Tragedy: Meaningful or Meaningless?

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When tragedy strikes us, what do we do? Do we want to immediately blame God? Do we try to rationalize it in some way? Or do we just lose hope? When trials feel like a main player in our lives, it can be overwhelming. We might feel entitled to the answers for our questions. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland take on the challenge of addressing God’s part in our tragedies and consider how to find our way when we feel lost.

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0:00.0	This doesn't minimize secondary causes.
0:05.0	We have Bible verses that talk like this.
0:08.3	Acts 223.
0:09.3	This Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified
0:14.8	and killed by the hands of lawless men.
0:17.4	And so God works his will through human wills.
0:20.2	This is Philippians 2.
0:21.4	God works in us to will and do his good pleasure, Jeremiah 10.
0:24.5	So concurrence isn't coercive.
0:26.6	It's actually really subtle and we don't see behind the curtain of what God's actually
0:30.7	doing.
0:31.7	But we do know that it's not coercive.
0:33.2	It doesn't violate the secondary causes.
0:35.6	We willingly exercise our will.
0:38.4	Those brothers willingly exercise their will to do evil and harm.
0:42.4	And God works through them and our willing will and exercises his will through ours.
0:48.4	Because he's that creative.
0:49.8	Maybe we could say it something like this.
0:51.6	Your will is going to sin.
0:52.8	It's bound to do it.
0:54.7	God only has broken tools to work with in a certain sense.
0:57.8	I mean, this is the right analogy or not.
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