SERMONS ON SUFFERING

Why Does God Allow Suffering? (5 of 18)

by Stan Coffey

INTRODUCTION: Why does a good God allow suffering? If God is all good and God is all powerful then why doesn't God do something about the starving masses of the world? If Cod is all loving and God has all power then why doesn't God stop the devastation of earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters? Again and again we ask ourselves the question why is there so much suffering in the world? There is much in the Bible, which addresses the matter of the causes of human suffering. I. PEOPLE SUFFER BECAUSE OF A FALLEN WORLD - Genesis 3:17-19 A. The world in which we live is not the world as God made it...

When Suffering Strikes

by Ernest Easley

Today’s Sunday School lesson focused on the cross and the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ! As Jesus became sin upon that cross, He cried out, ''My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?'' And on this Palm Sunday, Christians around the world remember the suffering Jesus went through so that we might have salvation! That He became sin so that our sin would be forgiven! That He died so that might live! Hallelujah what a savior! The fact that Jesus was forsaken by God the Father in his suffering is His guarantee that He will not forsake us in our suffering! Deut 31.8, ''. . .He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear not be dismayed...

How Could a Good God Allow so Much Suffering? (1 of 5)

by Jason Dees

5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely...

Suffering (2 of 2)

by Kenton Beshore

Reverend: We are in a series titled Why. Each week we are addressing one of the biggest objections that people have to Christianity, your friends, people that you know. And these are things that they want to talk about. It isn't just the things that we want to talk about. The goal of this series is to talk about things at your coffee shop, the people that you work with, people that are far from God. These are the questions that they have. And so we've been taking one objection each week and talking about what the Bible has to say. And today we're going to talk about why suffering. Why does God allow suffering and evil? And the objection comes in...

Suffering Is in the Plan (14 of 16)

by Jerry Vines

I'm going to talk to you this morning on the subject ''Suffering is in the Plan.'' Did you know that? Suffering is in the plan.Let me just give you my message in a nutshell right at the very beginning. If you are suffering as a Christian, you should not be surprised. It is a part of God's big picture for your life. That is normally not what we think, is it, when we suffer? Normally when we have hard times, when things go wrong in our life, we really wonder, ''Where is God in all of this and what is the purpose of it all?'' We think it is strange. We think it is surprising, and yet the Apostle Peter says in these verses of scriptures to the day in which...

Is There a Reason to Our Suffering? (1 of 5)

by Ken Trivette

There are two questions that have often left people confused and bewildered. One is, why does God allow bad things happen to good people; and the second is, why does God allow good things happen to bad people. We are often confused to why it seems that good things are always happening to godless people, but on the other hand, bad things are always happening to godly people. Let me try and give you an answer to those questions. As for the reason why God allows good things to happen to bad people, the explanation is in one word, the word mercy. There is no other way to explain it. God is a merciful God...

God, Why Do You Allow Suffering? (5 of 5)

by Jeff Strite

OPEN: A woman who was employed as a dental receptionist told this story: I was on duty when an extremely nervous patient came for root canal surgery. He was brought into the examining room and made comfortable in the reclining dental chair. The dentist then injected a numbing agent around the patient's tooth, and left the room for a few minutes while the medication took hold. When the dentist returned, the patient was standing next to a tray of dental equipment. ''What are you doing by the surgical instruments?'' asked the surprised dentist Focused on his task, the patient replied, ''I'm taking out the ones I don't...

Enduring Suffering (6 of 7)

by David Cawston

INTRODUCTION: Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel put the horrors of his experience into words in a recollection aptly titled Night. He describes the hanging of a young boy suspected of sabotage in the Nazi death camp. First, the German Gestapo tortured the boy. When he would not confess, they sentenced him to death, with two other prisoners soon leading all the three in chains to the gallows. It was a public execution, with thousands of prisoners watching. The head of the camp read the verdict. All eyes, however, were on the child. He was pale, biting his lips. No more than 12 years old - the boy had the face of a sad angel. The three victims...

What If It Happens to Me? The Fear of Suffering (4 of 6)

by James Merritt

I want to talk to you today about perhaps the most thorny issue confronting the Christian faith. In fact, it is the single biggest obstacle for non-christians to overcome in order to become believers in Christ. George Barna, who is the George Gallup of the Christian world, conducted a national survey in which he asked this question, ''If you could ask God only one question and you knew He would give you an answer, what would you ask?'' By far and away the number one response was this one - ''Why is there pain and suffering in the world?'' 2. You see the very question assumes that a loving God and suffering cannot...

Blessing for Suffering

by Stephen Whitney

Throughout history Christians have suffered for their faith because Satan, the prince of this world, uses his position and power to attack them. Few men of this century have better understood the inevitability of suffering than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He never wavered in his Christian opposition to the Nazi regime and their abuse of those who opposed them, especially Jews and Christians...

Three Questions in Suffering (4)

by Zach Terry

It has been said that the minister who preaches to suffering people will never lack a congregation - for each person is either in a storm, coming out of a storm, or about to enter a storm. This is a true as the sun.We suffer because of the fall. We have seen, thus far, in our chronological journey through scripture that God created the...

Suffering, Thinking, Loving, Living Authentically (15)

by Patrick Edwards

Have you ever wondered where this whole craze about fresh or made from scratch, or authentic came from? I mean growing up I felt like we didn't care what was in our McNuggets as long as they tasted good. But now every fast food chain claims to make biscuits from scratch, to have burgers made from fresh, real beef. Every...

Unparalleled Suffering

by Charles H. Spurgeon

It is very unpleasant to our poor flesh and blood to suffer. Physical pain is a grievous infliction; mental agony or spiritual sorrow is still worse. Irons around the wrists can be worn till they fit easily; but when the iron enters into the soul, how it rusts the heart, and eats into the spirit! Perhaps, to some minds, that is the hardest of all...

Sighing and Suffering

by Donald Cantrell

In 1988 Bobby McFerrin wrote a one hit wonder called ''Don't Worry Be Happy'' and the song peaked on Billboard Hot 100 at number one on September 24, 1988. The song is the first a cappella song to reach the Billboard Hot 100 chart and one critic noted it is a ''formula for facing life's trials.''The phrase ''Don't Worry Be Happy'' was...

When You Face Suffering

by Tony Nester

When Jesus appeared to the disciples on Easter they could see the nail scars on his hands and feet and the scar from the spear that had pierced his side during his crucifixion. Why weren't all traces of the cross and its pain removed for his resurrected body? Why shouldn't his heavenly body be perfect and beautiful? We fantasize about...

Joyful Suffering (8 of 8)

by Terry J. Hallock

The progress from the seventh beatitude, blessing for the peacemakers, to the eighth beatitude, blessing for the persecuted, is obvious. Being a peacemaker by practicing justice and love and living by Kingdom standards brings confrontation with a godless culture that will inevitably result in persecution. To will God's will is to be different from those who will their own will. This is the way of the cross. God's will runs counter to the will of humanity and it always will. The two are not the same and never will be. Living for righteousness means breaking into time, calling persons to be disciples of Christ, living by His mercy and...

Suffering in the Flesh (17 of 20)

by Richard Laue

Outsiders Suffering (8 of 9)

by Steve Jones

We're in a sermon series entitled ''The Outsiders.'' The premise of the series is that once upon a time in America to be a Christian was to be an ''insider'' enjoying the favor of society, culture, media and the government - but no longer. Now the church is being marginalized and it's a disadvantage to be a Christian in...

A Suffering Church (4 of 10)

by J. Gerald Harris

t was not easy to be a Christian in Thessalonica. They were having to face persecution and suffering. Their situation explains Paul's choice of words. Notice the word ''affliction'' in chapter one and verse 6. Notice the word ''suffered'' in chapter two and verse 14, and then the word ''persecuted'' in verse 15, and the word ''contrary'' in...