“Are You a Weakling?”
Sunday Morning, September 1, 2013
scriptures: Romans 8, Romans 5, 2 Corinthians 4, Matthew 5
keywords: strong, suffer, peace, grace, weak, tribulation, patience, pressure, bible, enemy, hate,
persecute, compromise, teenagers
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If you are not going to really stand for God then you are not going to be with God.
Romans 8:18- Nothing that you go through will be more important than your salvation.
Nothing is going to cause you to sin- there is no situation that you can go through will cause you
to sin. Nothing that I go through will cause me to stray away from God.
A lot of stuff that you go through doesn’t compare to what these people go through. We should
be better and stronger now with the Lord. Are you stronger now than you used to be? Your
avoidance of suffering and inconvenience will not get you to heaven. The Christian walk is not
for wimps but for people with faith.
Romans 5:1-5 If you don’t have peace then something is not right. He has given us a place
where he can go to get strength. There are people who are saved who have no strength and no
grace. You are weak if you can not stand up for Christ. Teenagers who compromise are weak
because they are trying to be accepted instead of standing and speaking up for God.
Verse 3- Tribulation worketh patience- it teaches you to be able to take something. Some
people can’t take some things. Tribulation means pressure- I glory in pressure is what the verse
says. Don’t be a weakling but that God has got my back. A lot of people don’t have pressure
but they are just undecided on whether they want God or not. Reading the bible shouldn’t be
pressure- reading a few scriptures should mean something.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9 – How do you handle problems? Its not how you handle things when things
are going well but when they are not going well. Verse 8- troubled on every side (they had
pressure). Some people shutdown under pressure. Regardless of how bad things are, there is
still hope.
Saying that you are sorrow is a description of what you are. What is your commitment to get
better. You don’t feel like nothing when you are in God- they said they were cast down but not
destroyed.
There is nothing that you can’t deal with in God.
Matthew 5:38- You win when God wins. If you always try to avoid pressre then you will not win.
Verse 44- But I say unto love you enemies. It is not about whether they like you are not- do you
still speak to them? Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them
that despitefully use you.