The KEY word is REGENERATION; TITUS 3:5
The suffering of the saint is in connection with regeneration.
Apart from this divine work those that suffer will only endure the pain with no benefits of salvation.
The suffering of the world works death because there is no divine reciprocation taking place in the soul.

The CHASTENING of the Lord is not His wrath. The WICKED suffer His wrath for their idolatry, molding the soul with the aspirations of the world. The righteous suffer the chastening of circumcision for renewing of the mind as a result of regeneration.

Sinners desire God to reward their suffering while God only rewards faith in covenant.

HEBREWS 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Regeneration is in the work of the saints priesthood where God circumcises the heart by His baptism. Peter said to ADD to your faith, VIRTUE which is the result of His Spiritual baptism.

1 PETER 3:21 The like figure whereunto even BAPTISM doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

 
2 PETER 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, ADD TO YOUR FAITH virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

And Paul said; circumcision and baptism.

COLOSSIANS 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the CIRCUMCISION made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the CIRCUMCISION of Christ:

COLOSSIANS 2:12 Buried with him in BAPTISM, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

This is the protocol of the priesthood of the believer.

Now Jesus suffered the CONTRADICTION of sinners. When we put-on Christ we endure the longsuffering of the pull of the aspirations of the world and the power of our principle is put to death.

COLOSSIANS 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the RUDIMENTS of the world, and not after Christ.
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the RUDIMENTS of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

By the power of Christ;
We replace our aspirations of life with FAITH;
We replace our principles of life with TRUTH;
We replace our coveteousness with MODERATION of Fruit.

This is the DIVINE POWER (resurrection of Christ) which we put-on through the covenant priesthood not of man but of God.

HEBREWS 12:3 For consider him that endured such CONTRADICTION of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

By the effectual working of the Spirit our perception of life changes so we won’t faint in our minds or lose the SEAL of Christ. For the PEACE of God assists us through the transition from darkness to His Light. This is the true term for salvation.

Be blessed in Him

In His grace

Apostle Eric

ss: The fountains of life pour through the lips of the righteous springing up from the soul filled of His Word 

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