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Romans chapter 5 verses 3 through 5

not only that but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

and endurance produces character, and character produces And

Character produces hope.

Hope does not put us to shame

because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

What an other worldly picture of suffering.

Like I in no way want to take these verses lightly, like verse three, we rejoice in our

sufferings like that does not mean when we go

through suffering hurt pain we just kind of put a smile on our face pretend the pain isn't real and try to gloss over it all.

No, that's not at all what the Bible's talking about here or anywhere else.

All throughout scripture we see suffering men and women who are experiencing

the effects of sin and hurt and pain in a pain in a fallen world.

Sometimes directly due to sin in their lives,

sometimes not in a Job-like way,

not directly do to sin in our lives and yet we experience tragedy we

experience heartache we experience hurt we experience pain so how is it possible to have joy in that and the Bible says right before this

that by faith we've been justified before God. Now we have peace with Him and we rejoice in Him.

We've been reconciled to God and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. We rejoice in the hope

that one day we will be with Him. So in light of that, verse three says,

not only that we rejoice in our sufferings.

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