"But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3

“Be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel.” Colossians 1:23.

Satan summons all his hosts to push men back from the Cross that they may not come to Christ and live. The battle does not end when a man has come to Christ. It assumes a new form —  Do not think that in the moment when you believe in Christ the conflict is over, or you will be bitterly disappointed! It is then that the battle renews itself and every inch of the road swarms with enemies.

Between here and Heaven you will always have to fight, frequently the severest struggle will be at a time when you are least prepared for it.
There is but a short space between one battle and another in this world.

He that would win Heaven must fight for it! He that would take the new Jerusalem must scale it and if he has the wits to take Jacob’s ladder and set it against the wall and climb up that way, he will win the City.

“The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force.”

edited from article by Pastor Charles H. Spurgeon