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Title: Fiery Trials Author: Jeanette Berry Last modified by: Dan Ondra Created Date: 7/12/2002 3:14:58 PM Document presentation format: On-screen Show – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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...do not think it strange concerning the fiery
trial which is to try you
  • 1 Peter 412

2
Peter Teaches About Trials
  • First Receiving spiritual gifts.
  • As each one has received a gift
  • 1 Peter 410a
  • A spiritual gift is a special ability God gives
    to each of us

3
Gifts Used To Serve Others
  • 1 Peter 410c
  • ...minister it to one another, as good
    stewards
  • Now As good stewards (managers)
  • expect to have troubles and trials.

4
Trials Follow Acts of Faith
  • Throughout Old Testament
  • Abraham
  • Moses
  • Elijah
  • David
  • Jesus

5
Abraham - Father of all who believe
  • left his homeland
  • left his kindred (family)
  • in obedience to God
  • Fiery trial - a famine!

6
Abraham
  • Promised a son by God through whom all earth
    shall be blessed
  • He waited for twenty four years
  • Abraham, 99, Sarah,89 Isaac born
  • God asked Abraham to sacrifice him
  • Faith sustained him through fiery trial

7
Moses - Deliverer and Lawgiver
  • Israel was in slavery to Egypt
  • God called Moses to deliver them
  • Israel rejected him. He had to flee
  • 40 years in desert in exile
  • Moses knew fiery trials

8
Elijah - Gods Preaching Prophet
  • At Gods command
  • Rebuked King Ahab
  • Hid from King near stream
  • Stream of water dried up
  • Widow and her son too poor

9
Elijahs Faith
  • His faith did not falter
  • Called down fire from heaven
  • Turned Israel to God
  • Had to run for his life
  • God honored him

10
Jesus God In Human Flesh
  • Jesus was baptized by John
  • Not for cleansing of sin
  • Pictured cleansing by His death
  • Immediately was taken to wilderness
  • 40 days tempted by Satan

11
Trials Strengthen Our Faith
  • As Boot Camp strengthens soldiers
  • Trials strengthens faith
  • 1 John 54-5
  • this is the victory that has overcome
  • the world--our faith.

12
Trials Develop Patience
  • James 13
  • knowing that the testing of your
  • faith produces patience.
  • Faith tested produces maturity

13
Trials Equip Us
  • To comfort others
  • That we may be able to comfort
  • With which we ourselves are comforted
  • 2nd Corinthians 13, 4
  • Preachers learn to comfort and empathize
  • by going through fiery trials

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Trials Prepare Us To Serve
  • Joseph is a chief example
  • hated by his brothers
  • sold as a slave and bought by
  • Potiphar
  • lied about by Potiphars wife
  • spent 13 years in jail
  • Prisoner to deliverer in one day

15
Trials Purify Our Faith
  • Job understood this principle
  • When He has tested me,
  • I shall come forth as gold.
  • Job 2310
  • Gold ore is put to the fire.
  • Dross is removed, gold becomes pure.

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Faith Is Rewarded
  • Jobs faith stood the trial
  • God blessed him with twice as much
  • He lived another 140 years
  • He is example to all of us
  • Faith conquers the fiery trials
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