I. JESUS' DISCIPLES ARE SOMETIMES PRIVILEGED TO MAKE COSTLY SACRIFICES FOR HIS SAKE.--II. OTHERS WILL SOMETIMES MISCONSTRUE AND CRITICIZE SUCH SACRIFICES FOR JESUS.--III. JESUS SEES OUR SACRIFICES FOR HIM, AND HE REGARDS THEM AS -A BEAUTIFUL THING-.--IV. JESUS ALSO RICHLY REWARDS THE -BEAUTIFUL THINGS- WE DO FOR HIM.

I. GOD'S STEADFAST LOVE IS A PROMINENT PART OF HIS PERFECT-CHARACTER.--II. GOD EXPRESSES HIS STEADFAST LOVE IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS-COVENANT.--III. GOD'S STEADFAST LOVE IS BETTER THAN LIFE.--IV. GOD'S STEADFAST LOVE SHOULD MOTIVATE US.

I. OUR BODIES' DECAY IS INEVITABLE- OUR SOULS' IS NOT.--II. CHRIST AND HIS SPIRIT ARE THE ESSENTIAL AND ALL--SUFFICIENT SOURCE OF SOUL-RENEWAL.--III. OUR SOULS' RENEWAL ALSO INVOLVES THE EXERCISE OF-OUR OWN SPIRITUAL FACULTIES.--IV. OUR SOULS' RENEWAL BEARS RICH FRUIT IN THIS LIFE AND-THE NEXT.

I. Christian Contentment Is Wonderful Virtue.--II. Christian Contentment Must Be Learned.--III. Christian Contentment Is Exercised In the Vicissitudes of Life.--IV. The -Secret- of Christian Contentment Is the Sufficiency of Jesus Christ.

I. JESUS WARNS HIS DISCIPLES TO EXPECT TROUBLE AS THEY-FOLLOW HIM IN THIS WORLD.--II. JESUS COMMANDS HIS DISCIPLES TO KEEP THEIR HEARTS-TROUBLE-FREE AS THEY FOLLOW HIM IN THIS TROUBLED-WORLD.--III. JESUS ALSO TELLS HIS DISCIPLES HOW TO KEEP THEIR-HEARTS TROUBLE-FREE AS THEY FOLLOW HIM IN THIS-TROUBLED WORLD.

I. GOD SOMETIMES PERMITS HIS PEOPLE TO SUFFER LONG DARK NIGHTS OF TROUBLE.----II. GOD ALWAYS HELPS HIS PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LONG DARK NIGHTS OF TROUBLE.----III. GOD EVENTUALLY MAKES MORNING DAWN FOR HIS PEOPLE AFTER THEIR LONG DARK NIGHTS OF TROUBLE.----IV. GOD, CONSEQUENTLY, CALLS HIS PEOPLE TO KNOW AND REST IN HIM DURING THEIR LONG DARK NIGHTS OF TROUBLE.

I. THE BEST PART OF LIFE IS FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.--II. THIS -BEST PART- OF LIFE IS BOTH WONDERFULLY FREE AND-TERRIBLY COSTLY.--III. WE MUST CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSE THIS -BEST PART-, LEST-LIFE DISTRACT AND ROB US OF IT.

I. Because They Live in A Diseased and Dying World.--II. God's Children Will Someday Experience Perfect-Joy in A Perfect World.--III. God's Children Can and Should Drink-Deeply of Their Future Joy, Even Now.