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Thanks, Pastor.

Mike in the worship team.

That was a powerful morning of worship.

Wasn't it?

Well, good morning everybody.

Great to see you all here.

Good morning to those of you at home as well.

And I'm excited to be here with you this morning cuz I had the opportunity to share a few things about what I learned when I was at the ccef conference in just a few weeks back.

And for those of you could do not know what c c e, f stands for it is the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation.

Okay, and their mission is to Yeah, I always get this backwards.

So I want to make sure I look here.

Their mission is to restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church.

Okay, you can see how I can fix that up.

So I have attended their annual National Conference for about 10 years now and every year I leave with a single foundational, truth that scripture engages with every human condition to sufficiently provide help and hope in times of suffering.

Some people may question that statement by asking how does the bible address modern-day struggles and suffering like lgbtq plus struggles and complex trauma.

Unfortunately, this year's conference focused on how this ancient text found in the Bible speaks to our modern-day problems.

Since most of us have experienced some sort of trauma in our lives.

We will focus on ways scripture in cages trauma.

Our goal today is to grow in our ability to mind scriptures in order to identify touchpoints places where scripture speaks to our particular struggle.

This means we will need to pay close attention to details as we study God's word together details are important.

The more concrete and specific.

Our details are that we find in the scriptures, the better, the application will be to our life.

Far too often.

I find myself reading the scriptures and feeling like a stone that's thrown across the still body of water.

You know what?

That's like you kind of skip across, right?

Have you ever experienced that?

At times, barely touching the surface of scriptures potential to meet you in real and personal ways?

Well, my hope for us this morning is that we become wise and skillful miners carefully drilling down to find precious gems of Truth.

Let's take time now and pray for the Lord to meet with us so that we may grow in this particular way.

Father, we need you.

Where we ask that you would open our hearts and Minds today to hear from you.

Or B. We know that we all need to continue to grow and how we meet with you in the scriptures.

And so today we're asking that you would do that work in us.

Help us each one of us to grow in this particular way.

I ask all this in Jesus name.

Amen.

Here's where we're going today.

We're going to answer three questions.

What is trauma?

How does Scripture engage with this particular suffering?

And how do we respond to scripture to receive the help and hope that is found there?

First, what is trauma?

Simply put trauma is a brush with death.

It can be physical like a near-death experience or death of a loved one.

Traditionally trauma occurs, when sense effects, bring spiritual emotional or psychological death.

Due to abuse neglect or abandonment.

Trauma may cause short-term long-term or even lifelong symptoms.

If you keep symptoms of trauma, collectively have been given the name post-traumatic stress disorder.

Now something very interesting happens when somebody a believer in particular is given a diagnosis such as p t s d.

Suddenly, it seems like the Bible has little to say to help someone who's suffering in a particular way.

Disbeliever.

Who believes as we all do in the sufficiently.

Sufficiency of scripture now, finds himself, torn between God's authoritative word and the world of medical diagnosis and treatment.

Consequently, hope is placed in medical treatment rather than being around it and found in God's word.

So what do we do with this?

As believers.

I believe it's how do we keep our hope Anchored In Christ while interacting with and receiving help from the medical community?

We respond to this with the full assurance that God's word is both the means and the end in receiving that help and hope that is available to us for every single particular struggle that we come up against.

And we also recognize sins devastating effects on our minds and our bodies.

And in these times of severe suffering treatment from medical professionals acts as a means of helping us being a condition where we can actually hear from God.

When spending time with him in his word, right?

You need to realize.

That trauma is complex and it is not easily understood.

For some of us, it is difficult to identify with our suffering.

We can't quite put words to our suffering in our struggle.

Maybe we are Nam to life experiences and these muted frustrate.

These muted emotions, frustrate us and can cause anxiety and depression.

Memory loss hyper-vigilance fatalistic.

Thinking the inability to sleep.

May be feeling trapped in the stress of a past experience that interferes with your present-day responses to life.

These are all some complex ways.

People suffer from trauma, that were explained to me at the conference while attending one of the breakout sessions one p t s d.

Here's what I wasn't counting on.

I wasn't counting on being able to personally identify with almost every one of those struggles as I was there.

I easily identified with them.

Since most of them have been my constant companions but much of my life.

Now, I want to tell you.

It was helpful.

To learn from this wise, counselor, and brother in Christ.

As he explained the signs and symptoms.

I had clarity as he helped me identify with my suffering by putting words to it.

But in the end, I thought.

Now what what do I do with this?

After some time of reflection, I realized that I need to continue doing what I have always done and I just meeting with the Lord and receiving his grace in my time of need.

However, I now recognize a greater need to spend focused time in his word, drilling down deep to meet with the Lord and real and personal ways.

I need to experience scripture in ways were God's word actually intersects with my suffering.

We need to again, know that trauma is a form of suffering, brought about from sins effects.

It is necessary to understand.

Trauma, within the biblical framework of the Fall.

This helps us better understand how people are hindered in their ability to seek the Lord's help and received the hope that scripture offers.

Is in their suffering.

They know something is broken.

But they don't know what it is or how to identify it.

Adoring times like this, there is value in seeking help from trustworthy, friends, counselors therapist.

As they help you to identify with your suffering, the medical community has done a great work, understanding sins, effects on our bodies, and our minds.

They've developed a full treatments that improve our quality of life and praise be to God.

While helpful.

We must remember that those things are only a means to an end.

Are altamed help and hope is found in the eternal life giving throughs of scripture.