Message by Josh Mutter – October 27, 2024
BIG IDEA: God invites us to find His redeeming presence, even in the hardest parts of life.
1. Suffering challenges our assumptions about how God works.
Psalm 91:9-11 (NIV) If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
Hebrews 12:6 (NLT) For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.
2. Suffering reminds us that there is something wrong with our world.
3. Suffering reminds us that humans have been given responsibility.
Genesis 1:26-28 (NIV) Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image… blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
4. The resurrection reminds us that God can force good to come from suffering.
Romans 5:3-4 (NIV) “… we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance character; and character hope.”
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