Why Did This Happen to Me?
Scott Maze
Luke 13:1-9
How God Could Allow Something Like This to Happen? It's the question that is asked time and time again. It's asked in the hallways of hospitals and in the wake of human tragedy. During this hour we worship together, more than five children will have died from abuse and violence.
We continue our examination of the gospel of Luke as we enter into a short series, Why? Questions continually emerge that cause us to question the goodness of God Himself. For some, they abandon the Christian faith, living in despair. For some it is the death of a teenager son or daughter... While for others, it is an alcoholic father and a legacy of real tragedy in your past. It is the same inconsistency in all natural disasters and human tragedy in our day. Whether it is the bombing of the Federal Murrah Building on April 19, 1995... ...the holocaust of six million (6,000,000) Jews during WW II... ...the tsunami of 2004 of Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand where babies were ripped from their mother's arms because of vortex of water that rushed upon them... ...the bombing of the Boston Marathon a year ago... ...or the fertilizer plant in West, Texas that killed ten firefighters and five others.
On His way to Jerusalem, Jesus was probably in Galilee when several people came to Him with the Jerusalem Post in hand. They too had experienced devastating recent news.
''There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, ''Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen 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? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.''
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Scott Maze
Luke 13:1-9
How God Could Allow Something Like This to Happen? It's the question that is asked time and time again. It's asked in the hallways of hospitals and in the wake of human tragedy. During this hour we worship together, more than five children will have died from abuse and violence.
We continue our examination of the gospel of Luke as we enter into a short series, Why? Questions continually emerge that cause us to question the goodness of God Himself. For some, they abandon the Christian faith, living in despair. For some it is the death of a teenager son or daughter... While for others, it is an alcoholic father and a legacy of real tragedy in your past. It is the same inconsistency in all natural disasters and human tragedy in our day. Whether it is the bombing of the Federal Murrah Building on April 19, 1995... ...the holocaust of six million (6,000,000) Jews during WW II... ...the tsunami of 2004 of Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand where babies were ripped from their mother's arms because of vortex of water that rushed upon them... ...the bombing of the Boston Marathon a year ago... ...or the fertilizer plant in West, Texas that killed ten firefighters and five others.
On His way to Jerusalem, Jesus was probably in Galilee when several people came to Him with the Jerusalem Post in hand. They too had experienced devastating recent news.
''There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, ''Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen 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? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.''
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