John Piper Sermons One Surprising Reason for Pain
This new teaching by Pastor John Piper titled “One Surprising Reason for Pain” is what we are bringing to you to listen to and meditate on.
Pastor John started the message by telling us that Christians are complicated people. We should not think of all these calamities as exceptional —occasionally there’s a calamity. he tells us that Calamities are not exceptional. They’re just a breaking of the surface of the ocean of sorrow.
According to him, It is utterly naïve to think that there are good times and bad times sequentially. There are good times and there are bad times — always, all the time — simultaneously. And if you walk through the world with a heart ready to “weep with those who weep,” ready to “rejoice with those who rejoice,” you will be a very strange and wonderful person (Romans 12:15).
Pastor John gave two answers to the above question. The reason this world exists with its calamities and conflicts and suffering and death is because God is not in control. I’ve already rejected the answer, “There’s no God.” Answer number two that’s wrong is “He’s not in control. He’s looking down, and it’s wheeling out of control, and there’s nothing he can do about it.”
He further added that some people opt for the second answer. “Some people opt for that answer. Biblically, it won’t hold. For reasons like this: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father” (Matthew 10:29). That’s a first-century way of looking for the most random and insignificant event in the world, and claiming that God governs it. “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?”
Watch and learn from one of the sermons by Pastor John Piper for the year titled “One Surprising Reason for Pain” as we bring the latest sermons from pastors around the world to you daily.
Credit: John Piper YouTube/https://www.desiringgod.org