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Amazing Facts | Coping Through Tough Times | July 10, 2021
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- Doug Batchelor: Sometimes you'll go through a trial
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- because you may have an idol in your life.
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- It could be somebody.
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- It could be something that is more important to you
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- than God, and God may touch that person
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- or that thing to get your attention.
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- Doug: You know, I wanted to share what I think is
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- a practical message with you today that I hope
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- will be of some encouragement.
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- It's about "Coping Through Tough Times."
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- How can we triumph in spite of our trials?
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- The Bible's pretty clear that there are trials in life.
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- Everybody at some point is going to experience
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- varying degrees of trouble.
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- You can read in Ecclesiastes chapter 2, verse 23: "For
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- all of his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome;
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- even in the night his heart takes no rest."
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- Paul said, "All that live godly," this is 2 Timothy 3:12.
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- "All that live godly will suffer persecution."
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- And Paul, he was, "Strengthening the souls of the disciples,
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- exhorting them continue in the faith, saying, 'We must through
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- many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.'"
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- It is through tribulation we enter the kingdom.
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- Everybody experiences tough times, but
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- don't be discouraged.
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- In spite of that, we can have joy and we can have faith.
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- You can read where Jesus said, of course, that "in this life,
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- you'll have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I've overcome
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- the world."
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- "All that live godly will suffer persecution.
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- St. Augustine said, "God had one Son on earth without sin, but he
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- never had one without suffering."
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- So all of us experience varying degrees of suffering.
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- Now, I'll make something for you very simple.
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- If you wanna understand the trials that you go through and
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- kind of a divine perspective, everything is gonna fall into
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- one of two categories, and often both.
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- In your struggles, God is trying to do something in you,
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- that's one.
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- And in your struggles, God is wanting to do something
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- through you.
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- And often, he's wanting to do something in you and through
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- you, it's both.
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- If you know there's a purpose behind it, it's a lot easier to
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- deal with, right?
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- If we just can know, "Is there some reason for this?
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- Is something good coming out of it?"
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- then it makes it a lot easier to handle.
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- So, here are some of the common reasons, according to the Bible,
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- that people go through trials, trouble, suffering, tribulation.
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- First of all, he wants to help us recognize our spiritual need.
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- So, some of it for us.
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- It's redemptive.
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- The Bible says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is
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- the kingdom of heaven."
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- And God may have blessed you with physical poverty so you
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- might know your spiritual poverty.
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- Our different trials that we go through are designed to help us
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- know that.
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- 2 Chronicles 32:31: "God withdrew from Hezekiah, in order
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- to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart."
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- Hezekiah thought he was rich and increased with goods, and he
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- didn't realize he had a lot of pride in his heart.
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- So, God--now, God didn't back off so God could find out.
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- God knows everything, right?
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- The Bible says, "Jesus knew what was in man."
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- He did it so that Hezekiah could realize, "Maybe I'm not as holy
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- as I thought."
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- God sends messengers to find out about Jehovah, and instead, all
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- he does is talk about his stuff.
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- You ever gone through trial and the Lord showed you something
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- about yourself you didn't know?
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- Exodus 9:27: "And the pharaoh said to them, 'I have sinned
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- this time.
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- The Lord is righteous, and my people are wicked."
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- Even the pharaoh came to the place where he realized his
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- wickedness as he went through the trial of the plagues that
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- came on Egypt.
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- So, that's one thing.
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- Number two, God sometimes allows us to go through trials to
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- humble us because God--if you kick the devil out for pride,
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- we're not going into heaven with our pride.
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- We need to humble ourselves, which is very hard.
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- Deuteronomy 8:3: "So he humbled you, he allowed you to hunger,
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- and to feed you with manna which you did not know nor your
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- fathers know, that he might make you know that man doesn't live
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- by bread alone; but by every word that proceeds from the
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- mouth of God."
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- Jesus, of course, quotes this to the devil,
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- the proudest of all, in the wilderness.
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- He humbled them that they
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- might come to depend on God.
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- They went through trials where they not only ran out of food,
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- they ran out of water, and they had to turn to God.
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- They were attacked by their enemies.
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- They learned on a daily basis that they had to depend on God,
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- and it's humbling, but it's healthy.
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- Ezra 8:21: "Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava,
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- that we might humble ourselves before God."
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- You know, sometimes fasting is sort of like self-induced trial,
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- self-denial, and part of that represents we're humbling
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- ourselves before God.
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- Matthew 26:75: "And Peter remembered the words of Jesus
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- when he said, 'Before the rooster crows, you'll deny me
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- three times--'" Peter had been bragging,
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- "Though all men should forsake you, I'll not forsake you."
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- And he went through this terrible trial so he could find
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- out something in his own heart, and he realized, "I'm not near
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- as loyal as I thought I was."
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- And the Bible says, "He went out and he wept bitterly."
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- So, that trial accomplished something in Peter, and it also
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- is a warning to us.
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- Another reason we go through trials is point number three, is
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- to help us with our priorities, to prioritize things correctly.
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- You remember God said to Abraham, "You love me?"
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- "I love you."
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- He said, "Okay, take your son, your only son who you love,
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- bring him to the Mountains of Moriah and offer him there as an
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- offering."
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- "Well, Lord, I love you, but, you know, actually, I love my
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- son more." No, he didn't say that.
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- He put God first.
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- Now, do you think that was a trial for Abraham?
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- It was.
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- Sometimes you'll go through a trial because you may have
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- an idol in your life.
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- It could be somebody.
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- It could be something that is more important to you than God,
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- and God may touch that person or that thing to get your
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- attention.
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- It wasn't just Abraham with his son.
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- How many of you remember Jephthah with his daughter?
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- He made a vow, "Lord, you give me victory.
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- Whatever it is that comes through the gates of my house
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- I'll offer to you."
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- And the first thing through the gates was not his ox or his goat
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- or sheep. It was his daughter.
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- He said, "Alas, my daughter, I have opened my mouth to the Lord
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- and I cannot go back."
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- Doesn't Jesus say, "Unless you love me more than the husband,
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- wife, child, son, daughter, you're not worthy of the
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- kingdom, father, mother."
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- Jesus needs first place.
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- Trials sometimes help us to recognize what our priorities
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- are and to get them straight.
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- Another reason we sometimes go through trouble is,
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- quite honestly, simply to separate us from sin.
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- It's a fire of suffering that often brings fold
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- the gold of godliness.
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- 1 Peter 4:1 and 2: "Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in
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- the flesh, arm yourself also with the same mind, for he who
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- had suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no
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- longer should live the rest of his life in the flesh for the
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- lusts of men, but for the will of God."
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- Hebrews 12:10: "For they indeed for a few days chastened us as
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- seemed best to them, but he," God, "for our profit, that we
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- might be partakers of his holiness."
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- Now, so, sometimes God allows us to go through suffering, and I'm
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- gonna spend a moment on this, because it's a chastening.
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- Now, how many of you are parents?
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- I won't ask you how you chasten your children.
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- But how many of you lived in the great generation that believed
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- in the rod or the belt or the switch or the willow, and
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- you survived?
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- How many of you that raised your hand believed it wasn't
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- that bad?
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- You know, the Bible has a lot to say about that one.
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- You take this up with the Lord.
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- I'm gonna probably get a call from the officials, but this is
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- what the Bible says.
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- Hebrews 12, verse 4: "You've not yet resisted to bloodshed,
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- striving against sin."
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- There's a struggle sometimes with temptation.
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- "And you've forgotten the exhortation that speaks to you
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- as sons: 'My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, or
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- be discouraged when you're rebuked by him; for whom the
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- Lord loves he chastens, and he scourges every son
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- who he receives.'
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- If you endure chastening, God deals with you as sons; for
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- what son is there whom the father does not chasten?
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- But if you are without chastening, of which you've
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- become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.
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- Furthermore, if we have human fathers who corrected us, and we
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- paid them respect, shall we not much more readily be in
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- subjection to the Father of spirits and live?"
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- Submit to his chastening, in other words.
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- "For they indeed for a few days," earthly fathers, "for a
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- few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our
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- profit," sometimes parents don't do it for the best motives and
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- the best way.
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- They're doing their best.
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- But he said, "God always does it for a profit, that we might be
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- partakers of his holiness."
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- Sometimes you're going through trials and God is allowing it,
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- that he can refine you and you can be a partaker of his
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- holiness.
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- "Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but
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- painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of
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- righteousness to those who have been trained by it."
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- Job 5:17: "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore
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- do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
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- For whom he bruises, but he binds up; he wounds, but his
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- hands make whole."
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- And again, it says, Proverbs 3, verse 11 to 12: "My son, do not
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- despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest his correction;
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- for whom he loves he corrects," and there the Bible talks about
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- some children that were not corrected by their parents.
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- Like, it talks about David did not correct Adonijah, and he
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- became very--a lot of bad behavior.
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- Eli would not correct his sons, and he lost his sons, his sons
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- and daughters.
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- And again, I'm not talking about corporal punishment, but I'm
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- talking about the chastening of the Lord, sometimes to save us
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- because he loves us.
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- Now, there's a couple times my father spanked me.
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- Somebody threw a rock from our house and hit the neighbor's
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- house down below, and my dad lined us all up and said,
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- "Who did it?"
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- And we all said we didn't do it, but he was sure I did,
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- and I got spanked, and I didn't do it.
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- But, you know, I didn't hold it against my father because
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- I thought of all the times I did do things he didn't know about,
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- and so I figured it evened out somehow.
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- You know what I'm talking about?
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- Parents make mistakes, but what about all the times you did
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- something wrong and you didn't get in trouble, or you blamed
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- it on your sibling and they got in trouble?
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- And so it sort of evens out at some point.
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- Sometimes we go through trials 'cause it helps us
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- to focus on heaven.
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- Romans 8:18: "For I consider that the sufferings of this
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- present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that
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- is to be revealed."
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- You know, as you think ahead and you look at heaven, it gives us
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- peace in knowing that you can endure almost anything if you
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- know it's not gonna last.
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- It reminds you that whatever suffering you have now, it's not
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- gonna last.
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- And the sufferings of this life is like just a drop of water,
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- and then look at an ocean.
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- I mean, you might have a hard time in this life with that one
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- drop of water, but God is gonna give you an ocean of pleasure at
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- his right hand forevermore that you can't comprehend
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- through eternity.
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- So to patiently endure the struggles of this life, though
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- they seem to be long, is really nothing, Paul is saying, by
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- comparison with the glory that God has in store
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- for those that love him."
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- Can you say, "Amen"?
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- Doug: Don't go anywhere, friends, we're going to be back
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- in just a moment to complete today's presentation.
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- amazing facts from the Word of God.
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- Doug: You know, a boxer can stay in the ring and endure all
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- kinds of punches when he considers the prize, the title,
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- and I don't recommend boxing.
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- It's a brutal sport, but I used to watch it.
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- And my mother dated a fellow that was big into boxing
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- for years.
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- And there was this one fight in New York City, some of you
- 00:14:04.461 --> 00:14:06.796
- remember Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay when I was a kid, and he
- 00:14:06.796 --> 00:14:10.700
- fought with Joe Frazier.
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- And it's one of the few fights that Muhammad Ali lost.
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- And they stood toe to toe in the ring, and they beat on each
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- other for 15 rounds, 2 heavyweight boxers.
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- And Muhammad Ali got knocked out a couple times, and he was in
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- pretty shape.
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- After the fight, he was in the locker room, and he's on the
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- table, and a doctor's checkin' on him 'cause he's bleedin',
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- he's swollen, he's bruised, and Diana Ross, the singer, came in
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- and she saw him, and she fell down at the table.
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- She's on her knees, and she's crying.
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- He said, "I know I'm not pretty anymore," he said, "but don't
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- cry for me, Diana.
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- I just got paid $2 million to get beat up."
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- He could handle it when he thought about the prize.
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- And we've gotta keep our mind on the prize, that this is not
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- gonna last forever.
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- There's a number of promises in the Bible.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:17: "For our light affliction, which is but
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- for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal
- 00:15:07.357 --> 00:15:12.829
- weight of glory, while we do not look at the things that are
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- seen, but the things that are not seen."
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- Another reason we have trouble is to help us help others.
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- I told you that God allows these things to do something in us,
- 00:15:24.975 --> 00:15:28.445
- and often to do something through us.
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- Job was afflicted, and he might have wondered, "Why is
- 00:15:32.582 --> 00:15:37.153
- this happening?"
- 00:15:37.153 --> 00:15:38.488
- And he and his friends spent a whole book talking about why an
- 00:15:38.488 --> 00:15:40.323
- innocent man would suffer.
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- How many people, how many millions of people have been
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- encouraged by the patience of Job?
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- Even James refers to the patience of Job, where we see
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- that, in the end, God is good, and we're realizing there's a
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- battle behind the scenes.
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- And as you look at the trials that Job goes through, he maybe
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- couldn't see it then from his perspective, but we can see,
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- looking back, that God sometimes allows these things to teach us
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- and to help others.
- 00:16:08.985 --> 00:16:10.320
- Notice, 2 Corinthians 1, verse 3.
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- Now, this is a little bit of a deep verse, so you gotta
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- follow me.
- 00:16:17.761 --> 00:16:19.095
- Paul sometimes waxes eloquent here.
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- "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
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- Father of mercies and the God of all comfort," now that's the
- 00:16:25.068 --> 00:16:27.837
- operative word, "who comforts us in all of our tribulation," why?
- 00:16:27.837 --> 00:16:33.076
- "That we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble."
- 00:16:33.076 --> 00:16:38.281
- The sermon's about how to get through trouble.
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- Why do we go through trouble?
- 00:16:42.986 --> 00:16:44.320
- "That we might comfort those who are in any trouble with the
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- comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
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- For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, our consolation
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- also abounds through Christ."
- 00:16:55.432 --> 00:16:57.367
- We're consoling others.
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- Now, if we're afflicted, it's for your consolation and
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- salvation, which is effective enduring the same sufferings
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- that we also suffer.
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- Or we are comforted, with your consolation and salvation."
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- So, whatever you're going through, God even might be using
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- it to discipline you, but it could have multiple purposes,
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- one of them being that whenever you get through it, you will be
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- able to relate to another person and help them.
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- A friend was telling me they were in the hospital for some
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- procedure, and a nurse came in and had to turn them, and they
- 00:17:29.299 --> 00:17:36.473
- said, "That nurse was, like, Atilla the Hun, just came in and
- 00:17:36.473 --> 00:17:40.677
- just threw me around, and I'm in pain, and I'm going, 'Ow, ow,
- 00:17:40.677 --> 00:17:43.113
- oh, ahh--'" And said, "The next day, another nurse, a different
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- nurse came in and they had to turn them, and they were
- 00:17:47.584 --> 00:17:51.688
- so--they said, 'Is this okay? How's this?
- 00:17:51.688 --> 00:17:53.423
- Am I going too fast?' And they were so considerate."
- 00:17:53.423 --> 00:17:57.360
- And finally, they got them settled down, and they had to
- 00:17:57.360 --> 00:17:59.329
- say to the nurse, they said, "I just gotta tell ya, I really
- 00:17:59.329 --> 00:18:02.098
- appreciate you're being sensitive and gentle because
- 00:18:02.098 --> 00:18:04.267
- yesterday, boy, I had a nurse that was like a professional
- 00:18:04.267 --> 00:18:06.636
- wrestler, came in here and just throwin' me around."
- 00:18:06.636 --> 00:18:08.938
- And the nurse said, "Well, I'll tell ya, I've had the same
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- surgery that you've had.
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- I know how you feel."
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- And so when you're going through some kinda trial or something,
- 00:18:20.216 --> 00:18:24.354
- just say, "All right, Lord, I don't know what I've done
- 00:18:24.354 --> 00:18:27.223
- to deserve this," but maybe you didn't do anything
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- to deserve it.
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- Maybe he's gonna use it later to help somebody else.
- 00:18:31.227 --> 00:18:34.998
- And another very simple principle in why we go through
- 00:18:34.998 --> 00:18:38.201
- troubles and suffering is to grow Christian virtue.
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- 1 Peter 1:6: "In this
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- you greatly rejoice, though now
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- for a little time, if need be,
- 00:18:47.310 --> 00:18:49.612
- you've been grieved by various
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- trials, that the trial of your
- 00:18:51.247 --> 00:18:53.116
- faith, being much more precious
- 00:18:53.116 --> 00:18:55.685
- than that of gold that perishes,
- 00:18:55.685 --> 00:18:57.754
- though it be tried with fire,
- 00:18:57.754 --> 00:18:59.522
- might be found unto praise
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- and honor and glory
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- at the appearing of Jesus."
- 00:19:02.725 --> 00:19:05.195
- And James says in James 1, verse 2: "My brethren,
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- count it all joy."
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- How many of you think, "Oh, joy," when you're going
- 00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:13.369
- through a trial?
- 00:19:13.369 --> 00:19:14.704
- "Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing,"
- 00:19:14.704 --> 00:19:17.840
- just know, see, if you know there's a purpose, that God has
- 00:19:17.840 --> 00:19:20.009
- got a purpose in it, "that the testing of your faith, it's
- 00:19:20.009 --> 00:19:24.147
- helping you develop faith, produces patience."
- 00:19:24.147 --> 00:19:28.518
- You know, when the Bible says, "He that endures to the end will
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- be saved," that word "endurance" is "patience."
- 00:19:30.687 --> 00:19:34.424
- "Let patience have its perfect work."
- 00:19:34.424 --> 00:19:37.360
- Now, why would he say, "Let patience have its perfect work,
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- except that it's possible for you not to make the most
- 00:19:39.596 --> 00:19:43.199
- of your trials?
- 00:19:43.199 --> 00:19:45.001
- Say, "Lord, I will embrace whatever it is you're trying
- 00:19:45.001 --> 00:19:49.372
- to teach me through this.
- 00:19:49.372 --> 00:19:50.840
- Somehow, sometime God is simply glorified in some way through
- 00:19:50.840 --> 00:19:55.044
- the trials we experience.
- 00:19:55.044 --> 00:19:57.413
- Why did Jesus say Lazarus got sick?
- 00:19:57.413 --> 00:20:01.084
- Because he ate too much sugar?
- 00:20:01.084 --> 00:20:02.719
- Or did Jesus tell the disciples, "It's for the glory of God"?
- 00:20:02.719 --> 00:20:08.324
- "I didn't heal him right away for the glory of God."
- 00:20:08.324 --> 00:20:11.194
- John chapter 9: "Now as Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind
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- from birth."
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- And the disciples wanna know, "Why?
- 00:20:16.065 --> 00:20:17.400
- Did he somehow do somethin' wrong, or did God know he was
- 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.303
- gonna go bad, or was it his parents' sin?"
- 00:20:20.303 --> 00:20:22.839
- They're always trying to figure out why.
- 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:24.774
- You know what Jesus said?
- 00:20:24.774 --> 00:20:26.576
- "Neither, but that the works of God should be revealed in him."
- 00:20:26.576 --> 00:20:31.047
- God was gonna be glorified in a great way through his healing.
- 00:20:31.047 --> 00:20:35.118
- Now, that man had been blind.
- 00:20:35.118 --> 00:20:36.452
- He wasn't very old.
- 00:20:36.452 --> 00:20:37.787
- He had just come of age, so he's, like, 18, 20 years old,
- 00:20:37.787 --> 00:20:41.324
- and been blind his whole life.
- 00:20:41.324 --> 00:20:45.161
- And you might think, "Well, what a terrible thing, to be blind
- 00:20:45.228 --> 00:20:47.597
- your whole life, and the Lord allow that, that he might
- 00:20:47.597 --> 00:20:50.333
- be glorified."
- 00:20:50.333 --> 00:20:51.834
- But how good did that man feel when he got his sight?
- 00:20:51.834 --> 00:20:56.005
- And how long is that affliction compared to eternity if he's
- 00:20:56.005 --> 00:21:00.076
- healed by Jesus and he has everlasting life?
- 00:21:00.076 --> 00:21:03.012
- So, Paul said, "We shouldn't question the Potter, saying,
- 00:21:03.012 --> 00:21:06.282
- 'Why did you make one vessel like this or one vessel
- 00:21:06.282 --> 00:21:08.718
- like that?"
- 00:21:08.718 --> 00:21:10.053
- We've gotta trust that God's God, and he knows what he's
- 00:21:10.053 --> 00:21:11.688
- doing, right?
- 00:21:11.688 --> 00:21:13.790
- I used to always wonder, "Why was I born healthy and
- 00:21:13.790 --> 00:21:16.492
- my brother with cystic fibrosis?"
- 00:21:16.492 --> 00:21:19.228
- But if God can be glorified in it--I was able to pray with my
- 00:21:19.228 --> 00:21:22.932
- brother before he died, and he asked Jesus in his heart.
- 00:21:22.932 --> 00:21:28.538
- Romans 8:16: "The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
- 00:21:28.538 --> 00:21:33.242
- that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--and
- 00:21:33.242 --> 00:21:36.312
- heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer
- 00:21:36.312 --> 00:21:40.883
- with him, that we may be glorified together."
- 00:21:40.883 --> 00:21:45.288
- Sometimes we don't learn except through trouble.
- 00:21:45.288 --> 00:21:49.359
- Have you learned that pain is a great instructor?
- 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:54.063
- There are lessons you learn in pain that you won't learn any
- 00:21:56.032 --> 00:21:58.301
- other way.
- 00:21:58.301 --> 00:21:59.969
- I've got something I'd like to share with you.
- 00:22:00.036 --> 00:22:02.472
- Do not hold a spark plug wire when someone is turning over
- 00:22:02.472 --> 00:22:06.109
- the ignition.
- 00:22:06.109 --> 00:22:08.344
- I have learned that it is not 12 volts that will go through you,
- 00:22:08.344 --> 00:22:12.148
- but because of the capacitor, you will experience
- 00:22:12.148 --> 00:22:15.518
- 10.000 volts.
- 00:22:15.518 --> 00:22:17.053
- Ask me how I know that.
- 00:22:17.053 --> 00:22:19.756
- Ask me how I know you don't wanna touch your disc brakes
- 00:22:19.756 --> 00:22:24.460
- after you park the car, that they're very hot.
- 00:22:24.460 --> 00:22:30.266
- I will never do that again.
- 00:22:30.266 --> 00:22:32.735
- I have learned that lesson.
- 00:22:32.735 --> 00:22:35.505
- So, when you're going through a trial, sometimes I say, "Lord,
- 00:22:35.505 --> 00:22:37.974
- if I'm doing this because there's somethin' you wanna
- 00:22:37.974 --> 00:22:39.642
- teach me, please teach me now."
- 00:22:39.642 --> 00:22:42.145
- Don't be afraid of trials.
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- Yes, life is tough for everybody, amen?
- 00:22:43.546 --> 00:22:47.750
- You don't have to be afraid.
- 00:22:47.750 --> 00:22:49.685
- Who was it that said, "A man who fears suffering is already
- 00:22:49.685 --> 00:22:53.055
- suffering from what he fears"?
- 00:22:53.055 --> 00:22:55.091
- Thomas a Kempis said: "He who knows how to suffer will enjoy
- 00:22:57.260 --> 00:23:00.229
- much peace.
- 00:23:00.229 --> 00:23:02.231
- Such a one is a conqueror of himself and a lord of the world,
- 00:23:02.231 --> 00:23:05.101
- a friend of Christ and an heir of heaven."
- 00:23:05.101 --> 00:23:08.104
- You know, the Bible tells us that Christ suffered for us.
- 00:23:08.104 --> 00:23:12.742
- Hebrews 2:9: "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than
- 00:23:12.742 --> 00:23:16.512
- the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory
- 00:23:16.512 --> 00:23:20.116
- and honor."
- 00:23:20.116 --> 00:23:21.451
- Christ in the garden said, "Lord, if there's any way not to
- 00:23:21.451 --> 00:23:23.920
- drink this cup," but he drank it.
- 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.056
- "That he might taste death for every man.
- 00:23:27.123 --> 00:23:29.692
- For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things and by whom
- 00:23:29.692 --> 00:23:32.862
- all things are, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the
- 00:23:32.862 --> 00:23:37.700
- captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
- 00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:42.038
- So, if he's our captain and he suffers, we should know that he
- 00:23:42.038 --> 00:23:45.808
- can bring good of it.
- 00:23:45.808 --> 00:23:47.143
- Even the soldier by the cross of Jesus saw Christ
- 00:23:47.143 --> 00:23:50.513
- in his sufferings.
- 00:23:50.513 --> 00:23:51.881
- He saw him say, "Father, forgive them."
- 00:23:51.881 --> 00:23:53.683
- And through beholding the sufferings, he said, "Surely
- 00:23:53.683 --> 00:23:56.352
- this is the Son of God."
- 00:23:56.352 --> 00:23:57.687
- When Christians would know how to joyfully and patiently bear
- 00:23:57.687 --> 00:24:02.625
- our sufferings, it sometimes is the very best opportunity to
- 00:24:02.625 --> 00:24:05.695
- witness, amen?
- 00:24:05.695 --> 00:24:07.964
- And God is working in us.
- 00:24:07.964 --> 00:24:09.398
- I'll close with a little poem that you may have heard before,
- 00:24:09.398 --> 00:24:12.802
- someone once shared.
- 00:24:12.802 --> 00:24:14.136
- It's called "The Oyster and the Pearl."
- 00:24:14.136 --> 00:24:17.473
- "There once was an oyster whose story I'll tell who found that
- 00:24:17.473 --> 00:24:21.611
- some sand had slipped into his shell.
- 00:24:21.611 --> 00:24:24.413
- Just one little grain, but it gave him such pain, for oysters
- 00:24:24.413 --> 00:24:28.918
- have feelings, although they're quite plain.
- 00:24:28.918 --> 00:24:31.787
- Now, did he berate the working of fate which had led him to
- 00:24:31.787 --> 00:24:34.724
- such a deplorable state?
- 00:24:34.724 --> 00:24:36.659
- No, he said to himself as he lay on the shelf, 'If I can't remove
- 00:24:36.659 --> 00:24:39.495
- it, I'll try to improve it,' so the years rolled on by, as years
- 00:24:39.495 --> 00:24:43.666
- always do, and he came to his ultimate destiny: stew."
- 00:24:43.666 --> 00:24:48.337
- I don't recommend oyster stew.
- 00:24:48.337 --> 00:24:50.907
- "But the small grain of sand which had bothered him so was
- 00:24:50.907 --> 00:24:53.943
- a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.
- 00:24:53.943 --> 00:24:57.246
- Now, this tale has a moral, for isn't it grand what an oyster
- 00:24:57.246 --> 00:25:00.816
- can do with a morsel of sand?
- 00:25:00.816 --> 00:25:02.885
- What couldn't we do if we'd only begin to enrich and embrace what
- 00:25:02.885 --> 00:25:07.156
- gets under our skin?"
- 00:25:07.156 --> 00:25:09.191
- God allows trials because he loves you.
- 00:25:10.192 --> 00:25:12.295
- We need to learn how to just see it through a heavenly
- 00:25:12.295 --> 00:25:15.598
- perspective, and nothing is gonna--the pain won't last.
- 00:25:15.598 --> 00:25:19.702
- It's all temporary.
- 00:25:19.702 --> 00:25:21.637
- And just say, "Lord, help me to avoid bringing sufferings
- 00:25:21.637 --> 00:25:24.240
- on myself.
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- If I suffered for your sake, let me rejoice."
- 00:25:25.575 --> 00:25:28.110
- Jesus said, "Be exceedingly glad."
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- And remember that he suffered and it is an honor to be able
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