Will you please turn again to Revelation 17?
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also shall overcome that are with Him, called and chosen and faithful.
Faithful is the saying:
For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him:
If we endure, we shall also reign with Him:
If we shall deny Him, He also will deny us:
If we are faithless, He abideth faithful; for He cannot deny Himself.
It is of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him.
Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, our hearts are full of joy and thanksgiving because, such as we are, yet Thou hast called us unto Thyself. We are Thy children, and we have the right, the privilege, to come to Thee, to call Thee our Father, and to worship Thee.
O our Father, how we do thank Thee for all Thy mercy, lovingkindness, and grace. And Father, as we continue in Thy presence, we do ask Thee that Thou wilt quicken Thy Word to our hearts. Do speak to us and draw us unto Thyself; and to Thee be the glory, in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
We have been considering together this verse in Revelation 17:14. That verse tells us that there is a war going on—a war in the spiritual realm, a war that has been going on through the ages and the centuries.
But that war will one day come to an end. Revelation 17:14 tells us that here is the last battle. This war is a war between God and Satan. In this last battle, the Lamb of God, with His army—those who are the called and chosen and faithful—will go out and fight against the beast and his followers. The beast will be completely destroyed.
If you go on to Revelation 19, you will find that the beast will be thrown into the lake of fire, and Satan will be bound and put into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Then the kingdom of God shall come upon this earth. Not only shall our Lord Jesus reign, but those who are the called, the chosen, and the faithful will reign with Him during that millennium time.
We are looking into these three qualifications: those who are qualified to follow the Lamb into the last battle and into the glory of the kingdom. These are the people who are the called, the chosen, and the faithful.
We have considered together the call. Thank God, we are called by glory and virtue. We are not just called to satisfy our little needs; we are called to satisfy God’s own glory. We are called by grace. None of us is worthy, but His grace comes upon us freely and universally.
We are called according to purpose. When God calls us, He has a purpose behind it, and that purpose is the consummation of our calling. You know, we are called out of many, many things—more than probably we think—and we are continuously being called out.
We are being called out of all that is not of God. Now, brothers and sisters, anything that is not of God has to pass away. Only that which is of God will remain to eternity. So we are called out from all that which is not of God, whether it be sin, whether it be the world, whether it be the flesh, our self-life, or the kingdom of darkness.
God is calling us out of all these things in order to call us into His very purpose: not only to have Christ as our righteousness, but to know His life, His resurrection life, how real it is, and to know the power of that life that is guiding us every day.
We are called to be God’s children. We are called into the fellowship of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. We are called to be the body of Christ. We are called to be part of that eternal purpose of God, even Christ and His bride, the church.
So, brothers and sisters, we do thank God. It is not because we are better than anybody else. It is because God looked upon us, and by His grace He called us. We are the called of God.
But here you find we are not only the called; we need to be the chosen. That is, if we respond to what we are called into, then we will be the chosen to fulfil that function, that purpose, that God has called us into.
We remember the story of Moses: how, when he was forty years old, he chose God. He chose the reproach of Christ rather than the riches of Egypt. Because he made that right choice, he became the vessel of God in leading the children of Israel unto God’s purpose.
So, brothers and sisters, we who are the called need to prove ourselves that we are the chosen. Now, it is true: God has chosen us even before the foundation of the world, and that choosing is for a purpose. But we will not be able really to fulfil what God has ordained for us until one day we make a choice. We choose Christ rather than the world, and by that choice we will be the chosen.
We will be those whom God can use to fulfil His purpose. Now this morning we will come to the third qualification: the faithful. Not only the called, not only the chosen, but the faithful.
You know, faithfulness is God’s character. Our God is a faithful God. That is His very character. He cannot deny Himself. He is faithful to what He is.
We may deny, but He will never deny Himself. We may be unfaithful, and unfortunately oftentimes we are, but He remains faithful. Now why is it? Because faithfulness is God’s character. That is what God is. He just cannot help but be faithful; otherwise, He will deny what He is.
Our God is so faithful. He is faithful to His promise. You remember in the Garden of Eden, when man fell and God in His mercy came to man and offered to man the promise of redemption, of salvation. He said, “The seed of the woman shall come.” When the seed of the woman shall come, He will crush the serpent’s head, even though the serpent will hurt His heel.
This is God’s promise to mankind from the very beginning of man’s history. Probably it was over six thousand years ago that God made that promise. But God was faithful to His promise. Four thousand years passed. It was as though God had forgotten, but God had not forgotten. He was faithful to His promise.
So two thousand years ago, the seed of the woman came into this world, even our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful.
God is faithful to His Word. He spoke to Noah, saying that the world was so corrupted, violence was everywhere, and God repented of creating mankind. But Noah found favour in God’s sight. So God told Noah that there would be another hundred and twenty years, and then He would destroy the world.
Sure enough, after a hundred and twenty years, the flood came and destroyed the whole world. Now, we may think a hundred years is a long period. If we can live to a hundred and ten years, that will be a very long life. But to God, a hundred and twenty years is nothing, and yet you find He kept His Word.
This world is not what we thought. It was destroyed once, covered by water. But God saved Noah and his family. Now, after Noah and his family came out from the ark, Noah offered sacrifice to God. The sweet savour ascended to God, and God smelled it.
God said, “I will never destroy the world. I will never destroy mankind altogether.” And God said, “As long as this earth remains, there will be seedtime and harvest, winter and summer, cold and heat, day and night.”
God put a rainbow in the cloud to remind Him, as it were, that He would keep His promise and never destroy the earth with water again. Brothers and sisters, do you know that today mankind is still under that Noahic covenant? Seedtime and harvest continue on. Winter and summer continue on. You may not like winter, but winter and summer continue on. Heat and cold continue on, and day and night continue on.
God is always faithful to His promise. God made a covenant with Abraham, and even four hundred and thirty years later came the law. But the law did not annul the promise that God had made to Abraham. God is always faithful to His covenant.
Again, you find God is faithful to what He promised David. He was pleased with David, so He promised that David’s kingdom and household should be firm forever, and his throne should be established forever. We find how it is fulfilled in the Son of David, even the Lord of David, our Lord Jesus Christ. Truly, His kingdom never ends, and His throne is established forever.
The faithfulness of God is not only seen in past history. In the book of Psalms, you find the psalmists singing of the faithfulness of God: “Great is Thy faithfulness. Thy lovingkindness endureth forever, and Thy faithfulness remains from generation to generation.”
Even the prophets prophesied of the faithfulness of God. In Lamentations 3, the children of Israel were in a very, very bad condition. Actually, they were destroyed; they were taken into captivity. But thank God, when they looked up, they found that great is His faithfulness.
It is because of the lovingkindness of God that we are not consumed. How true it is. We are what we are today not because of what we are; it is because of what He is, because of His faithfulness to Himself.
Brothers and sisters, you come to the New Testament, and who do you find as the faithful One? Our Lord Jesus Christ. There is none in the whole world who is so faithful as our Lord Jesus. He is faithful to His Father, even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
In the book of Revelation, again and again, He is called the faithful witness. In Revelation 1, He is the faithful witness. In Revelation 3, Christ is the Amen, the faithful and true witness. In Revelation 19, when He shall come, He is called Faithful and True. Our Lord Jesus is the faithful One. He is faithful to His Father.
Now, thank God, not only is our Lord Jesus Himself faithful, but He is the One who brings faithfulness to us. Do you think that naturally we are faithful? In the English world, some people are more faithful than other people; that is true. But when you come to the will of God, you will find that, no matter who you are, the natural man is never faithful to God’s will.
Naturally, we are unfaithful. That is what we were. But thank God, our Lord Jesus is not only faithful, but He imparts faithfulness into us. Why? Because the life that we receive from Him is a faithful life. In other words, in that life of Christ which we receive, there is the nature of faithfulness.
It is on that basis that He expects us to be faithful. He never demands what He has not given. If He should demand faithfulness from us and it is not in us, then we are under the law, and it will bring death to us. But thank God, what is grace? Grace is that He always gives first before He demands.
He demands on Himself; He does not really demand on us. So here you find the Lord is looking today for people who are faithful to Him. We are not only to be the called; we are not only to be the chosen. After we are chosen, then faithfulness to Him is required, that we may be faithful to Him to the very end. This is what God is looking for among His people.
We may go to the Bible to find some faithful people who really satisfied God’s heart. First of all, of course, we like to think of Moses. In Hebrews 3, we are told that Moses was faithful in all His house as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things that were to be spoken afterward.
Moses was faithful in all God’s house. We know Moses was called, and Moses was chosen. He was chosen to be the leader of the children of Israel. When we read Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, we find how Moses led the children of Israel on the way to the promised land during those forty years, and how faithful he was in the house of God.
His faithfulness was such that when the children of Israel worshipped the golden calf, and God wanted to destroy that nation, God said, “I will destroy that nation, and I will raise thee up as a great nation.” Think of the faithfulness of Moses.
Moses was so faithful to God that not only did he refuse to be blessed by God as a substitute for the children of Israel, but, on the contrary, he pleaded with God for the children of Israel, even to the extent of saying, “God, if Thou wilt not forgive them, blot my name out of the book of life.”
Brothers and sisters, that is a tremendous thing. Only those whose names are written in that book of life will be able to enter into what we call heaven. That is the blessed hope of everybody; that is the final thing. Yet Moses, as a servant of God, was so faithful to that which God had entrusted to him that he would rather see himself destroyed than see the people of God destroyed. Now that is faithfulness.
Afterwards, if you go to Numbers 11, you know they began that wandering journey. How difficult the children of Israel were! They were very, very difficult. They wanted everything to satisfy them, and if something happened, they murmured. They not only murmured against God; Moses was the target. They murmured against him, blamed him for everything, and wanted to kill him, to stone him to death.
Oftentimes, in the controversy between God and the people, Moses was in the middle. God was angry, the people were angry, and Moses was in the middle of the whole thing. What would you do if you were in that situation?
One day Moses really complained. Moses said, “God, why dost Thou allow these things to happen to me? Why dost Thou say that I have to take the children of Israel in my breast and carry them as a nursing father carries babies? I have not brought them out. I have not formed them. Why dost Thou put this burden upon me?”
You see the point? Moses felt that God had entrusted him with the house of Israel and that he was a nursing father to them. He wondered why God should do such a thing to him. He said that it was too much for him. Yet he was faithful. He remained faithful.
Even though the children of Israel provoked his spirit and he lost his temper, and because of that he was unable to enter into the promised land, you find he was not one who said, “Well, if I cannot enter, nobody should enter.” Instead, even before he died, he pleaded with the children of Israel to be faithful to God, that they might enter and possess the land. Brothers and sisters, that is faithfulness.
Not only that, but he was faithful in all God’s house. God’s house, representatively, is the tabernacle. God commanded Moses to build a tabernacle, and God gave him instruction to the very last detail.
It was almost as if God was insulting Moses. Moses was a great man. He had all the learning of Egypt, and Egypt was famous for its architecture. Even today people go to Egypt to see the pyramids. If you study the pyramids, you find they were built with such precision.
We are told that in the great pyramid there is a hole, and that hole points to the North Pole. Because of all these thousands of years, it has shifted a little bit, but it shows how accurate it was when it was first built. Architecture was one of the glories of Egypt, and Moses was a builder.
Yet God allowed him to build a little tabernacle and told him every last detail—not only the material and the measurement, but even a nail, even the colour of it. God told him everything, and Moses was faithful.
What is faithfulness? Faithfulness is being faithful to God’s Word, to the last detail. Moses did not say, “Well, I will improve it.” But you find his faithfulness was doing God’s will. That is faithfulness.
Moses was faithful in God’s house, and that has much to do with it. Why? Because what he did was a testimony of the things to come. This tabernacle is only a shadow; it is the shadow of a reality, and the reality is the New Jerusalem.
So it is a great thing, not a small thing. Even though a tabernacle is a small thing, it is a shadow of the reality. You cannot change the shadow. If you change the shadow, you will not see the reality anymore. So it is a tremendous thing. Brothers and sisters, we often think, “It is a small thing; what does it matter?” But it is a testimony of the things to come. It does matter. Moses was faithful in God’s house.
Think of David. In Acts 13, it says that God chose David because God saw in David a heart after God’s own heart, who would do all God’s will. There was in the heart of David a desire to do God’s will, and this is faithfulness.
When David was a shepherd in the wilderness, what a faithful shepherd he was. Why? Because the lion came, the bear came, and they came upon the sheep that had been entrusted to him. Of course, he was just tending a few sheep, as his brother said, and yet how faithful he was to his sheep.
He would sacrifice and risk his very life. He would fight with a lion. He would take hold of the bear and tear it apart in order to save the sheep. He was faithful to his sheep.
How faithful he was to Saul. Saul ill-treated him; Saul wanted to kill him. Yet there was no one among Saul’s servants as faithful as David. Ahimelech the priest said of David, “No one is faithful in your house as your son-in-law David.” He was so faithful unto Saul.
He was faithful to God’s Word because Saul was God’s anointed. He would not help himself by killing Saul. It was as if God tested him, putting Saul into his hand twice, and his people said, “Now kill him, and all your trouble will be over.” David said, “No, I cannot touch God’s anointed.” He was faithful.
How faithful he was to God. When he ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to take Jerusalem, because Jerusalem was the appointed place of God. Even in Deuteronomy, God said that one day He would choose a place to put His name there. All those hundreds of years passed, and that place was still not there. But David knew by revelation that Jerusalem was the place.
So the first thing he did as king was to take Jerusalem, that God might have a name on earth. He brought the ark into the city, and he intended to build God a house. That is his faithfulness.
He was not allowed to build the temple because he was a man of war; he had shed too much blood. Yet because he was not allowed to build it, he did not have nothing to do with it. You find that he prepared all the materials for the temple because he loved God and His house. Now that is faithfulness.
Think of Daniel. How faithful was Daniel to God? As a teenager, he was taken as a hostage to Babylon. Ironically, it seemed as if luck came to him. Even though he was taken as a hostage out of his country and family and transplanted into a foreign country, he was chosen to be educated and instructed to stand before the great king.
He was given the king’s food and the king’s wine. But here you find a young man determined not to pollute himself with the king’s food and the king’s wine, in order to keep himself pure for God.
What was wrong with enjoying the king’s food and the king’s wine? The king’s food and the king’s wine were usually first sacrificed to idols before they were given to be taken. Daniel wanted to keep himself pure for God. He would not let himself be polluted because his life was for God, not for anybody else.
God honoured his faithfulness. God opened a way for him. He was able not to drink the king’s wine and eat the king’s food, and yet he was better than the other young men who had the king’s provision. God gave him wisdom, understanding, discernment, and the interpretation of dreams and visions.
How faithful was Daniel? He was put into the first place in the government next to the king—not only in the Babylonian Empire, but even after Babylon was destroyed by Medo-Persia. Again, he was almost like a prime minister in Medo-Persia.
Of course, the other people were very jealous of him, so they wanted to find fault, a pretext to accuse him. They could not find anything. He was the prime minister; he must have been managing tens of thousands of things, the whole country, the whole empire. Yet his enemies could not find fault in all the things that he did. Why? Because he was faithful.
Finally, they said, “If we want to find anything in that man, we have to find it in his relationship with God.” So they persuaded King Darius, trying to build up his ego, that during thirty days nobody could ask anything from anybody, from any god, except from him.
That really appealed to his ego, so he fell into that trap. He signed that decree, and then you knew it: Daniel went to his room as usual, knelt down, and prayed. He also opened the window towards Jerusalem.
He could have closed the window and prayed, and nobody would have seen it. But he opened the window towards Jerusalem, and he prayed—faithful to God, even to the point of death. God honoured him. God shut the mouth of the lions, and God delivered him. Brothers and sisters, that is faithfulness.
We can think of Paul. Paul is another one who represents the faithful. God had not only called him, God had not only chosen him, but God had given him power. Why? Because God counted him faithful, so God used him as an apostle.
How faithful he was to God. You remember, on his last trip to Jerusalem, he called the elders of the church in Ephesus to come to Miletus, and he shared his heart with them in Acts 20.
He said, “During the three years and a half that I was with you, how I ministered to you with lowliness, with tears, and tribulations; that I have not withheld anything good from you; that I have shared with you the whole counsel of God; that I helped you day and night, not only in public, but from house to house.” Brothers and sisters, how faithful that servant was to God.
No wonder, when he was tried by King Agrippa, his testimony was, “O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” That is why I am here. He was faithful to that heavenly vision that God had given to him, and he was faithful even unto death.
So, brothers and sisters, we do know that because God is faithful, because our Lord Jesus is faithful, and because the life that He has given to us is faithful, He expects us who are the called and the chosen to be faithful to Him to the very end.
In the last seven letters to the churches, His letter to the church in Smyrna said, “You are in tribulation, but do not lose heart. Do not be afraid. There will be ten more days of tribulation.”
Ten days in Scripture means a very short time. You remember when Abraham’s servant was sent to get Rebekah. The next day, the servant said, “Since you have already given Rebekah to Isaac, my mission is fulfilled, so we go.” The brother and mother said, “No, no, no. Let her stay a little longer before you go—ten or eight days.”
That does not mean just a short while; ten or eight days means a definite period. But the servant said, “No, God has blessed me. Why should you delay me?” And Rebekah said, “I will go.” So eight and ten mean a very short time.
Brothers and sisters, in this world we have tribulation, but remember, it is only ten days. The Lord Jesus said, “In the world ye have tribulation; but in Me ye have peace.” The Lord said, “Be thou faithful even unto death, and thou shalt receive the crown of life.”
In the letter to the church in Pergamum, He said, “You are faithful to Me. You still keep My Word. You honour My name, as long as My servant Antipas, the faithful Antipas, was living. You were faithful. But now Antipas is dead, and you became unfaithful.”
Who was this Antipas? In church history, we do not find a person named Antipas. As a matter of fact, in all the seven letters, you find that these names are symbolic. Pas means all, and anti means against. In other words, here is a man who is against all.
This is such a world that he is a man who is of another world, so he seems to be a person who is against all. Because he was so faithful to God, he was Antipas, and he probably suffered martyrdom for that reason.
But his faithfulness sustained the church in Pergamum as long as he lived. Faithfulness is not just a personal matter. If one is faithful, he is able to affect other people to be faithful.
In the letter to the church in Philadelphia, He said, “Hold fast, that no man take thy crown.” In other words, be faithful to the very end. So what God requires is faithfulness.
One thing is very interesting: in the New Testament, the word faithfulness and the word faith are one word. Pistis is one word. You have to know whether it refers to faithfulness or whether it refers to faith by the context. It is the same word.
Why? Because faith in Greek means three things together. Dr. Lightfoot, an Anglican bishop and a most learned person, wrote commentaries which almost cannot be surpassed. When he interpreted the word “faithful,” he said that Scripture calls believers “the faithful.”
What does that mean? Does it mean that they have faith, a belief, or does it mean that they are trustworthy, that they are faithful? He said you cannot be rigid about it. You have to let the two things come together.
In other words, those who have faith will be faithful. Those who are trustworthy are so because they are trusting. So, brothers and sisters, how can we be faithful? We can be faithful if we have faith. Faith is the secret to faithfulness.
If we believe in God, our faith will give us that faithfulness to Him. This is something that God is looking for from His own people.
Here you find the apostle Paul encouraging Timothy to be faithful. Second Timothy is a very special letter. Every book in the Bible is special, of course, and every book in the Bible speaks to us. But Second Timothy is most relevant to our days.
There is a great difference between 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, even though it was only a matter of a few years. Paul wrote 1 Timothy after he was released from Roman imprisonment. He revisited Ephesus, and he was in such a hurry that he could not stay there long enough. So he left Timothy there to help with the church.
The church is the house of God, of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. In other words, here you find the church: even though it was very weak, it was still the church in God’s eyes. God left Timothy there to help build up the church, that it might truly fulfil its testimony as the pillar and ground of truth.
That is the reason why, in 1 Timothy, Paul instructed Timothy as to how to build the church. But in 2 Timothy, it was only a gap of a few years, and the situation in the Roman Empire had completely changed.
In AD 64, Nero burned Rome. The people were murmuring, so he tried to find a scapegoat, and he said that the Christians did it. From that time onward, to be a Christian became a crime.
When Paul was first taken to Rome as a prisoner, to be a Christian was not a crime. At that time, the Roman Empire considered Christianity a sect of Judaism. Judaism was a recognized religion in the Roman Empire, so the Roman Empire did not persecute Christianity.
But then Christianity and Judaism were completely separated, and to be a Christian became a crime. Think of that. Under that kind of atmosphere, how it affected the church at that time.
When Paul wrote 2 Timothy, the situation had completely changed. Paul said, “All Asia hath forsaken me.” They had not forsaken God, but they had forsaken Paul. Why? Because they wanted to protect themselves. They kept a distance between themselves and Paul because Paul was a criminal.
Brothers and sisters, it was during a time of great tribulation and great trouble that the church was shaken, and many of God’s people became unfaithful.
When you are put into that kind of situation, are you able to remain faithful to God, faithful to your brothers and sisters, faithful to the vision that God has given to you? Some people may not deny God, but they deny their brothers and sisters. We find it happening everywhere under Communist rule. Some people even go to the extent of denying Christ.
Why is it so difficult? It is too difficult. When you lose faith in God, you lose your faithfulness.
Paul knew Timothy was a timid brother. Timothy was a shy person, naturally timid. So Paul was encouraging him. Paul said, “Be faithful.”
If you are faithful, if you endure, you will reign with Christ. If you are unfaithful, if you deny, God will deny you, but God will not deny Himself. In other words, be faithful.
Paul said, by the grace of God, “Look at me. I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Now there is a crown of righteousness waiting for me—not only for me, but for all those who wait for the coming of the Lord.”
Brothers and sisters, in our days this is a day of unfaithfulness. This is a day in which people are losing faith. Especially in such a time, how we need to be faithful. The only way to be faithful is to have faith in God.
When you look around, it is full of unfaithfulness. The world is unfaithful. Even your brothers and sisters may prove to be unfaithful. What will you do?
There is only One to whom you can look, and that is God. You find that He remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is always faithful to Himself, and because He is faithful to Himself, He is faithful to you.
He expects you to have faith in Him and to be faithful to Him to the end. Not only that, but in 2 Timothy Paul says:
Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
We are in a time when the testimony of God is severely contested. We are living in a dangerous time. We are even living in a time of apostasy. We find falling away on all sides. We find that the church is not what it ought to be.
When we are living in that kind of situation, what should we do? Is it because others are unfaithful that we can be unfaithful? Is it because others lose faith in God that we should lose our faith too?
Or should we, under that kind of situation, by the grace of God, be strong in the grace of God and keep all that God has entrusted to us, and not only keep it, but entrust it to faithful men?
Proverbs says, “A faithful man who can find?” The Gospel says, “When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” Brothers and sisters, we are severely tested today in this matter of faith and faithfulness.
But God is faithful, and He wants us to be faithful. Not only are we ourselves to be faithful, but we are to entrust all that He has given to us to faithful men, that His testimony may continue.
Brothers and sisters, thank God: He is faithful. Therefore, have faith in God. The called, the chosen, and the faithful—they will be following the Lamb today whithersoever He goes.
So in the last battle, when the Lamb comes to the last battle, they will be there with Him. They will enter into glory with Him. May God bless us. Shall we pray?
Dear Heavenly Father, we do realize that we are living in an unfaithful world. We do realize that faith is falling away all around. We do realize that even among Thy people faithfulness is rare.
But Lord, we do look to Thee. Thou hast given us the life of Thy beloved Son, that is faithful to the very end. So we cannot trust ourselves, but we do trust in Thy life.
Lord, we look to Thee. We know that Thou art God, and Thou art ever faithful. So, Lord, keep us faithful to the very end. Lord, raise up faithful men and women among Thy people throughout the world, that they may maintain Thy testimony in this age of unfaithfulness.
In the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.