"John Piper's Scripture Sermons" Does God Intend Evil for Our Good? (Podcast Episode 2023) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
John the Baptist. After this took place, two additional events happened. First, God opened heaven and Jesus saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. Then, a voice from heaven was heard: “This is my Son, Whom I love; with him I am well pleased...
Everything that God allows to come into our lives is purposeful.”[4] Because God is sovereign over everything, allowing some things and causing others, there are no accidental blessings or hardships that come into our lives, and He uses all these things to teach us and to develop our cha...
Or again, God is sovereign, but humans are also responsible. God’s sovereignty is not an excuse for inaction and resigning ourselves to evil and injustice. Sovereignty isn’t the same as fatalism; God usesmeans. Yes, we are to forgive those who sinned against us (Eph 4:32). Yes, God...
The writer to the Hebrews warned his readers, saying, “Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God” (Heb 3:12). After hearing God’s Word, it is evil for a Christian not to believe it. It’s evil ...
We become prideful, forgetting anything good in us comes from Him. And then we turn from Him to false idols like the people in Romans 1: For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish heart...
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 ...
God will one day do something about what we feel so hopeless about. Jesus goes on to talk about who is blessed and even says crazy things like, “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and falsely say evil against you because of me.” That doesn’t sound like ...
These are the things evil kings did, as recorded in the books of Kings, but Aaron was forgiven and continued to be a leader among the people. God’s grace is so powerful! Paul calls those brothers who visit Philippi and, in Christ, “saints.” This is a nice segway into the plural ...
“If there is a God,“why” did He let my mother die?” “If” there is a God, “why” do I struggle all the time? The insinuation from this question is that“if” God is good and in control, then none of these things would be present on earth. Therefore, everything that ...