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Why is life so difficult Part 1 | Section 1 Episode 2

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 SECTION 1 During these first nine lessons I would like to talk about why we are here on this planet called Earth. I do not believe we are here by chance or by some cosmic accident. It is obvious there is a purpose for our existence and that is what Lessons 1-9 are about. LESSON 2 ─ Why is life so difficult? (part 1) Bible References: Colossians 1:13 (1)Job 1:12-22/Job 2:1-7 (2)1 Peter 5:8 (3)Jeremiah 17:9 (4) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. So far, we have looked at the purpose of life. It is now time to look at a truth God teaches about why this life is so difficult. And what He reveals about this touches everyone. It doesn’t matter what country you are from, what culture you grew up in, what race you belong to, if you are male or female, and even how old or young you are. As you will see, this world is not your friend and there is only one solution that can change the natural chemistry of this difficult place we find ourselves living in. What God reveals about this world is quite stunning. I would like to start with something He says in the Bible that explains the reason for all the difficulties of life, and He also gives the way out of this troubling world we find ourselves in. Here is what He says. “God rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.” (1) I am sure after hearing this you didn’t just jump up and scream out “now I know why I have so many difficulties every day. We need to unpack some of the word meanings so we can understand what God actually said. It's the only way we can comprehend the reason for all the frustration and difficulty we find ourselves living in. I must warn you though, if truth had a similar rating system that movies do, these words of God would have to be rated “R” due to the adult content we are about to look at. So, let’s start with the phrase “domain of darkness.” God says He rescued His favored ones from this world and transferred them to the kingdom of His beloved Son. Don’t know if you caught this or not but God just divided life on this planet into two worlds – one being the world of the domain of darkness and the other being the world of the kingdom of His beloved Son. Two worlds. One that God says we need to be rescued from and the other we need to be transferred into. Well then, what is this domain of darkness? The original word for domain is fascinating. It is all about the freedom to make choices and this freedom is defined as a powerful right. Let’s begin with the basic concept of freewill. It began with God first creating the angels and giving them the freedom to make their own choices. The most powerful of those angels God calls Satan or sometimes the devil. They all have an enormous ability to do things that you and I can never do, but Satan is extremely powerful. He can cause disturbances in the weather, stir up natural disasters, influence large groups of people to do evil such as killing, stealing, and abuse of people. He can even cause sickness. (2) God refers to Satan causing these things several times in the Bible. But probably the most evil affect Satan has on this world comes from his ability to deceive and incite people to go against God even to the level that the Bible says Satan prowls around this world looking for people he can devour. (3) But let’s look at another dimension of this domain and see an aspect of the power of freewill that adds a greater influence over the world we live in than even Satan and his fallen angels have. I am referring to human freewill, and it is mostly influenced by the second word of how God defines this world. I’m referring to the word darkness. The original word for darkness means blindly ignorant. Put these two concepts together and we have a world full of blindly ignorant people who possess the ability to make their own choices every day. And this means the greatest influence that makes this world so difficult is our own human freewill.(4) Another defining aspect of the original word domain is the concept of power and is mainly expressed as authority ─ which is the powerful right to make decisions and that is over your own life, and is the foundation of all governments, business, and any system that makes rules including families. But if Satan and his angels are involved in the freewill process of making rules, the results of those choices can be enormous and far reaching. And Satan’s freewill causes its greatest destruction when it works hand in hand with our human freewill to influence our choices, because it is here that the word darkness has its greatest power to effect people to go against God’s righteous will. Yes, we humans have the right to make our own decisions BUT, God says our decision-making process is influenced by our own blind ignorance. And God is not referring to Satan and his angel’s here. He is referring to the power and right we all have to make our own choices. We humans...
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