Matthew 24:10-13: “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” 2Timothy 3:10-12, “But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
” Every child of God must realise that the world can never be heaven. As long as we are in the world, suffering affliction or trial, is inevitable for the real children of God. The reason is that,the enemy who was cast down into this world has corrupted it.
Because he has lost heaven, he is now in this world working tirelessly to hinder believers from making it to heaven. It is through much tribulation we will enter heaven. If you are not ready to endure, then you are not fit for the kingdom of God.
The rough road will enable us to pray and depend only on God. If we don’t pass through the rough road, we will only be a little god and begin to think that we have arrived, but God does not want us to this way at all.He wants us to depend on him.
God he wants us to know that this world is not our own, he wants us to know that we ar.