by Jim Baumgaertel | May 27, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BELOVED, DO NOT BE SURPRISED AT THE FIERY TRIAL AMONG YOU, WHICH COMES UPON YOU FOR YOUR TESTING, AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING WERE HAPPENING TO YOU [I Pet.4:12] If the Master is maligned as Beelzebub, the members of His house must fare even worse at the hands of men...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Mar 28, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BLESSED IS HE WHO DOES NOT STUMBLE OVER ME [Mt.11:6] A man sent from God [Jn.1:6], indeed, none greater that has been born of women [Mt.11:11] and more than a prophet [Mt.11:9]; this was John. Filled with the Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb [Lk.1:15] and...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Feb 6, 2007 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
HOW LONG, O LORD? WILL YOU FORGET ME FOREVER? [Ps.13:1] The gently led nursing flock whose lambs are carried in the bosom of the Good Shepherd [Isa.40:11], have not yet known the God of darkness. Jubilant multitudes whose lips spill over with “Hosanna� are nowhere...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Dec 6, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
BEHOLD, I HAVE REFINED YOU, BUT NOT AS SILVER; I HAVE TESTED YOU IN THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION [Isa.48:10] Life made bitter by grueling taskmasters makes tears your food, night and day. It is what Israel knew, enslaved in the iron furnace of Egypt under the Pharaoh who...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Oct 18, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
ALTHOUGH HE WAS A SON, HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE FROM THE THINGS HE SUFFERED [Heb.5:8] In all their affliction He was afflicted [Isa.63:9]. Truly Christ Jesus our Lord was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief [Isa.53:3]. From birth there was no room for Him except...
by Jim Baumgaertel | Aug 31, 2006 | Gospel for West Africa, Out of the Depths - The Mystery of Suffering, Steve Phillips
JOSEPH WAS SOLD AS A SLAVE. THEY AFFLICTED HIS FEET…IN IRONS [Ps.105:17, 18] Beloved Joseph, favored and blessed by his father, was yet jealously despised by his brothers [Gen.37:3, 4]. Loved by a father, hated by brethren. It is a grievous burden to bear. Daily...
