How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

When sorrow knocks the wind out of you, when your prayers seem to echo into silence, what do you do?

Well, suffering has a way of stripping life down to what's real, doesn't it?

Every generation of believers has wrestled with it, and those yet to come will too.

As we travel through the Bible, we're going to study how believers in the tribulation

will face life when it turns upside down. Together, we're going to learn some timeless principles

to tuck into our hearts for when it's our turn to face suffering. Welcome aboard the Bible

bus with our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee. I'm Steve Schwetz, and we're returning to Revelation 15,

where we hear about the Tribulation Saints who suffer with a victorious attitude as they sing the

song of Moses. Let's find out what that means. If you can, turn there now. And as you know,

many of our letters from listeners share how men and women have found joy and purpose in suffering. And sometimes

suffering clears the way for us to see God at work in our lives. Dr. McGee loved to read

listener letters as well, even as much as I do. And here's one that he read from a listener

who saw how suffering led someone she had been praying for to Jesus. Now, I want to share with you first today a letter that comes from this country.

In fact, it comes from, I guess, if there is any place that's my hometown, it's in Nashville,

Tennessee.

And it says, I want to share this with you.

I have a friend where I work that has cancer, and she was talking to me one day about the pain,

and sometimes she couldn't hardly understand why she had to go through it because she's a Christian woman.

So I gave her your book, Why God's Children Suffer.

After she read it, she said she could understand a lot better, and it made her feel good.

Then several weeks later, she came to me one day and told me she had a brother that had gone back on God.

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