Posted: 07 January 2024

From a sermon given on 04 January 2024:

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
(1 Corinthians 15:58)

To be steadfast is to be firmly fixed and not subject to change, to firm in belief and determination, and to be royal and faithful. Likewise, to be immovable is to be unyielding and incapable of being moved or diverted. It is being committed to following Jesus thereby always abounding in good works (Church of Jesus Christ)

We live at a time when deception and enticing spirits are scrambling to get our attention. A steadfast believer knows what we believe in and should not be tossed back and forth and blown here and there by every wind of teaching.

We should not also allow circumstances, offenses, bitterness and affliction move us away from God. It's the will of God that we grow daily in our understanding of him and his word and that we continue to abound in good works. Always give yourself fully to the work of God because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Further readings:

They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
(Isaiah 65:23)

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 8:35-39)

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Corinthians 15:57)