Resisting & Banking on the Future
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Our Active Engagement
Our Active Engagement
Our wartime position.
Satan is aggressively hostile to God’s people.
He seeks to wound their faith, and cause them to doubt their God. He has no power over the true believer.
18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Our Encouragement for Enduring
Our Encouragement for Enduring
Other Christians are enduring the same things. This calms our fears and gives us hope.
13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
The Promise of Restoration
The Promise of Restoration
Described
All of these are in the future Tense indicating these are divine promises to believers.
Restore: the same word for mending nets. The root word refers to setting joints in the proper place.
Any damage done through temptation or persecution, God will repair and restore. He will fit us for continued service.
Confirm: to establish and make solid. and strengthen.
Strengthen: to fill with strength.
Establish: to settle on a firm foundation.
By Whom?
He is personally involved in the restoration of those who have suffered for him.
God himself, the God of all grace.
The One who has called you to his eternal Glory.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.