Jeanine Banza: Last time, my daughter

Cynthia and myself, we got into a deep conversation.

Jeanine Banza: and I remember we kind of

Jeanine Banza: mixed ideas. We stumble over the question to figure it out.

why do

Jeanine Banza: bad things happen to people? Why does evil exist? If there is a good God! Out there!

Jeanine Banza: So many people struggle over this question, and this episode was the most downloaded.

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Jeanine Banza: in the education and self-development category. Wow! We made it. We could not do it without you, and I'm deeply grateful for you guys.

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Jeanine Banza: You know. The following Sunday, after my daughter

Jeanine Banza: I recorded the introductory episode of why bad things happen to good people.

We went to church, and guess what

Jeanine Banza: the sermon last Sunday was based on that question.

Jeanine Banza: Wow! And I glean from Pastor Ed's code message to come out with some.

Jeanine Banza: and

Jeanine Banza: on how to answer the question. Why? Why in the world do bad things happen to good people?

Jeanine Banza: where the first reason he mentioned is that life is life.

Jeanine Banza: Life is unpredictable, and we can do nothing about it. There is nothing we can do about it. It happened to everybody. Life is life

Jeanine Banza: in today's episode. We will go over that one.

Reason.

Jeanine Banza: and I will let my daughter at some time come

Jeanine Banza: and and give her insight about that question. And before that, I will comment a little bit.

Jeanine Banza: Life happens. Things happen even to good people.

None of us is immune, and it's because life is unpredictable. I already say that.

Jeanine Banza: But let me say this, even though life is unpredictable, God has a perfect and predictable plan for those who trust him.

Jeanine Banza: Jeremiah, 29, verse 11, says.

Jeanine Banza: for I know the plan I have for you declare the load

Jeanine Banza: plan to props for you and not to harm you.

Jeanine Banza: Plans to give you hope, and a future one

Jeanine Banza: has to have faith, to believe. You have to have faith, to believe in this.

Jeanine Banza: we know that God causes all things to work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Jeanine Banza: Roman. 8, 26

Jeanine Banza: we bring up.

Jeanine Banza: So please give us

Jeanine Banza: give your audience your insight about this. What do you think? Bad things happen

to good people.

Ketsia Banza: yeah. I've been hearing this question lately.

Ketsia Banza: and to me, I feel like Bad things happen to good people? because

Ketsia Banza: I think God allows this to happen so that we lean into him more and have no choice but to, like, need him. I think he

Ketsia Banza: He puts us through all these trials and tribulations and just

Ketsia Banza: life, unexpected events and things like that, things that can bring us down to make sure that we're we eventually, you know, because it takes some people a few events to really

Ketsia Banza: you know. Bring them down to their knees and put them in a state of humility. But I think God just is constantly putting us through things in our lives, to make sure that we're in a state of humility, and that we're just continually bowing down to him.

Ketsia Banza: because when we fall down

Ketsia Banza: he rises up. That gives him more room to enter our lives and allow him to take over.

Ketsia Banza: just all the circumstances where we we weren't made to. You know. Endure all of it alone; you know God puts us through things that.

Ketsia Banza:  and that's something. Another thing that people say they say, like

Ketsia Banza: God doesn't put us through things that He knows we can't handle, which is, which is true because we can't take it without him, so we can't do it all alone. That's when we're falling down, you know, hearing the weight of, you know, the crazy things that happen in life and sadness. But

Ketsia Banza: we need to put all that weight on him so that we can be able to get through it. That's what we'll get us through. You know. The bad things in my life are just putting all of our weight on him and

Ketsia Banza: He really wants us to. You know, as we're putting all that weight on him and going through life, you know, leaning on him.

Ketsia Banza: We're leading into his, his knowledge, his word, the Bible, leaning on to that, as you know, our main source of, you know, life, life, knowledge.

Ketsia Banza: and insight, and the more that we do that

Ketsia Banza: the more that we're able to see things, see life, you know, through his lens, through the lens

Ketsia Banza: that you know the way that Jesus lived. That's all. That's the ultimate goal.

Ketsia Banza:  and you know, we're never going to be able to reach. You know that perfect state, because only he is perfect, but

Ketsia Banza: as much as we can. He wants us to lead a life that.

Ketsia Banza: is, you know, dependent on his word. And eventually, we start to see things.

Ketsia Banza: as God. You know. The more we seek God, the more that we that's another thing people say. You know, the more that we like

Ketsia Banza: seek Him and search for Him. The more we find him and everything, so that the things, the more things that life throws at us, which will never end.

Ketsia Banza: it starts to get less. It starts to get a lot less heavy.

Ketsia Banza: and you know, it seems like it's unbearable. We can't do it because we're like, Okay, this is happening. Well, you know God's with me. According to God's word, God will get me through as long as I go, and I'm obedient, worshipping, and sacrificing. You know what He wants me to do.

Ketsia Banza: I know that God is. You know God is going to see this through, and we need to make sure to continue to

Ketsia Banza: give him all the glory, and you know, worship him and exalt him

Ketsia Banza: so that we can endure. You know his presence and all of it. Because it's a lot. But you know he's with us through it all.

Ketsia Banza: I would need to continue to humble myself so that He he's exalted.

Ketsia Banza: And he's ultimately over at all.

Jeanine Banza: Yeah, I love this. And yeah, if I would summarize everything you said, we must focus on God.

We must be focused on God.

Jeanine Banza: Yes, basically, yes, and I love. I love. I love to give the example of Joseph's example, in Genesis. In chapter 39, Joseph's brother hated  him because he was their father's preferred child.

Jeanine Banza: This cost some hatred and jealousy among all

Jeanine Banza: Joseph Brothers.

Jeanine Banza: and to get rid of him, Joseph's brother decided.

Jeanine Banza: to sell him into slavery.

Jeanine Banza: He was taken to Egypt, and eventually became steward to Pharaoh's officials.

Jeanine Banza: He gets so much favor in Egypt that he is the one who became in a position to rescue his entire primarily from famine in Israel. Did you? Do you get that, Ketsia?

Ketsia Banza: Yeah.

Jeanine Banza: Well, this story

Jeanine Banza: Joseph, the son of Jacob, who was called Israel, is a vivid representation of the fantastic illustration

that even though life

Jeanine Banza: become unbearable, become unpredictable. All things work together for good.

Jeanine Banza: for those who love God.

Jeanine Banza: and that's what exactly is said in a Romains,in Chapter 8,

Jeanine Banza: verse 28, Joseph always seems to do the right.

Jeanine Banza: More importantly, he did for the right reason.

Jeanine Banza: he was rejected by his brother. He was sold out.

Jeanine Banza: and it turned out to work

so good

Jeanine Banza: even for his purpose.

Jeanine Banza: Yes. What do you think about this? Joseph, for example?

Ketsia Banza: No, yeah. It shows that.

Ketsia Banza: I think it shows that as long as you're

Ketsia Banza: just being obedient to God, and you're able, you're so toned into God's Word that you can see him and hear him through. You know all the things that life throws at you so that you're not faced, or you're not really like, put down mentally or physically, in any way, because you know that ultimately he's putting you through this for a reason. And that reason is, you know, it will make you grow.

Ketsia Banza: and you know all of us. We ask for God to, you know. Help us to grow, and a lot of things, you know. Help us, you know, overcome this, overcome that.

Ketsia Banza: But the way that God, you know, does that, and a lot of times is he puts us through difficult situations, and a lot of the love that stuff is, you know, tests

Ketsia Banza: But whenever we can overcome those situations by being honed in on God and knowing that God will get us through. That's what you know helps us grow.

Ketsia Banza: I'm just putting us through all those trials, and whenever we ultimately overcome it, you know, that's a growth. And we're just going to bring our whole life.

Jeanine Banza: Hey? Beautiful people of God! It was a pleasure just knowing that you listened to us. We are going to stop here. We just went through the first reason why bad things have good people. Next time we will continue with the second reason.

Jeanine Banza: bless you, and subscribe love, you guys.