Many people try to ignore suffering or pretend that they won't ever have to face it.

But as sinners living in a world ravaged by sin, it's inevitable that sooner or later, we will all face suffering. The question is where

will we turn when it comes? Welcome to the Radical with David Platt

podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt delivered weekly.

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Well in today's new sermon based on the book of Joe,

David Platt urges us to respond to suffering

by meditating on God's sovereignty.

When we realize who is in control of our suffering,

what he is like, and what his purposes are,

we can endure faithfully giving God glory even in our pain.

Here's David with a sermon titled Our Suffering and God's sovereignty from the book of Job.

If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with let me

invite you to open to me to Job Chapter 1. Job chapter 1.

If you go to the middle of a Bible and take a little bit of a left, you'll find

Job right next to Psalms. And as you're turning, I want to greet those of you who are joining

with us in Montgomery County and Prince

William and Loudon and Main Avenue in different micro sites.

It's good to be together across Washington around God's word and it's good to be one week into our Bible reading plan together.

So if you are just joining us or you missed last week feel free to pick up one of these Bible reading plans and jump in with us this next week.

Week two, we just read through the first nine chapters of Genesis and hopefully some, maybe

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