• Exhorts them to

    • gird up their loins
    • serve the Lord in fear and truth
  • Ascribes to Christ

    • all things in heaven and earth are subject to Him
    • every spirit serves Him
    • Comes as the Judge of the living and the dead
    • His Blood will be required of unbelievers
    • Believers will be raised up with Him
      • IF
        • we do His Will
        • walk in His commandments
        • love what He loved
        • keep ourselves from all
          • unrighteousness
          • covetousness
          • love of money
          • evil speaking
          • false witness
        • not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, blow for blow, or cursing for cursing
        • remembering His teaching to
          • “judge not, that ye be not judged”
        • forgive in order to be forgiven
        • be merciful that we might obtain mercy
          • “with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again”
        • blessed are the poor and persecuted for righteousness’ sake
          • for theirs is the kingdom of heaven