What is the world we live in like according to this teaching?
The world is filled with heartache, turmoil, and opposition to the home and family. Life is difficult, not easy, marked by hardships, sorrows, and circumstances people struggle to cope with. Death may seem easier by comparison, yet Paul says these difficulties will never separate us.
Les teaches that we live in a world filled with heartache and turmoil, where life includes all kinds of opposition to the home and family. He notes that life is difficult and not easy, and he describes reading a book someone sent him that cataloged the difficulties, heartache, and sorrows people must put up with. He points out that many suicides occur because people think death is the easiest way out when they cannot cope with their problems or circumstances. Yet, as Paul says, even all the difficulties of life will never separate us. He also mentions principalities and powers, things present, and things to come as part of that list.