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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.32,0:00:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a new Christian,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.71,0:00:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.58,0:00:18.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, what were you suffering?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.39,0:00:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a friend: Craig.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.79,0:00:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Craig had a family.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.05,0:00:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a friend: Rod.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.44,0:00:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rod had a family.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.98,0:00:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were pretty tight.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.63,0:00:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't have a family.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.84,0:00:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would see them with their families -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.56,0:00:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their wives, with their children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.32,0:00:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would drive home alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.24,0:00:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Loneliness is a severe trial.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.32,0:00:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, how were you helped?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.03,0:00:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus visited me in those years of my life
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.77,0:00:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways I don't experience now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.54,0:00:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I experience them, but not like I did then.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.50,0:01:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.84,0:01:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His presence was so sweet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.16,0:01:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it turned my darkness into light.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.52,0:01:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My sister-in-law Mida...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.29,0:01:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was suffering cancer, going through chemotherapy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.11,0:01:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter trial.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.75,0:01:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was on a two week rotation of chemo,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.10,0:01:32.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at that period where she would be most pressed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.55,0:01:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by that chemo treatment, most weak
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.87,0:01:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most suffering...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.64,0:01:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jesus would come to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.15,0:01:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she actually wept when she was healed,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.42,0:01:49.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because those seasons would not come anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.59,0:01:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, that's one of the ways He helps.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.71,0:01:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He comes and He visits His people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.51,0:01:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've told you this story before:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.16,0:01:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scottish Covenanters,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.04,0:02:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of these guys was so mutilated
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.99,0:02:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dragoons came in and they dealt
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.68,0:02:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like 8 mortal blows to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.17,0:02:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They took his broken body
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.82,0:02:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they just threw it on the dungeon floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.34,0:02:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as he laid there, his body broken,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.49,0:02:28.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he said, "I don't know if I can withstand this any longer."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.05,0:02:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those bystanders thought he was talking
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.18,0:02:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about his wounds.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.70,0:02:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "the presence of Christ is so overwhelming
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.94,0:02:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me right now, I don't know if I can
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.15,0:02:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,handle anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.28,0:02:46.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brethren, one of the ways that Christ helps us,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.80,0:02:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is He visits us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.17,0:02:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last thing you ever want to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.68,0:02:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the midst of your suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.52,0:02:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is turn away from your times in prayer
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.76,0:02:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your times in the Word.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.56,0:03:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that is so often right where He comes to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.70,0:03:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in my seasons when I would go out
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.33,0:03:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those early days,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.78,0:03:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and loneliness felt at times like it would crush me,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.47,0:03:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I would go out in the fields and I would pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.24,0:03:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was there praying - there were times
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.94,0:03:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I would walk and I could feel
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.09,0:03:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His presence at my side.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.07,0:03:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could have reached over and touched Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.57,0:03:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And brethren, there's times when He takes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.11,0:03:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the pain of the suffering out.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.84,0:03:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may know this story,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.12,0:03:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was a time when Spurgeon
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.82,0:03:32.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was suffering the pain of gout,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.79,0:03:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was so overwhelming,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.58,0:03:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had to ask the people in the room
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.86,0:03:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.93,0:03:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he just cried out, you can almost hear it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.24,0:03:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost like Jesus there out in the wilderness
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.93,0:03:46.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pleading with cries and tears,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.26,0:03:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Spurgeon there with crying and tears
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.21,0:03:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says, "please!" And God took the pain away.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.58,0:04:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No doubt, not all of it. And not forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.54,0:04:04.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But He took it away right there when asked.