BE STEADFAST TO THE END: Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide

BY PASTOR PAUL RIKA 
(Int'l Director Of Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide) 

DATE: 
WEDNESDAY JULY 24, 2019 

TEXT:
HEBREWS 6:4-6

KEY VERSE:
Romans 1:17 For therein is  the righteousness of God  revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall  live by faith. 

Many things in life will  challenge your Christian  faith, but you must remain consistent and steadfast to the end. A story was told of about forty Roman soldier many years ago known as the "Forty Martyrs of Sebaste" who were condemned unless they deny Jesus.  

They tortured them brutally and when the soldiers would still not recant their faith they were exposed naked in the cool of the day in a frozen pond  and they started dying one by one. As  each person died, an angel  came with a crown and  carried to give to the victories Christian and took him to heaven. The guard placed in charge over this persecution has been watching closely the entire time and saw that with each dying Christian an angel stood by with a crown at hand to give to the passing soldier and took him into glory. As the fortieth man couldn't take the cold anymore and ran out of the frozen pond recanting his faith the soldier standing guard stripped himself and jumped into the pond and took his place instead.

This fortieth man failed Jesus when it  mattered most. He failed in his Christian  life at the very last moment. As for you, I pray you  will not fail in Jesus name. 

Hebrews 10:35-39; 35. Cast not  away therefore your  confidence, which hath  great recompence of  reward. 36. For ye have need of  patience, that, after ye have  done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37. For yet a little while, and he  that shall come will come,  and will not tarry. 38 Now the  just shall live by faith: but if  any man draw back, my soul  shall have no pleasure in  him. 39. But we are not of them  who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the  soul. 

Are you a just one? Then,  you will live by faith. Praise  the Lord! If you draw back  from the Christian life God  will lose interest in you;  God will have no pleasure in you. But as for us, we have  decided to continue to the  end where we will enter  heaven and finally escape  this world. 

That is our irrevocable  decision - to continue in the  Christian life and to  continue in the Christian  ministry until we enter  heaven. This being our  fervent desire, it shall be so  in Jesus name. Amen. 

Thought for the day:
Success in Christian life is  consistency in faith to the  end of your life. 

Song for the day:
I will go with Jesus everywhere; No matter the roughness of the road 

Bible reading for the day:
Psalm 41-43; Acts 24.


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