Shared Suffering

Well, it's good to see you. Thank you for being

with us this morning, on this Easter morning.

If you have your Bibles of your turn with me

to Isaiah Isaiah fifty three. We're going to be in

a few passages this morning. But if you'll start there

with me Isaiah fifty three, pastor tenor read it just

a moment ago, but I want to read it again

with you in a minute. You know, this morning, as

we come to Easter, today is a great day that

we celebrate, and we celebrate in a lot of different ways.

And today, I mean, if you are going to get

together with your family members, you're going to share a

mill together. And that's important part of celebrating Easter and

sharing time together and spending time together. And I don't

know about you, but one thing if you don't know

about your pastor here is I like to eat, and

I like to eat a lot of different things, and

I like to try things. Now, now, Brandy, tell you

a little bit of something about your pastor's wife. She

kind of likes to stick to the basics, you know

what I mean. She don't like to veer out, She

don't like to expand her horizons. But I do I

like to try different things.

And I tell you, if I like to.

Try something, and I try something, I think it's really good,

I want to share it with somebody.

You understand.

I want someone else to experience why I have experienced

the taste of the flavors.

Now grow you know when we all my life.

You know, I like to eat, try different things, and

I you know, when Brandy and I started dating, I

wanted her to try different things.

But that's not her. She likes to stick to the basics.

So I remember we were dating and I thought, you know,

growing up now, I know some of.

You are going to be like, whoa, whoa, wooh, preacher,

this is something you shouldn't share.

But growing up, I grew up on liver mush.

You know what liver mush is, or liver pudding. Yeah,

seeks testimony right there already. And so you know, I,

you know, all my life, Daddy would fix breakfast and

he's fixed scrambled eggs, and he'd fry up some liver

mush or liver pudding whatever, and that's what we grew

up on.

Well, Brandy, she's.

Never had liver pudding in her whole life and living.

So when we were dating. I just thought, you know,

that's where dating she probably would agreed to do things

that she probably wouldn't do when we're married. So I

thought this would be the opportunity and I would get

her to try. I'd been telling her about how good

liver pudding was, how good liver mush was, and so

I figured out we had Mama had this sandwich maker,

and you put a piece of bread in that thing,

and you put some liver mush and cheese, and you

put it in that sandwich maker. And it would toast

that bread and toast that liver mush and make it

warm and good, and you put some dukes and mayonnaise

on it.

Come on, now, it was good. And so I thought

that was it.

That was a delicacy, and I could give that that

was the best effort I could get her to try

liver mush.

So I made her a sandwich I put.

I knew she wouldn't eat mayonnaise, but I put a

little liver mush in there and a little cheese, and

I tried it.

She took one bite. She's never tried it again.

You see, you know, some.

Things we want to share.

Some things are good, and we say you know, we

want to share those with others.

And some things you would say, preacher, you ought ought.

To share, right, And there's some things that, hey, they're bad,

they're not good. And we would say there's things we'd share,

maybe share good restaurants with families, or share good meals

with family.

But there's some things with some restaurants.

Or food, and you would say, man, you shouldn't share

that with others. You should share liver mush or maybe

you say, hey, hey that this reste it was not good,

don't eat there. But you know another thing we don't

want to share sickness. A lot of times you get

sick and you say, man, I wouldn't share that was

my worst enemy.

Right. And the idea is that if we experience something bad,

it's something we don't want to share with others. But

can I tell you today, as we come to the

Word of God, we come to scripture, there's something that

we all share in this room, something we all have experienced.

Everyone in this room, every one of us share something

share two things. Actually, Number one, we all share that

we're sinners. See in this room, no matter who you are,

where you came from, the Bible says We're all sinners,

the Bible says in Romans three twenty three, for all

have sin and fall in short of the glory of God.

You see, in this room, we share one thing that

we don't like, that we that makes us feel uncomfortable,

we don't enjoy, and that is sin. Sometimes maybe enjoy

it for a season, but we don't enjoy it later

on with the consequences of that sin comes about. Right,

there are all sinners.

We all share that.

Another thing that we all share in this room that

has been difficult, but we all share it, whether we

want to or not, is we're all sufferers. You know,

in this room, every one of you suffered at some point.

Sometimes you've suffered innocently. You didn't do anything the cause

that suffering in your life. Sometimes suffering is result of sin. Right,

had a car accident when I was eighteen after college,

and I was driving down the road and I decided

I was a good enough driver, I didn't need the

seat belt, even though the law told me I needed one,

and I put my head through a windshield. Had a

scar across my forehead, still have it today. Had twenty

eight stitches across my forehead, and I suffered because of

my decision to not wear a seat belt.

That was my own.

But there's things in my life I have suffered that

was not a result of a decision I made or

sin did I chose. It was just me being a

innocent suffering. Can I tell you today, listen to me.

There's things that you share with Jesus. You know what

that is. You don't share sin because Jesus was sinless.

Jesus never knew sin until he went to the cross

for you, and he bore your sin. But up until

that point, he never ever sinned. He was sinless. But

there's one thing you do share with Jesus.

You know what it is.

Jesus was a sufferer.

And to this morning, what I all want us to

do is we just walked through.

Easter morning and we're reminded of the Cross and how

Jesus suffered for us.

I want you to see. I want you to see

the suffering.

Of your Savior and how in the Cross he shares,

he bore your suffering. List As this morning, let's examine

the suffering of our savior. We stand with me, and

let's read Isaiah fifty three is say a fifty three

is a prophecy of our Messiah. It looks forward before

Jesus came, four hundred years before Isaiah would speak about

the messiaho would suffer. And these are the things that

Isaiah would say about this suffering servant.

He would say in Isaiah fifty three, verse three.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrow,

acquainted with grief, as with as one from whom men

hid their faces, and was despised. And we esteem him

not surely listen to this.

He has bore our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet

we esteem him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted.

He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for

our iniquities. And upon him the chastisement that brought us peace.

And with his wounds we are healed.

We all, like sheep, are going astray.

We have turned everyone to his own way, and the

Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us. All.

He was oppressed, he was afflicted. Yet he opened not

his mouth, like a lamb that was led to slaughter,

like a sheep that before it shears's silent. He opened

not his mouth. Spray together Father, Lord, we all share

sin today in this room, we've all fallen short. Lord,

and we all sufferers. Lord today, and Lord, as we

think about the ways that we've suffered in this life, God,

I pray this morning we would look at you and

how you suffered for us. God, we would consider Lord,

the sufferings of our savior. So Lord, may we look

to you today. May we see how you bore our griefs.

Have you carried our sorrows? And Lord, how Lord bore

our sin on that cross? And Lord, may we be

reminded Lord of all that you endured for us today

that we might be healed from sin and from suffering.

Lord, we love you. We thank you Lord for this morning.

And then we pray, Amen.

He may be seated this morning. I just want to

walk you through.

So when you turn it into the New Testament, look

at Luke twenty two. If you turn to your bibles there,

we'll read that in just a minute. I want you

to see as we just look at this passage, Isaiah

would say that Jesus would share your sufferings. He would

scripture say that he would bear our griefs. He would

bear our sorrows. So how did Jesus do that, and

I want to look at that in the gospel accounts

of how Jesus bore our sorrow, how Jesus suffered. You see, first,

Jesus suffered innocently.

You know, there's things in.

Our life we suffer, and we suffer, as as I said,

the consequences of our sins. But there's also sin that

we suffer in this life. And it's I mean not sin.

There're suffering that we face in this life, this innocent.

We didn't do anything to cause this suffering to come

upon us. And I imagine in this room every one

of you in some way have suffered innocently.

Can I tell you.

As we look to the cross this morning, Jesus suffered innocently,

the Bible says in Luke twenty two. As we turn there,

we see an instance of Jesus is suffering in Luke's passage.

In Luke's gospel, we know in twenty two, as after

Jesus was praying in the garden, we know the chief

priests and the officers of the temples and the elders

came in the garden there with Judas and with the

betrayer's kiss. They would capture our Jesus, they would take

him to the chief Priest's house, and there in the

middle of the night, they would prepare a mock trial

that they would have for him that morning. But in

Luke's gospel Looke twenty two, we see how Jesus suffered

privately there in the chief Priest's house.

Luke tells us in the middle of the night, how they.

Beat our Jesus, how they tortured him. Look at what

Luke says, and Luked twenty two, verse sixty three says,

now the men who were holding Jesus and custody were

mocking him as they beat him. They also blindfolded him,

and they kept asking him, prophesied who is it that

struck you? And they said many other things against him,

blaspheming him. Can I tell you, in the middle of

the night, privately, a small group, when Jesus was being

guarded in the place of that guarded him, they blindfolded

Jesus and they mocked him. You ever been mocked, ever

been made fun of? Innocently? Maybe you didn't do anything,

but someone mocked you, Someone made fun of you, someone

said something about you. You ever been betrayed by a friend,

or a loved one, or a coworker.

Can I check to you.

Our Jesus was betrayed, Our Jesus was mocked, and our

Jesus was beaten.

Privately in the darkness of night, a small.

Group beat our Jesus. Some of you have been mocked,

some of you have been hurt. Even the Bible says

they cursed Jesus that night privately in that chief priest house.

Our Jesus suffered innocently, privately. The Bible says, no, only

these eff privately, but we also see he suffered publicly.

That morning they would take Jesus if you turn with him.

In Matthew twenty seven, that morning they would take Jesus

and before the council, the Jerusalem Council, and they would

find him. It couldn't find any fault in him, the

Jews didn't, but they would charge him with blasphemy. They could.

All night long they.

Tried to find something they could bring against Jesus, and

he was innocent. They could not find any fault in him,

so they charged him with blasphemy. And they take that charge,

and as it was the custom, they couldn't sentence him

to death, so they took him to the Romans at

the time. We see they took him the pilot and

pilot tries him. Into Matthew twenty seven, it says a

pilot tries him, and in Luke twenty two forty four,

after Pilot questions Jesus, he says in Luke twenty three four,

I'm sorry, Pilot said to the chief priests and the

crowds if I know guilt in this man.

You see, the Jews knew Jesus was innocent.

Pilot and Herod would both try Jesus and they would

find no fault in him. He was innocent, but the

chief priests and the Jews would call for him to

be crucified. In Matthew twenty seven, verse twenty four. So

Pilot saw that he was gaining nothing, and rather a

riot was beginning to was beginning. He took water and

washed his hands before the crow, saying, I am innocent

of this man's blood. See to eat yourself, and all

the people answered him, his blood be on us and

our children.

And then he released Barabbas, having scourged Jesus, and delivered.

Him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governors

took Jesus into governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole

battalion before him, and they stripped him and put a

scarlet robe on him, and they twisted a crown of thorns,

and they put it on his head, and put a

reed in his right hand, and kneeling before him, they

mocked him, saying hell, king of the Jews. And they

spit on him, and they took a read and struck

him in the head. And when they had mocked him,

they stripped him of the robe, and they put his

own clothes on him, and they led him away to

be crucified. See privately, he was beaten before and the

chief priest's house mocked, beaten, cursed publicly before all the Romans.

The Bible says in Matthew that they scourged Jesus. This

word scourging was noting a type of beating that the

Romans would do. They would tie Jesus to a post,

and they would beat him with a leather whip that

was interwoven with pieces of bone and metal. It was

understood that when they were beaten with this whip, that

it would attached to his skin and would pull out

tissue and skin many times would expose very bones and

the organs of the one who.

Was being beaten.

Sometimes flogging was so bad in the Roman tradition that

people would die just from the scourging. Matthew tells us

that our Jesus suffered innocently privately, but publicly he was mocked,

and he was beaten innocent, and he was innocent. Can

I tell you our Jesus suffered innocently, But our Jesus

also suffered physically. It's the second thing on what you see.

It's a physical part that he endured.

Well, what it must have felt like to carry that cross,

when your bones are exposed, when your skin has been

torn to pieces. But our Jesus carried the cross for you,

the Bible says. And not only he suffered physically, but

the Bible says Jesus suffered emotionally. The Bible says. In

the garden, and Matthew and Mark fifteen, if you turn

there with me, Mark fifteen, Jesus is in the garden praying. Sorry,

Mark fourteen, Jesus is in the garden praying, and he's

in agony, struggling with the weight of what's happening to him,

And what's going to happen in the future. He's praying.

And the Bible says in verse thirty two. And they

went to the place called Yosemite, and he said to

his dae, will sit here, why I pray? And he

took him. Peter and James and Johnny began.

Greatly distressed and troubled descriptions of the emotions that Jesus felt.

And he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful,

even to death. Remain here and watch.

And going a little further, he fell on the.

Ground, and he prayed, if it is possible, the hour

might pass from him.

And he said, Ah, by Father, all things are possible.

From a possible.

For you remove this cup from me. But yet not

what I will, but what you will. And he came

and he found them sleeping. He said to Peter Simon,

are you asleep? Could you not watch an hour? Watch

and pray that you may not enter in temptation. The spirit,

indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak in verse

thirty nine, and says and again he went away and prayed,

saying the same words.

And again he.

Came and found them sleeping. You see Jesus' Bible says

that Jesus was distressed.

God says, my soul is very sorrowful. Got it emostly God,

I don't know if.

Lord, this is tough. You ever heard someone say, I

won't put you any more than on you, more than

you can handle. But sometimes you say, maybe, God, you

have a lot more confidence in me than I have

in myself.

Right, you felt that way?

This is too much.

Jesus struggling in the garden.

I can't tell you how many times is the pastor

I've met with someone and I'm throughout ministry comfort. That's

part of my role is comfort people and suffering. And

I've seen a lot of suffering. And I've heard a

lot of people say to me, Pastor, this is too much.

You ever been I've heard this many times too, in

the midst of suffering, Lord Or. I've had someone say, Pastor,

it feels like the Lord's forgotten me. I prayed, and

I prayed, and I prayed, and it seems like the

Lord has forsaken me. Can I tell you? The Bible says,

and when you look at this with men, Mark fifteen,

verse thirty four. Jesus on the cross, verse thirty four

it's about the night, thou or Jesus cried, ELOI lama

is about the knee, which means, listen to this, my God,

my God, why have you forsaken me? You know, probably

the hardest thing for me, as the pastor does, to

see people suffering and you feel like you have a

responsibility to give comfort to them and suffering.

And the worst thing you can say is to look

at them and.

Say I know.

Because reality is, I don't know they're suffering.

I don't know their pain.

I don't know how deep the emotion distress that they

have felt.

I don't know what they've endured. Can I tell you

that according to the gospels that reread today, listen, I

may not know you're suffering, But can I tell you

that Isaiah fifty three, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tells

us that on the cross, and on his way.

To the cross, your Lord knows you're suffering.

He endured your suffering.

Scripture says he bore your sorrows. And just as times

where you said, God, this is too much.

God, I didn't deserve this. God, I am innocent.

So did our Lord cry out in the garden, Oh God,

Oh God, Lord, this is a lot he've even on

the cross, says he's dying on to cross.

He says, God, why.

Have you forsaken me?

Can I tell you your Lord knows? The Bible says,

and a psal I'm fifty six that listen to this.

I'll read it to you. You have kept my tossings.

You put my tears in a bottle. Are they not

in your book? The Bible says not so. Intimately, Lord

knows you're suffering. That the tossings that the Lord's counting

there is in the middle of night. You've been so

distressed with trauma or whatever it is that you've faced

in his life, hurt pain physically or emotionally, innocent suffering

that you've tossed.

In the middle of the night.

Can't sleep because of how bad you're hurting. The Bible says,

God counts how many times you're roll over. The Bible

says in Psalm fifty six nineties, he count your tossings,

but he stores your tears in the bottle. The Lord

knows you're suffering. Today Jesus was acquainted with your griefs.

He bore your sorrows, and this morning, can I tell

you he knows you're suffering today.

He bore your.

Suffering on the cross. I want you to turn with

me to Second Corinthians now, and I want you to

see as Paul writes about suffering. He tells us in

the midst of Second Corinthians. He tells us the purpose

of suffering. And I want us to finish with this

this morning. First Corinthians or Second Corinthians, turn chapter one.

He says this, Blessed be the God of all and

the Father of all. I mean, I'm sorry.

Blessed be the God and.

Father our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and

the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all

our afflictions, so that we may be able to comfort

those who are in any affliction with the comfort for

which we ourself are being comforted by God. For as

we share abundantly in Christ's suffering, so through Christ, we

share abundantly and comfort too. If we're afflicted, it's for

your comfort and salvation. And if we're comforted, it's for

your comfort, which your experience when you patiently endure the

same sufferings that we suffer. I hope for you is unshaken,

for we know that as you share in sufferings, our sufferings,

so also you will share in our comfort. You notice

as we read this pastor of scripture, Paul starts at

the very beginning as he talks about the purpose the

suffering and understanding suffering, he understands, first all comfort comes

from God. He declares that God is the God of

all comfort. You know, foundationally, for Paul, listen to this

is very important. All comfort that from suffering that we

face in this life comes from God, the Father.

Can I tell you just just very.

Practically, we can find no comfort in our suffering apart

from God. If we're ever going to find comfort for

the suffering that we face innocently in this life, it

comes only from the Lord. Secondly, Paul understands that. He

says that from the beginning, I praise God, God, You

are the source of all comfort. And then in this

passage of scripture, he explains that God comforts us in

all of our affliction. So every affliction we face, God

can comfort us if you understand a little bit or

know a lot about it. Secret Corinthians, Paul is about

to in the rest of the book explain to all

the affliction that he faced. He starts with God, you

comfort me and all my In the next part of

the book, he explained what affliction he faced, and Paul

explains that he faced such physical affliction in life that

he thought he would actually die. He suffered so much physically,

and he says, God, in the midst of all my

physical suffering, and God, you are the source of my comfort.

Can I tell you there's some of you today and

you're facing physical suffering in this life. Maybe it's health issues,

maybe it's cancer, Maybe I don't know what it is.

And can I tell you the Bible says. Paul says

that God is the one who comforts us in all

the physical things that we face. He also explains that

he faced a lot of anxiety.

There was a.

Terminal between him and the Church and Carinth and so

much it led to him to a lot of anxiouseness

and anxiety over that relationship. Termoil over that relationship, and

Paul describes that.

So Paul says in this passage, Blessed be the God.

God, You're the comfort of all the physical things that

I endure. But God, emotionally, all the anxiety distress that

I facing this life. God, emotionally you are also the

source of all the comfort for me.

So can I tell you.

Today today where you're fat, whether you're facing suffering physically

or emotionally, God is the God of all comfort. I

won't just see what Paul says here. He explains the

purpose of comfort in verses five and six. The first

thing he says is we suffer. First, we suffer for Christ.

Listen to this. In verse five he says, for we

share abundantly in Christ suffering. For Paul, one of the

reasons why we suffer is because our Savior suffered, and

just as he suffered, so will we suffer. That's difficult,

isn't it. You ever had that time where you said God,

I was I remember, I've told you this story before,

But I remember I was thirty one years old. I

was pastoring my first church, and we were there. We

came there in November, and in March of that next year,

my wife got very sick and she lost feeling on

her right side, and I remember asking God, God, I

don't think this is fair.

I don't think it's fair.

I've surrendered my life to you at seventeen years old

to be in ministry, and I've committed my life.

To serve you. I've served you in churches.

I've preaching for you every morning, I mean every Sunday morning.

I've done. Oh, I've given my life to you.

God. You would think God, you would spare me from

a little bit of suffering. But can I tell you,

if our Savior wasn't spared from suffering.

Why do I think I will get a pass?

And Paul says.

That if Christ suffered, so will we suffer.

Peter says the same thing, and Peter too. He says,

for what credit is it if when you sin and

beaten for it you endure. But if you do good

and suffer for it and you endure it, it's this

is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For

this you have been get called because Christ also suffered

for you, leaving you an example that you might follow

in his steps. Peter says, there, if you suffer and

you're doing good and you endure, it's pleasing to God.

Why Because when Christ suffered for you, and he endured

for your sake, it was also pleasing to God.

So follow his example.

Secondly, he says, we suffer for others. Look at verse six.

He says, if we're afflicted it's for your comfort and salvation.

And if you are comforted, it's also for your comfort,

which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings

that we're suffering. You know what Paul understands about suffering

the purpose of suffering. We suffer for Christ, but secondly

we suffer for others. Spurgeon, I don't know if you.

Charles Spurgeon, one of the greatest preachers ever in history.

Spurgeon struggled with depression. Spersion was so popular a one

time that he was filling up auditoriums everywhere, and they

were planning a time where he would preach in this

great auditorium they've scheduled, and he win and the auditorium

was filled. There were thousands of people there that day

and to hear Spurgeon preach. And in the midst of

just before the service started, someone called out fire.

It became a great.

Panic, and the people were fleeing and thousand people were

more hundreds of people. It maybe thousands of people died

in that theater that day. It led Spurgeon go into

deep depression. He felt he was responsible for those people's

death because they came to hear him he actually didn't

preach for six months, and that started very severe depression

that he wrestled with the rest of his life. One

day he was preaching, I wonder if it was Easter,

and that he tells us in a book that he

was preaching on that statement, my God, my God, why

do you forsaken me? And in the midst of him

preaching on that, he's talked about how he felt like

times God oversaken him in his depression, and he started

talking about how, he says his change of depression.

He says, I couldn't figure out why the Lord led

me into that sermon to talk about the change of

my depression.

He said.

The next Monday morning, someone came in.

And he said, looking in his eyes, he bore the

same depression that I bore. He started talking to me,

and he says, never before this is what the gentleman

said to him. Never before in my life I've heard

heard any man speak to seem to know my heart.

Mine is a terrible case. But on Sunday morning.

You painted me to life, and.

You appreach as if you had been in my soul.

Spurge just says, by grace, I saved that man from

suicide and led him to the Gospel light and liberty.

But I could not have done it if I had

not myself been confined to the dungeon in which he laid.

Can I tell you God's led you through suffering for

Christ's sake, that God's led you to suffer, that you

might comfort someone else who suffered like you. I heard

an amazing story the other yesterday this week, that one

Sunday morning, the pastor here, his name was John Butler.

He was preaching and there was a man in the

congregation who's lost his wife. She had died and he

was grieving. He was struggling, and why God did you

take my wife? Came to talk to pastor that day,

and Prestor John was at the altar praying about that

time before that happened. Bruce Little was a man in

our church. He came to the altar and he was

praying at the altar before that man came. The man

came to John and he says, why would God take

my wife? And John says, I don't know what I

would tell him.

I lost my wife. I don't know what to.

Say to him. And he looked over and saw Bruce

and he said, go talk that man, and Bruce took

him to the back and shared with him in that

man that day God saved. Listen, God leads us to

suffer at times that we might comfort someone else in

suffering who have suffered in the same way. Lastly, today

listen a purpose of suffering, that we suffer for Christ's sake.

We say we suffer for others, but lastly we suffer

for God's comfort. I want you to see what happens.

In verse five, he says this, for we share abundantly

in christ suffering, So through Christ we share abundantly and

comfort to you. Know what, Paul understands that just as

Christ suffered innocently, so would you. Just as Christ suffered

innocently like you, privately, publicly, physically, emotionally, so would Christ

suffer innocently, privately, publicly, emotionally, and physically. And with the

assurance that just as Christ suffered, so would Christ be comforted.

And Paul understands that those who are in Christ in

the same way they've suffered as him, they could be

assured that just as God comforted Christ, so would God

comfort you. Listen to me today, there's the promise of

the cross, and the promise of the Cross is that

Christ suffered. He bore your Greece, but in the same

way he suffered. Listen, God, the Father wants to comfort

you and your suffering. So whether it's private, public, emotional,

of physical, listen, our God promises that he wants to

be the God of your comfort. Today. I ask you today,

have you put your faith in Christ? Do you know

the comfort that only comes by God? I remember it

as the band. You can make your way back, you

can make your way up. I remember when I was many,

many years ago, I think Kloe was like four or five,

and I was at church. I was working at church

on a Sunday night. And you know, Chloe was notorious

at times for jumping on the bed, and we used

to sing the little song, all right, don't jumping on

the bed. One fall off button it's head. The doctor says,

Mama called the doctor, Mama. The doctor says, no more

jumping on the bed. Right, And so we were told

saying that song all the time. Well, one day Chloe

was jumping on the bed and she fell off as

she bumped her head.

Brandy called me. I was at church and she was bleeding.

Brandie was all panic can come, come, come, come, So

I came and sure enough we took her. We were

in rock Killed at the time.

We took her to Charlotte, to the Levigne Children's Hospital

and we got there and they said, sure enough, it's

big enough.

She's gonna have that stitches they said.

They got brought Chloe in and they had the pillow

case and they said, Chloe, do you like a cake

and she said yeah, yeah.

Yeah, she want a cape.

He said, well, you you draw on this pilication, you

make it your cape.

I said, well that's strange.

Why were they giving her a pillow case and she

needs stitches. So she drew on that little pillow case.

And about that time, they said, all right, Chloe, you

ready to put your cape on? And I said, what

are they doing? She said yeah, yeah, yeah, and they

put that pillow case to put her hands behind her back,

and they put that pillow case up her arms.

And then her on her shoulders and then now you

know what happens. She can't move them, and they laid

her down.

I'll never forget this. They laid her down and they said,

a hurry, daddy, we're gonna need your help. I said,

need meat. They said, didn't need your help. You're gonna

lay on top of her.

I'm gonna do what. Yeah, you're gonna lay on top

of her.

The pillow case are going to keep them from in

her arms, but you're going to hold her head. And

I said, I'm gonna do what. And I'll never forget

my little girl laying on top of her holding her head.

The doctor was on the other side, and she could,

she could talk and do all that stuff, and was

holding her head.

And they begin stitching and she start looking at me. Daddy, Daddy.

Just hears daddy, Daddy, make them stop, Daddy, Daddy, daddy.

And I said, listen, baby, Daddy's right here.

Listen, Daddy's right here. Daddy's not gonna leave you. Just

hang on there, baby. It's it's gonna hurt for a

little bit, but listen, it's gonna be okay.

Just just hold on, Just hold on. It's it's coming.

We're gonna get through this.

Just hang on. Daddy's here that he's not gonna leave you.

Can I tell you listen, Jesus on the cross. He says,

my God, my God, your wife you forsaken. And God

the Father looked at him and say, hang on, Son,

hang on, it's Friday, But Sunday's coming.

And on Saturday, Father, Father.

But listen, on Sunday, he defeated Dad, he defeated Sin,

and he defeated your suffering. And listen.

On that day when he rose again, he had.

The power of the resurrection and healing in his hands,

healing and.

And which he gives you and I.

And today listen, our Savior says again, I'm coming again.

And he says to you. Listen.

You may be saying Today's pastor.

I'm looking to God, and I'm saying to God, God,

why are you suffering?

God?

Why are you letting me go through this? Why is

this hurting me emotionally physically? Lord, You know privately what

I've went through, You know publicly what I went through.

And listen, God, the Father says to you, listen today today,

hang on, I see you, I'm with you, And one

day I'm gonna come and bring you hold of myself

in there. I will wipe away every tear from your

eyes and there will be no more suffering. Today, will

you say, Lord, Lord, I'm looking to you, Lord. I

need your comfort today. Lord, you know I've suffered. Lord,

I need the comfort that all you can give me.

Maybe you say today, Lord, I've never put my faith

in you for salvation.

Today, Lord, I need you to save me or my sins.

Or I'm a sinner and I send against you, a

holy God and God, I need a relationship with you.

God asks only through you that you can heal me

of my sin. And it's only you can heal me

and my suffering. God. Today I put my trust in you, Lord,

I need you today.

Did you pray with me every head.

Body, of every other clues, Lord, we thank you Lord,

that they're on the cross, as you cried out to

the Father. Lord, you were there, you bore our sufferings

on that cross. You're acquainted with all our Greece and God.

There on that cross you give us victory. It's there

on that cross that we found comfort. We find victory

of her sin, We find healing of her suffering and sin. Lord,

I pray today that be those today that would find

that healing from sin and suffering from you. Today, Lord,

I pray, Lord, may you move in hearts today right

now as people turn to you, Father and find a

sympathetic savior who died for them. Lord, we love you.

We thank you, Lord for your word.

In your name, we pray Amen, users padeed, and all

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