Some looks at the suffering of this world and conclude there is no God.

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• What appears to be unfair always needs to be seen
  in light of eternity.

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• What appears to be unfair always needs to be seen
  in light of eternity.
• David briefly thought that serving God was in
  "vain" until he though further. (Psa 7311-17)

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• (Psalms 7311-17 NKJV) And they say, How does
  God know? And is there knowledge in the Most
  High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, Who
  are always at ease They increase in riches. 13
  Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, And
  washed my hands in innocence. 14 For all day
  long I have been plagued, And chastened every
  morning.

4
Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• 15 If I had said, I will speak thus, Behold,
  I would have been untrue to the generation of
  Your children. 16 When I thought how to
  understand this, It was too painful for me 17
  Until I went into the sanctuary of God Then I
  understood their end.

5
Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• We too need to be careful not to jump to
  conclusions when adversity comes into our
  lives. Our God is alive and active!

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• Ted Turner, founding genius of Cable News
  Network, millionaire, and sportsman spoke
  recently in Orlando. As he received the award
  for "Humanist of the Year" he shared a very
  emotional story. Turner mentioned that he was
  raised in a God-fearing family and had a sister
  who was ill. Her illness progressed she became
  critical. He prayed desperately the Lord would
  spare her life and make her well. She died.

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• Then Ted told the audience that from then on he
  knew, even as a kid, there was no God up there.
  What kind of loving God would have allowed his
  sister to suffer and die? Turner indicated he
  had lived the rest of his life depending on
  himself, not on an unfeeling, phantom-being that
  did not exist. There was wild applause.

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• Still there are situations that cause us to
  reflect.

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• Consider a child born into the world with an
  illness that bankrupts his parents and the child
  dies. Why does this happen?

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• Consider a child born into the world with an
  illness that bankrupts his parents and the child
  dies. Why does this happen?
• We need to understand that our inability to find
  answers does not deny the existence of God! There
  are many things that God has not reveled to us.
  (Deut 2929)

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• (Deuteronomy 2929 NKJV) The secret things
  belong to the LORD our God, but those things
  which are revealed belong to us and to our
  children forever, that we may do all the words of
  this law.

12
Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• We need to have the wisdom of Job and never blame
  God. (Job 29-10)

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Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• (Job 29-10 NKJV) Then his wife said to him,
  Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse
  God and die! 10 But he said to her, You speak
  as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we
  indeed accept good from God, and shall we not
  accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin
  with his lips.

14
Some looks at the suffering of this world and
conclude there is no God.

• Consider some truths we do know that will help
  explain suffering.

15
God has given man free agency.

• Man has the power of choice. (Ecc 729 Josh
  2415)

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God has given man free agency.

• (Joshua 2415 NKJV) And if it seems evil to
  you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this
  day whom you will serve, whether the gods which
  your fathers served that were on the other side
  of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in
  whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house,
  we will serve the LORD.

17
God has given man free agency.

• (Ecclesiastes 729 NKJV) Truly, this only I
  have found That God made man upright, But they
  have sought out many schemes.

18
God has given man free agency.

• God in His wisdom chose to make man with a free
  will. We are not robots.

19
God has given man free agency.

• God in His wisdom chose to make man with a free
  will. We are not robots.
• The ability to choose holds both great blessings
  and great dangers.

20
God has given man free agency.

• God in His wisdom chose to make man with a free
  will. We are not robots.
• The ability to choose holds both great blessings
  and great dangers.
• For those who trust God the Bible tells us how to
  choose!

21
God has given man free agency.

• God has not foreordained all things.(Jer 3235)

22
God has given man free agency.

• (Jeremiah 3235 NKJV) And they built the high
  places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son
  of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their
  daughters to pass through the fire to Molech,
  which I did not command them, nor did it come
  into My mind that they should do this
  abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

23
God has given man free agency.

• The very presence of evil should show us that God
  in making man with a free will allowed for the
  possibility of sin.

24
God has given man free agency.

• The very presence of evil should show us that God
  in making man with a free will allowed for the
  possibility of sin.
• God does not bring about sin! (Jas 112-13)

25
God has given man free agency.

• (James 112-13 NKJV) Blessed is the man who
  endures temptation for when he has been
  approved, he will receive the crown of life which
  the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13
  Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted
  by God for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor
  does He Himself tempt anyone.

26
God has given man free agency.

• God does however use sinful men in their
  craftiness to accomplish His will.

27
God has given man free agency.

• (Romans 917-18 NKJV) For the Scripture says to
  Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you
  up, that I may show My power in you, and that My
  name may be declared in all the earth. 18
  Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom
  He wills He hardens.

28
God has given man free agency.

• (1 Corinthians 26-8 NKJV) However, we speak
  wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the
  wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this
  age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak
  the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom
  which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
  8 which none of the rulers of this age knew
  for had they known, they would not have crucified
  the Lord of glory.

29
God has given man free agency.

• (1 Corinthians 319-20 NKJV) For the wisdom of
  this world is foolishness with God. For it is
  written, He catches the wise in their own
  craftiness 20 and again, The LORD knows the
  thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.

30
God has given man free agency.

• Satan and the sin he introduced is the source of
  all suffering.

31
God has given man free agency.

• Satan and the sin he introduced is the source of
  all suffering.
• God made this world free of sin and good. (Gen
  131)

32
God has given man free agency.

• (Genesis 131 NKJV) Then God saw everything
  that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So
  the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

33
God has given man free agency.

• After the introduction of sin both man and
  creation were changed. (Gen 316-19)

34
God has given man free agency.

• (Genesis 316-19 NKJV) To the woman He said I
  will greatly multiply your sorrow and your
  conception In pain you shall bring forth
  children Your desire shall be for your husband,
  And he shall rule over you.

35
God has given man free agency.

• 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have
  heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten
  from the tree of which I commanded you, saying,
  You shall not eat of it Cursed is the ground
  for your sake In toil you shall eat of it All
  the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and
  thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you
  shall eat the herb of the field.

36
God has given man free agency.

• 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat
  bread Till you return to the ground, For out of
  it you were taken For dust you are, And to dust
  you shall return.

37
God has given man free agency.

• Satan makes full use of man's vulnerability to
  capture them to his cause. (Heb 214-15)

38
God has given man free agency.

• (Hebrews 214-15 NKJV) Inasmuch then as the
  children have partaken of flesh and blood, He
  Himself likewise shared in the same, that through
  death He might destroy him who had the power of
  death, that is, the devil, 15 and release those
  who through fear of death were all their lifetime
  subject to bondage.

39
God has given man free agency.

• Those who are in fellowship with God have God's
  protection from Satan.

40
God has given man free agency.

• (1 Corinthians 1013 NKJV) No temptation has
  overtaken you except such as is common to man
  but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be
  tempted beyond what you are able, but with the
  temptation will also make the way of escape, that
  you may be able to bear it.

41
God has given man free agency.

• (Job 18-12 NKJV) Then the LORD said to Satan,
  Have you considered My servant Job, that there
  is none like him on the earth, a blameless and
  upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?
  9 So Satan answered the LORD and said, Does
  Job fear God for nothing?

42
God has given man free agency.

• 10 Have You not made a hedge around him,
  around his household, and around all that he has
  on every side? You have blessed the work of his
  hands, and his possessions have increased in the
  land. 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and
  touch all that he has, and he will surely curse
  You to Your face!

43
God has given man free agency.

• 12 And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all
  that he has is in your power only do not lay a
  hand on his person. So Satan went out from the
  presence of the LORD.

44
God has given man free agency.

• "A man who fears suffering is already suffering
  from what he fears."

45
God has given man free agency.

• "A man who fears suffering is already suffering
  from what he fears."
• God will bless in eternity those who choose Him
  in this life. (2 Thess 16-7)

46
God has given man free agency.

• (2 Thessalonians 16-7 NKJV) since it is a
  righteous thing with God to repay with
  tribulation those who trouble you, 7 and to
  give you who are troubled rest with us when the
  Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His
  mighty angels,

47
God has given man free agency.

• This life is not fair! But to the Christian this
  is not the issue.

48
God has given man free agency.

• This life is not fair! But to the Christian this
  is not the issue.
• We choose to let God even things out in the
  judgment.

49
There are several reasons for suffering.

• When physical law is violated.

50
There are several reasons for suffering.

• When physical law is violated.
• God does not suspend physical law that man may
  avoid the consequences!

51
There are several reasons for suffering.

• When physical law is violated.
• God does not suspend physical law that man may
  avoid the consequences!
• Consider the rules surrounding gravity, fire,
  water, darkness and light. (Ex. Smokers on a
  call-in program)

52
There are several reasons for suffering.

• When physical law is violated.
• God does not suspend physical law that man may
  avoid the consequences!
• Consider the rules surrounding gravity, fire,
  water, darkness and light. (Ex. Smokers on a
  call-in program)
• When spiritual law is violated.

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There are several reasons for suffering.

• When physical law is violated.
• God does not suspend physical law that man may
  avoid the consequences!
• Consider the rules surrounding gravity, fire,
  water, darkness and light. (Ex. Smokers on a
  call-in program)
• When spiritual law is violated.
• When we sin there is a just consequence in this
  world. (Gal 67-8 1 Pt 415)

54
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (Galatians 67-8 NKJV) Do not be deceived, God
  is not mocked for whatever a man sows, that he
  will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh
  will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who
  sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap
  everlasting life.

55
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (1 Peter 415 NKJV) But let none of you suffer
  as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a
  busybody in other peoples matters.

56
There are several reasons for suffering.

• Consider the earthly consequences of fornication.
  It destroys relationships, cheapens life,
  separates from God and cases others to lose
  respect for you!

57
There are several reasons for suffering.

• Consider the earthly consequences of fornication.
  It destroys relationships, cheapens life,
  separates from God and cases others to lose
  respect for you!
• When others make wrong choices.

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There are several reasons for suffering.

• Consider the earthly consequences of fornication.
  It destroys relationships, cheapens life,
  separates from God and cases others to lose
  respect for you!
• When others make wrong choices.
• Sadly many suffer because of a choice of a family
  member. (Josh 724-25)

59
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (Joshua 724-25 NKJV) Then Joshua, and all
  Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the
  silver, the garment, the wedge of gold, his sons,
  his daughters, his oxen, his donkeys, his sheep,
  his tent, and all that he had, and they brought
  them to the Valley of Achor.

60
There are several reasons for suffering.

• 25 And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us?
  The LORD will trouble you this day. So all
  Israel stoned him with stones and they burned
  them with fire after they had stoned them with
  stones.

61
There are several reasons for suffering.

• We suffer from the choice of Adam and Eve. (Rom
  512)

62
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (Romans 512 NKJV) Therefore, just as through
  one man sin entered the world, and death through
  sin, and thus death spread to all men, because
  all sinned

63
There are several reasons for suffering.

• While I may suffer the consequences of others
  actions, I do not bear their guilt!
  (Ezk 182, 20)

64
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (Ezekiel 182 NKJV) What do you mean when you
  use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
  saying The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And
  the childrens teeth are set on edge?

65
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (Ezekiel 1820 NKJV) The soul who sins shall
  die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the
  father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son.
  The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon
  himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
  be upon himself.

66
There are several reasons for suffering.

• When natural disasters occur.

67
There are several reasons for suffering.

• When natural disasters occur.
• Both good and evil people suffer the effects of a
  natural calamity.

68
There are several reasons for suffering.

• Birth defects and some diseases fall into this
  category.

69
There are several reasons for suffering.

• Birth defects and some diseases fall into this
  category.
• We need to be careful about accessing blame! (Jn
  91-3)

70
There are several reasons for suffering.

• (John 91-3 NKJV) Now as Jesus passed by, He
  saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His
  disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned,
  this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
  3 Jesus answered, Neither this man nor his
  parents sinned, but that the works of God should
  be revealed in him.

71
There is a great value in suffering

• God will always use suffering for His good. (Rom
  828)

72
There is a great value in suffering

• (Romans 828 NKJV) And we know that all things
  work together for good to those who love God, to
  those who are the called according to His
  purpose.

73
There is a great value in suffering

• What did Joseph learn about his suffering? (Gen
  5019-20)

74
There is a great value in suffering

• (Genesis 5019-20 NKJV) Joseph said to them,
  Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
  20 But as for you, you meant evil against me
  but God meant it for good, in order to bring it
  about as it is this day, to save many people
  alive.

75
There is a great value in suffering

• We may never see the ways God uses tragedy in our
  lives. We must trust God!

76
There is a great value in suffering

• We may never see the ways God uses tragedy in our
  lives. We must trust God!
• If we would see, the good always outweighs the
  bad!

77
There is a great value in suffering

• "Would you trade your worst problems for your
  greatest blessings? Would you give up the
  promise of eternal life for the eradication of
  your temporary grief or pain? Would you exchange
  your life itself for the luxury of not having a
  flat tire? Would you give up the love of your
  family in exchange for a day without disrespect
  or unkindness from others?

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There is a great value in suffering

• Would you trade (fill in the blank with any of
  your greatest blessings) ________________________
  for the removal of (fill in the blank with any of
  your worst problems) __________________________?
  No, you would not. Your blessings always
  outweigh your problems." - Tim Nichols

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There is a great value in suffering

• (Ex. The opposite of count your blessings

80
There is a great value in suffering

• (Ex. The opposite of count your blessings
• When you are discouraged, feel that all is lost
  Say the prize you're seeking is not worth the
  cost Think about your troubles, count them o'er
  and o'er Every time you count them, there will
  be one more.

81
There is a great value in suffering

• Count your many problems, name them one by one
  Think that victory never, never will be won Cite
  your many troubles, count them o'er and o'er, All
  your disappointments and vexations soar.

82
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can allow us to be better acquainted
  with God.

83
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can allow us to be better acquainted
  with God.
• Suffering should humble us. (Isa 371-4)

84
There is a great value in suffering

• (Isaiah 371-4 NKJV) And so it was, when King
  Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes,
  covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the
  house of the LORD. 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who
  was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and
  the elders of the priests, covered with
  sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of
  Amoz.

85
There is a great value in suffering

• 3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah
  This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and
  blasphemy for the children have come to birth,
  but there is no strength to bring them forth. 4
  It may be that the LORD your God will hear the
  words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king
  of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God,
  and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God
  has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the
  remnant that is left.

86
There is a great value in suffering

• "God is more concerned about your response to a
  problem than he is about removing it.

87
There is a great value in suffering

• "God is more concerned about your response to a
  problem than he is about removing it.
• We need to see the brevity of life. (Psa 9012)

88
There is a great value in suffering

• (Psalms 9012 NKJV) So teach us to number our
  days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

89
There is a great value in suffering

• "Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a
  dreadful place the world would be! I would almost
  rather eliminate happiness. The world would be
  the most ghastly place because everything that
  corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little
  creature, man, to feel over-important and
  over-pleased with himself would disappear.

90
There is a great value in suffering

• He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely
  intolerable if he never suffered. However, we
  needn't fear that."

91
There is a great value in suffering

• He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely
  intolerable if he never suffered. However, we
  needn't fear that."
• Job in all of his suffering came to know God
  better. In this he was greatly blessed! (Job
  425-6)

92
There is a great value in suffering

• (Job 425-6 NKJV) I have heard of You by the
  hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. 6
  Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and
  ashes.

93
There is a great value in suffering

• Thank God for slowing you down and the time He
  has given you to consider Him.

94
There is a great value in suffering

• GethsemaneAll those who journey, soon or
  late,Must pass within the garden's gateMust
  kneel alone in darkness there.And battle with
  some fierce despair.God pity those who cannot
  say,'not mine but thing' who only pray,'Let
  this cup pass,' and cannot see,The purpose in
  Gethsemane.

95
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can cause us to develop greater
  spiritual qualities.

96
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can cause us to develop greater
  spiritual qualities.
• We learn that we have a genuine faith. (Rom
  53-4 1 Pt 16-7)

97
There is a great value in suffering

• (Romans 53-4 NKJV) And not only that, but we
  also glory in tribulations, knowing that
  tribulation produces perseverance 4 and
  perseverance, character and character, hope.

98
There is a great value in suffering

• (1 Peter 16-7 NKJV) In this you greatly
  rejoice, though now for a little while, if need
  be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7
  that the genuineness of your faith, being much
  more precious than gold that perishes, though it
  is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor,
  and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

99
There is a great value in suffering

• "Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul
  bears to itself."

100
There is a great value in suffering

• "Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul
  bears to itself."
• "Suffering is a cleansing fire that clears away
  triviality and restlessness.

101
There is a great value in suffering

• "Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul
  bears to itself."
• "Suffering is a cleansing fire that clears away
  triviality and restlessness.
• "Nothing shows more accurately what we are than
  the way we meet trials and difficulties.

102
There is a great value in suffering

• "Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul
  bears to itself."
• "Suffering is a cleansing fire that clears away
  triviality and restlessness.
• "Nothing shows more accurately what we are than
  the way we meet trials and difficulties.
• We learn the value of waiting on the Lord. (Jas
  12-4)

103
There is a great value in suffering

• (James 12-4 NKJV) My brethren, count it all
  joy when you fall into various trials, 3
  knowing that the testing of your faith produces
  patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect
  work, that you may be perfect and complete,
  lacking nothing.

104
There is a great value in suffering

• SufferingBe still, my soul the Lord is on thy
  sideBear patiently the cross of grief or
  painLeave to thy God to order and provideIn
  every change he faithful will remain.

105
There is a great value in suffering

• We have a stronger hope. (Rom 818)

106
There is a great value in suffering

• (Romans 818 NKJV) For I consider that the
  sufferings of this present time are not worthy to
  be compared with the glory which shall be
  revealed in us.

107
There is a great value in suffering

• "The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes would
  have no tears

108
There is a great value in suffering

• "Man can endure almost any suffering if he can
  see a purpose or meaning in it. Conversely, he
  will be miserable even amidst great luxury if he
  cannot relate his life to some larger context
  which makes it meaningful."

109
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can increase our influence for the Lord.

110
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can increase our influence for the
  Lord.
• Many who suffer and quietly stand have a powerful
  influence. (1 Pt 211-12 412-16)

111
There is a great value in suffering

• (1 Peter 211-12 NKJV) Beloved, I beg you as
  sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly
  lusts which war against the soul, 12 having
  your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that
  when they speak against you as evildoers, they
  may, by your good works which they observe,
  glorify God in the day of visitation.

112
There is a great value in suffering

• (1 Peter 412-16 NKJV) Beloved, do not think it
  strange concerning the fiery trial which is to
  try you, as though some strange thing happened to
  you 13 but rejoice to the extent that you
  partake of Christs sufferings, that when His
  glory is revealed, you may also be glad with
  exceeding joy.

113
There is a great value in suffering

• 14 If you are reproached for the name of
  Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory
  and of God rests upon you. On their part He is
  blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
  15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a
  thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other
  peoples matters.

114
There is a great value in suffering

• 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let
  him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in
  this matter.

115
There is a great value in suffering

• "The self-centered suffer when others disappoint
  them. The Christ-centered suffer when they
  disappoint others."

116
There is a great value in suffering

• "We all know people who have been made much
  meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to
  live with by suffering it is not right to say
  that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one
  type of personthe one who accepts the call of
  God in Christ Jesus." - Oswald Chambers

117
There is a great value in suffering

• "Often the same thing that makes one person
  bitter makes another better.

118
There is a great value in suffering

• "Often the same thing that makes one person
  bitter makes another better.
• "It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
  - Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821)

119
There is a great value in suffering

• "Often the same thing that makes one person
  bitter makes another better.
• "It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
  - Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821)
• Please never forget the great opportunity you
  have in suffering. (Ex. A godly
  wife caring for a critically ill husband for
  years)

120
There is a great value in suffering

• Suffering can allow us to help others in their
  suffering. (2 Cor 13-5)

121
There is a great value in suffering

• (2 Corinthians 13-5 NKJV) Blessed be the God
  and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
  of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who
  comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may
  be able to comfort those who are in any trouble,
  with the comfort with which we ourselves are
  comforted by God.

122
There is a great value in suffering

• 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us,
  so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

123
There is a great value in suffering

• You cannot imagine what Christians at this church
  have experienced in their lives but remained
  faithful.

124
There is a great value in suffering

• You cannot imagine what Christians at this church
  have experienced in their lives but remained
  faithful.
• There are many here who would gladly share
  valuable wisdom with others if
  given the chance.

125
There is a great value in suffering

• There is a great joy in helping others who are
  going down the paths you have trod.

126
There is a great value in suffering

• "I walked a mile with Pleasure,She chattered all
  the way,And left me none the wiser,For all she
  had to say."I walked a mile with Sorrow,And not
  a word said she.But oh, the things I learned
  from her,When Sorrow walked with me.-- Robert
  Browning Hamilton

127
There is a great value in suffering

• Let us be faithful wherever this life may lead.
  (Phil 412-13)

128
There is a great value in suffering

• (Philippians 412-13 NKJV) I know how to be
  abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and
  in all things I have learned both to be full and
  to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
  13 I can do all things through Christ who
  strengthens me.

129
There is a great value in suffering

• What will you remember in eternity?

130
There is a great value in suffering

• As Christians we can view suffering as an
  opportunity. Do you? (Phil 127-30)

131
There is a great value in suffering

• (Philippians 127-30 NKJV) Only let your
  conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so
  that whether I come and see you or am absent, I
  may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in
  one spirit, with one mind striving together for
  the faith of the gospel, 28 and not in any way
  terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a
  proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and
  that from God.

132
There is a great value in suffering

• 29 For to you it has been granted on behalf of
  Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to
  suffer for His sake, 30 having the same
  conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in
  me.

133
There is a great value in suffering

• I asked God for strength that I might achieve,I
  was made weak, that I might learn humbly to
  obey.I asked for health, that I might do greater
  things,I was given infirmity that I might do
  better things.I asked for riches, that I might
  be happy,

134
There is a great value in suffering

• I was given poverty, that I might be wise.I
  asked for power, that I might have the praise of
  men,I was given weakness, that I might feel the
  need of God.I asked for all things, that I might
  enjoy life,I was given life, that I might enjoy
  all things.

135
There is a great value in suffering

• I got nothing that I asked for -- but everything
  I had hoped for.Almost despite myself, my
  unspoken prayers were answered.I am among all
  men, most richly blessed.-- From Max Cleland,
  Strong at the Broken Places