Darby Creek Church [DCC]
Sermon notes for church service at Darby Creek Church on Sunday, September 6, 2020. Services starts at 9am EST and 10:30am EST
Music from today
This is Amazing Grace
Here I am to Worship
What a Beautiful Name
Soul on Fire
I Trust You, Lord [September 6, 2020] Greg Burlile
A Definition: Suffering is having what you don't want or wanting what you don't have. -- Elizabeth Elliott
Some Reasons for Suffering:
* The natural consequences of our own sin
Proverbs 22:8
* The consequences from the sin of others
Life of Joseph in Genesis chapters 37 thru 50
* The results of living in a fallen world
Romans 8:18-21
* Satan is at work
Job's live experience in the book of Job
* We are experiencing God's loving discipline
Hebrews 12:6-11
We must remember God is sovereign:
He works all things accord to His will
Ephesians 1:11
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pain" -- C.S. Lewis
What Are Some Things We Need to Hear God Saying in Our Suffering?
* "I am with you" - Isaiah 43:2; Psalm 23:4
* "Know Me and trust Me" - Job 13:15; 38:4; Daniel 3:16-16
* "I am enough" - 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
I Trust You, Lord
Romans 8:18, 28