The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's Grace to You Bible Teacher John MacArthur.

I have been assigned a easy question to answer.

I don't know how I'm going to fill the time.

I'm just going to give you the answer.

Why does God allow evil and suffering in the world?

This is a very, very important question.

This is a question that I will tell you on a personal level.

Is the single question that my friend Larry King always goes back to as...

Well you didn't know about that friendship.

That he always goes back to to demonstrate why he cannot believe.

There are some agnostics and that's usually a word thrown around as if it were noble,

but the Latin equivalent is ignorance, just to put it in perspective.

But there are some people who are agnostics simply because they don't care to know.

Some people who are agnostics and they can give you an apologetic defense of their agnosticism,

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