The Key Ingredient to Steadfast Faith

From Matthew 25 / Psalm 45

📖 Matthew 25:1 ESV Matthew 25:1 (ESV) “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.

📖 Matthew 24:4-5 ESV And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.

📖 Matthew 24:9-10 ESV Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.

📖 Matthew 24:11-12 ESV And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.

Steadfast faith comes from Spirit-Filled .

Spirit-filled conviction is…

1. Not about your .

Spirit-filled conviction is…

2. Not until the .

Spirit-filled conviction is…

3. Not something can you.

📖 Matthew 25:8 ESV And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

📖 Matthew 25:11 ESV Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’

📖 Psalm 45:10 ESV Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father’s house, 11  and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him. 12  The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts, the richest of the people. 13  All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold. 14  In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her. 15  With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king. 

Spirit-filled conviction:

4.  from God.

📖 Psalm 45:10 ESV Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear

📖 John 6:63 ESV It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

📖 2 Timothy 4:3-5 ESV For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, [4] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. [5] As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Spirit-filled conviction:

5. the of the .

📖 Psalm 45:10 ESV  “forget your people and your father’s house”

Spirit-filled conviction:

6. my before God.

📖 Psalm 45:11 ESV Since he is your lord, bow to him.”

Spirit-filled conviction:

7. the of the .

📖 Psalm 45:14 ESV  In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her.