1. 2nd
Corinthians
Unfinished Business

2. 2 Cor. 1:1-7 “Turning Tragedy Into Triumph”
2 Cor. 1:8-12- “How To Make It Through Rough Times”
2 Cor. 1: “Battlefield Mentality”
2 Cor. 2:1-11- “Cancer Of The Soul”
2 Cor. 2: “The Blessings Of Brokenness”
2 Cor. 3:1-3- “Somebody’s Reading Your Mail”
2 Cor. 3:4-11- “How To Have The Much More Life”
2 Cor. 3: “True Freedom“
2 Cor. 3:18- “This Little Light Of Mine, I'm Going To Let It Shine”
2 Cor. 3, 4, 5 – “The Hiding Of The Gospel”
2 Cor 4: -  “Surviving This Ministry”
2 Cor 4: 1-2- “I Surrender All”
2 Cor 4: “Shine Jesus Shine”
2 Cor 4: 7- “Earthen Vessels”
2 Cor 4: “The Death Principle”
2 Cor 4: “The Faith Principle”
2 Cor 4: 15- “The Grace Principle” 
2 Cor 4: “Life’s Temporary Assignment” 
2 Cor. 5: 1-7- “Unlocking The Insecurities Of Life”
2 Cor. 5: “Turning Inside Out For God”
2 Cor. 5: “The Love Of Christ”
2 Cor. 5: “Being An Ambassador For Christ”

3. 2nd Corinthians 6: 1-3

4. LIFE’S POTHOLES
Text: 2nd Cor. 6:3-7

5. Discovering The Potholes

6. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…

7. Hebrews 12:1-3 – “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”

8. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions

9. 2 Corinthians 1:8 - “For we would not , brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble <thlipsis> which came to us in Asia , that we were pressed out of measure , above strength , insomuch that we despaired even of life”
2 Corinthians 6:4 – “But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions <thlipsis> , in necessities, in distresses”

10. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities

11. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses

12. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes

13. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonments

14. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonment
Tumults

15. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonment
Tumults
Labours

16. Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

17. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonment
Tumults
Labours
Watchings

18. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonment
Tumults
Labours
Watchings
Fastings

19. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonment
Tumults
Labours
Watchings
Fastings

20. 2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

21. Discovering The Potholes
IN much patience…
Afflictions
Necessities
Distresses
Stripes
Imprisonment
Tumults
Labours
Watchings
Fastings

22. Galatians 6:7 – “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

23. 2 Timothy 4:5 - “But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”

24. Discovering The Potholes
Discussing The Possibilities

25. Discussing The Possibilities
The “ministry” can be BLAMED by
OTHERS

26. Discussing The Possibilities
The “ministry” can be BLAMED by
OTHERS
The “ministry” can be APPROVED by GOD

27. Discovering The Potholes
Discussing The Possibilities
Downloading The Provision

28. Galatians 5: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

29. 1 Peter 1:6 - “Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations”

30. 1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

31. Discovering The Potholes
Discussing The Possibilities
Downloading The Provision

32. Downloading The Provision
The WORD of TRUTH

33. John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

35. Psalms 119:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

36. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

37. Downloading The Provision
The WORD of TRUTH
The POWER of GOD

38. Zechariah 4:6 – “Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.”

39. Luke 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil
Luke 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

40. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

41. Galatians 5: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

42. Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit

43. Downloading The Provision
The WORD of TRUTH
The POWER of GOD
The ARMOUR of RIGHTEOUSNESS

44. Romans 10:17 – “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

45. Job 40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God: He that made him can make His sword to approach unto him.
Job 41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

46. Downloading The Provision
The WORD of TRUTH
The POWER of GOD
The ARMOUR of RIGHTEOUSNESS

49. LIFE’S POTHOLES
Text: 2nd Cor. 6:3-7