But What About Suffering? Why a Good God Allows Pain - 1 Peter 4:12-19

If God is all good, all loving, and all powerful — why is there so much sin, suffering, and evil in the world?

In this seventh sermon in our spring apologetics series What About?, Pastor Kent Keller takes on the hardest question Christians and skeptics share. From 1 Peter 4:12–19, Kent walks us through three movements: don't be surprised by suffering, don't be unprepared for what comes next, and don't lose sight of the final outcome.

The Bible was written by suffering people to suffering people. God himself, in Jesus, entered our suffering first — and the pattern that runs through the whole biblical story is suffering, then judgment, then glory. As former Senator Ben Sasse has said, facing his own stage-four cancer: "There are no maverick molecules in the universe." Nothing in your story is outside God's care.

This message lands with Andrew Murray's four anchors for the seasons when you don't know what to do next — and with the gospel reminder that Jesus walked the road of suffering first so that you would not walk it alone.

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