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Why Suffering of Jesus Christ an important part of our faith is because it is a test of our faith, to help us develop our strength of character as it helps us to trust in God more each time we use are faith to keep us strong. It is understood that suffering is to bring us closer to God to believe and honor God the most by believing for good health, means, and happiness at all times, from each and every circumstance.
Suffering brings us to pain which hurts or bothers us. So God designs suffering to make us think and get our attention to realize He has a purpose in our lives that would never occur without these tests and trials of these hurts and pains. We need to turn from our own trust to living by faith and know God’s in control. Ezekiel 4:1-8
I. EVERY PROPHET IS A VICAR. He represents God before the people; he represents the people before God. In his whole person, action, suffering, mission, he is a type of Jesus Christ. When men will not listen to his words,
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HIS ENDURANCE OF RIDICULE IS VICARIOUS. We can well suppose that many who visited Ezekiel in his dwelling would fail to perceive the propriety or utility of this long and irksome penance. They would sneer and laugh at this toy siege, at this childish exposure of an outstretched arm, at this constant recumbence on one side. Be it so; the prophet continues his task unmoved. "The foolishness of God is wiser than men." Littleness and greatness are matters about which men egregiously err. Ezekiel, in his humiliation, was as magnanimous and noble an actor in life's drama as Elijah on Carmel vindicating in solitary sublimity Jehovah's power. What could be baser to the vulgar eye of the world than to bear a felon's cross through the streets, and then to hang in nakedness and pain thereon? "But God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty... and things which are not, to bring to naught things which are." Like his Divine Master, Ezekiel "despised the

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