You might say, strength, or a big desire, or trying hard. Well that's what perseverance is. Perseverance is having and big desire to finish something and trying hard and getting strength to do it. But of course everybody would look at you funny, if you said that. It's the same thing.
Perseverance means hanging in there.
So we are going to talk about the doctrine, or the Biblical teaching, of the hanging in there of the saints. Saints, simply means real Christians. A saint is not a special group of Christians, like martyrs or preachers or missionaries. Saints is just another name for people who are truly born again and who have saving faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The book of Hebrews has more to say about Christian perseverance than any other New Testament book.