08/23/2026
Sermon title: Hope for the Hurting: Pattern of Partnership
Scripture: 1 Peter 4:12-19 (13-14)
Central Proposition: God partners with His people in suffering so that Christ is displayed by them, His presence is experienced through them, and His glory is revealed in them.
Outline:
Introduction:
1Pet.1:6-8
Lk.9:22-24
Ps.94:17-19
Charles Spurgeon: To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly."
Mt.5:10-12
Jn.21:18-21
2Cor.1:3-7 3
C.S Lewis: "If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them."
Php.3:10-14 10
The Pattern of Presence- We experience Christ’s Spirit in Suffering (14a)
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Charles Spurgeon: "A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world."
Jn.1:29-33
Jn.14:15-18
Jonathan Edwards: "The Holy Spirit is the delight that the Father and the Son have in each other."
Ac.2:1-3
2Cor.12:9-10
Ps.94:11-14 11
The Pattern of Promise- We Anticipate Christ’s Glory (13b/14b)
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
C.S Lewis: "When Christ returns, it is like a play coming to an end. Is it not time, is it not happening, that the actor who wrote the play is stepping onto the stage?"
Jn.14:1-3
Jn.17:1-5
Jn.17:20-24 20
Rom.8:18-19 18
1Thes.4:16-18 16