Part 2 | Spiderman and the Purpose of Pain
SERIES THEME: The entertainment world mesmerizes us and continues to influence us in ways we see and do not see, both for good and for bad. Join us as we talk about some of todays most popular shows and influential characters in Binge Worthy. While we may all disagree with the content of these options, we can speak both to the reality of the human condition they express and how God’s Word interacts with the people on screen who we often see in ourselves.
From 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
With great comes great .
FACT: The people who you the are the people to whom you the of .
Finding the OPPORTUNITY of your PAIN:
1. can me from .
📖 2 Corinthians 12:7 (ESV) So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.
Finding the OPPORTUNITY of your PAIN:
2. Pain can more of into my .
📖 2 Corinthians 12:8-9 (ESV) Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
“God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.”
~Joni Eareckson Tada
Grace: the of God in and through your life.
If this more of into your life, it’s .
📖 Job 23:10 (ESV) But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
📖 Job 23:14 (ESV) For He will complete what He appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
Spiritual growth begins the moment we asking “ ?” and asking God, “ ?”
Finding the OPPORTUNITY of your PAIN:
3. Pain can of God’s through me.
📖 2 Corinthians 12:10 (ESV) For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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