Is this, for the time being, a source of pleasure?

Answer

"Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the
peaceable, fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Verse 11.
NOTE -- 'Many of the sweetest joys of Christian hearts are songs which have been learned in the
bitterness of trial." "Many a cold, icy nature is made warm and tender by the grief that crushes it.'! -"Week-Day Religion," by J. R. Miller, D.D., pages 91,93.
 


I. What does Jesus declare Himself to be?
What were sinners desiring pardon instructed to do?
What does Christ as the advocate of His people confess before the Father and His angels?
Of what is the Sabbath commandment a part?
After whose body will these resurrected ones be fashioned?
Why did not these ancient worthies receive the promise?
4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, and the holy city, New Jerusalem, then he made?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle