Hey church family. If you got your Bible, Genesis chapter 3, one of the questions that

probably every pastor or minister gets asked often is why do bad things happen or why does suffering happen?

Or you know, why do things like we're going through right now

with COVID-19, why do those things kind of happen? If God is all loving and God is all powerful,

then how come he doesn't stop these things? It's a legitimate question, the question of suffering.

Now, I think generally speaking, there are maybe four different

reasons theological or practical reasons why suffering exists. And today I want to talk to you

about one of them. That's why we'll go to Genesis chapter three. Now, three of them that we won't

talk about, but maybe just for a second. Sometimes suffering exists because of

people's own sin. I mean, it's just you did something and those things have consequences,

and so we suffer for them. Sometimes suffering exists because of other people's sin towards us. And then

sometimes suffering exists because we have an enemy. And he prows around like a roaring lion

seeking someone to devour. But then sometimes, sometimes, especially in regards to like natural

disasters, hurricanes, I don't know, viruses, things like that, it is because we live in a fallen and broken world.

This was not God's initial intent nor designed.

And he did send Jesus, and one day Jesus will return things to that state where they were,

where there is no crying, and there's plenty of food for everybody, and nobody's sick.

But we see it right here in Genesis chapter 3.

The Bible says this, now the serpent was more crafty than any other beasts of the field that the Lord God had made.

And he said to the woman, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?

Just in case you knew to Bible study, what we find out in chapter one and two,

God says, let us create mankind in our own image, male and female. He created them in his image and

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