s20080420mwo_What God Can Do When I Suffer
What God Can Do When I Suffer
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. 18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:17-18
If I Share Christ’s Sufferings God:
Romans 8:17-27
· _______________________________________ For Me.
19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. VS 18-21
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Genesis 3:17
· _______________________________________ My Body.
22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.VS 22-25
44It (THE BODY) is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47… 48…49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:44-49
· _______________________________________ As Jesus Searches My Heart.
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will. VS 8:26-27
Worship Order
178 – All Hail King Jesus
Come, Now Is The Time To Worship
Welcome
72 – Blessed Be The Lord God Almighty
Scripture: Psalms 66:1-5
490 – It Is Well With My Soul
Opening Prayer
365 – How Beautiful
Lord’s Supper
Gifts to God: 273 – More Precious Than Silver
Here I Am To Worship
837 – I Need Thee Every Hour
Elder’s Dismissal and Prayer
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