Patience When Life is Painful
Radical with David Platt
David Platt
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In a world corrupted by sin, none of us is immune from suffering. This is true for both unbelievers and believers. Following Christ doesn’t exempt us from life’s trials and even painful tragedies. In this message from David Platt from James 5:7–12, we are exhorted to patience in the midst of life’s pain. By God’s grace, we can endure faithfully because we know that pain and suffering don’t have the last word. We look forward to the day when Christ returns and there is no more pain and suffering. Instead of living for this world, we wait with faith and patience for a new creation filled with rest and unending joy in Christ.
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| 0:36.0 | plat. If I were to give a title to a sermon we're about to walk through, it would be patience when life is painful. |
| 0:50.4 | And if I could just put it out there, there's a sense in which I don't want to preach it. |
| 0:57.6 | Because I don't want life to be painful. |
| 1:02.0 | For me or for you, and I don't think you want life to be painful either. |
| 1:07.0 | But it is. |
| 1:10.0 | There are people all across this church, people listening right now who have |
| 1:16.6 | suffered in ways far beyond what I can imagine. I know some of you have walked through significant suffering and pain over just the |
| 1:29.2 | last year. I think of one brother I was praying with last Sunday in the lobby who was just |
| 1:34.9 | pouring tears over loss he's experienced this last year. |
| 1:41.2 | Some of you were walking through hard, painful circumstances right now in your life, your family, |
| 1:49.8 | and if so, I'm not going to go into all the details from my own life, but I would just say I'm with you. And that's actually why I'm really looking forward, on the other hand, to preaching this message of the next few minutes, |
| 2:11.0 | because I needed this word this week and I know many of you |
| 2:17.3 | need this word right now especially amidst the holidays and how emotions can be heightened and harder over the holidays. |
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