Allowing Evil and Suffering

COMMENT BY silvia007_ | 4 years ago (as of Feb 2023)
“When you are looking to be mentored and discipled, look to somebody who has suffered much and his faith In God has remained unshaken” ✨✨✨ brutal!!!! ❤️ my heart in tears

COMMENT BY Munesh Verma | 3 years ago (as of Feb 2023)
He simply writes down a poem Ravi has recited in the video:

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added afflictions He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.

When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
Our Father’s full giving is only begun.

Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision,
Our God ever yearns His resources to share;
Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing;
The Father both thee and thy load will upbear.

His love has no limits, His grace has no measure,
His power no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.
– Annie J. Flint

COMMENT BY jerio by | 3 years ago (as of Feb 2023)
i’m in tears because i nearly give up hope of believing due to years of constant excruciating pains…. God my hope is renewed by this testimony……Thanks a lot Dr Ravi Zach

You won’t taste the good humor parts here. You’ll have to see the video for that.

16:33
Then He defeats evil by 1. someday separating good from evil.
You know what bothers good people? Evil!
You know what bothers evil people? Good!
I used to work on the assembly line in Detroit when I was growing up. And I can tell you right there, there’s good and evil people. There’s nobody in-between.
You know what bothered me? The evil people swearing, cursing, telling filthy stories, blowing their smoke in my face.
You know what bothered them? Me reading my Bible, witnessing, passing out tracts.
There’s a solution to that. In eternity there’s gonna be a smoking section and a non-smoking section. You can guess which is which. And no one’s going to be able to blow smoke in your face, and they’re gonna be able to smoke as long as they want to. Separating evil from good forever. The Bible says that in terms of the sheep and the goats; the good fish and the bad fish; separating good from evil.

31:52
God knew that we would never get to the promised land without first going through the wilderness.
God knew that Christians would be like tea. Their real strength comes out when they get into hot water. And God gives us the hot water.
God knew that you can’t get the imperfections to surface unless you put the heat on the coal, and the imperfections surface. And the heat of this world, and the heat of suffering and pain is what makes the imperfections surface.

33:02
You see, God is love, and love always works persuasively, never coercively. Forced love is a contradiction in terms. And the reason there’s a hell is not simply that God is just and must punish evil, but because He’s so loving He won’t force people against their will.
Now, my wife said, “Be sure, and tell ‘m that one illustration,” because it means so much to her. And being a good husband always obeying my wife, I’m gonna now tell ya what she told me to tell you.
If you can’t stand being in church for one hour praising God and loving Jesus, how would you feel if you had to go to church forever? It would be hell, right? Yeah, heaven would be hell for an unbeliever who doesn’t love Jesus; whose heart’s not changed; who didn’t respond to His grace. You can’t force people into heaven.