Everything happens for a reason

Whats the reason?

OPEN: Over the past couple of weeks we've been talking about unreasonable things that even Christians believe. Of course, these things that people believe don’t seem “silly” to them at the time. In fact many of these things people believe seem perfectly reasonable… almost Biblical.

13 But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

21 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Struggling with Sin

14 So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.

"Everything Happens For A Reason" seems Biblical... but it's not. Do you see why it's not true that everything happens or Gods reason?

And do we know what God actually teaches about His purpose and promises in our lives?

And that is particularly true of the statement we’re going to be looking at today.

That statement is: “Everything happens for a reason.”

Have you ever heard someone say that?

Have you ever said it?

I think I may have too.

It sounds almost Biblical… but it’s not.

Now, when people say “everything happens for a reason” they mean well.

Now, when people say “everything happens for a reason” they mean well.

Everything that happens is not because of God’s reason. His reason is to have us with hin in eternity. His reason is LOVE

: 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

Anything outside of this is not HIS reason.

Anything outside of that is not HIS reason

Everything is not all part of God’s plan. Our restoration and salvation is though, that is for sure

Everything is not all part of God’s plan. Our restoration and salvation is though, that is for sure

Now, that phrase “everything happens for a reason” is relatively harmless until you run into someone who thinks it’s a good thing to say a funeral.

These are some statements you may hear at a funeral

At the visitation, the preacher stood beside the bereaved husband. And many people came up to the man who’d lost his wife to offer their sympathies.

• "God must have had a plan for this, so accept it."

• Another said, “It was God’s will and we must live by it."

• Still another said, "Somehow God planned this to test your faith!!"

• And still another said, "There is a silver lining in every cloud. You will find God’s reason behind this eventually."

The true meaning for this is definitely unreasonable

They were saying: “Everything happens for a reason.”

That almost sounds pious, until you consider the flip side of their meaning:

“Your wife died… because God had planned for her to die.”

Does that sound like a good thing to tell someone?

Of course not!

Paul clears this all up in for us

God cannot be blamed or accused for all the brokenness of this world.“If God is the author of death, how, how can He be at the same time the author of life as shown thru the resurrection we believe in?

God cannot be blamed or accused for all the brokenness of this world.“If God is the author of death, how, how can He be at the same time the author of life as shown thru the resurrection we believe in…

The next day, he began his message with these words:

"My God does not push old ladies down church steps!!!"

Then he proceeded to explain that God cannot be blamed or accused for all the brokenness of this world.“If God is the author of death, how, how can He be at the same time the author of life as shown thru the resurrection we believe in…

Is God the God of the living, or the God of the dead? You cannot have it both ways.”

So when you and I believe God has a plan for our lives and that He has the power to back that plan with His power. And if that plan is according to the Will of God, then we really can’t lose!!!

Now the FACT that God has a plan for your life goes hand in glove with the FACT that God has given you all kinds of promises.

The Bible is filled with 1000s of promises that God has made.

I could preach for years just on the promises God has made to you and I!

And one of the most famous and beloved those promises is found in our text this morning:

“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."

The point is this: We all mess up. We all sin and fall short of the glory of God. We’re all broken people who do things we’d just as soon forget. Not everything we've done was done for Gods reason. But God can take that which we've done… and make it have an eternal reason. He take what we've messed up and make it priceless.

1. The reason behind most of what is happening our world is due to our own unreasonable decisions

2. We can only truly change things if we are willing to live in the light.

3. Once our sins are exposed it is still our responsibility to keep the light shining on us.