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Her and her daughter were both abducted at a gunpoint, taken out into a remote place and both were

raped by a man and then he laid him both down on the ground and shot him in the back of the

head, execution style, killed the daughter.

The mother wound up living through it, but she had some physical problems from it.

She was on a television program saying, all things worked together for good, God allowed it, God's getting glory out of this.

Most of us would say, oh no, I don't believe that.

Well, why not?

If God allows it, if God is truly sovereign in the religious sense of the word

to where he controls everything and nothing can happen without his permission, then that means that God's

the one that's in charge of all of the terrorist attacks. God is the one that's causes the

rape, the deformities, the problems in this world.

You can't just interpret it to where it's convenient to your situation

and then say beyond that I believe it's in practical.

It's either true or it isn't true.

I'm telling you it's either true or it isn't true. I'm telling you it's not true. God does not

control those things. God doesn't do it. These verses all they're saying is that

when you come into tribulation, rejoice, not because God brought it. You've got to

resist that tribulation knowing that it is from the devil, but it's an opportunity to put your faith to work and as you work

it, then you are going to get experience and experience is going to give you hope and you're

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