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Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard
Sunday, February 7, 2010

2. The Doctrine of Suffering for Blessing. John 15:2b; 2 Cor 12:1-10

3. The most vulnerable point in the believer's advance is when he reaches SSE. At SSE he is vulnerable to the arrogance complex of sins.

4. SSE can only function on humility and authority orientation
SSE can only function on humility and authority orientation. To the extent you reject any authority in life, to that extent your SSE is parlayed into a system of arrogance.

5. PPS prevents, restrains, intercepts and insulates against sin and evil in life, while challenging your SSE to suffer for blessing and profit.

6. When you do, it forms Spiritual Autonomy signified by 5 results.

7. 1. Impersonal love for all mankind. 2
1. Impersonal love for all mankind. 2. Authority orientation or enforced humility. 3. Genuine humility, which insulates against arrogance during MT. 4. Self‑discipline. 5. Obedience to the Word of God.

8. H. Why we should not pray for the removal of Suffering for Blessing
H. Why we should not pray for the removal of Suffering for Blessing. 2 Cor 12:7‑10

9. 1. PPS is administered by God and what God does not remove he intends for us to bear.

10. 2. Prayer is antithetical to the purpose for Suffering for Blessing.

11. a) You do not pray for the removal of the very means of advancing you to Spiritual Maturity.

12. b) You do not pray to remove that by which the Plan of God is fulfilled.

13. c) You do not pray for the removal of the mechanics of power by which SSE is parlayed into SA.

14. d) You can pray for others under suffering, and you should, without judging why they're suffering, as a privilege of your Royal Priesthood.

15. e) But you never pray for the removal of suffering from yourself or from others.

16. Prayer is not a Problem Solving Device. It is a Power Enhancing Device.

17. f) God never puts on you more than you can bear, 1 Cor 10:13
f) God never puts on you more than you can bear, 1 Cor 10:13. Yet, you can do that to yourself under the law of volitional responsibility.

18. g) Before God gives suffering for blessing, He always provides the means of handling it.

19. 3. Suffering for Blessing focuses on God's grace, and turns boasting away from self‑glorification into worship, love, and appreciation for God.

20. 4. Suffering for Blessing causes the believer to be weak, (can’t solve your own problems), so that you have to depend on Divine provisions. As a result you achieve further spiritual growth.

21. Communion

22. Grace Offering

23. Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, February 7, Tape # Suffering for Blessing, Pt 7 Providential Preventative Suffering, Pt 3 Upper Room Discourse, Part John 15:2-8; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-8 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010