In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of resistance and perseverance in the face of trials and challenges. He urges Christians to be girded with the word of God and led by the spirit of God. The preacher highlights the current state of many Christians as being faithless and worldly, and calls for a return to trusting in the living God. He emphasizes the need for repentance, holiness, and purity, and encourages believers to overcome sin through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Help me to understand your pain. When I conform to this world, it's lasting your holy days. Help me to understand your worth. If I'm no friend of this world, it's aging towards mine. And then there's a matter of argument. There's a heart, where the, receives the seed. And it says, and it grows. And with my years of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for pleasures, and all these good things, that the world says is what we need to have to flourish in this world. They choke the seed, and it becomes unfruitful. It doesn't bring fruit to maturity. This is a type of a believer, whose skin might be still alive in the earth. Might be still alive, but it's not producing fruit. Countless believers, fall into this category. Where they say they love Jesus. Where they confess Him with their mouth. And they say with their mouth that they believe Him. With their whole heart, they say, they give mental respect to Him. But the cares of life, you see they call this balance. The deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for pleasure, they choke that seed. And they make it unfruitful. You are in Him, and surely shall stand, because it is founded on a solid gospel. But if you have received another gospel, and you have trusted in a different Jesus. You will find where the cares, and the worries, and the trials come. You'll find yourself shaken. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power. He said, be anxious about nothing. The enemy, he's unbroken by it. See in whom you may devour. What are we going to do? This is the standard, you see. And how do we get off the stand? What are we going to do? Standard. Be girded with the Word of God. Be led by the Spirit of God. See most Christians today, fall under the category, that this is the last phase. And if it said it was the last phase 2,000 years ago. Let me tell you, that's the very last. Today, when Jesus himself comes and says, we are coming. We don't have to fight Jesus anymore. We don't have to be faithful. And I tell you, if it's a faithless, ungodly, society of Christians. Remember where we live, where we trust in miracles. We don't have to trust in that against Christ's strength. But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord. Whose hope is in the Lord. That's the man who shall prosper. We trust in flesh. We trust in chariots. We trust in horses. We also shall go to Assyria and to Egypt. And we surely shall not prosper. But if we trust in the Lord and in His Holy Word. And we are faithful. We are faithful to the Word of the Lord. We shall never see death. Because Jesus says, I am. And if we truly believe that. No matter how difficult the circumstance. No matter how hopeless it looks. Jesus says, I am the resurrection and the life. In Him is life. Let the light shine out of your darkness. Let the light come, not only in your soul. Let it work all the way out into the flesh. Let that radiance of Jesus. Let your hands be members of righteousness. Let your mind be the mind of Christ. To worship the Lord. If you are not being tested and tried and inquired. Knowing for certain. That your fall is sure. Yes, everyone who desires to kill a godly in Christ Jesus. Is going to suffer persecution. Where is the persecution of the God of Christ? We love the world. We love the flesh. We love the boastful part of life. We love the lust of the eyes. In the world. And we warm much. Where is the power of the Holy Spirit? Yes, He has a remnant. And these are the men who will not bother me. Let me tell you for sure. They will not bother me. Unless they are into His image. And He has a remnant within the earth. And He has a remnant in the house for you. All through those churches. He has a people. Who will not compromise and bother me to sin. To willfully sin against the Holy God. We don't listen to the voice of antichrist. We don't listen to the voice of demons. We listen to the voice of the word of God. Many still wax cold. But a lot of them most will wax cold. What's there a million? Let's call them Christians. Just for the sake of the word. People of God's chosen people. His own special treasures. Set apart for His purposes. They went to Babylon. Of those people who went to Babylon. How many faithful servants were there? A handful. A handful. Is that what the word of God says? Many are called but few are chosen. For my reason. Am I somehow deceived. That many are called but Jesus' own words are. Few are chosen. For few love the word of Jesus Christ. The way Jesus learned it. That's how you'll learn it. You'll learn it through a bite in the line. Yes, everyone will suffer persecution for his name. The true people. Why? For the love of Jesus. They'll be persecuted. It's a foreign word. Jesus received God. Reverted the hearts of His people back to a faith. Walking in Jesus Christ. And laughing over them. They won't be slighted back. Because He says it. But if your soul shall bow. My soul has no pleasure in that. If any man draw back. I'm ready to teach you what to do when you're young. To pluck up the virtues of the Holy Spirit. Other than my nature. And then. The earth that often takes up the rain. Because to bear thorns and briars. It's posted. When it says in Hebrews 10.26. If you will free sin. You forsake the assembling of ourselves together. It's a matter of something. I'm not fighting. The assembling of ourselves is a matter of something. I'm not going to some big building somewhere. He says where two or three are gathered in my name. I am there. And won't hold back. I will show the people their transgressions. And the house of Jacob their sins. There must be a John the Baptist voice. That will rise up again. One bunch. Who call themselves rich and priestly. Has forgotten. About the spirit of God and love. As you see remains in them. It's not possible to go on sinning. If you're born again. Unless of course you're asleep. And when you sleep. You practice the sins of the devil. In Abbotsford. And you will. And it's becoming. And if it's not heating up. When you share your faith with Christians. When you share your zeal. And then you hear things like. Well. All for Jesus. And we're not prepared to bow down to sin. We're. Believing that God will deliver us. Go through hard times. Teach you in the world. Who knows what it's going to cost. It might cost all that you have. You might become a martyr for Jesus somehow. Some way. And even if that happens. We're still not going to bow the knee. To the devil. And to his schemes and his fear tactics. Amen. Crucified with Christ. What can a man do? Purify the connection gap. If you're prepared to. Practice sin. Not the outward things. The Lord is looking at you. And if we sin. Let me tell you. We have an advocate. If perhaps there was a time this week. Bow to him. Know for certain that if you cry out to him. He's faithful and just. He forgives. He cleanses. All. All. All. The day that you turn. That's the day. That he forgets. All. All. All. Your sins. Against you. The day that you come to him. And humble yourself. In the blood of Jesus Christ. He will cleanse you from all sin. Let the word. The cutting edge. Of the word of God. Pierce the heart. Let it not produce condemnation. Let it produce repentance. Let it produce. The working of the spirit. To cry out to God. For a soft heart. For the lost. A broken contrite heart. For the people of God. That we would come to a place. Where we could bless our enemies. That we could love those who beat us. That we could pray for those who persecute us. And spitefully take advantage of us. That we could. Heat coals of fire on them. That they might be saved. That they might come to the true salvation. Of Jesus Christ. part who sanctified unto Jesus Christ. Let that performance work in you. Know for certain God's for you.