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NO ADVANTAGE

Speaker: Pastor Keith Goullette
Theme: Church Life
Thesis: Let’s Not Be Ignorant
Scripture Text: II Corinthians 2:5-11 (next week II Corinthians 2:12-17)
I. Sorrow - v. 1-5
II. Sufficient - v. 6-8
III. Satan - v. 9-11

Scripture Readings

II CORINTHIANS 7:10-11
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

GALATIANS 6:1
Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

JAMES 4:7
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

I PETER 5:8
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

SCRIPTURE TEXT—II CORINTHIANS 2:5-11
But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow not to me, but in some degree—in order not to say too much—to all of you. Sufficient for such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the majority, so that on the contrary you should rather forgive and comfort him, otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him. For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things. But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ, so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Sermon length: 36:17