No one can blame God for sin, because every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,

we possess a nature that gives rise to sin.

God does not. The nature of God is such that it only produces good. When you're

lose your job of 20 years, when your doctor or the police call with bad news,

when disaster strikes and you're tempted or the police call with bad news.

When disaster strikes and you're tempted to doubt God's goodness and his care for you,

how will you respond?

The Bible says in this life you will have trouble but God's word also shows you how to know

peace and joy and avoid the temptation to sin even in your darkest days.

You're not going to want to miss John MacArthur's lesson today

on Grace to You, as he continues a tremendously practical study

titled, Benefiting from Life's Trials.

Now with a lesson, here's trials. Now with a lesson here's John. Now if I fall into

sin whose fault is it? Is it God's fault who brings the trials or allows them? Is it the fault of my circumstances? Is it the fault of my

being created by God the way I am and I can't help it? Whose fault is it? There are five proofs that God is not responsible

for temptation and therefore sin. Number one, the nature of evil. The nature of evil. All evil

repulses God. It can find no place in his holy character. So the nature of evil is infinitely apart from the holiness of God.

In Leviticus 19-2 it says the Lord is holy. In Leviticus 2026 the Lord is holy in Leviticus 2026 the Lord is holy in Isaiah 6

holy holy holy first peter one sixteen the lord is holy holiness cannot be

penetrated by sin. Secondly, the nature of man, the nature of man. Not only what evil

is, but what man is. Look at verse 14, this is so interesting interesting but every man is tempted or literally

echastas every one or each one but each one each individual is tempted

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