When God Says "No" - Pastor Patrick Hines Podcast #shorts #christianshorts #puritan #puritans #Jesus A program on the reality of grief and how our Lord Jesus Christ sanctified grief, sorrow, burdens, and sadness throughout His entire life. Proverbs 20:30 30 Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes `reach' the innermost parts. Blows that hurt cleanse away evil, As do stripes the inner depths of the heart. Romans 8:28-31 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, `even' to them that are called according to `his' purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained `to be' conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: 30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God `is' for us, who `is' against us? And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. [29] For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. [30] Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. [31] What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Thomas Watson From All Things for Good: “God had one Son without sin, but never one without suffering.” “Afflictions work for good, as they make way for glory.” Watson constantly connects sorrow with eternal preparation. “The valley of tears is the way to the kingdom.” Richard Sibbes From The Bruised Reed: “Are you bruised? Be of good comfort, He calls you.” Sibbes saw brokenheartedness not as disqualification from Christ, but often as the very condition that drives sinners to Him. “Usually after a storm comes a calm. Troubles may endure for a season, but joy comes in the morning.” John Flavel “They that know God will be humble; and they that know themselves cannot be proud.” Flavel often argued that affliction reveals both God and ourselves. “Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.” “The providence of God is like Hebrew words — it can only be understood backwards.” John Bunyan From Grace Abounding: Written from prison. “I never knew what it was for God to stand by me at all turns and at every offer of Satan to afflict me, etc., as I have found Him since I came in here.” Thomas Brooks “Afflictions are but our Father’s goldsmiths who are working to add pearls to our crowns.” Samuel Rutherford Rutherford may be the richest on sanctified sorrow. “When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.” “Grace grows best in winter.” “The Great Master Gardener may well dress His own flowers as He sees fit.” Jeremiah Burroughs From The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment: “Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.” Not denial of pain — but submission within it. Thomas Boston “The thorn in the flesh is a means to keep the Christian from being lifted up above measure.” Charles Spurgeon (Not a Puritan technically, but deeply Puritan-influenced.) “I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.” “They who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.” “God is too good to be unkind, and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.” The Puritans repeatedly taught: • sorrow humbles pride, • suffering loosens the grip of the world, • grief exposes idols, • affliction teaches dependence, • trials conform believers to Christ, • and brokenheartedness often prepares the soul for deeper communion with God. Not because pain is good in itself. But because God meets His people in it. Which is why so many of them loved Isaiah 53: Chapter 53 1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who `among them' considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke `was due'? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see `his' seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, `and' shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. “A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.” Jesus the Sanctifier of Human Grief A podcast/devotional script outline with Scripture citations Introduction There is a temptation many Christians feel in suffering: “If I were holier, maybe I would not feel grief so deeply.” But when we look at Jesus Christ, we discover the opposite. The holiest man who ever lived was also: • deeply moved, • sorrowful, • tearful, • anguished, • compassionate, • and acquainted with grief. Jesus did not come merely to forgive human emotion. He came to redeem it. To sanctify it. To show what grief looks like without unbelief, sorrow without sin, tears without rebellion. And nowhere is this clearer than at the tomb of Lazarus. ▶️Reformed Christian Podcast - Pastor Patrick Hines (Playlist) https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLzOwqed_gET1N1JMQBXRoGgLeUHGpRW7o/edit ▶️Pastor Patrick Hines (Playlist) https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLzOwqed_gET2vqbY_shSW0MfXtYGSoCnT/edit ▶️Pastor Patrick Hines Sermons (Playlist) https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLzOwqed_gET2xjXtMVvfNhl3k_a8VjofT/edit ▶️"Earth's Foundational History - Part 1: Genesis Chapters 1 Through 5." 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