QuadCity Podcast

Suffering in this life is inevitable. Does that mean God is powerless, absent, or angry? Not atall. God is sovereign, and no matter what suffering we endure or why we endure it, God isgreat enough to use it for good. Although this isn’t a promise for everyone. It is a promise made for those who love him.

Everyone wants to live forever like Jesus, but not everyone wants to suffer like Jesus. But what will you do when you learn that you can’t have one without the other? Suffering isn’t optional for anyone, not even the children of God. But, for the children of God, it is temporary. And no matter how bad the suffering gets, it does not compare to the glory to come.

Does the Spirit of God live in you? If you are a child of God, he does! The Spirit of God is whatmakes you a child of God! But there is a war within each of God's children. A warbetween the desires of the flesh and the desires of the Spirit. The flesh urges us to obey it,and the Spirit invites us to obey him. And which of those you are fighting for will determinewhether you live or die.

No one gets excited about being let off the hook, if they never felt like they were on the hook tobegin with. Romans 8 is the the pinnacle of the book of Romans. And it begins with thedeclaration that we have been let off the hook for all our sins in Christ Jesus. It is a reality worthcelebrating