1/23/2021 "Suffering and the Justice of God" Saturday Worship

Preaching Through The Bible  •  Sermon  •  Submitted   •  Presented   •  30:09
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The Perspective of the “Friends”:
God justly punishes evil people with
suffering, therefore Job is evil.
Job 22:4 ESV
4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?
Job 22:5 ESV
5 Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

Job’s perspective: I am innocent, therefore God is unjust.

Job 9:22 ESV
22 It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
Job 9:23 ESV
23 When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
Job 19:5 ESV
5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
Job 19:6 ESV
6 know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.

There are three ways God uses suffering.

1. God uses suffering to bring us to repentance.

2. God uses suffering to remind us of our mortality.

Luke 13:1 ESV
1 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
Luke 13:2 ESV
2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?
Luke 13:3 ESV
3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Luke 13:4 ESV
4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?
Luke 13:5 ESV
5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

3. God uses suffering to strengthen our faith.

James 1:2 ESV
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
James 1:3 ESV
3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
James 1:4 ESV
4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Is this justice? Yes!

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

God is just to allow us to suffer, because adversity prepares us for heaven.

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