I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 <\/sup>I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven\u2014whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3 <\/sup>And I know that this man was caught up into paradise\u2014whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows\u2014 4 <\/sup>and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5 <\/sup>On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses\u2014 6 <\/sup>though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 <\/sup>So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 <\/sup>Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 <\/sup>But he said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 <\/sup>For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [2 Corinthians 12:1-10] Our sufficiency isn’t found in our strengths; it is found in God’s grace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[6],"ctc_sermon_book":[212],"ctc_sermon_series":[360],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[7],"ctc_sermon_tag":[397],"class_list":["post-3561","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-sunday-morning","ctc_sermon_book-2-corinthians","ctc_sermon_series-gods-power-in-our-weakness-2-corinthians","ctc_sermon_speaker-tim-pyne","ctc_sermon_tag-2-corinthians-121-10","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/3561\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbcpburg.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}