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That's exactly right.

My sister went on a cruise to Alaska.

And she really enjoy that and I bet that would feel good sometime this week to us.

What did we was up there?

She sent, she did a FaceTime the other day and they had pulled into a port there in.

Alaska.

And she was showing me the cities that you can see across the water and the sun was coming up over this mountain and you could see the mountain was completely snow-capped.

It would just absolutely beautiful.

You know, and she said, where she was a temperature was going to be about 70 that day.

So yeah, that was just, that was nice, for sure.

Glad that you're here today.

And What we want to do today, as we want to continue, I didn't mean to start a series on suffering.

I was going to do one sermon on it and then it led to another and now it has led to another and I think probably what we'll do is we will finish this.

I've got one more summer and I want to do them.

Listen, I'll do it next week.

On Father's Day will recognize the fathers of course and I'll, but I'm going to finish this series up next next Sunday but this today, Is an I think is an important message because if you remember what we studied so far, remember the first message we talked about how Satan will use suffering to deceive us and he'll get us to question the goodness of God, the presence of God and the wisdom of God, you know, why Lord, why is this at this out?

Not be happening to me.

Now, I don't know why this is happening.

This is, this is not right.

So he'll get us to doubt the love and the grace.

And the mercy of God, then last week, we looked at Abraham.

And we said now this is how you respond to suffering in a Biblical way because he understood the Fate that you had to have that biblical fate does not require you to deny reality.

You don't deny that you're suffering, you know what you're going through.

but biblical Fates does require you to know where your hope and life comes from and it's not anything in this world, it is Jesus.

So what I want to do today is inevitably, we're suffering, leads us all And that is the question of why?

What purpose is there to our suffering?

Not somebody in here today.

Maybe more than one you need to hear this.

This is so important.

What we going to talk about today, what we talked about, what I call the first 2 weeks on suffering, that was the miles apart.

What we going to get in today, is the radical part.

And the title of this message is the purpose behind our suffering.

No, biggie.

I don't want you to put the statement up on the screen yet, I want to read it first but what I'm getting ready to do.

Yes, I'm getting ready.

To make a statement.

That you would not hear.

I'm only saying 97% of the churches across America.

But I'm going to make this statement and the reason I'm going to make it is because it's true.

Matter fact, this statement I'm getting ready to make about suffering.

Is my own statement, it's not a statement, it's not a scripture.

But what I'm about to say, I think is as just as true.

As John 3:16.

Okay.

I'm going to make this statement and then we're going to put it up on the screen and I'm going to let you look at it and then we're going to make it again and then we're going to make it again and again throughout this message.

So here's the state.

Suffering you your suffering.

Now is not an obstacle that interferes with God's plan for your life.

Suffering is God's plan for your life.

How many pastures you things going to stand up today on Sunday and tell their congregation?

I just want to tell you that suffering is God's plan for your life.

I mean, how many pastors you think you going to hear say that this Sunday or, or any Sunday very few if ever but what I just said, Suffering.

Your suffering is not an obstacle.

It's not a detour, it's not a mistake, it's not some random act.

In your life that interferes with God's plan for your life.

Suffering is God's plan for your life.

Let's put it on the screen.

I want you to get this in your heart and head this morning.

This right here is as true as John 3:16.

When you read scripture suffering is not an obstacle that interferes with God's plan for my life suffering is God's plan for my life.

Why would I say that?

Because suffering is the universal Human Experience.

We all suffer everyone suffered?

No, I'm not a masochist, I'm not saying your whole life is just going to be one big suffering event.

I don't mean that what I mean, there's going to be times in your life when things don't go as you planned, and you're going to suffer sometimes tremendously and sometimes for longer than a day and a week and a month and a year.

But what I want you to understand this when you suffer, this is not a detour that Satan puts in your way.

This is not a roadblock.

This is not something that God didn't happen planned and didn't know about this, not an obstacle to God.

Suffering is God.

God's plan.

That's his plan for every single one of us.

You said what's the purpose behind my suffering?

The purpose behind your suffering.

Is your Redemption.

He's redeeming you.

God is redeeming you when you go through suffering, it is an expression of the will of God for your life.

That's what suffering is.

It's an expression of the will of God.

Now, we can't deny, we cannot deny the reality that between the already.

What I mean by is our conversion, we're saved between the already of our conversion and the not yet of our glorification and Resurrection, God has left us in this terrible devastatingly, corrupt and broken world that we live in our world is drastically broken and it does not function as God originally intended.

That's the world that he has placed Us in.

We lived between the already.

Yes, I'm saved.

And the not yet.

Well, I'm not fully redeemed yet.

I don't have my glorified body.

Haven't had the second Resurrection.

That's where we live in that world that we live in is terribly broken.

And a suffering suffering will somehow and someway enter into your life because it's the universal experience of people.

This is the God's wise plan, you so quick.

It doesn't seem too wise to me.

It is his wise plan and it is redemption of in nature.

So let's look at Romans chapter 8 today, Now I remember everything we said that this is his plan, it is Redemptive in nature.

So let's look at Romans chapter 8 and we're going to look at verses 18 to 27.

And this is what the Bible says.

For I consider that the sufferings of, this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in a sitting at a wonderful verse.

Just think of all the suffering that you had in your life, may be what you're going through right now.

The Bible says that this suffering Cancer.

Leukemia broken relationships that this suffering is not even worthy to be compared with the glory.

This going to come, it's not, you can't even compare it.