Proper Perspectives On Problems: Sermon Series: "Prison Epistles"

Hinckley Evangelical Free Church

 January 13, 2019

Sermon Series:  “Prison Epistles”

Proper Perspectives on Problems

 

Philippians 1:12-30

Problems:

¬everyone has them

¬Most people don’t like them

¬Many don’t want to be one

¬Some think that they are to fix all of them

 

¬Problems are perceived to be:

–a p____________ for some past failure,

–the willing a_________ of the intervention of God in our lives,

–or the mischief of S_________.

 

If Problems don’t exist, then we can never realize the ____________ of _________________ them!

 

¬With the p____________ of every problem there is the p________ to be used in a mighty way!

 

¬It is impossible to see the Lord’s plan in our lives when our eyes are on ___________!

¬The real test of a Christians p__________ is witnessed when one finds himself under p____________, or facing p______________!

¬When they saw how Paul lived ‘above the circumstances’, they were c__________________ by that example.

 

 

¬Suffering comes into our lives because:

–We will not j_________ our own sin

–God is p______________ us from sin

–We need to be ‘s___________” as believers

–We need to learn to lean on the Lord alone

–It keeps us f____________ on the goal…

 

The ultimate reason that suffering comes into our lives is so that we can become “__________ ________” for others.

“A part of God’s redemptive process was to prepare many bodies in which Christ might be magnified”

–J.H.Pickford

“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you,, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”  I C________________ 6:19-20 

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." (R___________ 12:1)

 

¬For me to live is __________ and to die is _____________! YOU fill in the blank!!! 

What does your “Prison Epistle” look like?

II Corinthians 3:2