Why is there suffering Where is God Does God care The Bible and Suffering Mark 153334 Christ on the cross My God my God why have you abandoned me The Bible and Suffering Isaiah 52135313 ID: 655185
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Suffering and JesusSlide2
Questions about SufferingWhy is there suffering? Where is God?
Does God care?Slide3
The Bible and SufferingMark 15:33-34 Christ on the cross
“My God, my God,
why have you abandoned me?Slide4
The Bible and SufferingIsaiah 52:13-53:13 (especially 53:2-11) (p. 559)
“The Suffering Servant”
despised
, rejected,
a man of sorrows
, beaten,
oppressed
, condemnedSlide5
Why did Christ suffer?“It was the Lord’s good plan...” v. 10
God suffers with us
.Slide6
Questions about SufferingWhy is there suffering? Where is God?
Does God care?Slide7
Understanding SufferingNatural disasters
Sickness and disease
Relational sinSlide8
Christ and Our SufferingNatural disasters.
A new heaven and earth.
Sickness and
disease
. New glorified bodies.
Relational
sin
. Free to love.Slide9
God’s PlanChrist, The Suffering ServantSlide10
“Only the gospel dares to proclaim that God enters smack-dab into the middle of the hell we create...and suffered firsthand the hellish depth of all that is nightmarish in human existence
.”
Letters
from a Skeptic
by Gregory Boyd
and
Edward
BoydSlide11
God’s PlanChrist, The Suffering ServantBeing transformed into Christ’s
image
The Church, the Body of ChristSlide12
God’s Question to UsHow will you respond to suffering?Slide13
Responses to SufferingIgnore it.Turn away from God.
Turn toward God.
Be part of His plan to address suffering.Slide14
“Jesus Christ did not come to explain suffering. He came to fill suffering with His nearness.”
French poet
Paul Claudel
Respond to GodSlide15Slide16