Scriptures used in this teaching/sermon:

Hebrews 10:32-39

32. But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction,
and sometimes being partners with those so treated.

34. For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property,
since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

35. Therefore do not throw away your confidence,
which has a great reward.

36. For you have need of endurance, so that when you
have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

37. For, “Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed,
but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 10:24-25

24. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some,
but encouraging one another, and all the more
as you see the Day drawing near.

Hebrews 10:26-31

26. For if we go on sinning deliberately
after receiving the knowledge of the truth,
there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful expectation of judgement,
and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

28. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses
dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

29. How much worse punishment, do you think,
will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God,
and has profaned the blood of the covenant
by which he was sanctified,
and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

30. For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.


Matthew 16: 21-27
21. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
22. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”
23. But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
24. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
25. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
26. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
27. For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.