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Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. 

The Topic today is: "God can help people survive through hope"

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God"

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 61 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 42.

The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

---2 Corinthians 1:3-11 outlines the key ideas from Paul how to suffer through hope.

---The lesson discussed it very well.

---Paul has a list of hardships.

---Jesus also suffered hardship just like us (Hebrews 4:15)

---Paul kept hoping on Christ because He could raise people from the dead and no matter what happened to him, God would raise him from the dead.

---God has a good track record, a good CV: He has delivered and will deliver again. Verse 10.

---Paul wants to focus on God Himself: On Him we have set our hopes that He will continue to deliver us. verse 10.

---The saints have a continual intercession: as you help us by your prayers. Verse 11.

---God supplies all people's needs who put their faith in Him. He really carries people through. He did and will again. That is Paul’s main point and He is able because He was also human Hebrews 4:15.

---People for example flock to the USA to find hope there. It is in essence a "jobless country" is it not?

---If main positions are already filled, how will migrating there help the jobless to survive?

---I almost think that if they are faithful, they will survive but if not, the hardship and suffering would be very severe.

---One can see Satan's agenda for success of the world: spent all people's money over the world on destructive wars, then in poverty all are the same and enslavement programs can be better designed. The "program powerhouses" will have the best benefits with all these "slaves" working for them. The attitude is: let others do our dirty jobs.

---The designer and research for war-games is Satan. Waste money and grab where they can principles. How to professionally "steal", is the name of the game. It sows death, hardships, suffering all around. Since the billionaires have lots of money to waste, they do not care about people's suffering.

---But there is a Caretaker of people's needs: God Himself. Who organize care to go around and assist the needy in all their needs. It is the miracle God we all worship. We survive through hope in such a God who is able to keep Satan and his cronies on earth behind limits.