FREE FROM STRUGGLING AND SUFFERING
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Won't He Do It! - Part 2
Won't He Do It! - Part 2
FREE FROM STRUGGLING AND SUFFERING
FREE FROM STRUGGLING AND SUFFERING
32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?
Confession of Faith
I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. I believe the WORD of God! The victory is mine! I have it now! I can see it through the eyes of my faith!
Last Time
Won’t He Do It
Started our Journey through
Today we are looking at freedom from struggling and suffering
Introduction: this is one of the most amazing promises in all of Scripture. God is going to free all creation from struggling and suffering.
In This Life
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.
Very simply, Suffering means the struggle waged by our spirits to overcome all that is experienced in this life, all that is involved in the flesh and the world.
It is the weight and agony of fighting to overcome... • sin and corruption. • disease and pain. • abuse and persecution. • unregulated urges and desires. • weaknesses and shortcomings. • aging and loss. • deterioration and decay.
As believer’s we struggle against everything that keeps us from living abundantly and eternally.
So our passion is to bring everything under the control of Jesus Christ and to be conformed to the image of Christ.
So we struggle to overcome our flesh and the world
getting older and all that brings
the corruption of people,
We struggle with sin
We struggle with death.
No matter what suffering is required, we deal with it in order to overcome and gain the victory of eternal life and its glory.
6 So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.
7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.
1 Peter
Suffering prepares us to participate in the glory of Christ.
Suffering and struggling are a refining process through which we as believer’s must pass!
Suffering enlarges, purifies, and expands, and each of us.
It makes us more and more like what we will be when we actually lives face to face with God.
The Future Glory
This future glory transcends immeasurably the suffering and struggling of this present world.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
4 And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.
17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!
18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
4 And when the Great Shepherd appears, you will receive a crown of never-ending glory and honor.
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The Creation Is Struggling
19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.
20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,
21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
The word "creation" refers to everything under man: animal, plant, and mineral.
20 For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it—[yet] with the hope
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
The world was made to be the home of man, the place where he lived. Therefore, when Adam sinned, our world was doomed to suffer the consequences of sin with Adam.
Our world was cursed right along with him.
Just picture the enormous hurt and damage and decay that takes place in our world.
erefore, when man sinned, his world was doomed to suffer the consequences of sin with him. Man's world was cursed right along with him.
Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible - Commentary - The Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Romans.
Think about...
• the disease and savagery of the animal world.
• the hurt and damage that so easily happens in the plant world.
• the destruction and deterioration that takes place in the mineral world.
Think about the earthquakes, tornadoes, storms, diseases, starvation, attacks, and struggles for survival that take place.
And these are only a few of the different happenings that show the corruption of the world.
Creation shall be delivered from corruption.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone.
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11 Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!
12 Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy! Let the trees of the forest sing for joy
13 before the Lord, for he is coming! He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice, and the nations with his truth.
Psalm 96:11-13
6 In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all.
7 The cow will graze near the bear. The cub and the calf will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like a cow.
8 The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra. Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm.
9 Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so the earth will be filled with people who know the Lord.
7 Let the sea roar, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell in it;
8 Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together before the Lord,
9 For He is coming to judge the earth. With righteousness He shall judge the world, And the peoples with equity.
13 And then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea. They sang: “Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.”
Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible - Commentary - The Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Romans.
Free From Corruption
23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.
24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it.
25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)
26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.
Ro 8:23-27
Verse 26 says the spirit helps our weaknesses or infirmities.
Whatever our particular weakness is, it is that weakness which He helps.
If we are truly sincere and are wrestling to pray, then the Spirit helps us to control:
concentration, distractions, wandering thoughts, emotional changes, and affections.
How?
As we struggle to pray by controlling our flesh and its weakness, the Holy Spirit takes our mind and emotions and
• quiets and silences them.
• stirs and excites them.
• draws and pulls them.
• directs and guides them.
The Holy Spirit makes "intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered."
Sometimes the struggles and sufferings of life become so heavy we just cannot bear them.
Sometimes matters of such importance grip our hearts to such an extent that words are impossible. Sometimes are Emotions become too much for words.
Sometimes we become lost in the presence of God.
not knowing what to say or do
all you can do is groan in your Spirit.
Every man, woman, child knows what it feels like to be speechless before God and all you can do is groan in your Spirit.
11 Search for the Lord and for his strength; continually seek him.
Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible - Commentary - The Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Romans.
7 “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
Won’t He Do It!
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
God works all things out for those who love Him. This is the first assurance of deliverance.
That is a declaration!
Scripture actually declares that "all things work together for good" .
Think about it: nothing could bring you and me more joy, more, peace, more happiness than knowing that God is working all things out for his good.
1. The words "all things" means all things
God controls the events of the world, but He controls much more.
He rules over "all things"—all the events and happenings that occur in the life of his children.
He works "all things" out for good in behalf of His dear people
Won’t He Do It
2. The word’s “work together” means all things are continually working together for good
This means God creates and eliminates,
places and replaces,
connects and groups,
interrelates and intermingles,
shapes and forges,
press and stretch,
moves and operates,
controls and guides,
arranges and influences.
God is in control of the believer's life.
Daily,
moment by moment,
God is arranging and re-arranging all things for the our good.
Won’t He Do it
Stop Here : - Pick Up Next Week
Deliverence and Redemption
NEXT STEPS!• Read Romans Chapter 8
• Pray for someone you know who may be struggling:
• Invite them to church
