Faithful
Until the end...
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
2 Timothy 4:7
19 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained.”
24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”
26 After eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus *came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then He *said to Thomas, “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.” 28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus *said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”
30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.
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John 20:19 - 31​
​​​​“See, I have set before you today
life and prosperity, and death and adversity;
in that I command you today to love the Lord your God,
to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments
and His statutes and His judgments,
that you may live and multiply,
and that the Lord your God may bless you
in the land where you are entering to possess it.
But if your heart turns away and you will not obey,
but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,
I declare to you today that you shall surely perish.
You will not prolong your days in the land
where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today,
that I have set before you life and death,
the blessing and the curse.
So choose life in order that you may live,
you and your descendants,
by loving the Lord your God,
by obeying His voice,
and by holding fast to Him;
for this is your life and the length of your days,
that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers,
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
~ Deuteronomy 30:15-20