FOR A SEASON

                                                                                                     

2 Cor. 7:5-11                      

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. WELL, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

1. You Can Expect Trouble [v. 5, Job. 14:1]

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”

2. You Can Expect God [v. 6a, 1 Peter 3:12]

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

3. You Can Expect Christians [v. 6b-7, 3-4]

II. WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

1. Do You Know the Difficulty of Godly Correction? [v. 8a]

2. Do You Know the Delight of Godly Sorrow? [v. 8b-10a]

3. Do You Know the Difference between Godly/worldly Sorrow? [v. 10b-11]

III. WELL, DO YOU KNOW THE OTHER SEASONS?

1. The Devilish Temptations are Seasonal [Lk. 4:13, James 1:14-15, 4:2]

And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

2. The Pleasures of Sin are Seasonal [Heb. 11:24-25, Psalm 16:11]

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

3. The Heaviness of Manifold Temptations is Seasonal [1 Pet. 1:3-9]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.