Why Do Bad Things

My wife and I were both in our mid 30’s at the time of our first and only marriage which was during Thanksgiving weekend 1992. We both had successful lives, she being with ING NA of Atlanta Georgia for over 25 years and an Executive within ING NA.

After several years with Wal-Mart and Home Depot I was then starting a promising business that I continue to run today. Primarily assembling new battery packs for several industries including broadcast news, film, DOD, and others. We also recell all brands of dry cell rechargeable battery packs.

Shortly after our marriage we were simply and obviously attacked by Satan. To such an extreme that it is extremely obvious that we certainly have something to give back to the community and Church and are a strong tool for Christ, not yet used.

In this letter we will not go into our personal battles and the attacks on us, our lives, our health, or my business.

Since 1993 we were inundated with comments from well meaning people from different churches who just did not have a clue. Besides those are the more shallow whose comments focus and are limited to, “Isn’t God Great” and dogma.

Well, those apparently have little to give and are of little use as a tool for the work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth. If you never participate in the work of Jesus Christ you will never be under attack by Satan.

Since I was a child I can honestly say, even without a white lie, that I have never questioned God or been angry at God. My wife on the other hand used to be angry with God to an Extreme. Some have come to us and said that it is OK to be angry at God and to Question God. Throughout the Old Testament, and also in the New Testament, Godly people have shown anger at God and or questioned God’s judgment. To say there are examples does not mean those examples are the best avenue. In each occasion each of these people eventually had to deal with God and place their anger or questioning on the table and admit among other things, a lack of faith.

Since I was a child I have always held in My heart the events of Job, and that in itself, created enough fear from me and reverence for God never to be angry with or question God.

But, Why Do Bad Things Really Happen To Good, Godly, People?

The Book of Job is an Excellent starting point but God gives us at least one answer in the New Testament. Because we are a narcissistic society this answer is the most obvious and the most overlooked.

In the New Testament God fulfills the prophecy of the Old Testament, like those prophecies of Isaiah, and sends us His Son in Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Ø Jesus Christ of Nazareth. God in the Human Form of Man.

Ø Jesus Christ was sent of God with an agenda.

Ø Jesus Christ was aware of the agenda and chose to go forward with the agenda of His Father in Heaven.

The Agenda

To fulfill another prophecy that was necessary for the ability of Salvation to ALL humans that would follow Christ in Faith.

Ø To be born of a Virgin

Ø To Live a Perfect Life

Ø To be continually persecuted by His own people

Ø To be placed on a cross in a most inhuman manner in humiliation by His own people

Ø To Die On That Cross in Terrible Pain

Ø To bear what we could not see:

o All the sins of All people then and those not yet born. All.

Ø To resurrect from the Dead three complete days after His cruel death on the Cross

Ø To be witnessed again alive by great numbers of believers and the secular world of that day.

Jesus Christ asked His Father in Heaven if there was any other way to save humanity besides His death on the Cross, which also included a much greater burden and pain, His bearing All of Humanities Sins in His blood.

There was No other way and the Bible states that, because the pain and the sins of humanity were so great, God turned His back on Jesus Christ during this process.

So, what does that have to do with the question; why do bad things happen to good and godly people?

Simply, Jesus Christ, The Son of God, was persecuted from the time he stayed at the temple, (approximately thirteen years of age), instead of traveling on with his earthly parents. The persecutions were obviously too many to list and seem infinite. It is my belief that Christ traveled several continents during this time. Discovery channel.

Jesus Christ was sent to bear ALL sins for all humanity and He chose to face this bad thing head on. God sent His Son Jesus Christ to bear this pain, (Bad Thing), head on.

Since God chose to send His Only Son to bear these Bad things for our salvation

Ø Jesus Christ, Son of God,

Ø Was endlessly persecuted throughout His life on Earth

Ø Never whined

Ø Bore the Sins of All humanity on the Cross

So, who are we to think our lives should be any better than the life of Christ?

Ø God is always good

Ø God has His Own Purpose beyond our understanding

Ø God did not promise us Heaven on Earth!

Ø Jesus Christ Promised us that if we would follow Him, He would have a home, (Many Mansions), for us in His Eternal, Heavenly Kingdom.

We are taught in the Bible

Ask and you shall receive

Seek and you shall find

This talks about the Kingdom of God

In today’s society many so called pastors teach a philosophy that takes these phrases and twist them to mean God will supply great wealth on Earth. And that if you have bad things happen in your life it is because you are not following God’s will. BS.

Months before, what in my opinion is influenced or overcome by that church's internal power board, Preacher Earnest Easley of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta Georgia gave a fantastic sermon series and rebuttal to these false doctrines in his first sermon series at Roswell Street Baptist Church. The Sermon Series was titled, “In the Valley”.

Roswell Street Baptist Church:

http://www.roswellstreet.com/

O yeah, what do you know?

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