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  1. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “God loves us so much that He will never allow bad things to happen to us. Bad things happen as a result of our disobedience and need for correction.” How would you respond to your relative?

    It is true, if you look at the history of the children of Israel, the LORD allow bad things to happen when they rebelled to wake them up and return to Him, He even told them in advance see Lev 26.

    However we also see all the bad things that happened to the apostles, see Paul's list in 2 Cor 11:24-28 and clearly these were not because he had rebelled but because he was spreading the good news.
    Jesus said:

    Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

    What I have discovered in the Word and in my experience is that the LORD does protect us from many things but not from everything, however when bad things do happen He is there to help and support us through the crisis. I believe that what is most important to the LORD and myself is my eternal life not this current life.

    Aa Paul says:

    2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us;
    2Co 4:8 in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;
    2Co 4:9 having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;
    2Co 4:16 For this cause we do not faint; but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
    2Co 4:17 For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,
    2Co 4:18 we not considering the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are not lasting, but the things which are not seen are everlasting.

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  2. Jesus choose fisher men and tax collectors because they were considered outcast. We should know that jesus considers our weakness and if we allow He turns them to be our strength........ Amen

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    • Alone,there is mount Everest to climb but with JESUS CHRIST ascending the mount is descending.Discipleship means self denial,endurance,trust in LORD JESUS CHRIST,selflessness,humility,loving,facing tribulations but constantly being steadfast.God bless us all and imbued us with HIS HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN.

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