050524..."Is God Good?"...Psalm 34:8 and 119:68

“God, I know you’re not mean, but it feels like it today.” -Sarah Vroegop

Psalm 34:8...“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!”
Psalm 119:68...“You (God) are good and do good.”

Psalm 119:68...“You (God) are good and do good.”
Psalm 119:71...“It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.”

The Sermon In A Sentence: Belief in God’s goodness will transform your perspective on life and strengthen your faith that His plans are always best for you.

When We Acknowledge That God Is Good, We Will See:
-That Our Sin Is The Problem

Genesis 2:17...“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Ezekial 18:20...“The soul that sins shall die.”

Genesis 3:5...“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” -Satan

Romans 3:23...“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”

Romans 3:10-11...“As it is written: ‘None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands;no one seeks for God’”

Romans 5:12...“Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”

John 3:16-17...“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him”

When We Acknowledge That God Is Good, We Will See:
-That Our Sin Is The Problem
-God’s Goodness Displayed On The Cross

2 Corinthians 5:22...“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”

When We Acknowledge That God Is Good, We Will See:
-That Our Sin Is The Problem
-God’s Goodness Displayed On The Cross
-How God’s Justice Will Right All Wrongs

Romans 12:19...“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord’.”

When We Acknowledge That God Is Good, We Will See:
-That Our Sin Is The Problem
-God’s Goodness Displayed On The Cross
-How God’s Justice Will Right All Wrongs
-That God’s Character Can Be Trusted

Psalm 30:5...“For his anger is but for a moment & his favor
is for a lifetime”
Psalm 103:8...“The Lord is merciful & gracious, slow to anger & abounding in steadfast love.”
Nehemiah 9:17...“You are a God ready to forgive, gracious & merciful, slow to anger & abounding in steadfast love.”

Lamentations 3:22-23...“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

Psalm 89:14...“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.”

James 1:13...“God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone”

When We Acknowledge That God Is Good, We Will See:
-That Our Sin Is The Problem
-God’s Goodness Displayed On The Cross
-How God’s Justice Will Right All Wrongs
-That God’s Character Can Be Trusted
-How Good God Is To Us Personally

John 3:5...“Unless one is born of water (physical birth) and the Spirit (spiritual birth), he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

Luke 5:32...“I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance”

2 Peter 3:9...“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

The Sermon In A Sentence: Belief in God’s goodness will transform your perspective on life and strengthen your faith that His plans are always best for you.

Is God Good?
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