In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Part 2 of My Assurance God is in control.

If God is in control and he's a good God, then why would he allow sin and pain and evil to enter the universe?

Well that question has been asked since the very beginning of time and people have

had all kinds of answers. There have been hundreds and hundreds and thousands

of volumes written about it.

And so some people have concluded, well, there is no God.

So that settles that issue that we are just the products of evolutionary process.

Some people would say, well, there is a God, but he's not a good God,

because if he were, he would not allow sin and suffering and pain and death. Others would say, well,

there is a God, but he's not in control because if he were he would

destroy evil suffering pain and death. Now all of us would agree that there is

evil suffering pain and death in the world but that does not mean that God didn't

create this earth, does not mean that God is not good, and it does not mean that God's

not in control. So what we want to do in this message is to look at all this to see according to the

scripture is God still in control in the light of all of these things. So I want you to

turn if you will to the 103rd Psalm. Just want us to read a few verses of this Psalm because here God

states certainly his position in creation and above all creation.

When he says in verse 19 of the 103rd Psalm,

the Lord has established his throne in the heavens

and his sovereignty rules overall.

Bless the Lord you his angels, mighty and strength who perform his word,

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