Kingdom Logic 6&7 👑

Two questions answered 1) Why Is There Suffering? And 2) Aren't All Religions the Same?

This is the final message in the Kingdom Logic series, where we have walked through seven questions every believer must be able to answer.

Christianity is not a blind leap.

It is a tenable faith, built on truth, evidence, and reason, and it can be defended.

Every believer needs to know that, and every believer should be able to give an answer for the hope that is in them (1 Peter 3:15).

If God is good, why is the world so broken?

God made a good world and gave mankind authority over the earth. Adam handed that authority to the enemy, and sin, sickness, and death followed. Suffering is the fruit of rebellion and the work of the devil, not the work of a good God.

➡️ Stop blaming God for the devil's work.

Jesus is the exact image of the Father, and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38).

He never called sickness God's plan.

He destroyed it.

➡️ Jesus took back the authority.

He came to destroy the works of the devil (1Jn 3:8), rose from the dead, and gave that authority to His church. Submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you (Jam 4:7).

➡️ We are living in the season of mercy.

An enemy sowed the weeds in God's field (Mat 13:28).

God has not ended all evil yet because He is protecting the harvest, not willing that any should perish (2Pet 3:9).

Every day He waits is another day for someone to be saved, and another day for us to tell them.

➡️ Christianity is not like the rest.

Every other religion tells you how to climb up to God. Christianity is God coming down to you. Every other founder is still in the grave.

Jesus is alive. And no faith has done more good on this planet: children rescued, slaves freed, women honored, hospitals built, nations transformed.

➡️ Don't waste your life.

You were made for His glory.

Spend your life for the King.

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Kingdom Logic 4 & 5

The Validity of Scripture, The Reality of the Resurrection.

There are seven questions every believer must be able to answer, not with a rehearsed statement, but with the logic and Scripture behind the answer.

This teaching covers questions four and five, because they stand or fall together.

If the Bible is a myth, the resurrection is a myth. If Jesus rose from the dead, then everything He said is true.

➡️ The Bible is not a myth.

It was written by eyewitnesses about real people, real places, and real events that history and archaeology keep confirming. It has been preserved like no other ancient book, with thousands of manuscripts behind it.

Christians across every major tradition hold the same 27 New Testament books. And tyrants from Rome to the communist regimes of the last century have tried to burn it, because nobody fears a fairy tale.

They fear a book that tells every person they bear the image of God and every ruler that he answers to Him.

➡️ Jesus Christ is not a legend.

The tomb was empty, and His enemies never produced a body. More than five hundred people saw Him alive. Disciples who ran in fear became witnesses who died rather than deny Him.

Skeptics like James and Paul were transformed.

Paul stood in chains before a governor and a king and declared, "this thing was not done in a corner" (Acts 26:26).

The world wants to call Scripture a myth and the resurrection "your truth," because a myth has no authority and can be kept out of public life. But the apostles preached a public fact before councils, philosophers, and kings: the tomb is empty, and the King is alive.

➡️ We have the evidence.

We have the manuscripts, the eyewitnesses, and the empty tomb. But the greatest proof is not found in a museum or an archive. It is found in lives.

For two thousand years, in every nation and every language, the Word of God has broken chains, healed families, and turned sinners into saints.

The risen Christ is still meeting people today. A dead man does not keep changing lives.

A myth does not raise the spiritually dead.

Jesus does.

Yes, we must always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks a reason of the hope that is in us (1Pet 3:15). But answers alone were never the goal. We need to be transformed by the renewing of our minds through the Word (Rom 12:2).

➡️ We need a real encounter with the living Jesus Christ.

The early church did not turn the world upside down because they won arguments.

They turned it upside down because they had been with Jesus (Acts 4:13).

Know the evidence.

Then live as the evidence.

Christ is risen, and He is still changing lives.

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For God's Glory

Most Christians today believe the glory of God is only something to be experienced, a feeling in worship or a moment in a service. But the early Church saw it differently.

To them, the glory of God was something to be lived out, and that is exactly what the New Testament commands: "Do all to the glory of God" (1Cor 10:31).

The Greek word for glory, doxa, speaks of reputation, honor, and weight.

To glorify God is to live in such a way that others see Him as He truly is.

By His power, we become mirrors that reflect His character, His worth, and His majesty, directing all praise and credit back to Him rather than to ourselves.

Jesus lived this way.

The apostles opened their letters with it.

For centuries, believers built hospitals, fed the hungry, confronted emperors, and crossed oceans, and when asked why, the answer was always the same: for the glory of God.

Then the Church turned inward.

Faith became private, personal, and centered on what God can do for me.

The result is a self-focused Christianity that is failing on continent after continent.

➡️ But this is the truth most Christians have never been taught: when a believer lives for the glory of God in Christ Jesus, their life changes.

Their family changes.

The world around them changes.

They become world changers.

It is time to recover the conviction that changed the world.

Robbie Patterson

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