The Matrix of True Martyrdom
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. 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. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 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.”But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Hebrews 10:32-39
So I must say that what ever had Pastor Don pumped up for last weeks sermon was still going this week. And that’s a good thing. We need a passion for God in our church and it’s refreshing to see Pastor Don with that passion.
Overall a great sermon. The main point of the sermon was “Never. Never. Never, give up” It was a call to stay faithful to Jesus. To remember back when we first believed and to keep on keeping on.
Now just a few notes (because I have to make everything difficult 
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There are several different views on what will happen during the “end times”. If you go back about 10-20 years most Christians believed in a “better and better” end time. That is that the world will become a “heaven on earth” and then Jesus will come back when everything is Tony the Tiger Great!
However the last few years the mood of most Christians have been changing. Now most Christians believe in a “worse and worse” end time. We think that the world is decaying and will only get worse and worse.
The problem with both “end time” worldviews is that they are to short sighted. It’s true the generation before Pastor Don was a great time for the American church and so they said that everything is going to get better and better. But Pastor Don’s generation has seen the American church go from it’s height to where it’s at today and so they say that everything is getting worse and worse.
However if you look at all of the Church’s history you can not say that things have always gotten better or worse. Sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down.
The only other thing that I would mention is that Pastor Don said that the “reward” that the writer of Hebrews talks about is “people”. I’m sorry but no. If you want to go to heaven to hand out with me forever, you’re going to be hugely disappointed. Jesus is our reward. That we get to see Him and to be like Him and to worship Him. Jesus is our reward, He is the Gospel.