Revelation 1:9
Christian Identity (Part 4)
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Review
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Outline of the Book of Revelation
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Christian Identity (Revelation 1:1-9)
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Servants
Loved
Blessed
Freed from sins
Kingdom
Priests
Brothers
Partners in patient endurance
Partners in tribulation
adelphos
ἀδελφός
https://biblehub.com/greek/80.htm
“a brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian”
“from alpha (as a cop. prefix) and delphus (womb)”
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. - Revelation 1:9 (ESV)
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Implications of a Familial Relationship
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Brothers
Siblings
Children
Father
Family
Reading/Discussion
What makes someone a child of God?
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Household
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, - Ephesians 3:19 (WEB)
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. - 1 Timothy 3:15 (WEB)
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end. - Hebrews 3:6 (WEB)
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Reading/Discussion
What are some other things important for us in being
children in God’s household?
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sugkoinonos
συγκοινωνός
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. - Revelation 1:9 (ESV)
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Partners in the Gospel
for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now…It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. - Philippians 1:5-7 (WEB)
Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers…You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God, because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth. - 3 John 1:5-8 (WEB)
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thlipsis
θλῖψις
https://biblehub.com/greek/2347.htm
“persecution, affliction, distress, tribulation”
“pressure (what constricts or rubs together), used of a narrow place that "hems someone in"; tribulation, especially internal pressure that causes someone to feel confined (restricted, "without options")”
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. - Revelation 1:9 (ESV)
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hupomone
ὑπομονή
https://biblehub.com/greek/5281.htm
“endurance, steadfastness, patient waiting for”
“(from 5259 /hypó, "under" and 3306 /ménō, "remain, endure") – properly, remaining under, endurance; steadfastness, especially as God enables the believer to "remain (endure) under" the challenges He allots in life.”
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. - Revelation 1:9 (ESV)
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Discussion
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. - Revelation 1:9 (ESV)
What are the relationships between these things?
Why are they together?
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After Paul was stoned…
…that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
- Acts 14:22 (WEB)
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Jesus Christ Has Overcome the World
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33 (NIV)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? - 1 John 5:4-5 (WEB)
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We Need to Be Prepared for Suffering
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. - 1 Peter 4:12-14 (WEB)
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. - 1 Peter 5:8-10 (WEB)
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Reward After Suffering
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. - 1 Peter 4:12-14 (WEB)
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings. But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. - 1 Peter 5:8-10 (WEB)
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Faith in God for Perseverance & Deliverance
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. - 2 Timothy 4:17-18 (WEB)
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Partnership in Comfort for Affliction
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort…
God…who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication... - 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 (WEB)
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A Sign of God’s Righteous Judgment
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer. Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, - 2 Thessalonians 1:4-7 (WEB)
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Looking to an Eternal Weight of Glory
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (WEB)
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