1 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,500 Thank you for joining us at Key Life Fellowship for our Pulpit 2 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:13,000 Ministry, podcast. Each sermon on this podcast is 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,200 from our 11 a.m. Sunday service. 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,900 We are glad that you have joined us digitally, but would love to 5 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:23,100 see you in person on Sunday mornings at either 9 a.m. or 11 6 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:27,100 a.m. Now, let's open God's word and 7 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:30,100 ask him to reveal his truths for our lives. 8 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,800 If you would turn your Bibles to First Peter chapter 4, I will be 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,400 looking today at a message entitled suffering. 10 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,700 What? No one wants and everyone needs 11 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:50,100 And as you're turning. And I want I want to kind of set 12 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:53,100 the set the tone for us today and set our minds in the right 13 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,200 place in our world today. Is it true that the greatest 14 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,100 commodity seems to be comfort? You don't like your shirt, so 15 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:01,800 you go, buy a comfort color shirt. 16 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,700 You, you don't like your chairs, it's not comfortable enough. 17 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:09,500 So you go get a different share. Some of you just came from 18 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:11,300 enrich next door and you're thankful to be in more 19 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:16,900 comfortable chairs. But all we wants Comfort, right? 20 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,500 And will do whatever it takes to be comfortable. 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,600 We want a different pair of shoes because our old, pair of 22 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,500 shoes aren't comfortable enough. And at every point we seem to 23 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:32,000 strive for Comfort, we think that comfortable and easy means 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,900 best. If it's easy, I like it, it's 25 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:37,100 comfortable. I'm for it yet. 26 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:41,500 This Idea doesn't really fit the New Testament Church. 27 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:48,900 We, we so often in error, we want to get to heaven with no 28 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:52,400 scars. We want to get to heaven with no 29 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,800 suffering here on this earth and the easiest road we can to get 30 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,300 to heaven and then I'll be good. We want as you've heard, it said 31 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:03,600 we want a crown with no cross. This couldn't be the farthest 32 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:04,800 thing from the New Testament Church. 33 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,800 Paul the Apostle writes in 2nd Corinthians, chapter 4 verse 8. 34 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,600 He said that Persecuted perplexed, we're struck down and 35 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,800 we're bearing in our body. The death of Christ later in the 36 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,300 same book, he writes in chapter 11 of second Corinthians. 37 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:20,700 In verse 24, he says five times I received from the Jews to 40 38 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:23,200 Lashes. Minus one, three times. 39 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,200 I was beaten with rods. Once I was pelted with stones 40 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,100 three times. I was Shipwrecked, I spent a 41 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,800 night and a day in the open sea. I've been constantly on the 42 00:02:30,808 --> 00:02:34,400 Move, have been in danger from rivers, and danger from bandits 43 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,500 in danger, from my fellow Jews in danger, from Gentiles and 44 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:39,800 danger in the city. Danger in the country in danger 45 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,300 at Sea. And in danger from false 46 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:44,300 Believers, I have labored and toiled and have often Gone 47 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:46,800 without sleep. I've known hunger and thirst, 48 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,200 and have often Gone without food. 49 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,700 I've been cold and naked, he says to Timothy. 50 00:02:51,700 --> 00:02:54,300 And second Timothy 3:12 that if anyone wants to live a Godly 51 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:56,800 life in Christ Jesus, they will be persecuted. 52 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:01,400 This sound comfortable? It sound like an easy life. 53 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,100 Oh, Paul is not enough for us and Peter. 54 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:05,800 It is the moment, the Lord Jesus himself in. 55 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,800 John 16:33 said, in this world, you will have trouble. 56 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:13,000 And so we must ask. Why has the church bought the 57 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,100 LIE of living a comfortable, life living the High Life 58 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:20,300 chasing Comfort at all. Cause why is this crept into the 59 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:24,300 church? Because suffering is going to 60 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:25,600 look at it. Is truly what? 61 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,000 No one wants and truly what everyone needs. 62 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,700 Let's look at First Peter for together and just to give you a 63 00:03:31,708 --> 00:03:34,600 little background on the book of First Peter, he is writing to 64 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,800 scattered Believers and a common theme is persecution and 65 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,000 suffering. In this book, in fact, in the 66 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,900 Five Short chapters in this book, Peter uses the word suffer 67 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,000 17 times and uses it for in the few verses, we're going to look 68 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,100 at Okay, so the theme in First Peter is very clear, there's a 69 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,700 lot about suffering. What's it mean? 70 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:00,300 Let's look at it. Verse 12, the First Peter 71 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:05,900 chapter 4 if you will He says dear friends do not be surprised 72 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:08,900 at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you as 73 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:10,900 though something strange were happening to you. 74 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:14,700 But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of 75 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:16,899 Christ. So that you may be overjoyed. 76 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:20,300 When his glory is revealed, if you are insulted because of the 77 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:23,100 name of Christ, you are blessed for the spirit of glory and of 78 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:27,700 God, rests on you. Verse 15. 79 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:31,900 If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief, or any 80 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:33,900 other kind of criminal or even as a meddler. 81 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,600 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed. 82 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,500 But praise God, that you bear that name for it is time for 83 00:04:40,508 --> 00:04:42,400 judgment to begin with God's household. 84 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:45,400 And if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those 85 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,000 who do not obey the gospel of God? 86 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,200 And if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will 87 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,900 become of the ungodly and The Sinner? 88 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,400 So then those who suffer according to God's will should 89 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:00,600 commit It themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to 90 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,500 do good. And so, there's a few things we 91 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,600 want to look at here and verse from this text, we see that 92 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,000 suffering is certain. We see that suffering is certain 93 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,800 looking verse 12, He begins verse 12 by saying dear friends 94 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,700 and this is the same word as we get another plate beloved. 95 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,200 It's the exact same word that God. 96 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,500 The Father speaks about Jesus Christ at his baptism, is this 97 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,900 is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased, you have a loving 98 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,100 reminder right off the bat from Peter right here. 99 00:05:33,300 --> 00:05:36,700 He wants his people to not be surprised at the fiery ordeal 100 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:40,100 that's coming on you and he's going to tell them the truth in 101 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:42,900 perfect love. And I want you to think about 102 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:45,700 this and our day and time, no one wants to hear the truth 103 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:47,400 because they don't think it's very loving. 104 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,400 The most loving thing you can do for someone is tell them the 105 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,300 truth. Peter gives them a loving or 106 00:05:52,308 --> 00:05:55,600 minor dear friends. I love you so much to not let 107 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,400 you be ill-informed to not let you be caught off guard at 108 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,900 what's coming to not be unbeknown of the suffering. 109 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:06,300 That's about to come upon all of you and he calls it, his fiery 110 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:08,800 ordeal. This is true. 111 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,800 Pastoral love. You know when someone loves you, 112 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,200 if they tell you the truth, if they're not afraid to maybe 113 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,000 scare you. If there are not afraid to make 114 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,300 me hurt your feelings, but he cared for them deeply and he 115 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:23,700 wants them to not be surprised. He calls them beloved, he calls 116 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:29,200 them, dear friends, Your friends suffering a certain suffering a 117 00:06:29,207 --> 00:06:33,100 certain so, so be ready. There is a test coming. 118 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:35,700 He says don't be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come 119 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,400 to test. You don't be, don't be shocked 120 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,200 by, it's coming. It's guaranteed. 121 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:45,300 We know it's certain There is this fiery ordeal, he calls it a 122 00:06:45,300 --> 00:06:48,100 test. Now, the test is not for God to 123 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:50,400 know if their faith is real. So when you go through a test of 124 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:51,800 faith, it's not for God to know him. 125 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,000 And I wonder if they're going to actually trust me, is that 126 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,500 foolish? Because God knows all things, 127 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:58,600 right? It's not that God is going to 128 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,900 sit back there and say, man, I really hope they passed this 129 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:03,000 test. The test is for you. 130 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:06,400 The test is for you to be refined in your faith to grow as 131 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,800 we sing in your faith. And to really for you to know 132 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,200 for certain is my faith genuine, because when it's tested, and 133 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:18,000 you'll know said, is the refining by Fire. 134 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,700 This guaranteed test is not an odd test, it's not a strange 135 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:26,100 test but it's a it's a certain test suffering is certain. 136 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,300 If you're in Christ, suffering is part of your Christian Duty. 137 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,800 It's what you do. Now this debunks just as one 138 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,300 verse the whole Prosperity Gospel, doesn't it? 139 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,700 They god with the blessed with health wealth and prosperity on 140 00:07:39,707 --> 00:07:41,300 this life. All you need to do is just name 141 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:43,300 it and claim it in Jesus name. Amen. 142 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:45,000 And it's yours. That's not. 143 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,100 That is not at all. What Paul taught. 144 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:48,200 That's not at all. What? 145 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,500 Jesus taught. That's not at all. 146 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:51,700 What? Peter taught that's not at all 147 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:54,500 what the Bible teaches. If you're following someone like 148 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:58,300 that or if you're like to listen to someone like that, stop their 149 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:03,700 leading, you and others to hell. And so Peter. 150 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:06,600 Guys don't think that you're just going to live a 151 00:08:06,608 --> 00:08:08,900 comfortable. Easy life will be surprised. 152 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:12,800 Although so far in the history of the church, the church has 153 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,600 been somewhat tolerated. There's been scattered 154 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,700 persecution here and there but there has been no widespread 155 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:19,700 from the emperor. We're killing the Christians 156 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,600 were persecuting. The Christians Christianity has 157 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,500 not been officially. Outlawed said, you guys have 158 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:28,500 been tolerated living somewhat comfortable for a little bit of 159 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:34,100 time? Don't be shocked. when it comes 160 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,100 when we can be shocked, when your world flips upside down, 161 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:41,100 And persecution was coming on them. 162 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,500 Persecuted persecution is coming on us. 163 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,500 Suffering is coming for us. American Church, don't be 164 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,800 shocked. When persecution comes don't but 165 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,400 don't be surprised when the fiery fiery ordeal comes as 166 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,400 there. Something strange were happening 167 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:00,500 to you know this it's nothing random. 168 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:06,400 It is not a random happening is not God. 169 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,500 Sitting back looking and man. Oh man, I can't control this. 170 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,600 I have no control over the situation helpless. 171 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:17,000 This is not a random situation. This test is for you is test is 172 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,100 not happening. Going by any chance or any 173 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,700 Randomness instead? God is Sovereign over all that, 174 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:27,200 we believe that God is Sovereign period. 175 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,500 You had any clause or any extra stuff to the end of that phrase, 176 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,800 God is no longer Sovereign. God is Sovereign over all this 177 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,900 includes suffering, this includes persecution. 178 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,400 He's a man that's kind of harsh. I would love some chapter. 179 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,000 Maybe some verses to prove that to me. 180 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,400 I'll give you a whole book, 42 chapters job. 181 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,200 Go read it. Look at that. 182 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,200 Guy was God's Sovereign over job suffering. 183 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,000 Was he not only Sovereign over suffering. 184 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,600 He was Sovereign over Satan himself. 185 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,900 Sane only does what God allows him to do. 186 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:08,500 He answers to God, everything in creation, answers to the 187 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:11,900 Creator. Your suffering. 188 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:19,600 Is not random your suffering is purposeful and we can rest in 189 00:10:19,608 --> 00:10:21,200 the fact that God is Sovereign over our suffering. 190 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,400 And even our persecution can't we if you can't rest in that 191 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:29,700 menu to check your heart. So we see suffering a certain 192 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,600 very clear, verse 12 or 13 and 14. 193 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,300 We see the suffering brings christlikeness. 194 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,400 Look at that. But rejoice in as much as you 195 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,000 participate in the sufferings of Christ, you bring it brings 196 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,300 christlikeness because you joined with Christ and 197 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:45,600 suffering. Did Christ that did Christ 198 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,700 suffer unjustly. Yes, the only perfect one. 199 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:56,800 The righteous Son of God. Died at the hands of sinful men. 200 00:10:57,700 --> 00:10:59,600 He died. A brutal death, a criminal's 201 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,700 death, a murder is death and revolutionaries death. 202 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,900 He died. A death. 203 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:08,100 That should not have been his. He was led like a sheep to the 204 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:10,100 slaughter. Yet, he did not even open his 205 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:14,800 mouth. Unjust suffering. 206 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 But we join with Christ and suffering. 207 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,700 We are participating in that and we rejoice in that because we 208 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,300 could to be like Christ Jesus. Hebrews 12 verse 2, it says it 209 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:26,500 for the joy set before him endured the cross. 210 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,500 For the joy. He was joyous. 211 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:36,000 Is obedience to the father's will in being crushed for our 212 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,700 sins. What do they ask about your own 213 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:43,100 life? James 1:2, says to count it all 214 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:46,200 or consider it pure joy. When You Face Trials of many 215 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,200 kinds do that Do you do you count it? 216 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,100 Joy, when the worst thing imaginable happens to your life, 217 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,900 when everything falls through. Can you count that Joy because 218 00:11:56,900 --> 00:11:59,200 you're actually joining with Christ and suffering. 219 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,700 Oh, so often man, oui oui mon. We complain. 220 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,500 We don't as Paul says in Philippians, 4:4 it to rejoice 221 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:09,600 in the lord always. And just in case you missed it 222 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:14,000 the first time he says, again, I say rejoice, you know where he 223 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,100 wrote that In a prison, he wrote that in a prison. 224 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:24,700 So if suffering he was counting it all joy in the trial that he 225 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:27,700 was going through. But here's the thing, if you 226 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:34,100 love The World's comfort, You're not going to rejoice in the 227 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:37,900 suffering for Christ. You're going to be upset. 228 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,600 You're going to complain. The, you didn't get your way you 229 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,500 to complain that your life is falling apart. 230 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,300 You don't know what to do. Because you love the things of 231 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:51,000 this world. And not Christ. 232 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,300 First John says, you're not love the world or anything of the 233 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:57,000 world, you love the world, the love of the father is truly not 234 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,600 in you love Christ, are you love the world? 235 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,100 If you love Christ, you'll Rejoice. 236 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:05,900 But now you're wondering, why do I rejoice in suffering? 237 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:10,700 It seems all bad, doesn't it? Everything is crashing down, but 238 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:14,200 life is falling apart. You rejoice and suffering number 239 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,000 one, because you're participating in Christ. 240 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,400 As we've already said you share in his suffering. 241 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:22,300 Any Christians want to be like Jesus? 242 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:25,500 We're Christians right? Where we are Christ's ones. 243 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,100 You want to be like Jesus, be willing to suffer. 244 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:33,500 Jesus said John 15 20 It's the world hates you keep in mind it 245 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:35,700 hated me. First, we were to be like 246 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:38,000 Christ. We are to suffer like Christ the 247 00:13:38,008 --> 00:13:40,600 beginning of this chapter in First Peter, chapter 4 verse 1. 248 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:44,100 He says therefore since Christ suffered in his body arm 249 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:50,600 yourselves with the same attitude Because whoever suffers 250 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,400 in the body is done with sin as a result as a result of your 251 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,300 same attitude of suffering with Christ, you do not live the rest 252 00:13:57,300 --> 00:13:59,800 of your Earthly lives for human desires. 253 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:04,300 But rather for the will of God, you want to just break your own 254 00:14:04,300 --> 00:14:08,500 will realize this, that, hey, when I suffer, I'm living God's 255 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:09,800 will. And I don't want my well, I want 256 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,700 God's will because his will is always good. 257 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:14,700 Even in the midst of the most trying times of life God's will 258 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:19,200 is better than yours and mine. UE rejoice in suffering because 259 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,600 as you participate in Christ's suffering, and you also will be 260 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,300 greatly rewarded. Look at the end of verse 13 261 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:30,000 there in First Peter He says you participate in the sufferings of 262 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Christ so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is 263 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:38,000 revealed. Romans 8 says it like this verse 264 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,600 18, our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the 265 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,400 glory that will be revealed with us. 266 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,600 Second Corinthians 4:17, another verse just to stick with the 267 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,700 theme of suffering that is so clear and all the scripture, he 268 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:53,600 says, our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an 269 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,900 eternal glory that far, outweighs them all. 270 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:59,900 It's so easy in the trying times to think, man, this is as bad as 271 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:01,900 it gets and I'm focused on this and man. 272 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:04,700 Oh, this is awful and whine and complain and bellyache, but we 273 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:08,400 need to rejoice in suffering. Because we know that it's light 274 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:10,900 and it's momentary, and it's achieving for us an eternal 275 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:12,800 glory. That will far outweigh the mall. 276 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:15,100 And let me tell you this, your sufferings are not meaningless, 277 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:18,400 they're not for nothing. They are purposeful and they are 278 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,200 for an eternal reward that you will have if you rejoice in your 279 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:30,100 suffering here on this Earth. Suffering is what we need. 280 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,700 It makes us long for heaven as well, doesn't it? 281 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,300 He's ever had an ailment sickness. 282 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,600 Maybe a family member passes away. 283 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,000 Anything that goes wrong in our life, should make us long for 284 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,300 heaven. The place where suffering is 285 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,800 done away with the price of, There's No More Tears. 286 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,200 There is no more pain. There's no more suffering. 287 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:58,900 We look forward to that and when that day does come we are 288 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:03,100 Overjoyed when the Lord's glory is revealed or we won't be able 289 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:05,300 to contain our jewelry when we meet the Lord, because we 290 00:16:05,300 --> 00:16:07,700 suffered on this earth. And the glory that is revealed 291 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:11,200 in heaven, far outweighs the bad that we Face here on the in this 292 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,200 world. Suffering brings Christ's 293 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,600 likeness and joining with Christ, brings christlikeness 294 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,100 and growing in Christ. So I wanted to be very clear. 295 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:23,600 That suffering is necessary for Christian growth. 296 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:29,800 You've never suffered You're probably not a mature Christian. 297 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,700 First Peter chapter 1 verse 6, it builds on. 298 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:39,400 Again this this whole topic verse 6 and all this you greatly 299 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,800 Rejoice, there it is again though. 300 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:46,500 Now, for a little while, you may have had to suffer grief and all 301 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:50,600 kinds of Trials. These have come so that the 302 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,000 proven genuineness of your faith of Greater worth than gold, 303 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,500 which perishes, even though refined by fire may result in 304 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:01,200 Praise Glory and Honor. When Jesus Christ is revealed, 305 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,600 when the suffering in the Trials, come in your life. 306 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,500 It is to grow you and to strengthen your faith as with 307 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:10,200 fire, just as his fiery ordeal was about to come on. 308 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:12,900 The early church, the fiery ordeal that comes in your life 309 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:17,700 is to refine you and so you can grow in Christ, perseverance 310 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:22,300 come, Comes from suffering and perseverance is necessary. 311 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,300 And a true sign of a child of God, a child of God, will 312 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:31,400 persevere all the way until the end y because suffering has 313 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:36,100 brought forth perseverance. Listen to this and James 1:2, we 314 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:39,200 know, consider it pure joy. Whenever you face Trials of many 315 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,500 kinds after this, he says because you know, that the 316 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:47,900 testing of your faith produces perseverance, let perseverance 317 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:51,000 finish its work. So that you may be mature and 318 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,500 complete not lacking anything. Why? 319 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:56,500 Because trials have come tend to the trial. 320 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:59,200 You've learned perseverance and to the perseverance you have 321 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,200 gained maturity and completeness. 322 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:02,800 In Christ, you want to be a mature. 323 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,200 Christian going to be a complete Christian be willing to suffer 324 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:10,000 for Christ. No other way around it again. 325 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,600 Paul says, in Romans five verse 3, we also glory in our 326 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,700 sufferings because we know that suffering, produces 327 00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:19,700 perseverance, perseverance character and character. 328 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:22,800 Hope you show me a beat and Christian you show me a marred 329 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,700 Christian, you show me a brought down Christian, I will show you 330 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:27,900 a mature Christian. When you show me a Christian who 331 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:29,900 is high and mighty and never suffered anything in their life, 332 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:31,600 and I'll show you someone whose faith is weak. 333 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,300 And I'll show you someone who does not have the privilege of 334 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:38,300 participating in the sufferings of suffering of Christ. 335 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,600 You grow in Christ in the hard times. 336 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,100 The easy times, it's easy to love God, it's easy to 337 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:49,400 persevere. You're not persevering for 338 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,900 anything, just walking through life in the hard times, you 339 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:57,800 strength in the Lord grows. Just like a bodybuilder or a 340 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:03,700 workout person. I don't see any gains by just 341 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,900 doing 5 push-ups everyday. A magnet five, push-ups. 342 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:12,100 Anyway, there's something easy, not test their self, not push 343 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:16,800 their selves, but a person who seems true gains, is someone who 344 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,400 brings their body to the point of breaking so that it builds up 345 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,500 stronger, that's what trials are for the Christian, that's what 346 00:19:24,500 --> 00:19:28,000 suffering does. We grow in Christ and suffering? 347 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,300 And finally we are being blessed by Christ in suffering. 348 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:34,000 Now, wait a minute a blessing of Christ. 349 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,200 If I were to survey the church and I would have you all write 350 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,300 down one thing that God has blessed you with. 351 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:41,900 I can guarantee you not one of you would write suffering 352 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:43,600 because we don't think like that but God does. 353 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,300 This is the mind of God. Look at verse 14. 354 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:48,600 He says, if you are insulted because of the name of Christ 355 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,500 you are blessed. The spirit of glory and of God 356 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,200 rests on you, God calls. You blessed when you suffer, you 357 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,400 say o. Woe is me, ma'am. 358 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,800 My life is falling apart. God calls, you blessed. 359 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:03,400 Jesus said this in Matthew 5, verse 10 blessed, are those, who 360 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,100 are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the 361 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:08,400 kingdom blessed. Are you? 362 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,100 When people insult, you persecute you and falsely say, 363 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:14,200 all kinds of evil against you because of me rejoice and be 364 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,000 glad because great is your reward in heaven. 365 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,300 You're blessed by Christ and suffer. 366 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:20,900 You are blessed so much the word blessed here you see in all 367 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:24,000 Beatitude blessed are blessed are blessed our if it's even 368 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,900 there blessed are those who are persecuted Peter uses the same 369 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:30,000 exact word and it means ultimate. 370 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,800 Spiritual fulfillment. It could mean happiness for even 371 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,600 the deeper meaning is to be spiritually fulfilled. 372 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,700 Blessed are the persecuted spiritually fulfilled. 373 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,200 Are you when people insult, you and say all kinds of things 374 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,900 about you, this is opposite. I don't feel blessed. 375 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,700 I feel like everything is not going very blessed. 376 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,700 Well say to you let God be true and every man a liar because 377 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:04,200 that's the truth, I call you blessed, see the high honor of 378 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,900 suffering that it truly is. When you suffer you have God's 379 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:13,100 approval in favor on your life. It's what suffering is so being 380 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:17,300 blessed, is it possible said it like this accept her father? 381 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:19,600 They were beginning to be persecuted. 382 00:21:20,900 --> 00:21:22,500 They were thrown in jail, they were beaten and they were left 383 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,300 free. And this, they said next 541, 384 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:28,900 they rejoiced because they were counted worthy to suffer for the 385 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:31,100 name. That is a backwards thinking 386 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:33,100 today, isn't it? They rejoiced because they were 387 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:34,900 counted worthy for suffering for the name. 388 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,600 They got to be persecuted, they got to be beaten for Christ. 389 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,600 Don't want to do anything for Christ, what's left. 390 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,100 If it harms us. Rodger Raymer said it right 391 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:49,000 about this topic. He said that suffering is not a 392 00:21:49,008 --> 00:21:50,300 punishment, but it's a privilege. 393 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,400 It's a great privilege. I pray that we would share in 394 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,800 the privilege, I probably would share in the blessings of Christ 395 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,400 to suffer one side. Alongside one another one day, 396 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:03,100 It's a high honor to suffer for Christ. 397 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,500 He didn't just leave his hopeless. 398 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,200 If we receive help in the trial, he says, the spirit of Glory 399 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:16,700 rests, on you, the spirit of Glory, he's borrowing from the 400 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:19,700 Old Testament, he's but he's talking about the Shekinah 401 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:21,500 Glory, that would have filled the temple or filled the 402 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:24,300 Tabernacle of God's presence. And the Glorious thing about 403 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:27,100 that is we don't have to go to the temple or Tabernacle. 404 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,200 We are the Temple of the Holy Spirit and God's glory resides 405 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,600 in us through his Holy Spirit. And so, his Spirit rests on us, 406 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,900 we receive help in the midst of a trial from what Jesus calls in 407 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:42,300 John, 14:16, The Advocate or the counselor, or the comforter, the 408 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:47,900 Blessed Holy Spirit, who is now in us, giving us his help and it 409 00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:50,600 rests on us and it never leaves it never goes away. 410 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:53,000 That's why you can stand firm in a trial. 411 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:57,100 That's why you can receive help and the trial because the helper 412 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,800 is in you and working in you You receive help in the trial you 413 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,400 receive rest in the trowel, don't you remember last week 414 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,700 John? 14:27. 415 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:09,500 Jesus said do not let your hearts be troubled. 416 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,700 My peace I give you. And I'll give us the world 417 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,300 gifts. You can have the peace of God in 418 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:19,400 a trial. And suffering and persecution. 419 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:21,700 What does this look like? Practically? 420 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:23,700 I'll tell you this. If you do any study on the early 421 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:27,000 church and any Martyrs all throughout the history of the 422 00:23:27,008 --> 00:23:28,700 church. You see the most the time doing 423 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,700 one thing. When they're either tied to the 424 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:35,500 stake when they're crucified being nailed to the cross. 425 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:45,700 They would sing praises Psalms and hymns to God you talk about 426 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:49,300 rejoicing in the midst of trial. They are being burned alive and 427 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:52,200 they are praising God for his goodness and his blessing upon 428 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,600 their life that they get to suffer for him. 429 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,000 Oh Peter, didn't he didn't he really live this out. 430 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:02,700 Oh, you're not going to crucify Me by like my Lord you crucify 431 00:24:02,700 --> 00:24:05,400 me upside down and I'll rejoice in my sufferings. 432 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,500 I'll Rejoice at this fiery trial that's coming on me. 433 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:14,800 He addressed in the trial you have rest in the trial. finally, 434 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:20,200 even receive Insurance in the trial you receive and Assurance 435 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,000 in the trial because of Christ, because of what he's working in 436 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,600 your life, how when you get to the end of the suffering, 437 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,400 Whatever you're going through and you say Christ brought me 438 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,600 through, aren't you? Sure of him. 439 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:36,300 You can note because your faith has grown sure and certain not 440 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:37,600 in you. Not in how you handled the 441 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,300 situation, but how God just brought me through it. 442 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:43,500 And God showed himself faithful and true and good through all of 443 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:45,300 this. And so, I can be sure of the 444 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,300 fact that I'm his, because if I wasn't his, there's no way I'd 445 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,100 make it through this. Try that, at the end of your 446 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:55,100 life, there's no way I can be standing before you clean Lord 447 00:24:55,300 --> 00:24:57,900 other than Christ, you brought me through the suffering of this 448 00:24:57,900 --> 00:24:59,800 life. In my insurance is only in you 449 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:02,300 man, we learned that on this side of heaven, we will be 450 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,200 Blessed. Suffering brings christlikeness. 451 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,600 I pray, we even pray for suffering. 452 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,400 We could be more christ-like, thirdly. 453 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,600 Suffering will convict. And I wanted to take the next 454 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,700 few verses I want us to ask for questions and this is a good 455 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:22,900 principle to ask when you're going through a suffering and 456 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:25,000 trying time has these four questions? 457 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:27,800 The first, why am I suffering verse 15? 458 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,700 He says this if you suffer it should not be as a murderer or 459 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:35,000 thief or any other kind of criminal or even a meddler. 460 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,700 You're suffering for sin and suffering for wrongdoing. 461 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,400 A meddler. This was a someone who probably 462 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,300 sparked a revolution or spoke against the evil regime of the 463 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:48,000 government. The government had the right to 464 00:25:48,008 --> 00:25:51,400 bear the sword, didn't they? And then suffered just lie 465 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,100 because they spoke or did something against the 466 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:56,300 government. He says, are you suffering? 467 00:25:56,300 --> 00:25:57,700 Because you're doing these simple things? 468 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:02,500 If you're suffering because of sin, that's deserve it. 469 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,700 You do the crime, you deserve you deserve the time and the 470 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:10,500 punishment. So, why are you suffering 471 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:16,000 suffering as a Christian is not just a cop-out or a trump card 472 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,600 to behave? However, you want and say 473 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,000 whatever you want, whatever you want to whoever you want. 474 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,800 However you want to say it because if they speak against 475 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,300 me, they're really speaking to me, it's Christ. 476 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:25,300 Yeah, but you were, you were so rude. 477 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,300 You were hateful. You were mean, downright mean. 478 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,500 That's, that's sinful Behavior. You're suffering because of that 479 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:34,900 are speaking ill against you because of something you did 480 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:37,300 sinful, that's not true biblical suffering. 481 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,300 Don't get it twisted here, just because any wrong comes on. 482 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,500 You, it's not persecution or suffering because of Christ, it 483 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:47,600 could be real suffering. The cop that pulled you over for 484 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,400 going 75 and a 55 and wrote you a ticket is not persecuting you. 485 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,900 For being a Christian. He's giving you a ticket for 486 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:56,000 speeding. There's a difference. 487 00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:59,700 So why am I suffering the reason for my suffering? 488 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,300 Secondly, how am I suffering? It says in verse 16, however, if 489 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:07,700 you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed. 490 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:13,300 But praise God, that you bear that name, praise God, that I 491 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,500 bear the name of Christ and get to suffer for him. 492 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:18,600 And what's wonderful is the word for praise here? 493 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,600 The same root word there is that the same route where we get the 494 00:27:21,608 --> 00:27:24,700 word doxology here. The first song We Sing every 495 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,700 Sunday is praise God, from whom all blessings flow, the 496 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:30,900 doxology. And so when you go through 497 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:38,500 trials, Praise. Doxology, the god. 498 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,600 How do I praise God in a trial? That seems so hard and backwards 499 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:46,900 Calvin said it, right? He said this talking about this 500 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:50,100 very idea. But one that Praises God, they 501 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:53,100 feel their guilt is blotted out and abolished before. 502 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:56,800 God, and on this behalf, then they have reason to praise God. 503 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,400 He speaks of nothing of circumstance. 504 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,400 He speaks his only of the fact that our sins are blotted out 505 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:02,700 there. For we have reason to praise 506 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:05,100 God, you've got reason to praise God, even if it's the worst time 507 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:08,400 of your life, because why? Because Jesus died for me and my 508 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,100 sins are taken away my biggest. Problem is gone, my sins are 509 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:14,200 gone. My guilt is taken away. 510 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,200 I have eternal life in Christ therefore why should I moan and 511 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,700 gripe and complain? I'm gonna praise God. 512 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,900 That's the big picture here. The big picture is your sins are 513 00:28:23,908 --> 00:28:25,800 gone and that's never going to be taken away. 514 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,000 So therefore I'm going to praise God, no matter what, no matter 515 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,200 what he takes away. Job said it Lord gives or takes 516 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,900 away. Nevertheless blessed be the name 517 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:36,900 of the Lord. What an attitude I pray, we'd 518 00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:40,000 have that the psalmist had this attitude in suffering. 519 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,100 So I'm 1 1967. He says, before I was afflicted, 520 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:46,600 I went astray but now I obey your word after being Afflicted 521 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:48,500 verse 71. He said it was good for me to be 522 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:52,100 afflicted, so that I might learn your decrees you ever said, it's 523 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,600 good to be inflicted. That's what the psalmist said. 524 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,200 So my learn the decrees, the word of God. 525 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,300 You don't do that without suffering. 526 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,500 How are you suffering? Do you see it as a badge of high 527 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:10,300 honor? The God has given you that you 528 00:29:10,300 --> 00:29:14,000 get to suffer for Christ? You see, like the apostles, an 529 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,100 ax. Rejoice, because they were found 530 00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:21,500 worthy to suffer for the name. Also, Paul in Philippians 1:29, 531 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:23,100 he said it has been granted to you. 532 00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:26,700 It's been given a gift of God that you behalf of Christ. 533 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:30,600 Not only to believe in him but also to suffer for him. 534 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,200 Oh, will agree with a man faith in God is a gift. 535 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,500 We can only have faith in God as if he gives it to us. 536 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,800 Oh, Paul says, you believe in God because God has granted you 537 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,200 the faith to believe. He's also granted you. 538 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,800 The gift of suffering for him. See the gift that it is, how are 539 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,400 you suffering? You're suffering with that in 540 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,300 mind. Are you suffering ashamedly? 541 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Don't be ashamed. When Peter uses the term 542 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,800 Christian. This was a derogatory term of 543 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,200 the day, they were the lowest, they were the scum of the earth. 544 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,500 Those Christians that Jewish sect Christians, you suffer for 545 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:12,600 the name of Christ, don't be ashamed where the name of Christ 546 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,100 proudly and boldly Never Back Down. 547 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:18,100 Never be ashamed. Even in the suffering. 548 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,200 Oh when the world comes in, the enemy comes, why are you even 549 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,600 hope? Why are you holding on in the 550 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,900 storm? When Jobs wife says Curse God 551 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:29,700 and die. Don't be ashamed. 552 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,100 Wear the badge With Honor. Third question, will I suffer 553 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,400 eternally? Is this going to be what's going 554 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,500 to happen to me forever or 17? Says, for it's time for judgment 555 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,700 and he says, judgment here. It's not talking about 556 00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:48,900 condemnation, but to refine the church as he's talking about 557 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:51,200 first time for judgment to begin with God's household. 558 00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:54,600 And if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those 559 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,300 who do not obey the gospel of God? 560 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:59,600 He's using an argument from the Lesser to the greater here, 561 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:04,600 saying, if even the children of God suffer, how much more will 562 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,700 the ungodly? He says, in verse 18, if it's 563 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,900 hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the 564 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:12,400 ungodly in the center? If he Even us who are in Christ 565 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,100 suffer in this life, man. How bad will it be for eternity 566 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:18,800 for the ungodly who those who do not obey the gospel of Christ. 567 00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:22,700 The answer is very bad worse than we could ever imagine. 568 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,900 Will you suffer for eternity? He's going to happen to me, I'll 569 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,700 tell you this. Jesus teaches the parable of the 570 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:36,200 soils, Matthew Chapter 13. And there was four four types of 571 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,700 soils, one of those types of soils, when trouble or 572 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:43,000 persecution came because of the word, they quickly fell away. 573 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,300 If you give up during trials and persecution when tough get 574 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:50,100 things, get tough, you're not, you're not saved. 575 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,600 And persecution is such a blessing because this, you know, 576 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,100 who's on your team, you want to separate the unbelievers from 577 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:01,500 the non-believers you want to have judgment begin with the 578 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:05,100 house of God persecution comes and the false believers. 579 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:08,500 They fall away and they leave because they were never truly 580 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,400 Believers at all. The real Believers know they 581 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,400 persevere to the end because they see trials. 582 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:16,400 I counted as Joy. My suffering is joy that this 583 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,500 that my present suffering is not worth comparing with the glory. 584 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:21,500 That is to be revealed. This is good. 585 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:24,500 Good. I get to do this for Christ, the 586 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:26,200 non-believer says no, I'm worried about me. 587 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,400 Worry about my job or about my status and worried about my 588 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,600 family. The believer says Kill them all. 589 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,600 You can't take Christ kill me. You can't take Christ. 590 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,200 Take everything I have. You can't take Christ. 591 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,100 So willing to suffer for Christ. If you're not, you're going to 592 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:48,100 suffer for all eternity. If that's you, if you're not in 593 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,200 Christ, you will, you will suffer and pay the penalty for 594 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,100 your sins. For all eternity, a debt that 595 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:56,100 you will never be able to pay off a debt that you will spend. 596 00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:00,400 All eternity forever and ever suffering, the just punishment 597 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,400 for what you've done sinning against the holy God. 598 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:05,800 And there will be no getting out. 599 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:09,000 Jesus said, it's the place where the fire never quenches in the 600 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,700 worm Never Dies, it will be an eternal death forever. 601 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:16,900 Separated from the love and goodness of God, the faithful 602 00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:20,100 Creator, the one that you might have even claimed to know. 603 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,500 And so in suffering happens you need to ask, Will I suffer 604 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:27,600 eternally If you come to the collusion. 605 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,100 Yeah, never trusted in Christ. I've never truly placed my faith 606 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:33,800 in Christ. I've never repented of my sin 607 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:37,800 come to Christ today. The one who suffered once for 608 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,800 all sins and join him in the suffering. 609 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:47,100 Fourth question. And suffering. 610 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:51,700 Comes my reaching others. Oh, and suffering happens. 611 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:58,300 Do you think about this man? There are people. 612 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:03,800 If they don't know Christ, they will suffer forever. 613 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,700 They will find themselves in Hell unless they believe the 614 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,699 gospel of Jesus Christ. And I have the message of hope. 615 00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:11,500 So, therefore, I need to reach them with a message of 616 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:13,400 Salvation. Is that how you look at 617 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,600 suffering? Oh, when bad things happen, 618 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,400 don't run away, run towards the fight. 619 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,199 Run towards the fight of reaching others. 620 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,199 Because they don't hear the message. 621 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,400 How can they believe? They don't believe how can they 622 00:34:30,408 --> 00:34:34,300 be saved? We've got the answer of Hope, 623 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:37,500 bring that message of Hope suffering will convict on it. 624 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:43,000 Fourth suffering, develops confidence. 625 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:48,300 From suffering, develops confidence first, and God's 626 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:53,000 sovereignty. Anybody by show of hands, say I 627 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,700 want God's will for my life. Yeah, we want, his will, his 628 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:02,300 will is to suffer. And I also join they'll still 629 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:06,700 with their hands in the air. You really want God's will in 630 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:09,500 your life? Oh, we know God Sovereign Over 631 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,700 All. What he says in verse 19. 632 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:19,900 So then those who suffer according to God's, will you 633 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:24,500 that according to God's will, God is not in active, God's 634 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,600 active, God's will will happen. Well, who can thwart the will of 635 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,200 God? When we suffer develops 636 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:38,100 confidence in his Sovereign hand in his Sovereign, infinite mind, 637 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,900 this is somehow good. I'll remind you of a passage of 638 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:45,400 scripture that some of, you know, by heart, you have quoted 639 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:48,200 and plaster, maybe in your house, or in your office, Romans 640 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,300 8. We're gonna do something odd and 641 00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:53,400 we're gonna read more than 28 verse 27. 642 00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:57,300 In the context of suffering. Paul writes, the spirit 643 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:00,200 intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God, 644 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,500 the spirit prays for you in accordance with God's will in 645 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,600 your suffering because you're going to pray, God, get me out 646 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,100 of here, the spirits going to pray Lord, grow them, Lord 647 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,000 matures him. Lord Show Yourself faithful in 648 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:20,800 Sovereign in their life. Verse 28, we know we know 649 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,300 without a doubt that in all things, God works for the good 650 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,500 of those who love him who have been called according to his 651 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:31,000 purpose for those God foreknew. He also predestined to be 652 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,700 conformed, to the image of his son, that he might be the 653 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:36,400 firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 654 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,300 What that teaches is before anything began. 655 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,600 God had chosen you Christian to be conformed to the image of 656 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,500 Christ and he accomplishes that too. 657 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,600 The day-to-day lives of us by bringing us through suffering to 658 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,600 make us more like Christ refining Us by fire that is the 659 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,000 Hope and God Sovereign hand that we have amidst trials that will 660 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,300 develop confidence and you know what God will do, he will work 661 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,900 his purpose, your suffering is not meaningless, your suffering 662 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:10,700 is to make you more like Christ and oh The Sovereign Mind Of 663 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:12,300 God. Because would we do it like 664 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:15,700 that? We go, the easy route and 665 00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:19,100 they'll Staples commercials hit the easy button, it would smack 666 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:23,600 the Easy Button. We God says, I my way is better 667 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,900 and we know that he works all things for the good of those who 668 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:28,900 love him and are called according to his purpose 669 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,300 suffering. Also, develops confidence in 670 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:38,000 God's faithfulness, there's no doubt We've all been through 671 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,900 trials suffering or persecution, no matter how intense it may be. 672 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:49,200 Has God ever under delivered in the time of trying? 673 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,700 How he's always shown himself. Faithful, will he ever 674 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:57,900 under-deliver? Be confident in that? 675 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,400 Be confident in God's faithfulness. 676 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:07,000 His name is faithful and true. And the one who's faithful. 677 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:12,200 Peter says, we can commit themselves and ourselves to our 678 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:18,700 faithful Creator and continue to do good, we commit ourselves. 679 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:21,100 We entrust ourselves, it's a banking term that, you know 680 00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:23,800 what? It means you go and entrust your 681 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,400 funds for someone. We entrust our life. 682 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:32,000 To our faithful Creator. He's our only hope. 683 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:34,500 He is our hope and live, he is our hope and death. 684 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,700 He is our Hope For Eternity. He is our Eternal hope and we 685 00:38:38,707 --> 00:38:42,200 can commit Our Lives to him. We can take him to the bank on 686 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,700 his faithfulness. Jesus Christ. 687 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:46,700 He said this, he was on the cross. 688 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:51,600 He said, father into your hands. I commit my spirit. 689 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:57,400 Oh, what ultimate Trust. What commitment he had in his 690 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,800 father's faithfulness. We develop confidence in that 691 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,300 suffering. We develop confidence to press 692 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:10,200 on because of God's sovereignty because of his faithfulness. 693 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,900 We continue to do good, no matter the Flames. 694 00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:17,800 All when the world comes out us to to try to knock us off the 695 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,100 narrow path. We continue to do good, because 696 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:24,600 we haven't trusted ourselves to the one who is faithful and true 697 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:29,600 and Sovereign and good. No matter what comes we 698 00:39:29,607 --> 00:39:32,400 continue. To do good. 699 00:39:33,700 --> 00:39:37,000 We don't say, man, this really isn't worth it. man, I've 700 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,200 trusted Christ my whole life and I've got is a tough life. 701 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,200 Or the early Martyrs polycarp. He said when they nailing him to 702 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:54,500 the stake, he said for 82 years, have I served him and he's never 703 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,300 let me down. He lived a tough life of 704 00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:02,500 suffering persecution because of the name of Christ. now this 705 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:08,800 letter, that Peter wrote, he wrote in the year 64 ad and 706 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200 something happened in that same exact year, the emperor Nero of 707 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,200 Rome, he was the emperor of really all the known world. 708 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:19,100 At the time, he said the city of Rome on fire. 709 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,000 And proceeded to he was a Madman proceeded to blame the 710 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,900 Christians for it, something that he did, he blamed the 711 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:28,700 Christian and then boom persecution erupts from there. 712 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,900 And in the same year that Peter writes this to the church, he 713 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:38,500 wrote does this, he had some Christians sewn in skins of wild 714 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:42,000 beasts and then mauled by dogs until they died. 715 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,900 He had others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax. 716 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,200 Fix them to trees and set them on fire in his Gardens to 717 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,100 illuminate. His garden parties talk about a 718 00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,400 fiery ordeal that's not about that's about to come on them 719 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,300 right? Oh that hit home. 720 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,500 Oh the first Christian, that was lit into flames. 721 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:05,300 Probably recall the words of Peter. 722 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,600 He told us, don't be surprised, he told us, this is coming. 723 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,500 We're going to rejoice in them and so you Christian don't be 724 00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:20,500 shocked. At the fire World, fiery ordeal 725 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:22,000 that has come on you to test you. 726 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,400 You said there's been I don't know about persecution coming in 727 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,400 the Good Ol us of a. How can that happen? 728 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,000 Why can that happen? Wait, when we have the First 729 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,400 Amendment, we got rights Wanted are you triple dog? 730 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,000 Dare you even stand firm on God's truth and watch 731 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,900 persecutions hand fall fast stand. 732 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:47,000 Firm on the truth of the Gospel will be persecuted, you'll be 733 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,200 insulted. Some of us may even find 734 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,100 ourselves in prison or even killed for our very faith. 735 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:56,100 I pray that God would give us the blessing of being martyred 736 00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:58,400 along side of one another. I would want nothing else on 737 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,800 this Earth to go out in a blaze of glory with one of you. 738 00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:05,000 What a privilege, what a blessing. 739 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,600 That would be. You stand firm on biblical 740 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,900 truth. You'll be persecuted stand firm 741 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:20,900 on sanctity of life. You're called a woman hater. 742 00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:25,900 You stand firm on the sanctity of marriage. 743 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:28,400 One man, one woman for life you're a hater. 744 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,300 You stand firm on the true fact that God created mankind male 745 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:36,100 and female he created them. And they have no right to 746 00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:38,400 choose. That's what God Made You. 747 00:42:40,300 --> 00:42:43,300 You're a hater. You say that Jesus is the only 748 00:42:43,300 --> 00:42:45,700 way to Salvation and all other religions lead to hell. 749 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,000 You are the biggest bigoted that has ever been seen in this world 750 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,100 and you are the scum of the earth. 751 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,200 You know what you're doing, you're bearing the name of 752 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,000 Christ and bear the name of Christ, unashamedly. 753 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,300 You hold to any biblical worldview. 754 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,200 You're a dummy. You're illiterate you don't 755 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,500 trust the science. Are you a barbarian? 756 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,700 What are you? I'm a Christian. 757 00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:19,500 You become the outcasts, you get insulted, you get cancelled, you 758 00:43:19,500 --> 00:43:21,500 get persecuted. Don't be shocked when it comes 759 00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:24,300 on you. It is coming fast. 760 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,000 You see the pattern that's being laid here. 761 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,000 What suffering does come Suffer? Well. 762 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,600 Christian. You have no reason to worry the 763 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:36,700 face of suffering. You have no reason to worry. 764 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,300 You have peace, you have rest, you have the blessing of God. 765 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,900 Continue to do good. Trust God in your suffering. 766 00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:48,900 He is our faithful Creator and you can commit your life to him. 767 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,500 And to his cause you can bear the scars that he is ordained 768 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:56,800 that you have on this Earth. What a joy. 769 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,200 I get to walk in the will of God in suffering, and persecution 770 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,000 and trials of many kinds. And in that I will rejoice. 771 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,200 I give a warning to some of you who think you're following 772 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,400 Christ and comfort. You live in the easy life and 773 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,400 you think everything's good with you in the man upstairs. 774 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:20,100 Some of you will say remind you of the words of Jesus in Luke 775 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:22,000 9:23. He said this whoever wants to be 776 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:28,000 my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and 777 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,200 follow me you've got to carry around death with you everywhere 778 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,000 you go if you want to be his disciple. 779 00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:39,800 Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses 780 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,400 their life, for my sake will save it. 781 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,800 Puritan Thomas Watson Road of Trials. 782 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,100 He said the test of a pilot is seen in a storm. 783 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,100 So the test of a Christian is seen in Affliction. 784 00:44:51,700 --> 00:44:52,900 You want to know if your faith is real. 785 00:44:53,700 --> 00:44:56,800 Walk through the storm broke through the trials. 786 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,000 Oh, you'll know very quickly if your faith is real or 787 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,400 counterfeit, Do you have faith? Do you have true faith in Saving 788 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:10,500 faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Will you be counted worthy to 789 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:14,400 suffer for your for him? You have the Blessed hand of God 790 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,600 upon your life to get to do that. 791 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:23,300 You either suffer for him now. And experience is blessing or 792 00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:26,600 you will suffer at the hands of an Angry God for all eternity. 793 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,100 If you are in that camp, your faith has never been placed in 794 00:45:35,100 --> 00:45:38,300 Christ. If he is not your hope, if he is 795 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:40,700 not your salvation, I beg you and plead. 796 00:45:40,700 --> 00:45:44,700 You come to Christ today, repent, and commit your very 797 00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:48,300 life to Jesus Christ. The faithful Savior. 798 00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:50,900 He will save you to the uttermost. 799 00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:54,000 You say I don't know how he can save me, check, you don't know 800 00:45:54,000 --> 00:46:00,800 what I've done. The Lord does the Lord will 801 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,600 forgive you? He will cleanse your sin, he 802 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,700 will bless you with his eternal blessing and he will even bring 803 00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:09,700 you into a place where you can rejoice in the midst of 804 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:12,100 suffering, that is only brought by the hand of God. 805 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,300 If you don't know Jesus today is the day of salvation. 806 00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:21,000 If, you know him For Joyce. Rejoice in him. 807 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:22,600 Let's thank him. God, we thank you so much for 808 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,100 the privilege. It is just walk. 809 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,600 With you. To walk in the peace that comes 810 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:34,600 from knowing you. Lord to Bear the name of Christ 811 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:41,500 that we are. So, Unworthy of I pray that you 812 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:46,600 would give us a heart of joy and praise emits, no matter what 813 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,000 comes Lord that we may be fixed on you. 814 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:55,600 That our eyes will be. Fixed on you, there are life 815 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,600 would be about you that our words would speak of you. 816 00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:02,200 Oh, that I praise would go to you. 817 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,700 And Lord, we thank you for your word. 818 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:07,800 We thank you, that it is true. We pray that it would convict. 819 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,500 We prayed, it would draw centers and do the work or that you have 820 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,200 for it to do. For the, you would cultivate 821 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,500 hearts. You would work, but most of all 822 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:21,500 you would be made known and all glory. 823 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:25,500 And honor would be to you. Jesus, we ask this in your name. 824 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,000 Amen. Thank you for listening to the 825 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,900 key Life Fellowship, Pulpit Ministry podcast. 826 00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:36,200 If you would like to talk with one of our pastors, please email 827 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:41,700 us at info at Key Life Fellowship, dot org or call us 828 00:47:41,700 --> 00:47:48,600 at 28 1689 1604. We can also visit our web site 829 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:53,700 at www.ttil.tv. Cam, we hope and pray. 830 00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:46,600 You have a blessed week, and remember you are lying in the We 831 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:51,600 can also visit our web site at www.ttil.tv. 832 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,300 Cam, we hope and pray. You have a blessed week, and 833 00:47:55,300 --> 00:47:57,600 remember you are lying in the