{"id":45095,"date":"2022-10-01T01:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-do-good-people-suffer-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:40:04","slug":"why-do-good-people-suffer-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-do-good-people-suffer-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Do Good People Suffer?&#8221; &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story is told of a teenage boy who struggled with a question that theologians have wrestled with for centuries. He was trying to understand why his mother had to have brain surgery, so he asked his mom, &#8220;Why do good people suffer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She answered, &#8220;Son, suffering is part of living in a sin-cursed world, and good people suffer like anybody else. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m glad we are Christians, because if I die, I&#8217;ll go to a better place and long for the day when I can see you again.&#8221; She then said that she could understand his frustration, but she told him not to put the blame on God.<\/p>\n<p>God didn&#8217;t explain to Job why He allowed his sufferings to come upon him, but through it all, Job found out that God could be trusted to do what is <strong>right<\/strong> (Job 42:1-12). God has assured us in His Word that our Lord suffered on our behalf (Isaiah 53:4-6; 1 Peter 2:24), rose from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20), and is now preparing a suffering-free place for us (John 14:1-3; Revelation 7:14-17; Revelation 21:3-4).<\/p>\n<p>Brethren, like Job, let&#8217;s place our <strong>full trust<\/strong> and confidence in the eternal God of heaven to see us &#8220;through&#8221; life&#8217;s trials and tribulations (Job 13:15; cf. Proverbs 14:32; Psalm 23:4). Through the example of God&#8217;s servant Job, we know that He will (James 5:10-11; Job 42:10).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Why must I bear this pain? I cannot tell;<br \/> I only know my Lord does all things well.<br \/> And so I trust in God, my all in all,<br \/> For He will bring me through, whate&#8217;er befall<\/em><\/strong>  Smith<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Value of Human Suffering<\/li>\n<li>Suffering and the Existence of God &#8211; Summation<\/li>\n<li>Bearing The Marks Of Jesus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story is told of a teenage boy who struggled with a question that theologians have wrestled with for centuries. He was trying to understand why his mother had to have brain surgery, so he asked his mom, &#8220;Why do good people suffer?&#8221; She answered, &#8220;Son, suffering is part of living in a sin-cursed world, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-do-good-people-suffer-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Why Do Good People Suffer?&#8221; &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}