Title: Moving Toward Eternity
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: Revelation 20:1-15
One of the most often questions asked is, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Have you ever asked that? This question evokes in me many thoughts because this question reveals the many thoughts of mankind.
The first thought for me centers on those last two words, "Good People." More than anything else, I brag on the people of this congregation as being good, good people. At the same time, both Mark and Luke write about one who hung that title on Jesus, calling Him "Good Teacher." Jesus bristles a little and asks, "Why do you call me good; no one is good but God alone." It seems to me that Jesus was trying to make a point which the scripture repeatedly makes. It's "There is none righteous or no one who does what is good, not even one." He is trying to point the attention away from "our standard to God's standard of good and bad. Today, we don't like that because, too often, we measure self in light of our own standard and not His.
Now look back at the question, "Why do 'bad things' happen to 'good people.' "Bad things, evil things." Have you thought about where evil came from and how it got into this world? Resoundingly, everyone would say, "Satan, the fallen angel, or better yet, the snake." Let's concede that evil originated with the devil, but let's also admit that Satan had to have a 'pathway' for his evil, and that mankind possessed the power to keep evil from entering God's perfect creation. So we answer the question "why bad things happen to good people" in the Garden. God's 'PERFECT PEOPLE allowed evil into the world." Now that it's here, it is no "respecter of people". Everyone is a target and has experienced hurt, heartache, and grief from it.
Jesus stepped out of eternity into time that we have can step out of time into eternity. In His eternity, we experience eternal life instead of everlasting death. He is the blessed hope that captures our heart, moves us ...
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: Revelation 20:1-15
One of the most often questions asked is, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Have you ever asked that? This question evokes in me many thoughts because this question reveals the many thoughts of mankind.
The first thought for me centers on those last two words, "Good People." More than anything else, I brag on the people of this congregation as being good, good people. At the same time, both Mark and Luke write about one who hung that title on Jesus, calling Him "Good Teacher." Jesus bristles a little and asks, "Why do you call me good; no one is good but God alone." It seems to me that Jesus was trying to make a point which the scripture repeatedly makes. It's "There is none righteous or no one who does what is good, not even one." He is trying to point the attention away from "our standard to God's standard of good and bad. Today, we don't like that because, too often, we measure self in light of our own standard and not His.
Now look back at the question, "Why do 'bad things' happen to 'good people.' "Bad things, evil things." Have you thought about where evil came from and how it got into this world? Resoundingly, everyone would say, "Satan, the fallen angel, or better yet, the snake." Let's concede that evil originated with the devil, but let's also admit that Satan had to have a 'pathway' for his evil, and that mankind possessed the power to keep evil from entering God's perfect creation. So we answer the question "why bad things happen to good people" in the Garden. God's 'PERFECT PEOPLE allowed evil into the world." Now that it's here, it is no "respecter of people". Everyone is a target and has experienced hurt, heartache, and grief from it.
Jesus stepped out of eternity into time that we have can step out of time into eternity. In His eternity, we experience eternal life instead of everlasting death. He is the blessed hope that captures our heart, moves us ...
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