Last Bible Study we talked about Blessing of Blessings Amid Trials. The title for tonight’s Bible Study is BLESSINGS Of GOD’S COMFORT
LESSON TEXT: II Corinthians 1:3-11
GOLDEN TEXT (II Cor. 1:7): “Our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation”
Aim to see God as the source of all comfort.
Principle to understand that God comforts and consoles us to equip us to comfort others.
Application: To use the comfort we have experienced to actively seek to comfort others.
INTRODUCING THE LESSON: “Suffering for the cause” is common among people. Whether is it a protest march or a sit-in or an outright war with people dying, we have all seen the suffering hero. We may wonder of what use it will be in the long run. Even if we sympathize with the person and the cause, we may think it was the wrong way to go about promoting the cause. We may wonder if it was worth it. Especially when we see suffering missionaries, we may struggle to understand the value of it all. Our Scripture leaves no such doubt or needs for explanation. Emphatically yes, there is great value in suffering for Christ!
LESSON OUTLINE:
- THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT (II Cor. 1:3-4). Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
- OUR SUFFERING AND CONSOLATION (II Cor. 1:5-7). For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope of you is steadfast knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall y be also of the consolation.
- A GREAT OPPORTUNITY (II Cor. 1:8-11). For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
ANTICIPATING THE NEXT LESSON: Please read II Peter 1:3-14. In our next lesson, we will look at the “Blessing of Godliness”