Each day we are awakened to the harsh reality of violence in this world.

On the news, we see the consequences of palpable evil in this world that is undeniable.

The global bloodshed is horrific and often hard to bear.

Causes us to rise up in seeking justice and this proves that objective evil exists.

It's real.

As John Piper showed in his recent sermon, here's what he said.

I want to ask, why do we have a world like this?

Why so much pain, why so much conflict, why so much suffering, why so much death?

It is a horrible place.

It is a conveyor belt of corpses.

Millions of people right now are weeping their eyes out over the sorrows in their lives.

As we speak.

Before I go to the Bible and try to give you pointers for you to think about,

let me tell you something that I think I found very shocking when I realized it.

God has ordained in His mercy that sometimes very unbelieving people wake up to His reality

because of pain, not because of His absence.

For example, suppose you're a professor in a university and you've absorbed a postmodern

mindset that playfully says what's right for you is right for you and what's right for

me is right for me and what's wrong for you is wrong for you and what's wrong for me

is wrong for me and we don't impose our morality on each other.

There is no one absolute right and wrong, good and bad, beautiful and ugly to get squashed

down onto our own perceptions and preferences.

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