John #26 - Choosing The Painful Will of God

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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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. To find more Bible teaching from
0:04.1	Pastor Mark visit mark, visit Mark Dr.org. Thank you for listening and being a part of
0:07.8	Mark Dr School Ministries. And remember, it's all about Jesus.
0:15.0	Well, here's my thesis statement, and today we're in John Chapter 12,
0:18.0	verses 12 through 16,
0:20.0	and we're talking about choosing the painful will of God.
0:23.1	Here's my thesis.
0:24.1	The distance between where you are
0:27.1	and what God has destined for you is a path of pain.
0:38.1	It's a path of pain. It's a path of pain and how much pain you are willing to endure will determine how far you will go. Some of you right now you're facing great pain for some of you it's emotional pain
0:45.8	some of you it's financial some of it's spiritual some of its physical some of
0:50.0	its relational 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, and it is God's way of maturing us and preparing us to enter into the
1:06.6	next season of his will for us.
1:09.8	So here's what you need to know as Christians.
1:11.4	We don't choose pain, but we choose God's will even if it includes
1:15.0	pain. And the result is that you and I need to make a decision when the pain increases
1:22.2	in our life, do I worship comfort or do I worship
1:25.1	Christ? And if we worship Christ, we continue through the pain. And if we worship
1:31.2	comfort, then we deny Christ in an effort to alleviate the pain.
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