ESTABLISHED BY HIS GRACE (Complete Sermon)

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Established by HIS Grace
1 Peter 5:10- After you have suffered for a little while.- suffering has the potential to make us either bitter or better - Suffering: undergo an experience or experience a sensation including painful, usually difficult circumstances - 1 Peter 2:21 - Christ has shown us an example of being ready for suffering - Genesis 3:17- Suffering is a result of sin - God did not create suffering, but it entered the world through the disobedience of mankind- John 14:33 > We must understand the WARNING of the SUFFERING to come - When there is a problem, God has already arranged an EXIT PLAN for us - Take the problem as an opportunity to depend more on God - Job2:11-13,4:1-27- Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar- Jon’s friends who came to comfort him (Job2:11-13)- They thought that his suffering was a result of sin - But they did not know the relationship that Job had with God - 2 Corinthians 4:16- For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory - Even a lifetime of suffering is only a little when measured by the standard of eternal glory- Mark 4:14- Two of the three souls that failed to produce a crop- This represents people who did not know how to handle suffering - If you do learn how to handle suffering, you will GROW SOLID THROUGH IT- When affliction or persecution arises for the Word’s sake… Let us stay STEADFAST!
Cast anxieties on God- We are anxious about many things - (a) every food is unhealthy - (b) I don’t have enough to save - (c) no one, not even my family loves me - To grow solid through suffering, humble yourself before God, resist the devil, trust the Lord, and stand firm in God’s grace!- God uses the suffering to make us - The First Temptation: Matthew 4:1-4 he will test your providence and provision- The Second Temptation: Matthew 4:5-8 Satan seems to intensify the temptation of our Lord by challenging Him to wrongly apply a biblical promise of protection - The Third Temptation: Matthew 4:8-11- satan shows our Lord the kingdoms of the world and their glory- The price was exceedingly high - worship satan - We should not deter suffering and be attracted by glory - He offered Him the glory of earthly kingdoms- Let us be very careful not to fall into satan’s trap- Ephesians 2:6- We must also properly evaluate the enemy, and which door is he trying to enter through - Satan is an accuser- He accused Job, He told Eve that ‘God is a liar’, he also attacks us, he says that we cannot be godly or holy; he will attack our body image, our failures, and our relationships - Romans 8:31- He often uses the tactic of fear to intimidate the believer - satan uses tactics to hinder the effectiveness of believers through fear - 2 Timothy 1:7- We have to move forward! - Matthew 25:24-25- he ultimately wants to destroy every believer - John 8:44- 1 Thessalonians 5:22 > Stay away from every form of evil - he uses ‘harmless sins’ to destroy the believer - A small hole is enough for the devil to take hold of your life - Ephesians 2:2 > satan is the god of this age and the prince of the world- he has created a system that works against God and those who follow Him - 1 Peter 5:6-10