He Who Does the Will of God Abides Forever

• But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved brethren we are steadfast, immovable always abounding in the work of the Lord knowing that our labor is not in vain in the Lord. Amen! I wonder if you’ve been in a situation where it took all your strength to force those words out of your mouth.
• We are steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. I’ve been in a place where it took all my spiritual strength just to say those words, because the pressures were so intense. And all the evidence of victory was absent. But it’s still true because it’s the word of God. Amen. Now our theme tonight as announced, is How to Come Through Victorious.
• Not just to squeeze through, not just to survive, but to come through victorious. You might say, Well, what have we got to come through? I’m going to remind you of just a few of the passages that we’ve been looking at together, just to give you a little glimpse of what we have to come through. You may recall that I spent a good deal of time in Matthew 24.
• In verse 8 we had that word, all these are the beginning of sorrows, or birth pangs. Then the following verses say this: Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And when I read that to Christians, I always ask, Who is you? Do you remember the answer? You is us, that’s right.
• And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will arise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. That’s what we’re going to be coming through, you understand? It’s not a little to come through that victorious.
• And then in 2 Timothy 3 I read a few verses there. But know this, that in the last days fierce times will come. We’re going to come through fierce times. Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.
• That’s what we’re going to have to come through. And then another Scripture that I didn’t read, but I will read now is in Romans 8. Just two verses, 36–37: As it is written: for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. And the next verse says: Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.