Does God Bring Disasters?

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

All of life and all of nature is under the authority of God. But what about the evil and suffering in the world? In this episode, R.C. Sproul discusses the relationship between the sovereignty of God and the reality of suffering.

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0:00.0	God brings blessing, and he brings curse.
0:06.0	He brings good times, and he brings bad times.
0:16.0	He brings peace. He also brings conflict.
0:21.0	He brings wheel. He also brings woe.
0:25.0	He brings prosperity, or he brings calamity.
0:30.0	So it's not that the text is saying that God does moral evil, or creates moral evil.
0:38.0	It is saying, however, that God is the author of all of these conditions, ultimately.
0:45.0	What this passage is communicating, beloved, is the sovereignty of God over the entire creation.
0:53.0	Note the refrain. I am the Lord. There is none other.
1:00.0	I am responsible for the whole of the creation, for the whole of human history.
1:06.0	It is my divine sovereign providence that stands over all human events.
1:14.0	I bring the abundant harvest. I also will bring the famine.
1:21.0	I bring the sunny day. I also bring the storm.
1:26.0	I bring the arid desert. I also bring the flood.
1:32.0	And of course, now the question is, will is it evil of God to be behind and in charge of and sovereignly,
1:41.0	and providentially controlling natural disasters?
1:47.0	Isn't it interesting that even in our insurance policies, there are clauses for those things that are called acts of God?
1:54.0	At least the insurance underwriters have some sense of sound theology at that point.
2:00.0	Because the idea here that the Hebrew is saying is that all of life, all of nature,
2:07.0	is under the authority and the government of all mighty God.
2:17.0	You've been listening to ultimately with RC sprawl.
2:22.0	This podcast is produced by the Ligonier Ministries.
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