The Bible Study Podcast, Episode 39. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the theme on why bad things happen to good people, with a slight detour into why do good things happen to bad people.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. This is part six in our look at why bad things happen to good people. And this week we'll be looking at the reverse of that. Why do good things happen to bad people? I think a lot of people have this question of why doesn't God just do away with the bad people?

Now, of course, there's an assumption about who we think the bad people are,

but we're not going to get into that just this week.

There are at least three different reasons that the Bible gives

for why good things happen to bad people and why sin isn't immediately punished.

And for the first one, we can look at Matthew 13, the parable of the weeds.

Jesus told them another parable.

The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went

away.

When the wheat sprouted and formed heads,

then the weeds also appeared. The owner's servant came to him and said, sir, didn't you sow

good seed in your field? Where did the weeds come from? An enemy did this, he replied. The

servants asked him, do you want us to go and pull them up? No, he answered, because while

you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together and tell

the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters, first collect the weeds and tie them in

bundles to be burned, and then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

The theme of this verse is a theme of not yet.

That there are consequences, there is a separation, there is a final judgment, but not yet.

And the explanation given in this parable is the wheat and the weeds being the good and the bad,

that it is for the sake of the wheat, for the sake of the good, that judgment is delayed.

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