you are a new creation: ii corinthians intro & chapter 1

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II CorinthiansSummer 2015

June 3: Intro & Ch. 1 "The God of all Comfort” Kelly CampbellJune 10: Ch. 2 "Forgiveness and Reconciliation" Rick MillerJune 17: Ch. 3 "Removing the Veil" John PickardJune 24: Ch. 4 "Jars of Clay" Jeff CardenJuly 1: Ch. 5 "The New Has Come!" Zack BannisterJuly 8: Ch. 6 "Living in God's Favor" Erron CarlinJuly 15: Ch. 7 "Godly Sorrow" Wayne CornwellJuly 22: Ch. 8-9 "Sacrificial Giving" Doug CarlinJuly 29: Ch. 10 "Demolishing Strongholds" Gary WasherAug. 5: Ch. 11 "Suffering for Christ" John CothronAug. 12: Ch. 12 "The Thorn in the Flesh" Mike BraggAug. 19: Ch. 13 "Genuine Faith" Chris BarkerAug. 26: Summary and Conclusion Matt Wilber

The Storms

of Life…

Loss of a loved one Loss of a job

Financial Despair Family Illness

Family Crisis

He teaches us certain things…

How does God comfort us during the storms of life?

v. 3-7… We need each other…

What does God teach us during the storms of life?

2 Corinthians 1:3-73 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for

2 Corinthians 1:3-7your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

v. 3-7… We need each other…

v. 9… To rely on God, not ourselves…

What does God teach us during the storms of life?

2 Corinthians 1:99 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

What does God teach us during the storms of life?

v. 3-7… We need each other…

v. 9… To rely on God, not ourselves…

v. 10… To remember what God has done before…

2 Corinthians 1:1010 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us.

What does God teach us during the storms of life?

v. 3-7… We need each other…

v. 9… To rely on God, not ourselves…

v. 10… To remember what God has done before…v. 18-22… God is faithful to all

His promises.

2 Corinthians 1:18-2218 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.” 20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:18-22He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

What does God teach us during the storms of life?

v. 3-7… We need each other…

v. 9… To rely on God, not ourselves…

v. 10… To remember what God has done before…v. 18-22… He is faithful to His

promises…