The Locus of Astonishment
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The people of Galilee were shocked that God would allow some of their kinsmen be murdered, but Jesus told them they were astonished for the wrong reason. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his series in the gospel of Luke, encouraging us never to take the mercy of God for granted.
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| 0:00.0 | Soldiers had brutally killed some Israelites, |
| 0:03.0 | and the people asked Jesus why it had happened. |
| 0:06.0 | His response was surprising. |
| 0:08.0 | He's saying you're coming to me, |
| 0:10.0 | vexed with this theological problem of why my father |
| 0:14.0 | allows all this suffering and all this pain in the world. |
| 0:18.0 | But you're asking the wrong question. |
| 0:21.0 | The question you should come to me with is, |
| 0:23.0 | why was it not slaughtered? |
| 0:31.0 | Jesus took a question about temporal safety here on earth |
| 0:35.0 | and flipped it on its head. |
| 0:37.0 | He went straight to the heart of the matter |
| 0:39.0 | and made a critical spiritual implication. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank you for joining us today for the Lord's Day edition |
| 0:45.0 | of renewing your mind, I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:48.0 | And as I reflect on the sermon that we're about to hear |
| 0:51.0 | from R.C. Spol from the Gospel of Luke, |
| 0:54.0 | I believe you'll find the message clear |
| 0:56.0 | and the implications eternal. |
| 1:01.0 | So I'll be reading from chapter 13, |
| 1:05.0 | beginning at verse 1 and reading through verse 5. |
| 1:11.0 | There were presents at that season some who told him |
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