Why Does God Allow Disasters?

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The Lord does not owe us freedom from suffering in this world. Today, R.C. Sproul considers how the reality of God's grace teaches us to see tragedy and disaster with the right perspective.

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0:00.0	18 innocent people in a building, and the building collapses.
0:05.0	The question is, how can God allow that to happen?
0:09.0	Jesus answered it's hard.
0:14.0	He's saying, why shouldn't God allow that to happen?
0:17.0	And the question you should be asking is why that temple doesn't fall on your head.
0:22.7	If you really believe that we live by grace, that's the response you have to have.
0:28.2	Because God does not owe me freedom from tragedies.
0:33.6	God does not owe me freedom from temples falling on my head or towers bearing me beneath
0:39.7	their rubble, because I am a debtor before God who cannot repay.
0:48.3	And Jesus' warning is hard.
0:51.2	You will all likewise perish, unless we repent.
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