Well being a Christian does not mean we get to escape suffering.

In fact, we may even experience more suffering as a result of being a disciple of Christ.

Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast,

the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor

David Platt delivered weekly.

And as always, you can find thousands of more Gospel-centered

nation-minded resources over at our website radical. net. In this message from

2 Corinthians we'll see what a Christian view of suffering should look like. David Platt in

we'll see what a Christian view of suffering should look like.

David Platt points us not only to God's comfort in suffering, but also to the fact that

our suffering gives us an opportunity to extend the comfort to others in their suffering.

By God's grace, even the most difficult trials can be used for his book.

You hear David with a sermon titled The Cross and Christian

suffering from 2 Corinthians, chapters 1, 4, 11 and 12. If you have his word and

hope you do, I'm

I invite you to open with me to the book of 2 Corinthians.

So feel free to use table of contents if you need to,

but if you have walked the journey with us over the last seven months.

We've been in the Book of First Corinthians and so we're going to pick up right where we left off last week at the beginning of 2 Corinthians, chapter 1.

I invite you to pull out that worship guide that hopefully you received when you came

man that has some notes in it that will guide our time together this morning.

2 Corinthians 1 is going to be a home base for us tonight and then we're going to be all over the book of second Corinthians from there.

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