3-29-26/PERSEVERING IN TRIBULATION STILL

THEME: REJOICING IN HOPE

Rom 12:9-13 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; 11 not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

PERSEVERANCE

hupomeno (hoop-om-en'-o); to stay under (behind), i.e. remain; figuratively, to undergo, i.e. bear (trials), have fortitude, persevere:

1.     to remain

a.     to tarry behind

2.     to remain i.e. abide, not recede or flee

a.     to preserve: under misfortunes and trials to hold fast to one's faith in Christ

b.     to endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments

to stay behind; to stand firm, endure, persevere

KJV - abide, endure, (take) patient (-ly), suffer, tarry behind

John 15:1-12

TRIBULATION:

thlipsis (thlip'-sis); pressure (literally or figuratively):

1.     a pressing, pressing together, pressure

2.     metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation, distress, straits

trouble, distress, oppression, tribulation

KJV - afflicted (-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.

Matt 5:11-12 "Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.  12 "Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

1 Cor 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

TEMPTATION:

peirasmos (pi-ras-mos'); a putting to proof (by experiment [of good], experience [of evil], solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication, adversity:

    an experiment, attempt, trial, proving

        trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Gal. 4:

        the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy

            an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances

            an internal temptation to sin

        of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand

            of the condition of things, or a mental state, by which we are enticed to sin, or to a lapse from the faith and holiness

            adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness

        temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men

            rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves

KJV - temptation,  try.