FOURTEEN KINDS OF SUFFERING SEEN IN THE BIBLE
Tonight we will discuss the different afflictions found in the bible.
- Adamic affliction - This is where, because of Adam and sin entering the world, the world is just a broken place.
- Punishment affliction - For those who are not Christians, sometimes their affliction is punishment from God
- Consequential affliction - we reap what we sow.
- Demonic affliction - This is where Satan and demons are harming one of God’s people.
- Victim affliction - This is where someone sins against you.
- Collective affliction - This is where you’re part of a people who are suffering and so you’re suffering with them.
- Disciplinary affliction - This is where, for a believer, God allows some affliction, not to punish them but to mature them.
- Vicarious affliction - That is people seem like they hate us, but what they really hate is the Jesus in us.
- Empathetic affliction - This is someone we love is hurting and so we’re hurting too.
- Testimonial affliction - This is where you’re being afflicted, but it’s primarily as an opportunity to show people who Jesus is and what he’s done
- Providential affliction - This increases the worship of God. Someone goes through a hardship, but they endure it in such a way that other people come to know and love the God they’re devoted to.
- Preventative affliction - This is where God allows some hardship, but it’s to warn us and spare us from a greater hardship.
- Mysterious affliction - And here’s the answer: we don’t know.
- Apocalyptic affliction - That is that as we get closer to the end of the world, … there will be intense opposition and affliction toward God’s people…
Fourteen Kinds of Suffering provided by Pastor Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church
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For the Sermon Transscript, please visit: I AM AFFLICTED Available in English and Español
