Future Glory Through Life

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Future Glory Through Lifes Maturing Moments

• Pastor Timothy Chan
• Chinese Grace Bible Church
• Sunday, July 27, 2014

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Future Glory Through Lifes Maturing Moments

• Pastor Timothy Chan
• Chinese Grace Bible Church
• Sunday, July 27, 2014

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 17  and if children, then heirsheirs of God and
  fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with
  him in order that we may also be glorified with
  him.

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 18  For I consider that the sufferings of this
  present time are not worth comparing with the
  glory that is to be revealed to us.

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 19  For the creation waits with eager longing for
  the revealing of the sons of God.

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 20  For the creation was subjected to futility,
  not willingly, but because of him who subjected
  it, in hope

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 21  that the creation itself will be set free
  from its bondage to corruption and obtain the
  freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 22  For we know that the whole creation has been
  groaning together in the pains of childbirth
  until now.

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 23  And not only the creation, but we ourselves,
  who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan
  inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons,
  the redemption of our bodies.

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 24  For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that
  is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he
  sees?

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• Romans 817-25 (ESV)
• 25  But if we hope for what we do not see, we
  wait for it with patience.

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Introduction

• The road to Christs glory is tougher than you
  think.
• One condition needs to be met
• _____________

Suffering
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1. The ________ of Suffering

Nature
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• Romans 818 (ESV)
• 18  For I consider that the sufferings of this
  present time are not worth comparing with the
  glory that is to be revealed to us.

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 22  Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they
  Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of
  Abraham? So am I.

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 23  Are they servants of Christ? I am a better
  oneI am talking like a madmanwith far greater
  labors, far more imprisonments, with countless
  beatings, and often near death.

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 24  Five times I received at the hands of the
  Jews the forty lashes less one.

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 25  Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I
  was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked a
  night and a day I was adrift at sea

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 26  on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers,
  danger from robbers, danger from my own people,
  danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger
  in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from
  false brothers

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 27  in toil and hardship, through many a
  sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often
  without food, in cold and exposure.

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• II Corinthians 1122-28 (ESV)
• 28  And, apart from other things, there is the
  daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the
  churches.

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• Genesis 317-19 (ESV)
• 17 And to Adam he said,
• Because you have listened to the voice of your
  wife    and have eaten of the treeof which I
  commanded you,    You shall not eat of
  it,cursed is the ground because of you    in
  pain you shall eat of it all the days of your
  life

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• Genesis 317-19 (ESV)
• 18  thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for
  you    and you shall eat the plants of the
  field.

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• Genesis 317-19 (ESV)
• 19  By the sweat of your face    you shall eat
  bread,till you return to the ground,    for out
  of it you were takenfor you are dust,    and
  to dust you shall return.

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• The ________ of Suffering
• A. We cannot avoid the _________ of Paul

Nature
sufferings
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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 27  And Jesus went on with his disciples to the
  villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he
  asked his disciples, Who do people say that I
  am?

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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 28  And they told him, John the Baptist and
  others say, Elijah and others, one of the
  prophets.

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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 29  And he asked them, But who do you say that I
  am? Peter answered him, You are the Christ.

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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 30  And he strictly charged them to tell no one
  about him.

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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 31  And he began to teach them that the Son of
  Man must suffer many things and be rejected by
  the elders and the chief priests and the scribes
  and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 32  And he said this plainly. And Peter took him
  aside and began to rebuke him.

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• Mark 827-33 (ESV)
• 33  But turning and seeing his disciples, he
  rebuked Peter and said, Get behind me, Satan!
  For you are not setting your mind on the things
  of God, but on the things of man.

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• The ________ of Suffering
• A. We cannot avoid the _________ of Paul
• B. The whole creation suffers because of
  _________

Nature
sufferings
our fall
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• The ________ of Suffering
• A. We cannot avoid the _________ of Paul
• B. The whole creation suffers because of
  _________
• C. We share the suffering with the __________
  regardless

Nature
sufferings
our fall
creation
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• Romans 821 (ESV)
• 21  that the creation itself will be set free
  from its bondage to corruption and obtain the
  freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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1. The ________ of Suffering
2. The ________ of Suffering

Nature
Purpose
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• Romans 822-23 (ESV)
• 22  For we know that the whole creation has been
  groaning together in the pains of childbirth
  until now.

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• Romans 822-23 (ESV)
• 23  And not only the creation, but we ourselves,
  who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan
  inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons,
  the redemption of our bodies.

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• Philippians 37-11 (ESV)
• 7  But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for
  the sake of Christ.

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• Philippians 37-11 (ESV)
• 8  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of
  the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my
  Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of
  all things and count them as rubbish, in order
  that I may gain Christ

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• Philippians 37-11 (ESV)
• 9  and be found in him, not having a
  righteousness of my own that comes from the law,
  but that which comes through faith in Christ, the
  righteousness from God that depends on faith

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• Philippians 37-11 (ESV)
• 10  that I may know him and the power of his
  resurrection, and may share his sufferings,
  becoming like him in his death,

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• Philippians 37-11 (ESV)
• 11  that by any means possible I may attain the
  resurrection from the dead.

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• II Corinthians 316-18 (ESV)
• 16  But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is
  removed.

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• II Corinthians 316-18 (ESV)
• 17  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the
  Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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• II Corinthians 316-18 (ESV)
• 18  And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the
  glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
  same image from one degree of glory to another.
  For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

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• The ________ of Suffering
• The ________ of Suffering
• A. The end of Christian life is about
  ___________ at His Second Coming

Nature
Purpose
redemption
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• The ________ of Suffering
• The ________ of Suffering
• A. The end of Christian life is about
  ___________ at His Second Coming
• B. The journey of Christian life is about
  ___________ Gods glory at the end

Nature
Purpose
redemption
envisioning
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Byproducts

1. Enlarging our lives to ________ with the whole
   ___________ plan of God

identify
redemptive
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Byproducts

1. Enlarging our lives to ________ with the whole
   ___________ plan of God
2. Bearing the fruit of ___________ and _______

identify
redemptive
endurance
hope
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• Romans 51-5 (ESV)
• 1  Therefore, since we have been justified by
  faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
  Jesus Christ.

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• Romans 51-5 (ESV)
• 2  Through him we have also obtained access by
  faith into this grace in which we stand, and we
  rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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• Romans 51-5 (ESV)
• 3  Not only that, but we rejoice in our
  sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
  endurance,

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• Romans 51-5 (ESV)
• 4  and endurance produces character, and
  character produces hope,

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• Romans 51-5 (ESV)
• 5  and hope does not put us to shame, because
  God's love has been poured into our hearts
  through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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Byproducts

1. Enlarging our lives to ________ with the whole
   ___________ plan of God
2. Bearing the fruit of ___________ and _______
3. Being ____ by the Holy Spirit

identify
redemptive
endurance
hope
led
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Conclusion

• Your maturing moments