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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

The Real Reason Why We Go Through Tuff Times

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Pastor Mark talks about the real reason why God lets Christians go through hard times. Tune in to find out!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

For a moment, let's just think about trials, troubles,

0:05.0

difficulties, temptations.

0:09.5

What are you dealing with?

0:11.7

Every person is dealing constantly with trials,

0:16.2

be they big or small.

0:18.5

And what's difficult in our day

0:20.5

is that we have more trials than ever

0:22.9

because in the day that James wrote,

0:25.0

the world wasn't as interconnected.

0:27.1

You didn't have global problems.

0:30.4

They live in their village, you live in your village,

0:32.5

there's no internet, you don't know what's going on

0:34.6

in Wuhan and you don't care.

0:38.3

Okay, now we have multinational companies you don't know what's going on in Wuhan and you don't care. Okay?

0:39.3

Now we have multinational companies and we have trade between nations and we have travel

0:46.3

and all of a sudden you can have global problems.

0:50.3

In addition, you can have national problems.

0:52.3

True or false, we potentially have at least one national problems. True or false, we potentially have at least one national

0:56.6

problem. True or false, right? I don't care where you're out on the political spectrum. You're like,

1:00.6

I can agree with that. Okay, good. In addition, we have local problems. We have state problems. We have

1:06.3

regional problems. In addition to all of the problems beyond us, there are people that we love and they've

1:12.0

got their own problems. You have family or friends. They're hurting. They're struggling.

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