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EPISODE 13CURIOSITY
TRIALS AREN'T ALWAYS SOMETHING WRONG
Is God Punishing You Through Your Trials?
THUMBNAIL HOOK READ THE STORM RIGHT
OPENING HOOK
A storm does not always mean God is against you. Sometimes the storm is where God builds endurance in you.
CENTRAL DOCTRINE
Suffering, discipline, formation, and providence.
NIV SCRIPTURE MAP
Open the text first.
TEACHING SPINE
Three movements.
- Trials are not automatic proof of divine anger.
- God can use hardship to produce endurance, maturity, dependence, and tested faith.
- Some suffering is discipline, some consequence, some persecution, some ordinary life in a fallen world; wisdom avoids simplistic diagnosis.
KEEP THE BALANCE
What this teaching must not distort.
Never tell a suffering person that you know the hidden reason for a specific trial unless Scripture clearly identifies it.
LAND THE LINE
Do not read every trial as condemnation. Read it through the cross, Scripture, and the character of God.Episode completion is saved on this device.