Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, March 31st.

How can you benefit from seasons of suffering?

Stay with us to discover lessons we learn in Get Semini.

What I want to talk about in this message is simply this, and that is I want to talk about

the experience Jesus had probably the longest, most difficult night of his life.

I want to talk about lessons we learn in Gethsemini.

Now, usually the night in the garden was a wonderful night, but tonight

it is a night of grief, it is a night of warfare and bloodshed. This is a night of all nights

in the life of Christ. No night was so dark, no night was ever so long as this one.

So what we have to ask is this. What lessons can you and I learn from the

life of Jesus in just this one night of his life? Well, I believe we can learn several very

important lessons because you see the truth is all of us go through our nights of difficulty,

hardship, trial, suffering, physical, emotional pain.

Now, no one will ever suffer like Jesus suffered. Now, remember this. There are many women out there

for their faith who have been martyed for their faith, who have gone through all kinds of pain

and whose physical pain may have been equal to Jesus' physical pain of

crucifixion because many people have been crucified in the past. But Jesus was different

because along with that crucifixion, he bore the weight of the sin of the world. Men have been

boiled in oil. They have been fed to lions. they've been crucified, all kinds of things have

happened. Nothing to match the pain of Jesus because he bore your sin and mine. He died as a

substitute in your place and my place. Now when you and I go through difficulty and hardship

and pain in our life, we certainly would

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