God’s Good Design in Our Suffering

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this life, we will have trouble. But every trial paves the way to an inheritance with Christ that will satisfy us forever.

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0:00.0	What is God's good design in our suffering?
0:08.4	What's He doing in us and for us and through us in our pain?
0:13.0	These are the very questions every Christian will ask at some point.
0:17.4	And these are the questions that were answered by Pastor John in a sermon exactly seven
0:21.9	years ago today.
0:23.3	The sermon was preached at Christ Community Church in Houston, Texas.
0:27.0	Kevin, a podcast listener who attends the church has been trying to get me to play the
0:31.2	following clip for about five years now.
0:33.8	Kevin, thank you for your persistence.
0:35.8	Here it is.
0:36.8	Here's Pastor John in Houston seven years ago preaching on Romans 8 verses 12 to 17.
0:43.1	No pain, no gain, no cross, no crown, no suffering, no inheritance.
0:51.3	That's the way God has set it up.
0:56.6	One of the words when it says in Romans 8, 23, we're groaning.
1:03.6	I would say all the groaning experienced on the path of obedience is what the suffering
1:11.1	refers to in Romans 8, 17 because if you limit it to only hard things done to you from
1:19.5	others because you're a Christian, you're missing a big piece of your suffering.
1:26.6	Every pain in your life, every frustration in your life, every conflict in your life,
1:34.2	every difficulty in your life, that you experience walking on the path towards the inheritance
1:40.5	is suffering with and for Jesus because it is being used by the devil to threaten your
1:53.3	faith and use by God to strengthen your faith.
1:59.2	And if you will embrace it the way verse 17 says, it's your pathway to glory, God is
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