Danby House
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
( Philippians 1:6 )
Writing sermons can be an odd process.
I have been trying to remember a passage that I heard or read which I thought was saying that God has the power to keep or maintain us until we have completed the work that he called us to do.
I think I remember a pastor preaching something along those lines years ago.
I’ve tried to look for the passage using the concordance, but I can’t remember the words exactly so the searches that I have done didn’t produce anything that I recognized as what i thought I was looking for.
Thankfully I have been keeping up with my daily Bible reading.
In fact, today I just got to the end of the Bible and I will be starting it again for the 15th time.
Recently I read what i thought was the passage that I was looking for. Conceptually it matched the idea that I thought I remembered. I made a mental note of what book, chapter and verse it was. Then I forgot the mental note.
What I remembered was where it was on the page: the bottom left corner.
Today I decided to find it and worked my way back from the end of the Bible looking at all of the bottom left corners.
I found three passages which work with the idea I am trying to confirm whether or not it is really a thing.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.( 1 Peter 1:7-9 )
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
( 2 Timothy 1:12 )
And how about this for a twist: this sermon was an issue that I had been pondering for a while, so much so that I began a diligent search for the passage in it. Another one dropped in my lap in an intriguing sermon from BEZA International Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the very place where I received my call to write Matty’s Paradigm.
THE FELLOWSHIP AND THE FINISHING
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
( 1 Thessalonians 5:24 )
Matty (Headwind) 