Every honest person eventually asks why a good and all-powerful God allows evil, and this sermon works straight into that question rather than around it. It asks whether God is somehow the author of evil, and answers instead that evil is a real, present mystery in a world God rules, not an eternal force standing on equal footing with good.
Scripture insists that all have turned away and “none is righteous, no, not one” (Rom 3:10), which means the problem of evil begins inside the human heart, not merely outside it. God alone has the right to declare what is good and what is evil, and He does not owe fallen creatures an explanation for every evil they suffer. The only question worth asking, in the end, is not why evil exists, but whether we ourselves are right with the God who will one day judge it.