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Pastor Josh here.

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I would like to give you a
preview of our Sunday morning service

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on March 16th here at
Middletown Baptist Church.

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We're going to be continuing
our study in Second Corinthians,

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and we're going to be in
Second Corinthians, chapter number

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12.

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Here in this passage of
Scripture, we're going to look at

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suffering for the Lord.

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What does that what does that mean?

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And so we're going to see the
sufficiency of the Lord in the midst

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of our suffering.

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And so the idea would be that
the inevitability of suffering is

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a reality.

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But we can understand God's
grace and rest in God's grace and

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realize that the grace of God
is sufficient for everything in our

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life.

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It's sufficient for our
suffering, it's sufficient for our

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strength.

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And ultimately we know that
it's sufficient for our salvation,

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the most important thing.

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And so in 2 Corinthians,
chapter 12, we're going to look at

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Paul's eternal perspective.

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We're going to look at Paul's
prayer, we're going to look at the

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Lord's response to that
prayer, and we're going to look at

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Paul's practice after that.

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And so in the end of this
passage of Scripture, we see in verse

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9 of 2 Corinthians 12, God's
response is that my grace is sufficient

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for thee, for my strength is
made perfect in weakness.

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And so it'll be an interesting
study, hopefully a helpful study

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in the concept of dealing with
our weaknesses, dealing with our

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struggles, dealing with our
pain, but seeing God's hand in that

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and seeing God's strength and
in the midst of our insufficiency.

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So we are sufficient in
Christ, and therefore we can understand

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his power in our lives when we
are weak.

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And so I don't know if you're weak.

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I don't know if you're going
through a struggle right now.

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The reality is that all of us
are inadequate in the concept of

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our lives.

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But we do know that God is
enough, and we're gonna talk about

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that on Sunday.

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So if you are able to be with
us in person, be here at 10:30.

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If not, we live stream on
YouTube and Facebook and we will

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replay this sermon on Sunday
on this podcast channel on Monday

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morning.

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Well, God bless you.

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Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

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We look forward to hearing
from you soon.

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God bless.