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RESILIENCE

RESILIENCE. Resilient: “tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=resilient) “recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like” (http://www.memidex.com/resilient+spirited). RESILIENCE.

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RESILIENCE

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  1. RESILIENCE Resilient: “tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=resilient) “recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like” (http://www.memidex.com/resilient+spirited)

  2. RESILIENCE I. SOME EXAMPLES OF RESILIENCE IN THE BIBLE

  3. RESILIENCE OF JOSEPH • Hated by his brethren (Gen. 37:5,8) • His brethren would have killed him if not for the intervention of Reuben (Gen. 37:20-22) • Sold into slavery and taken to Egypt (Gen. 37:26-28) • Thrown into prison in Egypt (Gen. 39:20) • Languished in prison for years (Gen. 41:1)

  4. RESILIENCE OF MOSES • Fled Egypt after his brethren fail to appreciate his efforts to help them (Ex.2:11-15) • Answered the call of God to lead Israel after forty years of exile (Acts 7:23, 30) • Led Israel through the wilderness for 40 years • The golden calf (Ex. 32:1-35) • Murmurings at waters of Marah, in wilderness of Sin, in Rephidim, twice at Kadesh Barnea (Ex. 15:23,23; 16:3; 17:1-3; Num. 14:1-10; 20:2-13) • Korahites rebellion (Num. 16:1-35) • The early battles of conquest (Num. 21:21-35; 31:1-54)

  5. RESILIENCE OF PAUL, 2 Cor. 4:8-10: • We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; • Perplexed, but not driven to despair; • Persecuted, but not forsaken; • Struck down, but not destroyed; • Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. (NRSV)

  6. RESILIENCE • II. THINGS THAT HELP ONE BE RESILIENT • A. Refusing (Ps. 1:1): • To live according to the counsel or rule of the wicked, Ps. 10:4; Prov. 4:14 • To go in the way of sinners. • To company with those who scorn God’s ways.

  7. RESILIENCE • II. THINGS THAT HELP ONE BE RESILIENT • B. Delighting in and being familiar with the law of Jehovah (v. 2), 2 Tim. 3:16,17; Ps. 1:3 • It convicts of sin, Ti. 1:9 • It restores the soul, Ps. 19:7 • It instructs in righteousness, 2 Tim. 3:16 • It produces faith, Rom. 10:17

  8. It produces faith, Rom. 10:17 • In Jesus, Jno. 20:30,31

  9. RESILIENCE OF PAUL, 2 Cor. 4:8-10: • We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; • Perplexed, but not driven to despair; • Persecuted, but not forsaken; • Struck down, but not destroyed; • Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. (NRSV)

  10. It produces faith, Rom. 10:17 • In Jesus, Jno. 20:30,31 • In the unseen, Heb. 11:1; 2 Cor. 4:16-5:10

  11. RESILIENCE • II.THINGS THAT HELP ONE BE RESILIENT • B. Delighting in and being familiar with the law of Jehovah (v. 2), 2 Tim. 3:16,17; Ps. 1:3 • It convicts of sin, Ti. 1:9 • It restores the soul, Ps. 19:7 • It instructs in righteousness, 2 Tim. 3:16 • It produces faith, Rom. 10:17 • It strengthens, Acts 20:32 (vs. 29,30)

  12. B. Delighting in and being familiar with the law of Jehovah (v. 2), 2 Tim. 3:16,17; Ps. 1:3 • It brings hope, 2 Pet. 3:13; Phil. 3:4-11 • It gives the knowledge that God wants to save us, Jno. 3:16; Ezek. 33:11; 1 Tim. 1:15; Isa. 40:28-31; Ps. 23:1-6; Lk. 15:24; Jno. 3:3,5

  13. RESILIENCE I. SOME EXAMPLES OF RESILIENCE IN THE BIBLE

  14. RESILIENCE • II. THINGS THAT HELP ONE BE RESILIENT • A. Refusing (Ps. 1:1): • To live according to the counsel or rule of the wicked, Ps. 10:4; Prov. 4:14 • To go in the way of sinners. • To company with those who scorn God’s ways.

  15. B. Delighting in and being familiar with the law of Jehovah. • It convicts of sin • It restores the soul • It instructs in righteousness • It produces faith • In Jesus • It strengthens • It brings hope • It givestheknowledgethatGodwantstosave us

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