Gospel Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense - Paul Tripp
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Sometimes life just hurts. Out of nowhere, death, illness, unemployment, or a difficult relationship can change our lives and challenge everything we thought we knew. But in the midst of all this pain and confusion, we are not alone. Weaving together his personal story, pastoral ministry experience, and biblical insights, Paul Tripp encourages us to cling to God's promises when trials come and move forward with the hope of the gospel.
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“It’s hard to tolerate anything that’s uncomfortable when we are at the center of our world.”
The person we lie to the most is ourselves.
Mr Tripp, thankyou for this. I am a 39 year old marine corps veteran, small residential renter, and recently collapsed PhD cognitive neuropsychology student/researcher. At 35, life was paying me back for the hard work I had been doing, so I thought I was doing things right. By 39, my partner of 10 years was swept away by radical politics (in search to cure her own suffering), my business is struggling, and I suffered a catastrophic breakdown from both the pressure of the PhD program and the cognitive dissonance I was feeling as I learned just how many assumptions and interpretive errors lie behind our deep trust in science. It has been said "the first gulp from the glass of natural science will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting."
I fled this anxiety by turning to drugs. I thought to myself, cigarettes and weed aren't so bad. It's not meth, after all. I'm in control. This led me to a terrible cycle. While high, I was no use to anyone, including myself, so I would hide myself as much as I could in that state. While sober, I felt depressed, like I'd rather fall asleep and never wake, like the value of life was all in my past.
I recently rediscovered Jesus bearing his cross. I was introduced to Christianity as a child, but I didn't learn until I experienced suffering. What I am learning is this. We must all, as God demonstrated with his son, bear our suffering. We must each carry our crosses, whatever form they take. We must do this not for ourselves, but for others. We must summon the courage to move forward, knowing that yet more suffering is over the horizon. Anything else, it seems, only makes the suffering worse.
You do not know me. Nor I you. But your courage through your suffering is helping me with mine.
Well put. I encourage you as well. And I’m praying for you.
"Now thanks be unto God, who GIVES us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ". I Cor. 15:57. We are on the Winning Side in Christ. It is ALL the Gift of Grace which brings us safely home. Because we are in God's grace, we are just as safe on the journey as when we get there. The same grace that saved us is keeping us. BE OF GOOD CHEER, Jesus conquered the world. Now, since we are crucifed with Christ, we have also conquered the world.
To, Mr. Tripp,
I read your book "Suffering" a couple of months ago. I picked it up because I was having a bit of tough time in the family. But recently things took a turn for the worse and my family was broken into pieces. I have lost my mother a few years ago, our dad abused me and my sisters and then kicked us out and few days ago, the man I loved for five years and thought was the one for me, turned his back on me and decided to marry someone else. If I had not read your book when I did, I would gone downhill, fast. God used your book in keeping me sane and so I thank Him for that. And I thank you that you use your suffering to touch so many lives. Hope God will use my life and my heartache too, to be glorified and touch others.
Sister I'm glad you made it I was figuring out around 50xs how to end it I know it's nitc a verse but I think there's truth in that that doesn't kill me makes me stronger but I leaned on God and the Bible suffering is brutal
Only Christ Love
Thank you
I lost my best friend and business partner 2 months after this broadcast and found this today on his birthday. God's grace to see us through the pain is our strength. Thank you Mr. Tripp for sharing God's truths with us.
No pain can be consoled by Humans. Only Christ Love
You know God is doing a deep purging in you, when a message affects your body to the point where you want to throw up. Thank you Dr. Tripp for this cleansing Word from God to help see suffering and God's priority in suffering through God's lens.
Oh my goodness. I can’t begin to tell you all how much of a comfort the last few videos I have watched from this page have been.
Need this version to give my son who is 20, suffering so bad, I am, I lost my son due to it and haven't done well, this is timely, I need to leave this for my son when I'm not here, something he can understand, this is even deep for me, this needs to be a study guide and I see it's a book I think?
Thank you for speaking the truth of the Gospel. Thank you for embracing suffering as a source of grace. Powerful testimony that spoke deeply to my heart.
God is greater than our problems.
Heartbreaking message.
Love of my Christ is so deep I cant hold in my heart or mind. He is so deep loving.
Esperança do Evangelho quando a vida não faz sentido: Às vezes a vida simplesmente dói. Do nada, a morte, a doença, o desemprego ou um relacionamento difícil podem mudar as nossas vidas e desafiar tudo o que pensávamos saber. Mas no meio de toda esta dor e confusão, não estamos sozinhos. Unindo sua história pessoal, experiência de ministério pastoral e insights bíblicos, Paul Tripp nos encoraja a nos apegarmos às promessas de Deus quando as provações vierem e a seguirmos em frente com a esperança do evangelho.
There are even worse kinds of sufferings than this gentleman's. When you can't stand on your own two feet; when you're paralyzed, when you're blind and deaf. When you have dementia, but you're still alive.
Amen amen amen
SO GOOD !!!!! Thankful for this
Been encouraged, thankyou Pastor Paul
Praise the lord God. I believe in God the father i believe in Jesus Christ I believe in the Holy spirit
The content in this sermon is profoundly helpful because it resonates with the Biblical worldview of creation, fall, redemption and consummation. How does that help in the midst of unforeseen unexpected indescribable crises, relentless ongoing chronic pain that never quits? Bottom line is how we interpret our suffering through who God says He is-this alone empowers and aligns our wounded hearts with Grace and Truth and then the Spirit of God has space in our hearts to bring our innermost being into alignment with the character of Christ. As Amy Carmichael wrote ....Could thou hast followed far who has no wound, who has no scar?
This helped me tremendously.
Thank you so much for sharing your story of suffering and for sharing the path through that with God’s grace. The last seven years of my life have been almost more than I can bare. I know without Gods grace in my life I would not be where I am today. When it’s so hard to make sense of suffering especially when you are in the midst of pain. All you really want is for it to end. But ending my suffering is not what God wants for me because He has a bigger purpose for my life than I can see or understand. I appreciate you articulating what God has been teaching me as well ❤️
same here last 12 years just bombarded w many many suffering and hardship and losing things, my health, lost my mother, just keep going down and now I can’t bare it pains are killing me keep getting worse to point I thought I am cursed 😢😢I blame me that something wrong w me that I can’t have normal life like many women in the world, all I do morning to night dealing w doctors and pains, never move on never even feel I am a woman just the body of suffering 😢😢😢😢
Thank you. Thank you so much for this.
I have the Samsung Note 7 that Servant Paul used when he wrote his Epistles.
Thank you so much for your message about your suffering.
All glory to God! God is using your experiences, Mr. Tripp, for your good & His glory.
Thank my ADONAI for this ive been in pain for months now. 🙏🏽 ps #Jude3Project
Wow!! Perfect word for what am facing
Wow, great sermon!
Wow! This was something I needed today.
A stroke in 2016 followed by the rejection of my friends and church caused me to give up a 30 year career in Christian radio and move 800 miles away to a state where I didn't know a single person for a 'fresh start'. It was not to be. I was suffering from severe PTSD, was rejected by two more churches and doubted God's love. I soak up anything I can on suffering and how God can use it for our good. Thank you for this.
Beth I’m so sorry for what you’re going thru, are you doing ok?
I'm so sorry to hear of this for you! A consolation for me has been to read Isaiah 53 almost every day. Jesus was a man of sorrows and He also was despised and rejected by men, so as our sympathetic high priest, He really does know exactly how we feel. That brings much comfort, but even so, I also rely on that verse that says we are sorrowful yet always rejoicing - knowing that our sorrow is known by Jesus & He will never leave us not forsake us though all others were to. Praying for you!!
@@1abbaschild Thank you so much. Paul Tripp and Scott Sauls are two authors who have really ministered to me.
@@Gigi-oz5ik The rejection from three churches led to more pain than I was able to absorb. The last church did unimafiginable things to hurt me - including destroying a large package of appreciative notes and cards from friends, radio listeners, even my parents who have been gone 10 years. All 3 churches had me formally trespassed, two got no contact orders, one filed criminal charges for 'annoying' the custodian by asking to speak to a pastor without an appointment. NEVER was I demanding or threatening and NONE of the churches would give me a reason for their actions except that they were unable to minister to someone as broken as I was. (I heard the same thing from Freedom in Christ Ministries.) In the last church, it was one man who had WAY too much power and even the elders had no idea what he was doing. One pastor resigned and they have me scared out of my mind as to what they'll do next. They have threatened me with "imprisonment" if I as much as speak to anyone who ATTENDS that church! I had hoped to work one more year, but I can't take any more and I just have to pull away and spend at least a year in isolation with my corgis. I am grateful to HAVE FINALLY found a church where I have been welcomed and accepted. I hope to become a member and I think I'll feel safer when I'm officially under the care of church leaders who care and welcome the broken, rather than throw them away. On Easter Sunday (5 days ago) I posted Romans 8:1 on the FB page of one of the pastors from my church in MN. He deleted it and blocked me from his page. I've never met him, never spoken with him, but he obviously believes that I am condemned and that God's grace is not available to me. That has been a 5 year theme from three evangelical churches that seem to care for others but have condemned, rejected and shunned me. Shunning is cruel and it is deadly. It communicates such condemnation and hatred and has almost cost me my life on too many occasions. Taking down that verse and blocking me pushed me over the edge this week and I decided to retire. I just want to be alone ....... where I can't get hurt anymore. I am cautiously optomistic about the church I'm in now but am being very very careful and I am constantly second guessing myself, wondering if I've said or done something that will cause me to be rejected there. Classic PTSD. I feel safest just worshipping on line. Haven't taken communion in five years because of the total confusion as to why I've been cast off. I don't know FOR SURE that God loves me. I believe He does but I think that what has happened to me is VERY VERY UNUSUAL and I'd just like to understand why. I have no relationship problems outside of that with these church leaders and the friends in my original church in MN who rejected me after my stroke and filed a police report when I accidentally touched an audio Bible app in church one Sunday. (I'd had the phone less than a week.)
I would suggest that you give it a try to tune in at IN TOUCH MINISTRIES and listen to DR. CHARLES STANLEY....No Nonsense, Down to Earth, and Biblically Sound Practical teachings, it might just help you change and shift your Paradigm.... WHY OUR NEEDS REMAIN UNMET is One powerful message title that will surely aid you to consider and reconsider...
Thank you.
I’m going through the hardest time in my life right now and I needed this so much, marriage is so so hard and I know for sure God is using this as a trial in my life 😞
Khady’s Covers praying for you 🙏 it is a covenant and God will be able to refresh with fresh joy, anointing. He is faithful! Don’t give up!
I'm going through something similar😏🙏
Four things to do at the moment you wake up:
1. Glaze upon the beauty of the Lord -Isiah 40, last few chapter of Job, Ephesians 1
2. Remember my gospel identity as a child of God
3. Rest, teach my heart to vertical rest
4. Act, learn to live based NOT on feeling of my situation but on the existence of God and my identity in Him and the rest that gives you no matter what’s going on.
Suffering is universal and never neutral. We will either trouble our trouble and grow distance in our confidence of God and suffering of the use of God to deepen our faith.
Suffering reveals us and draws us ever close to Him.
Amen!
Thank you! Very needed words in my life today.
So powerful. I need this.
Great Lesson!
This is Fire of truth
Wow! Annointed and timely for me today. Thank you for being faithful to deliver this message!
ALWAYS excellent!!! I appreciate this message too ❤️
Amen! So needed to hear this! Thanks for being obedience and delivering Gods Word!
Me too . I will need to probably watch this a few more times till it really is drilled in me !!
Thank you for this powerful, much needed message.
Does anyone have this book, is it similar to this, an easy read, this speech gets deep, I wish I had a mentor
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Mr. Tripp,
I attended a "Sing" conference and picked up a book titled "Suffering" by your brother because as of April of 2007 I became disabled. However my question for you is "How may a disabled husband show his "love your wife as Christ loves the church"; despite my suffering, I know that my wife is also enduring my suffering as well. As a husband who truly loves his bride, I want that life to show that this is a priority. Is there any way you or your brother may provide a list of resources? By the way, I am enjoying your book titled "Loving your wife as Christ loves the Church" as well as your brothers book titled "Suffering".
Clarification; The post below was actually written by Erik Greene Roxanne's husband (I'm the one who is disabled).
Is there any way to get a transcript of this
Here's the original posting on tgc.org which includes a transcript as well 👍🏼
www.thegospelcoalition.org/conference_media/suffering-gospel-hope-life-doesnt-make-sense/
Is he wearing a travel jacket? PDT fashion is the best
Is not grace a gift, unearned favor ? I cannot see Tripp''s use of the term grace regarding suffering of David in his scary circumstances confronted with the threat of death. "Suffering is the workroom of grace". One cannot put "unmerited favor" right in there instead. What does Tripp mean by grace in this respect ? regards Runar, Norway
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You minimize the real suffering of people by saying its just us being petty, sinful and wanting comfort. I have been suffering from non stop, constant chronic migraine for 12 years. A severe debilitating pain. Thats 4380+ constant days of pain, day in day out. Moment by moment. My want for it to stop is not idolatry its a beg and plead for mercy.
Every night I pray for one of two things. One - to wake up with no or less pain. Two - not to wake up at all. Im not afraid to meet Christ.
I can't imagine the suffering you are going through. I thought the two or so that I get a month are bad enough. I have had to eliminate many foods in order to decrease the frequency of migraines. Especially sugar. Can't change the weather though. I pray you find the answers you need.
You are not alone in your suffering...mine is different but still in a way I need an escape.
@@COOLKITTY1995 a migraine could be caused by different reasons or be incurable. Just how leperousy was incurable and Jesus had to heal. Heal or grace.
I feel the same with the debilitating cropping chronic insomnia . Night after night . I get migraines quite a bit too . Also I have chronic pain . My neck shoulders etc. Still don't have a diagnosis . I'm also so lonely too and this is how I feel every night and everyday I wake up too . It's torture . And it may be God's will but this is clearly night mine ❤❤
*crippling that should read
So... have better theology and your suffering won’t hurt so much? Have more faith? God sent it so He must know best?? I don’t think that is a Biblical answer... Sin and a broken world, the choices of yourself AND others. The grace and faithfulness of God in SPITE of pain and suffering. The comfort of knowing Christ knows and suffered with us, and that there is a life to come. These things are helpful, I think there is more but I strongly strongly oppose determinism and self-blame for all an individual’s problems.
Dang it! I was all aboard until I heard "systemic racism." I'm out. Too bad even Paul Tripp is brainwashed.
I have a very hard time taking anything Paul Tripp says seriously anymore - since his political statement last year after the George Floyd incident- rebuking vague unknown sins against his vague not-personally-known causcasian viewers. Extremely reactive and unwise - respect is lost now
Some of what he saying isn't truth. Please use discernment when listening to him.
But you didn't give any examples.
Everything he said is true per God's word. If you're still in slavery to your self, then you probably won't like this message.
We all want to be little god, that's why we die to self daily. Hard truth
@@benwade7334 Amen
Thank you.