Why does Christ continually deliver over His servants to trouble, to afflictions, to perplexity, to persecution, to being struck down?

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Because such suffering provides the opportunity for the eternal, indestructible, resurrection life of Jesus to raise them up. The servants of the Lord thus are driven to live by the power of Christ’s resurrection rather than by their own energy and wisdom.

When we become powerless to act, the Lord must assume control if something is to be done. We always have the sentence of death in ourselves such that we do not trust our own strength or wisdom but in trust God who raises the dead.