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How Can You Contend with Horses?
If you have run a marathon, then running 10 miles isn’t such a big deal because you have trained for endurance thus can go a greater length.
But, if you only ever run 3 miles, you will faint and likely not finish a 26 mile race. You haven’t prepared for the endurance. The most I have ever done was 36 miles- walking/running mix
Jeremiah 12:5New King James Version (NKJV)
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
Then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace,
In which you trusted, they wearied you, Then how will you do in the floodplain[a] of the Jordan?
Jeremiah, I have greater dangers for you to encounter than those you are exposed to at Anathoth; if you be so disturbed with them, who are but as footmen, how will you be able to grapple with those far greater enemies which you are like to meet with at Jerusalem? Anathoth also seems to be understood by the land of thy peace; that is, the land of your friends, wherein you have a confidence: If your enemies meet with you there (in the land of peace) and you faint, what wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan? that is, in a place where you are like to meet with an increase of greater troubles, like the swelling of Jordan (which in harvest used to overflow its banks).
Ex: my friend who smuggled Bibles into China, went to an underground church at night
They would rejoice to be able to meet freely as we still have that right
Now look at Americans, who treat the Bride of Christ like a prostitute, using Her only as they need something. People who cannot even say homosexuality is a sin for fear of offending someone who has absolutely no say so over their life. Never really putting their faith on display, but all the while pretending to be a closet Christian.
This type of Christian will not endure intense persecution.
Can you contend with horses?
This was spoken to the great prophet Jeremiah by God Himself-
what will He say to you?
The Faithful Church- the Church of Philadelphia
Revelation 3:7-13 New King James Version (NKJV)
10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Philadelphia was a faithful church that kept Christ’s Word did not deny Him. They endured intense opposition from the world and resisted conforming to the evil trends of other churches.
They persevered in loyalty to Christ and the truth of the gospel.
1. Perseverance requires trust that God loves you. Rev 3:9 “and to know that I have loved you”
Oswald Chambers
“A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in awhile the saint says, ‘I can’t take any more’. Yet, God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly. Entrust yourself to God’s hands.”
Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God loves me. God cares for me. I am His beloved child.
Going through trials,
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How Can You Contend with Horses?
If you have run a marathon, then running 10 miles isn’t such a big deal because you have trained for endurance thus can go a greater length.
But, if you only ever run 3 miles, you will faint and likely not finish a 26 mile race. You haven’t prepared for the endurance. The most I have ever done was 36 miles- walking/running mix
Jeremiah 12:5New King James Version (NKJV)
5 “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,
Then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace,
In which you trusted, they wearied you, Then how will you do in the floodplain[a] of the Jordan?
Jeremiah, I have greater dangers for you to encounter than those you are exposed to at Anathoth; if you be so disturbed with them, who are but as footmen, how will you be able to grapple with those far greater enemies which you are like to meet with at Jerusalem? Anathoth also seems to be understood by the land of thy peace; that is, the land of your friends, wherein you have a confidence: If your enemies meet with you there (in the land of peace) and you faint, what wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan? that is, in a place where you are like to meet with an increase of greater troubles, like the swelling of Jordan (which in harvest used to overflow its banks).
Ex: my friend who smuggled Bibles into China, went to an underground church at night
They would rejoice to be able to meet freely as we still have that right
Now look at Americans, who treat the Bride of Christ like a prostitute, using Her only as they need something. People who cannot even say homosexuality is a sin for fear of offending someone who has absolutely no say so over their life. Never really putting their faith on display, but all the while pretending to be a closet Christian.
This type of Christian will not endure intense persecution.
Can you contend with horses?
This was spoken to the great prophet Jeremiah by God Himself-
what will He say to you?
The Faithful Church- the Church of Philadelphia
Revelation 3:7-13 New King James Version (NKJV)
10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Philadelphia was a faithful church that kept Christ’s Word did not deny Him. They endured intense opposition from the world and resisted conforming to the evil trends of other churches.
They persevered in loyalty to Christ and the truth of the gospel.
1. Perseverance requires trust that God loves you. Rev 3:9 “and to know that I have loved you”
Oswald Chambers
“A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in awhile the saint says, ‘I can’t take any more’. Yet, God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly. Entrust yourself to God’s hands.”
Faith is not some weak and pitiful emotion, but is strong and vigorous confidence built on the fact that God loves me. God cares for me. I am His beloved child.
Going through trials,