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Ask Pastor John

My Suffering Feels Meaningless β€” What Can I Do?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

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

4.8 β€’ 3.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes pain seems meaningless, but in Christ, every millisecond of your suffering is producing for you an eternal weight of glory.

Transcript

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0:00.0

How do we respond when life seems meaningless?

0:09.2

When the suffering hits and the waves of suffering, we feel seems itself to be totally pointless.

0:16.3

What then?

0:17.6

This essential topic Pastor John took up in one of his most important sermons he has ever

0:22.1

perished.

0:23.1

It's one that he preached in the year 2013, and a listener named Jared sent it into us

0:27.3

as a clip that he loves, and it's a clip many of you will recognize because it became

0:32.3

a clip that got embedded into a Shane and Shane song, though you slay me.

0:38.1

Most of you have heard that song because the music video has now surpassed 7 million

0:43.0

plays on YouTube.

0:44.0

It's an incredible song, powerful music video I know that God has used in many of your

0:49.2

lives, even those of you who have watched it through a veil of tears.

0:53.8

And all of it is rooted in one sermon, everyone should listen to it at some point.

0:59.1

For now, here's an extended clip from Pastor John's 2013 sermon, have a listen.

1:05.8

So Paul really does experience not losing heart because of truths, realities that he puts

1:18.1

into his head day by day, day by day, for renewal.

1:26.8

Now one more step, what about the four at the beginning of verse 17, like we're going

1:32.8

to beat verse 16 to death if we don't move on, but my there's a lot of life in there.

1:38.4

He doesn't give up easy.

1:40.3

I love to pound on verses till they're dead.

1:46.0

That's an odd way to say it, isn't it?

1:50.3

Okay, verse 17, verse 16, we don't lose heart.

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