Pastor John, assuming that someone is persuaded by the last podcast, in episode 204, that

God can will that sin be without himself sinning, how does such a conviction bring comfort

to the Christian life?

The truth of God's sovereignty over sin, my sin, the world's sin, and over all the evil

in the world creates a problem for some people.

In the end, for those who rest in it, see it in the Bible, believe that God is their Father

through Jesus Christ.

For them, for me, we find this doctrine to be of enormous comfort, enormous helpfulness

in the face of the worst things in the world, because a couple of reasons.

If he's not there and things are happening random, then we are the victim of meaninglessness

to the core of all things.

And I know there are people who would rather live with that than live with a God of purposefulness,

but I wouldn't, I believe that far deeper hope is given to those who've lost loved

ones and to those who are struck down with some terrible calamity.

Far deeper hope is given to say, this was not meaningless.

This will prove to do something beyond all your imagination for your good if you will

trust the living God and receive His Son as your Lord and Savior.

That's the first thing.

The second thing is just in principle, if God is so weak or so evil or so foolish that

He cannot cause an earthquake not to happen or a plane not to fly into the side of a building,

then His weakness or His ignorance or His malevolence will never be a comfort to me

in all the challenges that I face in life.

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