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Mark Driscoll Audio

John #26 - Choosing The Painful Will of God

Mark Driscoll Audio

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

If you had a few days to live, what would you say and what would you do? In the final week before His death, Jesus Christ came into a holiday crowd to reveal Himself as a peaceable King and teach us that the most important thing in life is to learn how to lose our earthly life so that we could gain eternal life.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Mark Dr. School Ministries Podcast.

0:02.9

Find more Bible teaching from Pastor Mark.

0:04.9

Visit markdriscold.org.

0:06.2

Thank you for listening and being a part of Mark Dr. School Ministries.

0:09.2

And remember, it's all about Jesus.

0:13.0

Well, here's my thesis statement.

0:15.2

And today we're in John chapter 12, verses 12 through 16.

0:19.7

And we're talking about choosing the painful will of God.

0:23.0

Here's my thesis, the distance between where you are

0:27.0

and what God has destined for you is a path of pain.

0:33.2

It's a path of pain.

0:34.8

And how much pain you are willing to endure

0:37.4

will determine how far you will go.

0:42.3

Some of you right now you're facing great pain

0:44.4

for some of you, it's emotional pain.

0:46.1

Some of you it's financial, some of it's spiritual,

0:48.7

some of it's physical, some of it's relational,

0:51.3

some of it's just very practical.

0:54.2

Life is painful and it hurts.

0:57.1

Oftentimes that pain is not caused by God,

0:59.9

but it is allowed by God.

1:02.3

And it is God's way of maturing us and preparing us

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