"John Piper's Scripture Sermons" Does God Intend Evil for Our Good? (Podcast Episode 2023) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
2 Peter 2:4-6: Peter also reveals that the Sodomites are suffering in hell for their sins by comparing the Sodomites’ punishment to the eternal punishment of the evil angels. Just as God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell, so He did the same with the ...
to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people” (Titus 3:1-2).
This means we are called to love unborn children and those who abort them. We never condone sin, but we sit with sinners. We never celebrate evil, but we give invitation to salvation. Why do people choose to kill others or commit mass shootings? Why do people make de...
s a problem that needs to be resolved. A scroll needs to be opened. But no one is worthy to break its seals, open it, and look inside. The scroll is crucial to open because it will announce God’s response to evil in the world. It will reveal God’s justice and get it started....
Reflect then how great an evil it is for us, who ought to live so purely as not even to need written words, but to yield up our hearts, as books, to the Spirit; now that we have lost that honor, and are come to have need of these, to fail again in duly employing even this ...
gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame...
did the Bible intend to provide us a good response when we seek to avoid the truth.It certainly did not.If we repeat this question, let it ring in your head as a self judgement, for as we make this claim, we are proving, in a small way perhaps, that our own deeds are evil, an...
If you think the Jews in this scenario are evil, take a long, good, honest look in the mirror. The “sins” of which they were guilty are the same kinds of things we do every day. Every one of us. Every day. The Bible teaches that sin is what made Jesus’ death necessary. Not...
Genesis 2:17 LEB but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.” Genesis 47:29, in speaking of Jacob / Israel, he had lived a full life and at this point they could see his death coming, but...