This document discusses enduring hardship and persecution as followers of Jesus. It provides several Bible verses exhorting believers to remain faithful until the end, despite facing insults and hatred from the world, as this proves their salvation. Suffering in this way makes one a partner with Christ and leads to great reward in heaven. The key is to stay focused on faithfulness to Jesus, not speculating about end times, and to endure in the word through watching and praying continually.

2. The only certainty of the
kingdom “which cannot be
shaken” is our “ citizenship”
in the heavenly kingdom of
God through Jesus Christ!

3. Hebrews 12:28
“Therefore let us be
grateful for receiving a
kingdom that cannot be
shaken

4. Mark 13:13 (a)
And everyone will hate you
because you are my
followers….

5. John 15:18
“If the world hates you, keep
in mind that it hated me
first.

6. Mark 13:13
But whoever endures to the
end will be saved.

7. We prove that we are
already saved by the
fact that we endure to
the end.

8. Jesus is calling His disciples to
get ready to push hard and
to follow hard after Him.

9. 1 Peter 4:12–13
12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised at
the fiery trials you are going through,
as if something strange were happening
to you.
13 Instead, be very glad—for these trials
make you partners with Christ in his
suffering, so that you will have the
wonderful joy of seeing his glory
when it is revealed to all the world.

10. 2 Corinthians 4:17
For our present troubles
are small and won’t last
very long. Yet they
produce for us a glory
that vastly outweighs
them and will last forever!

11. Matthew 5:11-12
11 “Blessed are you when people insult
you, persecute you and falsely say all
kinds of evil against you because of me.
12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is
your reward in heaven, for in the same
way they persecuted the prophets who
were before you.

12. He only expects us to do what
we can do: stay the course, stay
awake, be on guard, persevere,
don’t quit, be steadfast, don’t
move away from Jesus, keep going
after him, and keep going after a
world that’s dying without him.

13. Jesus was more concerned with
how we live in the present than
with giving us a timeline of how
the world will end. He wanted
his followers to focus on being
faithful to him, not on
speculating about the end of
the world.

14. The followers of Jesus
who endure to the end
they will prove their
salvation, they will
prove their faith.

15. We must live established in
the word, enduring in the
word and decided in the
word.

16. Mark 13:33:
“Take heed,
watch and pray; for you
do not know when the
time is.