The Bible says in verse 22 confirming the soul so this is Paul going back to all the churches and he's confirming the churches are
established in the faith and all that
Says concern confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith
Why would they not continue in the faith?
Because of much tribulation what it says and that we must through much
Tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Does it say a little bit of tribulation?
No says through much
Tribulation, why is he encouraging them to continue in the faith?
Because it's hard to go through much tribulation
And so he's exhorting to continue. He's saying hey, I want to encourage you stay with it. Stay with the faith
Yeah, you're gonna get persecuted sometimes sometimes a bunch of hollows are gonna line up and they're gonna wear glitter and you know
Have my little ponies or something
You know, they're gonna yell things at you and stuff like that. Does that really hurt you though? No
You know what that is it's a crown of righteousness, that's what that is
John chapter 16 verse number 2 John chapter 16 verse number 2
We should be excited about it actually I'm excited
Nothing like a good persecution rally to get us fired up for the soul winning marathon. Amen
Isn't it weird all the stuff that's going on right now right before we're about to go on this
If I even told you some of the other stuff that's going on the background
He wouldn't believe me. Anyway, John chapter 16 verse 2 they
Shall put you out of the synagogues. Yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth
God's service there's gonna be a time and there's been times in the past where
People that kill Christians think that they're doing God a service. Hey, we're doing this for God. We're being zealous
Do you think that the people that believe in the one world religion?
Do you think they're think that they're gonna be doing something wrong to you?
No, they think that they're gonna be doing God a service because there's a God that they believe in that's not the God of the Bible
skip down to verse 33
Says these things have I spoken unto you that in me you might have peace in the world. You shall have tribulation
You shall have tribulation
Isn't that funny how the dispensationalist think and they want to tell you that you're just gonna be you know
You're gonna get a little nice pillow and you're just gonna you know
Get caught up into the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord
No persecution
How many verses have I just read to you to say there is gonna be persecution there is gonna be persecution
Don't let anybody trick you into thinking that it's not gonna be you know why they hate us
Because we remind them of Christ
And they hate Christ and so they will persecute us
They want to break their bands asunder. They don't want anything to do with God and we remind them of God and we don't want
They don't want to have anything to do with us. They want to just kill us
But it says in the world you shall have tribulation
But be of good cheer be of good cheer. I
Have overcome the world
Christ has overcome the world for us
But he also had to suffer didn't he and so what's it saying?
What does this talk about in Romans chapter 8 that if we're heirs we're gonna inherit with with God with Christ
We're gonna be joint heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him
That we may be also
glorified together
One day we're gonna be glorified together, and you know what we're not we're not gonna be thinking about the times
We're persecuted. We're gonna be thinking about how great it is to be eternally saved in heaven