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Steve Estes 1/12/25 Steve Estes 1/12/25

Human Suffering and the Sovereignty of God

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Various Passages
January 12, 2025

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1. Introduction

Where is God when we suffer?
The story of Rabbi Harold Kushner
Many evangelicals are like Rabbi Kushner
Some people take the opposite view

2. The causes behind suffering in the Book of Job

What caused Job’s troubles?
God governs nature and its laws
God governs both intentional and unintentional actions of people
God governs Satan and demons

3. An objection... and two answers

The objection
God is drawn to suffering people
God’s motives for decreeing evil are good

4. Summary

What about suffering is God sovereign over?
For what purpose?

Steve Estes 10/22/23 Steve Estes 10/22/23

This Present Age and the Age to Come

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Various Passages
October 22, 2023

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1. Suffering was introduced to the world by the fall of man

There was no suffering before Adam and Eve sinned
After the fall, Earth became a hostile place
God promised the restoration of paradise

2. The present age and the age to come

How are they described?
When will the age to come occur?
- Already, but not yet

3. Why does God heal some, but not others?

The age to come has begun, but has not been consummated yet
Jesus healed to show what the Kingdom of God was like, but never intended to heal every disease of every believer

4. Conclusion

Did Jesus die so believers could live the good life on this earth?
Believers, past and present, have tasted the powers of the age to come

Mike Rudolf 1/29/23 Mike Rudolf 1/29/23

Sanctity of Human Life

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Speaker: Mike Rudolf
Scripture: Various Passages
January 29, 2023

Romans 1:20a: For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

Genesis 2:7: then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Psalm 139:13-16: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

Ecclesiastes 11:5: As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Ephesians 1:4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing the the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.

Sermon Outline

1. Human life is sacred because it is God-created

2. Human life is sacred because it is made in God's image