Tragedies of life - James 1:1-4 &12 - Roger Henderson
James 1:1-4 · Roger Henderson · Nov 5, 2017
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As you see, Vern is not with us today. He and Nancy are enjoying a couple weeks time off there in California. Of course, Vern cannot have any time off. In reality, he's actually helping his brother out, I think, this Sunday. So he's busy doing that and they're going to go on to, that's in Nevada, and they're going to California, I think, for the rest of the other week. So actually, When Mike and myself and Vern were talking about, well, what should we do during these couple of weeks that he'll be gone, we were thinking about, you know, 2017 has been an interesting year. There's been just lots of different what people would call acts of God, natural disasters, all kinds of things have happened, hurricanes, earthquakes. And then we've had the terrorist attacks, different ones.

And then, you know, there's always personal things that happen. So we talked about, well, why don't we look at this from God's perspective? You hear the world's perspective all the time. You know, the news, which is always trying to put forth its view of things. It puts forth the tragedy news. It's always flashing news breaks and all this kind of, after a while you get kind of tired of one, you know, one interruption after another.

So this morning we're going to look at what I have, and this is not my, what I've called the seeming tragedies, the believer in the seeming tragedies of life. So you're going to say, well, why seeming? Well, hopefully I can show you today and looking through God's word, we can see why we can consider the tragedies of life in the seeming sense.

So first of all, let's start with the definition. What is a tragedy? So I looked up the Oxford Dictionary online. You know, these days you don't get out of the physical dictionary, you go online. So I like this definition. An event causing great suffering, destruction, distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. You know what we're going to see here in this definition, you see distress.

We're going to see that there are distresses and things like that that affect the believers life and that's actually we're going to start off probably at the at the big level the world situation we're going to kind of narrow down and look at the the trials and sufferings of believers as we kind of finish off and that's kind of what where we are in a day-to-day basis we live with our you know the body of Christ here at Holly Hills others around us and we live in that arena and the the natural disasters the big ones are Sometimes we're affected fortunately here in Colorado. We have not been but it could happen So is does God's Word talk to that?

So let's see what we can find out here Okay, so but first of all, let's let's look at what what do we typically say? What are you typically here? And I find this is true of believers and unbelievers. So if we were in Sunday school and Teach I'd say tell me someone's people would shout out different ones.

So I'll take I'm trying to guess what you guys first of all, you might say I Loving God would not would have prevented this tragedy. Where's the loving God and you see the the media newspapers? They're all kind of you know, bring that point up Here's another one Christians may say this God's job is to make my life smooth and happy and Is that what scripture says? But interesting Vernon has a great comment about this way if that's God's job.

He's doing a terrible job at it. I And it's not his job. Amazing as it might seem, that's not his job. I must have sinned. For a believer, that's a real, well, maybe my sin's involved in this. This bad thing happened and I must have sinned. The Lord doesn't love me anymore, understand me anymore. Where is he? He's out to lunch. Who knows where he's at.

And here's when you see about, you'll see this in terms of, you'll see the media come on and they say, well, You know, if the terrorists had been better educated, we could have prevented that. But boy, you look at the most recent set of terrorists, these guys are highly educated, with sometimes doctorates, and there's still evil coming out of them. I mean, so better education will not solve the problem of tragedies.

Why me? There's another one. Why me? Why does it have to happen to me? Lastly, God must be punishing me. So that's kind of the typical responses we see. But I think God's word has a quite a bit different thing to say about this. So let's look at... So actually I have an outline which you have in your hand. So we'll just quickly go through that. You know, why tragedies? That's the next couple of charts. Words in the Bible for tragedy. That word tragedies... I actually didn't do a search. I should have done a search. The easy search I didn't find. So if you can find the word tragedies, let me know. I don't think you'll find it. What we will find are other words. Some are kind of mentioned here.

Suffering and tribulation I mentioned in the Old and New Testament. So I also decided to put in here kind of a... So if we're talking about why tragedies or why sufferings and afflictions, well does God have a plan on all of this? Is there a plan and a purpose for man?

So we're going to look at that. We're going to look at Christ's sufferings and the believers suffering with him. We're going to look at the suffering of Paul. Boy, Paul is a rich source of that. In fact, we're studying that in Corinthians right now. And actually, we're going to go and look at part of that.

And believers. The benefits of trials. They have benefits. And I decided, this is from right here. This is kind of to keep you from knowing what it is, actually. So the best kept secret about trials. So think about that. Is there something you think about trials?

We'll talk about that. Paul's response to trials and suffering, we're going to see that. That's what we're studying actually in 2 Corinthians right now. Key points to remember and then some summary thoughts. Okay. So why are there tragedies in our world? You know, if you were to call up the newspaper and I'm sure that I'm sure there have been editorials on this. This is not going to be an editorial.

This is going to be what God's, what we can see from scripture. Right off the bat, it's a fallen world. If you don't see it's a fallen world, if you don't understand what that even means, then you're in serious trouble in explaining why there are difficulties in this life. First of all, you start off that curse is the ground because of Adam's sin. You know, when Adam fell, they fell, God, He talks about the ground, He talks about for Eve, for Adam, the ground is curse. And this is, you kind of expand that a little bit. You know, it's going to be, it's going to be tough going. It's, you're going to have to, you know, we're so fortunate here in this country.

We don't have to go out and worry about, I planted something here. Do I harvest enough for the winter time? Do I have enough things in store? We just go down to the local supermarket and buy whatever we want. And we, we are so blessed with having that. But if you couldn't grow the food to eat, you were in trouble. So having the ground curse is a serious problem and man, has, at least in our country, has overcome that to a large extent. But the ground is still cursed, and there's still toil and sweat, and all that goes with it. Here's another key.

Satan is a ruler of this world, and the world is under his power. So if you don't realize that Satan's involved in this, and that the world forces out there are of his domain, but there's a special relationship to the believer in Satan. And as far as the believer is, he's been taken offline. He's been rendered inoperative in terms of the believer. And then lastly, we kind of have the world, the flesh, and the devil. I just noticed that this morning when I was looking over this.

All men have Adam's fallen nature or sin nature. All men sin since they have Adam's nature. So it's not surprising with those three items, the world, the flesh, and the devil, all in play, That's why bad things happen in this world, either individually or globally.

Okay, so I thought I'd just do this to kind of, I'm going to use this chart later on, but I like this chart because we have a tree here and we have the roots and the fruit. And maybe you see where I'm going to go here. We're going to talk about sins, sin singular and sin plural in scripture. So I find it often helpful to look at the root of this tree as being Adam's nature or the fallen sin nature. And the fruit of that is the personal sin. So God has dealt with both of those issues, the root of the problem and the sins that occur from that root.

Okay, so what words do we see in the Bible that kind of connote tragedy? Well, we see suffering used a lot, to suffer evil or affliction, to be afflicted. We see tribulation and afflictions. And there's this word, philipsis. on his idea of crushing or pressing in from evil or affliction. And there's a picture, and it's from our brother Hal, that showed this, maybe it was an uncomfortable picture, showed this vice kind of squeezing this person, and you get this, ooh, kind of awful feeling that you're... But that's sometimes in the tightness you feel from that, sometimes that's how you feel when tough times come, you kind of feel a tightness, and that word philipsis really kind of brings that across.

And then lastly here we have trials or testing, And they can be used in a positive sense and a negative sense. We see that what's amazing is that God, and we're going to see that clearly, that God's going to use testing for the benefit of the believer. And that one could involve a trial, but he has our back, to use a popular phrase. He loves us, and he's going to use that for our benefit. It doesn't mean it's going to be easy, but he has a plan and a purpose for that.

Okay, so let's look at I kind of went through the Old Testament just briefly I tried to find about three verses in each one What are some verses that? You probably know some of these that kind of come to mind we go back to Genesis Basically, we kind of covered this a little bit before in toil you will eat of it the ground all the days of your life. I So it's going to be getting your food, like I mentioned before.

Let me just go on here. Something else came to my mind. I'll let that go by. And this is an interesting one. A man who was born of a woman. Vani kind of reminded me, whenever you see man in scripture, it means mankind. Anthropo, it means mankind. So, man or a woman who's born of a woman is short-lived and full of turmoil. You know, Job didn't have an optimistic view in a lot of places. It's tough going. Now, a famine came over all Egypt and Cana and great affliction with it.

And it basically says, in the rest of that verse it says, it talks about that it affected our fathers. So, what I'm trying to lay here, lay a groundwork is that Trials and difficulties are the normal course of a fallen world and don't expect that's going to change So when we have the hurricanes and the fires and all these disasters Nothing is really changed. It's the same the same stuff that we've seen from the beginning.

It's it's the consequences of a fallen world New Testament has something to say as well God sends the rain on the righteous and unrighteous. I was kind of thinking about this is kind of a Speaking to the fact that that we have a fallout, you know people talk about climate systems That's kind of the big buzzword today with climate system this and then we know how to We can model the climate system predict this this hurricane or that hurricane. Well, the climate system is fallen We have hurricanes. I mean, I I can't imagine that God would have hurricanes in the Garden of Eden. I mean Anyway, that's that's my my interpretation you can talk to me afterwards if that gives you a problem but The climate system has fallen, so hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, I mean, it's a fallen world, so keep that in mind. So these things happen because of the world we live in.

And then John says, these things I have spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. So what I find here, God, as we go through and look at these verses, we're going to see that God will put in an assurance of comfort, and then he will talk about something Difficult and he does that in so many places he'll talk about something that but you know be of good courage and here he says These things I've spoken to you so that in me you may have peace in the world You'll have tribulation take courage. I've overcome the world so we see kind of that mix where God wants to comfort us and encourage us in the midst of this fallen world and And then in Romans it says, there will be tribulations and distresses on every soul of man who does evil.

This actually was kind of good. I thought, wow, okay, there is some, you know, God declares there is some retribution for evil deeds. And we see that. Some people do get punished. Some bad things happen. Thank you, Lord. The evil men do get punished sometimes. Not always. Many times they go free, but many times they do get punished. So that was kind of an encouragement. So that's kind of the overview of the Old and New Testament. So this part's going to be kind of review.

You guys know this pretty well, but God has a plan and a purpose. So He has a plan and a purpose to the unbeliever and to the believer. To the unbeliever, God is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. And next, talking about the coming of the Holy Spirit, and when He, the Holy Spirit, And when he, the Holy Spirit, comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment, concerning sin because they do not believe in me. The Holy Spirit was sent to convince or convict the world of their sin. And God is not willing, he should perish.

He also, you think of John 3.16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. So God has a plan and a purpose for those unbelievers in this world today. And he's addressed the root of the problem. He died unto the sin nature and he's addressed the personal sins, he died for our sins. So he's addressed the root of the problem and the fruit of the problem.

And that's something to remember, you know, it's something to keep in mind. And we teach that a lot here at Holly Hills, but never hurts to kind of go back over that again. So his purpose to the believer, much different, much different picture here. The sin issue has been settled in terms of the believer. So now he's in the business of conforming us to the image of Christ.

That's one aspect. Once he began the work of salvation with us, he who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. He's about that. He wants us to grow in grace and the knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And then lastly, he desires that we have the not I, but Christ life.

I think that's left out many times. Not here, but other places. I've been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and so on. The life I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

So he wants to live his life through us. And his plan is so much different for the believer. And we're going to see that in terms of the tragedies and trials. He wants to be there to comfort us. He wants to be there to encourage us, to shore us up, so to speak, to remind us of what we have in our Savior. Okay, so this is where we are in the outline. I decided to put these in here just so you kind of keep a... Actually, this is the point... Lonnie's always reminding, you know, let's don't lighten up a bit. Anyway, this is a wonderful story.

I have a good friend at work. He's a paraplegic. He's a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a great encouragement at work. I'm fortunate where I work to have many believers. And we've had, this is, I work, you know, out at Buckley where Hal, that's where I met Hal, have many, they have Bible studies there, and it's a neat environment, kind of unusual. We haven't been asked to stop yet, so praise the Lord. But there's this guy, Kevin, and he's a paraplegic. He became a paraplegic. He was a baseball player, I think early, and is maybe going into college. He played baseball quite a bit. He slid into home base. and injured the back of his spinal cord, and he was paralyzed from the waist down.

It's amazing. He has mobility. He's an engineer. He types on the computer keyboard. Most of us type with our fingers like this. He types with the back of his knuckle on his little fingers. He types like this, and he's fast. And he moves the mouse around. I worked with him just on Wednesday, last week, and he's just typing away, doing this, and he's going up a storm. He's an amazing guy.

A lot of people being paralyzed that way. He's married. He's fathered three children. Really fathered three children. And actually I was reading online and he hasn't shared that with me. I was reading about there are ways they can help people. There are paraplegics to have children. It's wonderful. But he's a great testimony.

And his testimony is, you know, I didn't come to the Lord after I had this bad accident. I said, Kevin, you didn't? No, it was two or three years later. I was in college, getting my degree, and I went to a Bible study and I learned about the Lord Jesus. And I said, wow, that's like me. I sort of did that. I sort of was in a Bible study. I learned about the Lord Jesus. So, you know, it's just the seeming, that's a seeming tragedy, right? This guy, you think, wow, he's paraplegic. He'll never be married. He'll never have children. All these, he'll never, this will never happen to him. Well, that's not true. We don't know the infant beginning.

You know God does so hopefully that's an encouragement if you you know I think and that's part of this has been encouraged not just a downer was seeing how many How many verses can Roger find on on trials and suffering there a lot I can find a lot. Okay. All right, so let's go What the Bible teaches about Christ's suffering and this just blew me away. I I couldn't Chafer made this statement. Dr. Chafer and he's one of his right and The sufferings of Christ were infinite. At first it kind of floored me. But then the more I thought about it, I said, well, wait a minute. He paid for the sins of the entire world. Can I count those up? I don't know. I'm not sure. Anyway, I thought that was just remarkable. And so he kind of broke it down into two categories.

What Christ suffered from his father. And, you know, and I looked at this verse there, he made him To be sin on our behalf who knew no sin Bob visited that this morning But there's other ones Isaiah 53 talks about it certainly first John 2 2 he's a propitiation for our sins So that's one aspect What Christ suffered from men? We know he suffered terribly from men. They crucified him. He looked there and in that passage in Mark it says that he suffered many things and was rejected by the elders and the chief priests and and the scribes and was killed. So Christ suffered from his father for the payment of sins. He suffered for in the sin nature and he suffered from men. OK, so that was OK. So then I want to also cover that we suffer with him. So one of the aspects that the believer suffers, we suffer because we're united with him. And so Christ goes through this discourse here in John 15.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. He hated at first, and since we are his children, we will be hated as well. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

So there's one aspect of suffering for the believer. So Paul suffered. In fact, I'm going to have this verse next week in Sunday school, actually starting in 22. So I wanted to just read this here. The reason Paul even mentioned this, it's interesting. The background, I didn't realize that why did Paul give this discourse about his sufferings? Why did he say that? Well, it's because false false apostles came into the church in Corinth and He had to set that he was this is one of the methods he set them straight and he goes through this long This is only part of it here.

So let me just read it to you here He starts off in defending himself he says well Are they are they Hebrews? He's saying I'm a Hebrew. So am I are the Israelites? So am I are the descendants of Abraham? So am I are they servants of Christ and And he says, here, I speak as if insane. Well, I'll have to explain that one next week.

But I more so, in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. Five times I received from the Jews 39 lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. A night and day I spent in the deep.

I have been in frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers of countrymen, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the cities, dangers in wilderness, dangers of the sea, dangers among false brethren. I have been in labors and hardships, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food and cold and exposure."

And then he says, oh, that's all the physical ones. Then, on top of that, I have the burden of these churches that I am ministering to, the Corinthian church, the Galatian church, all these churches. I have the burden of those believers on my heart. I mean, it just, you think, I have nothing, I mean, I have none of this. It's just amazing.

So when we think about sufferings and trials, Paul is a wonderful place to go. And then believers will suffer. I'll kind of go through this kind of quickly. Basically, it talks in Timothy. It's interesting that he talks about, in Timothy, he talks about, but join with me, Paul, in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God. Join with me. Join with me in this suffering.

Then in 1 Peter, he says, in this, that talks about the blessing and salvation, you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you become distressed by various trials. So we're going to find that various trials come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. And then I had another one here. In James, he said, this is what Courtney read part of this.

James 1.2, consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials. There's the various trials again, if you kind of skip down. Blessed is a man who perseveres under trials, for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. So I have a little story here. This is one that most, a lot of people here would probably know this story already. When our brother Hal would teach, many times he would talk about talking with his children.

And Lindy can correct me here if I get this wrong. He'd get calls from Daniel or from other of his children. They would call and they'd say, Dad, guess what? The car, blah, blah, blah, the car, the engine, blah, blah, blah. And they would explain the tragedy that they were undergoing. And Hal would say, and you probably couldn't tell, but he would say, that's wonderful. And Hal would explain that to the class. You'd say, has he lost his mind?

But I look at James 1, 2 and it says, Consider it all joy, my brethren. So can we have that attitude? Is that possible? You know, I think it's possible. Maybe not me, you'll say. It's interesting. How do we look at the seeming tragedies of life? How do we look at those? That's kind of the question. I like this picture in the boat. The Lord's sleeping. It's a tragedy. Wake up. We're going to go down. It's all over with. The Lord wasn't concerned. Anyway. Pretty cool stuff. All right, here we go.

Here's my the best-kept secrets about trials. So what do you think? So it's it's a passage in fact actually the at the Bible study at Mike's we were actually talking about this a little bit. So let me read 1st Thess chapter 3. I'm going to read 1 through 3 here.

Therefore when we could no longer endure it, We thought it best to be left behind at Athens alone. And we set Timothy, our brother, and God's fellow worker in the gospel to strengthen and encourage you in your faith so that no one would be moved or disturbed by these afflictions.

For you yourself know that we have been appointed for these things." So God declares in his word through Paul, he says, we've been appointed And if you look back, appointed to these trials. So if you look at the verb tense here, that word we appointed is the word chemi. And actually, Paul uses it. He uses it in this passage. He also uses it when he says he was appointed for the defense of the gospel. So it really doesn't mean an appointment.

So this is the way God asks us to look at our trials. First of all, the words in the passive voice, God is, he's acting upon us. It's a mode of reality, indicative mode of reality. And it's in the present tense, continuous action in the present. So don't expect them to end in this life. I'm sorry. There's going to be. Now, the question is, you know, I want I want the small ones. I have a grandson. He always wants the big ones, whatever we give him a piece of. Pie, if it's, you know, a pizza. He wants a big one. I want a big one. And what we're saying is, I want a small one. I want a small trial, Lord. I don't want a big one. I want a small one. It just cracks us up. And of course, his sister now, who's just right behind him, she'll be saying that sometime soon, I'm sure. Anyway. So some key points here.

God is purposeful. Every one of your appointments to trials and suffering is measured. fulfilling God's eternal purpose. And remember, God's eternal purpose is to reveal His glory. I always get it. If I don't write it down, I always get it wrong. To declare His glory, to reveal His glory, to share His glory, and then to be glorified, and glorify Him. God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

I think I lost the last part of that. Okay, so that's the best-kept secret about trials, that we were pointed to them. So what was Paul's response? So Paul had, you know, there's a significant, and actually we're coming up to it in the class here, we get into chapter 12, we're coming up to Paul's thorn in the flesh. And I kind of see that as kind of the, is it bellwether, is that the right expression you say? Something that's significant, this is his Primo one and it's you know, I've heard people say that this is this is the most blessed section in terms of understanding About trials in the believers life to see the apostle Paul Asking the Lord like we would do he asked the Lord to reveal this thorn in the flesh to be removed But the Lord didn't exactly Lord had a different plan and that's and I think we can learn from that.

I So basically, let me just read it here, and we'll look at the bullet points here. So let's just look at that. So the Lord said to me, My grace is sufficient. So that's boy. That's just such a wonderful thing to remember that his grace you may say well I don't feel that I don't feel Lord that your grace is sufficient I mean and we could you know, be honest we question the Lord your grace is sufficient Lord We asked him that question, but he says it told Paul my grace is sufficient For my power is perfected in weakness and that boy that's going to be a key a key thing The weakness of the believer. It's interesting. I you know, in this world of being on top of everything and God looks at the weak believer as a believer that he can use for his purpose. Because he says, my power is perfected in weakness.

So what's Paul's response? You know, we don't see there's any lag. I mean, you'd think that he would think about it for days or months, but we don't see that. He comes back, he says, most gladly, therefore, I, Paul, would rather boast or glory about my weakness, so the power of Christ may dwell in me." So I think it's appropriate to say that when we see that we have no ability to change the trial or suffering, that we accept that, well, Lord, okay.

As it's come to that, we have to trust the Lord. And I think that's where he got Paul to that point. He said, he was going to glory about his weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. And that's where the Lord wants us to come to. And so then he goes on and makes a few more statements here.

Boy, totally backwards. Totally backwards. If you would tell that to the press, they'd say, What are these Christians about? I want to be weak. We got to be strong. We got to go, you know, take it, you know, take the mountain or whatever it is. All right. So a few key points here. And I have more key points after that.

So, and this kind of occurred, you know, the source, you know, when we have a trial or a suffering, You know, many times anxiety occurs, we get anxious, we get worried, and sometimes that can progress significantly and can be a very difficult situation.

But Christ's death on the cross separated us. I kind of missed the point there. The point there is that the anxiety and worry doesn't come from the Lord. Loading on the anxiety and the worry it comes from our fallen nature and Adam. That's the source of that But the wonderful news is bullet to Christ death on the cross has separated us.

We've died in relationship to that sin nature That was my little picture about the root and the fruit. We've died to that nature and Now what Bob this is mirroring what Bob said this morning? what's our response to be our response is to be faith in the facts and one of the wonderful facts is that We consider ourselves dead. Reckon yourself dead to sin and alive to God. We're to count upon what Christ accomplished on the cross. We've been separated from that sin nature. It's still there, but we are separated from it. It doesn't have to have its influence over us.

A couple more points. Our focus can be... Two corollary points here. Our focus could be on ourselves versus focus on Christ and his promises. That's one. So we can focus on ourselves. Secondly, we can focus on the circumstances. We're so busy trying to fix that circumstances that we lose God's perspective. So there's two points there. And then lastly, the other points. All right. So I just have about three or four here.

God's trials and sufferings for the believer are always done with a view toward our approval and to glorify him. If you read through the many verses, he wants to approve us. He's testing it. It says he never tests us to cause us to sin. There's actually two words in the Greek, parasmas and dakimas, and dakimas is the one that is used to show he's approving us. He wants to approve us.

His power and glory is revealed through our weakness. Totally backwards to what we think. Third point, we find that when we cannot fix our trial or suffering, then we're ready to rely on the Lord and His solutions. Fourth, and this is a paraphrase from something that Hal said, it's a giant step when we accept our weakness in fixing our trial or suffering. It's a giant step when we accept our weakness in fixing our trial or suffering. And then lastly, another paraphrase from Hal, will our response be like Paul's response to the thorn in the flesh? Well, let's pray then.

Dear Father, we thank you so much, Lord. We thank you for the marvelous truths are in your word, Lord, that speak to the trials and sufferings of life, to all the disasters and all those things, Lord. We thank you that you didn't leave us without hope. You left us with a sure hope, steadfast. That we can count upon all that you've accomplished on Calvary, Lord. We can count upon your mindset, your view of the trials and sufferings of our life. That we can realize that you have a plan and a purpose and you desire us to stop trying and to trust the Lord. We ask it in His name. Amen.