Suffering by Satan is Shaping by God

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Pastor John talks about spiritual battles, explaining that struggles—whether from life, our own choices, or Satan—challenge our faith. Using 2 Corinthians 12, he shows how Paul’s hardships made him rely on God even more. In the end, trusting God through tough times makes us stronger and brings Him glory.

Satan seeks to destroy you through suffering

God shapes you in suffering

We glorify God by trusting in the suffering

Life Group Discussion:

How have you seen suffering challenge your faith or the faith of others?

Why do you think God allows suffering if He loves us?

How can our response to suffering be a testimony to others?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Jesus wins. Lots of matching t-shirts.
0:05.4	Who can win? Can you all be louder?
0:10.1	Sounds like Baylor against Kansas.
0:18.0	That's right. My name's John. We're relatively new to Waco. We moved here 10 months ago, and when we did, we bought a house, put it on a contract, needed some updates, did a remodel, got a contractor, started demolition. Demolition happens fast, man. And it's a weird feeling. You're like, I just bought this, and now I'm destroying it Like it's a little unnerving. Kind of like point of no return as you're like punching out
0:41.4	walls and taking down columns. And as we're doing that, we were still in Dallas. I was like,
0:48.1	bought the house, remodel, you know, going back and forth. And I get a phone call from my
0:53.1	realtor one day during demolition. I'm like, why is she calling me? Like, we're already done. Like, it's, it's signs, you know, she got her commission, everything's good. It's like, hey, how's it going? She's like, hey, you need to stop. And I was like, stop what? Like, I mean, my heart kind of stops. like, wait, did we, like, we're destroying the house we just bought in part. Like, stop, stop what? Like drinking, like what? I'm not even in Waco. And she's like, stop the demolition. I'm like, what? Okay. All right. Call my contractor. The reason why is because I was like, as we were demolishing,
1:29.1	there was this fire pit over in the corner, and it was kind of far away from the house, way off in the corner, and I'm like, if I'm going to have a fire pit, I wanted to be somewhere near the house. Like, I don't know why anybody put a fire pit over there anyway. So I called my contractor. I'm like, hey, take down that fire pit, throw it in the dumpster.
1:43.3	You know, the big...
1:44.5	And so he's like, on it.
1:46.2	Well, she's like... I called my contractor. I'm like, hey, take down that fire pit, throw it in the dumpster. You know, the big...
1:44.5	And so he's like, on it.
1:46.2	Well, she's like, you're destroying your neighbor's fire pit.
1:53.1	It's like, oh, my goodness.
1:55.1	Like, I haven't even met them yet.
1:57.9	Bow and Christine Graham, local doctor, amazing people.
2:01.5	Yeah, y'all know them.
2:03.3	They're great.
2:04.1	I didn't know him yet.
2:05.0	I was just busting down his fire pit.
2:07.9	Talk about first impression.
2:10.2	I'm sure he's like sipping coffee, like wonder who the new neighbors are.
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