Questions Week 1
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When bad things happen to you, is it because of something you did? If not then why do bad things happen?
When bad things happen to you, is it because of something you did? If not then why do bad things happen?
1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
This question immediately brought about this story in scripture. We see a blind man who cannot see and there is nothing that he can do to make himself able to see. We see the disciples asking Jesus more or less this exact same question that was in the box.
Why was this man born blind? What bad thing did he or his parents do for this to happen.
This is a question that has always been brought up for centuries. Whenever bad things happen it is not because we sinned but rather sin is the reason bad things happen.
This is a question that has always been brought up for centuries. Whenever bad things happen it is not because we sinned but rather sin is the reason bad things happen.
This mind set is a mind set that is based on legalistic tendencies.
God is not a god who is waiting to hurt us whenever we fall but rather his is a loving father who is waiting with arms opened to comfort us as we mess up.
There is a theological debate on if God is a Cosmic bully waiting to punish those who mess up. The reality is that God is not a God of wrath and destruction only but more consistently a God of love and care.
Most of the time whenever we sin or do something “bad” we feel guilty that we have sinned. This is the Holy Spirit convicting us that we have sinned against a Holy God.
God also uses the bad things to draw us to him or to draw others to him. In this story of Jesus the people were trying to trap Jesus in a question of who sinned. But in reality the person nor his parents had sinned which caused him to be blind.
So many times we can get caught up in the process of if I do good then I deserve to be rewarded for my good deeds. Or if I do bad things then I deserve to be punished.
God redeems our struggles and our sins in order to bring glory to him alone. When bad things happen there is always a redeemable aspect of it from a family death.
Whenever we look at legalism it is in complete opposition of the Gospel!
Legalism says good things happen to those who are good.
Bad things happen to those who are bad.
The Gospel says that all are bad but Christ is good and there is nothing you can do to be bad good except through Christ.