"You Can Make It-Part 2-Five Keys For Living Right In These End Times"

John 17:15-18 "I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."

Today’s world is fast becoming a very frustrating place to live and maintain any sense of security and comfort.  But in Jesus we have hope, a hope that does not fade away.

I want to talk about how we has Christians can maintain our hope and certainty in a world where our sense of certainty in what this world has to offer is decaying rapidly. 

(1) Hold fast to your confession of hope!

Through the Word of God we are given many promises of God’s provision for our lives.  We must center our lives around what God’s Word says to us not what the conditions of the world are saying.  The Word of God is the truth that we must align our confession and faith with.

2 Peter 1:3, 4 "…as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, ⁴by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

Hebrews 10:23 "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful."

James 2:5 "Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?"

1 John 5:4 "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith."

We must set the thermostat of our faith in the position that God has promised and hold it there till the temperature or the fulfillment of the promises rise to that point.

(2) Don’t Let Possessions Become Your Center of Focus.

We must not allow ourselves to get sucked into measuring our success and possessions according to worldly standards.  God’s standards are altogether different.  In the world, possessions are the center of most people’s focus.  We cannot afford to be conformed to the world in this area otherwise our focus gets turned to what we don’t have rather than what God wants to pour into our lives through His promises.

1 Timothy 6:7 "For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out."

Hebrews 11:13 "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."

(3) Live For God’s Will and Purpose.

James 4:13-15 "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."

1 John 2:17 "And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever."

(4) Remain Loyal and Faithful To God No Matter What.

2 Peter 1:10, 11 "Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

Revelation 3:10 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth."

(5)Keep Your Focus on Eternity.

1 Peter 1:3-5 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

If we are going to be a part of a kingdom that cannot be shaken, then we must endeavor to put these kingdom principles into practice in our lives.  They will insure us of a life of certainty in the midst of a world that is drowning in uncertainty.

John 17:15-18 "I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."