Is God made more glorious because evil exists?

Or is He made less glorious because evil exists?

I will tell you this we praise him because of what he has done to overcome evil.

Thanks for joining us here on Grace to you for a special broadcast. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

We are preempting our regular schedule

to bring you a message that we think

you'll really benefit from during these difficult days. John MacArthur preached this sermon a few years ago, but you might think he prepared it with the COVID-19 pandemic in mind. It's titled, Why Does God Allow So Much Suffering?

Many people say that the suffering in the world is proof that God is either weak or cruel or just not real.

But as John will show you, God is in total control

and he has good plans, even for the bad things that happen.

I think you'll walk away from this sermon

with a renewed understanding of God's wisdom and his grace, and even with

thankfulness for the trials you face.

So with the message now, delivered at a conference hosted by R.C. Sproll. Here's John MacArthur.

Why does God allow evil and suffering in the world? This is a very very important

question.

Scripture gives us an answer.

Not only an answer that you can understand,

but an answer that you can joyfully accept. An answer in which you can rejoice. Now let me give you a little

sequence of things and we're going to be a little bit theological but this is a

theological issue before us.

So let me just give you some little bullet points, okay?

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