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Love is blind.
...Ignorance is bliss.
We say them without thinking of them.
They are easy to ignore because they have become cliches.
How many of you who are married would say love is blind?
How many of you refuse to read the ingredients on a food product and say, ignorance is bliss.
Maybe their wrong.
Maybe they are just half true.
True some of the time.
Maybe they aren’t true at all.
We’re going to examine some Christian cliches - words that we use so much that we haven’t really examined them to see if they are even true.
Or maybe just half true.
think!
Sermon Intro
act!
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“everything happens for a reason.”
Sometimes I believe this.
Sometimes I don’t.
when people say this, apply it to good and bad situation
2 stories: Jesus mobile, neighbor across the street
2 stories: Jesus mobile, neighbor across the street
not preaching from book, supplement, give specific application
Today: Physical Healing (Why?) personal, pastoral and specific
Sometimes I believe this.
I see this.
I celebrate this.
Praise God I’m healed.
Praise God for my financial blessings.
p1:
Sometimes I believe this.
I see this.
I celebrate this.
Praise God I’m healed.
Praise God for my financial blessings.
Bible does teach a cause and effect - we sin and negative consequences happen.
We trust in faith and we receive blessings.
Sometimes God is
Sometimes I doubt this is even half true
questions to help us think about chapter 1, think about the question, “Everything happens for a reason
2 Corinthians
Series: “Well, yes and no.” or, I’m going to answer that question with a question.”
Or, like a good politician, look for a clever way to evade the question.
Chapter Introduction: All Things Happen for a Reason
neighbor, bullwhip, wheelchair ramp, cared for 3 years, lost his job.
Came back from Jacob’s birth and learned his dad had died.
“All things happen for a reason.”
carried him through - half true?
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I want to apply this to sickness and disease alot, many applicatons
it applies to all sorts of situations.
I don’t want to repeat the book, so I want to take this problematic statement - all things happen for a reason - you will hear me mention sickness and healing alot, but it can apply to any pain and suffering.
Can we find any purpose in healing?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But we can experience God’s grace.
That’s where i want to focus.
2 reasons: pastoral (wanting healed for others), personal (wanting for me -I’ve finally accepted this)
We may find purpose, discover reason, maybe not; but one thing I can promise: we will experience God’s grace; I’m not saying that to gloss over pain and suffering (physical and spiritual), or discover purpose:
Physical illness: That’s where i want to focus.
- alot, but it can apply to any pain and suffering.
Can we find any purpose in healing?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But we can experience God’s grace.
That’s where i want to focus.
I want to read a passage that has been so helpful to me.
If I’m not going to be healed, is there another purpose?
I can say yes, but that doesn’t satisfy me because if there is a purpose, shouldn’t I know it?
I think the answer is not necessarily, but I can through a chronic or even prolonged illness experience the powerful grace of God.
That’s my focus: are you suffering from illness.
Your body or mind is resisting medical treatment.
Is your medical treatment untreatable?
Is the pain dehibilitating?
Do you get frustrated and demoralized because of this ongoing condition?
I can’t promise you that you will experience divine healing - not everyone does.
I can trust in the power of God to heal.
But I can promise that you can experience God’s grace through your pain, even if the pain doesn’t go away.
Here’s a passage that has helped me:
2 Corinthians
What was Paul’s thorn in the flesh?
dehibilitating; visible to others; Eye ailment?
Vision was really bad.
nice to hear from God, but not a long term “no”
How God’s grace is experienced in pain:
how did Paul experience grace, how can we: if we don’t get the healing we want, how can we experience
explain this - can’t always know why, how, get the healing or answer we want, but we can always experience God’s grace.
We can look beyond the pain and anger; God’s grace is so powerful
1. Pain forces us to trust in God alone.
Nih, suffering, chaplain, john Adams, prayer guidance, scriptures, you're going to be here for awhile, what will you do with it, not saying god makes us sick, im asking what can.
We do with our time
Nih, suffering, chaplain, john Adams, prayer guidance, scriptures, you're going to be here for awhile, what will you do with it, not saying god makes us sick, im asking what can.
We do with our time
Irony: God’s power is highlighted through his absence of power.
Power to do what?
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Even in pain, we have what we need the most.
My grace is sufficient for you…
Housing collapse suffering
Conviction, family is home, i have all that i need
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