Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
As for you, my brethren, bear your sufferings with constancy, till the advent of the Lord. the farmer, from the prospect of a golden crop, patiently expects the showers of the spring and the autumn.
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however, he stay'd in the place where he was, even two days after he had heard that Lazarus was sick.
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Lord, said Martha to Jesus, if you had been here, my brother had not been dead.
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the Lord does not delay the accomplishment of his promise, as some do imagine. but he waits with patience upon our account, as being unwilling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
'Twas by faith that he who was named Abraham, showed his obedience in travelling to a foreign country, which he was afterwards to inherit; and began his journey without knowing where he was going.
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'Twas by faith that Abraham, when put to the trial, offered up Isaac: HE offered up his darling son, to whose posterity the promises were to be made good:
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that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:
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that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.
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and when he was got into the house, the blind men advanc'd: and Jesus said to them, do ye think I am able to effect this cure? they answer'd, yes, Lord.
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Jesus therefore said to her, let the children first be satisfy'd; for it would not be decent to take the children's bread, and throw it to puppys.
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others suffer'd cruel indignities and scourgings, besides chains and imprisonment.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
will be expos'd. for the time of tryal will show it: it shall be discovered by the fire, which will put each sort of work to the test.
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happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
however, he stay'd in the place where he was, even two days after he had heard that Lazarus was sick.
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Jesus then lifting up his eyes, and seeing a great company coming to him, said to Philip, where can we buy bread to feed this people? (this he said to prove Philip: for he himself knew what he had to do.)
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
after they had been severely lash'd, they were thrown into prison, the jayler being charg'd to keep them safe. in consequence of this order he thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Consider the various tryals that surround you, my brethren, as matter of great joy; knowing this, that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
he is like a man who in building a house, digg'd deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: an inundation came, the current beat impetuously upon that house, but could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
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