Gospel Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense — Paul Tripp

Sometimes life just hurts. Out of nowhere, death, illness, unemployment, or a difficult relationship can change our lives and challenge everything we thought we knew. But in the midst of all this pain and confusion, we are not alone. Weaving together his personal story, pastoral ministry experience, and biblical insights, Paul Tripp encourages us to cling to God's promises when trials come and move forward with the hope of the gospel.

[martinweiss]

“It’s hard to tolerate anything that’s uncomfortable when we are at the center of our world.”

[stacetriebwasser]

The person we lie to the most is ourselves.

[ndLifeReflections]

I lost my best friend and business partner 2 months after this broadcast and found this today on his birthday. God's grace to see us through the pain is our strength. Thank you Mr. Tripp for sharing God's truths with us.

[niemand]

Mr Tripp, thankyou for this. I am a 39 year old marine corps veteran, small residential renter, and recently collapsed PhD cognitive neuropsychology student/researcher. At 35, life was paying me back for the hard work I had been doing, so I thought I was doing things right. By 39, my partner of 10 years was swept away by radical politics (in search to cure her own suffering), my business is struggling, and I suffered a catastrophic breakdown from both the pressure of the PhD program and the cognitive dissonance I was feeling as I learned just how many assumptions and interpretive errors lie behind our deep trust in science. It has been said "the first gulp from the glass of natural science will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting."

I fled this anxiety by turning to drugs. I thought to myself, cigarettes and weed aren't so bad. It's not meth, after all. I'm in control. This led me to a terrible cycle. While high, I was no use to anyone, including myself, so I would hide myself as much as I could in that state. While sober, I felt depressed, like I'd rather fall asleep and never wake, like the value of life was all in my past.

I recently rediscovered Jesus bearing his cross. I was introduced to Christianity as a child, but I didn't learn until I experienced suffering. What I am learning is this. We must all, as God demonstrated with his son, bear our suffering. We must each carry our crosses, whatever form they take. We must do this not for ourselves, but for others. We must summon the courage to move forward, knowing that yet more suffering is over the horizon. Anything else, it seems, only makes the suffering worse.

You do not know me. Nor I you. But your courage through your suffering is helping me with mine.

[danielreed]

Oh my goodness. I can’t begin to tell you all how much of a comfort the last few videos I have watched from this page have been.

[randomiser]

To, Mr. Tripp,
I read your book "Suffering" a couple of months ago. I picked it up because I was having a bit of tough time in the family. But recently things took a turn for the worse and my family was broken into pieces. I have lost my mother a few years ago, our dad abused me and my sisters and then kicked us out and few days ago, the man I loved for five years and thought was the one for me, turned his back on me and decided to marry someone else. If I had not read your book when I did, I would gone downhill, fast. God used your book in keeping me sane and so I thank Him for that. And I thank you that you use your suffering to touch so many lives. Hope God will use my life and my heartache too, to be glorified and touch others.

[mariadelourdesturnbull]

Thank you for speaking the truth of the Gospel. Thank you for embracing suffering as a source of grace. Powerful testimony that spoke deeply to my heart.

[bellaendale]

You know God is doing a deep purging in you, when a message affects your body to the point where you want to throw up. Thank you Dr. Tripp for this cleansing Word from God to help see suffering and God's priority in suffering through God's lens.

[sobysunny-ocbv]

Heartbreaking message.
Love of my Christ is so deep I cant hold in my heart or mind. He is so deep loving.

[jamesc.k]

Been encouraged, thankyou Pastor Paul

[TPositivevibes]

Thank you. Thank you so much for this.

[sweetvictory]

Need this version to give my son who is 20, suffering so bad, I am, I lost my son due to it and haven't done well, this is timely, I need to leave this for my son when I'm not here, something he can understand, this is even deep for me, this needs to be a study guide and I see it's a book I think?

[ClaudiaSaels]

Esperança do Evangelho quando a vida não faz sentido: Às vezes a vida simplesmente dói. Do nada, a morte, a doença, o desemprego ou um relacionamento difícil podem mudar as nossas vidas e desafiar tudo o que pensávamos saber. Mas no meio de toda esta dor e confusão, não estamos sozinhos. Unindo sua história pessoal, experiência de ministério pastoral e insights bíblicos, Paul Tripp nos encoraja a nos apegarmos às promessas de Deus quando as provações vierem e a seguirmos em frente com a esperança do evangelho.

[afin]

Praise the lord God. I believe in God the father i believe in Jesus Christ I believe in the Holy spirit

[Beth]

A stroke in 2016 followed by the rejection of my friends and church caused me to give up a 30 year career in Christian radio and move 800 miles away to a state where I didn't know a single person for a 'fresh start'. It was not to be. I was suffering from severe PTSD, was rejected by two more churches and doubted God's love. I soak up anything I can on suffering and how God can use it for our good. Thank you for this.

[lauradavenport]

Thank you so much for sharing your story of suffering and for sharing the path through that with God’s grace. The last seven years of my life have been almost more than I can bare. I know without Gods grace in my life I would not be where I am today. When it’s so hard to make sense of suffering especially when you are in the midst of pain. All you really want is for it to end. But ending my suffering is not what God wants for me because He has a bigger purpose for my life than I can see or understand. I appreciate you articulating what God has been teaching me as well ❤️

[vparakhin]

There are even worse kinds of sufferings than this gentleman's. When you can't stand on your own two feet; when you're paralyzed, when you're blind and deaf. When you have dementia, but you're still alive.

[SusieW-kuub]

Thank you so much for your message about your suffering.
All glory to God! God is using your experiences, Mr. Tripp, for your good & His glory.

[Jacob]

The content in this sermon is profoundly helpful because it resonates with the Biblical worldview of creation, fall, redemption and consummation. How does that help in the midst of unforeseen unexpected indescribable crises, relentless ongoing chronic pain that never quits? Bottom line is how we interpret our suffering through who God says He is-this alone empowers and aligns our wounded hearts with Grace and Truth and then the Spirit of God has space in our hearts to bring our innermost being into alignment with the character of Christ. As Amy Carmichael wrote ....Could thou hast followed far who has no wound, who has no scar?

[DejahJMusic]

I’m going through the hardest time in my life right now and I needed this so much, marriage is so so hard and I know for sure God is using this as a trial in my life 😞