June Teaching Series
BREAKING THROUGH PAIN
Rev. Renato Bernardo
Director for Education
June 24, 2008
God desires to be the "LORD OF THE BREAKTHROUGHS" in our lives.
So David went to Baal Perazim and there he defeated them. He said, "As waters break out, the LORD has broken out against my enemies before me." So that place was called Baal Perazim.
2 Samuel 5:20
What is BREAK THROUGH?
- More faith
- More passion
- More grace
- More of God’s presence
Mark 5:21-34 (NIV) A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
1. THE PAIN OF SUFFERINGS
v.25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
- Her illness had left her personally, socially and spiritually cut off.
- This woman was not only defiled, she defiled anything and anyone she touched.
- HAVING GOD’S STRENGTH IN TIMES OF OUR WEAKNESSES
- “Affliction is the Christians theologian, I never knew the meaning of God’s Word until I came into affliction; My temptations have been my Masters in Divinity; no man without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”
Martin Luther
2We sent Timothy, who is our brother and God’s fellow worker in spreading the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, 3so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. You know quiet well that we were destined for them.
- “Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trials of extraordinary grace.”
- SANCTIFIED AFFLICTIONS ARE SPIRITUAL PROMOTIONS! - John Bradley
2. THE PAIN OF HELPLESSNESS
V26a She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had.
- The severity of her problem comes to light in both the length of the illness and the futile measures she had undertaken.
- It had cost her all she had only to become worse.
- HOPING FOR GOD’S HELP IN TIMES OF HELPLESSNESS
3. THE PAIN OF HOPELESSNESS
v.26b She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.
- This woman appeared beyond all hope and help.
- Her suffering had only intensified at the hands of the physicians, a motif not uncommon in healing stories.
HOLDING ON TO GOD’S HOPE IN TIMES OF HOPELESSNESS.
BREAKING THROUGH PAINS happens when JESUS enters into the gates of hungry hearts and lives are forever changed.
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