Receiving the End of Your Faith, The Salvation of Your Souls - Part 1568

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ is writing to the strangers (who are the exiles scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia) but also the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father -- through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

The same God and Father who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly in Christ, according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephesians 1:3-5)

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [His] purpose, for whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren, Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. (Romans 8:28-31)

What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Each and every day, we face the giants of this world, striving to keep us so busy in the things of this world that we lose sight of our calling. At the same time, the prince of this world is continually condemning, attempting to wear us down so that we won't be so eager about our faith. This may be why apostle Paul expresses a great heaviness and continual sorrow for those who rejected the counsel of God, and went their own way, subscribing to the numerous gods of this world.

Nevertheless, we know in whom we have believed -- by whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His Name -- among whom ye are also called of Jesus Christ. (Romans 1:5-6)

We now have the boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say His flesh, and having an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water, holding fast to the profession of our faith without wavering for He is faithful that promised. (Hebrews 10:19-23)
II Thessalonians 2:13

"See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh." (Hebrews 12:25)

The same voice that shook the earth, but now hath promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake the earth only, but also heaven. And this Word -- yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we must serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear -- for our God is a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:25-29)

Who is the Word wherein we receive the end of our faith and the salvation or our souls? Jesus -- the mediator of the new covenant -- the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Jesus -- both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)

Jesus -- the Author and Finisher of our faith. Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending.

Jesus -- the King of kings and Lord of lords who left His kingdom in heaven to redeem those of us who respond to His call and believe in His Name.

Jesus -- the Word made flesh, who dwelt among us so that we c/would behold His glory -- the glory as of the only begotten of the Father -- full of grace and truth.

"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew HIm not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11)

Therefore, be victorious in our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ, who after His kindness and love, gave Himself so that we might have life. Stand in the offering plate.