No Pain
For I am Persuaded • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Into & Recap
I hope that by now you may have understood that as we go through this series we are showing through this chapter more things that cannot separate us from the love of God.
Week One - No Condemnation - Romans 8:1-11
Week Two - No Excuse - Romans 8:12-17
Week Thee - No Pain - Romans 8:18-25
Week Four - No Fear - Romans 8:26-30
Week Five - No Weapon - Romans 8:31-36
Week Six - No Failure - Romans 8:37-39
Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.
We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)
The Princess Bride
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
The Problem of Pain - CS Lewis
The Dilemma: If God were good, He would wish to make creatures happy; if almighty, He could do so. Since creatures are not happy, God must lack either goodness or power.
God’s Megaphone: Lewis suggests that God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pains, using suffering to make us aware of our need for Him.
Purpose of Pain: Suffering is not necessarily punishment for specific sins, but a mechanism to break our self-sufficiency, foster redemption, and guide us toward, rather than away from, God.
Free Will & The Fall: Pain is a consequence of "The Fall" of humanity, where human free will chose selfish desires over God, introducing evil into the world.
Heaven and Hell: Lewis frames the ultimate goal of human life as overcoming earthly suffering to reach heaven, a place where joy outweighs all pain, while hell is a result of final, unrepentant choices against God.
Three Types of Pain
Natural
Stub your tow
Age
Protection
Heat
Leprosy
Self Inflected (building Pain)
Exercise
Growing
Physical Therapy
Seemingly Senseless
Why me God pain
Job
Pain is evadable but suffering is optional
