We know everyone dies.

Everybody's headed for death and everybody's headed for heaven or hell.

That ought to be enough motive for us to be serious about using the time and opportunity God gives us to bring the gospel to people,

realizing everyone dies, everyone lives forever in heaven or hell, and the only way to get to heaven is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Should be enough compulsion for us.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Because of smartphones

and social media, you can be certain that whenever

tragedy strikes, you'll hear about it. You can get up-to-the-minute reports about death tolls in

civil wars or devastation caused by natural disasters. And you know what else you can be certain of?

Your friends, your family, your co-workers are hearing

about those catastrophes as well, and maybe some of them are wondering why God allows so much suffering.

So why does God allow tragic events that make him in the world's eyes look uncaring and cruel. Is it that God

uses calamities to draw people to Christ? And if so, is that the only reason? John MacArthur

has answers today as he continues a series he delivered during chapel at the Masters University, where John serves as

chancellor. He addresses common misconceptions about God's character. The series is titled,

Consider This. And now with today's lesson, here's John. I want to talk to you today from the 13th chapter of Luke. So if you have your

Bible handy, you might want to open to that chapter. I've been thinking about this, always

wanting to provide something for you that will be useful, something that will help you to not

only clarify your Christian worldview, but will

help you to talk to the people that you're going to intersect with as you go through the world

and have the opportunity to honor Christ in every situation.

It was 9-11 all the way back when the terrorists flew the planes into the Twin Towers

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