2020 11 08 - The Choices That Change Every Situation - Grace
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Welcome
Today’s Passage: 2 Corinthians 12.1-10
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One thing that was good in your life last week, that is still good today.
One thing that was good in your life last week, that is still good today.
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A relevant illustration or story to hook interest in today’s idea
SERIES INTRODUCTION
We all face situations that overwhelm us. The problems are too big and the resources are too small. We feel stuck in conflict, stuck in neutral, or stuck with our own limitations. What if there was a choice you could make that could change every situation. Join us for this new series where we discover the 4 choices that can change every situation.
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Internal Locus of control vs external locus of control
CONNECT THIS WEEK’S MESSAGE
The first choice we can make
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Choose one word that reflects a situation in your life that you wish you could change.
Choose one word that reflects a situation in your life that you wish you could change.
EXPLORE
PRIMARY SCRIPTURE
7 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF THE SCRIPTURE
Paul wanted the situation to change
The situation was not changed.
God did not change
Paul changed. A change of perspective. A choice.
MAIN IDEA
Transition from scripture to main idea
THE MAIN THING:
Choosing GRACE means that neither I nor you have to be enough for this situation.
Choosing GRACE means that neither I nor you have to be enough for this situation.
Explore the Main Idea
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What is the most powerful thing you can think of?
What is the most powerful thing you can think of?
1. Grace means that I don’t have to be “enough” for this situation
1. Grace means that I don’t have to be “enough” for this situation
Application:
Own your weakness and accept grace.
Own your weakness and accept grace.
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I don’t have to be enough.
I don’t have to be enough.
2. Grace means that the other person doesn’t have to be “enough for this situation.
2. Grace means that the other person doesn’t have to be “enough for this situation.
No mention in the new testament of anyone’s grace other than the grace of God.
Forbearance, forgiveness, long-suffering, bearing with one another
Application:
Apply the same grace to the other person
Apply the same grace to the other person
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You don’t have to be enough.
You don’t have to be enough.
3. Grace means that God is enough in this situation for both of us.
3. Grace means that God is enough in this situation for both of us.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
Application:
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God is enough.
God is enough.
Transform
Coming Back to the Main Thing
Choosing GRACE means that neither I nor you have to be enough for this situation.
Choosing GRACE means that neither I nor you have to be enough for this situation.
Bring to Primary Application
Application points
Lead Application to Commitment
Commitment steps
Invitation
Announcements and Service Closing