Message Title: If God is Good, how can Evil Exist?
Responsive Reading: 1 Peter 3:8-22
1Pe 3:8 ¶
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as
brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for
railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that
ye should inherit a blessing.
10 For he that will love life, and see good
days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no
guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him
seek peace, and ensue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord
is against them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be
followers of that which is good?
14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness'
sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of
the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 ¶ Having a good conscience; that, whereas
they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely
accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so,
that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
18 ¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for
sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once
the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 ¶ The like figure whereunto even baptism
doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the
right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto
him.
(KJV)
Music Worship Leaders:
JW/Sharon Peck
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