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‘Your sins are forgiven’       [ Matthew 9 : 1-8]     How do you view The Problem of Pain and Suffering?  The Bible Isaiah 38:17 talks about pain and suffering like this: “Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish.  In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.”  The Bible says that the great pain and suffering that God allows us is to give us peace.  I don't quite understand.  How can we find peace through great pain and suffering?  It is none other than that, God makes us to repent all our sins through great suffering (vv. 2-3, 5) so that He can put all our sins behind His back and gives us peace.  Why is God doing this?  The reason is because God loves us (v. 17).  C. S. Lewis, in his book “The Problem of Pain,” says that the problem of pain is deeply related to the problem of permanent (continued) human sin.  At the same time, h...

Temptations are ... "Temptations are simply the inner push of our normal desires to overstep God's boundaries.   Often the Bible calls our sins a trespass, which means to go beyond a clear boundary into forbidden or off-limits territory."   (Bruce Wilkinson, "OVERCOMING TEMPTATION")

The Christian 'Those who follow God may have times of the most intense suffering and of feeling abandoned by God.   The Christian must always bear his cross(Matthew 16:24-25).   The Christian is always groaning inwardly(Romans 8:23).   And the Christian is always struggling against sin and the forces of evil(Romans 7:19).'   (W. Robert Godfrey, "LEARNING TO LOVE THE PSALMS")