In All Their Affliction He Was Afflicted

Suffering and persecution are not foreign to the life experience of the people of God. Yet we do not suffer alone nor without a greater purpose. It was through His suffering and death that Christ secured for us eternal redemption and vast blessings. The sermon outline is as follows:
I. “The history of Israel is one single passion narrative”
II. “All the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end”
III. “Through much tribulation we enter the kingdom of God”
[Scripture reading precedes this sermon: Psalm 129 and Luke 19:29-48]