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.