Bend But You Will Not Break - 2 Cor. 4:6-9, Pastor Chad T. Hinson, Sr.

chapter 6 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 were excited we have baptism today come on give god praise who yes long excited about what the Lord she had the capacity Stan second Corinthians chapter 4i see there are some remaining second Corinthians second excuse me chapter 4 verse 6 now y'all won't start a fight up in here all right Amy you're gonna blame it on me hot list sent Corinthian see there's some people with Pittsburgh jerseys on I don't know today was dressed down I don't know I'm just saying I'm just saying I don't know what it's about FYI me next time second Corinthians 464 it is the God who said let light shine out of Darkness who was shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ verse 7 this is really where I'm going here but we have this treasure in clay jars King James has earthen vessels so that it may be clear that this extraordinary power belongs to god and does not come from us but we are afflicted on every way but not crushed all we are perplexed but not driven to despair oh yes we are persecuted but not forsaken yes we are struck down but not this job look at you never say you're bend but you won't break she's going to be seated you been but you will not break life will bend you but it will not break and just look at your neighbor say i am having a breakdown i'm having a breakthrough we are we're believing in this particular body of this call-out assembly that God has the ability to take this wonderful Church both corporately and individually from surviving to thriving but we're not delusional in our expectation to believe that this process will be disconnected from trials tribulation or problems we we understand that if we're going to be what God called us to be in 2017 that we will not run away from problems but we'll have to strength to go through the problem and you could be looking at me well what problems you talking about you just keep on living if you're not in a problem now there's one that's gonna knock on your door and you got to be prepared to handle it we learned last week then if what a week before that if we're gonna get through the problems we have to trust that he that has begun a good work in us he not us Jesus Christ will complete it to the day of Jesus Christ that means we don't take any stock in our own strength our own 422 but we trust the lord in all of his spiritual power that because of him not us will be able to endure trials and tribulations we also learn but if we don't get ready we're gonna have to build for the house to come storms to come so we will tour and we toured out the weak foundation and put down the strong foundation because if you build your house all saying oh you're no nurse around their huff and puff and blow your house down but if you feel job things on eternal God you see then no matter what comes your way you'll be able to say I went through the storm but I survived that got anybody here that survived some stuff you can just wave at me anyway that Miami just somebody shot i am us alive I don't get a twist come on Craig on your we don't get it twisted i might look good up in here but i I've been through some stuff if I if you take me to starbucks and give me our shock your world Oh over a cup of joe music music but now mom I like the weather channel i do I like looking at tropical storms and I noticed that when I've always look at tropical storms when storms hit everything is going arrived you've got you know houses being destroyed cars whipping up down you've got animals just going to play but one thing if you notice that never goes is the tropical trees the palm trees that have you noticed the palm trees they might be in the storm will call the palm tree to bin but if you notice the pantry bins yoga also spot but the trauma tree never breaks you see and and I i never understood it into you walk in the Psalms chapter one and then the psalmist compares the righteous like a palm tree that's planted by the river of water you remember that song that bears fruit in what its season and and the suggestion is not the tree bears fruit because it doesn't go through anything but the palm tree is able to bend and not break because of who it's planted all music is our am I making sense here it is here's my assertion here's my assertion it is that with the trials of life come if you're rooted in God you will bend but but but at the end of the day you will not snap you see you will not snap you will not see the snap see because the devil is just not trying to mess with you just to cause you to have a bad day using know what he's trying to do is to get you to snap he's he's trying to get you to do something that's out of your character but the devil is alive until we we got to understand that life will Bend us but it will not break us I feel good I feel good this morning see in the book of 2nd Corinthians and paul writes to this gifted church but it's problematic one because they had a run-in proper view of suffering they automatically thought that suffering was something that was given to people who were not Christians so they thought that you went through things because you were out of God's wheel and the reason why Paul had to challenge them on his authentic see is because they thought because he suffered trials persecutions and problems and that he was outside of God's we heart feel like working him but policy no no sometimes you don't go through because you're wrong but sometimes you go through because you're in the wii ola of God and Annie saying that sees the summer y'all some of the apostles of the time we're not going through impulse it well the reason why they're not going through is because they're not preaching the right gospel here he says I am going through because i am a living what we call the cruciform the like an iteeche just a little bit here the cruciform life is a life that submitted underneath the cross that means that whatever I do it's not for vainglory what is to lift up in a servant hood mentality that life of Jesus Christ and he says because of that I suffer some persecution I suffer people trying to kill me but he said at the reason why you ought to know I am anointed not because of what I don't go through but you also note that I am God's child because of what I go through huh i'm gonna make me wear picked the brakes off me to pick C look at your neighbor say I'm going through because I'm anointed you see yourself or tell him tell him out here now I'm not going through because i'm doing the wrong thing that was in 2015 but in 2017 sometimes when you start doing the right thing huh the wrong things start happening huh in your can I get a witness of somebody in here back and talk to me but they don't like you on your job because you do the wrong thing they don't like it because you're doing the right thing but all before he was coming to church everybody loves you you were splendiferous but the moment you start raising a standard happen when folks start knocking your back out but the devil is a liar huh i believe that no weapon formed against us shall be able well getting into somebody said we're going to bend me huh but they won't break me you see and so he says now he says but now the other people are not going through because they're not God's children huh and I work that way just a little bit if you have never been in a storm it's because you're no threat to the devil if you have never been through anything that's because of your on the devil steam but the moment you get off Satan's team and then on God's team Satan is not going to let you give god the glory so instead of you getting upset when hell breaks loose in your life you have to give God the praise of will help which means in your life because it's a sign that's all that's why we can you do me a favor just give God a place for your storm and say thank you thank you that they talking about me like you that they don't give me because if they hadn't darling I would know you are my god and so in this particular context he says but I must admit my strength is not external it's intern he's gonna work just a little bit he says first before i get to it God says that i need the darkness to perform the miracle that's in the verse i'm not making this stuff up he says the light shines out of darkness I got a problem with that right there about that you can shine the light anytime you want to he said no he says because if I let light shine without darkness you would know what the lightworks your mr. okay i'ma tell this don't tell me about in this store is just between us but I was afraid of the dark growing up now looking at me like y'all see and you know I grew up in a day where you know you didn't control your life your mom and dad did they figures as they sleep we all gotta go to sleep to these kids get to control it on like that TV in the room table and I handle the only TV we had was in mind that room and they had the only air conditioned to come on help me preach don't know I line 210 Centurion y'all got real cute and and then let us laying there for a minute we're not a club we have to go back into the hot dark blue and I don't care if you can believe there's some lions tigers and bears when you nine years old and a doc hot room but you know what i used to what are you doing I couldn't sleep so I guess we used to get me one of the night lights are misty and that that room will be dark and they plug that little nightlight in and the light will shine out of y'all gettin it and God says that when i start developing field I must go to the darkroom and the reason why you are not be thrown when dark times come in your lights is because I use darkness as a backdrop to like the shop and here's what she hears what you're shouting to shout is one slight start shining you can cut it out don't mr. don't list it now mr. see what the problem is don't like a live shot because watch the light come on there's nothing the devil can do shut the light off all you got to do is have that's under God time because I Tom's up in the morning time I feel I get enough retired on the lights turn on the light and see so but my strength is not was outside of me my strength is what's inside he says we have this treasure in earthen vessels here's the economy can look at the academy this is the economy i have a physical body that's the clay pot but God has put something inside of me and inside of you that's stronger than your outside i'm at work here but I don't mind working but the problem is we're conditioned to embellish the outside some of y'all got some anti-aging cream in your pocket book right now you say I'm getting America little that's why people that that's why the toupee business got a lot about it and we've business got a lot of money hello sisters don't act like I'm not talking to you you're looking at allstate I don't know what he told me I just all mine is yours because you're bored and i'm not saying is that room come here night with that but Paul is saying I don't care how you take care this thing it's going to break down and he's saying that your earthen vessel is nothing but a clay pot is dispensable it's disposable and it's discardable and he's saying if you put all your eggs in your external see the problem is we got people that look like a million bucks on outside but there solely 14 nickel and polish saying I've learned now that the treasure Amy but the treasure is God has put someone on the inside of me that's bigger than me that when i try to give up stands up in me and that's why I can say great is k that is any way up when hey that's in the world that's why the Christian ought to have confidence no matter how I look on the outside i'd appreciate whether you like it or not I'm gonna have a hard for tensor whether you like this suit or not because I'm more than this so pop God with a tie today and my song on the show don't tell me there's something on the side that's whack and on the outside and all but a child here in my life huh not gonna push just a little further hi if you ever get to sit with people who are suffering you think you're going to help them but every time i sit with somebody that suffering they helped me more than I help them can I cannot prove my case just a little further when I someone would go every time we go see grandma she's 85 and I'm looking at her physicality change but every time the nurses say but she's so strong and happy I said it myself and myself now I'm 44 now if I had hip surgery and 44b what listen listen I just a peek right now because they had to bring down the stretch i'll be pretty rough stretch at night but my hip but sometimes their senior sales have a 42 is something in there that when the outside parishes the inside gets stronger and the reason why i'm not trippin when I look at CNN and the craziness of the world is because my god and on the outside but my god is going to be inside and the crazy the world is on the outside is the song chad gets on the inside i would man my palace what you had one man gets stronger day by day somebody's a rich chapter so this this dichotomy of breaking down on the outside but getting stronger going inside Kennedy by testifying that you wish it was as strong as you were inside 10 years or 20 years ago now get up now gotta look at you know my knee hurting you know yet maybe even a little bit my wife won't be smart say gonna put that jacket unless you know I can't fit that jacket what you're doing but something has grown in me with the wisdom and the maturity I needed 10 years ago somehow by God's Spirit he grew it come here and.and now because of this when the enemy point of one tries to close me in i'm not defeated can i push my point just a little further he says we are afflicted on every side but not crushed this were afflicted comes from the arena and what Paul is now taking us to is the arena when they would bring out people for slaughter for sport ok and you remember the martyrdom period what they would do is they bring the Christians out for the people of the way let them run across the Greek stadium and let the Lions come and destroy him that's what we call in Christian his story called the Martin dump period and so not he now is taking us to this arena and he's saying i am up flicked it what they would do before they were trained the animal don't tear them up at first because it's a sport huh what's that movie what's that movie called Oh hunger games so have you ever saw Hunger Games the object is that people get enjoyment out of people's pain that it is it so what they trained the animal do was don't destroy them quickly because if you kill them quickly we won't get any enjoyment out of it and I work just a little bit here and so what they would do is they like the animal box them in and close them in and so what they were trying to do is get the person whom they're trying to keel to feel boxed in I want to have wonder huh no yeah uh okay you're looking like you always had options but i want to have you ever been felt like you rose in did you ever felt when I called spiritual crossfit where where you felt like your options are limited you see I don't want to have you ever have you ever felt like you know that Satan has your back up against the wall huh and-and-and-and when you look to the left ok ok you're looking at me strange someone you have problems that you can handle on your own you see you know you know what you know what you don't you know you're behind a little bit but you get paid the 15 and the 30s and your double down and your makeup for Christmas by the first time so be aware but there's some of us best going through where that is no miracle insight and he missed you feel as if that's Satan has up box and Paul shares that the data thought that we had me lifted her i want to have you ever been close in I remember when I got lost one time I got caught in a pull the sack oldest active is when there's no way out and there's nowhere in and your life is stopped right in one thing and I come to tell you today if you feel just stop gosh as you might be stuck up on the outside but you are up on the inside he says I'm afflicted up on the outside but I'm not crushed inside oh you're missing huh I'm gonna make this big plane huh remember Shadrach Meshach and Abednego the problem is her from her musical perspective i take Shadrach Meshach and Abednego out the fire and that's when we start giving him the priests but we missed a versatile father into fire but why I say I see four men noosa father inside that means that God gotta take you out the situation for you to get your victory but you can do something while you're in the fire look at your neighbor say I'm in the fire happy but I got three dhabi without diets right and because you know what that gets me when I push just a little for them huh did after they closed him in I feel like having searched just do me a favor huh look at your neighbor say you in the fire but you still got freedom haha because greater is He that's in you than he that is in the world I'm crushed I'm cross the plate number one point close in saket i'm confused what the animal would do is this orient them and confuse them closed confuse I want to have you been confused that the work perplexed means disoriented that means out of nowhere a storm has come and has knocked me off my square i want to have you ever gotten a call before your day was going are wonderful you woke up and had morning devotion you win read the scripture and had prayer you got in the car and they were singing this is the day that the lord has made that the lord has made you went to work and you start saying hello to you noted in like because this is the lord's day in all of a sudden you got five calls from the same number and you said such don't never call me like this and then that's what happened it was a text 911 and when you call that number back you got some information that left you bewilder because you know when you get bad news the first stage its shock this oriented perplexed and what the enemy likes to do before they pounce on us the way he likes to bend us is to confuse us I want to have you ever felt like your life is not like this I always wondered why do lawyers when they get in trouble hire another lawyer that's always my favorite your lawyer to defend myself I was one of you know because you disorienting you speechless and when news hit you like that you feel like your world has been turned and this is when your creativity this is clean your low possess doesn't mean you know you're going through when your possessions don't mean nothing and never forget I remember it like yesterday it caught my mom's yet we need to go over the hospital so what happened we need to come right now i just got done preacher just got done remember to ride up to the relevant as I got out of the elevator open the door I seen anybody crime they tell you I didn't even get out the elevator i push the button back down can I knew what happened hot day I got no words button in my book it was like it and I'm just telling you my story but all of us got a story when he was and all that stuff they told me you two blessed 2b stress it didn't help with this all that stuff favorite fair didn't help with this and God says you can be perplexed but here's the word but not in despair it's almost like all of a sudden people just a dumb stuff heaven gained another angel you just shut up the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away well you i wish you took yours come on don't know I'm not lying sometimes you go too much at church will go outside people talk about searching just the normal sudden not externally but internally and in a locked in a cloud something a small calm and that's what the cards say nothing i'm gonna fix it I'm right here which you are missed it but I feel good today not that i'm going to change it not that you go stop crying today not that you don't feel like skipping through the tulips up but I come to tell you that the same pain you feel it is the same pain I'm feeling because I'm your God but i love you enough to hang out with you and this was the Lord does you be close to the age you know you can close you ever see that show snap your clothes about to have a breakdown and gases come here come here he comes and gets you right in the nick of time so you do something that will you come on you're going to give got a place up for him talking you off the nature of your life and my life because some of us wanted to do some of things out of pain but God I was our council I'm done I'm done I'm done it after he feels you delusion and perplexed he tries to conquer you and this is my last part he says persecuted but not forsaken struck down oh yeah i got to help me feel good but not destroy officers shot on that verse right there right there should be a shower just work persecuted is that when the animal now has an intense attack to destroy you to persecute is not to play it gives us to anywhere we get from the devil the light comes to seek who may what devour you know you have a/c Alliance they just had recently middle recent memories about maybe six months ago it was on a safari and lady said y'all keep your hands inside but you know how focused curious remember and the ball on waves hands that I want to take we have the line snatch them about their and told him limb from limb because a lion's job is to kill you in one play with you and they tryin two main you in a try to make you broke is trying to make you extinct he says now wait now I've been in but i've been i've been person cute meaning my outside has been beaten up to the point every time I wake up there's another attack I have to be away I'm preaching to somebody the day I preach to somebody that's dealing wanted to but I want to talk to somebody that got a tax on every side I want to talk to somebody and every day you get up you got something to deal with look at your neighbor so you'll know what i'm going to right now he says that i'm attacked he said I'm attack time they're whipping on me he says but i am not forsaken up that word means that I am attacked but I got somebody fighting with me no you don't miss it huh he says I'm not fighting this up by myself don't you remember i feel i have it sure ain't got much choice dr. piso next week but i'll lose it right here he said I see I put three men in the fire let's remember that you said I see three men huh but if you keep looking huh LOL stream and i put in there but not this time and happy that's in the y'all help me reach you catch a neighbor's a neighbor who thought she was in this by yourself up that Jews are so he's not just with you but he's fighting for and greater is He that's in you than he that's just give me a favor happy touch yourself up and sake body is my son hope no weapon touch yourself that's formed against me shall be able to prosper happy now if you believe that God is with you what i tell you to give him a personal point something crazy huh that's between you and here because you don't hold your picks up and let's along huh right some matters huh mama can I keep reaching we let me push a little bit perhaps I feel like earning my keep but and then they said you're struck down oh yes but not destroyed already have church now who bring my guns are struck down is blown down and when you're slowing down your left today but they didn't understand how that they left him for do what God says he left for deer but they're not destroyed no mr. up look at your neighbor see me I've been blended instruction but i will not break because sweeping me up endure for a night but joy comes we need to be like a floor will raise up with standard us keeping me and also a night but joy comes in the morning time I don't think for everybody but there's 20 of us have been having a hard time has come to tell you you're not having a breakdown but you're having a breakthrough so instead are you going crazy today to give god praise the place up already so so you feel like you're bending you got a place up and open your mouth and you feel like a in despair up your hair be lifted up not gonna eat such the everlasting doors where the kid the kid can I get a witness that is in place of the only break in the dancin you're in the John because they saw oh I taken away but I was right there strippers independent huh that's not right but you're not breaking you going to which you're not gonna pray they all like yeah but he's all yours Wade also if there's a church that knows God continue and right when you think I was gonna slack God step and say this is my grandson Zion i'll let you pin but I will not let you break I don't you give got a patient because God knows how far to take us mr. Harris knows how much we 10 Oh all of us had his moment where life will take you on a crazy come on parents these kids are take you in a row local come on children prepared to take you on a roller coaster come on husband and wife will take his honor we are getting married and plan on dealing with breast cancer what I love about though is when life brings you in church it will I know it I know if I had no if i switch to the name of the claimant message we have a thousand people sitting here I know it but in a true-life bench you when you doing right it bench just because you go to get right does not mean you won't go through for many paths he promised to make sure you won't slap some of us people have left us for day some of us left myself a day and God came and resuscitated us leave us life again and when we say we have life and have it more abundantly we're not talking to mag material ness we're talking abundance in character and power and perseverance is when you know you're not here when you know when things and going exactly what you thi your life around God and you say for him I live haha where this in his office or a cubicle hi we served grab your name about a hand everybody study i'm clear church that we have no idea what we go through in our lives and I was on the phone the other day and another pastor friend killed herself and was it now how do you kill yourself you got to services and specially this thing you said well problem is we think we are doing well because of success but sometimes you could be hurting so bad to even people in the church can miss your pain because we look so nice look as if they don't let me look for you today don't have food i come here hurt sometimes I don't want you to pray for me because it's fashionable I need you to pray for me we're not just doing this is this subject to do at the end of a service i'm doing this because i'll try not to slot he will get news that a change your life but what I love about it is going to give you the power just about I want you to pray for the hand you're holding right now come on you pray for them open your mouth and pregnant come on paper you don't know what they go on to just ask the Lord to keep up you don't know the trials you don't know what their heart song you don't know what that areas of darkness is you don't know what their questions live you don't know what they find a job you don't know what they find at the home and they just want to come to church and have somebody just authentically great at the hand of God would be with them for their brand and not break right pray for strength right now British power Yeah Yeah come on play right no weapon from the gets there shall be able to pass don't be dealing with physical condition where the god-given power handling and gone all the handle being younger and hoping the moss and being married I don't have a bear sigil my god black lights on a limb broke not having my experiment father we not dying in private presents from here let's write it watch while we hide our church father we thank you Father we pray this prayer get your tender mourning into dancing turn the weeping into joy we trust you going to do it that because they were they not because we're running because your all-powerful now if you believe God can turn it around in their life I need you to lose their hands and give god a place like you believe it 30 seconds to the place like you believe it like you believe it thank you just do me a favor help your neighbors say thank you for bringing something you know what I was going through I didn't tell you but I was picking on this button I was breaking I was looking good but I was person really i was breaking the cycle all that God has a way to bus to keep you might be other day the barb says the wages of sin is death so free gift of the Lord is eternal life if you need Jesus as your personal Savior my brother my sister yeah this is your day this is your moment in time today you hear his voice harden not your heart if you need Jesus my sister my brother God is here for you today I just him but i gotta i gotta do this to change no come to him as you are and he'll do the changing in your life if this is you my sister do me a favor won't you come is there one ball come on god bless you honey come on you know someone is another come on come on No bye until you my sister my brother I'm not just sharpest knife in the day but one choice i mean i think what has been benefit me is when i gave my life to the Lord he has the ability to navigate your life through difficult dark days not know I'm talking to you but you need a bonafide sho nuff relationship with Jesus if I'm talking to my sister my brother the Lord is working on you Satan wants to keep you where yall God's come to give your life today this is you my sister my brother come right now I'm get your new line to come get you come get it come get maybe hear your backslidden got a fellowship with God what I love the Lord is married to the backs liner when you leave him he never leaves you if this is you my sister my brother yeah and you're out of fellowship with him and you've got to break just get back planet like the tree so there's and that which is the get Shana gotta keep you why you in it this is you my sister my brother you need to come is there one is there one maybe hear you say if you love god but you're not a member of a teaching preaching church would be honored if you choose our church the doors of our church open is there one today is there one today is there one this time he is the one is there one is there was a man come on give God a praise you may be seated the presence of the Lord ok

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Published: Sun Jan 22 2017