Speaker: Jim Oesterwind
1,035 sermons
The Discomfort of Our Distress
Why does God allow distress in your life? He allows it to remind us that there is a great conflict in the world in which we live. Meshech and Kedar want war; we want peace. We are pilgrims passing through and this world is not our home. We don't ascend to Jerusalem; our ascent is toward the presence of God. Distress in the present ought to cause us to seek His presence.
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