“Are You Willing to Suffer”
Sunday Morning, August 25, 2013
scriptures: Philippians 1, Romans 8, 2 Corinthians 4
keywords: happy, suffer, selfish, beat
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People put their family first a lot of times and people put their family before God.
Sometimes people in your family try to challenge your relationship in God.
Some people are trying to be happy and have left their entire families for other people
in their pursuit trying to be happy. People have a lot of pressure to do things that they shouldn’t
want to do.
People have a lot of lot of pressure to do things that they shouldn’t want to do.
Philippians 1:28-30 Are you willing to suffer for his sake? It is not for the wimp. God called
me not only to believe but to also suffer.
People want to ask God to help them get whatever they want.
People need to ask God for deliverance from being from so selfish and so worldly.
Romans 8:18 Most teaching is about getting what people want now. We have to be willing to be suffer.
2 Corinthians 4:3-10 If you don’t get your emotional self right then you are lost. When people talk about
getting beat they generally are talking about being tired and not really suffering like they did in the bible.
These people were physically beat.