Monday, May 5, 2008

on takeaways from yesterday's sermon

…All because we do not carry/ everything to the Lord in prayer!

Date: 04 May 2008

Title: Being Victorious In Spite of Circumstances

Text: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

Introduction

1. How to keep on going when you can’t go on… Egg, Carrot and Coffee Bean”     Story

2.Why Paul never gave up – Three paradigm shifts needed…

A. We want The Power but We Miss The Treasure (v7)

"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels … " (v7a)

Mark 8:22 - 25 – Why the 2nd touch?

John 9 – Why the spit?

Effectiveness/Efficiency Efficacy  -> The 5 “Right”s

Right Thing,

Right Time,

Right Purpose,

Right Motivation,

                                                                             Right Results.

God’s economy is not the same as man’s economy.

3 examples of God’s Efficacy, from the life of Jesus

The Incarnation; the first divine miracle (of water to wine); and Jesus’ death on the cross

Grace, Glory and Gospel of God centered on cross of Christ

B. We Shun The Suffering But We Miss The Life (v8-12)

“…so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested…” (v10b,11b,12)

What is the life?

v8-9:

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;

perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not abandoned;

struck down, but not destroyed.”   

One of these things is not like the other:

“not forsaken” – extrinsic – not forsaken by God; the other 3 are what happens internally.


Presence in darkness vs. Absence in light


“Why me? Why now? Why this?” vs. “Is God with me in this?”

C. We Claim The Faith But We Miss The Substance (v13-15)

“He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also…” (v14)

What is the substance of our faith?

God’s agenda is to make us Holy, not make us happy.

Wayne Cordeiro, "Divine Mentor– story of teaching trip to China

 

Conclusion

Being Victorious in spite of circumstances…!

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Text in black is the sermon notes outline given by church. Text in green are the thoughts I jotted down during the sermon. Was not really paying attention yesterday during sermon. Have to keep passing the pen between my friend and myself, 'cos I forgot to bring my own :P

6 comments:

  1. Brother Jack, the white lines are very distracting...!

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  2. haha, dats wat happens when you cut and paste from a Word document onto a pre-defined template... :p

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  3. Aye, gimme your password and I help you change ;)

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  4. Haiz. Just copy and paste into notebook to remove all the formatting, then copy and paste again into multiply. Should do the trick.

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