It's hard enough to understand how human beings could be so inhumane and so wicked in their treatment of other human beings.

But how could God allow these things to happen?

Well, those questions are the questions that every generation seeks to answer.

And the people in Jesus' day were no different.

When tragedy comes, whether to our own family or our own nation, our minds can quickly wonder,

why me, why us?

Or if someone we know or a public figure experiences loss, we can begin to question,

what did they do? What sin did they commit to deserve that?

Well, the people of Jesus' day were no different.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind.

We're quick to speak of innocent victims when tragedy strikes.

But when people had some questions about some local tragedies in Jesus' day,

his divine perspective was very different than our typical human perspective.

Here's Dr. Sproul with a hard saying of Jesus.

We're going to turn our attention to some of the hard sayings of Jesus.

Again, you will recall that what we call a hard saying is a saying that is either difficult for us

in the sense that we perceive it as being harsh or severe,

or we can call it a hard saying because it's hard to grasp or hard to understand.

It's difficult to figure out what it means.

And so we'll be choosing both of those types of hard sayings.

And today, I want to turn your attention to the gospel according to St. Luke,

to the 13th chapter, to an episode that is contained there,

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