After relating terrible events that must happen before Christ’s coming, this text leaves believers with a simple message – Stand Firm!
Although some adults tried to keep children away from Jesus, he welcomed them in Mark 10:13-16 as models of how to enter the kingdom...
As the second Adam and the faithful Israel, Jesus resisted temptation and so can help us when we are tempted.
Not only are believers in Jesus justified before God, but we also have peace, grace, hope, love, reconciliation, and salvation.