The Faith Banquet - Justification In Christ Jesus. Part 6

1. Glory In Tribulations. Vs. 3-4, “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

This is exulting and triumphing in our troubles and rejoicing in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. Because endurance develops maturity of character. And character produces joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation.

John 16:33, “These 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.”

We rejoice in tribulation because we know we will not be defeated. We have overcome the world. We are overcomers. Tribulation or no tribulation. But we have to prove to the world that we are overcomers; so in times of tribulation, sufferings and affliction, instead of us to be sorrowful and perplexed, we are rejoicing. Glorifying our Father God, full of joy and glorying in God. Thanking God even in tribulation.

Romans 8:33-37, “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us

In all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. No tribulation can get us defeated; no distress can get us perplexed; no persecution can get us to give up; no famine can get us to go hungry; no nakedness can get us ashamed; no peril or sword can get us destroyed, for we are more than conquerors. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. The Word has become our confidence and assurance.

In Acts 5, the apostles rejoiced when persecuted and beaten by the council. They rejoiced in tribulation because they knew that He that is in them is greater than he that is in the world.