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Beth Moore — Affliction


TOPICS: Affliction

That can make you feel alone. The psalmist said, Turn to me and be gracious to me for I am lonely and -- What’s our key word? Afflicted! You can feel alone in it. We agree. We nodded heads in here, that yeah, yeah, yeah! When mine’s flared up and that’s - then I’ve had that sense of feeling isolated and alone.

And number three is going to be based on the definition I’m going to give you. Remember that the earlier definition said that it could be any kind of extreme discomfort or oppression. It could be physical. It could be mental. It could be spiritual.

So, the same thing would be expressed in the theological word book of the Old Testament but it takes it to a place where now, I believe, you’re going to be able to go in any situation, no matter whether we’ve named them, in any situation you would be able to go, ‚Yes! That’s an affliction!‛ or ‚No! It is not.

This word, this Hebrew word that is translated affliction in the Old Testament, the primary meaning of it, according to the theological word book of the Old Testament is: to force.

This is a really important part of it. To try to force submission. The primary meaning of it, if you were just trying to wrap your mind around it, give me in a nutshell, give me in a phrase, give me in half a sentence, what would you call an affliction? Something that is trying to get you -- I’m going to give it a persona for a moment as if it’s a thing that’s animated -- something that is trying to get you to submit to it, something that just wants to have mastery over you. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

Like when something -- we talked about infertility with Hannah a little earlier. This would be a perfect example of something that’s just like -- it can become something that you’re just underneath, where it becomes almost an obsession. Anybody know what I'm talking about? It tries to force you into some kind of submission.

That brings us to number three so we can put it out in a point: Affliction always involves submission. Here’s where our wonderful news comes because God could use an affliction, girlfriend, guy-friend. God can use an affliction. And the whole purpose, so this is why good and bad, I always want you to think, when you think the word affliction, think submission.

Affliction, submission. Affliction, submission. Every time you think the one, think the other. Get it so deeply in your thoughts that when one comes up the other comes up in your mind, where you can think, ‚Okay, the key way to remember what it means is that affliction always involves -- tell me the word.
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