If you’ve ever wondered whether painful problems and devastating circumstances are legitimate parts of the Christian experience, take heart. Nothing is outside of God’s control and purposes. Not only does He allow trials to enter your life, He does so for specific reasons. And even in the darkest moments, He has the comfort and strength you need. John MacArthur’s When Bad Things Happen to God’s People takes an intimate look at the apostle Paul’s sufferings, showing you eight positive purposes for the suffering you experience. This encouraging study can help you embrace your trials and remain confident in God’s sovereign care for you.
01:01 .. Paul .. an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God .. and Timothy our brother .. to the church of God which is at Corinth ......... with all the saints who are throughout Achaia 01:02 .. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
01:04 .. who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with ......... the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God 01:05 .. for just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance .. so also our comfort is abundant through Christ 01:06 .. but if we are afflicted .. it is for your comfort and salvation .. or if we are comforted .. it is for your comfort .. ......... which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer 01:07 .. and our hope for you is firmly grounded .. knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings .. so also you are sharers of our comfort
01:08 .. for we do not want you to be unaware .. brethren .. of our affliction which came to us in Asia .. that we were burdened excessively .. ......... beyond our strength .. so that we despaired even of life 01:09 .. indeed .. we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves .. but in God who raises the dead 01:10 .. who delivered us from so great a peril of death .. and will deliver us .. he on whom we have set our hope .. and he will yet deliver us 01:11 .. you also joining in helping us through your prayers .. so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf ......... for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many