After Ye Have Suffered

Hardship is an indispensable ingredient in the recipe of Christian success. Mainstream Christendom has often times attempted to completely eradicate this requisite ingredient, not realizing that suffering is in fact at the very core of what it means to be a Christian; so much so that without it, you are no "Christ-ian" at all. Perfection, establishment, and strengthening is on the other side of pain properly endured. Christian, reject your flesh, take up your cross, and endure hardness as a good solider of Jesus Christ. 

Preached in Escondido, CA, during the year 1983.