Luke 12:49-13:9, What Time Is It?

Luke chapter 12, beginning from verse 29 to chapter 13, verse 9, hear the word of the Lord. I came to cast fire on the earth and wood there were already kindled. I have a baptism to be baptized with and how great is my distress until it is accomplished.

Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

He also said to the crowds, when you see a cloud rising in the West, you say at once a shower is coming and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say there will be scorching heat and it happens.

You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make it an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge and the judge hand you over to the officer and the officer put you in prison.

I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny. There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices and he answered them, Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered in this way?

No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those 18 on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?

No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish and he told this parable a man had a fig tree and planted it plant a man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came seeking fruit on It and found none and he said to the vine dresser look for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none cut it down.

Why should it use up the ground and he answered him sir? Let it alone this year also until I dig around it and put on manure then well If it should bear fruit next year, well and good, but if not you can cut it down.

May the Lord add his blessings to the reading of his Holy Word. Well, what time is it? Check our watches. Daylight savings times, right a little confused. I don't know if anyone suspected to come for Sunday school and showed up at some anger service.

I Don't mean that though. I don't mean exactly exactly what time Ecclesiastes says. I'm talking about a kind of time like Ecclesiastes talks about that there's a time for every matter under heaven a time to be born and a time to die.

A Time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted a time to kill and a time to heal. Time to break down and a time to build up a time to weep and a time to laugh. Time to mourn and a time to dance.

What time is it in your life? Is it the time to study? Is it May Lynn time to study spring break? Maybe as a time to work a time to save or invest or spend. Maybe you're having the time of your life and you do it all over again this is the best time you think college or Independence or a young family or the children now, they're finally reaching independence that are out of the house or Retirement.

It's the good years the time to enjoy what you've worked hard for those fleeting moments. Is that what time it is? Well, what time is it? Really in 1992 American scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote a much-discussed book entitled the end of history in the last man.

He argued that now that the Cold War was over and Western democracy had decisively prevailed that we had reached the end or the goal of history that that is humanities battles of ideas or it's just literal battles with monarchies and theocracies and communisms and fascisms and Fighting and debating which is the best?

Which which would preside over this time of this era? That that was all over now. We had reached the end liberal democracy had prevailed and It was though almost everyone recognized that now in 19 there in the 1990s.

This was the time of the dominance of democracies there and he said there would be no more bloody battles. No more people would be fighting to try to introduce something else. It was peace and freedom forever.

And it's sort of what they say. Now I've been the so-called the culture wars, you know, you one of the phrases you don't want to be on the wrong side of history. Right that time that time when people believe that is over with they'll say this time they say is a time of equality or the full legitimacy of.

Whatever they are proposing usually something about sex or sexual identity old ideas about natural law, you know the created order. Even that there are objective facts about the biological purposes for sex or one sexual identity.

Those ideas are now. Not for this time. They say and if you cling to them. Certainly if you cling to what your your Bible says about sex you you'll find, you know, you're out of sync with the times. This is isn't the time for that anymore.

But I wonder though. How good they are people talking about what time it is now how good they are really at knowing this knowing the times. About what the time it is. Because after all just about three weeks ago Mary and I stood at the base of the World Trade Center towers.

Now two waterfalls sunk into the ground. Where the dream of the end of history remember no more bloody battles they said. That went up in ashes. So what time is it really? Well still the idea persists despite all those ashes that we've entered a new time a time of freedom to.

To be whatever it is you self-identify as and and God is there that now they are saying to support you. You however you use your freewill God's there behind you or maybe he's trying to gently encourage you to use a little differently.

But he's not gonna interfere with that. He is a judgment-free God. Don't you know like we have in the recently released movie the shack the shack declare in the shack God declares quote. This is God speaking according to the shack.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose. There's a purpose statement to punish sin. It's my joy to cure it. He says now we've just been looking over the last two weeks at the passage in Luke chapter 12 verse 32.

Where Jesus says it's the father's good pleasure. It's joy to give you. Jesus said remember the kingdom. It's his pleasure to give you the kingdom now that would be curing sin. The kingdom will cure sin, but who is you?

Jesus says it's my father's good pleasure to give you. Who are the people to whom the father is the father's good pleasure? To give us the kingdom and. Can he cure sin? Without punishing it. Will he cure sin without punishing it now?

In the shack Jesus says there are many Buddhists and Mormons and Muslims who love him and all roads all roads might not lead to heaven, but The God there says that he'll travel any road to find anyone including.

You know to a shack in the in the woods to talk to a guy like Mac Who's the main character in the book who is distraught that one of his children has been murdered. So what what time is it then in the shack?

Well, it's a time to forgive for peace. Tranquility all sweetness and light like apparently God forgives and seeks everyone even if They don't repent. Because he doesn't judge sin. He said right. Is that what time it really is?

Well, we can hope that the people who are reading and watching the shack are interested in knowing Jesus. I Suggest that the best way to do that Not by reading a fiction book, but by reading about him in the nonfiction book the perfect book About him and in here and part of that book we see.

What time it really is in five parts? First it's time to choose. Then it's time to be aware. It's time to settle. It's time to repent and it's time to produce. So choose be aware. Settle repent and produce first.

The Fire Jesus Came to Cast and the Baptism of Judgment

It's time to choose and Jesus begins in verse 49 Declaring I came. Here's a purpose statement what a purpose statement from Jesus himself for why he came to cast fire on the earth. Probably not what we might expect Jesus would say but that's what he said fire is for judgment like earlier in Luke Where John the Baptist said that every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Here, I think not only a fire that will consume and destroy all the fruitless trees. That you know that those that don't produce a life of good works, but also a fire That separates, you know gold silver and jewels.

From the dead wood. It's it's a fire that divides by fire does fire divides things. It's fire separates. What is flammable? Like wood. When what is not? Like gold and Jesus's desire is that it were already kindled.

Right flyer fire. Separates ever seen a house is completely burned down. What's probably the one thing that's left standing. Smokestack right chimney because it's made of brick and the bricks don't burn it separates and Jesus's desire is that it were already kindled.

It was it was kindled he kindled that fire at the cross and the resurrection when Jesus became not Not first a conqueror who would put the nation Israel back on top again but there he became a suffering servant who would bear the cost for our sins and then rise for our Justification so that we can be right with God now.

He has to do that because Unlike in the shack God is holy and just and as such must punish his rebellious creatures for their sins. Sin is not just excused. You know kind of winked at by an indulgent Papa.

I let it slide. But it is an offense Against a holy sovereign Lord that must be dealt with if we're to be right with him. Now Psalm 53, which we read today describes describes us. Before this fire describes what what we're like, we're not just all these lovable creatures that God can't resist.

He says there were foolish were corrupt were Abominable, which is just a fancy way of saying disgusting. There's something this is repugnant to God. We are by nature denying and deep our parts of our hearts and left to ourselves.

We deny God himself if not our words, maybe we're taught to say we believe in God. But it just is the way we think and the way we live we live as as if there were no God. You know that there is no judgment for how we'll live.

You're saying that there's no God when you live like that that there is not one of us left to ourselves who does good. We are indeed totally depraved. That's how we start. But the good news is that the that this fire and God could just leave us all like that and have us all Flammable and burn us all up in his fire.

But the fire isn't just for destroying us all as we deserve. Because we're all exactly what Psalm 53 says we're like, but the fire amazingly is to say. Some those that he has called in this chapter in Luke chapter 12 and verse 4 his friends.

My friends Jesus said or whom he called in verse 32 my little flock for them. He will save them now here. He wishes the fire was already kindled. So that that separating judgment would already begin. Remember remember this whole context.

Chapter 12 begins with how crowds are just flocking to Jesus. He's still he's at the pinnacle of his popularity. There's so many coming to him there. They get out of control sometimes they're stampeding each other and you know, there are a lot of people at this time who look like they.

They believe in Jesus, you know, like the man coming wanting him to mediate between him and his brother about an inheritance. They look like they believe in Jesus, but when this that fire is kindled. You know when he finally makes it to Jerusalem and there is arrested and beaten and crucified.

Then we'll find out how many of those followers Were for real. Well, Jesus actually looks forward to this. This is the amazing thing about this. No, say he says that how I wish it were kindled. I'm waiting.

I'm pressed. I'm an anguish until it happens. He's driven for that. So as horrible as it sounds he's looking forward to the crucifixion and of course the resurrection getting that through. But for the and he's does it as well as a book of Hebrews says for the joy Set before him not because of the pain and the shame that he'll have to suffer but because it was through that Pain and shame, but it's through that that he bought his friends his little flock.

And so he says in verse 50. I have a baptism to be baptized with. And baptism literally just means to be to immerse. So Jesus is saying I have something I have to be immersed in. I'm gonna be dipped into.

I'm gonna be soaked into. Something Jesus saying that he is to be immersed into God's wrath. His ministry began with the baptism when John the Baptist immersed him in the Jordan River and now his earthly ministry Will conclude with a baptism in God's judgment on sin as he who knew no sin.

Became sin for us so that we could be right with God and then he says at the end of verse 50 How great is my distress and literally the word is there help. I feel so pressed. Like you ever felt just everything in you is is Pressing you to do one particular thing.

That's what he's saying here. How great is my distress until it is accomplished and by saying accomplished? He showed that his baptism into God's wrath the crucifixion his death on a cross. That wasn't just an accident.

So it's something that was kind of totally out of control or you know. He left it all up to human free will so God couldn't he didn't want it to happen. But he had to let it happen. It wasn't just letting the hatreds of politicians and mobs get out of hand it was what he came to do.

It was his goal. He's accomplished his destiny to be fulfilled. He's already set his face says in chapter 9 as Luke takes his turn Down this road that we've been following set his face to go to Jerusalem and to kindle this fire.

And now he tells us that he's nearly impatient. For it to happen to get there his death and resurrection will instigate a crisis of division on earth. That will separate his friends his little flock from the nations.

You know who seek Money and food and clothes and stuff and he is now driven to ignite that fire. Now how people respond to the death and the resurrection of Jesus is what separates all of humanity all people.

It's the dividing line. That separates people now Muslims they deny that Jesus was they deny actually Jesus was even crucified that because for them, you know for people who think that that God's righteousness comes by human work and by Human wrath that it can be forced by the sword the idea of a Crucified Savior makes no sense.

This is foolish. Now Buddhists don't think our problem is sin. That cuts us off from a holy God. They don't really believe in sin. They don't really believe in a holy God. God who is distinct from us who is over us who judges us?

And so if that's the case, you don't believe in that so Jesus didn't need to die for our sins. He's just kind of a guru out there. They may say he's another God. Today people like like I guess like fans of the shack probably most of them are just confused though.

But they don't believe that God is holy and that he judges sin. Do they he's kind of like our friend. The cross then from their view they believe in it, but it's it's a kind of a sentimental Demonstration of love.

It's just a way of saying I love you this much. But why did you do that for me? I didn't need I didn't really need it. I mean whether you give me a million dollars, you know, that would be the way people should think it's a sentimental thing.

It's not a necessary sacrifice to reconcile God to corrupt abominable sinners. They think but the true Jesus here says that he is pressed by his mission to reconcile His friends his little flock. To the father.

Now perhaps his disciples were shocked by this, you know. My purpose cast fire on the earth and he asked and he's asking in verse 51 do you think that I have come to give peace on earth and They probably would have thought yeah, of course.

You're the Messiah and you'll give you'll give peace on earth because you'll vanquish your enemies and you'll lead us to a new golden age a time of Peace and prosperity as we put down the Romans we put down our all our enemies and we'll put the Israel back on top again.

It's a time of what time is it now time of conquest? Or maybe. Probably not but maybe they were they believe like in a Messiah like the one in the shack, you know. The New Age maybe like a hippie Messiah.

The New Age astrologers who think that Jesus is the guru to bring a time of peace harmony and understanding. Sympathy and trust abounding no more falsehoods or divisions. Golden living dreams of visions mystic crystal revelation and the mind's true liberation anywhere and recognize that song.

Yeah, right the age of Aquarius. I thought he would be the one he probably the only one the age of Aquarius. That's the vision right that's why we're entering now peace tranquility for everybody. God above all and again in this view God above all.

You know, not only not just the hippies want it, but God himself above all is trying to broker that harmony and that understanding. He's trying to bring it on the earth. If you'll just adjust your thoughts so we can all have it get the right crystals on your net.

Whatever you got to do and to that Jesus answers with it though. You think I come to bring peace on the earth? He says No. Just emphatically clearly. No and then emphasizes. I tell you. Right. He's saying pay attention.

I'm telling you this. This is this is important and in contrast to what you thought but rather the opposite. Division. What time is it? It's time for division in verse 52. From now on from the time the Lord Jesus said this to this day 2017 in one house there will be five.

Divided against each other. Three against two. Two against three doesn't matter, you know, maybe two or four Jesus. Maybe three are for Jesus, but they're often divided and those who choose him. His friends his little flock.

They will because of that choice. Be divided from those who don't choose him and I'll go right through families often that division. Jesus here is eager to spark. Will cut right through the middle of families now in our day.

Hardly, you hardly ever hear Christian leaders telling us that we might have to choose between Christ and family. I don't know. I've hardly ever heard it. I've heard Christian leaders tell us we got to choose Christ over our pets or over our sports or over our whatever our money.

Go down the line almost anything. But you hardly ever hear him say you might have to choose between Christ and your family if it comes to it. It's just it's like we're not supposed to say that but indeed.

You know in fact most of the time Jesus is presented as someone who will add to your family life. If you get saved you'll be have a better family and they say. There's so much there's some Christians seem to believe that whatever is good for the family is therefore good.

You know, that's being for the family and being Christian are the same thing they and. You know, that's not what Jesus here says though. He says he'll divide sometimes often families and what they're talking about is not what is called family ism.

It's the cult of the family and that's not what Jesus came to bring. Jesus came to bring a choice. Between him and every other loyalty every other love. Even family now, it's great. If you never have to make that choice that if everyone in your family is is truly Christian.

But in deep in your heart you still have to choose which you will love and serve. You love your family as a way of Loving and serving the Lord. Or is your family a competitor? To the Lord an idol. Now your decision for Jesus will set you apart and those who don't choose him, you know, they're not just gonna accept that choice casually.

You're like you might imagine, you know, okay, you like Duke and you like the Tar Heels and we some I like state. But we can all get along right despite these differences. Of course, Virginia, I'm gonna forget Virginia.

Sorry. You know, but for this choice for Christ. It's not gonna be like that. They may say it for a while. You may get along for a while. But if you think they do. Really wait until something happens until you come to a real conflict until they decide.

Until until you decide to follow the Lord maybe into baptism and they object. They don't want you to do that. Or until your following of Jesus means you you love his little flock. Which means that you don't support them separating that flock by race that tearing of the flock or you?

Are you won't participate in family functions that regularly take you away from the church Jesus a little flock see what happens then. Or until you really show that you're a disciple. See what happens and they're really not one.

Maybe when you're laying up treasure in heaven. While they want you to sacrifice Church laying up treasure in heaven for business. Or maybe they're infected with hypocrisy and they're doing their religion to be seen and Notice what happens when your sincerity when you're doing yours just to be seen by the father and that exposes their fraudulence.

When your faithfulness exposes their Self-serving rhetoric. Or maybe when a family member dies and maybe that this is from for some in a culture here in this in this church a family member dies and you won't stand With a Taoist priest and burn jawsticks to your ancestors.

Christians face that right now or when your friends don't understand why you won't mix Intoxication when you will go along with intoxication or with sex outside of marriage. See the division that opens up then.

That's the fire. That Jesus kindled at the cross and it's still blazing today. And so now is the time what time is it now is the time when you have to choose? Which side of that divide? You'll be on. Now many aren't aware of that.

Many think that kind of religion, you know a little mild Jesus. Well, it helps them adjust as Good members of families or As neighbors as citizens it helps them get along. Helps them be better family members better citizens and being a follower of Jesus should give us a meekness.

That so far as as is it up to us that we can live at peace. But it's not always up to us society. Family sometimes governments will. Others whatever they would try to force us to make decisions for or against Jesus and if we aren't aware of that We're not aware of what time it is.

You know what time it is. People in Israel could usually easily predict the weather. Nice things about Israel if the clouds were coming off the West off the Mediterranean Sea. It's time for rain. If the wind is blowing from the south off the desert it's gonna get hot.

They could know what times are coming. We all want to know what times are coming. Don't you so you can. You can plan ahead. Will it be cold tomorrow? Will I need a coat? Will it rain to bring it get an umbrella?

Farmers and others like the others who work outside would like to know long-term weather so they can plan. What's the season gonna be like? The farmer farmers almanac predicted for this winter this this winter works.

Almost at the very end of right now that it would be in the southeast quote. This is what this was supposed to be penetrating cold and very wet. Okay, they got that completely wrong. We had a very mild winter so much for knowing the natural times now here Jesus at least at least you know that at least you people know how to predict the weather.

We can't even say that about us. Here scolds them for knowing in Israel how to predict the weather, but they didn't know how to interpret the present time. They can discern the signs of the weather but not the signs of the times.

What time is it? They thought it was. The time coming is almost here soon. To overthrow the Romans to rebel and impose God's kingdom by force. They couldn't see the obvious signs of what kind of Messiah Jesus was now today.

We're a little different over and over again. People think it's a time of tranquility. You know a piece of everybody getting along the end of history the age of Aquarius harmony and understanding of a God.

Accepting everybody and judging no one. So we're all just one big happy family. All right. That's what time many people think it is now and the result of that is. That people think it's not a time of urgent decision.

There's no judgment coming soon. So you nothing to have to really agonize over to decide. You don't have to choose which side of a crucial divide you're going to be on. It's a time of laxity most people think now.

Since God is a judging and certainly is it cutting a sword to divide then? We have no crucial decisions to make. Do we no matter what you decide God's gonna accept you. Anyway, we have plenty of time.

There's no deadline. C .s. Lewis wrote in the screwtape letters that it's you know Satan and his demons were planning their strategy for attacking the world that was hearing the message of salvation. You know Satan's got his demons all together and they're looking for ideas.

How are we gonna counter the gospel and One demon, you know suggested. Hey, I got an idea. Mr. Devil the the devil, you know. The suggestion comes from the demon. Tell but I'll tell people there's no heaven.

And it was the John Lennon song imagine there's no heaven and the devil responds how they'll never believe that. This book of truth is full of messages about the hope of heaven through sins forgiven. They won't believe that they know.

There's a glory yet future. To another demon raises his hand and says I'll tell people there's no hell. No good the devil response. Jesus while he was on earth taught more of hell than of heaven. It's true.

They know in their hearts that they're wrong will have to be taken care of in some way. They deserve nothing more than hell. So another demon stands up has an idea I'll tell people. There's no hurry. He's the one Satan chose.

The signs of the times are that this is the time to choose and we need to be aware of that to urgently. Come just as I am and Waiting not to rid my soul of one dark blot. What time is it. It's time to settle.

Settling the Debt Before the Judge

To settle the accusations against you verses 57 to 59. Jesus says it is common sense. You should know what's right as you're being brought before a judge. You want to settle with your accuser? Settle it.

Don't wait for the judge to send you to prison and then you have to pay the debt. Settle it now. It's now time to settle your debts everything you owe. Every last penny every offense and that day people could be sent to prison for not for being in debt.

We're not paying their debts. Every shortcoming here everything that you've done wrong or right thing that you fail to do better. That was better settle it. Before you come to God. Don't let the false teachers fool you.

God is the judge. He does indeed punish people for their sins. For the debt they owe him. So and you need now then in this time to confess your sins to plead for the blood of Christ to pay. For the debt you owe God and seek mercy.

Don't think like so many do today. You know God isn't offended by our sins he doesn't care about the debt he's gonna forgive her the debt we owe him. There's no judgment. There's no prison. There's no payment necessary that God's gonna just let it all slide in the end because he's just so sweet like that.

No. No, he is holy and he is just. It's now time in right now to settle. What time is it? It's time to repent. That's such an old-fashioned word, isn't it? Hardly anyone use the word repent anymore kind of crude.

Sounds sound like a hick say talk about repent. Hardly anyone uses it anymore as if now in our more enlightened time. We think that we don't need to rip. We don't need repentance. That's that's the old-fashioned way of thinking now.

All we need is therapy, right sympathetic ear. Maybe some friendly visitors in a shack to talk us out of our pain into forgiveness. That's fine. I guess if it leads us to repent as Jesus was teaching some visitors brought news that Pontius Pilate had some Galileans killed with their sacrifices.

And now maybe they were hoping that this because they're Galileans this you know. We'd really get Jesus. Get him angry and it'd be enough to instigate him to finally get him off of all this teaching and healing Campaign that he's been doing it.

He'll finally start organizing that army that we need to kick out the Romans. Or maybe they wanted to comment on how bad those Galileans must have been. To deserve a death like that and so we've responds in chapter 13 verse 2.

Do you think? That these Galileans the ones killed by Pilate that they were worse sinners Than all the other Galileans. Because they suffered in this way. That must have been what they thought asking like that.

That's like Job's friends. People believe that a death as bad as the men of Galilee had surely had experience. Meant that that that meant they must have been very bad people. Because people get what they deserve and they must have been particularly evil to deserve a fate like that.

Not unlike me, of course, I'm fine. You can tell I'm fine by the fact I'm not getting killed by buying with my sacrifices, right? I'm fine. No, he Jesus says emphatically again strong. No, I tell you.

Again, he sent us pay attention. This is what I say in contrast of what you think unless you repent. There's that word. You know repentance is not an optional extra kind of you kind of want to go the extra mile with God.

He'll accept you no matter what whether you repent, but if you really want to be first-class you can repent. It's not that way unless you repent. There's no other way that repentance. It's the bare minimum if you don't repent you will all likewise perish now pilots victims weren't unusually evil.

You're just as evil as they were. Jesus is saying to them They're suffering was it because they were worse than you people bringing in the news you spectators are worse. They weren't worse than you or me.

They're suffering. They suffered their suffering was because They were sinners. Like you and me and so unless we repent We will like them face a God who can kill our bodies and throw our souls into hell.

Then he recalls another recent tragedy or those 18 on whom the Tower of Siloam fell and killed them. Do you think that they were worse? Offenders and the word there for offenders is literally debtors.

Literally debtors, you know like in the previous story we owe a debt to God a Debt caused by our sin that we must now settle. Do you think they were worse debtors? They were they deeper in debt? To God.

Than all the others who lived in Jerusalem. Is that what you think? That's why they got it. God had to pay him back for their debt. That's why some of the people thought that they must have got what's coming to them.

That doesn't happen to me because I'm not so much in debt to God. I try to be religious and moral. I pay my debts to God. Jesus says no unless you repent and You better do it now. Because those 18 who were crushed to death by the tower collapsing Didn't have any time to repent came on them suddenly unless you repent You too will all perish.

Jesus says. Now the theology today is that bad things like that bad things happen to good people. Because God has given us free will and he will not infringe on our free will for anything. And so the murderer of your children has has free will and you have to accept that because otherwise God might take away your free Will.

He's given you free will you got to let your murderers have it to the terrorists have free will and so 9 -11 happens. The free will defense that sounds solid. But sometimes it doesn't really work if you think about it carefully.

You know, what about okay, the terrorists have free will but what about the free will of the 3 ,000 people they killed? What about the free will of the murder victims? They didn't choose to die. What about the free will of the people killed by the tower here?

You know, they didn't do anything that caused their deaths except that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yeah, free will makes sense if you're talking about hey someone smoked for 50 years.

It got lung cancer. Okay. I understand that. How does it work with a tower falling on somebody? In the Bible, it's because the whole way of thinking is wrong in the Bible. It's not that bad things happen to good people.

Think of the assumptions just imported into that. We saw how many good people there are in Psalm 53. It's in it if the Bible is not that bad things happen to good people. It's that we're all bad people and bad things happen to us.

Because we deserve it. Oh. But there was one good person there was one good person and Bad things happened to him. So the good things could happen to us bad people. What time is it? It's time to repent.

There are actually some professor Christian today who claim that repentance. There's just a change of ideas kind of an exchange of some doctrines few basic ones. Even if it produces no no change of life.