Faith in Crisis – Part 2

2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV

⁹ And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

• Faith in God’s will get us through this crisis in our nation, allowing us to leave a legacy of a victorious life of faith.

• We all in our life, in the body of our flesh …

Romans 7:18 ESV

¹⁸ For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

• We all come into this world and later experience some in life. Some of us experience harm than others.

Romans 7:19-25 ESV

¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. ²¹ So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. ²² For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, ²³ but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

• Before we can overcome the crisis on the , we need to first overcome the crisis on the .

James 3:16-18 ESV

¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. ¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. ¹⁸ And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

• in God’s grace is sufficient to get us through this crisis, but it must be to others who need it too, especially the ones we are to.
• You cannot God’s grace, if you have not received it.