To fulfill their ministry amid hardship, church leaders must not forget apostolic suffering and must hold firmly to sacred Scripture which equips them for service.

Immoral and deceptive false teachers are characteristic of this present age, so the church must avoid these people as we await the end when their wickedness will be exposed.

As soldiers of Christ Jesus, church leaders are called to be faithful to the gospel itself and to be holy as befits that gospel.

Our willingness to suffer hardship for the gospel is helped considerably by gaining a better grasp of suffering’s outcomes.

Faithfulness to the gospel of Jesus Christ inevitably brings hardship upon believers, but a faithful God guards what we have entrusted to Him as we suffer to guard what God has entrusted to us.

From start to finish, the call of Jesus Christ is a call to endure hardship and suffering because of the gospel, but God promises to reward all those who answer that call ultimately with eternal safety in His heavenly kingdom.

Before the day of desolating judgment, humbly seek the Lord Jesus, whose righteous remnant is saved to inherit the earth.

God is threatening to make idolators like you an object of his divine wrath as a burnt offering, therefore look to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ with fear and thankfulness.

On the Day of the Lord, foreshadowed by the Babylonian destruction and exile of Judah and Jerusalem, Jesus Christ will put down His enemies with great power and restore His people with great love.