Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People
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Born into typical middle class family ...
Born into typical middle class family ...
I didn’t deserve the hardships I recieved
I didn’t deserve the hardships I recieved
No matter what we suffer, it cannot compare to the glory we will experience when we are his.
No matter what we suffer, it cannot compare to the glory we will experience when we are his.
The Question is wrong
The Question is wrong
Disclaimer: not intended to make light of troubles
Disclaimer: not intended to make light of troubles
Troubles: It’s not rare it’s everywhere
Troubles: It’s not rare it’s everywhere
Yet man is born to trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.
“Mortals, born of woman,
are of few days and full of trouble.
They spring up like flowers and wither away;
like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
We hoped for peace
but no good has come,
for a time of healing
but there is only terror.
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Why do good things happen to bad people?
Why do good things happen to bad people?
As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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Why do good things happen to bad people?
Why do good things happen to bad people?
Because of His love for us.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans
The right answer
The right answer
His great grace
His great grace
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter 1
At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.
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To the crux of the matter
To the crux of the matter
We live in a Fallen world
We live in a Fallen world
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
Ro 8:18
We with creation groan in waiting
We with creation groan in waiting
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 8:22-
Help while waiting
Help while waiting
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
Romans 8:26
We are permanantly vectorious despite present day struggles
We are permanantly vectorious despite present day struggles
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8:
who is foreknew
all of us
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 1:8
Conslusion: 5 Questions
Conslusion: 5 Questions
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Ro 8:
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
The promise:
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As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.