Why do bad things happen to good people?

4. Why do bad things happen to good people?

5. Why do bad things happen to good people? • Why do good things happen to bad people?

6. Life is not fair

7. Justice: the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals

8. Justice: the process or result of using laws to fairly judge and punish crimes and criminals • Justice = You Get What You Deserve

9. Ecclesiastes 3:10 (NIV) • He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

10. How Does God Reveal His Justice to Us? • He has written it on our hearts

11. Romans 2:12-15 (NIV) • 12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

12. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

13. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law.

14. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)

15. How Does God Reveal His Justice to Us? • He has written it in His word

16. Psalm 97:2 (NIV) • Clouds and thick darkness surround him; • righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

17. Psalm 89:14 (NIV) • Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; • love and faithfulness go before you.

18. Hebrews 12:23 (NIV) • 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

19. 2 Timothy 4:8 (NIV) • 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

20. Job 8:3, Job 40:6, Psalm 11:7, Psalm 45:6, Isaiah 51:6, Isaiah 30:18, Zephaniah 3:5.

21. How Does God Reveal His Justice to Us? • He has written it in on the cross

24. MAN

25. MAN GOD

26. MAN GOD Romans 3:23; All have sinned Romans 6:23 sin→death

27. MAN GOD sin Romans 3:23; All have sinned Romans 6:23 sin→death

28. Romans 5:8 MAN GOD sin Romans 3:23; All have sinned Romans 6:23 sin→death

29. Romans 5:8 MAN GOD sin Romans 3:23; All have sinned Romans 6:23 sin→death

30. Romans 5:8 MAN GOD sin Romans 3:23; All have sinned Romans 6:23 sin→death John 1:12 Receive Him

31. Romans 5:8 MAN GOD sin Romans 3:23; All have sinned Romans 6:23 sin→death John 1:12 Receive Him 1Peter 3:18 Just for the unjust

32. How Does God Reveal His Justice to Us? • Through the promise of eternal retribution • For the believer • For the unbeliever

33. 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 (NIV) • 10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 

34. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 

35. 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. 

36. 15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.

37. Hebrews 9:27 (NIV) • 27 ...people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

38. How are we to respond to God's justice? • Choose to embrace Jesus today as your Savior rather than meet Him as your righteous judge later

39. John 5:22-24 (NIV) • 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

40. 24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

41. Refuse to take revenge when treated unjustly knowing God and God alone is judge.

42. Romans 12:17-21 (NIV) • 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.  

43. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.

44. 20 On the contrary: • “If your enemy is hungry, feed him;    if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

45. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

46. Meditate deeply on the reality of the "judgment seat of Christ," the promise of spiritual reward and loss

47. 2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV) • 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.