Repentance and Restoration
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
At the end of the book of Job, we can see several ways that God brought restoration to Job’s life. Today, Derek Thomas explains what this hopeful conclusion can teach us as we experience trials of our own.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | He has a richer relationship with God. |
| 0:03.0 | Yes, as a result of this horrendous difficulty through which he has passed. |
| 0:08.0 | He says, I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. |
| 0:12.8 | He knows God better. |
| 0:14.9 | He understands a little more of him, but I think what he understands most is what he doesn't understand. |
| 0:22.0 | He sees that God is incomprehensible. God is great. God is majestic. God knows the end from the beginning. |
| 0:33.2 | The book of Job reminds us that pain actually helps us to see things we couldn't otherwise |
| 0:38.7 | and to let go of things that we grasp too tightly. Most importantly, pain points us back to God. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome to this Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and it's good to have you |
| 0:52.4 | with us today. In the final chapter of the book of Job, we see the resolution of Job's intense trial. |
| 1:00.3 | After losing his children, his livestock, virtually everything he owned, even his health, |
| 1:05.8 | Job struggled to make sense of it. |
| 1:08.2 | And as time went on, he began to question God, and we can be tempted to question |
| 1:12.9 | God as well when we go through trials. That's why a study like this from Derek Thomas can be so |
| 1:18.6 | helpful and one to dig into deeply before we face the storms of life. For the final day, you can request |
| 1:25.6 | the complete series, plus Dr. Sproul's book on the existence of evil, |
| 1:30.1 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org, or when you call us at 800, 435-4343. |
| 1:38.7 | Thank you for helping take the truth of God's purpose in suffering to countless Christians through your support of renewing your mind. |
| 1:47.0 | Even though we might not understand, God's ways, even in the midst of suffering, are meant for our good. |
| 1:53.0 | Here's Dr. Thomas to explain. |
| 1:56.0 | Well, we are in lesson 11 of Job and we're actually in the final chapter. Chapter 42, |
| 2:04.6 | let's pick it up at verse 10. And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends, |
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