God Is Better (Job 37:19–24)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Job 37:19–24, David Platt reminds us that the reward we find in God is better than our current suffering.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Job, chapter 37, verses 19 through 24, |
| 0:11.0 | Teach us what we shall say to him. |
| 0:14.0 | We cannot drop our case because of darkness. |
| 0:17.0 | Shall it be told him that I would speak, |
| 0:20.0 | that a man ever wished that he would be swallowed up, |
| 0:24.0 | and now no one looks on the light, |
| 0:26.0 | when it is bright in the skies, |
| 0:28.0 | and the wind has passed and cleared them. |
| 0:31.0 | Out of the North comes golden splendor. |
| 0:35.0 | God is clothed with awesome majesty. |
| 0:40.0 | The Almighty cannot find him. |
| 0:43.0 | He is great in power, |
| 0:45.0 | justice and abundant righteousness. |
| 0:48.0 | He will not violate, therefore men fear him. |
| 0:53.0 | He does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit. |
| 0:59.0 | These are the last words of Elihu, |
| 1:03.0 | as we prepare to hear from God and Job, |
| 1:07.0 | chapter 38 in the next chapter. |
| 1:10.0 | But in these closing words from Elihu, |
| 1:14.0 | he basically refuses to confront God |
| 1:18.0 | as if he knows better than God. |
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