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How can a Good God Allow Evil?

One Way, Jesus!

PRAYER A - Oh God of Abraham you are true and in you there is no error. When you speak it will be done. When you act no one can stand in your way. You are faithful to your people even when they are faithless. C - God we are so often faithless, we claim your name and yet often live in opposition to your…

Main Point: Evil is a problem for us, but it is not a problem for God—nor does it disprove God or His power and goodness. A Brief Survey of What Constitutes Evil Evil is not a thing, it is a description about the perversion of what is righteous—EVIL is the opposite of Good. Evil is not an entity that…

I was Blind, I Now See Intro Long before Jesus’ birth God gave the Israelite people a heads up that the messiah was going to come. In fact, the first mention of the one who was going to restore things back to the way they should be is found in Gen 3:15 , right after the fall of humanity. Right after…

Kids Talk Slide ‘n Spalsh water park in Lagoa, Portugal Opened in 1986 Considered the best waterpark in Europe Disco River, the Big Wave, The Corkscrew, Tropical Paradise, Aquafeeling Fish Spa Main attraction - The Black Hole Would you like to go? Do you think your family would take you? How could you…

Worldly Wisdom or Godly Wisdom?

Introduction This morning starts the beginning of our new series on the book of Jeremiah. Part of my professional development as your pastor, I am given the opportunity to audit a seminary class. It was back in November that I sat in on the class on the book of Jeremiah. It was wonderful to spend an…

Wisdom and Joy When God created humanity he created us with the capacity to gain knowledge and to put that knowledge into action. That is wisdom. As we talked about a few weeks ago there are really two types of wisdom: General worldly wisdom, like knowing a tomato is a fruit but not putting it in a fruit…

LESSON 7 THE PRESENCE OF EVIL Text Habakkuk 1:1–4 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 2 O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence…

Should we pray for the death of our enemies? We start by looking at the narrative of the Passover and the Death of the Firstborn of Egypt. Then we look at the biblical narrative as a whole and what it tells us about divine judgement, retribution, and oppression.

God uses His power to redeem evil and sin into good.

Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Then Job replied to the Lord…

Evil does not disprove God Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Theodicy) Theodicy - A response to the problem of evil in the world that attempts logically, relevantly and consistently to defend God as simultaneously omnipotent, all-loving and just despite the reality of evil. There are a number of…

Theme: We Can Ask God Questions about Evil. Purpose: To Trust God enough to have honest conversations and share our tough questions with him. Gospel: Jesus is God's ultimate response to evil. Mission: Growing Disciples Trust God to have open dialogue about the tough questions

I Peter 3:15 : “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” Why should we believe in God despite of all the evil in the world? THEODICY ( dike- goodness) defending the goodness…

When I was recovering from surgery a couple of weeks ago, Brother Jay filled in for me. He taught a lesson on the End Times called: Grappling with Radical Evil ‌ The lesson gives us pointers on how to live in victory over the radical evil that surrounds us at the present time. Evils prophesied by Jesus…

Introduction and Scripture 15 So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph. 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and prepare…

Introduction and Scripture Catch them up on the story of Joseph Show family tree picture 4 moms deceit desperation favoritism Joseph has these dreams that he would rule over the family, he is the chosen one of father Jacob. He shares these dreams with everyone in his family 12 Now his brothers had gone…

Introduction/Scripture Good morning again and welcome to FMC. We begin a new sermon series today. Several weeks on the story of Joseph from Genesis. In this story of a family, we see the effects of the fall, Genesis 3 played out through generations of a family. But we will also see how God works in and…