God's Purpose in Our Weakness

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God's Purpose in Our Weakness

February 13, 2022 • Matt Miller • 2 Corinthians 12:7–10

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Why does God allow weakness and trouble in life? Is there a goal to such affliction? Paul gives purposes for our pain. For the unbeliever, difficulty is the result of living in a fallen, broken world. But for the Christian, God is doing exceedingly beautiful things in our pain. Paul pours out his heart in the passage, giving us insight into how the Apostle himself viewed such God-permitted weaknesses in his life.

God's Purpose in Our Weakness (Part III)

March 6, 2022 • Matt Miller • 2 Corinthians 12:7–10

Paul gives three more purposes God has in weakness. He wants us dependent on Him, He wants to display His power through us, and He wants us to derive a true strength. This is a passage very much backwards to our natural senses, again showing the backwards way of the kingdom. To seek escape from weakness, is to escape true strength. Paul shows the very place the Christian should want to be is in weakness. For there, we derive a true strength, where God will always sustain us with a sufficient grace.

God's Purpose in Our Weakness (Part II)

February 20, 2022 • Matt Miller • 2 Corinthians 12:7–10

We live in a world that seeks strength, victory, success, and triumph. But the way of God is the way of weakness. This sermon explores how God is pleased to use the weak. It is His preferred method. From Genesis to Revelation this is God's pattern for accomplishing His purposes. For it is through weakness that His glory and strength can shine most bright. When the Church learns to embrace weakness, instead of always trying to solve it, then we become a more fit vessel to be used by God for Kingdom purposes. And in this, the Christian begins to learn true contentment.