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Pray the Word with David Platt

Right Before God (Job 9:2)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

Christian, Bible, Baptist, Devotional, Spirituality, John Piper, Prayer, Bible Study, Religion & Spirituality, Louie Giglio, Christianity, David Platt, Pray, Radical

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Pray the Word on Job 9:2, David Platt reminds us that Christ is the only way to be right before God.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

0:04.8

Job, chapter 9, verse 2.

0:08.6

But how can a man be in the right before God that is the question?

0:19.9

Isn't it? Like, maybe the most important question in the world.

0:26.5

So it's asked here in the context of Job and him wanting to to be before God and see God

0:36.0

and to understand God and even to make a defense before God.

0:40.8

But really, he says right here, what is the big question of the Bible?

0:49.1

How can a man be in the right before God?

0:51.6

How can sinful people stand before a holy God and be right before him?

1:00.0

Ever since Genesis chapter 3, that's been the question because man and woman have been separated

1:06.8

from God. Guilty of sin before God and not right before God.

1:13.6

So how can man and his sinfulness be in the right before God?

1:20.4

And this is the question that leads to the gospel, the good news at the center of the Bible

1:28.1

that man, woman, can be right before God by faith in Jesus that we have an intermediary

1:39.6

who is stepped in to take the payment. Judgment do our sin upon himself.

1:49.2

He's died on a cross. He's risen from the dead and God has granted eternal life in his presence

2:01.1

to all who trust in him and his righteousness and his justice and his love and his mercy.

2:09.6

Display them across for them.

2:14.2

The greatest news in the world. Let's share it.

2:18.4

Let's share it with people around us like we know how everybody around us can be made right

2:24.0

before God. Don't keep that to yourself.

2:28.6

Let's make it known around the world. There's 3.2 billion people in the world.

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