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Well, it's good to see you today today.

I'm going to finish the little mini series I've been doing on suffering.

We've had 33 sermons on suffering.

Now, let's let's recap a little bit of what we talked about so far.

Now, remember we looked I think it was at second Peter and we talked about how Satan will use suffering In your life.

To cause you to question God's goodness.

You will question whether or not he's present with you.

In question whether or not the plan of God in your life is even wise.

So Satan and we talked about the the school shooting in Texas and in other places and how these tragedies occur in, people have questions about this and why would God allow something like this to happen?

And that's when Satan will come in and he'll say, well I good.

God would not allow this, he'll get you to question God's goodness and all the sudden you start blaming God for things that happened in your life.

Within the next week, we looked at the story of Abraham and Sarah having a child when Abraham was like a hundred years old and Sarah was 90.

And we talked about how to really look at suffering that you believe and you trust God and the Bible said that Abraham believed that God could do any and all things.

Even when science says otherwise genetic say otherwise God is the creator of it all.

Anyway he owns it all and he can do anything.

And then last week we looked at the important message of what why do we suffer?

Why do we suffer?

And we looked where Paul said, in Romans chapter 8 that is because God is redeeming us.

Why do we have cancer?

Why do we have financial difficulties?

Why is there divorce in this world?

All these bad things that happened in our life.

God is using that to Redeemer.

and so today in the last part, and I'm entitled this message today, agents of comfort in the lives of sufferers Because throughout this broken send for world that we live in, there's one thing.

Remember that we said suffering is the universal problem of all people do Universal experience for all people is suffering and God is using this suffering.

Not only to redeem us when we cry out to him, but he's also using it so that we can be the Agents of comfort in the lives of other people who are suffering.

Now, what we going to do today is we going to look at 2 versus if you have your Bible, if you would turn the 1st, Peter 1:3, and 9.

And if you remember our important statement, and we'll put this up next.

Just remember this as we study that's lasting today, suffering is not an obstacle that interferes with God's plan for my life.

Many times when we suffer, we going through something that we don't understand.

We think with this is a roadblock, this is something that either God or Satan or someone is put there and it's interfering with God's plan for my life.

No suffering is not an obstacle that interferes with God's plan.

For my life suffering is God's plan for my life.

That's his plan for all of us that we will have to endure suffering while we're here on this Earth.

So we're going to look first of all today.

At First Peter and we going to look in chapter 1.

If you will, if you have already turned their chapter 1 of First Peter and I'm going to read verses 3 through 9, and I remember Peter is riding to a suffering Church who's being persecuted and remember the universal experience of all people is suffering.

So let's begin in verse 3. Blessed.

Be the God and father of our Lord.

Jesus Christ who according to His, abundant Mercy.

Has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Tune inheritance Incorruptible and undefiled, and that does not fade away.

Reserved in heaven for you.

That's the completion of our Salvation is, what he's talkin about.

Birds fly.

Who are tapped?

By the power of God, through faith for salvation.

If anyone has ever doubted their salvation in here, this morning, if you've ever doubted whether or not, I'm saved or not, if you ever trusted Christ, look, what verse 5 says you are kept by the power of God, not through your own work.

You're not, you're not cat because I go to church and I tithe and I pray you are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed.

In the last time in this, you greatly Rejoice, though now for a little while.

If need be, you have been grieved by various trials.

That suffering that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold, that perishes though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise honor and Glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ who having not seen you love though.

Now, you do not see him yet believing you were Joyce with joy and express, bow and full of Glory.

Receiving the end of your faith.

What's the end of our faith?

The salvation of your souls, you see? God is in the process.

Of redeeming off.

He's in the process of bringing our Salvation to completion and he used his suffering.

To grow our faith.

That's what he use it.

So many times.

We look at Salvation.

I was saying 30 years ago and so now I'm saving my names written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

I'm going to heaven.

Well, that's true, but Salvation is not just a past event.

It's a present event and a future event.

So our Salvation is not complete, it won't be complete until we get our glorified body and we're in heaven.

So God is in the process of saving us right now, those of us who have been saved in the past were rescued from the penalty of sin, right now it's God is rescuing us from the power of sin and one day he's going to rescue us when the presents the same, cuz we're going to spend eternity with him in heaven.

Amen.

And not a wonderful fault, they're in.

This is what he's talkin about here.

Receiving the end of your face was the very end the salvation of your souls.

So not only does God employees suffering.

So that we may esteem Redemption more than we do the comfortable life.

You know, we said last week we all just want to be comfortable.

Don't redeem, they just make me comfortable.

Give me a give me a good week at work.

Let me have my help.

Give me enough money.

I don't want to be rich necessarily just give me enough that I can go out and do what I want to do.

Don't redeem me, just make me comfortable.

Well that's not what God does, he makes us uncomfortable and that's how he redeems up.

So Point number one, I have two point today.

I want to share with you.

What number one is this suffering is a tool.

For personal growth.

God, uses suffering, as a tool from personal growth.

Not I want you.

If you ride in your Bibles, which I hope you do.

I want you to take your pen or pencil right now and I want you to underline three words.

Look at it.

In verse 6, in this, you greatly Rejoice do now for a little while.

If need be you have been grieved by various trials, underlying grieve.

Denver 7 that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes do.

It is tested by fire underlying tested.

May be found to praise honor and Glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And also, in verse 7, I want you to underline grieved.