God also reveals Himself in Christ as the God of all power. The whole creation proclaims that power belongs unto God. But in nothing will His power be more illustriously displayed than in the wonders of redeeming love! What power is necessary to raise those who are spiritually dead in sin, to soften the heart of stone, to bring light out of darkness, and order out of confusion! Wherever His Gospel is faithfully preached, it is always confirmed by this accompanying power. How quickly, how easily, did He change Saul from a persecutor to an Apostle! Again, how is His power illustrated by the care He takes of all who believe in His Name, according to every one of them seasonable, suitable, and sufficient supplies in every time of need! So that His weak, helpless, and opposed people, are supported, strengthened, and enabled, to hold on, and to hold out, against all the united efforts of the world, sin, and Satan.

Paul is reminding these folks not to be fooled by those that seemed to be speaking about an instantaneous return of the Lord. Times must have been tough for those beloved brethren because they truly had been looking for the Lord Jesus to return however little did they know His return was still more than two-thousand years away. Times were hard in those days for them that loved the Lord because they were so hated; however times have not changed much since then. While we are not today threatened with our lives for the worship of Jesus we are still hated for the true worship of Him. I spoke last week about how times have changed and so much is being accepted today than was fifty years ago, but let’s also not forget the great apostasy we are in today. Paul spoke here that this falling away must come first and beloved it has. If you find a church of truth that has over 30 members then you have found an extremely blessed church. Let’s look at some other point that has been fulfilled Matthew 24:10-12 "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (11.) And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. (12.) And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." These are facts we can see besides the apostasy, "shall many be offended" we certainly keep the world mad about the truth of the bible, they are angered just because we still love and worship Jesus Christ, "shall betray one another" we just had one single man to steal fifty billion dollars through betrayal and we see much betrayal in the religionist circles all of the time, "because iniquity shall abound" that is it will be on a steady increase and it is worse almost on daily basis, and "the love of many shall wax cold" love is a hard thing to find these days even among many Christians. Is there anything in these scriptures that you can find that still needs to be fulfilled? We can go on and on with things that has already been fulfilled, beloved we as Pastors need to keep the flocks reminded and ready and as Christians we all need to make sure we are ready and prepared for the Lord’s return more than ever before. While these people thought Jesus would return soon, I believe it is certain to be before long.

"The greatest believer, who has the largest measure of grace, if God should withdraw, leave him to himself, and not grant him fresh supplies of his grace, would not be able, with all the grace he has received, to withstand the snares of the world, the temptations of Satan, and the corruptions of his own heart."

"God will not build anything on any foundation of man, on any other foundation than that which has the seal of His everlasting election. He will not! God does not build the church on an Arminian foundation. ... The Arminian is not working at the foundation of God. He is not. Those who in any sense of the word -- I do not hesitate to say it -- build on the foundation of man, on the foundation of Arminian grace or any other common grace, do not build on the foundation of the church."