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Title: Where Is God When It Hurts
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Where Is God When It Hurts?
Topic
- Text Lamentations 315-39
- Rev Colin Wong
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I. Introduction
- Where is God when it hurts?
- How is it possible for a rational person to
believe that we serve a God who loves? - Human suffering is a fact of life.
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II. How Should Christians Respond to Suffering
- How should we respond to suffering which comes in
its many forms? - How will you counsel a hurting soul?
- 1. Know your position in Christ (1 Peter 12
Ephesians 13, 18, 19 318 Romans 510, 1
322 John 112 Romans 81 2 Peter 110).
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II. How Should Christians Respond to Suffering
- How will you counsel a hurting soul?
- 2. Know your God (Psalm 910 1 Samuel 306
Psalm 271, 3). - 3. Know why God permit suffering
- a) Rejoice in the storms of life (Phil
128-31 Hab 317, 18 Acts 1625 2023
27 1 Cor 169 2 Cor 11 Psa 571-7 273
1 Thess 518 1 Pet 16, 7 Rom 828 Job
2310 Jas 12-5).
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II. How Should Christians Respond to Suffering
- How will you counsel a hurting soul?
- 3. Know why God permit suffering
- b) Submit to God in the storms of life (1
Pet 419 Jn 1518, 19 1 Pet 414- 16 223
Job 2310 1315a Lam 331-33). - c) Mature in faith through the storms of
life (Acts 1422 1 Pet 16, 7 Jas 13, 4
Hebrews 1211 Job 2310b).
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II. How Should Christians Respond to Suffering
- How will you counsel a hurting soul?
- 3. Know why God permit suffering
- d) Advance Gods Kingdom through the
storms of life (Philippians 112, 13 422
Acts 8). - e) Encourage others by the experiences
gained through the storms of life.
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III. Conclusion
- I believe a hurting saint can find peace and
tranquility in the midst of suffering. But
before he can experience God, he must know his
position in Christ, know his God personally and
know why God permits suffering.
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III. Conclusion
- Trials of life are good and beneficial to the
soul. Let us not be self-pitied and downhearted
if God allows trials of life to come along our
way. Let us who suffer according to the will of
God entrust our souls in well doing, as unto a
faithful Creator (1 Peter 419). Amen.
