To Overcoming From Being Overcome - Message Notes Sept 6 09

Bridge Church, Sunday, Sept 6, 2009

Th e Truth abou t Pr ob le ms: James 2:2-5

To & Fr om:

Makin g the Co nn ec tio ns P rovi de d by t he Cr oss

 They are INVEVITABLE

James 1:2-12  They are UNPREDICTABLE

Why a Bridge?  There are MANY KINDS

1 Peter 3:18 (ESV) - “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God…”

TO OVERCOMING

FROM BEING OVERCOME

I’ m Ov er wh el med by…

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 They PURIFY my FAITH

 They PRODUCE ENDURANCE

 They PERFECT my CHARACTER

Wh y?

 They POINT me TO GOD

1) We live in FALLEN WORLD.

2) There are CONSEQUENCES TO SIN

3) God uses pain to help us GROW

John 16:33 (ESV) – “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” Romans 8:37-39 (ESV) – “37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything

else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”