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3 Ways Not to Waste Your Pain
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Jul 20, 2024
You can't have life without pain. Trials and troubles are a normal part of our existence. When you experience pain, you have a choice, would you let it break you or build you. Obviously, the right choice is not to let pain hinder you from achieving your goals and ultimately, reaching God's Kingdom. However, how do you exactly make the most of the pain you're going through? In this video, let me persuade you not to waste your pain. Instead, use pain to improve your life and become a better version of yourself. Let me share with you 3 ways not to waste your pain, which could dramatically change the way you look at pain in life. Thus, I highly recommend you watch this video from start to finish to discover God's purpose for pain and how you can come out better, stronger, and more faithful! #Jesus #Teachings #SpiritualEnlightenment #Faith #Transformation #Christianity #Love #Forgiveness #Generosity #DivineCalling #Inspiration #sermon ============= 📖 Read the transcript/blog version here: https://becomingchristians.com/the-radical-teachings-of-jesus-christ/ *FREE MASTERCLASSES* ➡️ *What is the meaning of life?* ➤ https://stats.sender.net/forms/ax63rd/view ➡️ *How to increase your faith* ➤ https://stats.sender.net/forms/eppxNe/view ➡️ *How to study the Bible* ➤ https://stats.sender.net/forms/epvj1b/view ➡️ *How to build godly habits* ➤ https://stats.sender.net/forms/e1OOqb/view
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Brethren, we live in a broken world
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Almost everything that we see is broken. Our government system is broken
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Our educational system is broken. Our justice system is broken. Even this earth is broken
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We have erratic and unpredictable weather. We have natural calamities. We have earthquakes, typhoons, landslides, and so much more
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And not only that, brethren, all of us experience brokenness on a personal level
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Our bodies are broken. They don't function naturally or they don't actually function very well
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Sometimes we feel pain in our bodies. We don't feel young as we used to be
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And even though in also our relationships, we have broken relationships, We have, every now and then, perhaps, arguments with our spouse, with our parents, with our children, and our family members
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And because of this brethren, we are not just broken physically, but also spiritually
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Everywhere you look, there are brokenness because we live in a broken world
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And because we live in this world, brethren, in a broken and fallen world
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It is inevitable for us to experience pain. It is inevitable for us to experience pain
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In fact, the harsh fact of life is that pain is part of life
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No one except that whether you are young or old, you are poor or rich
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you are young or male or female, all of us feel pain
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And if you don't feel pain right now, if you don't have problems
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If you don't have any struggles in life, I can assure you with 100% assurance that you will have pain during this life
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And because of that, brethren, because pain is naturally part of our life, what should we do
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All right? That's what I want us to focus today. Today I want to talk about do not waste your pain
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Do not waste your pain Because since we are going through pain
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in our life we cannot escape it We cannot avoid it Because we are human beings
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We are bound to feel pain And struggles in life So the question is
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How can we How can we benefit from our pain So in this afternoon, brethren
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I would like to share with you Three ways Not to waste your pain
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three ways not to waste your pain. Now, if you're going to apply
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if you're going to understand these three ways, I can tell you, brethren, that the way you see pain in life
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would dramatically change. You will have a paradigm shift in how you view pain in your life
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when you understand these three points. Now, there are different ways, all right
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I just instilled it into three so that we could have this in this short message
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So how can you not waste your pain. Let's go to the first one. Use pain to learn from your experiences
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So actually pain is a learning process. It is something that teaches something
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because pain has its purpose in your life. Now I want you to remember this
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brethren the greatest lessons we learn come from our greatest Okay, would you agree with that, brethren, that sometimes the most important, the greatest lessons in our life, you don't actually learn them from your victories, you don't learn them from your triumphs
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You don't learn them in happy moments. Actually, you learn them in your greatest pain in life
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I know you could just look back in your life and you would understand what I'm saying
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In my personal life, there are a lot of pain that I have. experience and those pain are something that taught me the greatest lessons in life
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And that's why, brethren, we don't want to waste our pain. And you want to learn something in your experience
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There is something about pain, brethren, that it could become one of our best teachers
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Let's go to 1 Corinthians 10 verse 11, brethren. Let's go there
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First Corinthians 10, 11. It says here, he's talking about the experience. experiences of the Israelites Now all these things happened to them as examples and they were written for our admonition or instruction upon whom the ends of the ages have come Now the reason the Bible included the lessons or the stories that we read in the Word of God it is for us to help understand the consequences of our actions Now pain has a peculiar way of teaching us valuable lessons
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I remember when Caleb was still small and I told you, Oh, Caleb, do not put your finger inside the electric fan
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And you might have experienced that as parents. You have told your children not to do that
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It's going to hurt you. It's not going to be a pleasant experience
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but lo and beyond they would say yes daddy Caleb they haven't
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spoken that time yet but they would still try it they would still poke their fingers
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inside the electric fan and boom they would feel shocked and they would say
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Daddy was right see and since that day when Caleb poke his fingers
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inside the electric fan he didn't do it anymore that's why brethren
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pain is actually a great teacher it can teach you a lot of things
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now because of that brethren pain forces us to stop and think about what we are doing
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when we are doing something wrong God would let pain to enter in our life
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so that we would be woken up it's like a wake-up call
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hey Joshua you're going to you're going to the wrong direction and without pain
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we might be we would realize it too late in our life
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Now the problem is that when we waste our pain, when we go through
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painful experiences and we don't learn our lesson, then we are bound
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to commit the same mistake and sadly, go through the same pain
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You might have observed you didn't have done that again, that's just all right
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that's just that's what you are wasting our pain but if you
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learn your lesson from your pain you would be able to become wiser
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You see that, brethren? Actually, I would say I have a lot of things to learn
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but I would say that I am wiser today than when I was in my teenage years
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You know why? Because I have learned lessons from the wrong decisions in my life
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And those who are young people here in the church, I could tell you
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there are a lot of experiences in your life and you will go through pain
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and those pain will help you understand what life truly is. So that's why, brethren, if you go through pain, do not waste it
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Learn from your experience. Use pain to learn from life. That's number one, brethren
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The number two way for you not to waste your pain is this. This is very important
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Use pain to grow your faith. Use pain to grow your faith
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Now in the Bible, especially you don't have to turn there, Hebrews 11, verse 6 tells us that
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it is impossible to please God without faith. It didn't say it is hard, it is somewhat difficult
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It says impossible, it's impossible, impossible, impossible. Without faith, you will not be able to peace God
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That's why faith is very important for us to have. So the question is, how do you exactly increase your faith
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How can you prove it? Let's go to 1.1, verse 6 to 7
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Let's see the role of pain in helping us in developing our faith
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Let's go there, brethren. First Peter 1, verse 6 to 7, says, In this you great rejoice, though now, for a little while
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if need be, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials
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Why? That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes
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though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory
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at the revelation of Yahshua, our Messiah. You see that, brethren? It is through pain that our faith is tested
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and through the process, we are being able to develop and increase our faith
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Now, this tells us, brethren, that our strength, spiritual muscles become stronger when we go through trials in life
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Now if you're going to look into the life of the spiritual giants in the Bible, the faithful servants of God, Moses, Joseph, Abraham, David
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all of them were not born with faith. Have you realized that, brethren
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When they are babies, they don't have faith yet. Faith is something that you develop throughout your life
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and this is something that we need to understand brethren you won't be able to develop much faith
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if you just simply live your life comfortably you have to go through difficulties in life
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so that you would be able to learn more how to trust God
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it's easy to trust God when everything is going fine the business is going strong you have strong health
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you have very good relationship with your with your with everyone it doesn take much trust in God and yet if you are struck by a health problem a financial problem or relationship problem that the time when your spiritual muscles need to be flexed and developed
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Take the life of Joseph as an example, brethren. He was betrayed by brothers
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He was sold to slavery. He was drug into a foreign land
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He was accused and he was put into prison. for something that he didn't do
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and he was forgotten by the person he helped. It seems that the life of Joseph was just a sequence of pain after pain after pain
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And you know what, brethren? Those years of difficulties in life and trials of Joseph
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was actually a preparation for what is stored for him. Do you think, brethren, if Yahweh has already picked up Joseph
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when he was still young and he was still young, and he was made one of the top leaders in Egypt
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Do you think he would be effective when he was still young at the time? He was an effective leader in Egypt because of the things he went through in life
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Those things have developed Joseph for this role that was prepared for him by God
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That's why, brethren, if you stay faithful through trials, brethren, God is actually preparing you
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for something big in your life and ultimately he is preparing us
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for our role in his coming kingdom here on earth so brethren
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in the same manner don't despise the trials you're going through right now
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don't despise it whether you are going through financial problem maraming utang, maraming bayarin
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you have health problems the medical records are not looking good you feel a lot of pain your body
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or you have relationship problems someone walk out of your life someone you have problems with your children
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you can look at your pain brethren and see it as a tool
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for you to increase your faith further we need to look at pain and say
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I'm not going to just go through pain but rather I'm going to grow
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in pain Did you see that, brethren? I want you to capture that
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Let me repeat. I'm not going to just go through pain, but rather I'm going to grow in pain
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All of us might despite pain, brethren, but when you know if there's a purpose in pain
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you will be more patient and you will be more courageous in going through pain
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Take, for example, brethren. If you ask any mother here in this room, brethren
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if you ask them, would you like to go through a life and death experience
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a life and death experience pain? They would most certainly say, no
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Sino, who's not saying, I want to experience pain? Wala. But the same mother
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would willingly go through birth delivery. Why would a person would willingly want to go through childbirth
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It's so painful. Actually, it is a life and death situation for them. And yet, they would go through it willingly
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No one forced them, but they want to do it willingly. Why? Because they know that there is joy beyond the pain
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Now, in the same manner, brethren, if you know there is joy beyond the pain
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would you be willing to go through it? I would say yes
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Because you know that there's purpose in your pain. That's a difference, brethren
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if you are a Christian, if you are a follower of Christ, that's a difference
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Because the people in the labas, they don't see any purpose in their pain. Kya, yeah, they're no while they're not in the pagas
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They lose hope. They want to quit. You know why? Because they don't have God in their life
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We are very blessed to have God in our life, brother. Because we can now see pain with a different perspective
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Because this pain that I'm going through right now, it has a purpose
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I will not waste this pain it has something it will fulfill the purpose
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for this pain so brethren do not give up when you go through life's difficulties
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because it is accomplishing something in you that is going to help you
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develop your character and your faith in God so that's number two
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finally brethren let's go to number three Use your pain to serve others
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Now this is very important, brethren. Use your pain to serve others
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Now you might say, Josh, I'm already in too much pain. How on earth am I going to serve others in my situation
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Nairapa now, I'm, problem I'm more. But, brethren, let me explain. All right
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You can actually use your pain to serve others. Let's go to 2 Corinthians 1 verse 3 to 4, brethren
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our final scriptural 2nd, 2nd Corinthians 1 verse 3 to 4 says Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah the Father of mercies and God of all comfort who comforts us in all our tribulation
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that we may be able to comfort those who are in trouble. Did you see
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that, brethren? God comforts us in our tribulation. When do you feel God's love
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When do you feel God's love the most brethren. Kailang you know that's
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maraud of God's mercies and love toward you. It is true pain
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right? When we go through your victories in life, not much but when it comes
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to pain, he comforts us. And you know why, brethren, that we may
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be able to comfort those who are in trouble with the comfort with
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which we ourselves are comforted by God. The Apostopo was saying that during
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your trouble during your trouble, God has comforted you. Therefore, extend the same comfort to others
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Did you see that, brethren? When we go through life's difficulties, we experience more of God's love
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care, and grace. And because we have experienced his mercy, brethren, and comfort
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we can now extend the same comfort to others. In other words, pain and
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suffering allow us to also experience the pain and suffering of others
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Now because of that, brethren, we must not waste our pain. So
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because we go through the same pain, we develop more empathy and compassion to others
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Because, you're more understand you. D'ba? Who is the best person who could
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comfort someone who just lost a loved one? It is the person
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who also lost a loved one. who is the person who could comfort someone is going through financial problems
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it is the same person who have also gone through financial problems
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who is the person is best to comfort someone who is going through
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marital issues it is that person who has also gone through marital issues why because when you share your experience of pain
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the connection is stronger can you just imagine if I'm going to say hey
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I was just promoted in my job. They would be happy. They would be happy for me
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But when I say, oh, I just lost someone I love, then that person would be able to move closer to me
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because in pain, we become more closer or bonded together. And because of that, brethren
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because we could feel the pain of other people. We could better minister or help them
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That's why I cannot. I would never forget what our late pastor has told me, or with my wife
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He told me, Josh, maybe the reason that God gave you Caleb is so that when the kingdom comes
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you will be able to minister to those parents who also have special needs child
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I was just shocked because I never saw it that way. Here I am
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I was focused with my problems. I have a lifetime problem in front of me
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and yet, Sir Ed, saw a different perspective in my pain. N
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He didn't I see that there was a purpose in my pain
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because probably God is preparing me for that special role in my life
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that when it comes to God's kingdom, I will be the one who would be able to have compassion and sympathy
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to those who also have the same problem as me. Yeah, brethren, if you're going through health problems, if you're going through problems in your finance and your relationship, don't give up, brethren, because it is preparing you for what's to come in God's kingdom
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So brethren, pain and suffering are bound to happen in our life
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Now, instead of going through pain, defeated, hopeless, and discouraged, go through pain with faith, courage, and suffering
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strength because it is through the pain that God is preparing us for Skame kingdom
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Now, I want you to remember this. Yawel will not allow you to go through a pain or difficult problem that you cannot handle
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The bigger the problem that he gives you, the bigger he believes in you
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So I hope that you have that different perspective. So stop telling yourself you are weak, you want to give up, I want to quit
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Instead, remind yourself that God is with you throughout the pain and suffering in your life
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So, brethren, don't waste your pain. Instead, learn from it, grow in it, and serve in it
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