The Problem of Evil | The Sage E1
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Why do bad things happen to good people? John Mark tackles the question of theodicy and God's justice in this series covering the wisdom literature. This week, he explores the book of Job, and challenges us to embrace the mystery of God, continuing to put our faith and hope in him in the midst of suffering.
Key Scripture Passages: Job 1-42
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Coma teachings podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at Practicing the Way. |
| 0:11.6 | Each week on this podcast, we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space. |
| 0:18.1 | And it's great to have you with us. |
| 0:24.8 | Well, happy New Year, everybody. I hope you had a rich time remembering what has been and celebrating the year to come with your friends and family. |
| 0:32.2 | Here on the podcast to kick off 2025, we are continuing John Mark's talks from the Year of Biblical Literacy. |
| 0:40.6 | This new series, The Sage, is about the wisdom literature, and it kicks off with an introduction |
| 0:45.5 | to the book of Job and what it has to teach us, or not, about suffering. |
| 0:52.0 | As you listen, you may like to gently ask yourself, what do I believe about God's role |
| 0:57.0 | in both my own suffering and that of the world's? |
| 1:01.0 | Here's John Mark. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay, please turn your Bibles to the book of Job in the middle of the Old Testament, |
| 1:09.0 | or if you are new to the Bible of Job in the middle of the Old Testament, or if you are new to the Bible, job. |
| 1:15.1 | And if you've ever said that, don't feel bad, it does say J-O-B in English. So, now we're calling |
| 1:21.6 | the series The Sage on the Problem of Evil and the Even Greater Problem of Good. Because next up in our reading for the Bible |
| 1:28.6 | as a community is the Hebrew wisdom literature. So we're done with all the prophets before the exile. |
| 1:34.6 | Don't say yes. You can think it, but just don't say it out loud, all right? We will not judge you, |
| 1:39.9 | but God will. And we're now into the Hebrew wisdom literature, which is so great. So we have been |
| 1:45.6 | reading through Job over the last week or two. If you're behind, don't worry about it. Do your best |
| 1:50.1 | to catch up or just jump in with the reading tomorrow. Tomorrow we actually finish Job. |
| 1:54.9 | And so you get to the, like, the best part of the book, if you're behind. And then after that, |
| 1:59.8 | we start Proverbs. And one of the major questions of the sage, and that's kind of the book, if you're behind. And then after that, we start Proverbs. |
| 2:01.0 | And one of the major questions that the sage, |
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