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A missing Clark Atlanta University student was found dead Friday, November 8.
The body of Alexis Crawford, 21 years old, was found in Dekalb County off Columbia Drive one week after she was reported missing.
Days before she was reported missing, she went to the police, filed a report describing “unwanted kissing and touching from Barron Brantley”.
Barron wasn’t her boyfriend.
He was her roommate, Jordyn’s boyfriend.
At some point, it was alleged that Alexis was drugged and sexually assaulted.
She went to the clinic, completed a rape kit and it was discovered she was pregnant.
This evidence would have nailed Barron for sexual assault and possibly Jordyn for being an accomplice.
They had to get rid of the evidence so she couldn’t speak or tell on them.
So they suffocated her to silence her.
Stuffed her body in a car.
Drove to Dekalb County and dumped her.
But one of the murderers couldn’t rest.
Questions from police.
Questions from news media.
Questions from Alexis’ parents.
God used questions to create space for the Holy Spirit to agitate them.
One of them called the police and told them where they could find Alexi’s body.
That don’t make sense.
Why Pastor O?
She went to college to have a better life and live out her dreams.
{shake head} She didn’t go to college to be harassed by a sleazy guy.
She didn’t go to college to be drugged and raped.
She didn’t go to college to be suffocated to death.
She didn’t go to college to come up missing.
She didn’t go to college to be murdered.
That don’t make sense.
Instead of planning a graduation party in a few years, her parents have to plan a funeral.
That don’t make sense.
I admit, I was troubled.
I got real quiet when I heard this news.
I was arguing with myself.
I kept saying, “This don’t make no sense!”
I turned the situation.
Jordyn is going to jail.
It still didn’t make sense.
I turned it again.
Barron is going to jail.
Nobody won.
Nobody got away with anything.
I was all out of turns and it still didn’t make sense.
What I didn’t know was God was eavesdropping on my private conversation.
I didn’t have sense enough to ask Him to make sense of it, so He did.
Olen.
You don’t know how many other young ladies may have been victims of this young man.
This doesn’t seem like his first time doing something like this.
He knew what to do.
Had he gotten away with it, there would have been other victimized beautiful young ladies.
{Pause} Listen to what God had the nerve to tell me.
I exposed him.
I exposed his crimes.
I exposed his sickness.
I exposed how the enemy has been working on college campuses.
Sometimes, God will allow things to happen that don’t make sense to you to save others.
We don’t know how many people’s lives were saved because God stopped Barron.
In order to stop him, I had to use someone who wouldn’t be silent.
But would speak up for what’s right!
Paul, in Philippians 1, was saying the same thing.
I know how God used Alexis’ life to save other people.
She had to suffer and sacrifice so that others could be saved.
Paul suffered and sacrificed so that the Gospel could go forth.
If the Gospel went forth, lives would be saved!
God will allow things to happen that don’t make sense to you to save others.
According to A. T. Robertson in Paul’s Joy in Christ, Paul suffered many things.
He was at the center of riots.
He was imprisoned in Caesarea for two-years.
He was shipwrecked on his way to Rome.
He was snake bitten on the shores of Malta.
He was on house arrest.
He survived several attempts to take his life.
And at the time of our text, he was in prison again.
How could so much suffering and opposition happen to Paul?
It don’t make sense to the brothers Paul was writing to.
How could someone saved by God, filled with the Holy Spirit and inspired by Jesus suffer so much opposition?
How could someone on a mission commissioned by God suffer like this?
It don’t make sense.
Paul said, “I know it don’t make sense.”
But despite all that I have suffered through, I want you to know that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel.
Because of what happened to Paul, the good news of Jesus became known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
Paul suffered but the Gospel spread!
Paul said, “don’t worry about me, look at how the Gospel was spreading.”
God has a way of bringing something good out of suffering.
He can bring joy out of pain.
He can bring peace out of chaos.
He can bring health out of sickness.
He can bring wealth out of poverty.
He can bring hope out of despair.
He can bring love out of heartbreak.
He can bring life out of death.
He can bring Good News out of suffering!
Shout, “There’s something good coming out of my suffering!”
Tell someone around you, “There’s something good coming out of your suffering!”
Tell someone around you, “There’s something good coming out of our suffering!”
Two things you need to know about suffering through.
One.
It’s not in vain.
God will never let you suffer in vain.
You’re not suffering for nothing.
Your suffering is strategic.
God is going to use it to advance His kingdom.
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