WHY> Week 4
Why Is the World So
Messed Up?
The Why
Question can be interpreted:
Is God there? Does He care? Can He
do anything about it?
-- Philip Yancey
How do we
survive in a messed up world?
1.
_____________(a) God is not finished.
Romans
And we know that in all
things God works for the good of
those who love him, who have been called according to his
purpose.
2.
______________(b) you are not alone.
Romans 8:31-32 (NIV)
31What, then, shall we say
in response to this? If God is for
us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his
own Son, but gave him up for us all how will he not also, along with him,
graciously give us all things?
3.
__________________(c) in God's love.
Romans 8:35-39 (NIV)
35Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Shall
trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness
or danger or sword?. . . 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else
in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
4.
___________(d) there will come a day.
Psalm 56:8 (The Living
Bible)
You have seen me tossing
and turning through the night. You have collected all my tears and preserved
them in your bottle! You have recorded every one in your book.
Revelation 21:3-4 (NIV)
And I heard a loud voice
from the throne saying, “Now
the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with
them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their
God. 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or
mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has passed away.”
Answers:
a. Believe b. Know
c. Rest d. Trust
Next Steps
• Make a
decision to invite God into your life today.
Then tell someone.
• Join a
Why> Life Group and join in on the conversation (Meets 3 more times during
this series. Sign up at the Information
Booth.)
• Get
the Why> book in the CCM Word of Life Bookstore
• Invite
people to come on Sundays to experience the Why> questions. (invitations in the Café and Bookstore)
Sources:
Judd Wilhite,
C.S. Lewis and quoted individuals
Recommended resources
available in the CCM Bookstore:
WHY>, Judd Wilhite, Lee Strobel; A Grace Disguised, Jerry Sittser:
A Grief Observed, C.S.Lewis; Disappointment With God,
Philip Yancey
Today’s message is
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