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INTRODUCTION:
What if you had a catastrophic event today?
Something that crippled you with fear and anxiety.
It is catastrophic enough -
you don’t know how to fix this
or maybe even how to pray.
ILLUSTRATION:
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I remember feeling like that at one point in my life.
I had just left activity duty - and about a month into my new job.
I remember I had left activity duty - and about a month latter started a job.
It wasn’t my favorite job - but it really was an ideal job in terms pay and hours.
It worked well for about a month … and then I walked to work and was told
I was stunned.
I remember going home … and crying on the steps in my house.
And not knowing what to do or what to say.
I remember think -
I didn’t do anything wrong.
I was as wise as I could reasonably be.
I was trying to be faithful to God.
In time like that - what do you look to >>>> too carry you through?
What could p
What help is there for there scared and overwhelmed Christian?
One answer might be my fellow Christians …
This is why church is not optional … we need each others help.
This is why each of us need to be a faithful member of a local church … we need each others help.
That is a great source for help.
And we here at Bethel ought be in the business of helping each other bear the burdens of life.
but at that point … I didn’t really have a church to look too.
We had just moved and only attended a church a few times.
Although we were faithful at looking for a church … we really hadn’t had enough time to find a church.
So I am alone, and I have no Christian friends near by.
I knew >>>> A passage we would look at next week.
But let’s be honest … sometimes you feel like you need more.
But let’s be honest … sometimes you feel like you need more.
Without denying the sufficiency, the help of the Word, the wisdom of Scripture …
Let’s be honest - sometimes Scripture feels like a band aid trying to cover up a gushing head wound.
And this passage teaches us … that there is one thing we cannot find in our Christian life >>>>>>>> if all we do is read our Bibles.
Don’t get me wrong >>>> the Christian should have a Scripture Saturated life.
But our faith is more then just reading a book.
What can’t we get by only reading and knowing Scripture -
A relationship with God.
Scripture speaks of hope …
Scripture gives us great insight ...
Scripture can comfort us …
But knowing
The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer is an indispensible help and comfort when we hurt the most.
The Help of the Holy Spirit.
Scripture testifies of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit often uses Scripture.
But the Scriptures are not the Holy Spirit.
The Scripture have power and meaning … because of the Holy Spirit.
And everything
Who would you call?
And I don’t mean who you would inform!
And I don’t mean who must be informed!
But who is going to help you through this
Look at the wonderful words of Paul this morning, .
We learn from Paul that -
PROP: Through Prayer the Holy Spirit Helps Us In our Weakness.
TRANS: And this text teaches us three ministries of the Holy Spirit that help us in our weakness.
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Some,
Important thematic ideas from previous paragraph:
Hope in the future promises of God.
Suffering with Patience.
As we begin here, I want us to remember the last paragraph.
There are two themes that I think become important for understanding Paul's point in this paragraph.
- In the last paragraph, a major theme is in hope of God.
God has promised us the day when
creation and
our bodies will be redeemed.
“Glory”
That is > a day when we will no longer face futility and pain in this life.
- And it ends in a challenge in verse 25 >>> to wait with patience.
But let's be honest,
it's hard to do that.
ANALOGY:
When you're hurting… The hope found in God can often feel hundred miles away.
>>> It is not the God's promises are any more or less true…
But we are struggling with remembering and hoping in the promises of God.
In fact… What is the hardest part about being patient?
Waiting.
It is hard to wait on the promises of God when you are groaning in pain.
And when we are scared, and overwhelmed – it's really hard to hope patiently in God.
And God knows that.
We have to have a place in our faith for… Weakness.
That's right, you heard me say it… It's okay at times to struggle in your faith.
That's right, you heard me say it… It's okay at times to struggle in your faith.
That doesn't mean you don't love Jesus
and it doesn't mean you're a heretic…
That doesn't mean you don't love Jesus and it doesn't mean you're a heretic… And you're not weird it had normal.
And you're not weird
and abnormal.
Because notice what are passage starts out with.
V. 26 - “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness"
Many times we are afraid to admit that we are struggling in our faith.
ANALOGY:
We live in a fasod that every one of us are zealots ready to die to the end for God… While the reality is many of us (all of us) are at times weak in the knees and trembling in our faith.
In fact,
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