What is pain?
Hurt: The Reasons Why • Sermon • Submitted
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· 11 viewsPain is the thing that we feel, which tells us that something is wrong, and reminds us that we were not made for this world.
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Who has ever broken a bone or had to have surgery?
Who has ever broken a bone or had to have surgery?
What to they ask you in the hospital when you come in?
How bad is your pain from 1-10?
You don’t really have to define the word pain do you?
Anyone want to try? How would you define the word PAIN?
We have all experienced pain right, from the small to the large and if you have broken and arm or something and someone else does the same thing, it is easy for you to relate right?
But pain isn’t limited to just physical pain, we also experience emotional pain too.
Loss of a loved one, hurt feelings from a friend, disappointment, frustration…are all examples of nonphysical pain right?
Have you ever wondered what life would be like with no pain?
Have you ever wondered what life would be like with no pain?
It would be pretty great wouldn’t it?
It would help in sports, work, and most any area of life.
Dean Karnazes- ultra marathoner who ran 350 miles in 80 hours. Able to limit the build up of lactic acid in his muscles so he can continue running without feeling the pain of muscle fatigue.
But there is a reason we feel pain. Anyone want to hypothesize why?
If he isn’t careful he can pull muscles or dehydrate himself because he doesn’t feel the pain associated with physical activity.
Pain let’s us know when there is something wrong.
If you touch a hot stove you know to remove your hand.
If you break an arm you go to the DR because it hurts.
If you tooth hurts you go to the dentist because something is wrong...
Pain Alerts us when something is not right.
Paul talks a lot about pain in his letters.
He doesn’t talk about how to avoid pain, because pain in this world is unavoidable.
Paul does talk about why we experience pain
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
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20 But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior. 21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
Three things about Pain
Three things about Pain
Three things about Pain
Three things about Pain
1) Pain is the result of sin/the curse.
1) Pain is the result of sin/the curse.
Sometimes we can get mad at God because we have pain and suffering in our lives.
But the source of pain is not God, it is the results of the sinful world we live in.
Maybe it isn’t even your sin, but the world around us is affected and infected by the curse from sin.
For this reason we should expect pain and suffering to be a part of our lives.
2) Pain is temporary.
2) Pain is temporary.
but we must remember that pain is temporary.
Paul is saying “don’t give up, there is a reason to hope. this world is passing away.”
In the midst of tough and painful times it can seem like there is no light at the end of the tunnel, but it just isn’t true.
Every painful season will pass in due time, but there is ultimate hope in Jesus.
3) Pain reminds us that the world is not perfect, but the one to come is.
3) Pain reminds us that the world is not perfect, but the one to come is.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
This world is broken, but God is making all things new through Christ.
Don’t lose hope, don’t give up, embrace the promise of restoration.
When we go through pain we can either let it define who we are, or we can let it remind us that who we are is so much more than what we are going through.