If God is totally sovereign, and if people are fallen and some perish, how can God who is sovereign

allow evil in the world?

I've never actually met a Christian who comes out and says, I don't believe in the sovereignty of God.

After all, the Bible says that He is the Lord of Lords in the King of Kings.

That is until tragedy strikes.

It's in those moments, those trials where we might be tempted to question, is God still on His throne?

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

This week, we've been studying the topic of predestination, God's sovereignty.

And it's an important topic. It's also a controversial one.

It's why we need to handle the subject with care, with grace, with charity.

I think one of the reasons that we may be tempted to limit the scope of God's sovereignty,

particularly when tragedies and difficulties come our way, is in an attempt to protect the character of God.

But as we're going to hear from Dr. Sproul today, far from protecting God's character, we're actually distorting it,

and distorting it so far that we're denying God Himself. Here's Dr. Sproul.

In this session of our study of predestination, I want to focus our attention on the sovereignty of God.

And one of the reasons why I think it's important that we really begin here with our study of the doctrine,

is that here is an area in which virtually all Christians agree.

We agree that God is sovereign.

How we understand the sovereignty of God may differ from Christian to Christian,

but certainly we would all make the confession that God is sovereign.

I like to tell one of my favorite stories that took place in the seminary where I teach a couple of years ago.

I had announced in my theology class that the following week, I would be lecturing on chapter 3 of the Westminster Confession of Faith,

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