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 Presentation

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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.”

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?

DEFINEEVIL

GAVE IT TO YOUR

NEIGHBOR

THE PRICE OF YOUR

FREE WILL GIVEN BY

GOD

IS THAT HE

ALSO

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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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