2 corinthians 1:3-4
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2 Corinthians 1:3-4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
2 Corinthians 1:3-4“Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of
all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we
may be able to comfort those who are in any
trouble, with the comfort with which we
ourselves are comforted by God.”
Sometimes I am tempted to ask God why He doesn’t do something about poverty, famine and injustice. But I’m afraid He might ask me the same question
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Does the existence of evil prove that there is no God?
Is God really Good?
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God knows the Struggle:
Psalm 40:12“Evils have
encompassed me without number”
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God knows the Struggle:
Jeremiah 15:18“Why is my pain
unceasing? My would incurable, refusing to be
healed?”
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God knows the Struggle:
Romans 8:22“The whole creation has been groaning in travail
together until now”
DID GOD CREATE EVIL?
DID GOD CREATE EVIL?
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GAVE IT TO YOUR
NEIGHBOR
THE PRICE OF YOUR
FREE WILL GIVEN BY
GOD
IS THAT HE
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Dominion of SatanLuke 4:6
“and the devil said to Him, All this authority I will give
Youi, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I
wish.”
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Earth was given to usPsalm 8:6
“You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hand; yiyu have put all things under
his feet”
God is wicked,
cruel and full of wrath
God can’t be good
if He allows evil to exist
Dealing with Sin
Being patient and loving
God is wicked,
cruel and full of wrath
God can’t be good
if He allows evil to exist
Dealing with Sin
Being patient and loving
“Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of
sin.”Henry Ward Beecher
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit1 John 4:8
God is Love
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God knows the Struggle:
Romans 8:20“The whole creation has been groaning in travail
together until now”
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2 Peter 3:13“Nevertheless we,
according to His promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”
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2 Peter 3:9“The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not
willing that any should perish but that all should come to
repentance.”
“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet
discouraged of man.”Rabindranath Tagore
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Matthew 24:6“And you will hear of wars
and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must
come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
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