In Remembrance of These

 

Pericope: 2 Cor 1: 3-7 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

Sermon Text:  2 Cor 1: 4 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Point 1:  Comfort others. Vs 4 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Point 2:  Tap into the source. Vs 5 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

When you comfort others, you create a vertex, a welcoming comfort that comes back to you. Paul put it this way in Galatians. God not naked. Galatians 3: 26-27 26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Point 3: Build up a reservoir.  Vs 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

Point 4: Move forward together. Vs 7 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

1 Thes 4: 13 3 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 1 Cor 15: 42, 53-54 (42) So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; (53) For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. (54) When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”