Truth: I’m Fine
November 12, 2023

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disˈtôrted
adjective
• Pulled or twisted out of shape; contorted.
• Giving a misleading or false account or impression; misrepresented.
“his report gives a distorted view of the meeting”

Big Idea: The longer we look at distorted truth as truth, the more likely we will BELIEVE it as a truth.

1. There’s an invisible world that impacts our visible world every single day.

2. The Bible says there is a distorter of truth. He distorts the truth just enough to get us in trouble, but not enough to scare us away.
John 8:38

3. Jesus believed that the devil’s ultimate agenda was the destruction of human life, and that the means by which he destroyed human life was through DISTORTING the truth.

John 16:33 - “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 - But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

DELIGHT Think well of, to delight, to embrace

Weakness: Disease, infirmity, brokenness.

Distorted truth: Saying or acting like you are fine when really you are not.

KEY TRUTH: THERE IS HOPE, HEALING, AND COMFORT BEYOND YOUR HURTS, NOT JUST FOR YOU, BUT FOR YOU TO SHARE WITH OTHERS.

2 Corinthians 1:3 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort…

COMFORT MEANS: CALLED TO ONE’S SIDE TO HELP.

Three Reminders:

1. WE HAVE HOPE, HEALING, AND COMFORT IN GOD

2 Corinthians 1:3 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,…

• “Father of” means: Originator of.

John 14:16-17 - And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth.

• GOD HEALS US THROUGH HIS PRESENCE

2. WE HAVE HOPE, HEALING, AND COMFORT PROMISED TO US.

2 Corinthians 1:4 - …who comforts us in all our troubles…

Romans 8:31-37 - What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

2 Corinthians 4:7-9 - But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

3. WE HAVE HOPE, HEALING, AND COMFORT IN GOD, PROMISED TO US, FOR US TO SHARE WITH OTHERS

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 - 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 have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

• GOD HEALS US THROUGH HIS PEOPLE.

Psalms 71:14 - But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more