But when you hear of wars
  and rumors of wars, do not be troubled for such
  things must happen, but the end is not yet. 8
  "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
  against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in
  various places, and there will be famines and
  troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

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• There is a price to pay if we are going to follow
  Jesus.

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It begins with confessing our faith in Christ

•  (Mat 1032-38 NKJV) "Therefore whoever
  confesses Me before men, him I will also confess
  before My Father who is in heaven. 33 "But
  whoever denies Me before men, him I will also
  deny before My Father who is in heaven.

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Peace does not always come right now.

•  (Mat 1034-37 NKJV) 34 "Do not think that I
  came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to
  bring peace but a sword. 35 "For I have come to
  'set a man against his father, a daughter against
  her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her
  mother-in-law' 36 "and 'a man's enemies will
  be those of his own household.

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Peace does not always come right now.

•  (Mat 1034-37 NKJV) 37 "He who loves father or
  mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he
  who loves son or daughter more than Me is not
  worthy of Me.

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Enduring to the end is part of the price we have
to pay.

•  (Mat 1038 NKJV) "And he who does not take his
  cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

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Conclusion

• (Rev 31-5 NKJV) "And to the angel of the
  Sardis write, 'These things says He who has the
  seven Spirits of God church in and the seven
  stars "I know your works, that you have a name
  that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 "Be
  watchful, and strengthen the things which remain,
  that are ready to die, for I have not found your
  works perfect before God.

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Conclusion

• (Rev 31-5 NKJV) 3 "Remember therefore
  how you have received and heard hold fast and
  repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will
  come upon you as a thief, and you will not know
  what hour I will come upon you. 4 "You have a
  few names even in Sardis who have not defiled
  their garments and they shall walk with Me in
  white, for they are worthy.

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Conclusion

• (Rev 31-5 NKJV) 5 "He who overcomes
  shall be clothed in white garments, and I will
  not blot out his name from the Book of Life but
  I will confess his name before My Father and
  before His angels.