📜Rom 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
1️⃣ but we glory in tribulations:
distress (state) — noun. an oppressive state of physical, mental, social, or economic adversity.
to be distressed — verb. to be or become afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
📜Rom 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Patience
1️⃣ To persevere, remain under. A bearing up under, endurance as to things or circumstances.
👉🏿The capacity to hold out or bear up in the face of difficulty, patience, endurance, fortitude, steadfastness, perseverance
Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 1039). University of Chicago Press.
2️⃣Experience
The experience of going through a test with special ref. to the result, standing a test, building Eternal character; Godly dependency, a life showing appreciation for the Grace of God.
Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 256). University of Chicago Press.
🛑1 Peter 2:23-24 (CWSB)
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose -- stripes ye were healed.
3️⃣hope:
📌(POSB NT Cmy) The believer’s hope is based upon the presence of God’s Spirit who dwells within the believer. In fact, the believer possesses the hope of glory only by the Spirit of God who dwells within him.📌 (POSB NT Cmy) hope is expectation, anticipation, looking and longing for, desiring, relying upon, and trusting. But it is also confidence, knowledge, surety, assurance, certainty, and a guarantee. When a justified man becomes stronger in character, he draws closer to God and the closer he draws to God, the more he hopes for the glory of God.
📌 Hebrews 6:18 (CWSB)
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
📌Galatians 5:5-6 (CWSB)
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
📌1 John 3:1-3 (CWSB)
Evidences of a True Believer
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
📜Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
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