Why I Believe: The World is a Mess | Pastor Lee Cummings
Channel: Radiant Church
Date: 2023-03-19

Why do you believe? What is your faith rooted in? It’s easy to forget our jewish roots due to Christianity being watered down by our western understanding. WHY I BELIEVE is a brand new series taking us into the Easter season where we'll discuss our belief in God, His word, and how to navigate the world in its current state.

In week two of our Why I Believe series, Pastor Lee dives into why our world is a mess and how we’re supposed to respond in this hour.

Why does God allow evil to exist?

This is trying the answer the question of human suffering.

These questions assume suffering is something God designed and desires.

Just because we don’t know the question to “why” doesn’t mean there is no answer.

We are living in a world of the “present evil age” and it is a war zone, but it was not always so.

God’s original intention was to create the earth as a temple where heaven and earth could live in His creation.

When God created man, he created him as a free will moral agent.

Separation from God and His will led Adam and Eve to hide from Him. God then set a curse on Adam and Eve and on the earth. The great fall.

Sin entered the world through one man but in the same way spread to all - we all inherited sin.

If we want to know why the world is such a mess look in a mirror - it is because of fallen human beings.

If God knew humankind would fail, why would He give us free will?

it is because God wanted love and He wanted to love us.

God created earth because He wanted a family.

The only way God can have a family instead of robots is if the beings He made could choose to love or to reject love.

If there is no choice there is no love.

Our hope is found in the hope that God could have left us in the shadow of darkness, but God chose to intervene by giving us the Good News of The Gospel.