He Abides Faithful

He Abides Faithful 2 Timothy 2:11-13

These verses are a mixture of positive and negative thoughts. If we suffer does not sound like a pleasant thing. The word not only means to go through pain but to persevere to endure. Endurance running this race with patience is something hard to learn. Annie Johnson Flint, the lady who wrote “He Giveth more Grace” knew this all too well. In a poem she wrote from the verse, "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen..."

'Is God-?' 'Does God-?' Man's 'Why?' and 'How?' In ceaseless iteration storm the sky. 'I am'; 'I will'; 'I do'—sure Word of God, Yea and Amen, Christ answers each cry; To all our anguished questionings and doubts Eternal affirmation and reply.

We are told in this text if we die we will live, if we suffer we will reign. Then we are left with this warning if we deny him he will deny us. That is a terrifying thought, to be denied by God, our only hope of eternity. What does it mean to deny him? It comes from a word meaning to reject or refuse. That really isn’t a lot of effort. Bro. Dan Stettler made a statement to the effect that you don’t have to do anything to go to hell. But if we’re going to go to heaven some arrangements have to be made.

This verse just stamps out all possibility of God allowing sin into heaven. It alarms me that we are taught be the mainstream Christian media that we just have to deal with sin until death. That thought scares me, do you realize continuing in sin is in fact denying what Christ came to do. What Christ came to accomplish, to destroy the works of the Devil.

As we read we find out that even though the whole world would say I don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in the Bible, I don’t believe any of that, It doesn’t change one iota of what is there. That just thrills me. God remains faithful.

Maybe I should have preached this this morning, however we can be unfaithful we may be unable to believe but it’s still going to happen. Look at Zacharias, as he was working away the angel appeared to him to tell him some news. They would have a baby. He didn’t believe and was struck dumb until the baby was born. But the baby was still born. It didn’t have an effect on what God said. God is faithful.