Where to Turn When Suffering Comes: Philippians 3:7-10, Part 2

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Teacher: John Piper
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[@TheSuziepark]

Not the power to escape but the power to endure. Not my own strength or power, but the power that raised Jesus from the dead. The same power lives in me. The same power moves me. Thank you Jesus.

[@krystle8287]

Wish more people understood this, & had this relationship with Jesus too. I’ve been in a season of suffering for about 6 years straight now.. I wish I didn’t have to live with people so they wouldn’t deem me as, “good” bc I read my Bible and I pray. I don’t do it for them to see me 😬. If it were up to me no one would know, but I am helpless as of now as far as my living situation. I’m not “good” bc I pray a lot.. none are good. But I pray a lot bc I depend on Him to get me through my days bc every day I struggle living in this world. Every day, I know it’s not my home but yet I know I have to stay & occupy. I get lonely. I get tired. I still battle w/this fleshly body I’m stuck in & the sin it brings w/it. I need His power to help me bc I cannot help myself. God has withheld a job, a home, & any financial security from me. I still praise His Name. I still stay grateful. I have lost family & friends fm a young age. I have lost jobs. I have been homeless for some time now. I understand suffering all too well but yet I still am grateful, I still choose to praise His Name for everything I do have. I count my blessings one by one. Every hour, I truly need Him. I stay in His Word bc I’m well aware of the unseen war that’s waging around us & know that It is my only weapon! I know good and well, we are not made to live on bread alone. Me chasing after God every day has nothing to do w/me and everything to do w/my complete reliance upon Him. I don’t know how that keeps getting missed or how else to say it at this point. How many ways can you state the obvious and why does it keep getting missed when it is clear as day? How does my brother still have jealousy over what very little material things I have in my life when I am clearly at the bottom of my life and have been for years now? How low do I have to go for him to be happy? I can’t understand it. But this too also leads me to increased prayer, that the Lord would lift the veils over their hearts and/or minds.. bc none are good. We all fall short. Reading your Bible daily or praying continually won’t make you, “good” and if that’s all you’re striving for is being, “good” you’re missing the entire point. It’s not about being good it’s about being closer to Christ & being refined so you can be better used or suited for His purposes. Its crucifying yourself daily. It’s about fighting the good fight. It’s about enduring every single day, & sometimes every single hour. This life is all about Christ. It is not so we can be magnified bc we are “good” or judged by what we do or do not do. It’s about relationship with Him, made possible by Him.. for Him, His will, His plan’s. His purposes. *That He would be magnified*. To God be the glory alone & to none other, forever and ever. If you read this far, please pray for me. I believe God is on the move in my life & I’m praying His will be done.. and for the strength to get through it all.

[@danielw2714]

Krystle I pray that God continues to give you strength, peace and joy.

[@Xandy2dandY]

Hi Krystle, may God be with you and shower you with amazing job and peace each day. You're walk and endurance in Him are not in vain. You won't be disappointed in what God does within you, giving you more faith, a bigger trust, a more loving heart. I'm sorry that you're going through a tough period of suffering, but you're such an encouragement and I believe God is with you through it all. ❤️❤️❤️

[@evona9747]

Dear Krystle, you are such an encouragement and i believe that God has used you to speak the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. Through how you speak i believe that Jesus sees your faith as He saw the faith of the Friends with the paralyzed man as they got Him through the roof for him to be healed. You have an amazing heart and so i thank you through Christ for helping me this morning. I pray that our heavenly father will get you through this and indeed not because of our goodness but because of whom He is. Because He loved us first. I too need to remind myself and be reminded by others that it is all about Jesus Christ. I pray that God will pull, walk and fight for you through all this so that they may see and know that He is God. Your story is in someways familiar to that of my mum. You truly love Jesus and have amazing faith in Him. Thank you through Jesus Christ for helping me and many souls this morning and everyday day. God be praised. Amen

[@romimir81]

KNOWING the power of Christ happens through a miracle of God which finds place in us by WATER BAPTISM. Water baptism is more than a symbol! Something real happens in the spirit realm as baptism happens. I believe this is what the Holy Spirit reveals to me now through this teachings of pastor John. Glory be to God! John 3:1-7 Born again= born of Water and the Spirit

[@deion312]

Who disliked this video? I'm bout to pray for them

[@crystalsanders4334]

Yes they need prayer cause they refuse to know Christ..

[@lulu-hy8oy]

Let us all pray for everyone

[@PowerfulRift]

Yes We Shall!!

[@EF2000CanFly]

Deion Muolo I wasn’t focussed on the dislike button I was focussed on the message

[@lulu-hy8oy]

Your right the message is important than the LIKES but let us pray to those who dont listen to this important message

[@kathyzrinyi5921]

Thank you Jesus for counting me worthy to suffer to know you in your sufferings and afflictions in your death. Praise Jesus He is Risen.

[@EF2000CanFly]

I have suffered as a resultI’m taking on the gospel truth and defending marriage. Marriage is in till death do you part. If you divorce and get remarried under any circumstance, you were living a life of adultery according to the Bible. Too many Christians do not want to suffer as a result of taking this position. We need to change that. This suffering can endure a lifetime. It may cost you your head like it did John the Baptist, but most of the time it is a slow agonizing suffering of living the Christian life which should be among believers in Jesus

[@HearGodsWord]

Talking about suffering is very approprIate for Easter. Guess the people who dislike this video are happy to suffer without hope

[@AtamMardes]

*Question:* The same Bible that teaches "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.", also teaches how to: buy slaves, sell daughters, kill non-virgin brides, kill unruly children, slaughter an entire nation including their infants, enslave children, pass slaves on as inheritance, & beat the slaves so they don't die. *Is the God of The Bible a hypocrite? Or, did the delusional confused hypocrites make up the Bible in the name of an imaginary God of The Bible?* Luke 12:47 The servant who knows the master's will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. Exodus 21:20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. Leviticus 25:44-46 However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. Exodus 21:7 If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 1 Samuel 15:3 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them, then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his home town. And they shall say to the elders of his city, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard." Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear of it and fear. Deuteronomy 22:20-21 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you. Exodus 21:21 But they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. Your tap-dancing and mental acrobats is a good example of what religious brainwashing does to the gullible fools.

[@HearGodsWord]

@@AtamMardes already responded to that before. Try something new atam.

[@kevinowenburress2435]

Well is it that you want to know in His judgment or how in what way are you willing to accept and not reject knowing Him? I know Him in the Father's judgment.. by the Spirit.. as how I see it.. But that might not be how you are meant to see it and it isn't a matter of with you how the laws apply according to the Spirit, to the spirits.. but here we have a separation of Christ and Grace and the power of Grace.. (That I am not Him and they lead people astray. and so forth.)

[@AtamMardes]

Turning to a so-called God will give you a sense of comfort, but that does not mean God exists.

[@timwortman3878]

All I can tell you is, nothing else comforts me anymore. I can't smoke or drink or plug in my headphones and blast myself with 2Pac and Biggie anymore. There is a great unsettled fear within me that nothing else soothes except for seeking God. Now, I can not claim to have found that comfort in my life right now, but that's another issue entirely. I just wanted to speak up and let you know that for a lot of people like me, we don't turn to God because we feel warm and fuzzy every time -- we turn to God because there is nothing else.

[@AtamMardes]

@@timwortman3878 "nothing else soothes except for seeking God." Nobody is stopping you from seeking God; And please let me know when you have evidence to prove God is not just a figment of your imagination. Meanwhile, please stop making a fool out of yourself by claiming to have found God.

[@alonzoherman5875]

If a tornado goes through a junkyard, does it create a fully functional Boeing 747? This universe is way too complex to happen by chance. It had to have an intelligent creater.

[@jessethomas3979]

You can comfort yourself in your sin, believing that God does not exist, but that doesn't mean God does not exist...

[@AtamMardes]

@@alonzoherman5875 LOL. No tornado will ever make a 747 you idiot. You are using the same old examples religion has made up to fool the gullible suckers. Get some real education: tinyurl.com/ya6zm3qq