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INTRO
Living with Pain
Living with Pain
Illustration of need addressed.
Trouble and pain are inexorably intertwined.
Overcoming, or breaking the pain barrier, is one of the secrets of victorious living.
It is estimated 1 / 400k babies born will have a rare genetic disease called dys-ant-on-omia.
Victims are unable to feel pain and usually die early.
However, many people, athletes in particular, have their careers and lives altered because they take drugs to dull pain rather than discovering and treating the source of the problem.
Pain is not God’s way of punishing people; but rather His way of warning persons that something is wrong physically, mentally, or spiritually.
Jesus did not shy away from difficulties...
G. Curtis Jones, 1000 Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1986), 279.Illustration of need addressed.
Rachel's tomb is marked in the north of Bethlehem on the basis of .
Rachel, wife of Jacob and one of the four matriarchs of Israel, died in Bethlehem while giving birth to her second son Benjamin, the youngest child of Jacob, and she was buried here.
The Crusaders built the first structure over her burial place, but it was known as a place of pilgrimage before then and a small pyramid was set there.
The present building, a square domed structure containing a large tomb covered with a velvet cloth, was erected by Sir Moses Montefiore in the mid 19th century.
Rachel's tomb is marked in the north of Bethlehem on the basis of .
Rachel, wife of Jacob and one of the four matriarchs of Israel, died in Bethlehem while giving birth to her second son Benjamin, the youngest child of Jacob, and she was buried here.
The Crusaders built the first structure over her burial place, but it was known as a place of pilgrimage before then and a small pyramid was set there.
The present building, a square domed structure containing a large tomb covered with a velvet cloth, was erected by Sir Moses Montefiore in the mid 19th century.
There is an inscription on this tomb which reads, “Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children” ().
The weepoing of Rachel, the suffering mother, was adopted by Matthew to describe Herod’s slaughter of the innicent children in Bethlehem ().
Rachels tomb has become a place of pilgramige for Jews, Christians, and Moslems; particularly for women praying to have a child.
There is an inscription on this tomb which reads, “Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children” ().
The weeping of Rachel, the suffering mother, was adopted by Matthew to describe Herod’s slaughter of the innocent children in Bethlehem ().
Rachel's tomb continues to be a place of pilgrimage for Jews, Christians, and Moslems; particularly for women praying to have a child.
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Title & Text
When Life Hurts
- krux = What makes one persons Benoni another’s Benjamin?
Proposition
Because God is faithful we should trust Him even when life hurts.
Benefits
Difficulties
Patience
Disappointments
Perseverance
Death
Perseverance
Peace
Pray
S.T.A.R.T.
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Touch upon the subject of corporate sin and confess any shortcomings the body has committed related to the Biblical text to be preached
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Transition to the opening of the sermon and the Biblical text to be preached
THE SERMON BODY
Sermon Outline
Gen 36:
Gen 36:
Gen 36.31
Because God is faithful we must trust Him in difficulties = Patience
Circumstantial Difficulties
fleeing the land from Esau
Labor under Laban
Canaanite atack
Rachels labor
midwifes outlook
Relational Difficulties
People
Brother Esau
Causing and caught between wives
Father-in-law
Spiritual Difficulties
Esau
Laban
Rachel / Leah
Sons
Nations
The benefit for this is growth in patience.
It is connected with the names: Simeon, Levi, Dinah, Rachel, Reuben, and Bilhah.
Then follows Isaac’s death, and afterwards Joseph’s disappearance; the famine, etc. Hence he says: “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been” (ch.
47:9
Patience
It is connected with the names: Simeon, Levi, Dinah, Rachel, Reuben, and Bilhah.
Then follows Isaac’s death, and afterwards Joseph’s disappearance; the famine, etc. Hence he says: “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been” (ch.
47:9
John Peter Lange et al., A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Genesis (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2008), 570.Patience
An enunciation of Jacob’s sorrows.
It is connected with the names: Simeon, Levi, Dinah, Rachel, Reuben, and Bilhah.
Then follows Isaac’s death, and afterwards Joseph’s disappearance; the famine, etc. Hence he says: “Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been” (ch.
47:9
Because God is faithful we must trust Him in disappointments = Perseverance
Self
Jacob decided on the journey that cost him his wife
Jacobs bad parenting lead to disobedient children
Others
Reuben
God
I followed You and this is what I get?
36:31 - Kings & Cheifs - we are mere shepherds!
The benefit for this is growth in perseverance.
God, indeed, permits the heathen to go their own way (Acts 14:16; Ps. 81:13), but is mindful of all his children (Acts 15:14 f.; 17:26
The promised seed is of slow growth.
It is like the grain of mustard-seed (Matt.
13:31).
The fulfilments of all God’s promises, of great blessings to his people, are always long in coming.
But the kingdoms of this world would soon fade, while the kingdom of heaven will endure for ever (p.
147, 148).—A.
G.
Because God is faithful we must trust Him in death = Peace
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