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What is God's purpose for our afflictions

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Quick! How many letters did the Apostle Paul write to the Corinthians? It might surprise you that there were at least 2. What was at the heart of what we call 2 Corinthians? Is there any purpose for affliction and suffering even among God's people? Paul gives amazing insights into these things throughout this 2nd letter to the Corinthians. But what happened between when Paul wrote 1st and 2nd Corinthians? Come with the Grace United crew as we discover the stage being set to dive into some of the issues surrounding this amazingly personal letter that Paul wrote called 2nd Corinthians.

What is it about 1 and 2 Corinthians that endears us to them? Is it the love chapter (1 Cor. 13)? Or the encouragement and comfort that God gives us when we are afflicted that we may comfort others with the affliction that he gave us (2 Cor. 1)? Perhaps it's because of the massive problems the Corinthian church had and when we compare ourselves to them we can think, "I'm glad I'm not as bad as them"! There are many reasons why Paul wrote what he did. When we fail to take into account Paul's passion for God's glory and the cultural landscape from which the Corinthian believes emerged, we can come up with some pretty strange ideas when we read and study the Corinthain correspondence. Come with the Grace United crew as we attempt to set the stage to understand Paul's letters to his beloved Corinthians.

Affliction. Sapsorrow. Hardship. Straggletag. Eternal light. Clay Jars. Which of these things go together when it comes to the things that really matter? The answer is all of them. How so? And what is Sapsorrow? What is Straggletag? Come with the Grace United crew as we discover what the Lord give to every child of his--eternal light in temporary vessles.

What is patience? Jesus said the plant that only endured for a time had no root. What can we be rooted in so that we can endure?

Often, even as followers of Jesus, we find our immediate response regarding behavioral psychological issues to be more in line with an unbelieving, materialistic, naturalistic worldview. This, in spite of the fact that Jesus regularly dealt with, talked about, and affirmed the reality of the meta-physical, the unseen spiritual world in which we live. At the very least, we should pause and pray, consider, and seek the LORD in the situations in which we find ourselves in relation to the people around us in regard to both their and our behavior. Maybe there's more to humans that random, electrical impulses, synapses, and chemicals. Where do we draw the line anyhow? And who gets to decide where that line even is? God has made a world full of powerful elements. Medicine can be good. We ought to trust in God and be wise. We are to live by faith. Shared by Jason Stuart Percy at Refuge Christian Fellowship Tallahassee on Sunday, February 23, 2020.

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Paradise. What a concept. What a word! What conjures up in your mind when you hear "Paradise"? The Lord through His angel gave John the Apostle-turned-prophet a tiny glimpse of Paradise. And not only him, but the Lord's angel gave another prophet a vision almost identical to what God gave John. Who was that prophet? Why did the Lord do this? And what is Paradise like, anyway? What will God's people be doing in Paradise for all eternity? Join the Grace United Crew as we delight and marvel at God's description and our very job description in Paradise.

How a believer responds to trials

Job 3:1-5 : Throughout the entire chapter, Job laments his birth. He wishes he had never been born, but he is not suicidal. Nowhere does he entertain the idea of taking his own life. He simply wishes that it had never happened in the first place. *any of us would be depressed under these circumstances,…

One of the most common questions that both not-yet believers and believers struggle to understand is this: “If there is a God, why is there so much suffering?” Let’s take a few minutes to think about living in this fallen world and understand what God says about suffering.

God of All Comfort

John and Johnny talk about the meaning of misery and the purpose of affliction as they talk about Sunday's sermon and dive a little deeper.

March 7, 2012 By John Barnett Read, print, and listen to this resource on our website www.DiscoverTheBook.org As we open to I Timothy 3 today, turn your minds towards one of the most amazing parts of our faith—the new relationships God gives to us. • First, all of us in Christ this morning are brothers…

February 17,2012 By John Barnett Read, print, and listen to this resource on our website wwww.DiscoverTheBook.org As we open to Revelation 2:8-11 we are opening to the second of Christ's seven personal letters to individual churches of the late 1st Century. We looked at them as a group, but now we are…

March 29, 2012 By John Barnett Read, print, or listen to this resource on our website www.DiscoverTheBook.org As we open to Psalm 119:71, we as a nation are in the midst of one of the most challenging times American’s have faced for over a generation. But as bad as it may seem, think about how hard life…

March 29, 2012 By: John Barnett Read, print or listen to this resource on www.DiscoverTheBook.org Please join me in Psalm 119 and look over God’s curriculum in “The School of Suffering”, where our Lord shares with us what He expects from each of us as we go through all the various painful forms of suffering,…

Theme: Suffering for Christ in the U.S.: how will we handle it? Rom. 8:16-18 MP3 Part 1 & MP3 Part 2; PDF Version or PPT Version INTRODUCTION A. We’ve already discussed the suffering that exists in this world because of sin. How God cursed Satan, man, and the earth because of sin. Gen. 3:14-19 How s…

Grace Bible Chapel Sunday, June 14, 2009 Message #2 in 1 Thessalonians Overview of 1 Thessalonians 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5:28 I. Introduction A. Ephesians 6:10-18 B. 1 Peter 5:8-10 C. 1 Peter 4:12-13 D. 2 Timothy 4:7-8 II. An overview of 1 Thessalonians A. Some favorite passages – 1:9-10; 2:7-8; 2:19-20;…

2 Samuel 22:18-25 "He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. [19] They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my support. [20] He also brought me forth into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me. [21] The Lord…

Isaiah 53:1-12 Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? [2] For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.…

Title: The Faithfulness and Goodness of God Text: Lamentations 3:19-25 Preached by Pastor Phil Layton at Gold Country Baptist Church on April 15, 2007 www.goldcountrybaptist.org A brother in the Lord has shared that the first prayer he learned as a child was the simple table grace: “God is great; God…

Job 38:4-10 “Where were you when I established the earth? Tell [Me], if you have understanding. [5] Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? [6] What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone [7] while the morning stars sang together and all…

Hebrews 3:7-19 “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear His voice, [8] do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the desert, [9] where your fathers tested Me, tried [Me], and saw My works [10] for 40 years. Therefore I was provoked with this generation and…