<p>United and Fearless</p><p><em>Read </em><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians%201:27-30&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Philippians 1:27-30</a>. How does our unity and &quot;striving together for the faith of the gospel&quot; relate to fearlessness?</p><p>Satan&#39;s strategy is to divide and conquer. Disunity is deadly. Jesus said, &quot;If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand&quot; (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%203:25&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Mark 3:25</a>, NKJV). It&#39;s a simple principle that Satan is delighted for us to forget. Our unity helps enable us to fulfill our prophetic role as the remnant of Bible prophecy (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev%2012:17&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Rev. 12:17</a>), proclaiming the &quot;everlasting gospel&quot; to &quot;every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people&quot; (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev%2014:6&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Rev. 14:6</a>). Because unity is crucial to fulfill our mission to spread this God-given message, and Jesus&#39; prayer in John 17 highlights &quot;the truth&quot; of God&#39;s Word as one of the most important keys for unity (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2017:17&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">John 17:17</a>, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2017:19&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">19</a>), our message cannot be separated from our mission or our unity. All three stand or fall together. If one of these three keys is missing, we can&#39;t succeed. However, if we have all three in place, there is nothing to fear. We need not be &quot;in any way terrified&quot; by opposition (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Phil%201:28&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Phil. 1:28</a>, NKJV). Satan is a defeated foe. Even if we should be put to death for our faith, nothing can harm us if we &quot;become followers of what is good&quot; (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Pet%203:13&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">1 Pet. 3:13</a>, NKJV). The devil is powerless to stop the onward march of God&#39;s truth.</p><p><em>Read </em>the following Bible passages and briefly summarize their common theme: <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010:38&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Matthew 10:38</a>, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2014:22&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Acts 14:22</a>, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208:17&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Romans 8:17</a>, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%203:12&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">2 Timothy 3:12</a>.</p><p>Life itself in this fallen world is hard, even for the &quot;best&quot; of us. Job was a righteous man; the Bible says that he &quot;was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil&quot; (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%201:1&version=KJV&src=tools" target="_self">Job 1:1</a>, NKJV). And yet, overnight, calamity struck him and his family. Who hasn&#39;t learned, either by personal experience or by seeing what happened to others, that life here is lived, it seems, on a precipice, and you never know when you will go over the edge? Suffering, to some degree, is the lot of us all. In the end, though, better to suffer for Christ&#39;s sake than for anything else.</p><p>What hope, what comfort, should we, as Christians, have amid our suffering?</p><p></p>