The Critical Importance of COMMITMENT: Enduring Struggles, Sacrifices, and Severities for Christ

SUN AM SERMON

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Central Baptist Church of Ponca City, OK
DATE: Sunday AM, December 4, 2023
SERMON BY: Dr. John Waterloo
SERMON TITLE: The Critical Importance of COMMITMENT: Enduring Struggles, Sacrifices, and Severities for Christ
SERMON THEME: Addressing False Apostles
SERMON SERIES: 2Corinthians
SERMON VERSES: 2Cor. 11:18-30

Commitment is…
* more than words
* not deterred by struggles
* enduring severities

2Cor. 11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
2Cor. 11:22   Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

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