Great Encouragement to Stability and Service

1 Corinthians 15:57, 58

I. The Exhortation.

1. In faith be steadfast (Col. 1:23).

2. In trial be unmovable

3. In work be always abounding.

II. The Encouragement.

1. Your work is in the Lord.

2. Your labour is not in vain.

3. Your triumph is sure. “He giveth us the victory.”

James Smith and Robert Lee, Handfuls on Purpose for Christian Workers and Bible Students, Series I–XIII, five-volume edition., vol. 4 (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1971), 291.