Firm Foundations (Pt. 18) Christian Suffering – Paul M. Williams

Part 18 – Why Do Christians Suffer? Of the top ten questions of all time, it ought to come as no surprise to us to learn that they're the same as they've always been from the dawn of time; "What is the real meaning of life?" "Is there a God?"  "What happens when I die?"  Despite the exponential advances in technology, economics, medicine and science over the last half a decade; man with all his worldly wisdom is still no closer to being able to provide adequate answers to these crucial questions, nor will he ever be.  This is because principally they're not scientific questions nor are they even philosophical ones.  Fundamentally at their core, they are theological questions.  However, since man has cast off the wisdom of God in his own professed wisdom, man will search in vain to find the answers his soul so desperately seeks for and will never find them in this world.  We could well add into the list of greatest questions of all time, "Why is there suffering in the world?" and more specifically, the question bearing the title of this teaching; "Why Do Christians Suffer?"  In this eighteenth teaching part, we seek to provide a Biblical answer to the question of Christian suffering. Download teaching notes (pdf) http://traffic.libsyn.com/bethesdashalom/18_Why_Do_Christians_Suffer.pdf