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Answers to Last Month's Bible Challenger: 2001 - (g)

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2001 By: John Short

1. P artakers of Christ’s sufferings 1 Peter 4:12-13¹²Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: ¹³But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. (1 Peter 4:12‑13)

2. A ffliction 2 Cor. 8:2²How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. (2 Corinthians 8:2)

3. T hrough faith Heb. 11:39³⁹And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: (Hebrews 11:39)

4. I have overcome the world John 16:33³³These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (John 16:33)

5. E xceeding joyful 2 Cor. 7:45

6. N ow for a season 1 Peter 1:36

7. C onquerors Rom. 8:35-39³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35‑39)

8. E nter into the kingdom of God Acts 14:22²²Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22)

“We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh PATIENCE” (Rom. 5:3³And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (Romans 5:3)).

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