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Introduction
Introduction
I wanted to stop by and share with Pastor Thomas and to you this evening, that God’s Grace is Sufficient for you.
We here this so often but what does it mean to you and me?
When we are attacked on every side, how is God’s Grace Sufficient for me?
Paul declared “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;”
Pastors and saints God’s Grace is Sufficient for you.
In infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses.
God’s Grace is sufficient for you.
What is God’s Grace?
It is his unmerited, undeserved favor that He pours out upon us.
We didn't do anything to deserve it but God gave it!
It was David who stated “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
Is there any one in here that know you don’t deserve his grace and his mercy?
Here Paul has explained his vision and revelations to the Corinthians, he tells them about the thorn in the flesh that was given to him.
The apparent purpose of this thorn was beneficiary.
Its intent was to keep Paul from conceit on account of his visions and revelations which otherwise may have given him a reason to boast.
But Paul had other thorns through out his life that would make it tough on a Traveling Preacher to endure.
Yet time after time he shows us that God’s Grace is Sufficient.
2 Corinthians
God’s Grace is Sufficient for me because God’s strength is made perfect in weakness.
When I am weak then I am Strong.
Paul tells the people of Corinth I glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
That is to say all I do is done in and through the power of Christ.
Paul reels off a list of how the power of Christ and the Grace of God was sufficient.
God’s Grace is Sufficient in Infirmities.
Paul said I take pleasure in my infirmities.
Not just what he was going through at the moment but what he had been through.
Two phrases we need to fully understand are “infirmity of the flesh” and “at the first.”
Remember what happened soon after Paul's conversion.
God said to Ananias, “I will show him how great things he must suffer for my names sake.
God’s Grace is Sufficient in Reproaches
Before Becoming a Christian, Paul had Caused Others to Suffer Greatly.
He had to defend his apostleship throughout his ministry.
Galatians
Gods Grace is Sufficient in Neccesities
2 Corinthians 11:27
Philippians 4:11-13
God’s Grace is Sufficient in Persecution
Paul faced persecutions through his ministry.
He summed it up:
2 Corinthians 11:23-
Paul said we are persecuted but not forsaken.
2 Corinthians 11:23-
Paul said we are persecuted but not forsaken.
God’s Grace is Sufficient in Distress.
2 Corinthians 11:25-
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His life was threatened in Damascus.
2. His life was threatened again in Jerusalem.
3. Persecuted and run out of Antioch in Pisidia.
2 Corinthians 11:25-26
4. Faced possible stoning at iconium.
5. Stoned and left for dead in Lystra.
6. Opposed and made the center of controversy.
7. Experienced the loss of his close friend and co-worker, Barnabas.
8. Beaten with rods and imprisoned at Philippi.
9. Cast out of Philippi.
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His life was threatened in Thessalonica.
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11. Forced out of Berea.
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12. Mocked in Athens.
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Taken before the judgment seat in Corinth.
14. Opposed by the silversmiths in Ephesus.
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Plotted against by the Jews in Greece.
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Apprehended by the mob in Jerusalem.
17. Arrested and detained by the Romans.
18. Barely escaped being scourged.
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Rescued from the Sanhedrin mod action.
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Assassination plot against him.
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Two-year imprisonment in Caesarea.
22. Shipwreck on the island of Melita (Malta).
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Suffered a snakebite.
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First Roman imprisonment.
But through it all, I made it by the Grace of God.
For when I am weak then I am strong because I've learned to be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
Brother Pastor if that's not enough to convince you.
Think of what Paul said “But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ.”
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