TODAY’S “GOOD NEWS” - May 23, 2004

MESSAGE:  “POWER-LIVING:

All the Strength You Will Ever Need!”

SCRIPTURE:  II Corinthians 12:7-10

KEY VERSE:  v. 9  “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

FOCUS:  You can access the supernatural help of God in the circumstances of your daily life.

INTRODUCTION:  “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves.  Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession.  Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.  Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all that he has.”         ~ Dietrich Bonhoffer

I.  MY WEAKNESS IS GOD’S OPPORTUNITY TO BLESS ME

 

 

II.   GOD’S GRACE IS sufficient FOR ALL MY NEED

 

 

 

III.   I CAN ACCESS GOD’S POWER BY SUBMISSION

 

 

 

CONCLUSION:  “With Christ, positive emotions replace negative emotions.  Weights become wings.”                                    ~ Robert Schuller

PREACHING:  Pastor Holland Lewis