Mark has one purpose, and that is to make clear to everybody that this man Jesus is God incarnate.

No human ever makes that confession until a centurion watching the crucifixion of the cross,

a Gentile outside the nation of Israel says, truly, this man was the son of God.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Perhaps you're going through a trial right now, and you're not sure why God is allowing such pain.

Or maybe you're not suffering now, but you want to be ready for the inevitable trial.

Either way, you'll want to stay tuned today as John MacArthur continues his study called Lessons

for a modern day disciple. Today, showing you how Jesus responded to the sick and suffering

he encountered, it's a practical encouraging truth that will help you respond to grief in a

Christ-like way. So let's get to the lesson. Here's John.

Open your Bible again if you will to the 5th chapter of Mark.

And in the light of what we've heard from John 9, and what we've heard from Job 1,

we know that God is in our suffering. That the glory of God is manifest in blindness.

And as I, along with you, heard again the wonderful reiteration of the fact that God allowed all

that came upon Job to come, to vindicate saving faith and to prove that, to prove the doctrine

of eternal security that saving faith can't be shattered even if Satan unleashes everything he's got.

Because it's a permanent faith that God grants. And looking at the state of the world and

synomies and earthquakes and catastrophes and disasters and all of that, one might be prone to think

that God is harsh. Is this how we define our God? Do we give him the privilege of doing all of

that as the sole understanding that we have of him in a fallen world? The answer to that is no.

When Moses was commissioned by God, called by God, he said, look, I'm not going to be a leader of

your people unless you go with me. And the Lord said, I'll go with you. Next to this 33, Moses said,

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