09/04/2020
LIFE OR DEATH, WE WILL WIN. (April-2-2020)
Preacher: Frank Fundora
2 Peter 2: 4-10a
In these days of the wrath of God, the church of the Lord, his Saints must be calm and wait on Him, because for those of us who are in the Lord there is no condemnation, the saints of the Lord have an incorruptible inheritance that awaits everyone to Those who persevere in Him to the end, I do not tell you to start celebrating and neglecting yourself, but to be calm, joyful and firm in the Lord, without any depression or sadness, praising, praying and searching the scriptures knowing that we have them eternal life, the love of God casts out all fear and the one who fears is that he has not yet been perfected in love and still awaits punishment (1 John 4:18), the Lord has always brought these tests every time the The world begins to drown his saints, to show his salvation to those who are his, for the Lord knows how to deliver those who live as he wants; and if he did not do this as the scriptures say: even the elect would be lost; in a field of wheat, the wheat and the tares grow together, but at the time of the blind the wheat ends at the table of the Lord and the tares in the fire, but if the tares start next to the thistles and thorns to flood the fields the entire harvest would be lost entirely; and at that point the farmer has to do something about it and provide the countryside with some cultural attention, so that, from the little of the wheat, even a part of the crop is saved and not all is irretrievably lost; Brothers, none of us lives for himself, nor does he die for himself; if we live, for the Lord we live; and if we die, to the Lord we die; so whether we live or die, we are the Lord's (Romans 14: 7-8); Do not fear the things that are coming because, as Paul said, dying is gain for us, but we must choose to continue living to bear the fruits of the Lord, so it must be for the good of those who will be saved, because if we leave, who will preach the gospel, who will defend the faith, who will keep the Lord's work to the end (Philippians 1: 20-28); we must live, but without fear of the fire of the test that has come, because the Lord, our God is faithful to those who hope in Him and knows how to deliver those who are His, in Him is our hope, we live through Him, for Him and for our neighbors on whom also the mercies of our God are poured out, the sun rises equally over the righteous and wicked, that the work of the gospel does not stop, or that the Word of God is not silenced, even if we do not congregate and do not stop carrying the word, the message of salvation to all alike, beautiful are the feet of those who announce the salvation message of our God (Isaiah 52: 7, Romans 10:15). Life or Death, we will ALSO WIN; because those of us who do the will of God remain forever. Amen.