How to Survive When Bad Things Happen

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• Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his
  head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He
  said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and
  naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the
  LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the
  LORD. Job 121

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A Popular Literary Subject
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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)
• Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? (Luis Palau)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)
• Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? (Luis Palau)
• What Happens to Good People When Bad Things
  Happen? (Robert Schuller)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)
• Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? (Luis Palau)
• What Happens to Good People When Bad Things
  Happen? (Robert Schuller)
• Why Us? When Bad Things Happen to Gods People
  (Warren W. Wiersbe)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)
• Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? (Luis Palau)
• What Happens to Good People When Bad Things
  Happen? (Robert Schuller)
• Why Us? When Bad Things Happen to Gods People
  (Warren W. Wiersbe)
• When Bad Things Happen to Other People (John
  Portmann)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)
• Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? (Luis Palau)
• What Happens to Good People When Bad Things
  Happen? (Robert Schuller)
• Why Us? When Bad Things Happen to Gods People
  (Warren W. Wiersbe)
• When Bad Things Happen to Other People (John
  Portmann)
• Why Good People Do Bad Things (Erwin Lutzer)

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A Popular Literary Subject

• When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Harold
  Kushner)
• Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (Brent Top)
• Why Do Bad Things Happen if God Is Good? (Ron
  Rhodes)
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Marriages (Leslie
  Parrott III)
• Where Is God When Bad Things Happen? (Luis Palau)
• What Happens to Good People When Bad Things
  Happen? (Robert Schuller)
• Why Us? When Bad Things Happen to Gods People
  (Warren W. Wiersbe)
• When Bad Things Happen to Other People (John
  Portmann)
• Why Good People Do Bad Things (Erwin Lutzer)
• Lord, Where Are You When Bad Things Happen? (Kay
  Arthur)

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• Bumper sticker
• I AM one of those bad things that happen to
  good people

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• Theologically, the foundational question is If
  God is Holy and Good, how did evil come into
  existence?

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• Theologically, the foundational question is If
  God is Holy and Good, how did evil come into
  existence?

How and why could Lucifer (Satan) in particular
commit sin?
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• Theologically, the foundational question is If
  God is Holy and Good, how did evil come into
  existence?

How and why could Lucifer (Satan) in particular
commit sin? How and why could angels in general
choose to sin?
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• Theologically, the foundational question is If
  God is Holy and Good, how did evil come into
  existence?

How and why could Lucifer (Satan) in particular
commit sin? How and why could angels in general
choose to sin? How and why could Adam and Eve
choose to sin?
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• Angels were created with the responsibility of
  self-determination It was, nevertheless,
  incumbent upon them both to will and to do that
  which pertains to holiness. As in the case of
  man, a period of probation seems to have been
  extended. Gods love for them was that of the
  Creator for His creature but they were assigned
  to that freedom of action which is germane to
  angelic responsibility. Similar freedom was
  accorded to the first man.
• Systematic Theology by Dr. Lewis
  Sperry Chafer

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• Theologically, the foundational question is If
  God is Holy and Good, how did evil come into
  existence?

The very intimacy which God desired from His
creation required that He allow them to accept
or reject Him.
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• A refined question becomes What purpose does
  God have for continuing to allow bad things to
  happen?

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• A. Evil, suffering, and decay are the inevitable
  results of fallen creation and will continue
  until the ultimate redemption of the created
  order. (Romans 818-25)

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• A. Evil, suffering, and decay are the inevitable
  results of fallen creation and will continue
  until the ultimate redemption of the created
  order. (Romans 818-25)
• B. Evil and suffering are often Gods direct
  punishment for the disobedience of men. (Psalm
  106 Romans 1 1 Cor.55 1Tim.120)

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• C. Evil and suffering are sometimes allowed and
  used by God in ways that we cannot and do not
  understand, i.e., there is simply no explanation
  that we are capable of understanding. (John 91)

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• C. Evil and suffering are sometimes allowed and
  used by God is ways that we cannot and do not
  understand, i.e., there is simply no explanation
  that we are capable of understanding. (John 91)
• D. Evil and suffering are sometimes allowed and
  used by God to deepen and mature the
  relationship He has with His children.
  (Job)

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• So our Final and Refined question for the day is
  How did Job, as one of Gods beloved children,
  survive when bad things happened?

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Job 19 23-27
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• Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were
  inscribed in a book! That with an iron stylus and
  lead they were engraved in the rock forever! As
  for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the
  last He will take His stand on the earth. Even
  after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I
  shall see God Whom I myself shall behold, and
  whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart
  faints within me! Job 1923-27 NASB

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• A. Job had an absolute knowledge of Absolute
  God (Job 1925)

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• A. Job had an absolute knowledge of Absolute
  God (Job 1925)
• 1. He knew God as Kinsman

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• A. Job had an absolute knowledge of Absolute
  God (Job 1925)
• 1. He knew God as Kinsman
• 2. He knew God as Avenger/Vindicator

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• A. Job had an absolute knowledge of Absolute
  God (Job 1925)
• 1. He knew God as Kinsman
• 2. He knew God as Avenger/Vindicator
• 3. He knew God as Redeemer

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• B. Job has an absolute knowledge of our
  absolute future (Job 1925-27)

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• B. Job has an absolute knowledge of our
  absolute future (Job 1925-27)
• 1. First, with a resurrected Redeemer

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• B. Job has an absolute knowledge of our
  absolute future (Job 1925-27)
• 1. First, with a resurrected Redeemer
• 2. Second, with a resurrected Body

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• B. Job has an absolute knowledge of our
  absolute future (Job 1925-27)
• 1. First, with a resurrected Redeemer
• 2. Second, with a resurrected Body
• 3. Most important through a resurrected
  Relationship

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• Life is hard, but it is going to get harder

You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars.
See that you are not frightened, for those things
must take place, but that is not yet the end. For
nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom, and in various places there will
be famines and earthquakes. But all these things
are merely the beginning of birth pangs. This
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the
whole world as a testimony to all the nations,
and then the end will come. Matthew 246-8 14
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• The one who believes in the Son of God has the
  testimony in himself the one who does not
  believe God has made Him a liar, because he has
  not believed in the testimony that God has given
  concerning His Son. And the testimony is this,
  that God has given us eternal life, and this life
  is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life
  he who does not have the Son of God does not have
  the life. These things I have written to you who
  believe in the name of the Son of God, so that
  you may know that you have eternal life. This is
  the confidence which we have before Him, that, if
  we ask anything according to His will, He hears
  us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever
  we ask, we know that we have the requests which
  we have asked from Him. 1 John 510-15 

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• Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his
  head, and he fell to the ground and
  worshiped. He said,
• Naked I came from my mother's womb, And
  naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and
  the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of
  the LORD.