Reformation Baptist Church Wetumpka

Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen to Good People? The Sentence of Death and The Purpose of Pain

Sermon Text: 2 Corinthians 1:8-11

 

1. Trouble of Trials: Stripped of Self-Sufficiency

(2 Cor 1:8-9a)

2. Purpose in Pain: Cast on God’s Mercy

(2 Cor 1:9b)

3. Deliverance from Death: Hope in God’s Security

(2 Cor 1:10)

4. Means of Mercy: Prayers of God’s Covenant Community

(2 Cor 1:11)

 

Recorded Sunday, February 9th of 2025

Learning to Suffer Well

Sermon Text: 2 Corinthians 1:5-7

 

1. The Shared Ministry of God: Each Suffering and Comfort (2 Cor 1:5)

2. The Sacrificial Work of God: Christ’s Comfort in the Church’s Suffering

 

Recorded Sunday, February 2nd of 2025

The Comfort of Christ: Don’t Waste Your Sorrows

Sermon Text: 2 Corinthians 1:1-7

1. The Royal Ambassadors of God: Many laborers in the Mission

(2 Cor 1:1)

2. The Gracious Gifts of God: Every good gift from Heaven

(2 Cor 1:2)

3. The Merciful Comfort of God: All Glory to God

(2 Cor 1:3)

4. The Extended Comfort of God: No Sorrows Wasted

(2 Cor 1:4)

5. The Shared Ministry of God: Each Suffering and Comfort

(2 Cor 1:5)

6. The Sacrificial Work of God: Christ’s Comfort in the Church’s Suffering

(2 Cor 1:6-7)

Autopsy of a Man Dead to the World & Alive to God: Faithful Under Fire

Sermon Text: 2 Corinthians 1

After 73 sermons in 1 Corinthians occupying most of the years of 2021 and 2022 for us as a church, we now return and come to the intro of 2 Cor, to set up what will be our focus for year of 2025:

1. The City of Corinth (2 Corinthians)

2. The Church of Corinth (2 Corinthians)

3. Correspondence with Corinth (1 & 2 Corinthians)

4. Context of Corinthians (2 Corinthians)

5. Content of Corinthians (2 Corinthians)

6. Care to the Church (2 Corinthians 1:1-2)

 

Recorded Sunday, January 19th of 2025