ESTABLISHED BY HIS GRACE (Complete Sermon)

Established by HIS Grace

- 1 Peter 5:10
- After you have suffered for a little while.
- suffering has the potential to make us either bitter or better 
- Suffering: undergo an experience or experience a sensation including painful, usually difficult circumstances 
- 1 Peter 2:21 
- Christ has shown us an example of being ready for suffering 
- Genesis 3:17
- Suffering is a result of sin 
- God did not create suffering, but it entered the world through the disobedience of mankind
- John 14:33 > We must understand the WARNING of the SUFFERING to come 
- When there is a problem, God has already arranged an EXIT PLAN  for us 
- Take the problem as an opportunity to depend more on God 
- Job2:11-13,4:1-27
- Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar
- Jon’s friends who came to comfort him (Job2:11-13)
- They thought that his suffering was a result of sin 
- But they did not know the relationship that Job had with God 
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
- For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory 
- Even a lifetime of suffering is only a little when measured by the standard of eternal glory
- Mark 4:14
- Two of the three souls that failed to produce a crop
- This represents people who did not know how to handle suffering 
- If you do learn how to handle suffering, you will GROW SOLID THROUGH IT
- When affliction or persecution arises for the Word’s sake… Let us stay STEADFAST!

- Cast anxieties on God
- We are anxious about many things 
- (a) every food is unhealthy 
- (b) I don’t have enough to save 
- (c) no one, not even my family loves me 
- To grow solid through suffering, humble yourself before God, resist the devil, trust the Lord, and stand firm in God’s grace!
- God uses the suffering to make us 
- The First Temptation: Matthew 4:1-4 he will test your providence and provision
- The Second Temptation: Matthew 4:5-8 Satan seems to intensify the temptation of our Lord by challenging Him to wrongly apply a biblical promise of protection 
- The Third Temptation: Matthew 4:8-11
- satan shows our Lord the kingdoms of the world and their glory
- The price was exceedingly high - worship satan 
- We should not deter suffering and be attracted by glory 
- He offered Him the glory of earthly kingdoms
- Let us be very careful not to fall into satan’s trap
- Ephesians 2:6
- We must also properly evaluate the enemy, and which door is he trying to enter through 
- Satan is an accuser
- He accused Job, He told Eve that ‘God is a liar’, he also attacks us, he says that we cannot be godly or holy; he will attack our body image, our failures, and our relationships 
- Romans 8:31
- He often uses the tactic of fear to intimidate the believer 
- satan uses tactics to hinder the effectiveness of believers through fear 
- 2 Timothy 1:7
- We have to move forward! 
- Matthew 25:24-25
- he ultimately wants to destroy every believer 
- John 8:44
- 1 Thessalonians 5:22 > Stay away from every form of evil 
- he uses ‘harmless sins’ to destroy the believer 
- A small hole is enough for the devil to take hold of your life 
- Ephesians 2:2 > satan is the god of this age and the prince of the world
- he has created a system that works against God and those who follow Him 
- 1 Peter 5:6-10