Christ defeated the works of the Devil by way of the cross as the Servant of all. Are you going to follow His example, and honor everyone by fearing God above all, and loving the Brotherhood? If you fix your eyes on Jesus; if you honor Christ above all by the Spirit alive in you; then you will silence foolish ignorance; you will serve your brother instead of yourself.
the Apostles knew that scoffers would rise up in the church and say, “Where is the promise of His coming?” and so, covenant words, and covenant action need to have added to them covenant urgency! Urgency is the energy of a longing faith!
The power for Christian obedience is fully supplied in Christ’s coming!
The church can be likened to a precious jewel needing to be cleaned up. Because God’s people display in dazzling glory the fullness of God!
Thomas Watson said, “There is no going to heaven blindfolded.” In Revelation 21 John will show us that heavenly mindedness will increase our readiness for any calling! You cannot be too heavenly minded, but you can be too earthly minded.
Life flashes before your eyes in a instant at critical times as a foretaste of the Judgment when our whole lives will be judged by what we have done in the body and every idle word we have spoken. John would teach us before that day comes that God sent His Son to the Cross so that we would not go to the Lake of Fire!
The final nail in Satan’s coffin is for all believers throughout history a call to action NOW. God’s decisive dealing with Satan and His Army at the Battle of Armageddon teaches us that certainty of God’s victories gives us confidence in ours!
