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Adversity Builds Resilience

Madison Church of Christ

Summer Series 2024

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Bold Resilience

Three areas where we need to be bold in our resilience:

    • We need to be boldly resilient when dealing with our enemies.
    • We need to be boldly resilient in standing on the authority of God’s Word.
    • We need to be boldly resilient in proclaiming the name of Jesus.

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Bold Resilience When Dealing With Our Enemies:

  • Galatians 4:16, Have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • Some today will view us as enemies simply because we hold biblical views on marriage, sanctity of life, gender, sexuality, etc.
  • Matthew 10:16, …as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.

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Bold Resilience in Standing on the Authority of God’s Word:

  • The words “bold / boldness” are used in the book of Acts more than any other book of the Bible. There is a boldness that comes from knowing the tomb was found empty.
  • Acts 1:8, …you will be my witnesses…
    • Greek, martys; same root as the word “martyr.”
    • You’re not a martyr simply because you get yourself killed. You’re a martyr whenever your message is deemed so dangerous by the prevailing powers that the only way to silence you is to kill you.

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Bold Resilience in Proclaiming the Name of Jesus:

Acts 9:27-28

But Barnabas took him [Paul] and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.

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Bold Resilience in Proclaiming the Name of Jesus:

Acts 19:8-10 (Paul in Ephesus)

Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.

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Bold Resilience in Proclaiming the Name of Jesus:

Acts 28:31

He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ — with all boldness and without hindrance!

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