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BIG IDEA : The Savior knows our suffering - “He Knows”

Why is it important that we understand the suffering of our Savior?

---His Suffering reflects His love for us.
---His Suffering helps Him relates to us.
---Our Suffering is an opportunity to experience His power and comfort.

How are you currently suffering?

Isaiah 53
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and weheld him in low esteem. 4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. 9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord make his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 11 After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

How does knowing how much he suffered help you understand his deep compassion for you?

Receive Ashes to begin the journey

“He has suffered for you and he knows your suffering. Go in peace.”

PCC BENEDICTION
May you jump into the arms of Jesus.
And may He push you out into the world.
May you be healed as you participate in the healing of others.
Not because you must, but because you may.
This is why we were born!

Beyond Sunday
As we begin the Lenten season, our hope is you will understand that we have a Savior that suffered much for us. The intent of our Lenten 5-day Devotional format is to give you an opportunity to reflect on His suffering and realize that “He Knows” your suffering. Note the daily prayer and weekly family/couple moment.

Monday: What are your hopes for this Lenten season?
I am hoping that…
Lord I am wanting to…
I need…

Tuesday: Read through Isaiah 53 and reflect on the suffering of Christ. Which explanations of His suffering impacts you the most? Write down or repeat verbally the specific words so they resonate in you. For more on this text go here.

Wednesday: How does knowing how much Christ suffered help you understand His deep compassion for you?

Thursday: Reflect on Hebrews 2:18. What is this telling you about how Christ’s “recycled suffering” benefits you? In your time of need, how have you ever acknowledged that “He Knows” your suffering and leaned into His power to help you? How could you do this more?

Friday: Reread Isaiah 53 the Suffering Servant passage. Spend time giving thanks and declaring how He has suffered for you. Confess how you have taken it for granted. Ask for a heart that lives from this gratitude and leans into His power when you suffer.

Daily Prayer: Lord, help me to appreciate your suffering for me more and more. May you reveal it to me in new ways and may it grow my awareness of your love for me.

Weekly Family/Couples Moment: Read through Isaiah 53 and reflect on which of the explanations of His suffering impacts you the most. Then take some time to pray by giving thanks for how the Suffering Savior, Christ, suffered for you. Then pray for those you know are suffering by name.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Resources Resources for your those suffering: (see links below)
Stephen Ministers - 1on1 support in your time of loss
A Short Walk with Emma - Learn how God and the PCC community carried another through great suffering
Men’s Purity - For those wrestling with temptation
Coaching & Mentoring - For men and women to work through challenging times
One Life Counseling Center / Christian Counseling Center - Professional Support
Support for Ukraine - Financially and spiritually support

For PCC's budgeted giving year
(June 1, 2021 through March 1, 2022)

Giving Update
Budgeted Giving: $3,838,588
Giving to Date: $2,312,746
Still Need: $1,525,842