Suffering and Jesus
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Suffering and Jesus
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Questions about SufferingWhy is there suffering? Where is God? Does God care?
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The Bible and SufferingMark 15:33-34 Christ on the cross
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
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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, condemned
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Why did Christ suffer?“It was the Lord’s good plan...” v. 10
God suffers with us.
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Questions about SufferingWhy is there suffering? Where is God? Does God care?
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Understanding Suffering1. Natural disasters2. Sickness and disease3. Relational sin
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Christ and Our Suffering1. Natural disasters. A new heaven
and earth.2. Sickness and disease. New glorified
bodies.3. Relational sin. Free to love.
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God’s Plan1. Christ, The Suffering Servant
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“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 Boyd
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God’s Plan1. Christ, The Suffering Servant2. Being transformed into Christ’s
image3. The Church, the Body of Christ
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God’s Question to Us
How will you respond to suffering?
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Responses to Suffering1. Ignore it.2. Turn away from God.3. Turn toward God.4. Be part of His plan to address
suffering.
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“Jesus Christ did not come to explain suffering. He came to fill suffering with
His nearness.”French poet Paul Claudel
Respond to God
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