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It’s Nothing Like An Afflicted Blessing

In verse 19a afflictions means troubles, difficulties, bad things, sufferings, misfortunes.

A translation can say “Many bad things happen to good people.”

If We can be honest some of us didn’t truly surrender to God until an affliction came that Jack Daniels, Sex, Weed and Pills couldn’t fix.

And If we can keep it 100, Some of us are being afflicted and we still don’t want to surrender..

This is What i have learned, Your going to stay right there until you give him what he wants

But We talking about being Righteous and being afflicted after i stopped fornicating, Smoking, popping pills and running.

You would think i should be worry free, no issues, no problems.. Cause i’m on the Lords side RIGHT?

WRONG

Acts 14:22 (NKJV)

22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”

The righteous suffer afflictions because they are so imperfectly righteous.

They need purging, purifying, chastening, to rid them of the dross and defilement of sin which still clings to them, and from which they are never wholly freed while they continue in the flesh.

“We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

Acts 14:22 (AV)

22 b) we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

We must, like the Captain of our salvation, be “made perfect through suffering

Final Point

It’s A Special Delivery

But the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

When they have done their appointed work of purging, purifying, instructing, improving, or whatever else their work may be, God removes the afflictions with which he has visited us or allowed us to be visited, ultimately, when he takes us to himself, mercifully delivering us “out of them all.”

Delivers in verse 19b translates the same verb used in verse 7. The thought is not that Yahweh does not allow bad things to happen to good people, but that he does not let them be defeated or destroyed by them.

Tell 3 People Your Struggle didn’t come to kill you, and it came to strengthen you...

Thats why some of us have learned how to be strong in the struggle..

I can’t give up, I won’t give up..

Run up to the alter if you need the Lords Strength in your struggle.. (let’s pray)

“We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”