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NASB | Matthew 5:45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 5:45 so that you may [show yourselves to] be the children of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and makes the rain fall on the righteous [those who are morally upright] and the unrighteous [the unrepentant, those who oppose Him]. |
Bible Question: Why do good things happen to bad people? Or can they? |
Bible Answer: Theologians call this "common grace." It is in the nature of our God to be bountiful with His many blessings. However, keep in mind, that there are none of us that are good. The wonder is that God does anything for any of us. Jonah was quite concerned about just this thing. He wanted judgement -- the harsher the better -- to rain down on Nineveh. And those guys in Nineveh were pretty rotten! They actually bragged of the clever way they broke every treaty they ever made. In addition, they were known to delight in horrible tortures of captive people. Tortures that we only see in the world again until the Inquisition and among early Amerinds. However, as you study that little book of Jonah, you will see that God explains to the prophet His mercy. Since we are all evil in the sight of the Lord, what if He withheld mercy to us before we finally learned to submit to Him? Now, I've been guilty of this myself, asking God, "Why don't you just stop those people!" But when we do that, we've missed the point of the wonderful mercy of God. We are not operating in the Spirit when we ask Him to withdraw His blessings! |
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