TEXT: ‘So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 3:17-18 NLT). Today’s Teaching has studied the words: Faith, Precious and Submission. The last word in this series is “Suffering”. In Part 1, we studied “The suffering of Christ”. Now we consider the suffering of the Christian. Jesus said, ‘Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you’ (John 15:29). Paul prayed, ‘That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings’ (Philippians 3:10). He wanted to identify with Christ, in line with what God told him at his conversion, ‘For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake’ (Acts 9:16). Suffering is an inescapable part of Christianity. The Suffering of the Christian A. Key Areas in which Christians can suffer (i) Through Deterioration, Disease and Death This is physical suffering due to the ageing process, illness and death itself. Ever since Adam and Eve’s disobedience, mankind has...
Learn MoreTEXT: ‘So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (2 Peter 3:17-18 NLT). Today’s Teaching has studied the words: Faith, Precious and Submission. The last word in this series is “Suffering”. There are plenty of references to this subject in the Bible, not just those mentioned by Peter. Rather than try to cram everything into one teaching, we will look at this subject in two parts. Firstly, the suffering of Christ and secondly, the suffering of the Christian. 1. The Suffering of Christ A. This was prophesied by the Old Testament prophets – ‘This salvation was something the prophets did not fully understand. Though they wrote about it, they had many questions as to what it all could mean. They wondered what the Spirit of Christ within them was talking about, for he told them to write down the events which, since then, have happened to Christ: his suffering, and his great glory afterwards. And they wondered when and to whom all this would happen’ (1 Peter 1:10-11 TLB). One well-known prophetic Bible passage about the suffering of...
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