Chapter One Scripture: An Eternal Word
Chapter Two Son of God: An Exalted Word
Chapter Three Salvation: An Evangelical Word
Chapter Four Sanctification: An Essential Word
Chapter Five Spirit Baptism: An Empowering Word
Chapter Six Suffering: An Encouraging Word
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “And to Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, “You shall not eat of it,” cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.’” Genesis 3:17-18 Pentateuch
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “The years of our life our seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.” Psalm 90:10
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.” Job 23:10
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.” Habakkuk 3:17-18
“And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” Matthew 11:6 Suffering: An Encouraging Word “And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.” Matthew 11:6
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.” Acts 5:41
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18
Suffering: An Encouraging Word “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:4 Apocalypse
Suffering: An Encouraging Word Here we’re often tossed driven on the restless sea of time, Rolling clouds and howling tempest oft succeed a bright sunshine, In that land of perfect day, when the mist is rolled away, We will understand it better by and by.
Introduction- Suffering An Encouraging Word Introduction- Suffering The Origin and Source The Reasons for Suffering The Remedy for Suffering
Four Portraits of Suffering Postscript An Encouraging Word Summations on Suffering Four Portraits of Suffering Postscript Excursus: Divine Healing as in the Atonement