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WHEN THE END COMES—PART 2 WHAT THE END HOLDS FOR THE SAINT
Revelation 14:12–13
THE END TIMES—Sermon #34
Intro: As we studied verses 6–11, we listened as angels announced the fact that God had pronounced a sentence of damnation on this world system and all those who refuse to believe the Gospel message.
Those verses tell us about a horrible place called Hell where the lost will suffer in the flames of God’s wrath for all eternity.
That is a sad, horrible picture of the future that awaits every person who lives and dies outside of a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you are not saved today, I challenge you to examine your life and where you are headed.
Do you really want to go to Hell? Do you really want to spend eternity separated from God and from everything of beauty, purity and spirituality?
You do not have to go to Hell!
You can be saved if you will come to Jesus and call on Him by faith, Rom.
10:9
What a contrast there is when we come to verse 12! We leave the wrath and judgment of verses 6–11 and we are exposed to the sweet fragrance of God’s grace.
Having declared His judgment against the wicked, God now demonstrates His grace toward the righteous.
Having shown us the wicked, God now casts the spotlight on His faithful remnant.
He says, “You have seen the wicked ones, now take a look at my children!”
These verses show us what will happen to the saints of God when they leave this world.
We have seen the hellish side of death; now let’s examine the heavenly side of death.
What waits on the sinner is ghoulish; what waits on the saint is glorious.
Let’s look at the truths in these two verses as we consider the thought What The End Holds For The Saint.
I. v. 12a THE PROCLAMATION OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS
A. The word “patience” literally means “steadfast endurance”.
It is the picture of a person who cannot be swayed from his simple faith in and devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ.
B. In spite of the horrors of the Tribulations Period and the threats of the Antichrist, these believers have remained faithful to their Lord.
They refused to bow to this world.
They refused to give their worship to the Devil.
They have endured every attack and every affliction with the confident knowledge that their God was executing an eternal plan.
They were faithful even unto the death, knowing that, in the end, their faith would be vindicated and Satan and his kingdom would be judged.
C.
These people knew that they were part of the victorious people OF God, even while they suffered!
That is a lesson that we would do well to learn in our day.
This world and the devil are always trying to get us to compromise.
There is a constant barrage designed to cause us to abandon God and the way of righteousness.
The devil would love nothing better than for us to get our eyes off Jesus and His will for our lives and our church.
He would love for us to lower our standards, relax our hold on our convictions and abandon the way of righteousness in these days.
After all, it would be easier!
It would cause the church to be more accepted in the community.
It would take some of the pressure off.
The only problem is that it would offend God!
It would cause Him to remove His power from our midst.
It would cause Him to write “Ichabod” above our door, like He has in countless other churches.
D. The best course of action in this day is the same course of action chosen by the saints in these verses.
It is the course of action articulated by the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor.
15:58
We are to stay the course for the glory of God!
E. The world might not appreciate your efforts for the Lord; but God does!
He sees every sacrifice for His name and He will reward His people in due time, Matt.
10:41–42; 1 Cor.
3:10–15
I.
The Proclamation Of Their Faithfulness
II.
v. 12b THE PROOF OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS
A. These people demonstrated their faithfulness to the Lord in two ways.
They kept His commandments and they kept the faith.
When we do as He tells us in His Word, we prove that we love Him, John 14:15
Our obedience to the Lord is irrefutable evidence that we have experienced the new birth, 1 John 2:3–5
B. By keeping the faith, these people had refused to deny Jesus.
They had maintained their faith in Him even when doing so was costly.
Many in the Tribulation will go to their deaths rather than deny the Lord Jesus.
How much easier would it be for them to deny Him with their lips, even as they embrace Him in their hearts?
But, they are not hypocrites!
They will not deny Him even though it will cost them everything.
By refusing to worship Antichrist, they will suffer greatly.
They will not be able to buy or sell.
They will be hunted and hounded and executed for their allegiance to Jesus.
Still, they will remain faithful!
C.
These suffering saints set a sterling example for those of us living in these days!
As we know, the trend in churches and among church people in our day is to become more like the world.
That is the easy path to follow.
It gains you favor with the world and it helps you grow in numbers.
However, when you compromise the Word of God and water down the Gospel message, you forfeit the presence and power of God.
You might have a full house, huge crowds and mountains of cash, but if there is no power and touch of God, those things amount to less than nothing!
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“I’d Rather Have Jesus!”)
I.
The Proclamation Of Their Faithfulness
II.
The Proof Of Their Faithfulness
III.
v. 13 THE PROFIT OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS
A. From a worldly point of view these people gave up a lot for their faith in Jesus Christ.
They suffered, they starved, and they endured hardships that we cannot even begin to imagine.
Men watched their wives and children starve to death.
Mothers watched their children suffer.
What did it profit them?
What payoff was there in such suffering and pain?
This verse tells us about their future.
If you are saved it tells about your too!
B. First, we are told that these people who will die in and for Jesus are “blessed”.
This word has the idea of being “happy.”
It means to be “supremely blessed; fortunate; well off”.
The idea here is that those who die in the Lord leave a harsh, unfriendly world for a better place.
C. We have often heard it said, when a believer dies, “Well, they are better off.”
It is so true! Paul knew this truth, Phil.
1:23
Death, for the child of God is not the horrible monster we have made it out to be!
It is nothing more than a doorway that allows us to step out of time and into eternity!
It is a portal that allows us to leave this land of death and step into that land of life.
Death, for the child of God, is not a grinning devil; it is a smiling friend that comes to usher us home into the waiting arms of our Savior!
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Henry Van Dyke wrote a special poem that reveals death for what it is for the child of God.
It is called “Gone From My Sight”.
I am standing upon the seashore.
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