Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 228.<\/p>\n
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\nbrother Nathan’s.
\nFinal study to the theme. <\/p>\n
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\nThe fellowship of his
\nsufferings. <\/p>\n
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\nThanks brother.
\nNathan. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, thanks for the grant and
\ngood morning. <\/p>\n
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\nMy dear brothers and sisters in
\nour Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ.
\nWell, we have come to the end of<\/p>\n
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\nour foray into the book of
\nLamentations. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd hopefully it has enlarged
\nyour understanding and maybe <\/p>\n
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\neven your enjoyment of the book.
\nBut now that we’ve finished the <\/p>\n
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\nbook itself, I thought we might
\nslow down a little bit this <\/p>\n
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\nmorning because I know we’ve
\nbeen moving it, a bit of pace <\/p>\n
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\nand Just try and spend a few
\nminutes this morning just <\/p>\n
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\nconsidering the subject of
\nsuffering itself as the main <\/p>\n
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\ntheme that emerges from
\nLamentations finding meaning <\/p>\n
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\nlooking for meaning in the
\nmisery. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you remember that we lift
\nLamentations yesterday with this<\/p>\n
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\nthought or question in our
\nminds. <\/p>\n
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\nIf Lamentations chapter 3 is
\ngoing to be the picture of <\/p>\n
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\nChrist in the middle of two.
\nThieves the man who has seen <\/p>\n
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\nAffliction despite his innocence
\nbut who would offer meaning and <\/p>\n
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\nHope.
\nThen we have a choice before us.<\/p>\n
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\nDo we want to be part of an
\nunrepentant Community? <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s Afflicted because of
\nsinfulness, but we end up just <\/p>\n
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\ngoing through life, enduring,
\ngrief, without meaning. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s The Afflicted, Daughter
\nof Zion or are we determined to <\/p>\n
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\nbe affected by this man in the
\nmiddle and be the repentant <\/p>\n
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\nthief?
\nThe faithful Community inspired <\/p>\n
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\nby this man’s example and his
\nperspective to Why on God and to<\/p>\n
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\npatiently wait for him to join
\nourselves to the precious sons <\/p>\n
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\nof Zion because the nation
\nbefore Lamentations 3, and after<\/p>\n
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\nare totally different, in their
\nperspectives in the choice is <\/p>\n
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\nours, when it comes to
\nsuffering, do we want to be <\/p>\n
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\nbitter?
\nBeta. <\/p>\n
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\nDo we want to be resentful or
\nrenewed? <\/p>\n
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\nDo we want to wallow in an
\nenlightened self pity as the <\/p>\n
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\npeople of Lamentations 1 and 2
\ndid or do? <\/p>\n
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\nWe identify with this man who
\nhas seen affliction? <\/p>\n
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\nDo we recognize and him?
\nOur fellow, our representative, <\/p>\n
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\nour example are we willing to
\nlet him drastically alter, our <\/p>\n
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\nthinking, are we ready to side
\nwith him and share his Hope and <\/p>\n
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\nunshakable Faith?
\nAre we ready to investigate? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat it means to Fellowship?
\nHis sufferings I mean, if Lem, <\/p>\n
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\nif Isaiah 53 in the first
\ninstance, has the suffering <\/p>\n
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\nservant as Hezekiah.
\nAnd he was able to inspire the <\/p>\n
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\nnation in the times of
\nsennacherib invasion. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if in Lamentations 3 in the
\nfirst instance, the man who has <\/p>\n
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\nseen Affliction was actually
\nJeremiah and he was able to turn<\/p>\n
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\nthe nation from self-absorbed,
\ndisbelief, to repentance and <\/p>\n
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\nContrition, then how much more
\ncan Messiah change and touch us <\/p>\n
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\nheal us.
\nI’d like to start our story this<\/p>\n
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\nmorning in Mark chapter 5.
\nThis is a story that we we <\/p>\n
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\nmentioned in an earlier class,
\nbut I want to just look at <\/p>\n
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\nbriefly this morning, Because
\nit’s relevant to the healing. <\/p>\n
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\nThat comes from our Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
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\nMark chapter 5 and verse 24.
\nAnd Jesus went with him that is <\/p>\n
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\nwith gyrus and much people.
\nFollowed him and thronged him in<\/p>\n
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\na certain woman, which had an
\nissue of blood twelve years, and<\/p>\n
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\nhad suffered many things of many
\nPhysicians, and had spent all <\/p>\n
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\nthat she had and was nothing
\nbettered, but rather grew worse.<\/p>\n
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\nThis woman is a graphic picture,
\na type of ourselves, all of us. <\/p>\n
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\nWithout Christ without his
\nhealing. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is where we all start
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
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\nSuffering, many things.
\nAnd it’s not just from the <\/p>\n
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\nincurable bruise of sin, But
\nit’s from our own attempts to <\/p>\n
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\ncure ourselves.
\nWe want to turn to anything. <\/p>\n
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\nAnyone other than the true
\nsource of life? <\/p>\n
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\nNo other physician can heal the
\nhurt of our souls and she is <\/p>\n
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\nbroken and lost.
\nIn worse. <\/p>\n
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\nShe is deteriorating.
\nShe instinctively knew that all <\/p>\n
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\nshe needed to do, was to touch
\nhim, to align herself with him <\/p>\n
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\nto identify with him.
\nAnd by his stripes, by his <\/p>\n
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\nexperience of suffering himself.
\nShe knew that she could be <\/p>\n
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\nhealed.
\nNow, we know the story, but Mark<\/p>\n
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\nchapter 5 records for us.
\nA couple of things that Luke <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 8 does not, it tells us
\nthat she touches the border of <\/p>\n
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\nblue of His Garment in verse 30
\ntells us that virtue. <\/p>\n
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\nLiterally, it should be power
\nhad gone out of him. <\/p>\n
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\nShe felt the healing come into
\nher body, verse 29, and he felt <\/p>\n
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\nThe Virtue.
\nLeave his body verse 30, both of<\/p>\n
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\nthem were affected.
\nThey were both affected by the <\/p>\n
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\nsame interchange of power.
\nLinkedIn Fellowship by the <\/p>\n
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\nremoval of the plague of
\nsuffering verse 34. <\/p>\n
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\nShe was made whole again, and
\nthis is a type of us, our lives.<\/p>\n
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\nThis is a type of a healing, and
\nour healing is with him virtue, <\/p>\n
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\ngoes out of his body and into
\nher body. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s by him, it’s with him, it’s
\nthrough him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe beers our iniquities Isaiah
\n53 and verse 11 weird joined to <\/p>\n
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\nhim in the experience of
\nsuffering and the bearing of it <\/p>\n
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\naway.
\nWe have it in common And it’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot just suffering as it, it’s
\nsuffering for a higher purpose <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering with a goal in view
\nsuffering for an ultimate goal, <\/p>\n
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\nwe are inseparable e linked to
\nhim by this experience. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd did you note that after 12
\nyears of slowly growing worse? <\/p>\n
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\nThey could be no mistake when
\nshe came in contact with Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist immediately healed slowly
\ndeteriorating for 12 years <\/p>\n
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\nimmediately healed.
\nThere could be no mistake this <\/p>\n
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\nman can totally and drastically
\nchange our lives. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we know that we are linked
\nto Christ in suffering because <\/p>\n
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\nthe necessity for Christ and <\/p>\n
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\nourselves to suffer.
\nLook at these references, we <\/p>\n
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\nknow them pretty well but you
\nmight like to take a note of <\/p>\n
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\nthem somewhere.
\nIt’s about how Christ had to <\/p>\n
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\nsuffer the inevitability of his
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
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\nOught not Christ to have
\nsuffered these things look Four <\/p>\n
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\nverse 26, in verse 46.
\nAnd thus, it behoved Christ to <\/p>\n
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\nsuffer.
\nIt was appropriate, it was <\/p>\n
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\nright.
\nThat even a sinless man had to <\/p>\n
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\ngo through suffering.
\nBut those things which God had <\/p>\n
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\nshowed by the mouth of All His
\nprophets that Christ should <\/p>\n
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\nsuffer.
\nX 3:18 X chapter 17 opening and <\/p>\n
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\nalleging that Christ must needs.
\nHave suffered and risen again <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the dead and Acts 26 verse
\n22 to 23. <\/p>\n
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\nI continue unto this day.
\nWitnessing that Christ should <\/p>\n
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\nsuffer and be the first that
\nshould rise. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was prophesied by all the
\nprophets. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was inevitable.
\nAnd the same is true of us. <\/p>\n
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\nWe are linked to him, we
\nFellowship him in the fact that <\/p>\n
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\nwe are all suffering for a
\ngreater good and that that’s <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s will just as he suffered
\nfor a greater good, just as it <\/p>\n
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\nbehoved Christ to suffer, it,
\nbehoves us to suffer X-14, we <\/p>\n
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\nmust through much, tribulation
\nenter into the kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
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\nPhilippians 1 For unto you, it
\nis given not only to believe on <\/p>\n
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\nhim but also to suffer.
\nFor his sake, first <\/p>\n
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\nThessalonians, 34 verily, when
\nwe were with you we told you <\/p>\n
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\nbefore that we should suffer
\ntribulation second. <\/p>\n
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\nTimothy 3.
\nYe all that will live Godly in <\/p>\n
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\nChrist Jesus shall suffer
\npersecution. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd first of Peter for beloved,
\nthink it not strange concerning <\/p>\n
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\nthe fiery trial which is to try
\nyou as though some strange thing<\/p>\n
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\nhappened unto you it’s
\nappropriate. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s right that you suffer
\nbecause In this way, you are <\/p>\n
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\ninseparably linked.
\nTo the man who can bear that <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering away.
\nWe Fellowship our Lord, Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist and his suffering.
\nWould God exempt us from what it<\/p>\n
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\nwas necessary that even Christ
\nexperienced. <\/p>\n
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\nSuffering is our father’s way of
\ntouching teaching, our heart, <\/p>\n
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\nrather than just a head.
\nSuffering encourages intimate, <\/p>\n
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\nmoments and experiences.
\nWe know this to be true brothers<\/p>\n
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\nand sisters when we feel alone
\nand desperate and lost and <\/p>\n
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\nAbandoned.
\nAnd in despair, we turn to God <\/p>\n
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\nin a very real and authentic
\nway. <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t just happen by books,
\ndoes it? <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t just happen by
\nreading the Scriptures. <\/p>\n
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\nIt happens by the experiences of
\nlife that our hearts are turn to<\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nThere’s no energy for <\/p>\n
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\nsuperficiality or pretense when
\ntimes of suffering and <\/p>\n
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\ndifficulty come upon us.
\nWe’re brought down to the <\/p>\n
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\nessence of who we are and what
\nis important and we turn to <\/p>\n
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\nwhat’s important in those
\ndifficult moments. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know brother Grant
\nmentioned in his prayer? <\/p>\n
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\nA couple of Beatitudes from
\nMatthew chapter 5? <\/p>\n
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\nYou remember, what the
\nBeatitudes sound like? <\/p>\n
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\nBut listen to how General, they
\nare until a point. <\/p>\n
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\nMatthew Chapter 5 says this, you
\ndon’t have to turn it up. <\/p>\n
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\nJust listen.
\nBlessed are the poor in spirit <\/p>\n
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\nfor theirs is the Kingdom of
\nHeaven. <\/p>\n
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\nBlessed, are they that mourn for
\nthey shall be? <\/p>\n
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\nComforted blessed, are the meek
\nfor they shall inherit the <\/p>\n
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\nearth.
\nBlessed. <\/p>\n
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\nAre they which do hunger and
\nthirst after righteousness, for <\/p>\n
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\nthey shall be filled.
\nBlessed are the merciful for <\/p>\n
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\nthey shall obtain Mercy.
\nThe pure in heart for they shall<\/p>\n
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\nsee God.
\nThe peacemakers for they shall <\/p>\n
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\ninherit it be called the
\nchildren of God, but when it <\/p>\n
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\ncomes to persecution, When it
\ncomes to suffering blessed, you.<\/p>\n
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\nWhen men will revile you and
\npersecute you and say, all <\/p>\n
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\nmanner of evil, against you
\nfalsely for my sake rejoice and <\/p>\n
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\nbe exceeding, glad there’s
\nsomething about suffering, that <\/p>\n
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\nmakes the truth intensely,
\npersonal it takes it from a <\/p>\n
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\ngeneralization down to our
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\nIn that moment, it brings us to
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\nLook what Peter says.
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\nthing that these things are
\nhappening to us? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s God’s way of linking us to
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\nIt’s God’s way of yoking us to
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\nblinding light, which was able
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\nTold him you will be Christ to
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\nwhich you will be Inseparable, e
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\nTo me is that I will show you
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\nfor my sake X chapter, 9, and
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\nThis is what links us gives us
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\ndiscipleship?
\nWell because we know that <\/p>\n
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\ndifficulties and suffering and
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\nafterward it yieldeth. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Peaceable fruit of
\nrighteousness unto them, which <\/p>\n
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\nWhen you fall into divers
\nTemptations, knowing that the <\/p>\n
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\ntrying of your faith worketh
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\nThen it builds and gives us
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\ncharacter.
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\nsuffering, is not just about
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\nhaving things taken away.
\nI mean, you look at the <\/p>\n
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\nexperience of job who James puts
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\nHe had everything taken away his<\/p>\n
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\ngave everything back everything <\/p>\n
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\ncame back to job because it was
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\nSo, we asked the question,
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\nHow we actually just suffering?
\nwithout thinking about meaning, <\/p>\n
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\nmight be changed.
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\nactually within the construct of<\/p>\n
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\nsuffering, there is a definite
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\nThere is a process of
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\nsuffering.
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\nmight Fellowship his suffering
\nand I’ve called it the hierarchy<\/p>\n
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\nof suffering.
\nYou might have a much better <\/p>\n
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\nword than that but it’s the
\nreason the reasons why we are <\/p>\n
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\nprepared to suffer.
\nAnd those reasons I think you’ll<\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of why we might
\nsuffer in Fellowship. <\/p>\n
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\nThe sufferings of Christ.
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\nbottom with the first step on
\nthe hierarchy suffering, without<\/p>\n
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\nmeaning this is where the
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\ncategory. <\/p>\n
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\nNumber one, suffering without
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\nHappen, people get cancer,
\npeople died, early people lose <\/p>\n
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\nmoney.
\nPeople break up terrible things <\/p>\n
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\nhappen, terrible suffering,
\npeople die, and War atrocities, <\/p>\n
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\nAll of this is happening without
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\nwe have said, because meaning
\nonly comes from God. <\/p>\n
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\nThe rest of the world is stuck
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\nor Merit and come to Luke
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\nexample of that.
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\ngalileans whose blood pilate had
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\nsuppose ye that, these galileans
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\ngalileans because they suffered
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\nprepared to suffer some things <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering because they feel that
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\nmight build character. <\/p>\n
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\nprepared to suffer some things <\/p>\n
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\nbuild our character. <\/p>\n
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\nin the Living God we acknowledge
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\nfurther.
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\nverse 41, says they counted it
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\nsuffer shame for his sake and
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\nsuffering with love, we’re
\nprepared to suffer most things <\/p>\n
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\nrather than just having an
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\nmight give us good or because we
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\nSo our consolation also <\/p>\n
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\naboundeth by Christ and with it.
\nWe be afflicted. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is for your consolation and
\nsalvation, which is effectual in<\/p>\n
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\nsufferings, which we also <\/p>\n
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\nsuffer, or whether we be
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\nconsolation and salvation and
\nour hope of you is steadfast <\/p>\n
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\nknowing that as ye are partakers
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\nSo shall ye also be of the
\nconsolation we’re prepared to <\/p>\n
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\nsuffer verse six because we can
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\nSomebody else we do this out of
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\nsisters.
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\n10 says that we endure, all
\nthings for the elects sake, <\/p>\n
343
\n00:26:10,800 –> 00:26:14,400
\nwe’re prepared to put up with
\nimmense suffering for each <\/p>\n
344
\n00:26:14,400 –> 00:26:17,300
\nother.
\nWell, that’s a another level. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:26:17,300 –> 00:26:22,300
\nIsn’t it of our willingness to
\nengage in the sufferings of <\/p>\n
346
\n00:26:22,300 –> 00:26:25,600
\nChrist?
\nAnd we do this because this is <\/p>\n
347
\n00:26:25,600 –> 00:26:30,600
\nChrist’s example, look at
\nHebrews 13 and verse 12, <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:31,300 –> 00:26:35,900
\nWherefore Jesus.
\nAlso that he might sanctify the <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:35,900 –> 00:26:40,600
\npeople with his own blood
\nsuffered, without the gate. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:40,600 –> 00:26:45,900
\nHe’s a man who was prepared to
\nsuffer so that he could sanctify<\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:46,700 –> 00:26:50,500
\nhis Brethren.
\nHe’s suffering out of love, he’s<\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:50,500 –> 00:26:55,200
\nsuffering because it might help
\nand save others. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:56,600 –> 00:27:02,000
\nThis is the next stage in our
\nunderstanding and progression of<\/p>\n
354
\n00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:05,900
\nwhy we suffer.
\nSo we’re prepared to suffer some<\/p>\n
355
\n00:27:05,900 –> 00:27:08,800
\nthings.
\nWe’re prepared to suffer more <\/p>\n
356
\n00:27:08,800 –> 00:27:12,400
\nthings, we’re prepared to suffer
\nmost things. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:27:13,900 –> 00:27:18,900
\nWhat about suffering with faith?
\nI don’t know about you brother <\/p>\n
358
\n00:27:18,900 –> 00:27:23,200
\nand sisters, but here’s where it
\ngets tough for me suffering <\/p>\n
359
\n00:27:23,600 –> 00:27:31,800
\nwrong things because this is
\nChrist’s example, we appreciate <\/p>\n
360
\n00:27:31,800 –> 00:27:34,600
\nthat.
\nThis is the ultimate example of <\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:34,600 –> 00:27:38,400
\nChrist.
\nNow, I don’t know about you. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:39,600 –> 00:27:44,500
\nBut I’m, I’m kind of prepared to
\nundergo some degree of suffering<\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:44,500 –> 00:27:50,300
\nbecause I can see greater good.
\nI’m prepared to do that for <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:50,300 –> 00:27:54,100
\nChrist.
\nI am prepared to even do some of<\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:54,100 –> 00:28:00,900
\nthose things for you. but man,
\nwhen I have to suffer something <\/p>\n
366
\n00:28:00,900 –> 00:28:08,000
\nwrong for Christ’s sake, that’s
\nwhere it gets really tough for <\/p>\n
367
\n00:28:08,000 –> 00:28:13,100
\nme.
\nWhen Sue’s comes and says, we <\/p>\n
368
\n00:28:13,100 –> 00:28:19,200
\nneed to talk.
\nAnd that talking really means <\/p>\n
369
\n00:28:19,700 –> 00:28:23,800
\nyou need to listen.
\nAnd that listening really means.<\/p>\n
370
\n00:28:24,000 –> 00:28:27,800
\nHe is how you’re wrong, and I
\ndon’t agree, and I don’t think <\/p>\n
371
\n00:28:27,800 –> 00:28:31,400
\nit’s fear.
\nIt is extremely difficult to <\/p>\n
372
\n00:28:31,400 –> 00:28:36,700
\nremain silent and to not justify
\nmyself suffering. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:36,700 –> 00:28:42,200
\nWrong for Christ’s sake, is
\nenormously difficult and here’s <\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:42,200 –> 00:28:47,500
\nour next level.
\nAre we prepared to suffer wrong?<\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:47,800 –> 00:28:51,000
\nBecause we appreciate that.
\nThis is the ultimate example of <\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:55,400
\nChrist First Corinthians 6 is,
\nare you prepared to suffer <\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:55,400 –> 00:29:00,300
\nyourself, to be defrauded?
\nCome to First of Peter and <\/p>\n
378
\n00:29:00,300 –> 00:29:04,300
\nchapter 2, because we should
\nreally read these words because <\/p>\n
379
\n00:29:04,800 –> 00:29:09,800
\nthese words are well known to
\nus, but bring home this message <\/p>\n
380
\n00:29:09,800 –> 00:29:15,800
\nbetter than I could first of
\nPeter chapter. 2 and verse 19. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:29:18,500 –> 00:29:24,800
\nFor this is think worthy if a
\nman for conscience toward God in<\/p>\n
382
\n00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:29,500
\nJeweler grief.
\nSuffering wrongfully. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:29:31,100 –> 00:29:33,900
\nFor what glory is it?
\nIf when you be buffered for you,<\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:33,900 –> 00:29:38,100
\nfolks, for your faults, you take
\nit patiently. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:38,300 –> 00:29:44,100
\nBut if when ye do well, And
\nsuffer for it. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:29:44,600 –> 00:29:49,500
\nYou take it patiently.
\nThis is acceptable with God. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:50,000 –> 00:29:51,200
\nThis is a higher level, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:51,208 –> 00:29:56,600
\nThis is a harder thing to do
\nchapter 3 in verse 17. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:57,900 –> 00:30:04,500
\nFor it is better, if the will of
\nGod be so that ye suffer for <\/p>\n
390
\n00:30:04,700 –> 00:30:11,100
\nwell.
\nDoing then for evil doing people<\/p>\n
391
\n00:30:11,100 –> 00:30:15,200
\naccuse us of doing or saying
\nsomething wrong and we haven’t <\/p>\n
392
\n00:30:15,200 –> 00:30:20,000
\nactually done that.
\nWe are suffering for well doing,<\/p>\n
393
\n00:30:20,700 –> 00:30:23,200
\nit’s all very well to suffer
\nbecause of our sins. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:30:23,200 –> 00:30:25,400
\nThat’s kind of like stick number
\none. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:30:26,200 –> 00:30:29,900
\nThat’s what everybody does.
\nWe all sin, we all experienced <\/p>\n
396
\n00:30:29,900 –> 00:30:33,300
\nsuffering.
\nIt’s a universal law of <\/p>\n
397
\n00:30:33,300 –> 00:30:37,900
\nconsequences that came in in
\nGenesis chapter 3, But <\/p>\n
398
\n00:30:37,900 –> 00:30:43,700
\nsuffering, wrongfully.
\nWillingly for Christ’s sake. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:44,200 –> 00:30:46,800
\nOh, this is a lot harder.
\nThis is a much harder cool, <\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:46,800 –> 00:30:50,600
\nisn’t it?
\nThat we’ve been called to Well, <\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:50,600 –> 00:30:55,400
\nhow about then?
\nThe next step we are prepared to<\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:55,400 –> 00:31:03,100
\nsuffer the loss of all things
\nthat we might win Christ. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:31:04,200 –> 00:31:07,600
\nPhilippians chapter 3 and our
\nreading tonight. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:31:07,600 –> 00:31:15,100
\nWe know these words so well.
\nWe know the The qualifications <\/p>\n
405
\n00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:20,200
\nof Paul has experience.
\nHow many years? <\/p>\n
406
\n00:31:20,500 –> 00:31:23,400
\nDid he put into University
\nbrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n
407
\n00:31:24,700 –> 00:31:29,000
\nHow many hours did he put in
\nlate at night? <\/p>\n
408
\n00:31:29,000 –> 00:31:35,500
\nStudying the Scrolls How many
\ndeprivations did Paul put up <\/p>\n
409
\n00:31:35,500 –> 00:31:38,400
\nwith to sit at the feet of
\nGamaliel? <\/p>\n
410
\n00:31:38,600 –> 00:31:42,200
\nAnd he’s going to tell us I’m
\nprepared to suffer the loss of <\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:42,300 –> 00:31:45,200
\nall things, because that’s what
\nChrist did. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:31:47,200 –> 00:31:48,800
\nThis is not just suffering.
\nWrongfully. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:48,800 –> 00:31:52,400
\nThis is suffering.
\nThe loss of all things that we <\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:55,500
\nmight win Christ, this is
\nsuffering with hope. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:56,300 –> 00:31:59,900
\nWe believe that we will be likin
\nif we emulate him. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:32:01,900 –> 00:32:07,000
\nAnd lastly we come to the last
\nstep. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:32:08,100 –> 00:32:16,000
\nWe Rejoice to Suffolk anything
\nthat might allow us to fill up <\/p>\n
418
\n00:32:16,000 –> 00:32:18,800
\nour fellowship with the
\nsufferings of Christ. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:32:19,000 –> 00:32:26,000
\nThis is now suffering with joy
\nsuffering with joy. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:32:26,200 –> 00:32:29,600
\nThe Fellowship of his suffering
\ncome across if you’re in <\/p>\n
421
\n00:32:29,600 –> 00:32:33,900
\nPhilippians One page to
\nColossians chapter 1 in verse <\/p>\n
422
\n00:32:33,900 –> 00:32:40,100
\n24.
\nWe’re of, I Paul and made a <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:40,100 –> 00:32:48,300
\nminister who now rejoice in my
\nsufferings for you and fill up <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:48,700 –> 00:32:52,300
\nthat, which is behind of the
\nafflictions of Christ. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:32:52,300 –> 00:32:57,900
\nIn my flesh for his body’s sake,
\nwhich is the Ecclesia we’re of. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:32:57,900 –> 00:33:01,600
\nI am made a minister according
\nto the dispensation of God, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:33:01,600 –> 00:33:05,900
\nwhich is given to me for you to
\nfulfill the word of God. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:33:06,500 –> 00:33:11,000
\nAnd the Apostle Paul.
\nKnew what it was like to <\/p>\n
429
\n00:33:11,000 –> 00:33:16,600
\nrejoice.
\nIn suffering, anything that <\/p>\n
430
\n00:33:16,600 –> 00:33:21,000
\nmight bring him closer to the
\nsufferings of Christ. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:33:21,000 –> 00:33:24,400
\nThat’s what he did.
\nDenis in Acts chapter 16 with <\/p>\n
432
\n00:33:24,400 –> 00:33:31,000
\nSilas by his side, his feet in
\nthe stocks beaten, nothing to be<\/p>\n
433
\n00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:35,600
\nthankful for in this life and
\nthey sang Praises of joy that <\/p>\n
434
\n00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:39,900
\nrang through the prison.
\nHis his, the objective of <\/p>\n
435
\n00:33:39,900 –> 00:33:44,200
\nsuffering to get to this point
\nwhere we’re prepared, Hard to <\/p>\n
436
\n00:33:44,200 –> 00:33:50,200
\nreduce to Suffolk anything that
\nmight allow us to associate and <\/p>\n
437
\n00:33:50,200 –> 00:33:54,000
\nfill up that, which is behind of
\nthe sufferings of Christ. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:54,200 –> 00:33:59,000
\nFirst of Peter, 3 and verse 14
\nsays, if ye suffer for <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:59,000 –> 00:34:04,600
\nrighteousness sake, Happy are ye
\nthat’s a difficult place to get <\/p>\n
440
\n00:34:04,600 –> 00:34:06,100
\nto as an IT brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:34:06,600 –> 00:34:09,600
\nA very difficult place to get
\nto, but Paul got there. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:34:11,199 –> 00:34:16,000
\nAnd presumably Silas got there.
\nAnd presumably, some of the <\/p>\n
443
\n00:34:16,000 –> 00:34:20,600
\nother Apostles got there.
\nAnd I would dare to say that <\/p>\n
444
\n00:34:20,600 –> 00:34:24,100
\nthere’s people who gave their
\nlives in the Inquisition <\/p>\n
445
\n00:34:24,600 –> 00:34:26,500
\nFaithfully for Christ who got
\nthere. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:34:27,500 –> 00:34:30,100
\nAnd I would dare to say there’s
\nprobably older brothers and <\/p>\n
447
\n00:34:30,100 –> 00:34:33,500
\nsisters in our knowledge and
\nexperience. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:34:33,500 –> 00:34:37,100
\nMaybe even sitting here who have
\ngot to that point, it’s not <\/p>\n
449
\n00:34:37,100 –> 00:34:39,699
\ngoing to happen.
\nProbably win, we’re 17 years <\/p>\n
450
\n00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:40,699
\nold.
\nIs it? <\/p>\n
451
\n00:34:42,000 –> 00:34:46,900
\nBut this is the Journey of a
\nlifetime up this hierarchy of <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:46,900 –> 00:34:50,199
\nsuffering.
\nNow, this hierarchy is not <\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:50,199 –> 00:34:53,699
\nperfect, you might want to
\nchange it, you might want to <\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:53,699 –> 00:34:57,200
\nadapt it, you might be sitting
\nthere and thinking, I’d like to <\/p>\n
455
\n00:34:57,200 –> 00:35:01,400
\nsee one, two, and three.
\nAnd then I’d like to see faith, <\/p>\n
456
\n00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:03,800
\nhope and love all kind of on the
\nsame level. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:35:03,800 –> 00:35:06,200
\nAnd then finally Joy at the top.
\nThat’s okay. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:35:06,500 –> 00:35:10,100
\nIt’s really the idea.
\nThe idea that we are growing <\/p>\n
459
\n00:35:10,100 –> 00:35:13,000
\nupwards.
\nIt’s the spiritual framework? <\/p>\n
460
\n00:35:13,000 –> 00:35:15,800
\nThat’s important.
\nIt’s not a strict schedule. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:35:16,700 –> 00:35:20,500
\nWhere we graduate to the next
\nlevel, but it’s a gradual <\/p>\n
462
\n00:35:20,500 –> 00:35:23,400
\nprogression.
\nA gradual Improvement of thought<\/p>\n
463
\n00:35:23,700 –> 00:35:28,200
\nof motivation in our lives.
\nA gentle transformation upward <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:28,600 –> 00:35:33,600
\nas we grow spiritually, as our
\ncharacters are molded to be more<\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:33,600 –> 00:35:37,200
\nreceptive.
\nTo his gentle hand, we mature, <\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:38,000 –> 00:35:41,500
\nmaybe we endure suffering for
\ndifferent reasons. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:35:41,900 –> 00:35:46,400
\nAs we mature, we make progress
\nupwards through. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:35:46,500 –> 00:35:49,400
\nThis hierarchy, maybe we’re at
\ndifferent places for different <\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:49,400 –> 00:35:54,300
\nthings in our lives.
\nBut the most important thing is <\/p>\n
470
\n00:35:54,300 –> 00:35:56,400
\nthat we are climbing towards
\nhim. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:35:57,100 –> 00:36:01,800
\nWe Are Climbing towards the top,
\nwe go from a miserable and <\/p>\n
472
\n00:36:01,800 –> 00:36:07,100
\nreluctant acceptance.
\nThat maybe there might be some <\/p>\n
473
\n00:36:07,100 –> 00:36:12,000
\ncharacter development possible,
\nand trial to a joyous Freedom, <\/p>\n
474
\n00:36:12,300 –> 00:36:17,500
\nthat enables us to suffer.
\nWhat either our heavenly father <\/p>\n
475
\n00:36:17,500 –> 00:36:22,300
\nand his wisdom thinks is
\nnecessary that we can Fellowship<\/p>\n
476
\n00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:26,600
\nShear in the experiences of
\nChrist and be like him, the man <\/p>\n
477
\n00:36:26,600 –> 00:36:28,700
\nintimately acquainted with
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:36:28,700 –> 00:36:31,300
\nYou think what a privilege it
\nis, brother and sisters. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:36:32,300 –> 00:36:35,600
\nThat we’ve been called to be
\nlike him. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:38,800 –> 00:36:43,300
\nTo be like him.
\nHow are we going to go from <\/p>\n
481
\n00:36:43,300 –> 00:36:48,000
\nbeing like a selves?
\nAnd I won’t describe myself <\/p>\n
482
\n00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:52,100
\nbecause you know all too well
\nwhat I’m like to that. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:36:52,500 –> 00:36:54,500
\nHow are we going to go from here
\nto there? <\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:55,100 –> 00:37:00,400
\nThere’s only one way by pressure
\nby suffering by conforming us to<\/p>\n
485
\n00:37:00,400 –> 00:37:04,400
\nHis Image.
\nSo again, this is not a perfect <\/p>\n
486
\n00:37:04,400 –> 00:37:07,900
\ndiagram but hopefully it’s a
\nhelpful one as we sort of try <\/p>\n
487
\n00:37:07,900 –> 00:37:12,400
\nand appreciate our journey and
\nlook where it ends what an end <\/p>\n
488
\n00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:15,400
\npoint for suffering.
\nWho would have put Joy? <\/p>\n
489
\n00:37:16,600 –> 00:37:20,900
\nAs the in point for suffering,
\nthat’s what James chapter, 1 and<\/p>\n
490
\n00:37:20,900 –> 00:37:26,900
\nverse 2 says count it all joy
\nwhen you fall into divers <\/p>\n
491
\n00:37:27,100 –> 00:37:31,400
\nTemptations.
\nIt’s an incredible point to get <\/p>\n
492
\n00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:35,200
\nto in our lives and as we’ve
\nsaid absolutely impossible <\/p>\n
493
\n00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:40,500
\nwithout God but this is where
\nour Lord got to. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:41,500 –> 00:37:49,000
\nRemember these words for the joy
\nset before him and when we are <\/p>\n
495
\n00:37:49,000 –> 00:37:54,200
\nable to endure suffering or we
\nmight say chastening which would<\/p>\n
496
\n00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:58,400
\nprobably be a better word and
\nwhen we’re able to endure it for<\/p>\n
497
\n00:37:58,400 –> 00:38:04,500
\nmore and more mature reasons,
\nthis is what Paul calls sharing <\/p>\n
498
\n00:38:04,500 –> 00:38:08,900
\nthe fellowship of his suffering.
\nIt’s suffering for the right <\/p>\n
499
\n00:38:08,900 –> 00:38:14,400
\nreasons, it’s suffering for his
\nreasons with him. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:38:16,300 –> 00:38:20,200
\nThe aim is gettin to Joy in
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:38:20,300 –> 00:38:24,600
\nDo you know?
\nThis is what Moses said, Way Way<\/p>\n
502
\n00:38:24,600 –> 00:38:28,700
\nBack In.
\nPsalm 90 verse 15. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:38:29,300 –> 00:38:34,600
\nMake us glad according to the
\ndays, wherein thou Hast <\/p>\n
504
\n00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:40,100
\nAfflicted Us in the Years, we’re
\nin, we have seen evil, make us <\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:40,100 –> 00:38:42,500
\nglad.
\nThere’s the incredible <\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:42,500 –> 00:38:46,500
\nperspective of a man who
\nunderstood this word, and You <\/p>\n
507
\n00:38:46,500 –> 00:38:50,500
\nknow, we say, Jeremiah suffered
\nanti did and many of the <\/p>\n
508
\n00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:54,900
\nprophets suffered that can you
\nimagine leading 2 million, 2 <\/p>\n
509
\n00:38:54,900 –> 00:38:58,700
\nmillion miserable whinging,
\nIsraelites through the <\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:58,700 –> 00:39:03,500
\nWilderness for 40 years in this
\nman, suffered enormous things as<\/p>\n
511
\n00:39:03,500 –> 00:39:06,200
\nwell.
\nAnd he said, make us glad <\/p>\n
512
\n00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:11,000
\naccording to the days, wherein
\nthou Hast Afflicted us. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:39:11,800 –> 00:39:16,400
\nWhat an incredible perspective.
\nWe’re aiming for joy in our <\/p>\n
514
\n00:39:16,400 –> 00:39:20,600
\nsufferings So how can we reach
\nJoy? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:39:21,300 –> 00:39:26,000
\nWell, as we conclude our study
\nof Lamentations in the meaning <\/p>\n
516
\n00:39:26,600 –> 00:39:31,900
\nof suffering, it’s really for
\nthree reasons in the first one <\/p>\n
517
\n00:39:31,900 –> 00:39:35,900
\nis that suffering is for our
\nultimate good. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:39:38,000 –> 00:39:40,700
\nNow we all know that suffering
\ndoesn’t feel good. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:39:41,800 –> 00:39:49,300
\nSuffering never feels good.
\nThat feelings are not facts and <\/p>\n
520
\n00:39:49,300 –> 00:39:53,900
\nthe facts are that actually
\nsuffering is for our good. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:39:54,600 –> 00:39:57,000
\nLook what Joseph says in Genesis
\n50. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:39:57,000 –> 00:40:02,800
\nBut as for you ye thought evil
\nagainst me but God meant it unto<\/p>\n
523
\n00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:08,900
\ngood to bring to pass as it is
\nthis day to save much people <\/p>\n
524
\n00:40:08,900 –> 00:40:13,300
\nalive couldn’t almost get a
\nbetter description of the <\/p>\n
525
\n00:40:13,300 –> 00:40:17,100
\natonement in the Book of
\nGenesis, then that little phrase<\/p>\n
526
\n00:40:19,100 –> 00:40:24,400
\nThis whole thing is meant for
\nour good to save us alive and <\/p>\n
527
\n00:40:24,400 –> 00:40:29,300
\neverything that looked evil was
\nactually for a good order on me,<\/p>\n
528
\n00:40:29,300 –> 00:40:32,100
\neight, who fed them with Manna
\nin the wilderness that he might <\/p>\n
529
\n00:40:32,100 –> 00:40:36,600
\nhumble thee improve the and do
\nthe good in thy latter, end? <\/p>\n
530
\n00:40:37,100 –> 00:40:40,700
\nSome 119.
\nIt is good for me that I’ve been<\/p>\n
531
\n00:40:40,700 –> 00:40:43,500
\nAfflicted.
\nGood for me, that I have been <\/p>\n
532
\n00:40:43,500 –> 00:40:47,800
\nAfflicted that I might learn thy
\nstatutes or Romans 8, we know <\/p>\n
533
\n00:40:47,800 –> 00:40:51,800
\nthat all things work.
\nGive it for good, for those that<\/p>\n
534
\n00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:54,800
\nlove God.
\nAnd the greatest example of this<\/p>\n
535
\n00:40:54,800 –> 00:40:56,500
\nhas to be the crucifixion, does
\nit? <\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:56,500 –> 00:41:01,700
\nNot I mean, when we look at the
\ncrucifixion it’s so wrong. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:41:02,100 –> 00:41:06,800
\nAnd so evil that that happened
\nto a perfect lovely man, but out<\/p>\n
538
\n00:41:06,800 –> 00:41:15,000
\nof the greatest evil, And the
\ncruelest suffering Kane, the <\/p>\n
539
\n00:41:15,000 –> 00:41:19,800
\ngreatest good.
\nSuffering is for our good. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:41:20,300 –> 00:41:25,600
\nThere is more cause for joy in
\nour suffering Beyond just <\/p>\n
541
\n00:41:25,600 –> 00:41:29,400
\ngoodness though.
\nAnd that’s because suffering, <\/p>\n
542
\n00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,000
\nultimately will bring us to
\nperfection. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:41:33,200 –> 00:41:38,000
\nHebrews chapter 2 and verse 10
\nfor it, became him for whom are <\/p>\n
544
\n00:41:38,000 –> 00:41:41,000
\nall things and by whom are all
\nthings in bringing many sons to <\/p>\n
545
\n00:41:41,000 –> 00:41:43,700
\nglory to make the captain of
\ntheir salvation. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:41:44,200 –> 00:41:49,700
\nPerfect through sufferings.
\nAnd it’s not just Christ, it’s <\/p>\n
547
\n00:41:49,700 –> 00:41:54,100
\nourselves sees Peter, but the
\nGod of all Grace who is cooled <\/p>\n
548
\n00:41:54,100 –> 00:41:56,200
\nus unto his Heavenly Glory by
\nChrist? <\/p>\n
549
\n00:41:56,200 –> 00:41:58,400
\nJesus.
\nAfter that, you have suffered a <\/p>\n
550
\n00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:04,700
\nwhile make you perfect stablish.
\nDrinks and see to you. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:10,300
\nThis is our hope suffering is
\nnot just to ultimately realize <\/p>\n
552
\n00:42:10,300 –> 00:42:14,400
\ngood.
\nBut to ultimately realize <\/p>\n
553
\n00:42:14,400 –> 00:42:22,400
\nperfection.
\nIn Christ, and in US. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:30,800
\nAnd yet, I think you would agree
\nthat even this has a tinge of <\/p>\n
555
\n00:42:30,800 –> 00:42:33,500
\nselfishness.
\nIt’s our good. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:42:34,900 –> 00:42:41,600
\nIt could be we us seeking after
\nour Perfection that the ultimate<\/p>\n
557
\n00:42:41,600 –> 00:42:46,400
\npurpose of suffering is for our
\nchanged lives to Bear, testimony<\/p>\n
558
\n00:42:46,400 –> 00:42:51,900
\nto something, not of ourselves,
\nbut of God and the clue as to <\/p>\n
559
\n00:42:51,900 –> 00:42:57,300
\nwhat that is is right here.
\nAnd these two quotations on <\/p>\n
560
\n00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:04,700
\nsuffering, perfecting us.
\nBecause the ultimate good is <\/p>\n
561
\n00:43:04,700 –> 00:43:10,700
\nreally hidden in those two
\nverses, its the glory of <\/p>\n
562
\n00:43:10,700 –> 00:43:16,700
\nsuffering suffering is to bring
\nus to a point where we reflect <\/p>\n
563
\n00:43:16,700 –> 00:43:22,600
\nGod’s glory and his character as
\nwe saw last night with a brother<\/p>\n
564
\n00:43:22,600 –> 00:43:27,900
\nBen.
\nActually, the true in point of <\/p>\n
565
\n00:43:27,900 –> 00:43:33,000
\nsuffering is the Declaration of
\nGod’s glory in US. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:43:34,500 –> 00:43:37,300
\nThis is the purpose in our
\nlives. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:43:38,400 –> 00:43:40,800
\nI’d like you to come back to
\nLuke chapter 15. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:43:42,100 –> 00:43:46,500
\nBecause as we close this morning
\nwith just a couple of <\/p>\n
569
\n00:43:46,500 –> 00:43:50,300
\nreferences, I’d like to draw
\nyour attention to the story of <\/p>\n
570
\n00:43:50,300 –> 00:43:54,400
\nthe prodigal son because
\nepitomized in the story of the <\/p>\n
571
\n00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:57,900
\nprodigal.
\nSon, is the lesson of suffering.<\/p>\n
572
\n00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:01,500
\nThe change, the change from
\nLamentations 1 and 2 to <\/p>\n
573
\n00:44:01,500 –> 00:44:07,700
\nLamentations 4 & 5.
\nNow, we know we know the story <\/p>\n
574
\n00:44:07,700 –> 00:44:11,500
\nbut embedded in, this story is a
\nkey for our lives and it’s the <\/p>\n
575
\n00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:15,000
\nproof that suffering makes a
\ndifference. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:44:16,000 –> 00:44:22,100
\nSuffering, makes a difference,
\nLuke chapter, 15, and verse 12. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:44:27,900 –> 00:44:32,500
\nReading from verse 11, he said a
\ncertain man had two sons and the<\/p>\n
578
\n00:44:32,500 –> 00:44:34,500
\nyounger of them said unto his
\nfather. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:44:34,500 –> 00:44:38,400
\nFather, you might want to put a
\ncircle around these words. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:44:38,800 –> 00:44:45,300
\nGive me give me the portion of
\ngoods that falleth to me and he <\/p>\n
581
\n00:44:45,308 –> 00:44:47,300
\ndivided unto him as living and
\nhe went out. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:44:47,300 –> 00:44:53,200
\nAnd he spent everything rapidly
\nand foolishly on himself when he<\/p>\n
583
\n00:44:53,207 –> 00:44:57,500
\nhad spent all there arose, a
\nmighty foe. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:44:57,700 –> 00:45:02,300
\nFamine in the land and he began
\nto be in want and he went and <\/p>\n
585
\n00:45:02,300 –> 00:45:05,500
\njoined himself to a citizen of
\nthat country and he sends him <\/p>\n
586
\n00:45:05,500 –> 00:45:08,100
\ninto the fields to feed swine
\nand he would have eaten has <\/p>\n
587
\n00:45:08,400 –> 00:45:12,100
\neaten his fill with the with the
\nhusks that the swine did eat and<\/p>\n
588
\n00:45:12,100 –> 00:45:18,900
\nno man gave unto him verse 17.
\nBut when he came to himself, He <\/p>\n
589
\n00:45:18,900 –> 00:45:22,100
\nsaid.
\nHow many hired Servants of my <\/p>\n
590
\n00:45:22,100 –> 00:45:25,600
\nfather’s have bread enough, and
\nto spare, and I perish with <\/p>\n
591
\n00:45:25,600 –> 00:45:27,900
\nHunger.
\nI will arise and go to my father<\/p>\n
592
\n00:45:27,900 –> 00:45:31,300
\nand said to him, father, I have
\nsinned against heaven and before<\/p>\n
593
\n00:45:31,300 –> 00:45:34,600
\nthee, and am no more worthy to
\nbe called thy son. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:45:36,400 –> 00:45:41,800
\nMake me as one of the hired
\nservants and you might like to <\/p>\n
595
\n00:45:41,800 –> 00:45:48,300
\nput a circle around those words
\nmake me, this is the story of <\/p>\n
596
\n00:45:48,300 –> 00:45:51,500
\nThe Prodigal Son.
\nThe purpose of suffering is to <\/p>\n
597
\n00:45:51,500 –> 00:45:56,000
\nmake us come to ourselves to
\nrealize the wonderful character <\/p>\n
598
\n00:45:56,000 –> 00:45:59,200
\nof our father and to throw
\nourselves on his mercy. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:45:59,400 –> 00:46:09,700
\nAnd we go from, give me to make
\nme and suffering is the <\/p>\n
600
\n00:46:09,700 –> 00:46:12,200
\ndifference.
\nIt takes us from focusing on our<\/p>\n
601
\n00:46:12,200 –> 00:46:22,300
\nself to focusing on God.
\nAnd we see in our prayers that <\/p>\n
602
\n00:46:22,300 –> 00:46:28,200
\nour prayers go from Comfort, be.
\nTwo. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:46:29,500 –> 00:46:34,100
\nConform me.
\nIt’s no longer give me. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:46:34,700 –> 00:46:37,900
\nIt’s make me.
\nThis is spiritual maturity. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:46:37,900 –> 00:46:41,400
\nThis is the difference between
\nLamentations one and <\/p>\n
606
\n00:46:41,400 –> 00:46:45,600
\nLamentations five.
\nGod’s glory can be seen brothers<\/p>\n
607
\n00:46:45,600 –> 00:46:48,800
\nand sisters in transformed
\nlives. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:46:50,600 –> 00:46:54,400
\nIt’s not just seen in people who
\nsuffer button, people who suffer<\/p>\n
609
\n00:46:54,400 –> 00:46:58,800
\nwith the right attitude for the
\nright reasons, people who <\/p>\n
610
\n00:46:58,800 –> 00:47:02,900
\nunderstand the purpose of
\nsuffering, and the ultimate end <\/p>\n
611
\n00:47:03,000 –> 00:47:09,200
\nimmortality.
\nAnd more more than just that a <\/p>\n
612
\n00:47:09,200 –> 00:47:14,900
\nfellowship with Christ Family
\nlikeness with him, We’re All <\/p>\n
613
\n00:47:14,900 –> 00:47:19,000
\nGod’s Children.
\nHe and US conformed to His <\/p>\n
614
\n00:47:19,000 –> 00:47:21,300
\nImage.
\nCome a few will to Romans <\/p>\n
615
\n00:47:21,300 –> 00:47:25,000
\nchapter 8 in conclusion of our
\nstudies together this week. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:47:27,600 –> 00:47:33,200
\nThese well-known words.
\nVerse 17. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:47:34,800 –> 00:47:39,000
\nOr reading from verse 16, the
\nspirit itself, beareth witness, <\/p>\n
618
\n00:47:39,000 –> 00:47:47,700
\nwith our spirit that we are the
\nchildren of God. and if <\/p>\n
619
\n00:47:47,700 –> 00:47:56,700
\nchildren, Then ears is of God
\nand Joint heirs with Christ. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:47:56,900 –> 00:48:00,400
\nWhy are we joint is with him?
\nBecause we have been joined <\/p>\n
621
\n00:48:00,400 –> 00:48:04,600
\ntogether in fellowship with him
\nby our sufferings. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:48:06,100 –> 00:48:08,900
\nJoint is with Christ.
\nIf so be that. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:48:08,900 –> 00:48:16,000
\nWe suffer with him, that we may
\nalso be glorified together for. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:48:16,000 –> 00:48:20,100
\nI reckon that the sufferings of,
\nthis present time are not worthy<\/p>\n
625
\n00:48:20,800 –> 00:48:27,200
\nto be compared with the glory,
\nwhich shall be revealed in US. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:48:29,500 –> 00:48:32,000
\nThis is all about developing a
\nfamily likeness. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:48:32,200 –> 00:48:35,200
\nWe are children.
\nWe are Sons. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:48:35,300 –> 00:48:42,600
\nWe are joint ears but only if we
\nsuffer with him, our sufferings <\/p>\n
629
\n00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:46,100
\nare not worthy to be compared
\nwith what God has promised to <\/p>\n
630
\n00:48:46,100 –> 00:48:48,400
\ngive Christ.
\nAnd if we are prepared to <\/p>\n
631
\n00:48:48,400 –> 00:48:51,700
\nFellowship, his sufferings, and
\nfill up the sufferings of his <\/p>\n
632
\n00:48:51,700 –> 00:48:56,500
\nbody behind, then we are in him,
\nand we will inherit all things <\/p>\n
633
\n00:48:56,700 –> 00:49:03,600
\nand her brother, Harry tenant
\nsaid, The Best Is Yet To Come. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:49:04,700 –> 00:49:06,900
\nIt’s all going to be worth it.
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:49:07,600 –> 00:49:14,200
\nIt is all going to be worth it.
\nSome of you may have had The <\/p>\n
636
\n00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:18,500
\nexperience of watching your
\nwife, give birth. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:49:20,500 –> 00:49:26,600
\nAnd all of the pain disappears
\nin just minutes. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:49:27,600 –> 00:49:31,800
\nAnd I asked her after, the last
\ntime, ten minutes after she gave<\/p>\n
639
\n00:49:31,800 –> 00:49:34,500
\nbirth, we’re ten minutes
\nearlier. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:49:34,500 –> 00:49:36,600
\nShe was saying something quite
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:49:37,600 –> 00:49:43,000
\nWould you do it again?
\nAnd she said in a heartbeat, In <\/p>\n
642
\n00:49:43,000 –> 00:49:47,200
\na heartbeat, all the pain and
\nthe suffering dissolves in a <\/p>\n
643
\n00:49:47,200 –> 00:49:50,600
\nmoment of time with the joy of
\nthat child. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:49:51,400 –> 00:49:53,200
\nThis is what it’s going to be
\nlike, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
645
\n00:49:53,200 –> 00:49:58,100
\nwhich of us having experienced,
\nonly 10 minutes of immortality, <\/p>\n
646
\n00:49:58,900 –> 00:50:02,500
\n10 minutes of immortality will
\nnot say, I’d do it all again. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:50:03,400 –> 00:50:05,800
\nIn fact, I’d put up with a lot
\nmore. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:50:07,300 –> 00:50:11,300
\nTo be here right now. 10 minutes
\ninto eternal life. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:50:11,300 –> 00:50:13,300
\nThis is our hope brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:50:13,800 –> 00:50:18,600
\nThis is our goal.
\nThis book can be at inspiration.<\/p>\n
651
\n00:50:20,100 –> 00:50:26,400
\nLet’s pray that his glory might
\nbe seen in all of us revealed in<\/p>\n
652
\n00:50:26,400 –> 00:50:30,900
\nUS perfected by suffering.
\nAnd that the Timeless message of<\/p>\n
653
\n00:50:30,908 –> 00:50:34,400
\nLamentations for us, might not
\nhave been in vain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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