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Humbling Weakness,Sufficient Grace2 Corinthians 12:7-10 – Pastor Rob Ely
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1. God sovereignly uses suffering and weaknesses in
order to make us humble. (v. 7)
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1. God sovereignly uses suffering and weaknesses in
order to make us humble. (v. 7)
• Pride is a sinister residue in our souls, a latent root in
our hearts that can spring up and flower at any time
given the right circumstances.
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1. God sovereignly uses suffering and weakness in order
to make us humble. (v. 7)
• Pride is a sinister residue in our souls, a latent root in
our hearts that can spring up and flower at any time
given the right circumstances.
• God’s careful and loving afflictions should be seen as
His grace, not leaving us to ourselves, but, being the
loving God that He is, He intervenes in our lives to
bring about just the right circumstances that would
keep us from ourselves.
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2. Sometimes God’s answer to our prayer is to increase
His grace. (vv. 8-9a)
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2. Sometimes God’s answer to our prayer is to increase
His grace. (vv. 8-9a)
• God wants us to come to the place where we begin to
see the reality that all of life – from our very breath
that we breathe to our greatest accomplishments – all
find their source and sustenance in Christ.
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2. Sometimes God’s answer to our prayer is to increase
His grace. (vv. 8-9a)
• Sustaining grace keeps you to the end. It gives you
strength through this life and enables you to stand
through temptation and trials so that your faith will be
able to stand firm.
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2. Sometimes God’s answer to our prayer is to increase
His grace. (vv. 8-9a)
• Sustaining grace keeps you to the end. It gives you
strength through this life and enables you to stand
through temptation and trials so that your faith will be
able to stand firm.
• Empowering grace empowers us and enables us to
carry out the ministry that He has called us to.
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3. It is through our weaknesses that Christ’s power is
revealed. (vv. 9b-10)
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3. It is through our weaknesses that Christ’s power is
revealed. (vv. 9b-10)
• The work of bringing people to Christ and changing
people’s hearts is a supernatural work that requires a
supernatural God.
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3. It is through our weaknesses that Christ’s power is
revealed. (vv. 9b-10)
• The work of bringing people to Christ and changing
people’s hearts is a supernatural work that requires a
supernatural God.
• Paul was willing to suffer if that’s what Christ
demanded of him, so that Christ’s power would rest
upon him.
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Humbling Weakness,Sufficient Grace2 Corinthians 12:7-10 – Pastor Rob Ely