Ask Pastor John Was My Pre-Faith Suffering Discipline or Justice?
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Aug 4, 2025 Dive into the complex relationship between suffering and divine discipline. The speaker explores how chronic health challenges can prompt reflections on God's chastening. Discover the consequences of humanity's sinful nature and how it affects everyone. Learn about the dramatic life transformation that occurs when someone embraces faith, moving from condemnation to adoption. Finally, unravel the dual nature of pre-faith suffering, seen as both divine judgment and a merciful invitation to deepen reliance on God.
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Dual Identity Before Salvation
- Before becoming Christians, people had a dual identity: by nature children of wrath and by election destined to be children of God.
- This theological truth explains how pre-Christian suffering relates both to divine wrath and divine election.
Origin of Suffering and Disease
- All natural disasters, diseases, and suffering stem from humanity's union with Adam in sin.
- Such suffering is part of God's just wrath and judgment on fallen creation.
Freedom From Condemnation in Christ
- Through faith in Christ, believers pass from death to life and have no condemnation.
- This means past sufferings and death no longer hold ultimate judgment over Christians.
