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The Gold, Silver, Precious Stones team appreciates your contributions in support of this work. Please send your correspondence to:
Gold, Silver, Precious Stones
P.O. Box 240
Harvest, AL 35749
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Poor and Afflicted
GOD HAS CHOSEN HIS CHILDREN in a furnace of affliction.
They pass through “great tribulation” before reaching the
heavenly Jerusalem, and I am glad that it is so; for if it was not,
we would not be conformable to the sufferings of Christ. We
must have fellowship with his sufferings, if we are partakers of
his joys and his glory; and through suffering we are enabled the
better to reflect the image of Christ in our practical walk. Paul
says, We are troubled on every side; perplexed, persecuted, cast
down, but not in despair, nor destroyed; “always bearing about
the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be
made manifest in our body, and in our mortal flesh” (2 Cor. 4).
Then “be of good cheer.” “My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations (trials), knowing that the
trying of your faith worketh patience, if needs be ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations.” The trial of your faith is
more precious than gold, though it be tried with fire. Then there
is a needs be for it. We are thus better prepared to determine
whether our faith stands in the wisdom of men or in the power
of God. Being ofttimes delivered from these troubles, we feel
some assurance that we have that faith that works by love, and
that giveth us the victory over the world. |
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