Job: Reversal in Suffering

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 August 1985

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What God is after in all his dealings with his children is a brokenhearted joy that trusts like a little child in God and returns good for evil.

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0:00.0	There are eyes in the tongue of the soul.
0:05.0	Taste and see that the Lord is good.
0:13.0	Five seconds of honey on the tongue will teach you more of sweetness
0:21.0	than ten hours of lecture about the scientific distinction between sweetness and sourness.
0:31.0	Taste and see that the Lord is good until God gives you a taste in your soul of his goodness.
0:40.0	You can read and listen and study and never be changed.
0:50.0	When Elahue was finished speaking the truth to Job, Job didn't say anything.
0:58.5	Only when God finished did Job say something and what he said was,
1:04.0	I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear
1:09.0	and now my eye has seen you. Theology was a little helpful, but until God Almighty came and addressed himself to the heart of Job.
1:28.0	It was all a rumor.
1:33.0	Job tasted God when he saw God.
1:36.0	He's a changed man now.
1:40.0	He's a changed man now.
1:41.0	He's a broken man. I invite you to turn with me to chapter 42 of the book of Job.
1:47.0	God has him where he wants him.
1:49.0	It has taken him months to get him there.
1:52.0	And we will see what a glorious thing God has done in his strange
1:56.7	way.
1:58.9	He is a broken and a changed man. In verses 1 through 6 of chapter 42, we see the evidence of this as
2:07.6	God brings Job to the point of confessing indeed reverence of mission three great truths.
2:15.0	First, verse two, he confesses that God is absolutely sovereign with these words.
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