Carrigaline Baptist Church - Sermons: Healing Through Suffering

God is sufficient in our suffering - 2 Corinthians 12 v1-10

Jonny Grant — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0000

God is sufficient in our suffering - 2 Corinthians 12 v1-10

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 10th March 2019

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God is sufficient in our suffering – Rest\r\n \r\nParadise or Thorns\r\n\r\n- The experience of heaven\r\n- The reality of suffering\r\n\r\n‘Suffering is the best commentary on God’s character, and pain is the finest exposition of his excellences. We discover more about God’s grace when we come to an end in ourselves. You will never know that God is all you need, until God is all you have got.’ Paul Mallard\r\n\r\n God is sovereign over our thorns\r\n God uses our thorns for our good\r\n It matters not how strait the gate,\r\n How charged with punishments the scroll,\r\n I am the master of my fate,\r\n I am the captain of my soul. (Invictus)\r\n\r\n God is sufficient in our thorns\r\n\r\n‘Those in Christ are to allow the thorns to pin us to Christ who imparts grace to the sufferer.’ Paul Barnett\r\n\r\n God exalts Christ through our thorns

Suffering as a gift - Hope pt2 -

Jonny Grant — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Suffering as a gift - Hope pt2 -

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 3rd March 2019

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Suffering as a gift – Hope (Part 2)\r\n\r\n All things for Good\r\n\r\n We pray for blessings\r\n\r\nWe pray for peace\r\n\r\nComfort for family, protection while we sleep\r\n\r\nWe pray for healing, for prosperity\r\n\r\nWe pray for your mighty hand to ease our suffering\r\n\r\nAnd all the while, You hear each spoken need\r\n\r\nYet love is way too much to give us lesser things…\r\n\r\n Embracing Suffering as a gift:\r\n\r\nProduces a Christ-like beauty - James 1v2-3\r\n\r\n‘Suffering is an opportunity to gain the most valuable thing on earth; a faith that is complete and lacking nothing; maturity and depth in our relationship with God.’ Alberry\r\n\r\n Results in an assured future - 1 Peter 1v6-7\r\n \r\nEnables us to comfort others - 2 Corinthians \r\n1v3-4\r\n\r\n Leads to the salvation of others - 2 Corinthians 4v10-12\r\n\r\n‘Oftentimes, while passing through the perils and defeats of my first four years on the mission field, I wondered…why God had permitted such things. But on looking back now, I already clearly perceive that the work never could have been accomplished but for the sufferings…’ Paton\r\n\r\n Displays the glory of God – 2 Corinthians 4v15

Suffering as a gift – Hope

Jonny Grant — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Suffering as a gift – Hope

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 24th February 2019

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Suffering as a gift – Hope (Part 1)\r\n\r\n Gift or Curse\r\n\r\n‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.’ Romans 8v28\r\n\r\n Embracing Suffering as a gift can:\r\n\r\n (i) Lead to salvation\r\n\r\n‘God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.’ CS Lewis\r\n\r\n (ii) Lead us to depend on God\r\n\r\n‘My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I can’t get up.’ J E Tada\r\n\r\n (iii) Stop us from drifting from God\r\n\r\n‘Suffering is designed to destroy the appetite for sin.’ J Piper\r\n \r\n(iv) Lead to spiritual renewal

God Has Designed My Suffering

Jonny Grant — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

God Has Designed My Suffering

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 3rd February 2019

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Healing through Suffering\r\nGod has designed my suffering – Trust\r\n\r\n Flight, Fight or Faith\r\n\r\n Joseph – ‘In the place of God’\r\n\r\n Job – ‘No purpose of yours can be thwarted’\r\n\r\n‘It will not do to say that God only uses our suffering but does not design it. What God permits, he permits for a reason. And that reason is his design. If God foresees suffering, he can stop it, or not. If he does not, he has a purpose. Since he is infinitely wise, it is right to call this purpose a design.’ Piper\r\n\r\n Jeremiah – ‘Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.’\r\n \r\nJesus - ‘What your power and will had decided should happen’\r\n\r\n‘The lash on his back, the thorns on his head, the spit on his cheek, the bruises on his face, the nails in his hands, the spear in his side, the scorn of rulers, the betrayal of his friends, the desertion by his disciples – these were all the result of sin, and all designed by God to destroy the power of sin.’ Piper

God has promised to end suffering - Romans 8

Jonny Grant — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

God has promised to end suffering - Romans 8

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 20th January 2019

Passage: Romans 8:18-25

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Healing through Suffering\r\nGod has promised to end suffering – Joy\r\n\r\n Tears to Joy\r\n\r\n‘…weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.’ Psalm 30v5\r\n\r\n ‘See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered,\r\nnor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.’ Isaiah 65v17-19\r\n\r\n Our Present Groaning\r\nGroaning to Glory\r\nPresent sufferings v Eternal Glory\r\n\r\n‘For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.’ 2 Corinthians 4v17\r\n\r\n Our Future Glory\r\nLiberated world\r\n\r\n‘You (the children of God) will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the tress of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thorn bush will grow the juniper, and instead of the briars the myrtle will grow. This will be the Lord’s renown an everlasting sign, that will endure for ever.’ Isaiah 55v12-13\r\n\r\n Redeemed bodies\r\n\r\n‘The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the ocean…(we will be) enraptured with joys that are forever increasing, and yet forever full.’\r\n\r\n-Jonathan Edwards\r\n\r\nOur Gospel Hope

God Has Promised Suffering

Jonny Grant — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

God Has Promised Suffering

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 13th January 2019

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Healing through Suffering \r\nGod has promised suffering – Grieve\r\n\r\n Grieving will come\r\n\r\n‘Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.’ Psalm 90v10\r\n \r\n‘But now, this is what the Lord says - he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel:\r\n“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.\r\nWhen you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers,\r\nthey will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;\r\nthe flames will not set you ablaze.’’ Isaiah 43v1-2\r\n\r\n ‘Consider it pure joy my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds…’ James 1v2\r\n\r\n Grieving is painful\r\n\r\nAnger - Psalm 77 & 22\r\nSorrow - Psalm 13 & 6\r\nDespair - Psalm 88\r\n\r\nPermission to grieve\r\nExpression of faith\r\n\r\nAs we grieve: ‘…we strengthen our faith. It enables us to trust more in God and His resources than in ourselves. With every loss, we are reminded of the fact that we are not in control and we are not self-sufficient. Every loss allows us to rest in the grace of God, enabling us to change our perspective and allow our hope and anticipation of the life to come to grow.’\r\n\r\n Grief to joy\r\n\r\n‘…weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.’ Psalm 30v5\r\n\r\n Grieving for us

Why All The Suffering? - Job 1:1-2:13

Jonny Grant — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Why All The Suffering? - Job 1:1-2:13

Series: Healing Through Suffering

Preacher: Jonny Grant

Date: 6th January 2019

Passage: Job 1:1-2:13

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Healing through Suffering\r\nWhy all the suffering? – Questions\r\n\r\n Suffering is a personal experience\r\n\r\n Blame God\r\n Let God be God\r\n\r\n God and the cause of suffering\r\n\r\n- Human Rebellion\r\n- Satanic influence\r\n- God’s judgement\r\n\r\n God and his control over suffering\r\n\r\n- Innocent Suffering\r\n- Satan causes the suffering\r\n- God controls all suffering\r\n\r\n God and his cross for our suffering\r\n\r\n- God suffers with us\r\n- God suffers for us\r\n- Trust God