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Persecution
Christ suffered - Ps 69:26; Joh 5:16
Christ voluntarily submitted to - Isa 50:6
Christ was patient under - Isa 53:7
Saints may expect - Mr 10:30; Lu 21:12; Joh 15:20
Saints suffer, for the sake of God - Jer 15:15
Of saints, is a persecution of Christ - Zec 2:8; Ac 9:4,5
All that live godly in Christ, shall suffer - 2Ti 3:12
ORIGINATES
- Ignorance of God and Christ
- Joh 16:3- Hated to God and Christ
- Joh 15:20,24- Hatred to the gospel
- Mt 13:21- Pride
- Ps 10:2- Mistaken zeal
- Ac 13:50; 26:9-11Is inconsistent with the spirit of the gospel - Mt 26:52
Men by nature addicted to - Ga 4:29
Preacher of the gospel subject to - Ga 5:11
Is sometimes to death - Ac 22:4
God forsakes not his saints under - 2Co 4:9
God delivers out of - Da 3:25,28; 2Co 1:10; 2Ti 3:11
Cannot separated from Christ - Ro 8:35
Lawful means may be used to escape - Mt 2:13; 10:23; 12:14,15
SAINTS SUFFERING, SHOULD
- Commit themselves to God
- 1Pe 4:19- Exhibit patience
- 1Co 4:12- Rejoice
- Mt 5:12; 1Pe 4:13- Glorify God
- 1Pe 4:16- Pray for deliverance
- Ps 7:1; 119:86- Pray for those who inflict
- Mt 5:44- Return blessing for
- Ro 12:14The hope of future blessedness supports under - 1Co 15:19,32; Heb 10:34,35
Blessedness of enduring, for Christ's sake - Mt 5:10; Lu 6:22
Pray for those suffering - 2Th 3:2
Hypocrites cannot endure - Mt 4:17
False teachers shrink from - Ga 6:12
THE WICKED
- Addicted to
- Ps 10:2; 69:26- Active in
- Ps 143:3; La 4:19- Encourage each other in
- Ps 71:11- Rejoice in its success
- Ps 13:4; Re 11:10- Punishment for
- Ps 7:13; 2Th 1:6- Illustrated
- Mt 21:33-39Spirit of-Exemplified
- Pharaoh &c
- Ex 1:8-14- Saul
- 1Sa 26:18- Jezebel
- 1Ki 19:2- Zedekiah &c
- Jer 38:4-6- Chaldeans
- Da 3:8-30- Pharisees
- Mt 12:14- Jews
- Joh 5:16; 1Th 2:15- Herod
- Ac 12:1- Gentiles
- Ac 14:5- Paul
- Php 3:6; 1Ti 1:13Suffering of-Exemplified
- Micaiah
- 1Ki 22:27- David
- Ps 119:161- Jeremiah
- Jer 32:2- Daniel
- Da 6:5-17- Peter &c
- Ac 4:3- Apostles
- Ac 5:18- The Prophets
- Ac 7:52- The Church
- Ac 8:1- Paul and Barnabas
- Ac 13:50- Paul and Silas
- Ac 16:23- Hebrews
- Heb 10:33- Saints of old
- Heb 11:36 Next Topic (Perseverance)