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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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"Suffering is at the heart of the Christian story." If this is true, our response to suffering will be extremely important in our walk with Jesus. In today's episode, Keith shares how Job 2 gives us two options for how to respond to our suffering: cursing or wrestling. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Job 2

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.
0:16.5	If you had to use one word to describe what's at the heart of the Christian story, what word would you pick? What word best describes the story of the Bible?
0:22.2	If you're like me me you might say something like
0:24.0	love or grace or forgiveness, maybe mercy or peace or joy or power, but if you told me
0:29.7	to list off a hundred words to describe the Bible story, I'm not sure I would have ever used
0:34.2	the word that Tim Keller does.
0:36.1	This is what he says.
0:37.1	Suffering is at the heart of the Christian story.
0:40.5	Although it's surprising, I think Keller is on to something.
0:43.0	The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt.
0:45.0	David had to run from Saul.
0:47.0	The early Christians were persecuted by Rome.
0:50.0	The Bible contained story after story of people encountering various kinds of suffering.
0:54.5	But no story is quite as famous as Job's.
0:57.8	Job is an entire book of the Bible devoted to the topic of suffering and how humans should
1:02.2	respond to it.
1:03.0	And in Job Chapter 2, we find there are two ways to respond to suffering in our lives,
1:07.0	the wise way and the foolish way.
1:09.0	But before we get to the action in Job 2, let's have a quick refresher from Jeff's episode on Job 1 last Friday.
1:16.5	In Scene 1, or you might think of it as Chapter 1, we meet Job.
1:21.2	Job is a righteous man with a big family, big pockets, and a big estate.
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