Suffering, Assurance, and the Sovereignty of God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We must always remember that the God who is sovereign over the suffering of His people is a loving Father. He does all things for a purpose and does all things well. Today, Burk Parsons and Derek Thomas discuss divine providence and human pain.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on renewing your mind. |
| 0:02.0 | A lot of suffering in the lives of God's people |
| 0:04.8 | have no one-to-one correspondence. |
| 0:08.4 | I suffer because of X or I suffer because of Y. |
| 0:12.0 | And suffering, I think, is designed to bring about in us |
| 0:17.6 | a desire, no matter what to give him glory. |
| 0:22.0 | No matter what we endure in this fallen world, we as Christians |
| 0:31.4 | can take comfort and courage in knowing that God is working |
| 0:34.7 | all things together for our good and for his glory. |
| 0:38.5 | Today on renewing your mind, we're taking you to a seminar |
| 0:41.6 | from the 2022 Ligon International Conference. |
| 0:44.9 | Host Nathan W. Bingham and Dr. Burke Parsons and Derek Thomas |
| 0:49.1 | discuss the relationship between the sovereignty of God, |
| 0:52.4 | human suffering, and the assurance of salvation. |
| 0:58.7 | We're grateful that you're here for this seminar. |
| 1:00.7 | We are talking about an important subject, |
| 1:03.3 | talking about suffering, assurance, and the sovereignty of God. |
| 1:06.3 | And I'm joined by Dr. Burke Parsons and Dr. Derek Thomas. |
| 1:10.1 | The world that we live in is a fallen world. |
| 1:14.1 | And so it's not easy out there. |
| 1:17.0 | But the difficulties, the experiences that we have vary. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm sure as we look out across these people here, |
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