Sermon Tone Analysis

*How To Progress Through Pain – Isaiah 53:10*

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/10//Yet it was the Lord’s *will to crush him and cause him to suffer*, /

/and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering,/

/he will see his offspring and prolong his days,/

/ and the will of the Lord *will progress in his hand*./*

**Isaiah 53:10*

 

*I Can Progress In God’s Will Through My Pain  …*

 

·         *If I _________________ Jesus’ _________________ For  My Suffering.*

/27//“Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say?

‘Father, save me from this hour’?

No, it was for this *very purpose* I came to this hour./*

John 12:27*

 

/10//We always *carry around in our body* the death of Jesus, so that the *life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body*.//

//11//For we who are alive are always *being given over to death* for Jesus’ sake, so that his life *may be revealed* in our mortal body./*

**2 Corinthians 4:10-11*

 

·         *If I** _________________ My Suffering as a Way To ________________________ in Jesus.*

/2//Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for *the joy set before him endured the cross*, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.// //3//Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that *you will not grow weary and lose heart.*./*

Hebrews 12:2-3*

 

/5//For just as the *sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives*, so also *through Christ our comfort overflows.*//

//6//If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which *produces in you patient endurance* of the same sufferings we suffer./*

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*2 Corinthians 1:5-6*

 

·         *If I** _________________ My _________________ About My Suffering as Jesus Did.*

 

/33//He took *Peter, James and John* along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.//

//34//“My soul is overwhelmed *with sorrow* to the point of death,” *he said to them*.

“Stay here and keep watch.”//

//35//Going a little farther, he *fell to the ground and prayed* that if possible the hour might pass from him.//

//36//“Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you.

Take this cup from me.

*Yet not what I will, but what you will*.”/*

**Mark** 14:33-36*

 

·         *If I** ________________the ________________ of Jesus’ Resurrection to  Grow Through My Suffering.*

/10//I *want to know Christ* and the *power of his resurrection* and the *fellowship of sharing in his sufferings*, becoming *like him in his death*,// //11//and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead./*

**Philippians 3:10-11*

 

/13//Brothers, I do not consider myself *yet to have taken hold of it*.

But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,// //14//I press on *toward the goal *to *win the prize *for which God has *called me heavenward* in Christ Jesus./*

*Philippians 3:13-14

 

*I Employ Jesus Power When I Suffer By Pressing Forward in…*

§  *My _________________ For Jesus’ Goal.. (To Be Like Him)*

§  *My _________________ To Win His Prize.. (Knowing God)*

§  *My _________________To Accept His Heaven Rather than My World.

(My Eternity)*