Finding Hope and Redemption in Suffering
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God is supreme in all things except tsunamis we don't say that. We say all things we mean all things and that's why we say it with trembling. We didn't you didn't formulate your doctrine of God's Supremacy in a Rosy world you didn't bury your head in the sand when you came to the conviction that God is Sovereign and that he rules this world in every part of it. [00:03:34]
We are sorrowful yet always rejoicing we are always rejoicing and always sorrowful. You know the Apostle Paul says weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice and if you know just a few people somebody's always weeping and somebody's always rejoicing which means that Christians are called to live a miraculous impossible emotional life. [00:04:50]
It is perhaps surprising to us that God stands forth sometimes with stunning Clarity in the midst of evil. It may seem paradoxical because so many people ask on the news programs to religious people so now where was God when it is remarkable how this happens. Let's just take an example and I'll illustrate what I mean. [00:06:08]
The world of calamities exists because God planned a history of redemption and permitted sin to enter the world through our first parents Adam and Eve. Second Timothy 1 9 God saved us and called us with a holy calling not because of our works but because of his own purpose and Grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. [00:15:21]
The physical Horrors that we see and they are incredibly horrible at times the physical Horrors we see diseases vivid pictures of deformities are Parables or displays of the horror of sin a signpost pointing to the horror of moral evil. Let me read the key verses again here Romans 8 18 the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed to us. [00:17:40]
The reason we are called to look at these things and weep over them is to testify to that being the result of my sin and therefore that being the evidence that sin is horrific and God is Holy, so that's the second reason there is such a world to testify to the real moral outrage of our sin not the outrage of our sickness. [00:19:48]
This kind of world exists that we live in, in order that the followers of Christ may experience and display that no pleasure and no treasure here compares to knowing Christ. In other words we are given a world of loss, as soon as you enter the world as a child you start losing things, you get hungry you lose comfort you cry. [00:21:00]
The reason that is the way it is third reason is because God means for we Christians To Be So Satisfied in Jesus that when these losses come we magnify his worth by not being sad. I count everything is lost for the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord I just want to make much of him when I die because dying is gain the last loss is all gain. [00:22:26]
The reason this world exists like it does with all of its calamities and conflicts and miseries and death is to make a place for the Son of God to suffer and die for our sins. This may sound strange to you because we have the notion in our mind that God looked at the world of fall sin and death and responded to it with Christ as a redeemer. [00:23:15]
The reason there is Terror in the world is that Christ might be terrorized the reason there is trouble in the world is that Christ could be troubled the reason there is pain in the world is so that the Son of God incarnate could experience pain. Christ is the ultimate reason for the universe the way it is the ultimate revelation of the glory of God is the revelation of Grace. [00:24:35]
The deepest answer to terrorism, calamity, conflict misery cancer death is the suffering and death of the son of God. The deepest answer is the suffering and death of Jesus Christ he entered into our fallen world of sin and misery and death he bore in himself the cause of it all sin and he bought by his death The Cure of it all forgiveness and everlasting joy in the age to come. [00:28:18]
If you Embrace him as your savior and your lord and your treasure and your friend you will know the truth and the truth will free you from a lifetime of bitterness. [00:29:16]
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We are sorrowful yet always rejoicing we are always rejoicing and always sorrowful. You know the Apostle Paul says weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice and if you know just a few people somebody's always weeping and somebody's always rejoicing which means that Christians are called to live a miraculous impossible emotional life. [00:04:50]
It is perhaps surprising to us that God stands forth sometimes with stunning Clarity in the midst of evil. It may seem paradoxical because so many people ask on the news programs to religious people so now where was God when it is remarkable how this happens. Let's just take an example and I'll illustrate what I mean. [00:06:08]
The world of calamities exists because God planned a history of redemption and permitted sin to enter the world through our first parents Adam and Eve. Second Timothy 1 9 God saved us and called us with a holy calling not because of our works but because of his own purpose and Grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. [00:15:21]
The physical Horrors that we see and they are incredibly horrible at times the physical Horrors we see diseases vivid pictures of deformities are Parables or displays of the horror of sin a signpost pointing to the horror of moral evil. Let me read the key verses again here Romans 8 18 the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed to us. [00:17:40]
The reason we are called to look at these things and weep over them is to testify to that being the result of my sin and therefore that being the evidence that sin is horrific and God is Holy, so that's the second reason there is such a world to testify to the real moral outrage of our sin not the outrage of our sickness. [00:19:48]
This kind of world exists that we live in, in order that the followers of Christ may experience and display that no pleasure and no treasure here compares to knowing Christ. In other words we are given a world of loss, as soon as you enter the world as a child you start losing things, you get hungry you lose comfort you cry. [00:21:00]
The reason that is the way it is third reason is because God means for we Christians To Be So Satisfied in Jesus that when these losses come we magnify his worth by not being sad. I count everything is lost for the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord I just want to make much of him when I die because dying is gain the last loss is all gain. [00:22:26]
The reason this world exists like it does with all of its calamities and conflicts and miseries and death is to make a place for the Son of God to suffer and die for our sins. This may sound strange to you because we have the notion in our mind that God looked at the world of fall sin and death and responded to it with Christ as a redeemer. [00:23:15]
The reason there is Terror in the world is that Christ might be terrorized the reason there is trouble in the world is that Christ could be troubled the reason there is pain in the world is so that the Son of God incarnate could experience pain. Christ is the ultimate reason for the universe the way it is the ultimate revelation of the glory of God is the revelation of Grace. [00:24:35]
The deepest answer to terrorism, calamity, conflict misery cancer death is the suffering and death of the son of God. The deepest answer is the suffering and death of Jesus Christ he entered into our fallen world of sin and misery and death he bore in himself the cause of it all sin and he bought by his death The Cure of it all forgiveness and everlasting joy in the age to come. [00:28:18]
If you Embrace him as your savior and your lord and your treasure and your friend you will know the truth and the truth will free you from a lifetime of bitterness. [00:29:16]
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