Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 30th.

Pain and difficulty don't have to defeat you. Join us as we continue helps to holiness

with a lesson on how to suffer successfully. I think one of the greatest things we could do

for a new believer who's received Jesus Christ as their personal

savior is to make sure that person understands that when you accept the Lord Jesus Christ

is your savior, you accept with it the potential and the possibility of suffering.

Some of that suffering is the result of sin. Some of that suffering is the result of persecution. Some of that suffering is the result of sickness and disease. There are many reasons and many causes, but all suffering ultimately comes from one original source. When God created this world, he created it perfect. He created it

beautiful, and he created it as a paradise for mankind. But because of the desire to fulfill the

appetites, human appetites, he for took Adam's sin, the whole fountainhead of the human

race went down the drain with Adam, and every man who's ever been born since then has suffered

one of many causes. So that you and I know that suffering is a part of the life of the believer.

It is part of knowing Jesus Christ is our Savior.

Now I want us to dwell for just a moment on this matter the suffering that comes,

not because of sin or sickness,

but the suffering that comes because we are believers.

Now let me explain to you what's happening in 1 Peter chapter 2 here.

When Peter wrote this epistle, he wrote it to a number of churches.

He wrote it to the Christians who were being persecuted this particular time.

In fact, all of Asia Mine at this particular time was under great persecutions.

And what he was doing at this particular point was this.

He was addressing this particular passage to those Christians who were slaves, those Christians

who were bond servants in the households of unbelievers, of infidels, of

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