Suffering with Christ is not for nothing.

Suffering with Christ is not for nothing.

Rom 8:14-17

1Jo 3:1-3

Joh 1:12-13

We are born of God. We are members of God’s household.
We belong.

We’re family!

Eph 2:18-22

Psa 23

“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”

Rom 8:16-25

What is suffering?

Suffering hurts. Suffering is painful. To suffer is to experience pain.

Suffering is having what you don’t want, or not having what you do want.

Rom 8:17 is talking about suffering WITH CHRIST.

sumpascho;
to experience pain jointly or of the same kind

to have the same thing happen to one, to suffer with, suffer the same thing as.

1Co 12:26-27

Phi 1:27-30

God has graciously ordained that we suffer for Christ’s sake.
It will happen.

Rom 8:16-17

Suffering with Christ is not for nothing.