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And today we have Dr. Jim Denison here today to discuss another topic about what does the Bible say.

Jim, we're going to talk about what does the Bible say about suffering today.

You know, God's word tells us to give thanks in all circumstances, but I don't know about

you. There's been some circumstances this year that makes that kind of difficult. What do you think

the Bible is really telling us about the reality of suffering? Yeah, I'd rather tell you something

other than I have to tell you here, Chris. What I'd like to tell you

is what you can sometimes see folk on occasion claiming, and that is that if you'll just have

enough faith in God, that you won't suffer, that you won't have the difficulties and challenges

of the world. And that's really not what Scripture says. The Bible makes it clear, first of all,

that suffering is a result of the fall. Adam and Eve's sin in Genesis chapter 3 is what brought the entire world, all of creation,

into what Romans 8 speaks of, is groaning and travail.

So now we live in a broken world.

This isn't the way the world that God intended it.

It's not the world we would have had in the Garden of Eden in Genesis 1 and 2,

but it is what it is.

In John 16, Jesus says in this world, you will have tribulation.

You will suffer.

It's just an inevitable fact of life.

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