Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon Trusting God When the Answer is NO by David McGee Page

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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.

2 Corinthians 11:21-33
21) I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22) Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
23) Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
24) Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
25) Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26) I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27) labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28) Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
29) Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don‘t burn?
30) If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31) The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don‘t lie.
32) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me.
33) Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.


2 Corinthians 12:1-10
1) It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2) I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don‘t know, or whether out of the body, I don‘t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
3) I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I don‘t know; God knows),
4) how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5) On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
6) For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I forbear, so that no man may account of me above that which he sees in me, or hears from me.
7) By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
8) Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
9) He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
10) Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ‘s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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