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What Weights Us Down?. Worldly concerns Job Family Bills Health Spiritual issues. How Often Do We Feel Like This?. What Weights Us Down?. Not IF we will face trials but WHEN 1 Peter 4:12-13 How do we react? Are you a potato, an egg or a coffee bean?
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What Weights Us Down? • Worldly concerns • Job • Family • Bills • Health • Spiritual issues
What Weights Us Down? • Not IF we will face trials but WHEN • 1 Peter 4:12-13 • How do we react? • Are you a potato, an egg or a coffee bean? • Weaken our resolve or are we transformed? • James 1:2
What Weights Us Down? • Biblical examples • Paul – 2 Cor 1:8-10; 12 • V. 8 – Burdened - βάρος – Baros
Burden • βάρος – Baros – a weight anything pressing on one physically, burdensome – always suggest what is “heavy or burdensome” - Gal 6:2 • φορτίον – phortion –something carried – almost always used metaphorically – something carried without reference to its weight - Gal 6:5 Vines, Vincent’s Word Studies, Lexicon
What Weights Us Down? • Biblical examples • Paul – 2 Cor 1:8-10; 12 • V. 8 – Burdened - βάρος – Baros • Apostles – Matt 8:23-27 • Peter – Matt 26:34; 69-75
What Should We Do? • Bear one another’s burden (βάρος) • Gal 6:2 • Pray for one another • 2 Cor 1:11 • Not let the burden slow us down • Heb 12:1 • Glass of Water • Realize it is temporary • 2 Cor 4:16-18 • V. 17 -eternal weight - βάρος – Baros
Look To The Lord • “He has borne our griefs….the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” • Is 53:4-6 • “Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” - Matt 11:28 • laden - φορτίζω – phortizō – to load (akin to pherō/ phortion) load carried without reference to its weight, metaphorical • Cast your burdens on the Lord • Ps 55:22
What Weights Us Down? • Ps 68:19 – “Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits,” • Ps 23:5 – “My cup runs over” • 2 Cor 5:1-7 – “groan , earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven” • V. 4 - βάρος – Baros – actual weight • weight of desiring to be in heaven taking on the spiritual body/clothing • 1 John 5:1-5 – victory that overcomes