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Our Light Affliction
We had our first service on August 27, 1996, and it was only a short time after that that my wife Debra met Sister Walker and invited her to our church.
It was apparent almost immediately that she was an exceptional woman.
I can’t tell you how blessed we were to have her amongst us, and how sorely she will be missed.
Introduction:
Seriously?
What doe Paul mean by saying, “our light affliction?”
The bible says that we should be instant in season and out of season, and I can tell you that she always was.
Some of us are going through heavy affliction; where do you come off calling it light?
Some of us are going through heavy affliction; where do you come off calling it light?
Paul is writing under inspiration and knows whereof he speaks.
Whatever your affliction, it is really light.
Here are seven reasons why that is true:
I know people who are struggling with real issues, some life and death, some desperate.
Light?
Yet Paul is writing under inspiration of the Holy Spirit and knows whereof he speaks.
Somehow, referring to all of our afflictions as “light affliction"
Whatever your affliction, it is really light.
Here are seven reasons why that is true:
I.
Your affliction is light when compared with that of many others.
Every week that she was present, when there was an opportunity to give testimony, or exhortation, Sister Walker had an appropriate word of exhortation, encouragement or praise.
She was always ready to share a Psalm, or Proverb, or other Wisdom from the Word of God.
No matter how heavy, there are others with worse.
Consider our Brothers and Sisters in Christ in other parts of the world
Consider those less fortunate than us even here
Paul was not suggesting that Christians did not struggle with afflictions
in fact the bible says “many are the afflictions....”
Earlier in this chapter he put his statement in the proper contect by recognizing this:
1cor4.7-11
2cor4.7-14
Paul endured incredible afflictions—he speaks from experience.
B. Paul endured incredible afflictions—he speaks from experience.
I personally was always edified and challenged as she would give me encouragement and feedback after every service.
And she wasn’t afraid to give feedback, and it was always welcome and appreciated
He wrote of some of his own afflictions in
Surely not many of us can compare our afflictions with those of Paul and so many others
II.
Your affliction is light compared with your deserts.
On the occasions when Mrs. Walker preached at Fountain of Life, I can tell you that she had an amazing ability to bring the Word in a way that connected with the audience.
She could bring a message based on sound doctrine while at the same time remembering to include humor that would have people laughing and keeping their interest.
Whenever Mrs. Walker
While we celebrate her life and the fact that she is on Glory today, we are so sad to see her gone, and concerned that so few people of our generation are rising up to fill the shoes of the great saints like Sister Walker.
She will be sorely missed at Fountain of Life Church.
It is unworthy to be compared to the woes of the lost (slightly revealed in story of rich man and Lazarus).
No matter what afflictions we suffer here, we can be sure it is “light” compared to the torments to come, as Lazarus and the rich man saw
B. You actually deserve the woes of hell (and would have them were it not for the grace of God in Christ).
You actually deserve the woes of hell (and would have them were it not for the grace of God in Christ).
tells us that the whole world is guilty before God.
We are all guilty of sin and deserving of eternal affliction in hell
I have at times found myself crying out “I don’t deserve this”, but in fact there is only one person in history who was treated worse than he deserved to be.
Jesus
III.
Your affliction is light compared to that of your Lord.
He drained an ultimate cup of woe.
He took upon himself the wrath we deserved - far more than the nails alone
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Thus the One who regulates our afflictions knows exactly what afflictions really are.
Thus the One who regulates our afflictions knows exactly what afflictions really are.
IV.
Your affliction is light compared with the blessings you enjoy.
It is important to keep things in perspective and “forget not His benefits”
Most of us, if we are honest, even when we are struggling with some particular affliction are still enjoying so many, many benefits
excellent example of this in Abraham Lincoln’s first Thanksgiving proclamation.
Our “afflictions truly are “light” when they are compared to the manifold blessings that most of us enjoy, even the poor among us
and in most cases we needn’t even look beyond the natural realm to prove this, however when we look at the whole picture, it becomes irrefutable:
We possess:
Salvation.
- you have been translated from the death to life - from darkness to light
Righteousness.
- we have a new nature, old things have passed away
Adoption.
- whereas once we were enemies of God through wicked works, now we are children who cry Abba, Father!
The privileges of the children of God. - if Children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ!
The assurance of future glories.
1cor2.9
No amount of affliction can take these blessings away (or outweigh them either).
No amount of affliction can take these blessings away (or outweigh them either).
V.
Your affliction is light in comparison to its benefits to you.
It proves the power of sustaining grace.
How our faith has grown through some of the afflictions we have overcome
It is designed of God to make changes in you.
being pressed into the place where you must rely on God alone through faith (or not), will always change you
It can drive out sin.
It can develop character.
It can deepen your walk with God.
We can come to the place where we simply are not moved by these afflictions
Where, like Paul, we can say “none of these things move me”
It is through these “light afflictions” that we really learn of the eternal weight of glory which outweighs and overpowers them.
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Your affliction is light because of its relative brevity.
VI.
Your affliction is light because of its relative brevity.
“Which is but for a moment”—it is not lasting.
It must be viewed as relative.
It must be viewed as relative.
Compare it to the overall span of life.
when we’ve been there 10,000 years . . .
Compare it to the reach of eternity.
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