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I grew up in church, worked in church and been baptized but in times I really needed God to intervene, the answer was always NO OR NOTHING. To save my mother and wife who died of the same thing ! Strange but true. Like I said the answer was........NO, when I begged for help. Let me guess that's the working in mysterious ways right ? Anyway, here's my question....... explain this , The confederate states and it's people used Jesus own words to justify slavery and it's seems reading the following one could very well have concluded that indeed they were correct because after reading the following; Colossians 3:22 , Ephesians 6:5 and Peter 2:18 it sounds to me like Jesus agreed with slavery . I am black and I want to know , if in fact we are equal in the eyes of God why must there be one master and one slave ? He even says that if a slave is disobedient in what the master wants , the master has the right to deliver many blows but this is God ? Explain this ..... if you can.
I think Satan is a great deceiver. I’m sure the scripture was manipulated for their benefit. Just remember that any Master over anyone must also be judged by God who is the Master of All. I do not believe God justifies slavery because He freed the Israelites from Egypt by using Moses.
Even though this is an old post, it's New to me. Hopefully someone can answer this for me..... Everyone repeats the line "GOD NEVER GIVES US MORE THAN WE CAN HANDLE" BUT A PASTOR SAID THE OTHER DAY THAT "NOWHERE IS THAT SAID IN THE BIBLE"...... because whenever I heard someone say that I always wondered why someone committed suicide. Something Must have more than they could handle. Even among people that believed the Bible. So it was a question I could Never answer! Besides perhips a mental illness?? I don't know
@@ghostwalker5644 wow. I just watched this video and saw your question. I hope my response is seen by you, and that maybe it helps, regardless of where you are in your spiritual journey at this point. So many messages out there speak to the children of God and not just all humans. Like Romans 8:28 - And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love him...NOT THE WHOLE WORLD. Just for those who love him, and are called according to his purpose. So, my understanding is that when we are saved believers - not even just believers, but truly SAVED, filled with the Spirit - we are able to overcome. God doesn't cause mental illness or cancer or any other disease we humans have. God doesn't tempt us to do wrong, or commit suicide. That is the work of satan. Mental illness is such a tangled web and I believe it is satan's tool. God doesn't make us that way, but when we do not turn to God for protection and peace, we we don't surrender to him and become his children, the evil one wins. I hope this helps. God bless :)
Hello to all my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, it's Anthony in Sacramento, just wanted to ask for all your prayers for me , doctor found something inside one of my lungs and I will fight through this with God by my side and your prayers,I love the peace God gives us when we turn our lives over to his will ,thank you guys and God bless
The more the world grows evil and moves away from God, the more the Light of Jesus Christ shines and the beauty of the Gospel of peace and salvation grows brighter each day...
After the extinction of mankind... After the termination of this particular dimension... "I" will codified the Fate of this Realm... May the Gods remember the Balance.
Suffering thru my life has certainly brought me closer and closer. The more it rains, the harder I hold on to my precious Lord Jesus!! I have seen him come thru again and again! Praise God! ❤
What’s crazy to me is that I had the experiences promised in the Bible when I turned to Jesus, but I did not know what these promises were. I learned about them after I experienced them and still learning them. The book validates itself after the fact and it’s absolutely incredible for me. I was saved about a month ago.
It's easily put down after awhile which has happened to me and then I view stories of inspiration I believe in the big Creator all Lord and savior amen
Love this so much. I've wasted so much time NOT learning how to evangelize and preparing myself when people ask these questions. This is KEY to having the confidence to share Jesus with anyone. Thank you Pastor Greg, my brother in Christ.
I left the Christian Church after 48 years of music ministry at age 72. Too many questions no pastors could answer. Almost to the point of offering money to any one with answers, provided the same amount comes my way when one doesn't have an answer. Just a thought. Anyone game? David Leckrone Appomattox, VA
YES I AGREE 💯... I recently had a conversation with a so called atheist [I say "so called" cause he actually said he didn't know if he was or not 🤷🏼♀️] but anyway, as I was trying to share the gospel with him he kept asking questions and saying that this contradicts this and that and I was getting frustrated but I took a breath and asked the Lord to give me the words to say so I said just talk to God and you will see he's real. I wish i would've watched this video beforehand lol. Your right though it does gives you the confidence and courage to talk to someone that may not know God or believe in God.
We live in a fallen world so bad things are going to happen. Great answers to tough questions pastor Greg. We don't have all the answers on this side of eternity. We look through a glass darkly but the answers will come. There will be joy in the morning. Stay firm in your faith, keep your eyes on Jesus.
So happy for the transition. Praying for your journey! Always let the spirit lead you, and remember that God may not always be on your time, but he’s on the right time. Be reassured by his love for you always
If God told us everything it would he equivalent to explaining how your computer works to your cat. We just can't comprehend. That's where faith comes in. Just trust God.
@@jsmcmxlvii Actually, science does not concern itself with the Bible or religion for that matter and that is a good thing because the Bible speaks of a flat earth or that the stars will reign down onto Earth, for example. Science works outside of the supernatural which cannot be proven via scientific methods and maybe doesn't exist, maybe. The Bible appears to be written by ignorant people at the time which is no surprise as they didn't have access to the tools and methods we have today. We have come a long way as a result of science which provides far more evidence and understanding of the world we live in than religion ever could.
There was a video of a guy giving random people money for rent, and when hi gave money to a man to pay for his rent that day, the guy said that he prayed to God that morning. 😇
Pastor Greg, thank you for doing this excellent video that I will attempt to memorize so that I will always be prepared to give an answer for my faith in Christ Jesus. The facts about the probability that Jesus could have fulfilled His prophecies - wow some calculation! May God bless you for sharing this important work:)
My church did a series called what are the odds. We went through different predictions the Bible made hundreds of years before they happened. God stacked the odds against himself to prove it wasn’t coincidence but true prophecy proving he is the only true all knowing God
I am just now watching this video and 12 years later after he does this sermon , it's still so good. Pastor Greg is such a wonderful teacher, God has truly ANNOITED him and his values and outlook on everything is still the same. I know that sounds crazy, but some preachers/teachers stray away and try to "fit in" with the culture so they dnt make others mad but still try to say they are preaching "the truth"! So I'm glad to see Pastor Greg still teaching the Bible , truth and Word Of God!
I am a believer but I wanted to hear this because I grew up catholic and I am reaching my catholic friends and relatives I spending my time writing about the REAL Lord and JESUS Christ as our Lord. I take my "duty" seriously because most of them don't know the TRUE Jesus, whose real name is Yeshua and even if dealing with multiple sclerosis(MS) I believe that my suffering can be of help to others in some way. Angela Umbria, Italy
One of my best friends who passed aways birthday was yesterday! My younger brother who passed aways birthday is 7 days after it's in 6 days from today! There anniversary days of they're death dates are 7 days apart as well and that is next month in March! They passed away both young in life this month and next month is always kind of tuff they are both always in my thoughts and not a day goes by I dont at least think of the both of them at least once ! I can not help but be happy though because I have my reasons that I know they are both with the lord I wont go into what I know and how I know but I will say that this is all so very very real very true indeed the lord has blessed me my family I am so lucky of a man to know what I know to feel what and how I feel my life has been given a real true reason for being here jesus christ lives and is our true savior God bless all of you
God doesn't "Allow" suffering, it just happens because of SIN, ever since Adam sinned we've been living in a fallen world, full of pain, sorrow, tears, and death. And it's all because of our own FREE WILL that he has granted us.
Amen brothers! In a sense we demanded are own way when we we disobeyed God and then turned around shook are fist at the God who loved us enough to give it to us. But I can't thank Jesus enough for giving his life for me even though i don t deserve it
@@anabeth4745 you're missing the point, the reason Jesus died is to forgive us of our sin, sin is still there, Jesus dying didn't make sin go away, but allowed us to be forgiven of our sin
@@anabeth4745 adam was a perfect human who sinned but God demanded a perfect sinless lamb to sacrifice for sin,to die so people could get the perfection and holiness that God demands to be in His presence. To be redeemed from the sin we get the righteousness and holiness through Jesus Christ and we can come to the presence to our God anytime we want,anywhere when people in OT they had to go through a series of holiness to go through so they could be in the presence of our God but that was once a year. With Jesus Christ we can do that anytime anywhere.
Pastor & Kathy talk their walk, I pray for SALVATIONS before Christ comes. Bless the Laurie family mightily. I will never get over Christopher's death. Your faith has helped my faith, immeasurably more.
Thank you Pastor Greg! God bless you and your family. Loved! this message; I just about fell off my chair when you told that “Jonah Joke!” 😂 Maranatha Yeshua!!! ❤
I was introduced to Jesus when I was 5 years old and started catholic school. We were taught religion every day. Jesus became my brother that day. I never missed a day praying to Him. I am 76 years old now and He is still my “brother”. I don’t practice Catholicism anymore, but I N never forgot all that I was taught about thee Holy Trinity.🙏🙏👍👍♥️♥️
Thank you for this as a life long Christian of over 45 years. It's hard sometimes to find new things about God to teach people. I almost always have the answers to questions but sometimes I don't have them all. I found out afew things from you on where I can be a witness. Thank you.
It was such an honor to see the movie the Jesus revolution and you know that this is your story your life story and what a wonderful witness the movie was in your life and it helps all of us who's struggle I go from time to time as my husband minister was killed in a hit-and-run in 1986 I graduated from high school in 63 so I remember that era, And thankful you produce the movie❤
We go to Church of the Highlands and watched parts of your movie today during our At the Movies service. I just about cried through the entire thing and cant wait to share the recording of the service with people I know are struggling. Thank you Pastor Laurie and Pastor Chris Hodges for all you do to bring people to God!!❤️
We don't ask Christ to come into our life; he is already there! He died for us. He is just waiting for us to believe what He did for us, He then gives us eternal life. John 3:16 is the entirety of the Gospel of salvation.
Thank you for this valuable tips pastor Greg Laury. God bless you for this funny and easy way to bring up such important matter! And glory to God for using you as His vesel for honorable purposes 🙌
Wow, truly amazing! Tons of Wisdom & all Truth in here. I only found Pastor online about a year ago but I have been binge watching his sermons ever since!
Thanks so much for your God blessed work! Too I would add to the question how can God allow misery. I used to ask this too before i was saved and is still the number one counter argument when I try to "sell Jesus" - I prayer and found this amazingly - in 1 Samuel 8 the people asked for an earthly king. God was with the people as a pillar of fire at night and cloud during the day, but they still rejected Him. Samuel warned the people with a list of what would happen to them which sounds much like our lost world today - taxes, armies, greed, misuse, etc. I found out how can we blame God for the issues in our lives today if God is totally separated and rejected. Now this world is full of the worst of mankind's mismanagement can bring, but we want to blame God for evilness breeding viruses in labs, leaving the poor while prosperity preachers live in haughty mansions, greed iof corporations, polution of the earth, etc, etc. etc. God bless and thanks
What an incredible look at the Bible. your have a very beautiful look at how GOD LOVES US . My sons respiratory therapist. He’s kind of in between he see such suffering. I pray the prayer often it’s through the suffering he sees Jesus 49:44 and will understand GOD HAS A PLAIN . Once someone told me look at a tapestry on the front or a beautiful, crocheted scarf, blanket, whatever it looks so perfect that’s what God sees. Look at the back of it all knotted tangled threads not tidy that’s what most of us see. if you haven’t heard that and I’m sure you have a include it in one of your more recent teachings, may God bless you in a mighty way. We’ve already been blessed to be able to hear you speak.
Chasing God has been one of the best things for me....I've learned so much...I've seen how wicked I am and how amazing and good God is.....this world has billions of people on it and 1 jesus.... yet we blame the world on God lol...this world is bad because there's billions of us and not because of 1 jesus....
Most importantly, answer a non believer _HONESTLY._ 1) Don't ignore the question. (Disabling ratings, deleting comments and blocking non-Christians is common on RU-vid, for instance.) 2) Give direct and succinct answers to direct and succinct question. Avoid off-topic remarks and diversionary questions. 3) If you don't know the answer, say "I don't know." Credibility and believability is lost when a response is loaded with unreported claims or unsupported assertions. 4) No one can read minds. Don't tell a non-believer what they think, know, or believe. ("You think something came from nothing.") 5) Don't twist words or conflate definitions. ("Evolution is just a theory.") I hope that helps. Please let me know if any questions!
Thank you. Christians ignore/evade my questions. They simply state their point of view and expect me to instantly agree with them. It's been a year since you posted. Would you like to try to give me answers?
@@brooksellis3891I'm not sure I understand the question, but hypothetically, if any discovery were ever reported on that showed a god existed, _and_ it was shown that particular god sent an unambiguous "Revelation," _then_ that message should be accepted or rejected based solely on its merits. Did that answer your question? Please let me know.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4
God never gives us more than we can handle "With Him"... With Him is the important part. We lost a daughter and it is absolutely more than I can handle on my own. I would not be here today if it wasn't for God carrying me. The goal is that we lean on Him. We wouldn't lean on Him if we could handle life and the trials He has for us.
I am a little late to the party “why does he allow suffering” because God is not in control He gave us freewill and choice! Perfect love cannot control! Control isn’t in his nature
I agree with you, TheBravePoptart, however, I believe God is always in control because He's sovereign and holds ultimate power. Sometimes we suffer--as Christians--because we are "fellowshipping" with Jesus' sufferings (Philippians 3:10). And we as Christians MUST suffer persecutions (2 Timothy 3:12). In our sufferings we realized our dependency on God to see us through it, or how to endure sufferings through faith in Him. Like the old proverbial saying, if we never had any rain in lives, then we'd never grow. We'd never appreciate the good times if we'd never experienced the bad. We'd never know the miraculous power of God if we never experienced deliverance. Neither would we experience God’s mercy if we avoided sufferings. And, yes, sometimes we don’t understand the reasons for sufferings, and that’s when faith is tested. We trust in God’s sovereignty, even when we don’t understand because He’s too wise to make a mistake, and too just to do anything wrong. Have a blessed day.
@@woozified6184, true, God never forces us to come to Him, but the Holy Spirit's influence convicts sinners of sin and draw them to Christ. But, if sinners harden their hearts and refuse to except Jesus as Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit will not force. (Heb. 3:15)
The point Greg makes around the 10 minutes mark where he, and many other Christians claim that "God doesn't give you more than you can handle" has to be qualified with a few terms of appropriacy for the sake of clarity. That statement does not mean you will never feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or feel out of control of yourself or your circumstances. It simply means that the Lord provides a way in or out if you seek Him within the eye of the hurricane, so to speak. The recent Word Faith heresy that's ravaging the land takes that promise literally and evangelizes in such a way that *any* Christian who feels overwhelmed isn't *truly* in unity and communion with the Trinity and something is amiss in their life. The truth is, God will intentionally give you more than you can handle because it allows us to see how fragile, vulnerable, and weak we really are. Do you honestly believe Job was able to handle the massacre of his family, the rejection and cursing from his wife, the loss of nearly all his livestock, and be covered in painful lesions? If ever there was a person in all humanity who was given an ineffable volume of pain more than he could handle, it was Job. Therefore, the saying "God won't give you more than you can handle" is better said, "You can handle anything because of the God you serve". The Lord understands the depths of a human's ability to suffer before breaking into madness completely. We must actively call out to Him for aid in those moments we feel our sanity slipping. In that way, we can handle whatever comes to pass.
Romans 15:4 (KJV) For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
How do you respond to an unbeliever who says, “….but the Bible can be interpreted so many different ways.”? A lot of times you hear this response after quoting certain scriptures from the Bible to them.
Admittedly I do struggle with many of these questions... When you say God never gives us more than we can handle- the problem with this question and answer is it can't be refuted. We can talk about all of the horrible tragedies we've endured and use that as evidence but as soon as one asks about those who couldn't, who committed suicide because they couldn't, we blame it on them for not realizing their strength and for giving up. I do question how God could create us knowing many, any, would spend an eternity in hell...I have a really difficult time justifying this. We didn't ask for this life, to be placed here in this position and to face these battles, did we? I'm genuinely asking because I've been on this spiritual journey and although I believe in God, these questions continue to haunt me. I want to understand but admittedly, I don't & it's a difficult pill to swallow. Additionally, the cruelty in this world. It's too often so much more than I can even fathom, so much so that I literally have to separate myself from the world sometimes. Some will say without evil we wouldn't know good but think about it... that statement is such a fallacy. Why do we need to differentiate? Why does evil need to exist at all?
Sorry I realized I didn’t respond great. So a wise king can’t allow treason. It would endanger his kingdom and those in it especially himself. A good and loving king can’t be (for lack of a better definition) a “barbarian” you must have free will. A just king king rules fair. A righteous king shows mercy. Now God is all these kings. In order to meet the requirements of a good and loving King you must have free will - therefore there must be the option to choose good or evil (our free will). But since evil is from God’s enemy the Devil - evil is therefore treason. Since God is wise, evil is punishable by death. Because all are guilty of evil; all must die for God is just. But because God is righteous- His mercy is shown by the cross. Where He paid our treason with His own life so that those who choose Him can live freely in His kingdom.
@@lyndas460 This doesn't answer the question presented. Why make evil? If you walk into a bakery you can pick anything, free will to choose anything you want. But why put spider eggs in there? Why not something else? Plenty of things don't exist and therefore you can not choose those things. So why make evil? Why make the Devil?
Why the sin???? Adam's transgression brought sin in the world upon mankind. God wants to restore what was lost because of Adam's transgression. God has in creating us in his image given us the privilege of choice to choose our way of life, either with our trust in him or ourselves. He said choose life. It must be your will in agreement with his will that makes the difference in what you receive in life. It's a process of learning and receiving and growing in the knowledge of Christ that will cause your success. It's all in the bible, just receive Christ, confess your beliefs and leave the results in God's hands. Correct your words with his and expect the glory in your life show up. Be blessed!
Before I came to Christ, I met a nice Christian lady (the mother of my then-boyfriend). She talked about her faith and I asked some questions about Christianity, all very respectful. She was able to answer some, but to others she simply replied “I don’t know.” I really respected her honesty and humility, and I continued my very gradual acceptance of Christ after that. So if you don’t know an answer, just say so. If the person seems like they sincerely want to know, you can tell them you’ll research it and come back later to share what you’ve learned. If they are not sincere and are being antagonistic, you may or may not follow up; I would pray for wisdom on that.
