What Is God Accomplishing in My Suffering?

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Suffering often feels meaningless in the moment. So how can Christians learn not only to endure trials, but to rejoice in the midst of them?

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0:00.0	Well, what is God accomplishing in my suffering and in your suffering?
0:11.0	It's a question Pastor John set out to answer from 1 Peter, chapter 4, verses 12 to 19.
0:17.6	It's a very important text that we all need to understand and return to in times of personal
0:22.2	suffering.
0:23.2	I'm going to read that text now, 1 Peter, chapter 4 verses 12 to 19 and then we'll hear
0:28.3	from Pastor John.
0:30.2	The apostle Peter writes this.
0:32.4	Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you as
0:38.6	though something strange were happening to you.
0:41.8	But rejoice in so far as you share Christ's sufferings that you may also rejoice and be
0:47.4	glad when His glory is revealed.
0:50.4	If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed because the Spirit of glory
0:54.8	and of God rests upon you.
0:57.4	But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evil doer or as a medler.
1:04.2	Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed but let him glorify God
1:08.6	in that name.
1:10.6	For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God and if it begins with us,
1:15.8	what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God.
1:21.8	And if the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly in the center?
1:27.7	Therefore, let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful
1:33.9	creator while doing good.
1:39.1	To explain, here's Pastor John.
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