If God Is Good, Why Is There Evil and Suffering?
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Genesis 1:27, Genesis 3:1–24, Romans 8:20–21, 2 Corinthians 12:7–10, Job 1:21, 2 Corinthians 1:3–6, Genesis 50:20
Suffering exists because real love requires real choice, and our broken world is the result, but God hasn’t left us in it. He meets us in the pain and uses it to shape us, redeem us, and point us to Jesus.
The Root of Suffering: Free will
The Role of Suffering: Our Sanctification
The Redemption of Suffering: Message of Salvation
Life Group Discussion:
Where do you most often feel the tension between believing God is good and experiencing real pain or brokenness?
Can you think of a time when something difficult actually shaped your character or deepened your faith?
How have you seen God use someone else’s pain or story to impact your life?
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| 0:00.0 | So like the balloon is the icon of celebration. |
| 0:02.8 | It's like they're at parties, they're at weddings, they're outside in the commons right now. |
| 0:07.2 | Celebration. |
| 0:08.0 | Like that's, you see the balloon and nobody has like their balloon from the third grade. |
| 0:11.6 | Like, well, this one was from that. |
| 0:12.8 | This one was from this because, like that's what happens in life. |
| 0:18.5 | It's like balloon one moment and burst the next. It's celebration and then sadness. That's the happens in life. It's like balloon one moment and burst the next. |
| 0:21.2 | It's celebration and then sadness. |
| 0:23.2 | That's the reality of life. |
| 0:25.1 | It's that you're like celebrating one moment. |
| 0:27.3 | You're at the birthday. |
| 0:28.3 | You're at the wedding reception. |
| 0:29.6 | You're at the baby shower. |
| 0:31.0 | And then you get the text message. |
| 0:33.5 | You get the phone call. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey, I want you to know, everybody's okay, but. |
| 0:39.6 | Or the diagnosis, |
| 0:46.5 | or the doctor comes in and says it's worse than we thought. |
| 0:52.1 | Like, that's life. You have these moments, these highs of celebration, and then, like, unexpectedly hits you like a truck these waves of suffering and grief |
| 1:00.1 | and it's like man that that's a hard turn to come out of like celebrating the building and it's |
| 1:04.6 | going to happen and people are going to come and hear the gospel to popping a balloon but it's how life |
| 1:10.2 | happens and you don't see it coming. I want to show |
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