Godly Justice (Job 22:23)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:06.0 | Job chapter 22 verse 23. |
| 0:08.3 | If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up. |
| 0:11.3 | If you remove injustice far from your tents. |
| 0:14.4 | This is yet another example in the book of Job of unhelpful counsel from Job's supposed friends. |
| 0:21.6 | But true counsel regarding what it means to seek God |
| 0:26.9 | and do justice. |
| 0:28.6 | So why it's unhelpful is because Job is not suffering because he is turned from the Almighty, from God, and he's not suffering |
| 0:36.8 | because he has acted unjustly. |
| 0:39.8 | His friends just can't seem to get that sometimes we suffer in this world even as we're turning |
| 0:47.4 | to God and even as we're doing justice that's what Job one was clear to show us that he was doing. |
| 0:54.4 | At the same time, Job 2223 is a reminder to us to always turn to the Almighty to God knowing that he builds up those who trust in him. |
| 1:09.2 | And it is a good reminder that God calls us all throughout His word to remove injustice far from our tents, |
| 1:18.4 | to do justice. Love mercy, as Micah says walk humbly with God. |
| 1:26.8 | So I want to encourage you today to consider in your life |
| 1:31.4 | or one anyways you need to return to the Almighty. |
| 1:36.0 | Are there any sins in your life that are unconfessed? |
| 1:41.0 | It's good to examine our hearts daily to consider is there any way I've |
| 1:45.8 | turned from God the Almighty are there any ways in which right now I'm not |
| 1:51.4 | trusting in God the Almighty. |
| 1:54.8 | Returned to Him, daily, turned to Him moment by moment throughout the day, |
| 1:59.5 | and then to examine, is there any way in which I am doing injustice or settling for |
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