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INTRODUCTION: THE DUAL POSITION OF THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
CHURCH MILITANT - CONTESTING AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF THE ENEMY AND THIS WORLD:
THE CHURCH LIVES IN BETWEEN THE TIMES: ITS EXISTENCE BRACKETED BETWEEN TWO GREAT ESCHATALOGICAL EVENTS
THE IN-BREAKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
THE COMING OF CHRIST
ESCHATOLOGICAL CHURCH
in between this world and the word that (the kingdom of God) has has come in the inbreaking of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
PAUL DEFENDING HIS MINISTRY - SUPER APOSTLES
SOMETIMES IS TOUGH:
LIFE’S CHALLENGES
COVID
PAUL USES HIS OWN ENCOURAGEMENT TO ENCOURAGE THE SAINTS:
I. WE DON’T LOSE HEART BY TRUSTING THE GOSPEL (V1-FF)
This refusal to tamper with God’s Word - this refusal to bring about the element of human wisdom to the solutions to the problems of suffering (in self or in the world)
We refuse to let the hardness of unbelievers change our trust in and proclamation of the gospel as if there is something wrong with it or weak about it.
IT IS THE DYNAMIC AND PURPOSE OF THE GOD OF THIS WORLD TO SEEK TO BLIND PEOPLE’E EYES TO THE GOSPEL SO THAT THEY WILL NOT TRUST IT:
WHEN THING ARE NOT WORKING IT IS NOT BECAUSE OF THE GOSPEL
WE DO NOT LOSE HEART AND THEREFORE LOSE THE GOSPEL IN THE CHAOS OF LIFE AND THIS WORLD -
NO, WE PROCLAIM IT - NOT OURSELVES AND OUR OWN WISDOM (V5) BECAUSE
GENESIS PICTURE
God chose to create order to the chaos of what was before Him by SPEAKING LIFE to the chaos.
Paul is teaching us that the only way to see the CHAOTIC transformed into ORDER is by the gospel alone.
PERSONAL CHAOS TOO!!!
SO, IN THE CHAOS OF COVID AND IN THE CHAOS OF OTHER CHALLENGES TO THE CHURCH AND TO OUR LIVES, WE DO NOT LOSE HEART AND GIVE UP THE GOSPEL - PAUL SAYS
II.
WE DON’T LOSE HEART BY EMBRACING THE LIFE DISPLAYING POWER OF DEATH (7FF)
TO SHOW THAT THE SURPASSING POWER
LOOK AT VERSES 10 AND 11
NOTE THE LANGUAGE PAUL USES
DEATH - LIFE LANGUAGE
VERSE 10
2. V 11
SO THIS IS THE BIBLICAL PARADIGM THAT SHOULD GOVERN HOW WE UNDERSTAND THE WHY OF OUR CHALLENGES: BOTH PERSONAL AND AS A BODY:
CHALLENGES REPRESENT A DEATH TO SELF SO THAT THE LIFE OF CHRIST MIGHT SHINE THROUGH
IT IS NOT THAT CHALLENGES BRING US JOY BUT THAT WE, IN THE LIGHT OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST - SEE THEM IN A NEW WAY: AS THE WAY THE LORD CHOOSES TO GET WORLDLY THINKING OUT OF US SO THAT THE WORLD CAN SEE HIS GLORY FROM US
THAT’S WHY PAUL SAYS
THE ONLY REASON PAUL CAN HAVE THIS MINDSET IS BECAUSE HE UNDERSTANDS THIS REALITY:
OUR SUFFERING IN THIS LIFE IS THE MARK OF CHRIST’S SUFFERING ON THE CROSS,
AND THEREFORE, WHEN I AM GOING THROUGH I DO NOT DESPAIR OR LOSE HEART BECAUSE I KNOW THAT CHRIST’S LIFE IS ON DISPLAY IN MY FAITHFULNESS IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTLE
JESUS IS ON DISPLAY IN OUR SUFFERING IN OUR UNYIELDING ALLEGIANCE TO HIS GLORY AND TO HIS FAME AND TO HIS GOSPEL
THIS IS WHY PAUL SAID IN PHIL 3 9-10...
PAUL WANTS TO KNOW THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, NOT SO THAT HE CAN BECOME RIGHTEOUS - HE WANTS TO KNOW THEM BECAUSE HE HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE RIGHTEOUS IN CHRIST - HE SIMPLY WANTS CHRIST DISPLAYED IN GREATER WAYS IN HIS LIFE
SO (REVIEW OF POINTS)
1. WE DO NOT LOSE HEART BY CONTINUALLY TRUSTING THE GOSPEL
2. WE DON’T LOSE HEART BY EMBRACING THE LIFE DISPLAYING POWER OF DEATH
III.
WE DON’T LOSE HEART BY HAVING AN ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE ( 16-18)
PAUL SAYS IN VERSE 18
THE PHRASE AS WE LOOK CONNECTS WHAT HE HAS SAID IN VERSES 16-17
WHAT DRIVES PAUL TO THIS PLACE AND TO THIS BELIEF?
THE GOSPEL FOR CERTAIN AND , I BELIEVE, IT IS THE WORDS OF JESUS TO PETER
IT IS THE REALITY THAT THE GOSPEL CANNOT BE STOPPED BECAUSE GOD IS UNSTOPPABLE
AND SINCE THE GOSPEL CANNOT BE STOPPED BECAUSE GOD IS UNSTOPPABLE - THE GATES OF HELL WILL NEVER PREVAIL AGAINST THE CHURCH WHICH MEANS:
THE CHURCH ON MISSION CANNOT BE STOPPED
SO, DESPITE OUR
COVID CHALLENGES - WE DO NOT LOSE HOPE
CANCER CHALLENGES
RELATIONAL CHALLENGES
NOT BECAUSE THEY DONT SHAKE US
NOT BECAUSE THEY DONT CAUSE US TO DOUBT AT TIMES
NOT BECAUSE THEY NEVER MAKE US PRONE TO LOSE HOPE
THEY DO NOT TAKE AWAY OUR HOPE BECAUSE THEY ARE LIGHT AND MOMENTARY AND
THAT HOPE FUELS OUR PRESENT HOPE.
THEREFORE, IN DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES AND IN CHALLENGING TIMES, THIS HOPE OF GLORY REMINDS US THAT THE GOD OF GLORY IS ON OUR SIDE - EVEN IN PAIN AND WE CAN CALL ON HIM TO HELP IN THE MOMENTS OF DESPAIR.
ILLUSTRATION: WHEN I WAS 12
HOPE DID NOT RESIGN HIM TO GIVE UP: IT EMPOWERED HIM TO SEEK AFTER THE LORD MORE.
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