What’s in it for us? 1 Peter 4:12-19

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. James 1:2–3

“If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?” Jeremiah 12:5

– Exceedingly great joy What’s in it for us?

– Exceedingly great joy What’s in it for us? “No Scar” Amy Carmichael Hast thou no scar? No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand? I hear thee sung as mighty in the land, I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star, Hast thou no scar?

– Exceedingly great joy What’s in it for us? Hast thou no wound? Yet I was wounded by the archers, spent, Leaned Me against a tree to die; and rent By ravening beasts that compassed Me, I swooned: Hast thou no wound?

– Exceedingly great joy What’s in it for us? No wound, no scar? Yet, as the Master shall the servant be, And, pierced are the feet that follow Me; But thine are whole: can he have followed far who has no wound nor scar?

– Exceedingly great joy What’s in it for us? For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake…. Philippians 1:29

– Exceedingly great joy – Intimacy and power What’s in it for us? Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Isaiah 11:1–2

– Exceedingly great joy – Intimacy and power – “Fellowship” in His glory What’s in it for us? When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy (glory). 1 Samuel 4:18

– Exceedingly great joy – Intimacy and power – “Fellowship” in His glory What’s in it for us? For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver (glory). Ezekiel 21:21

– Exceedingly great joy – Intimacy and power – “Fellowship” in His glory What’s in it for us? Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth. Psalm 115:1

– Exceedingly great joy – Intimacy and power – “Fellowship” in His glory – “Fellowship” in His authority – Confidence in judgment What’s in it for us? Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. 1 John 2:28