1. OVERCOMERS: WINNING LIFE’S BATTLES Overcoming Suffering
Rev. Robert J. Smith
Pastor
Colonial Hills Baptist Church

2. Romans 5:3-5
3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

3. Frederich Nietzsche
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

4. Billy Graham
“Nowhere does the Bible teach that Christians are exempt from the tribulations and natural disasters that come upon the world. Scripture does teach that the Christian can face tribulation, crisis, calamity, and personal suffering with a supernatural power that is not available to the person outside of Christ.”

5. Jesus
“33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (KJV)

6. Progressive Learning
10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Isaiah 28:10 (KJV)

7. Suffering Works Patience
3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

8. Suffering Works Patience
2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. James 1:2-3 (KJV)

9. Suffering Works Patience
13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV)

10. Patience Works Experience
4And patience, experience;

11. Patience Works Experience
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:4 (KJV)

12. Patience Works Experience
7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 1 Peter 1:7 (KJV)

13. Experience works Hope
and experience, hope:

14. Experience works Hope
18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Hebrews 6:18-19 (KJV)

15. Experience works Hope
5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

16. Conclusion