Sermon Notes
Filters offer a new perspective on reality.
You may define your unholy trinity but it does not have to define you.
God the creator of all existence, crafted you on purpose, died and rose again, so you could call him Father.
2 Corinthians 12:5–10
. . . but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say.
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Because of these surpassing great revelations. God has shown me much, given me much, to keep me from being arrogant, I was given a thorn in my flesh.
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 12:7–10
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
Identity
Present—This is who you are.
Future—this is who you will always be.
2 Corinthians 12:9
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Control Trust
Insecurity Security
Angst Assurance