September 4, 2005   Sunday 11a.m.    Worship Service                   Sr. Pastor-Teacher: Rev. Mark A. Cain 

LESSON:  JEHOVAH JIREH, THE GOD WHO PROVIDES 

Text:   Philippians 4:10-17, 19

Memory Verse--"Nevertheless, you have done well to share with me in my affliction."     Phil. 4:14 (NASB)                                                                            May God bless, keep and provide for all the flood victims of Hurricane Katrina.

 THE DOCTRINE OF SPIRITUAL FLEXIBILITY

1. A MOTTO OF THE ROMAN SOLDIER                                  "You may bend me, but you will never break me."

2. In the spiritual battle, we must develop flexibility, the ability to adapt to pressures.

3. We must bend, but not break; adapt, but not compromise; flex without failing or shattering.

4. Without proper temper, a knife blade will snap. The same is true of people. Temper or the making of steel, results from being heated and cooled.

Principle: Heroes with strength of character are forged in the furnace of adversity.

5. The fires of trial and adversity are necessary to develop flexibility (1 Peter 1:6-7; James 1:2-4).

6. When God places us in the furnace of adversity He keeps His eye on the clock and His hand on the thermostat (1 Cor. 10:13).

7. God gives us times of prosperity in order to prepare for times of adversity (Ps. 118:24; John 16:33).

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