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Central Baptist Church of Ponca City, OK
DATE: Sunday PM, January 2, 2021
SERMON BY: Bro. Tim Russell
SERMON TITLE: What to Do When Life Stinks?
SERMON THEME: Suffering Unjustly
SERMON SERIES: Keep the Faith
SERMON VERSES: 1Peter 2:19-25
Christ-like suffering…
* is a calling - He asks that we be willing to suffer for the sake of the Gospel.
* requires patient endurance - keep doing what is right by God, and not retaliate. Show grace to those who abuse us and faint not!
* requires proper motivation - our love and deep appreciation for what Jesus endured for us and our love for souls. Life isn’t all about me!
* pleases God - endurance is acceptable to God.
1Peter 2:19-25 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
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