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XII.
Christian Growth and Experience
Chapter 126
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Trusting in Jesus
1. WHAT did the prophet
Isaiah predict of Christ?
"And in that day there shall be a
root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign
of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek:
and His rest shall be glorious." Isa. 11:10.
NOTE.-Paul renders this, "In Him shall the
Gentiles trust." Rom. 15:12.
2. Why does God wish us
to trust in Jesus?
"That we should be to the praise
of His glory, who first trusted in Christ."
Eph. 1:12.
3. What did the
Ephesians do upon hearing the gospel?"
"In whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation." Verse 13, first part.
4. What experience
followed this trust in Jesus?
"In whom also after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
promise." Verse 13, last part.
NOTE.-To trust in Jesus is to believe in
Him, to have abiding and unbounded
confidence in Him. When such trust exists,
we are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise.
5. What is the gospel
to every one that believes?
"I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth." Rom.
1:16.
6. How does God regard
one who abandons his faith? "Now the
just shall live by faith: but if any man draw
back My soul shall have no pleasure in him."
Heb. 10:38.
7. Is there danger of
believers losing their hold on Christ?
"And because iniquity shall abound,
the love of many shall wax cold." Matt.
24:12.
8. By what does one
gain the victory over the world?
"This is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4.
9. What encouragement
does Jesus give us to meet cheerfully the
troubles and trials of life?
"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." John 16:33.
10. What has this firm
trust in Jesus led many to do?
"And they overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the
death." Rev. 12:11. "And others had trial of
cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of
bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with
the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins; being destitute, afflicted,
tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy)."
Heb. 11:36-38.
11. What did it lead
Moses to do?
"By faith Moses, when he was come to
years, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the
treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the
recompense of the reward." Verses 24-26.
12. What is promised
those who trust in Jesus?
"There is no man that hath left
house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My
sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive
an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and
children, and lands, with persecutions; and
in the world to come eternal life." Mark
10:29,30.
13. What is Jesus able
to do?
"Now unto Him that is able to keep
you from falling, and to present you faultless
before the presence of His glory." Jude 24.
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