Paul: His Life and Teachings — Present Sufferings, Future Glory
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Romans 8:18
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:35–39
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Just as it is written, FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Timothy 3:12
12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Acts 14:22
22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Dr. Jose Nacionales continues the hardship catalogue by bringing the church back to the perspective of faith and not the perspective of unbelief. He reminds believers that if we only stare at the attacks, pressures, famine, troubles, and persecutions around us, we will lose sight of what God is producing through suffering. With pastoral conviction, he points the listener again to the life of Paul and to the certainty that hardship is part of the Christian walk for those who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus. The message keeps pressing one truth into the heart: present suffering is temporary, but the glory that God has prepared is eternal.