Expecting tragedy is the third step to dealing with tragedy
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. A third step for understanding and preparing for tragedy as it comes is to know that it's going to come.
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- It is the knowledge that we can expect tragedy in our lives.
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- Now, we saw already that for the unbeliever, there is an ultimate tragedy coming, a calamity on that final judgment day, and there is no unbeliever that will escape that.
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- However, even for Christians, there is a calamity that could come, and Paul provides for us an example of that.
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- The other two times that we saw that this word for calamity is used in the Greek is in 2
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- Corinthians 6. First, we take a look at 2 Corinthians 6, verse 4, where he says, So he gives a whole bunch of reasons to expect that there would be these calamities, but even more so in 2
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- Corinthians 12, verse 10, where he says, For when
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- I am weak, then I am strong. And that's the key to understanding that we must know the calamities are coming.
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- We can't think that we will be avoiding them in this world. When in a world system that is against God, they will be against Christians as well.
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- Now, tomorrow, we're going to take a look at this verse to see that this key is knowing that we must depend upon Christ.
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