Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? || Pastor Bianca Olthoff

now to those that are watching online are here for the first time welcome to TF hoc and this is a great week for you to be here why because we are kicking off a new series so you came on a great week you haven't missed anything you are already caught up this series is entitled life's toughest questions and for those that have ever asked God why did this happen or maybe you have questioned the goodness of God maybe you've doubted in certain seasons of life or maybe you are searching in this season of life or maybe maybe maybe maybe you're just trying to get through life guess what this series is for you because we've all been in that place if we're honest we've all been in that place where we have asked the why when how come questions and so to make sure that we are running the gamut of everyone in the room I know this series is for everyone because I believe that there's a part of our heart that's gonna be touched than that so maybe maybe you have come in here and you feel spiritually unresolved you feel like I really don't know what I believe and I'm not sure I believe what you're gonna tell me welcome bring your doubt bring the skepticism I may not be able to handle it but I know God can and it's backed up in Scripture Jesus love when people questioned him in fact we're gonna go and read about that in a narrative that were gonna go through today maybe maybe you're in a season we were just like kind of following Jesus like maybe go to this church may go like that Church so if it doesn't interfere with my brunch schedule then I'll go our watch online cuz that's where I just really feel the presence of God and my bad you know here today no shade but my hope is that being here amongst God's family worshipping God together that there's a hunger that's renewed inside of you like I want to go deep with the specific community I want to be real I'm so tired of online stuff hey if this could be your home welcome home and lastly for the Jesus junkies in here I have mad love for you you have been here since week one notices the volunteers extra credit front row extra credit yes listen as we go through God's Word um this is the fun week because um when we were talking about the series and what we were gonna talk about my first week and I knew that I was going to teach the questions we received online plus the questions that we all kind of wrestled with ourselves was why do bad things happen to good people it was like IIIi don't know Oh what how do you want me to address that are you sure I heard spent probably the last four eight weeks I feel like I have been such a nerd going in and researching the five kind of theological camps that all kind of explain this and I'm like you want me to break this down in this amount of time but all things are possible with Jesus so y'all don't worry y'all gonna be here for like 45 hours okay you're gonna go to your lunch plans and it's gonna be fine but the reason why this is so important to us is because one we see questions asked throughout the Bible and our church is not afraid of asking those hard questions as well the second thing that I want to create and we want to create as a team as a staff as a church is a safe place for us to process our own faith an honest space where we can admit I don't know the answers but I know someone who does and if I know the answers I'm gonna go back take a look at Scripture take a look at what God is showing me and this is important to me because I grew up in a Christian house with Christian parents I went to a Christian Church I went to Christian Church camp and houses about Christian ease okay if you don't know Christian ease it's like we say things like how are you I'm blessed and if you know this one please play along but God is good all the time and all the time oh look at y'all are fluent Christian needs to and I questioned I just want to pause and asses what happens when it feels like he's not see cuz we can come in here with our church faces we can come in here with our high heels and our makeup we can come in here and be like please God amen oh yeah thank you sister I'll pray for me rough season going through the desert where's the desert friends where's the Desmond how we think about people who are walking in as non-christians thinking what are you guys smoking here's the thing we could talk normal in the house of God and the reason why this is so important to me is because I loved my my conservative upbringing absolutely loved it but I as a young child the child that we used to go to when I was a kid I lined with bumper stickers and cards that literally in the church parking lot had bumper stickers that said God said it I believe it that settles it but in my faith journey I have come to see the beauty and asking really hard questions and giving ourselves the space to explore what we believe and we have to be willing to go to those deep scary places otherwise our faith is gonna remain shallow and if our faith remains shallow when the storms of life come and we enter in life's proverbial fires your faith is not gonna last so in my own personal journey when we went through a loss of a job I was like God do you even care we just moved into this house or the number of years ago when my mom was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer asking the question God are you there when my uncle my favorite only uncle lived his life totally from birth with a mental disability you ask why uncle Ivan why him God addiction has ravished my family generationally asking the question kids you stop this cycle you're god you're big you're good god is great all the time and all the time God is great or good I changed that whatever but even even in looking at generations of even just two three four generations away from me looking at physical abuse psychological abuse sexual abuse emotional abuse asking the question God why did this happen but I've never felt the weight of the evil of humanity against another human being until I started working for a global anti trafficking organization called a21 and as chief storyteller for the organization I remember my whole job was to read and listen and listen and read and communicate via technology in social media and the website and and of the vision of the organization as well as the lives that were being transformed through a21 but I remember sitting at my desk going over these cases and I was stopped by one particular in case now there are some days were amazing where like there's a child rescuing of the throes of sex slavery in Thailand or a group of men rescued out of slave labor in Bulgaria amazing but then there are days when you're like do you even care do you know that this is affecting over 20 million people God why don't you do something and intervene now one case so shook me and so shocked me that I remember pausing because it took my breath away I read this one girl's story and I remember thinking how could this happen i resonate with her story specifically because as a first-generation American there's a part of me that's always looking for those that are chasing after a new life a sense of hope a sense of redemption to break the cycle of poverty out of your life by also enabling your family to break out of cycles of generational poverty and this woman's story black letters on a white page stopped and halted me because this woman took a three-month dream job in Europe that turned into a three-year nightmare set in sex trafficking she was trafficked and sold daily the things that she had encountered the things done against her against the hand of human beings against another human being would make you cry it would give you nightmares it would give you my tremors because that's what it did for me if you've ever stopped and raised in angry fists at heaven and said why did this happen you're here on the right week because this week we're gonna lightly unpack this very very very huge topic in fact Ravi Zacharias in his book why suffering this is the number one question that will keep people from believing in God why do bad things happen to good people turn with me to John chapter 11 that's the narrative that we're gonna go in and I'm gonna read this over us jesus said to her I am the resurrection of the life the one who believes in Me will live even they die and whoever lives by believing in me will never die do you believe this the reason I started out with this passage in this story is because I believe it this is gonna lay a foundation not just for today's message but for the series as a whole in the next six weeks I'm gonna first before we haven't a message I have to lay some ground foundation so again you came on the right week and we don't lay a spiritual foundation our faith will fall so we must be willing to go in and lay that spiritual spirit spiritual foundation the question of why do good things happen which is me what do bad things happen to good people it begins with our pain that question is birthed and starts in pain but the answer lies in our worldview well what's our worldview the thing that the way that you see the world the way that you define the world and how you live so we ask these questions your answers will come from your worldview so let's break this down as the foundation because we're gonna talk about money we're talking about sex next week we're talk about relationships we're talking about the silent years when God doesn't talk to you with all these questions that will be addressed but if we don't have a biblical worldview then you probably won't believe anything else and that's okay I firmly believe that you can come into the house not even believing and you might just get your own worldview determined I'm believing the Spirit of God will open up your eyes open up your ears open up your heart so that you will allow the Spirit of God to penetrate your heart to give you a new mind to give you new eyes to give you a new heart and awaken you to the call that God has for your life so in a Christian I have one Pentecostal with me thank you miss Marie in a Christian worldview it's a Bible based Christian view worldview it is God centered as in you were created on purpose for purpose by God for God and then in Genesis chapter 2 sin enters the world and with sin is brokenness and suffering and death and illness because of our sin we need a Savior Messiah Messiah who has come in to right our wrongs to redeem our pain to cover our shame to forgive us of our mistakes because this worldview says that Jesus is our Savior he's promised us not only the free gift of salvation but the promise that heaven is our home the salvation that we receive on earth begins to do a work in our heart to prepare us not just for loving people like Christ here on earth but prepares us for our home in eternity speaking of which in a Christian worldview we do believe in heaven by and large most Christian camps believe in a heaven where where earth is just temporary earth is just we're just camping in some tents now how many know I would like a five-star resort instead of a tent okay I don't know some people are like I like camping oh you're crazy this might not be the church for you okay so you can like camping that's awesome but would you want to live in a tent in all seasons for the rest of your life our Christian perspective believes that heaven awaits us and so because our heaven is it heaven is our home and God is the father a good good father that answers us with our questions with our doubt with our skepticism then our father is preparing a 10 eternity for us to bring wholeness and peace and redemption the Jews referred to this word as Shalom it's a goodness of everything in harmony therefore God laid out a standard of living and morality and we abide him by it we agree to it basically to make this short God gives us this life we abide by his loving guiding rules if you were to say a non-christian view asked what this starts with the same question why do bad things happen to good people in a non-christian worldview it is man centered therefore we are not created by a good God Oh a Cuby fill in the blank it could be a big bang it could be primordial ooze it could be we've always just existed and I want to pause on that for a second because if you believe in the Christian worldview that there is the divine creator we have to admit we believe that by faith but see here's the thing most people aren't telling us if you do believe in BIGBANG in a primordial ooze in whatever we've always existed you have faith that too and because there's gaps in everything science provides great pieces that can add to this puzzle piece but it doesn't give us all the answers science doesn't give us all the answers and we've been duped to believe oh well for science can't prove it science can't prove a lot of things that doesn't mean it's bad doesn't mean it's not good it means that we believe that by faith and so non-christians have to deny the existence of God and something else has to come to play in mind now whatever you believe whatever your belief system is you believe that by faith so let's go back in a man-centered worldview there is no divine creator therefore whether it's Big Bang primordial ooze whatever created there is no standard for morality or capital-t truth as Lacan would tell us there is none of that so if there is no truth then there is no sin because who determines what's wrong and if there is nothing that's wrong we had no need for a savior if we have no need for a savior there is no need for Jesus if this is all that there is we've got one life to live there is no heaven there is no hell earth is our home and if earth is my home hey I'm gonna live it up I got one life to live I'm gonna turn up this is all that I got and a person who lives under this mindset is earth is my home therefore my goal in life is to be happy but first Peter biblical worldview first Peter tells us that heaven is our home and our goal here on earth is to live lives that are holy not saying that happiness doesn't matter happiness matters to God there's time the Scriptures speak about happiness and being blessed but what's happening is that we want this duality but of a man centered worldview and a God's in a row of you and we want both you know where we want like I want God's blessing and what heaven is my home but I also want Earth doesn't home cuz it's pretty dope here and I kind of like it I just wanna be happy so we're stuck in this tension of being happy and holy and holy and happy and we just want it all so instead of God's world God's rules versus man's world my rules we get God's great earth but my rules so this is why it is so important that we understand our worldview you answer all of life's toughest questions out of your worldview now we dive into this I want to ask you this question if we live in a man centered worldview there is no God that determines what is right or wrong what is the compass of morality our feelings our feelings determine what is right and wrong but what if you feel like this is right and you feel that that's wrong who's right our barometer is based out of the Bible you don't have to agree with me welcome to TF hoc we're okay with your doubt and your skepticism and I'm praying the Spirit of God will fill the gaps for all of my lap praise the Lord okay and when you know your worldview it will empower you to start making decisions because your understandings your questions your decisions how you spend your money who you marry where you live who you hang out with what you eat what you drink where you go guess what determined by your worldview whether you believe it or not whoo okay now that we laid the foundation y'all bout to break a sweat up in here now that we lay that foundation there are so many scriptures in the Bible that talk to us about people who have going through pain and loss and suffering when my favorite characters is a man named job and I so desperately wanted to to go through that story but I had a loving person on my team aka my best friend Brianna that was like don't do so much Bianca so I tend to do the most and not in the good way okay and so I decided to kind of rein it back because it's 42 chapters and y'all would have been here for six weeks so I decided to route this in a narrative that we just discussed a couple weeks ago through the story of Lazarus and if you were not with us you can watch it on YouTube to lay a foundation but most of us are familiar with the story of Lazarus and so because of that foundation because most of us are familiar with that I'm believing that we can go deeper faster can I get an amen turn with me to John chapter 11 and we're gonna breeze through this because we are familiar with this context I just want to pause for a second because the homeschool illiterate dorky kid who couldn't read write her spell at 12 broke down about 200 years of biblical theology and worldview in six minutes tell me why God won't do it the shed I don't need your applause but can you I'm like thank you Jesus I'm gay towards me to John chapter 11 because there we got some two crazy woman Mary and Martha and Mary and Martha they're good friends with Jesus and they have a brother Lazarus we called them lazzy because it's a friend of God and you know make nicknames for your special friends you know so they say hey go tell Jesus lousy is sick so obviously if Mary and Martha are telling Jesus their friend is sick it is with the assumption but Jesus is gonna do something about it of course Jesus is their friend he's gonna run over touchless touch Lazarus Lazarus gonna stand up with the praise banner and a hanky pull out his shofar and be like Barbara I've been healed but if you were with us that didn't happen in fact we are told that when Jesus gets the news in verses 2 and 3 of chapter 11 that he does nothing he stays right there and so by the time Jesus does wrong to Bethany he picked us up in verse 21 Martha comes out to Jesus and says Lord if you would have been here my brother would not have died how many times we found ourselves in the similar position God if you why didn't you where were you and her question is screaming out the statement the question that all of us asked at one point or another Lord why didn't you come why didn't you change this you say that you're good you say that you're loving you say they all know what you say that you're all-powerful where were you so let's go back to the question why do bad things happen I'm gonna pause it right there not just why do bad things happen to good people cuz here's the truth bad things happen to bad people right so let's pull it out let's go to 30,000 feet why do bad things happen I'm gonna make this as simple as possible because in all five theological camps that address this huge topic they've been discussing not for tens of years but hundreds of years thousands of years why do bad things happen to good people because of our biblical worldview the simplest answer is one word if you're taking notes sin can you please say sin say it like you a sinner yeah Justin that's for you brother yes we all know your testimony turn around for Jesus yes sin because sin entered the world in Genesis chapter 2 the perfect harmony between God and man was broken and in their disobedience there was consequences not just for them but for generations after that but my fear is if we just say that be like awesome it's in praise God amen let's go is that it addresses the intellectual and even theological answer but it does nothing for the emotional because most of us are asking that question out of pain so in our short time together I want to not only give us and talk about the topic of sin coming in and breaking Shalom breaking perfect harmony with God the consequences of that I want to give us practical handles on what to do because all of us will encounter pain and suffering and trauma at some point and we could leave it there and say God said it I believe it that's it but who does that help you know nobody right and so what I want to do right now is I want to go through the story of Lazarus because it not only tackles the head issue it tackles the heart issue as well God is not cold and distant and far away he's up close and he's gonna walk through people through pain and trauma so there are three things I want to highlight in the narrative of Lazarus and because we are familiar with it I'm not gonna be reading exegetically which is verse by verse nope did that dumb that praise God put a stamp on it I'm gonna give you verses to jot down so that y'all could go and study that and I put them on the screen for my heathens that didn't bring their Bible okay in John that was funny okay John chapter 11 look at verse 33 when Jesus saw her weeping the Jews who had come along with her also weeping he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled if you're taking no I want you to jot down your suffering does not indicate a lack of love on Jesus's part your suffering does not indicate a lack of love on Jesus's part the word that we just read for grief can be translated as anger and even rage he is show moved by sadness that he's angry have you ever had a loved one go through loss or pain or and you're angry you're angry for them I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand so you don't leave me hanging is there anyone thank you if it can be honest in the house of God because if where else are we gonna be honest and you can lie to yourself but you can't lie to God we've been in these moments when we have a rage and anger where were like are you kidding me why is this going on that is what Jesus was feeling he was so moved that he took the most biggest emotion that we see all most of his life other than the cross the biggest emotion in the shortest verse of the Bible in verse 35 turn with me there it says Jesus wept he was angry because he knows this isn't the end this isn't the end but I'm with you in your pain and this is the difference between Jesus and me if I'm Jesus I'm a raw black to the tomb like a G like what up just get ready y'all dry your eyes here's a tissue for your issue there's a miracle coming get ready get ready get ready hallelujah thank you Jesus you better believe that but Jesus that's why I'm not Jesus praise the Lord but Jesus he doesn't none of that he weeps in their pain he knows Lazarus is going to come out the tomb like a mummy like popping out like yes I'm alive he knows that but he weeps with them and this is the point please hear this the fact that Jesus did not come alive or did not come in time to save Lazarus did not mean that he lacked love for Mary or Martha or Lazarus when my mom was going through her terminal cancer her treatments her surgeries the cranial incisions the Amaro reservoir that deep dripped chemotherapy through her brain 24 hours a day as she laid on the couch writhing in pain she couldn't talk she can only moan I remember thinking God what are you doing God are you punishing us what did we do wrong why is this happening and going through pain might feel like a lack of love but it's not the truth remember in a non biblical worldview we are ruled by our feelings but when people go through hard times we are prone to ask the same questions Lord why didn't you do this why couldn't you intervene didn't you come through the question is is that we see Mary and Martha they knew that Jesus loved them where do we see that in verse in verse three of chapter eleven they said go tell go call Jesus so the sisters sent word to Jesus and said Lord the one you what the one you love is sick they knew that they were loved the question I have for you is do you know that you're loved do you come to God with that that hutzpah that that excitement that faith that believe that ganas that's like God you love me the one that you love is sick the one that you love is hurting the one that you love is in pain and the confidence that we need to hold on to in the midst of trial and trauma and pain is this our confidence is in the Word of God and I know that sounds like a placebo pill like okay well you gotta believe that Bible as a fundamental truth absolutely but just play with me for a second because jeremiah 31:3 says i have loved you with an ever lasting love john 3:16 says for God so loved the world that he sent his son in first John 4:8 God is love there in the moments of crisis you will respond in one of two ways one you're either going to judge Jesus's love through the filter of your circumstances or judge your circumstances the filter of God's love and the first thing that he wants to see us us to see in this passage is that his lack of coming did not indicate a lack of love or compassion and the second thing is this for those in Christ your suffering does not end in your death look at verse 4 when he heard this jesus said this sickness is not unto death no it's for God's glory so that God's son might be glorified through it this on the surface looks false because we know Lazarus dies but he knows that he is seeing on top of the narrative on top of the story he sing over their head saying this story will not be the end of Lazarus life in fact if you look at the exchange between Jesus and Martha in verse 23 he says this your brother will live a and again on the surface that looks really insensitive yeah those really annoying people at Christian funerals we're like someone dies me walk over me like why are you crying here's a tissue you're gonna see them again I hate those Christians I really do like can you get some manners please what we're in pain and don't give me Romans 8:28 I've memorized it I got tattoo of it all things weren't for good I know don't tell me that just be with me in my pain let me express myself I'm sad and I'm hurt and I'm angry so Martha responds in verse 24 I know that he's gonna rise again Jesus I know he's gonna rise in the resurrection of the last day jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life the one who believes in Me will live even though they die he's saying ultimately you don't have to be afraid of death the sting of death has been removed and death is not the final verdict the second thing that we need to remember in this is that our suffering doesn't end in death that illness and sickness and pain and trauma will not end in an ultimate death and perhaps we want to pause on this moment and just realize and keep all of this in perspective I know this is hard to understand so you won't be okay because heaven is our home I do in light of eternity how would we live our lives you might not have the faith to believe in heaven and a real God but I do and so I'm gonna I'm share what I believe that God has pointed in in this moment that there that because of the act of sin and I'm not just talking about Genesis chapter 2 Adam and Eve because we could be like Oh curse you Eve I'm Bob childbirth hurts curse you Adam I gotta go to work in the morning we can do that but uh Joseph okay your church faces came on today all right I'll just say me the carnal me my sin is I said every week I said every day I want to I don't judge me don't give me the side I sin every hour and some days if I'm turned up I was sinning every minute you know like I'm talking about that sin but my hope is that even in my ignorance and my foolishness and my doubt and my skepticism that's not the end of this story our suffering which is 0.3 is part of the grand and beautiful story that God is telling us that God is telling through us look at verse 4 again Jesus heard this the sickness is not into death no it's for God's glory so that God's son might be glorified through it God through our pain and our sickness is creating something beyond our reason to comprehend Tim Keller and his book reason for God says we need more than knowing God is with us in our difficulties we need to have we need a hope that our suffering is not in vain there is an ancient culture in Mesopotamia and our history major so bear with me that in ancient Mesopotamia they were known for their beautiful clay works they would create on a wheel a beautiful Vaz a bowl an urn and then we'd spend time making sure that was absolutely perfect then they'd walk it over to a fiery kiln and then they were put it in there and it would harden and calcify you'd come back out and shellac it and it's beautiful and then then they would break it then they would take pieces of broken pottery and mount gold in the fiery furnace using gold they would take these pieces and one-by-one put the piece together again in fact the artists at that time said that the true art the true beauty in fact the true worth of that pottery clay wasn't when it was whole but it was when it was broken and I find it interesting that their modality of artistic endeavor was gold because in first Peter first Peter chapter 1 it says that our faith is like gold refined our faith is like stronger than gold that has gone through the fire and dare I say that it is that gold our faith that is going to put the pieces of our life together and in doing so in our breaking and in our shattering when our lives go through the fire that there is a beauty that the world will and be like how did you survive God will take our suffering and our brokenness and turn it into something beautiful our suffering is not because God is cold and a far away but maybe maybe maybe just play with me maybe he's trying to develop something new in you and I know that sounds so hard to hear that sounds so hard to hear because when my mom was dying with cancer my grandmother passed away tragically in a hospital my family is currently going through mental illness deep clothes ones you want to look at the world and be like I don't want to be broken I don't want to be shattered I want my life to be whole and perfect and pristine I live in Orange County we don't have time for that we get Botox that no one knows a real age and we get nipped and tucked so that everything is perpetually hi I'm perky just like where we live but that's not true look at verse six when he heard that Lazarus was sick he stayed where he was two more days isn't that odd that he waited he waited so that he could do something in them and our story will include breaking and shattering but it will lead us to see God in a new way to see us in a new way and and will it take faith to believe that my brokenness will reveal a new faith in me yes Philip Philip Yancey gives a beautiful understanding that changed me in his book disappointment with God when he said is God silent I answer that question with another question is the church silent we are his mouthpiece his designated vocal cords on this planet it's about others sing God's glory check out verse 45 therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and it's see what Jesus did believed in him are you willing to go through pain so that someone else can experience God before you answer that and it's okay for you to say no before you answer that may be for those that have been around Church for a while you might be familiar with something called cardboard testimonies if you're not it's this beautiful practice and exercise where someone could tell what God has done in their life through a flip of a cardboard I remember sitting one time and there was in fact two people that came up for this cardboard testimony on one side of the cardboard it says your before Christ when you flip it it's your life after Christ there's music people cry it's this great moment but I remember this one time specifically two people came up and a woman who's frail and ill and ill held up a sign that said I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis this year and man standing next to her held a sign that said I was her agnostic doctor that diagnosed her and he flipped over his sign and said while watching her and her husband go through this illness it has brought me into faith and I got baptized this month and then she flipped over her sign and said worth it the question that I asked is what if our pain leads to a different sense of purpose for your life what if our brokenness and shattering as painful as it is and as hurtful as it is and I'm so sorry for those that feel like their life is like this but maybe maybe maybe we aren't alone in feeling this and it's okay if you feel this because you want to know something our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane fell to his knees sweating blood and anguish because he knew that there was a crucifixion and torture that would take his life and he even said God take this cup away from me basically God please don't make me go through that I don't want to go through that please I know it's to come but not my will your will God I don't want to do this but I will do this take this come from me but I will do it and on the hill called Calvary Jesus was pierced for our sins he was whipped for our transgression he was beaten for our guilt he was humiliated for our shame and when he screamed screamed out it is finished he thought of you and he thought of me and you might not believe that but John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish and what Jesus asked Mary in verse 26 do you believe that's the question I ask you today do you believe that God loves you in the midst of your pain do you believe that he is suffering with you can you believe that God is in control if you remember his love in his pain in his darkest hour you won't doubt his love for you and your darkest hour I began this conversation with a story of a young woman who was trafficked and I read her case I read it and I listened and I listened and I read it and her pain and her trauma caused me to question all the why questions but her story also has refined my faith in a way but nothing else has even to this day after hearing about this girl and reading about keeping tabs on her for several months I I soon discovered I know that she was in the care of a 21 and she was in the shelter and working with her but but here's the thing many survivors don't bounce back this is not Liam Neeson trafficked you know they have gone through severe trauma and pain and many of them take their own life many of them actually go back to their trafficker at a Stockholm Syndrome because that's all that they know so so when I found out there was gonna be a global gathering from all of our at the time 12 offices around the globe and we were gonna be gathered in Greece I thought to myself oh man I can just meet this girl I just want to see how she's doing and I remember walking into our Global Gathering it was on a Sunday morning and we joined them for church service in a room very similar to this on the stage much like this and I secretly hoped that I'm gonna see this girl so imagine my shock imagine my aw as I walk in and I see the girl that I had read about her name her face her statistics the black letters on the white paper I saw her standing on a stage like this singing Hillsong song glorious ruins and she led us in worship and the lyrics say this let the ruins come to life for the glory of your name rising up from the ashes God forever you reign and my soul will find refuge in the shadow of your wings I will love you forever and forever I'll sing let the ruins come to life and as she led that room it was almost as if all of these broken pieces were raised up for us to look at her life and say wow what God has done in you has built up my faith what God has done for you transform my face the girl that makes christiany that was raised in a Christian household a Christian weird and married a Christian pastor who is angry at questioning that to look at her faith and know God is not punitive he is powerful God is not far away can we take a cue from her can we lift up the broken pieces of our life and take God for the glory of your name rising up from the ashes God forever you reign and my soul my soul will find refuge to the shadow of your wings I will love you forever and forever I'll see but the ruins come to life hi my name is Chloe I'm one of the worship leaders here at the father's house Orange County thank you so much for joining us today be sure to subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single serve

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Keywords: Why do bad things happen to good people?, Do good people go to heaven?, Life's Toughest Questions, Will I go to heaven if I'm good?, after life, Bianca Olthoff, Matt Olthoff, Christine Caine, Elevation Church, Steven Furtick, Mike Todd, Transformation Church, Female bible teacher, church in OC, Orange County Churches

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Length: 37min 45sec (2265 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 01 2019