A Transcript of the Suffering Saint Psalm 77:1-20

Q: What does the Bible say about suffering for Christians?

The Bible teaches that suffering is part of the Christian experience and serves to refine faith. The Scriptures clearly indicate that all believers will face suffering as a normal part of their spiritual journey. As noted in Psalm 77, the psalmist expresses deep anguish and confusion during times of trial, reminding us that such afflictions are not only common but also ordained by God. The purpose of suffering is ultimately to test and refine our faith, demonstrating its authenticity. Trials serve to remind us of our dependence on God and encourage us to run to Him for comfort and consolation, as demonstrated by the psalmist's earnest cries in distress.

Q: How do we know trials have a purpose?

Trials are a trial of faith, proving the genuineness of our belief in God. The Bible assures believers that trials arise with a significant purpose: the testing of faith. In Psalm 77, the psalmist's experiences illustrate that our afflictions have been ordained by God to serve as a means of demonstrating true faith. Genuine faith is evidenced by perseverance through difficulties. Scriptures like James 1:2-4 support this understanding, teaching that the testing of our faith produces endurance and maturity. Each trial serves to refine our character and deepen our reliance on God, ultimately drawing us closer to Him.

Q: Why is prayer important during affliction?

Prayer is vital because it connects us with God, who is our source of comfort and strength. In times of affliction, prayer plays a crucial role in the life of a believer. The psalmist's cries in Psalm 77 emphasize the importance of bringing our troubles before God in prayer. Prayer allows us to express our pain and seek comfort from the One who understands our suffering. It is through prayer that we acknowledge our helplessness and dependence on God, inviting His peace into our troubled hearts. Romans 5:1-2 reinforces this by stating that, through faith in Christ, we have peace with God and access to His grace in our times of need, underscoring the significance of seeking Him in prayer during trials.

Q: What does it mean that God is our sanctuary?

God as our sanctuary means that He is our refuge and safe place during trials. The term 'sanctuary' represents a place of safety and refuge, as illustrated in Psalm 77. In times of distress, believers can turn to God as their sanctuary, finding solace in His presence. The psalmist reflects on how God meets His people in their troubles, providing refuge through His Son, Jesus Christ. Christ embodies the ultimate sanctuary, where believers find forgiveness, comfort, and peace amidst their trials. The believer’s access to God through Christ secures their place in His sanctuary, where they can experience healing and restoration, regardless of the circumstances they face.

Good to see you here this morning. I'm so glad the Lord has brought us together again. I ask your prayers for the message. I pray that God would be gracious to use his word to bless you, to comfort you, to strengthen you, to encourage you. I know this is his purpose. It's always His purpose, for His Word. I know this text that I'm preaching this morning has been a text on my heart. I was reading Spurgeon's commentary on this a while back, and I said, man, I'd love to preach that. And the Lord put it on my heart as I was going through the Psalms And I pray God will bless this. I know that this is needful.

And listen, believer, if it's not so much needful now, I promise you it will be. And I do ask God to use this for the blessing of His people. Remember those that are sick. If he is not feeling well, pray for her. Pray for others that are going through great trials and difficulty.

God knows, God understands. Isn't it wonderful to know that God not only understands our difficulties, but has ordained them Himself? You know who He is, that's special. You know how much He loves His people, then you know that these afflictions and trials we face are given. You know what the scripture says? It is not only given on behalf of Christ that you believe, but also that you suffer. It is given. These afflictions are given. They don't feel like gifts, but they are.

And I pray God would use this to console his people. Pray for those churches again. Constantly remind, bring before our God his remembrance of those churches without pastors. God would fill those vacancies and then his word might go forth in power. Comfort those believers. I'm sure I'm missing something else. Oh, Happy Mother's Day. That's it. Yeah. I didn't even put that up here. Look at that. I didn't even have a reminder. I think it's... Well, I'm thankful God has given us this time, and may Christ be the object of our love and affection this morning. We may see His great love and care for us.

Let's go to Him in prayer. Most Holy Father, again we bow ourselves before You, taking this opportunity of great privilege to lay out our cares and concerns, our trials and our difficulties. And we come this morning seeking to worship. I pray this is the desire of every heart to worship you, to praise you, to magnify your name through the preaching of the gospel.

And we come this morning really without any power in ourselves. We can desire to do these things, but have no power in ourselves to do it. We are dependent upon you, dependent upon your spirit, that you would give us this desire, this love, this understanding, that we would see Christ high and lifted up, Christ our Savior, our high priest, our offering for sin, our Redeemer. Though we face many trials in this life, we know this, Father, that you have ordained them for our good.

And I pray that you would use this text this morning to comfort your people in their afflictions. I need you. I can't preach without you, never could, nor do I desire to preach without you. I know these that want to hear, they have no power in themselves. accept the spirit, come and we pray for it. Pray for him to come. And not show himself as you promised to show us Christ.

Pray that you'd strengthen every heart in Christ's name I ask. Amen. All right, if you take your Bibles now and turn with me to Psalm 77. Psalm 77. Entitle this message, A Transcript of the Suffering Saint. We have before us a transcript of the man Asaph, a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he lays out by the Holy Spirit his experience of suffering, great suffering. He begins this psalm with the cry, I cried unto the Lord with my voice." It was not even an inner prayer. It was an outward manifestation of his grief. Even unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unto me.

Now, we as believers understand that none of us will escape suffering. None of us will escape The dark providences of God, none of the elect, the sons of God shall fail to feel the chastening hand of our God. The scripture says, whom the Lord loveth, he what? Chasteneth and scourgeth every son.

We who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ do not escape the spiritual warfare within ourselves. The flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these two are contrary one to another so that you cannot do what you would. None of us are able to avoid the snares or the hatred or the assault of our enemies, the world, the flesh, Satan, we cannot avoid these things. We try to no avail, to no avail.

Every believer in Christ must and will suffer in this life on our journey to Zion. And when we are afflicted, when we are persecuted with these pains and afflictions, we often become confused. We shouldn't be surprised. And yet every time I'm in trouble, the first, the first feeling is surprise. We're confused. If I am the elect, if I am one redeemed, if I am loved, if I am cherished, if I am bought, if I am kept by the power of God, then why must I suffer? Why this dark affliction? Why this great trial?

In these times of woe and sorrow, when tears run like rivers, We come to a text like this and we understand what this text is for. This text of this man is a mirror image of the believer's experience. This text is a mirror image of our heart as we cry unto God, even unto God in our sorrows and afflictions. And often in our afflictions, we forget the word of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this world, you shall have, what?

Tribulation. It's not to be surprised. In Acts chapter 14 in verse 22, it says, we must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom of God. It should not surprise us, but it does. But yet we as believers understand, we know, we know that trials have a purpose. And the purpose always is a trial of faith. Every affliction is a trial of faith, whether it's small or it's great. It is a trial of our faith. We all profess to believe. What pans it out, what makes it proof that our faith is genuine is what? Trials. Afflictions. Because only real faith endures the afflictions.

False faith will go away. Remember in Pilgrim's Progress, you had that man, Palatable, and he came with Pilgrim in the first few. He loved to hear about heaven. He loved to hear about forgiveness. He loved to hear about grace and all the word of God. But the moment he fell in the Slough of Despond, he turned back and went away.

How many will turn back? At the first instance of trouble, They leave the worship. They leave the assembly of God and they go away. Many never return. Why? It just proves that faith was a fake. John said they went out of us because they were not of us.

If they were of us, they would have no doubt continued with us. See, faith, the proof of true faith is this. It continues. Regardless of the affliction, regardless of the trial, regardless of the difficulty, we always return unto our God. We always believe regardless of what we feel or how we think or what the world thinks. True faith always endures.

So what is the purpose of affliction? Trial. The trial of our faith. So in your affliction, what is God doing? He's proving your faith. That's what he's doing. And so in this psalm, I got three things that I want us to remember to the afflicted child.

And listen, if you're in a moment where you're not being afflicted, just wait a minute. Just give it a minute. You'll be there. If you're a true child of God, you'll be there. The only person, remember Pilgrim's Progress again, the only person that didn't have any affliction was ignorance. He walked alone, no problem at all.

Lots of people suffer. We must, for the trial of our faith. Now, I've got three things in this psalm here. First of all, I want us to see the cry of the afflicted. The cry, he said, I cried unto God with my voice. Secondly, I want us to see the conflict. When a believer is brought into affliction, there's always going to be a conflict within. struggle with it.

When God brings us to the end of ourselves, we're going to ask some very serious questions. And that's what the psalmist here does in our text. He's going to ask questions like, is God cast me off? Is his grace gone? And then we're going to see the third thing, which is the relief, the consolation.

The comfort. I'm so glad God never leaves us hanging. He never leaves us with a cliffhanger. He always gives us the ending. And it's what? To the believer, it's comfort. I'm gonna spoil this. The comfort of every believer is the gospel of Jesus Christ and nothing else. Nothing else. It's always the same answer.

So let's see these three things. First of all, the cry. Look what he says in verse one through three. He says, I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice, and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord. My soul ran in the night and ceased not. My soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God and was troubled. I complained. and my spirit was overwhelmed.

This child of God, as we are to expect suffering, we're to expect suffering. When we are brought into suffering, our suffering differs nothing from the loss. A believer can be sick, so can a lost man. And the pain of that sickness could be the same. A believer could lose a child, An unbeliever can lose a child. The pain is the same. The sorrow, the griefs that we experience, the believer experiences, is the same as the lost. But here's the difference, you as a believer. You have something they don't have. You have access to God they don't. Go to Romans chapter 5. You that are in affliction, remember this. Afflictions are necessary, but in every affliction you have access to God. Go to Romans chapter 5. Verse 1.

Paul says, therefore being justified. Being justified. What do we have? We have peace with God. You have it because you are justified. Here's the result. You have peace with God. Through what? through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we also have access. You see, we're justified. This is the first thing you should know, that we've been justified. What does this mean? Through Jesus Christ, he has for us obtained righteousness. Isn't this what God requires for access? Righteousness? He requires access. You don't get to be into the presence of God without righteousness. You can't.

I don't care how sincere you are about crying to God. You can be as sincere and as hurt and as painful as any experience in the world. You can cry unto God with everything, but if you're not justified, you're not gonna hear. He's not gonna hear you. I don't care who you are. It doesn't matter. If you're not righteous, you will not be heard. I know that's offensive to people, but it doesn't matter.

It's just true. You that believe, you're righteous. You're made righteous by the righteousness of Christ. Isn't that what it said in Romans 3, verse 22? And he says, even the righteousness of God which is by the faith of Jesus Christ. So, I have access to God not based on any righteousness that I've done. My righteousness is what He has done for me. Not only that, we must be justified. To be justified, we must be redeemed.

This is what Christ did for you. He redeemed you by His blood. He has paid for every sin that you have ever committed and ever will commit. It has been paid. You are innocent before God. Therefore, Paul said, we have access into this grace wherein we stand. You have access. Christ was made sin for us who knew no sin. that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. What did that do? Paul said that's what reconciled us to God. You are reconciled. You have peace. You have access to God in every affliction, in every difficulty.

Paul says in Hebrews 4.16, let us come boldly. In trouble? Are you in trouble? What does the psalmist do? He comes boldly. With his voice, he cries unto his God. This is a good lesson for every trial, isn't it?

Great and small. How often do we think, well, I got the small ones and I'll just wait for the big ones to cry. No, you don't have any strength for the small ones either. Usually the small ones are like, they roll and become bigger ones, don't they? The lesson is this, run to God first. Isn't this always a lesson that we fail? We always look to someone else. We look to some person, some man, some person to try to make me better, to fix whatever it is. Instead of having access to God, we run to man.

And so Asaph here, This trouble was not new. It was not fresh. It had built up. It was no longer a thought. It welled up in him so much that he could not do anything but express it in voice. That's how painful this was. He cried aloud to God for help. And notice this, he did it twice, even unto God with my voice. Once was not enough. How often have we ever, now there are very few and rare times where God answers a prayer like that. Immediately.

One thing we'll learn about our God over the years is this. He often delays in his answer. He often delays in his answer. And though we cry with our voice, The psalmist here knows something. He gave ear to me. I know it. I cried once and he heard me. I cried twice and he heard me. He knew God heard him. But something was wrong because it didn't stop. How often have you cried to God and it didn't stop? How often? Are we in sickness or great pain? And we cried to God and it doesn't stop. It seems to get worse.

I think that Canaanite woman that came to our Lord and she was begging Him, Lord, my daughter is grievous and sick. And He did not answer her a word. He heard her. He didn't answer. The disciples became so grieved, Lord, send her away. She crieth after us. She wasn't crying after them. She was crying after him.

And he turns around and instead of love, he gives rebuke. Is it me to give the children's bed to a dog like you? How often have we cried and instead of kindness, the Lord turns in rebuke. What she did is what the believer does in every instance of his delay. She says, truthful. See what affliction does? It brings us to the end of ourselves. It brings us to the feet of Christ. And whatever he says is right. We have no other recourse. No other hope. We cry unto him. I tell you, that is a lesson every believer should learn in affliction. Cry unto Him.

Importunity always prevails. Importunity is a continual knock. Knock and keep on knocking. Ask and keep on asking. And God will hear us in due season. He will hear us. Doesn't mean He's going to, and now listen to this, He's not going to answer you always in the way you think. You see, he's wiser than we are. His ways are higher than our ways, his thoughts than our thoughts.

But notice this, his cry is not satisfied in verse two. In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord. My sore ran into the night and ceased not. In other words, his trouble grew. How often have we prayed unto our God? knowing he heard me, and yet the trouble increases." Runs into the night. He sought it in the day, and it ran into the night, and it did not cease. Did not cease. That poem of John Newton, he said, I asked the Lord that I might grow, In faith and love and every grace might more of his salvation know and seek more earnestly his face.

T'was he who taught me thus to pray and he I trust has answered prayer. But it was in such a way it almost drove me to despair. I hoped in some favored hour at once he'd answer my request and by his love's constraining powers subdue my sins and give me rest.

Instead of this, he made me feel the hidden evils of my heart. He let the angry powers of hell assault my soul in every part. Yea, more with his own hand he seemed, intent to aggravate my woe. Crossed all my fair designs I schemed, humbled me, and laid me low. How often have we cried to God and yet it seems he's intent on aggravating my difficulties instead of helping me.

Often these times we feel like the psalmist, look what he says, my soul refused to be comforted. He pouted. He pouted. God did not hear him immediately and did not respond in the way he thought. And when the words come to his heart, when the gospel comes to his heart, his heart is now hard and cold and indifferent to it. So this, I will not receive comfort.

Here's the word of Christ to you and me in trouble. My grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made perfect in weakness. That's his word to us. And yet how often have we hardened our souls so that we would not receive it. I need more than your grace. I need you to take care of this. This is painful. This is hurtful to me. I want it fixed. And I want it fixed the way I want it fixed.

And I won't be comforted by your word. I think of Jonah sitting out there in the middle of that field. The Lord saved all those people, and he was mad at God for it. And God gave him that gourd, that tree to cover him in the heat, provided something for him. And he was comforted for a little while, but when God put that worm in the gourd and killed it, Again, he was mad at God. How often are you mad at God for something that He's done? You pouting children, how often are we so mad at Him for not taking and doing it the way we thought it should be done?

The psalmist said, I will not be comforted. You will not be satisfied until you do it my way. Spurgeon wrote this, as a sick man turns away, even the most nourishing food, so did the psalmist. It is impossible to comfort those who refuse to be comforted. You may bring them to the waters of promise, but you shall not make them drink of it. So many a daughter of despondency has pushed aside the cup of gladness. So many a son of sorrow has hugged his chains. There are many times when we are suspicious of good news and are not persuaded unto peace.

Yet here is the hope of the believer, because this is the distinction between the apostate and the true believer, not the rebellion. The rebellion of Peter was no different than the rebellion of Judas. What made the difference? The Lord Jesus Christ said to Peter, I have prayed for thee. The difference is Christ. The difference is he will not leave his people in this rebellion. The rebellion is not different, but the difference is God will not let you stay in such a rebellious state. Look what he says in verse three.

I remembered God. At this point, God does not bring him peace. God brings him despair. Because of his sin, God brings him to despair. Listen to the pain of this. God was no longer a comfort to him in his rebellion. God was a sword. We must understand that God will not leave his children without chastisement. Often these great sorrows bring us into rebellion. You'd think they would bring us into submission immediately, but they don't. What is God doing but revealing what's in our heart? He reveals the sin. He exposes that rebellion that's been there all the time. But he doesn't leave his children there.

And so then what takes place next? The inner conflict. You see the cry? He cried. He cried again. He knew God heard him, but God didn't answer him in the way he thought, and he pouted. He rebelled. He would not be comforted. Then God in chastisement comes to him and he sees God not as a friend. And now there begins a conflict within himself. Look at verse four.

He said, Thou holdest mine eyes awaking. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. What is he saying? He recognizes that it is God who has put this fear into his heart. He's laying awake at night. He has rebelled. He has left his God. He has left all the comforts of the gospel. And now he lays awake in fear. Fearing what? He's gone forever. That's how Peter felt. You know, when Peter rebelled against our Lord and the Lord died, Peter went back fishing. He assumed it was all over. There was no hope for him. Judas, he did the same thing Judas did, and he was grieving. He grieved. Scripture says he grieved greatly, wept bitterly.

See, it's God that puts this fear into the hearts of His people when they rebel. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit may diligent search now then. He has rebelled. He has sinned. God has not answered His prayer. He doesn't feel the presence of God. He doesn't feel the comfort of the Word. He refused it.

And now that he begins to make a serious question here, am I saved? Newton wrote that as well. "'Tis a point I long to know, oft it causes anxious thought. Do I love the Lord or no? Am I his or am I not?" And so he looks back and he tries to find some comfort, some assurance, so he remembers the things that made him feel peace before. And now there's still no peace.

I thought of this when I read this. I thought of the Shulamite woman, the Shulamite bride in Song of Solomon. Remember, she laid up in that bed and the Lord came and knocked on the door and she would not get up. She said, oh, I put off my shoes. I can't get up now. I got too many other important things to do. I'm not going to listen. I don't need your presence. I'm doing just fine. And what happened? He put his hand to the hole of the door. And the scent of the husband came through her nostrils. And she rose up, and she tried to fix herself, tried to make herself presentable. And you know what she opened the door?

He's gone. How often have we rebelled, and then we come seeking comfort, and he's gone. Oh, the pain of that, the misery, to not feel his presence or know if he's Still loves me. And he asks these serious questions. Look what he says in verse 7. Will the Lord cast off forever? Will the Lord be favorable no more? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?

God's people in sorrow and affliction come to this, they're asking serious questions. Serious questions, am I his? Is he not going to be gracious to me? How can he forgive me, seeing I have done him great harm? This is the conflict of one who is truly afflicted, truly afflicted.

But God never leaves us in such a sad condition. I'm so thankful. It may take time, years even. But God will always show himself to be gracious and merciful. So the third thing is the consolation. Look at this. Move on. Look at verse 11. Look at verse 10. He said, I said, this is my infirmity. This is my affliction.

But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the Lord. Truly, I will remember the wonders of old. I will meditate of all thy work and talk of all thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary." The troubled saint, when he's brought to the end of himself, the only thing he can do is look to Christ. I will remember what? Thy right hand. I'll remember this, that salvation is of the Lord. That's what I'll remember. In the darkness of affliction, regardless of what happens, regardless of even my sin, I'll remember this, salvation is completely of God and none of me. I'll remember salvation's of thy right hand, the Lord Jesus Christ. I will meditate of all thy work, not mine, He's brought to the end of himself. He has nothing to give, nothing to offer. He's rebelled. He's sinned. He's left. He has no recourse other than this.

I will remember thy works and thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. It's very important. It's a key to this comfort, the sanctuary. And I think Psalm 73, Asaph was in the same situation, in the same difficulty as Faith and Nile well slipped. He was envious of the wicked and how they lived and how he was suffering all the time.

And this is what he said, when I went into the sanctuary. What does that mean, the sanctuary? That's the place where God met with sinners. The only place was the sanctuary. That was where the high priest on the great day of atonement made the offering for sin. What is that a picture of? It's a picture of Jesus Christ. He is the sanctuary. He's the only place where God's gonna meet with you. Ain't no other place where God's gonna meet with you but in Christ. No consolation outside of the sanctuary. There's no refuge outside the sanctuary. There's no forgiveness. There's no pardon. There's no peace outside the sanctuary. Christ is the sanctuary.

He's that tent in the wilderness. He's also the high priest. He's also the high priest. High Priest would come with those robes. And remember, he had that breastplate with the 12 gems on it, which represented all the names of the children of Israel. You see, Christ represents all of his elect. They're on his heart. There's names. Our names are written on his heart.

So when he came into this world, he came as a representative High Priest. And as our High Priest, He obtained two things for us, righteousness and redemption. Righteousness, that's pictured in the robe that the priest wore. It was a linen robe. It was a white robe. It was clean. That's a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the righteousness of God. And notice this. Also, those two goats are Christ. The tabernacle is Christ. The sanctuary is Christ. The high priest is Christ. The two goats are Christ. The scapegoat and the sin offering, they're both Christ. Our Lord God confessed all the sins of our, all of our sins upon the heavenly son.

And as he bore them on Calvary, he carried them away. He, as a strong man, that's what they said. They got, picked the strongest guy they got. And he gonna pick up that scapegoat and he's gonna run off with him. Until they can't see him anymore. Then he's gonna come back. What a picture of Christ, a strong man. carried away our sins. How? By the second he died.

This is what we remember. We are to remember the sanctuary that Christ paid for that sin of rebellion that I had committed. That sin of refusing to be comforted. It had already been paid. Our Lord Jesus Christ paid the debt for our sins. And then the high priest took that blood into the sanctuary and sprinkled it before God. What an intercessor we have.

He is constantly in the presence of God, interceding for us, pleading our cause. So that when God sees me, he doesn't see me. He sees him. He sees him. That's what the sanctuary is. This is the consolation. This is the comfort in every affliction. God may never take away our sickness. God may never take away our difficulty. He may never take away those people that hurt us and offend us.

But that doesn't matter if you have this. If you have Him, all of that doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't. I don't care. At this point, we say, you can have that. I want Him. I only want Christ. I don't want anything else. And the second thing, look at this last thing here. Consolation. Verse 16.

The waters saw thee, O God, and the waters, O God, the waters saw thee and were afraid. The depths also were troubled. The clouds poured out water. The skies set out a sound. The arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in heaven and lightnings lighteth the world. The earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. This has reference a lot to the Red Sea.

When Israel was delivered, they were delivered by the blood of the Lamb. How were you delivered? From bondage to sin, how were you delivered? You were delivered by the blood of the Lamb. And God led them. He led them to be trapped. Who led you to your sorrow? Who led you to your difficulty? Remember, he hardened Pharaoh's heart to come after him. He put him in this place where they had no way to escape. Who put you there? What'd they do in that place? Did what we always do, rebel. Would to God you'd let us die in Egypt.

Yet instead of killing them, He parted the sea and went through on dry ground. The waters that trouble you do not trouble you. They're afraid of you. Those difficulties that you dread, he walks on. Isn't that astounding? Matter of fact, the scripture says his way is in the sea. In other words, you can't tell what he's gonna do. You ever seen footprints in the sea? Can you mark it out? You can't tell what he's gonna do. Here's your comfort. Regardless of whether you can tell what he's gonna do or what are you not. Listen. Thou leadest thy people like sheep. Is he not the great shepherd of our souls? Who's leading who? Do you get to determine where you go? Do the sheep get to choose what path they take? Sheep are stupid. They don't know what's best for them. But the shepherd does.

So end your affliction. Cry to Him. Not once, twice, whatever it takes, keep crying. He hears you, but He's not going to answer you in the way you think. When you rebel, He's going to chase you, but He's always going to bring you to the same conqueror. And when a believer is brought to the feet of Christ, there is no greater source of consolation. The sanctuary. He's our priest. He said he leads them by Moses and Aaron. Who's our prophet and priest? The Lord Jesus Christ. He leads us.

So I ask you, will his promises fail? Can his promises fail? Will any of these afflictions remove you from Him? He said no. What does it matter how you feel about it? Does it? Does it even count? Christ is my consolation and my refuge, my shelter, my high priest, my offering, my salvation. You listen. He is all. He is all. This is the consolation of those who cry in distress. May God comfort you with this. Let's stand and be dismissed and pray. Christ is our sanctuary, Christ is our high priest, our sacrifice. above all else. I pray you do this for your people in Christ's name.

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A Transcript of the Suffering Saint Psalm 77:1-20

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What does the Bible say about suffering for Christians?

How do we know trials have a purpose?

Why is prayer important during affliction?

What does it mean that God is our sanctuary?

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