Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Seventeen

In today’s episode, we are revisiting the subject of perseverance and steadfastness. In a previous podcast, we concluded that this word ’steadfastness,’ which is the Greek word ‘hypomonē,’ is in fact a big Bible word for the Jesus follower to understand an incorporate into their everyday life. You need steadfastness, perseverance and endurance. You need it worse than you realize. Edward Gibbon, a Roman historian and author of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, concluded that Christianity in the first century flourished for 5 reasons: (1) uncompromising religious zeal, (2) doctrine of the immortality of the spirit, [the fact that everyone is immortal — you know that’s right. The issue is not whether or not you will live forever but where will you spend your eternal days — heaven or hell? (3) miraculous power, (4) pure morals, (5) unity and discipline. So, here are the five again — zeal, the human spirit, miracles, morals, unity and their discipline. These are the factors that turned the world ‘right side up.’ Another historian, this one an ancient one, named Justin referred to many who have, “changed their violent and tyrannical [ungodly] dispositions….., being overcome either by the constancy [steadfastness, perseverance, and endurance] which they have witnessed in the lives of their Christian neighbors, or by the extraordinary forbearance [now he’s talking about long-suffering they have observed in their Christian fellow travelers when defrauded, and by the honesty of those believers with whom they have transacted business.”1 Perseverance is something that propelled the Early Church and I’m here to tell you that it will propel you in the church of these last days. You need it. You need to know all about it. How Jesus Style Perseverance Can Make You a Winner, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

Why God’s Love and Direction Are a Match Made in Heaven

We need both steadfastness, that is perseverance, and long-suffering to realize the Word of God coming to pass in our life.
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