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  • Douglas Swift avatar

    Why God Allows Suffering

    Contributed by Douglas Swift on Feb 4, 2001
    based on 133 ratings
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    Suffering is a normal part of life that God allows us to experience. This outline examines five principles of why God allows suffering.

    Five reasons why God allows suffering 1 1 Suffering comes with the freedom to chose what you want to do. God does not make us robots but allows us to make our own choices. Choices that can make us feel pain when we make the wrong choice. 2 The pain of suffering can warn us of when we are headed ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Lou Nicholes avatar

    Suffering

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Apr 12, 2005
    based on 7 ratings
     | 6,327 views

    . This section is one of three sections in II Corinthians devoted to a listing of Paul’s sufferings. Paul was not afraid of suffering because he knew that God controls trials, and God uses trials for His own glory.

    THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PASSAGE: Driving through Texas, a New Yorker collided with a truck carrying a horse. A few months later he tried to collect damages for his injuries. “How can you now claim to have all these injuries?” asked the insurance company’s lawyer. “According to the police report, at the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Lou Nicholes avatar

    Suffering

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on May 25, 2005
    based on 10 ratings
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    Some of Paul’s religious assailants in Corinth were no doubt Jews. They hurled the charge at Paul that he was no true Hebrew. They said he had apostatized from the faith and that he could not possibly be a faithful minister of God. With this in mind, Paul

    THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PASSAGE: The only survivor of a shipwreck washed up on a small uninhabited island. He cried out to God to save him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a rough hut and put his few possessions in ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Suffering

    Contributed by Tommy Estes on Dec 28, 2005
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    Making our lives count through suffering

    Suffering is something that each and everyone one of us deal everyday of our lives. Suffering comes into everyday peoples lives both great and small don’t they. Sometimes suffering comes into people’s lives and we don’t know how nor why God would allow a person to endure such a trial. Suffering can ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Ed Wood avatar

    Growing Pains Series

    Contributed by Ed Wood on Apr 6, 2007
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    3rd in series on 1 Thelessonians (3 of 8).

    GROWING PAINS 1 Thessalonians 2:13-20 INTRO: It was not easy to be a Christian in Thessalonica where believers faced persecution and suffering. Yet in the midst of suffering, the Thessalonian Christians experienced joy. They received Paul’s ministry of the Word in much affliction, with joy of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Recycling Our Pain Series

    Contributed by David Henderson on Jun 8, 2015
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    Listen. God never wastes a hurt. What good is a trial if something good doesn’t come from it? Let’s look at the first of two questions I want us to try to answer.

    “Recycling our Pain” Matthew 5:10 In my personal study of the gospels one of the things I have noticed is that some of the teachings of Jesus are just very difficult for us to follow. At times when we read them they don’t even make sense. For instance, Jesus said: • If ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    No Pain, No Gain

    Contributed by Victor Yap on Dec 29, 2009
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    Church of Smyrna

    NO PAIN, NO GAIN (REVELATION 2:8-11) A farmer said to God, "For 50 years I have not stopped praying..." The Lord replied, "5o years you have been praying, what did you actually pray for?" The farmer said, "I always pray that the winds and rains be smooth, pray that there would be no rain or wind ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Ron Hicks avatar

    Growing Pains

    Contributed by Ron Hicks on Jun 8, 2007
    based on 11 ratings
     | 6,814 views

    The most successful trick Satan use’s, is to get us to question God about His actions. The words usually formed on our lips are “why am I experiencing such pain?”

    GROWING PAINS? Satan tries to undermine the Word of God and the importance of our faith in God. Eyes can’t always see what God is doing because most of what God does is in the spiritual realm. We can’t see the wind but we can see the results of it. Its very disturbing to think of the great ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

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    Shepherding The Suffering

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 2, 2005
    based on 17 ratings
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    Shepherds are to help the church remain faithful to the Lord when suffering.

    Title: Shepherd the Suffering Truth: Shepherds are to help the church to remain faithful to the Lord when suffering. Aim: I want to encourage pastors and the church to live in a way that helps those who suffer. Life ?: How do church leaders help others to remain faithful to the Lord when they ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Perspective In Pain Series

    Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 3, 2020
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    Don’t lose perspective in your pain: look within at the energizing power of God’s Word; look around to see that you’re not alone in your pain; and look ahead to the joy that’s coming.

    One day an old man was casually walking along a country lane with his dog and his mule. Suddenly, a speeding pick-up truck careened around the corner, knocking the man, his mule, and his dog into the ditch. The old man decided to sue the driver of the truck, seeking to recoup the cost of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical Free

  • Luther Sexton avatar

    The Power Of Pain

    Contributed by Luther Sexton on Jul 28, 2003
    based on 41 ratings
     | 42,741 views

    Pain can work in many different ways in our lives. It can protect, purify, etc. We can actually profit in pain. Christ prevailed over pain. In eternity, for the saint there will be no more pain; for the sinner there will be nothing but pain.

    THE POWER OF PAIN SCRIPTURE: Romans 8:22 “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” INTRODUCTION: All nature suffers at the present time with the strong injuring the weak, the rich charming the poor, the wild animals destroying the weaker ones, and ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

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    Growing Pains Series

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on May 2, 2020
     | 1,895 views

    This sheltering interlude is a time when we should be, and many of us have been, acquiring more understanding of our faith.

    Tuesday of the 4th week of Easter 2020 “Growing Pains” When the authorities in Jerusalem, a few years after the Resurrection of Christ, determined to wipe out the new Jesus cult that was attracting so many converts, their persecution had an unintended result. The Jesus contagion spread all over ...read more

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    Denomination: Catholic

  • Joe Harding avatar

    No Pain, No Gain

    Contributed by Joe Harding on Apr 17, 2001
    based on 46 ratings
     | 8,477 views

    HIS GREAT PAIN CAUSED OUR GREAT GAIN OF SALVATION.

    “NO PAIN, NO GAIN” ISAIAH 52:13—53:12 PALM SUNDAY APRIL 8, 2001 INTRODUCTION: Victor Yap writes, The parents of a ten year old public school boy who was failing fifth grade math decided to enroll their son in a private Catholic school after exhausting all efforts to help. The youngster stormed ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jordan Wirkkala avatar

    Paul's Pain

    Contributed by Jordan Wirkkala on Dec 12, 2007
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    Finding purpose in persecution

    Paul’s Pain: Finding purpose in persecution -I went snowboarding for the first time and got hurt pretty bad with all of the constant falling. My wife snowboards and I was hoping to get a little compassion. She would have except for the fact that she could not stop laughing at me. -The pain that ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Christopher Holdsworth avatar

    A Painful Account.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Oct 11, 2021
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,751 views

    The substitutionary character of the sacrifice of Jesus.

    A PAINFUL ACCOUNT. Isaiah 53:4-12. The repulsion evoked by the Cross of Jesus is countered by the recognition of the substitutionary character of His sacrifice (Isaiah 53:4). We may have seen Jesus as One “stricken” by God – but the toll which He was paying was not His own. No, indeed, it was ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational