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00:04 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:07 ♪♪♪ 00:14 Doug Batchelor: Sometimes you'll go through a trial 00:16 because you may have an idol in your life. 00:18 It could be somebody. 00:20 It could be something that is more important to you 00:23 than God, and God may touch that person 00:27 or that thing to get your attention. 00:33 Doug: You know, I wanted to share what I think is 00:35 a practical message with you today that I hope 00:38 will be of some encouragement. 00:40 It's about "Coping Through Tough Times." 00:42 How can we triumph in spite of our trials? 00:47 The Bible's pretty clear that there are trials in life. 00:53 Everybody at some point is going to experience 00:55 varying degrees of trouble. 00:59 You can read in Ecclesiastes chapter 2, verse 23: "For 01:03 all of his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; 01:07 even in the night his heart takes no rest." 01:10 Paul said, "All that live godly," this is 2 Timothy 3:12. 01:15 "All that live godly will suffer persecution." 01:18 And Paul, he was, "Strengthening the souls of the disciples, 01:22 exhorting them continue in the faith, saying, 'We must through 01:27 many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.'" 01:30 It is through tribulation we enter the kingdom. 01:34 Everybody experiences tough times, but 01:39 don't be discouraged. 01:40 In spite of that, we can have joy and we can have faith. 01:46 You can read where Jesus said, of course, that "in this life, 01:51 you'll have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I've overcome the 01:54 world." 01:56 "All that live godly will suffer persecution. 02:00 St. Augustine said, "God had one Son on earth without sin, but he 02:04 never had one without suffering." 02:08 So all of us experience varying degrees of suffering. 02:10 Now, I'll make something for you very simple. 02:13 If you wanna understand the trials that you go through and 02:17 kind of a divine perspective, everything is gonna fall into 02:20 one of two categories, and often both. 02:25 In your struggles, God is trying to do something in you, 02:30 that's one. 02:31 And in your struggles, God is wanting to do something 02:33 through you. 02:34 And often, he's wanting to do something in you and through 02:37 you, it's both. 02:39 If you know there's a purpose behind it, it's a lot easier to 02:43 deal with, right? 02:45 If we just can know, "Is there some reason for this? 02:47 Is something good coming out of it?" 02:49 then it makes it a lot easier to handle. 02:52 So, here are some of the common reasons, according to the Bible, 02:55 that people go through trials, trouble, suffering, tribulation. 03:02 First of all, he wants to help us recognize our spiritual need. 03:07 So, some of it for us. 03:09 It's redemptive. 03:10 The Bible says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is 03:13 the kingdom of heaven." 03:15 And God may have blessed you with physical poverty so you 03:18 might know your spiritual poverty. 03:20 Our different trials that we go through are designed to help us 03:23 know that. 03:24 2 Chronicles 32:31: "God withdrew from Hezekiah, in order 03:30 to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart." 03:35 Hezekiah thought he was rich and increased with goods, and he 03:37 didn't realize he had a lot of pride in his heart. 03:40 So, God--now, God didn't back off so God could find out. 03:43 God knows everything, right? 03:44 The Bible says, "Jesus knew what was in man." 03:47 He did it so that Hezekiah could realize, "Maybe I'm not as holy 03:50 as I thought." 03:52 God sends messengers to find out about Jehovah, and instead, all 03:56 he does is talk about his stuff. 03:58 You ever gone through trial and the Lord showed you something 04:03 about yourself you didn't know? 04:05 Exodus 9:27: "And the pharaoh said to them, 'I have sinned 04:09 this time. 04:10 The Lord is righteous, and my people are wicked." 04:12 Even the pharaoh came to the place where he realized his 04:14 wickedness as he went through the trial of the plagues that 04:18 came on Egypt. 04:20 So, that's one thing. 04:21 Number two, God sometimes allows us to go through trials to 04:26 humble us because God--if you kick the devil out for pride, 04:29 we're not going into heaven with our pride. 04:32 We need to humble ourselves, which is very hard. 04:35 Deuteronomy 8:3: "So he humbled you, he allowed you to hunger, 04:40 and to feed you with manna which you did not know nor your 04:43 fathers know, that he might make you know that man doesn't live 04:46 by bread alone; but by every word that proceeds from the 04:49 mouth of God." 04:50 Jesus, of course, quotes this to the devil, 04:53 the proudest of all, in the wilderness. 04:56 He humbled them that they 04:58 might come to depend on God. 05:00 They went through trials where they not only ran out of food, 05:02 they ran out of water, and they had to turn to God. 05:06 They were attacked by their enemies. 05:08 They learned on a daily basis that they had to depend on God, 05:12 and it's humbling, but it's healthy. 05:14 Ezra 8:21: "Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, 05:20 that we might humble ourselves before God." 05:23 You know, sometimes fasting is sort of like self-induced trial, 05:28 self-denial, and part of that represents we're humbling 05:32 ourselves before God. 05:34 Matthew 26:75: "And Peter remembered the words of Jesus 05:39 when he said, 'Before the rooster crows, you'll deny me 05:42 three times--'" Peter had been bragging, 05:44 "Though all men should forsake you, I'll not forsake you." 05:47 And he went through this terrible trial so he could find 05:50 out something in his own heart, and he realized, "I'm not near 05:53 as loyal as I thought I was." 05:55 And the Bible says, "He went out and he wept bitterly." 05:58 So, that trial accomplished something in Peter, and it also 06:02 is a warning to us. 06:03 Another reason we go through trials is point number three, is 06:07 to help us with our priorities, to prioritize things correctly. 06:13 You remember God said to Abraham, "You love me?" 06:16 "I love you." 06:17 He said, "Okay, take your son, your only son who you love, 06:21 bring him to the Mountains of Moriah and offer him there as an 06:24 offering." 06:26 "Well, Lord, I love you, but, you know, actually, I love my 06:28 son more." No, he didn't say that. 06:31 He put God first. 06:33 Now, do you think that was a trial for Abraham? 06:36 It was. 06:38 Sometimes you'll go through a trial because you may have an 06:40 idol in your life. 06:42 It could be somebody. 06:43 It could be something that is more important to you than God, 06:48 and God may touch that person or that thing to get your 06:52 attention. 06:54 It wasn't just Abraham with his son. 06:55 How many of you remember Jephthah with his daughter? 06:59 He made a vow, "Lord, you give me victory. 07:02 Whatever it is that comes through the gates of my house 07:05 I'll offer to you." 07:06 And the first thing through the gates was not his ox or his goat 07:10 or sheep. It was his daughter. 07:13 He said, "Alas, my daughter, I have opened my mouth to the Lord 07:16 and I cannot go back." 07:18 Doesn't Jesus say, "Unless you love me more than the husband, 07:21 wife, child, son, daughter, you're not worthy of the 07:25 kingdom, father, mother." 07:27 Jesus needs first place. 07:29 Trials sometimes help us to recognize what our priorities 07:32 are and to get them straight. 07:35 Another reason we sometimes go through trouble is, 07:38 quite honestly, simply to separate us from sin. 07:42 It's a fire of suffering that often brings fold 07:45 the gold of godliness. 07:47 1 Peter 4:1 and 2: "Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in 07:51 the flesh, arm yourself also with the same mind, for he who 07:56 had suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no 08:00 longer should live the rest of his life in the flesh for the 08:03 lusts of men, but for the will of God." 08:06 Hebrews 12:10: "For they indeed for a few days chastened us as 08:11 seemed best to them, but he," God, "for our profit, that we 08:16 might be partakers of his holiness." 08:18 Now, so, sometimes God allows us to go through suffering, and I'm 08:21 gonna spend a moment on this, because it's a chastening. 08:24 Now, how many of you are parents? 08:29 I won't ask you how you chasten your children. 08:33 But how many of you lived in the great generation that believed 08:36 in the rod or the belt or the switch or the willow, and you 08:41 survived? 08:42 How many of you that raised your hand believed it wasn't 08:45 that bad? 08:46 You know, the Bible has a lot to say about that one. 08:50 You take this up with the Lord. 08:52 I'm gonna probably get a call from the officials, but this is 08:55 what the Bible says. 08:58 Hebrews 12, verse 4: "You've not yet resisted to bloodshed, 09:02 striving against sin." 09:03 There's a struggle sometimes with temptation. 09:07 "And you've forgotten the exhortation that speaks to you 09:10 as sons: 'My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, or 09:14 be discouraged when you're rebuked by him; for whom the 09:17 Lord loves he chastens, and he scourges every son 09:20 who he receives.' 09:22 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as sons; for 09:26 what son is there whom the father does not chasten? 09:30 But if you are without chastening, of which you've 09:32 become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 09:35 Furthermore, if we have human fathers who corrected us, and we 09:38 paid them respect, shall we not much more readily be in 09:42 subjection to the Father of spirits and live?" 09:45 Submit to his chastening, in other words. 09:47 "For they indeed for a few days," earthly fathers, "for a 09:50 few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our 09:54 profit," sometimes parents don't do it for the best motives and 09:57 the best way. 09:58 They're doing their best. 09:59 But he said, "God always does it for a profit, that we might be 10:03 partakers of his holiness." 10:07 Sometimes you're going through trials and God is allowing it, 10:10 that he can refine you and you can be a partaker of his 10:12 holiness. 10:14 "Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but 10:18 painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of 10:23 righteousness to those who have been trained by it." 10:28 Job 5:17: "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore 10:33 do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. 10:37 For whom he bruises, but he binds up; he wounds, but his 10:41 hands make whole." 10:42 And again, it says, Proverbs 3, verse 11 to 12: "My son, do not 10:47 despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest his correction; 10:51 for whom he loves he corrects," and there the Bible talks about 10:56 some children that were not corrected by their parents. 11:00 Like, it talks about David did not correct Adonijah, and he 11:03 became very--a lot of bad behavior. 11:07 Eli would not correct his sons, and he lost his sons, his sons 11:11 and daughters. 11:13 And again, I'm not talking about corporal punishment, but I'm 11:14 talking about the chastening of the Lord, sometimes to save us 11:18 because he loves us. 11:19 Now, there's a couple times my father spanked me. 11:21 Somebody threw a rock from our house and hit the neighbor's 11:24 house down below, and my dad lined us all up and said, 11:27 "Who did it?" 11:28 And we all said we didn't do it, but he was sure I did, 11:29 and I got spanked, and I didn't do it. 11:33 But, you know, I didn't hold it against my father because I 11:36 thought of all the times I did do things he didn't know about, 11:39 and so I figured it evened out somehow. 11:42 You know what I'm talking about? 11:44 Parents make mistakes, but what about all the times you did 11:47 something wrong and you didn't get in trouble, or you blamed it 11:50 on your sibling and they got in trouble? 11:53 And so it sort of evens out at some point. 11:57 Sometimes we go through trials 'cause it helps us 11:59 to focus on heaven. 12:01 Romans 8:18: "For I consider that the sufferings of this 12:05 present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that 12:09 is to be revealed." 12:10 You know, as you think ahead and you look at heaven, it gives us 12:14 peace in knowing that you can endure almost anything if you 12:19 know it's not gonna last. 12:20 It reminds you that whatever suffering you have now, it's not 12:23 gonna last. 12:25 And the sufferings of this life is like just a drop of water, 12:30 and then look at an ocean. 12:32 I mean, you might have a hard time in this life with that one 12:35 drop of water, but God is gonna give you an ocean of pleasure at 12:39 his right hand forevermore that you can't comprehend through 12:42 eternity. 12:43 So to patiently endure the struggles of this life, though 12:47 they seem to be long, is really nothing, Paul is saying, by 12:51 comparison with the glory that God has in store for those that 12:55 love him." Can you say, "Amen"? 12:58 Doug: Don't go anywhere, friends. 12:59 In just a moment, we're gonna continue with the rest of 13:01 today's presentation. 13:04 Have you ever wondered why a loving God would allow you to 13:08 experience various trials, sickness, the death of a loved 13:11 one, a divorce, or losing a job? 13:13 It's never pleasant to go through these challenging times. 13:18 So why does God allow us to experience these trials? 13:23 Understanding this question can change your life. 13:26 That's why "Amazing Facts" would like to send you this special 13:30 gift called "The Brook Dried Up." 13:32 This insightful and inspiring little book will give you 13:35 dependable Bible answers about the reasons God allows us to 13:39 experience trials. 13:40 Reading this book will strengthen your faith and help 13:43 prepare you to face any crisis in your life. 13:46 To get your free copy, call the number on your screen and ask 13:51 for offer number 171 or visit the web address. 13:54 And after you read this incredible resource, make sure 13:57 and share it with a friend. 13:59 Well, now, let's get back to the rest of today's presentation and 14:03 learn some more amazing facts from the Word of God. 14:07 Doug: You know, a boxer can stay in the ring and endure all 14:09 kinds of punches when he considers the prize, the title, 14:14 and I don't recommend boxing. 14:17 It's a brutal sport, but I used to watch it. 14:20 And my mother dated a fellow that was big into boxing 14:24 for years. 14:25 And there was this one fight in New York City, some of you 14:28 remember Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay when I was a kid, and he 14:32 fought with Joe Frazier. 14:33 And it's one of the few fights that Muhammad Ali lost. 14:37 And they stood toe to toe in the ring, and they beat on each 14:40 other for 15 rounds, 2 heavyweight boxers. 14:43 And Muhammad Ali got knocked out a couple times, and he was in 14:47 pretty shape. 14:49 After the fight, he was in the locker room, and he's on the 14:52 table, and a doctor's checkin' on him 'cause he's bleedin', 14:54 he's swollen, he's bruised, and Diana Ross, the singer, came in 14:58 and she saw him, and she fell down at the table. 15:00 She's on her knees, and she's crying. 15:03 He said, "I know I'm not pretty anymore," he said, "but don't 15:06 cry for me, Diana. 15:07 I just got paid $2 million to get beat up." 15:12 He could handle it when he thought about the prize. 15:15 And we've gotta keep our mind on the prize, that this is not 15:19 gonna last forever. 15:21 There's a number of promises in the Bible. 15:23 2 Corinthians 4:17: "For our light affliction, which is but 15:28 for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal 15:34 weight of glory, while we do not look at the things that are 15:37 seen, but the things that are not seen." 15:40 Another reason we have trouble is to help us help others. 15:46 I told you that God allows these things to do something in us, 15:49 and often to do something through us. 15:54 Job was afflicted, and he might have wondered, "Why is this 15:58 happening?" 15:59 And he and his friends spent a whole book talking about why an 16:01 innocent man would suffer. 16:03 How many people, how many millions of people have been 16:06 encouraged by the patience of Job? 16:08 Even James refers to the patience of Job, where we see 16:11 that, in the end, God is good, and we're realizing there's a 16:15 battle behind the scenes. 16:17 And as you look at the trials that Job goes through, he maybe 16:19 couldn't see it then from his perspective, but we can see, 16:23 looking back, that God sometimes allows these things to teach us 16:30 and to help others. 16:31 Notice, 2 Corinthians 1, verse 3. 16:34 Now, this is a little bit of a deep verse, so you gotta follow 16:39 me. 16:40 Paul sometimes waxes eloquent here. 16:43 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the 16:46 Father of mercies and the God of all comfort," now that's the 16:49 operative word, "who comforts us in all of our tribulation," why? 16:54 "That we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble." 16:59 The sermon's about how to get through trouble. 17:04 Why do we go through trouble? 17:05 "That we might comfort those who are in any trouble with the 17:09 comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 17:13 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, our consolation 17:16 also abounds through Christ." 17:18 We're consoling others. 17:20 Now, if we're afflicted, it's for your consolation and 17:23 salvation, which is effective enduring the same sufferings 17:26 that we also suffer. 17:28 Or we are comforted, with your consolation and salvation." 17:33 So, whatever you're going through, God even might be using 17:36 it to discipline you, but it could have multiple purposes, 17:39 one of them being that whenever you get through it, you will be 17:43 able to relate to another person and help them. 17:48 A friend was telling me they were in the hospital for some 17:50 procedure, and a nurse came in and had to turn them, and they 17:57 said, "That nurse was, like, Atilla the Hun, just came in and 18:02 just threw me around, and I'm in pain, and I'm going, 'Ow, ow, 18:04 oh, ahh--'" And said, "The next day, another nurse, a different 18:09 nurse came in and they had to turn them, and they were 18:13 so--they said, 'Is this okay? How's this? 18:14 Am I going too fast?' And they were so considerate." 18:18 And finally, they got them settled down, and they had to 18:20 say to the nurse, they said, "I just gotta tell ya, I really 18:23 appreciate you're being sensitive and gentle because 18:25 yesterday, boy, I had a nurse that was like a professional 18:28 wrestler, came in here and just throwin' me around." 18:30 And the nurse said, "Well, I'll tell ya, I've had the same 18:35 surgery that you've had. 18:38 I know how you feel." 18:41 And so when you're going through some kinda trial or something, 18:45 just say, "All right, Lord, I don't know what I've done to 18:48 deserve this," but maybe you didn't do anything to 18:51 deserve it. 18:52 Maybe he's gonna use it later to help somebody else. 18:56 And another very simple principle in why we go through 18:59 troubles and suffering is to grow Christian virtue. 19:04 1 Peter 1:6: "In this 19:07 you greatly rejoice, though now 19:08 for a little time, if need be, 19:11 you've been grieved by various 19:12 trials, that the trial of your 19:14 faith, being much more precious 19:17 than that of gold that perishes, 19:19 though it be tried with fire, 19:21 might be found unto praise 19:22 and honor and glory 19:23 at the appearing of Jesus." 19:26 And James says in James 1, verse 2: "My brethren, 19:29 count it all joy." 19:32 How many of you think, "Oh, joy," when you're going through 19:34 a trial? 19:36 "Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing," 19:39 just know, see, if you know there's a purpose, that God has 19:41 got a purpose in it, "that the testing of your faith, it's 19:45 helping you develop faith, produces patience." 19:50 You know, when the Bible says, "He that endures to the end will 19:52 be saved," that word "endurance" is "patience." 19:55 "Let patience have its perfect work." 19:58 Now, why would he say, "Let patience have its perfect work, 20:01 except that it's possible for you not to make the most of 20:04 your trials? 20:06 Say, "Lord, I will embrace whatever it is you're trying to 20:10 teach me through this. 20:12 Somehow, sometime God is simply glorified in some way through 20:16 the trials we experience. 20:18 Why did Jesus say Lazarus got sick? 20:22 Because he ate too much sugar? 20:24 Or did Jesus tell the disciples, "It's for the glory of God"? 20:29 "I didn't heal him right away for the glory of God." 20:32 John chapter 9: "Now as Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind 20:36 from birth." 20:37 And the disciples wanna know, "Why? 20:38 Did he somehow do somethin' wrong, or did God know he was 20:41 gonna go bad, or was it his parents' sin?" 20:44 They're always trying to figure out why. 20:46 You know what Jesus said? 20:48 "Neither, but that the works of God should be revealed in him." 20:52 God was gonna be glorified in a great way through his healing. 20:56 Now, that man had been blind. 20:57 He wasn't very old. 20:59 He had just come of age, so he's, like, 18, 20 years old, 21:02 and been blind his whole life. 21:06 And you might think, "Well, what a terrible thing, to be blind 21:09 your whole life, and the Lord allow that, that he might 21:11 be glorified." 21:13 But how good did that man feel when he got his sight? 21:17 And how long is that affliction compared to eternity if he's 21:21 healed by Jesus and he has everlasting life? 21:24 So, Paul said, "We shouldn't question the Potter, saying, 21:27 'Why did you make one vessel like this or one vessel like 21:30 that?" 21:31 We've gotta trust that God's God, and he knows what he's 21:33 doing, right? 21:35 I used to always wonder, "Why was I born healthy and 21:37 my brother with cystic fibrosis?" 21:40 But if God can be glorified in it--I was able to pray with my 21:44 brother before he died, and he asked Jesus in his heart. 21:49 Romans 8:16: "The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit 21:54 that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--and 21:57 heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer 22:02 with him, that we may be glorified together." 22:06 Sometimes we don't learn except through trouble. 22:10 Have you learned that pain is a great instructor? 22:17 There are lessons you learn in pain that you won't learn any 22:19 other way. 22:21 I've got something I'd like to share with you. 22:23 Do not hold a sparkplug wire when someone is turning over the 22:27 ignition. 22:29 I have learned that it is not 12 volts that will go through you, 22:33 but because of the capacitor, you will experience 10,000 22:36 volts. 22:38 Ask me how I know that. 22:41 Ask me how I know you don't wanna touch your disc brakes 22:45 after you park the car, that they're very hot. 22:51 I will never do that again. 22:54 I have learned that lesson. 22:56 So, when you're going through a trial, sometimes I say, "Lord, 22:59 if I'm doing this because there's somethin' you wanna 23:01 teach me, please teach me now." 23:03 Don't be afraid of trials. 23:05 Yes, life is tough for everybody, amen? 23:09 You don't have to be afraid. 23:11 Who was it that said, "A man who fears suffering is already 23:14 suffering from what he fears"? 23:18 Thomas a Kempis said: "He who knows how to suffer will enjoy 23:21 much peace. 23:23 Such a one is a conqueror of himself and a lord of the world, 23:26 a friend of Christ and an heir of heaven." 23:29 You know, the Bible tells us that Christ suffered for us. 23:34 Hebrews 2:9: "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than 23:37 the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and 23:41 honor." 23:42 Christ in the garden said, "Lord, if there's any way not to 23:45 drink this cup," but he drank it. 23:48 "That he might taste death for every man. 23:51 For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things and by whom 23:54 all things are, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the 23:59 captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." 24:03 So, if he's our captain and he suffers, we should know that he 24:07 can bring good of it. 24:08 Even the soldier by the cross of Jesus saw Christ in his 24:12 sufferings. 24:13 He saw him say, "Father, forgive them." 24:15 And through beholding the sufferings, he said, "Surely 24:17 this is the Son of God." 24:19 When Christians would know how to joyfully and patiently bear 24:24 our sufferings, it sometimes is the very best opportunity to 24:27 witness, amen? 24:29 And God is working in us. 24:30 I'll close with a little poem that you may have heard before, 24:34 someone once shared. 24:35 It's called "The Oyster and the Pearl." 24:38 "There once was an oyster whose story I'll tell who found that 24:43 some sand had slipped into his shell. 24:45 Just one little grain, but it gave him such pain, for oysters 24:50 have feelings, although they're quite plain. 24:53 Now, did he berate the working of fate which had led him to 24:56 such a deplorable state? 24:58 No, he said to himself as he lay on the shelf, 'If I can't remove 25:01 it, I'll try to improve it,' so the years rolled on by, as years 25:05 always do, and he came to his ultimate destiny: stew." 25:09 I don't recommend oyster stew. 25:12 "But the small grain of sand which had bothered him so was a 25:15 beautiful pearl all richly aglow. 25:18 Now, this tale has a moral, for isn't it grand what an oyster 25:22 can do with a morsel of sand? 25:24 What couldn't we do if we'd only begin to enrich and embrace what 25:28 gets under our skin?" 25:31 God allows trials because he loves you. 25:33 We need to learn how to just see it through a heavenly 25:37 perspective, and nothing is gonna--the pain won't last. 25:41 It's all temporary. 25:43 And just say, "Lord, help me to avoid bringing sufferings on 25:46 myself. 25:47 If I suffered for your sake, let me rejoice." 25:49 Jesus said, "Be exceedingly glad." 25:51 And remember that he suffered and it is an honor to be able to 25:56 suffer as a Christian, amen? 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