Suffering in the Believer’s Life (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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At some point in our lives, each of us has suffered—and can be certain we’ll face more trials. So how do we continue to trust God when everything seems to be falling apart? Learn how to deal with suffering biblically, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do All of us have at one point or another in our lives experienced suffering and as long as we're alive we can be certain more trials are ahead. |
| 0:36.7 | So how do we continue to trust God when everything seems to be falling apart? |
| 0:42.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg shares some biblical |
| 0:45.4 | thoughts about suffering. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm going to endeavor to address a subject with you that has been lying on my heart and to which I can only pay a kind of 50,000 feet treatment this evening. |
| 1:06.0 | And I invite you to turn for a moment to the Book of Lamentations, |
| 1:09.5 | and that will give you an indication of what is on my mind. That will take some of you some time |
| 1:16.8 | just to find lamentations. By and large if people would come around Parkside Church they would get the impression that here is a group of people who are living fairly well on the level of social life and material provision and probably no little to nothing of anything that has to do with the problem of suffering or the |
| 1:47.1 | peculiar demands of pain. |
| 1:50.6 | Such an observation would of course be entirely superficial and completely wrong. |
| 1:57.0 | Because as we have lived together over these past years, |
| 2:01.0 | despite all of the many benefits that we have enjoyed, and there have been many |
| 2:05.5 | benefits, we have also known and continue to know the peculiar challenges that life brings. And we might say that we have known |
| 2:18.6 | this to a peculiar degree in relationship to certain areas of both illness. a we have never really addressed this whole question of suffering in the life of a believer. |
| 2:36.8 | And I want to take just a cursory glance at it this evening because as I say it has been something that I've been mulling over in my mind for some time |
| 2:45.6 | and we will need to get to and give it some faithful scrutiny as time allows. |
| 2:52.0 | But I want simply to draw our attention to it this evening and it will |
| 2:57.2 | be immediately clear that we could stop at various points and camp but we won't. |
| 3:02.0 | I want to give you just a broad sketch of things and I want to read |
| 3:06.4 | further verses that identify the predicament of God's people in |
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