The Apostle Paul employs a startling phrase in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 10.

He says, sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.

It's startling because he's talking about his own testimony of rejoicing in sorrow,

and those two experiences run consecutively in his life.

So enjoy co-existed in his experience at the same time.

It's simply a truism of life that good things and bad things are always happening to us

all the time simultaneously in our lives.

That's just normal Christian living.

Picking up from this point, here's Pastor John preaching in Vancouver in 2015.

Not be the case.

So we Christians are complicated people.

We should not think of all these calamities like you could add your personal calamity to

my list.

We shouldn't think of those as exceptional, like occasional.

Occasionally, there's a calamity.

Are you kidding me?

50 million people die in the world every year.

5,700 and 7 people die every hour.

95 every minute.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Four people have died.

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