Every Need Redefined

Light + Truth

Desiring God

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What if your deepest need is not escape but endurance? In this episode of Light + Truth, John Piper opens Job 38:1–42:17 to show how God meets every need on his wise terms.

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0:00.0	And John and Betty Stam were martyred.
0:09.0	They were in their underwear.
0:12.0	It wasn't glorious.
0:15.0	Their heads were chopped off in their underwear.
0:19.0	I read that in their little biography.
0:21.6	They were taken out early in the morning,
0:23.6	caught off guard, forced out of their house,
0:25.6	humiliated to the core, paraded through the streets,
0:27.6	bowed down, she was forced to watch as they chopped off her husband's head,
0:31.6	and then they chopped off hers.
0:33.6	So, were all things added unto them as they sought the kingdom in China?
0:38.3	Were all things added unto them?
0:41.3	It's easy to quote Matthew 633 when life is going well.
0:48.3	Seek first the kingdom and all these things will be added.
0:53.3	But what if all these things doesn't mean comfort or safety?
1:00.1	I'm Dan Kroover. In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper shows how the Book of Job helps us
1:07.5	answer the hard question, what does God actually promise?
1:13.3	This message was originally delivered at the Cove in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 16, 2000.
1:23.6	Well, let's open our Bibles together to Job and turn to chapter 38.
1:33.3	And let me pray with you before we begin.
1:38.3	So, Lord, for one last time now, we pray that you would come and be our teacher.
1:50.3	We love the biblical truth of being God taught.
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