Welcome back.

We've been looking at John Piper's new book recently titled, Come, or Jesus Meditations

on the Second Coming of Christ.

And we're going to return to the book next time, but we ended the episode on Monday looking

at how the Second Coming of Christ gives us the grace that we need to endure suffering

with joy.

That was first Peter 4, verses 12 and 13, key text.

It has appeared 20 times on the podcast already.

He's a very critical text if you want to understand Pastor John and Christian Edenism and what

the Bible says about suffering.

First Peter of chapter 4, verses 12 and 13.

So we're going to hit pause on our little series on the Second Coming to press into this

reality, suffering with joy, connecting our suffering to our joy.

It's a very sensitive connection.

And it came up in Hawaii back in 2014 with Pastor John speaking to a room full of

pastors and their wives, a room that included likely not aware to Pastor John, a woman,

a woman from Kahlui, Hawaii, who was in the room, suffering silently.

She shared this clip with us in her story.

First the clip, then her story, here's Pastor John.

Now, connecting joy and suffering is a risky business and I would only do it because

of 21 texts I wrote down here.

I'm going to read them all.

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