I would imagine that suffering is not a very popular topic amongst most churches today but suffering is a vital and important part of every believer's life and It should not and cannot be a topic that is left out of our Biblical thinking. Suffering comes in many forms and our heart today is to discuss the biblical view of suffering and how it is a powerful mindset and tool in our lives.

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I have bee systematically teaching through 1st peter and last week we got to chapter 4:1-

Devotional - what are we learning from the Word

Romans 8 "Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry."

• Suffering as a believer
• Cease from sin
• Depriving my flesh is suffering
• Being in human nature and submitting to God is telling your flesh no
• Choosing to walk in the Spirit
• Universal doctrine suffering

Romans 8 to explain whoever suffers … putting away of flesh is causing our flesh to suffer

“want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

We have been freed from the “want to do” God gives us new desires new cravings. As we walk in our new selves it grows

Define:

Sensuality - Not just sexual
THE WORLDLY DEFINITION IS PURELY SEXUAL.
THE BIBLICAL USE is: unbridled lust
Living for pleasure of every sense - pleasing the 5 senses rather than pleasing God

FROM WIKIPEDIA: Hedonism is a school of thought that argues pleasure and suffering are the only components of well-being. Ethical hedonism is the view that combines hedonism with welfarist ethics, which claim that what we should do depends exclusively on what affects the well-being individuals have. Ethical hedonists would defend either increasing pleasure and reducing suffering for all beings capable of experiencing them, or just reducing suffering in the case

Passions - Not just what are you passionate about in life
Being controlled by our emotions and serving our emotions vs pleasing God - affected by sensuality in that when we are not feeling good or something not pleasing instead of suffering we let our emotional response dictate our actions - flesh isn't getting what it wants so our choice is to suffer in the flesh and choose to walk in the spirit or suffer in the spirit and walk in flesh they are opposed

Drunkenness - Not just being drunk from intoxication
Overtaken by a substance or something out side your body
Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise."
Ephesians 5:18 "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,"

Removal of natural function - (Inhibition) Conscience

Orgies - Not just a sexual experience
Overindulgence
Giving into your flesh never satiated never enough
Ecclesiastes 1:8 "All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."

HISTORICAL "secret rites used in the worship of Bacchus, Dionysus, an