Pain. Suffering. Enduring hardship. Education.

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Knowing God as Creator

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

04 Higher than the Highest

05 Unselfishness and True Development

06 Adventist Education

07 Education and Character

08 Education and Faith

09 Education and Sabbath

10 The School of the Sanctuary

11 The Schools of the Prophets

12 The School of Life

13 The Revolution of Jesus Christ

The school of hard knocks, suffering and enduring through hardship on this episode of Inverse.

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

Hey guys, it's Justin, and welcome to this episode of Inverse.

We're in the studio with my friends here, Israel and Siku, and we've got Callie from long distance, and she's streaming in.

And we want to welcome especially you watchers out there we are under this arc topic of education and we look at different topics from here and there and we're slowly closing up this season but we're looking at the role of suffering.

This is a very profound study, a Bible study, on the role of suffering, especially when it comes into education.

And we want to establish that education is not about homework and about grades and about getting into college, but about the school of life, school of life.

So we're going to have a prayer by Callie.

If you can pray for us and then we'll get into the Bible afterwards.

Father in heaven, thank you for the privilege it is to study your word together right now, and I pray that though the topic is suffering, we would not shy away from it.

We would press into it, and through even this discussion and through our experience, we would come to know you better, to love you better, and to even trust you amidst the hardships of our life.

We ask and pray all this in Christ's name, amen.

Israel, we're going to go to Hebrews chapter 11.

Hebrews chapter 11, verse 23 to verse 29, if you don't mind reading that for us.

He became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians attempting to do so were drowned.

Sikhu, we spent some time in a previous episode talking about Hebrews chapter 11.

We talked about faith and this is kind of the end.

It's kind of continuing that faith motif, but there is something common in these individuals and they experience some hardship and then we're talking about suffering, but before we get to suffering, can you guys, can you give us an overview and maybe someone's out there watching Inverse for the first time or maybe they're watching the education arc after a while.

So, as you said at the beginning when you talk about education, we're talking about rote learning, sitting in a classroom and memorizing your time state multiplication tables you call them but we're talking about just the philosophy of education on overarching theme and from the beginning we started with at the at the foundation of of true education is going to be God And without that foundation, you're just gonna be floundering.

And then recently, what we've been talking about are ways that God uses to teach us in the school of life, I guess you could say.

It teaches us, these methods teach us things about God and in teaching us things about God they teach us things about ourselves and our place in the universe as He has created us.

So we talked about the sanctuary, we talked about the Sabbath, 2 things that God instituted as lessons about himself, about his plan of salvation, and the way that he wants to interact with us.

And we also talked about, oh, the school of the prophets.

Which, so we're going from God, our relation to God in space, in the sanctuary, our relation to God in time, in space and time, and then how we learn about God through our relationships, through mentorship in the School of the Prophets.

And today here we are learning about what we learn in the School of Suffering.

And on the lives of other people and maybe and Siku brought it was very ethereal and some of these things were out there.

We want to encourage you to go to inversebible.org where you can get a copy, a digital free copy of your own Bible study guide on the topic of education and also other topics out there that we call it the Inverse Bible Study Guides.

And for previous episodes, you can go to hopetv.org slash inverse and you can see the previous episodes about the sanctuary and the time-space continuum and all these other things that we talked about that bring us to this point in this season.

What are so special about the lives here in Chapter 11 of Hebrews?

Well, I think just to correct, we're not really so much talking about suffering only as much as we're talking about the school of life.

So there's 3 different models that we've been looking at, as Sigu already mentioned, and 1 of them, or the last model that we're looking at, third 1, is the model of the school of life.

Now the issue is that in many cases, if you're living, you're suffering, right?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait.

People, we will encounter suffering in life.

And in Hebrews chapter 11, in the life of Moses, we find an interesting component to Moses' relationship with suffering.

In verse 24, it says, when he became of age, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

And the second choice he makes is in verse 25, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.

No 1 in their right mind chooses to suffer.

Suffering is something that we endure, something that we'll put up with, but That's not something that we will necessarily choose.

And secondly, it says that he chose to suffer with the people of God.

That's another, you know, that's, it's an interesting term there.

It says the people of God, the people of God are the people that are causing Moses to suffer.

And yet the Bible says that this is something that Moses, it's a deliberate choice that he had.

He could avoid suffering or he could embrace suffering.

And he embraced suffering with people who would cause him the suffering.

So there's this component that faith allows us to see Beauty and suffering that would not be visible.

And and just just a complete Paul's thought because the sentence continues in verse 26 that choosing to suffer affliction with people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasure of sin.

And says, esteeming the reproach of Christ.

So it seems like each phrase expounds on the previous 1, right?

So he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

And the implications of that was by refusing to accept the privilege that was given to him by growing up in the palace, that refusal actually translates to a choice.

So 1 thing that comes out for me is you never not choose.

And refusing 1 thing is choosing something else.

So he refuses to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter and by doing that he chooses to suffer affliction with the people of God.

And in verse 26 we have the motive why he did this.

This was like what he felt in his heart was that the reproach of Christ was greater than the treasures in Egypt for he looked to the reward.

So he had a, there was kind of a philosophy that was undergirding the choices that he was making was that what I value more than the treasures in Egypt, which was the most powerful nation, all of these treasures, and all of this was at his disposal.

But he valued more than those things, more than the accolades that he could get, than the material wealth, he valued more than that the reproach of Christ, which is saying he didn't value the treasures of Christ more than the treasures of Egypt.

He valued the reproach of Christ, the worst that Jesus could give him, was of more value to him than the best that Egypt could give him.

This is counterintuitive to everything in our society.

Later on in the text, it'll say, he was able to see him who is invisible and what Moses was able to realize and how this ties into education is Moses was able to realize that there are invisible implications to our present life And this it's a profound lesson to learn because you you learn this or you're educated in this sense in the privacy of your own Individual life outside of the you know, the stadium lights of the world.

You're kind of living your life Not knowing or in this case Moses knew knowing that all of heaven is watching and that your simple mundane actions now have implications with eternal impact that all of heaven is interested in.

And that's a profound, that's a profound concept to know that.

Yeah, and I think a good point to point out too is sometimes we talk so much about suffering and we're just like, yeah, to be a Christian is to suffer and it's the worst suffering.

There's just so much darkness and sadness.

What we're saying here is, you know, I really like Siku's point of like the worst of Christ is better than the best of this world.

And the idea is that Moses was just so focused on following God, that he wasn't like, man, suffering, let me chase that.

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