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Dealing With Depression: A Biblical Answer to Emotional Suffering
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the dictionary defines depression as Low
Spirits gloomy feelings dejection
sadness a condition marked by feelings
of worthlessness failure and accompanying
accompanying
guilt sometimes the word depression is
used very generally to describe a lot of
things but I want to make sure we
understand what we're going to talk
about today as we read this chapter in a
moment depression is more than just a
case of the
Blues perhaps the best way to help us
understand that is a phrase that I read
this week it says depression is embodied
emotional suffering embodied emotional
suffering in other words it's not just a
state of mind or a negative view of life
but something that affects our physical
being as
well signs of a severe episode of
depression include unfounded negative
evaluations of friends and family and
oneself emotional pain physical problems
like lethargy difficult to getting your
thoughts together virtually no interest
in your
surroundings it it's not just having a
bad day we've all had bad days you
probably had a couple this
week depression is far more than that
depression takes over your body and
begins to express itself in some of the
things I have just
discussed it was a notable Sunday
morning back in
1866 and the famous British preacher
Charles Haden
Spurgeon shocked his 5,000 listeners as
he got up in London's Metropolitan
Tabernacle and began a sermon from
Isaiah 41 and this was his
introduction he said I have to speak
today to myself and while I shall be
endeavoring to encourage those who are
distressed and
downhearted I shall be preaching I trust
to myself for I need something which
shall cheer my
heart why I cannot tell wherefore I do
not know but I have a thorn in the flesh
a messenger of Satan to Buffet me my
soul is cast down within me I feel as if
I had rather die than live all that God
has done by me seems to be forgotten and
my spirit flags and my courage breaks
now you just stop and think about what
you would be thinking right now if I had
introduced that sermon and that was
me for some of his audience it was an
incomprehensible thought that this
world's greatest preacher Charles Haden
Spurgeon would confess to such
despair but John Henry JWT who was the
renowned pastor of the fifth
Presbyterian Church in New York City and
later of Westminster Chapel in London
wrote to a friend and he said you seem
to imagine that I have no ups and downs
but just a level and lofty stretch of
spiritual attainment unbroken Joy by no
means I am often perfectly wretched and
everything appears most
murky Martin Luther the great reformer
was subject to such fits of Darkness
that he would hide himself away for days
and his family would remove all
dangerous implements from the house for
fear that he would hurt himself in the
midst of one of these times he wrote for
more than a week I was as close to the
gates of death and hell as one can be I
trembled in all my members Christ was
wholly lost to me I was shaken by
desperation and blasphemy of God
reformer John Knox prayed Lord Jesus
receive my spirit and put an end to my
miserable life
Adan Iram Judson America's first foreign
missionary suffering from a deep
depression following his wife's death
wrote God to me is the great unknown I
believe in him but I cannot find him and
John bunan who wrote Pilgrim's Progress
said sometimes I should be assaulted
with such discouragement fearing that I
should not be able to speak the word at
all at such times I should have such
strange fatness and my legs have scarce
been able to carry
me Jeremiah the prophet said cursed be
the day on which I was
born Elijah experiencing deep depression
as he cries out it is enough now Lord
take my life for I am no better than my
fathers and Jay oswal Sanders one of the
great writers of Our Generation said
speaking of Elijah and Moses he said is
it not without its comfort that the two
men who conversed with the Lord on the
amount of transfiguration both broke
under the strain of their Ministry and
prayed that they might
die the dictionary defines depression as
Low Spirits gloomy feelings dejection
sadness a condition marked by feelings
of worthlessness failure and accompanying
accompanying
guilt sometimes the word depression is
used very generally to describe a lot of
things but I want to make sure we
understand what we're going to talk
about today as we read this chapter in a
moment moment depression is more than
just a case of the
Blues perhaps the best way to help us
understand that is a phrase that I read
this week it says depression is embodied
emotional suffering embodied emotional
suffering and other words it's not just
a state of mind or a negative view of
life but something that affects our
physical being as
well signs of a severe episode of
depression include unfounded negative
evaluation of friends and family and
oneself emotional pain physical problems
like lethargy difficulty getting your
thoughts together virtually no interest
in your
surroundings it it's not just having a
bad day we've all had bad days you
probably had a couple this
week depression is far more than that
depression takes over your body and
begins to express itself in some of the
things I have just
discussed now in the Book of Job we are
going to see one of the most profound
statements of depression you will ever
read in your life in the third chapter
We Begin our understanding of this book
by experiencing job's depression with
him job is standing basically naked
before God anything or anyone who he may
have counted on for help or
encouragement has been taken away from
him his health is gone his wealth is
gone his family is gone his wife has
abandoned him and unknown to job is the
fact that he has been the object of a
challenge between God and
Satan he only knows one thing he knows
the pain of his own life his misery is
Indescribable his Outlook is hopeless
and while he rejects the advice of Satan
and his wife to curse God and die job is
despairing of of his
life weeks have gone by since he was
first Afflicted with the terrible
disease described in Chapter 2 beside
the physical pain and the emotional and
spiritual anguish job was a man with a
broken body and a broken
Spirit as he sits on the ash Heap
outside the
city we are not left to wonder what is
going through his mind for later on in
the Book of Job in chapters 29 and 30
we hear job speaking of things as they
used to be and as they now are he's
thinking about how in days pass God took
care of
him that he felt the Friendship of God
in his
home he remembers when all of his
children were around and his life was
prospering and the Elders of the city
honored him and the young man of the
city stepped aside and reverenced him
when he walked by even the highest
officials in the city stood up in
respect for
job but that was then and this is
now now the young men make fun of him I
am a joke to them he writes they spit in
my face they lay traps for my path they
come at me from all directions he says I
live in Terror with no one to help
depression haunts my days I cry to God
but I get no answers my voice of joy and
gladness has turned into morning this is
what's playing on the track of job's
mind as he sits outside the city
and there's still been no indication
that God intends to explain to job what he's
he's
doing to job this experience is totally
void of meaning one writer says few
things are harder to Bear than
meaningless suffering if we could see
some reason for what we have to go
through we could more easily endure it
but pointless trouble is corrosive to
our souls now there are many who have
wondered how such a sweeping change
could come over job from chapter 2 to
chapter 3 from radical saintliness in
Chapter 2 to unseemly despair in chapter
3 but by this stage it should be clear
that an entirely new trial has now
overtaken job the trial of depression of
deep mental spiritual trauma the
terrible disasters of the first
chapter job managed to weather and he
even maintained his in the
process but now the Battlefront has
shifted from the outside to the inside
now it is Job's inner psychic life his
very soul that is under direct satanic
attack in the words of Proverbs
18:14 a man's Spirit sustains him in
sickness but a crushed Spirit who can
bear and so job begins to lament in the
third chapter sitting there on the ash
sheep outside of the city for the first
time he really begins to talk and it's
evident that something's really happened
in job he's become full of depression and
and
despair the chapter is made up of three
laments three cries on the part of job
and the first one I've called this Lord
why did I arrive why did I
arrive in verses 1-10 we read these
words after this job opened his mouth
and cursed the day of his birth and job
spoke and said May the day perish on
which I was born and the night in which
it was said a male child is conceived
May that day be Darkness may God above
not seek it nor the light shine upon it
may darkness and the shadow of death
claim it may a cloud settle on it may
the Blackness of the day terrify it as
for the night May Darkness seize it may
it not rejoice among the days of the
Year may it not come into the number of
the months oh May that night be Barren
May no joyful shout come into it may
those curse it who curse the day those
who are ready to arouse leviathon May
the stars of its morning be dark may it
look for light but have none and not see
the dawning of the day because it did
not shut up the doors of my mother's
womb nor hide sorrow
from my eyes job is saying why did I even
even
arrive why was I even
born and he begs that the night of his
conception and the day of his birth be
blotted off of the calendar these words
are the words of a man who is so broken
that he no longer cares what he says he
has come to believe that the only
solution to his set of woes is for him
never to have been born in the first place
place
he has lost his perspective of God at
this point he's overreacted he's made
exaggerated statements he's jumped to
wrong conclusions he's losing sound
judgment and that's the way depression
Works isn't it depression affects a
person's view of life it gives a twisted
perception of reality a distorted view
of God when Believers become discouraged
especially over an extended period of
time they can lose a right perspective
Ive on life and draw wrong and
exaggerated conclusions such Dark Nights
of the Soul can cause us to see life in
a way that does not square with reality
and job understands that turn over to
chapter 6 and notice in Chapter 6: 2 and
3 job realizes that he has spoken in a
way that he should not have spoken he
said oh that my grief were fully weighed
and my Calamity laid with it on the
scales for then it would be heavier than
the sand of the sea therefore my words
have been rash job acknowledges that in
his crying out in the midst of his
anguish he has spoken rashly he has
spoken words he probably shouldn't have
spoken he continues his lament with this
thought Lord if I had to be born why
couldn't have I just died at Birth so
the second question is not why did I
and in verses 11 and 12 job expresses
the fact that he wished that he had died
in childbirth he says why did I not die
at Birth why did I not perish when I
came out of the womb or why did the
knees receive me or why the breasts that
I should
nurse in his present state of depression
job can find no reason for his life he
cannot understand why God would have
allowed him to even survive his birth if
all these tragedies were going to happen to
to
him job's reference to knes here is an
interesting thing because it's a
reference to a Hebrew custom in which a
newborn child would be placed upon the
father's knee as a Mark that the father
received the child as his
own job wondered why his mother
sustained his life at Birth and did not
just abandon him if he was going to have
a life that ended up like this that's
the way people talk and the way they
think when they are
depressed not only does he help us here
to understand his desire for death but
he describes death as he understand it
and and I need to tell you in verses
13-9 job has a very uninformed concept
of death he says for now I would have
Lain still and been quiet I would have
been asleep then I would have been at
rest with Kings and counselors of the
earth who built ruins for themselves or
with princes who had gold who filled
their houses with silver or why was I
not hidden like a stillborn child like
infants who never saw light there the
wicked cease from troubling and there
the weary are at rest there the
prisoners rest together they do not hear
the voice of the oppressor the small and
great are there and the servant is free
from his
master please understand men and women
that the Bible is a progressive
revelation many seed Concepts grow and
develop in the Old Testament and do not
really bear fruit until you come to the
New Testament as far as we can Discover
at no time did the Hebrews ever think
about death as total
Extinction but job here is expressing
death as a hopeful relief for what he's
experiencing in life he sees death as a
time and place of rest and relief from
everything he's been suffering he
believes it to be the great equalizer he
speaks of kings and counselors of the
Earth with whom he would be in
association job was once Rich remember
now he's poor and he sort of feels like
maybe if I die I can recover my status
among the Kings and the
counselors and he even says that the
wicked here ceased from turmoil in
death and that shows the total depth of
his depression for in essence he would
rather be with the wicked in death than
to be alive in the misery that he was
experiencing now we should not be too
critical of
job for he did not know what we
no therefore what he is saying is
wrong absolutely wrong somebody said I
thought there was anything wrong in the
Bible well listen to me the Bible
accurately speaks of the things people
say that are wrong inspiration isn't
just that everything in the Bible is
absolutely true the Bible is Absolut
absolutely true about everything that's
in the
Bible and so the Bible is speaking here
honestly about what job was experiencing
and job only understood death through
his very very limited knowledge of what
death was all
about and he's wrong about death as we
now know because we have the New
Testament that helps us shine light on
the Old Testament he's wrong and so are
all those today who think that death is
Annihilation some people teach that
death is nothing but a deep dreamless
sleep that puts an end to all Earthly
troubles and trials that is the tragedy
of the thousands every day in this
country who deliberately seek death as
an escape from from the burdens of Life
the Bible teaches consistently that
death is no dreamless sleep or state of
non-existence but it brings us into the
presence of the Eternal God to whom we
must give an account the Bible says it
is appointed unto men once to die and
after that the Judgment people ask me
everywhere I go if we ever have a
question and an answer time Pastor let
me ask you this if somebody commits
suicide does that mean they we're going
to go to hell and they can't go to to
Heaven of course not if a person is a
Christian and they take their own life
that doesn't cancel out their
Christianity anymore than any other sin
would do it but I like to remind people
that it's not a good thing to
do there's always hope and that's never
the answer and you need to understand
the first person you're going to see
after you do that is the god of Heaven
who created you and gave you life in the
first place maybe some of you are here
today maybe your life is so unraveled so
messed up you you've even thought this
week about taking your life don't you
dare God loves you he sent his son to
provide salvation for you and there is
hope for you the enemy would like to
have you curse God and die that's what
he tried to get job to do but don't you
don't you take his word whatever that
negative stuff in that's going on in
your heart is not from God it's from the
enemy you got to decide who you're going
to believe and I'm here to tell you I
don't know anybody who is beyond the
reach of a loving God including you or
anyone else he is able to do what he will
do now by the end of the book job's
already gotten some more information
about life after death in fact I'm going
to jump ahead I know you should never do
that when you're telling a story job
comes back around and and if you'll just
let me read these verses from the 19th of
of
job he says this later on he says after
my skin is destroyed this I know that in
my flesh I shall see God whom I shall
see for myself and my eyes Shall Behold
and not another oh how my heart yearns
within me what's happened job has grown
over the verses of this book and now he
has a different understanding about what
happens after death but here in his
depression he's not seeing anything
clearly he sees only death as a way out
and so he asks first of all why did I
arrive and then second L why did I
survive and now thirdly why am I
alive verses 20- 26 job's thirdd lament
is one that is very common today job is
saying since I had to be born and I
didn't die in child birth why can't I
just die
now in these verses verses 20- 26 job
asks the question why and there's
nothing wrong with asking the question
why did you know the Lord Jesus asks the
question why on the cross why have you forsaken
forsaken
me but go back and read that and read it
carefully I didn't hear any answer from
Heaven did
you you see there's nothing wrong with
asking why you can ask it all you want
what's really wrong is if you expect God
owes you an
answer he
doesn't ask your wise if you will but
don't make God obligated to answer your
questions he is not and he did not
answer job's
and here we have these verses beginning
at verse 20 why is light given to him
who is in misery and life to the bitter
of Soul who long for death and it does
not come and search for it more than
Hidden Treasures who Rejoice exceedingly
who are glad when they find the grave
why is light given to a man whose way is
hidden in whom God has hedged in for my
sign comes before I eat my groanings
pour out like water and the thing I
greatly feared has come upon me what I
dreaded has happened to me I am not at
ease nor am I quiet I have no rest for Trouble
Trouble
Comes you see job is at a point where he
can't think of any purpose for his
life everything that brought meaning to
his life is gone his health his wealth
most of his family one does not have to
be a psychologist to understand why job is
is
depressed but here I want you to
understand job is not talking about
suicide he had plenty of opportunity to
go that route and he has not he's just
wondering out loud why God doesn't just
take him out of his pain and let him die
over here we are told that job has lost
his appetite he's filled with fear and
dread he groans day and night he has no
ease or quiet and trouble surrounds him
William Barkley says the very greatness
of job lies in the fact that in spite of
everything which tore at his heart he
never lost his grip on faith and his
grip on God job's faith is no grueling
passive unquestioning submission job
struggled and questioned and sometimes even
even
defied but the flame of Faith was never
extinguished in his
heart he lived later to Triumph in his
faith once again if I can jump ahead to
a few statements later on in the Book of
Job in Job chapter 13 He says though he slay
slay
job 16:19 surely even now my witness is
in heaven and my evidence is on high job
19:25 I know that my redeemer lives and
he shall stand at last on the
earth and the important thing to
remember men and women is this that God
spoke highly of job before and after his
experience in depression in Jo 42 which
is the last chapter in the book verses 7
and 8 we read these words and so it was
after the Lord had spoken these words to
job that the Lord said to alphaz the
temanite my wrath is aroused against you
and your two friends for you have not
spoken of me what is right as my servant
job has now therefore take for
yourselves seven bulls and seven Rams
and go to my servant job and offer up
for yourselves a burnt offering and my
servant job will pray for you
and I will accept him lest I deal with
you according to your Folly because you
have not spoken of me what is right as
my servant job has God said that at the
end of the book after all this stuff has
happened God did not excuse job because
of his
circumstances but God understood job's
Frailty and the strength of The
Temptations that assailed him and he
does the very same for us
today we have so demonized depression
that many Christians are afraid to even
exist in the midst of it or to say
anything about it don't ever forget to
tell people that it's all right to go to
someone and tell them as a Christian
that you're going through a time of
depression it may not have to do with
anything you know there is such a thing
as organic uh depression you can have
chemical misbalance in your in your
spirit there's all kinds of reasons for
depression and the last thing I want to
do is oversimplify it today that's not
my role what I I really want you to see
is a man of God who never lost favor
with God who went through a very
difficult time in his
life because once you see that you will
begin to understand that that's not
unusual that happens to
people so we've looked at this chapter
experiencing depression but I want to
take these last few moments and talk
with you about examining
depression and I want you to listen
carefully because I have had to choose
carefully what I would say and what I
wouldn't have time to say and I really
believe these are the things that God
wants me to leave in your heart as we
close our book on the third chapter of
job first of all I want to talk with you
about the reality of
depression more than one in 20 American
adults are treated for depression
sometime during their
life 14% or 31 million adults report a
major bout with depression in their
lifetime major depression is now the
leading cause of disability worldwide
no gender no age group or other
demographic is immune from depression
and the disease cost 55 billion in lower
productivity and workplace absenteeism each
each
year the reality is that Godly Believers
sometimes get
depressed depression has been called the
common cold of the Soul sooner or later
most people catch
one and God's servants including
including
Spurgeon and Jeremiah and Elijah and job
are not
immune to periodic visitations of
depression the reality of it let me
speak for just a moment about the
recognition of
depression according to the National
Institute of Mental Health those who
exhibit four of the following symptoms
should probably go and see somebody and
get some help and try to get through it
here are the things they've listed loss
of interest in usual activities feelings
of guilt worthlessness hopelessness
weight gain or loss now if you've gained
a lot of weight it may not be about
depression I just thought I'd throw that
in here you might be depressed because
you gained a lot of weight that might be
true sleep disturbances depressed mood
hyperactivity lethargy anxiety crying
slow thinking Suicidal Thoughts if you
have four of these says the Mental
Health Association you should seek
someone to help you work through it job
had them
all he scored a 100 on the
test the reality of depression and the
recognition of it here's something
that's really U to me is profound and I
guess any of us who think we've
discovered something that nobody's
written about before we think it's
probably the first time and it's more
than likely in a 100 books
someplace but I've noticed as I've
thought about this that there is a rout
routine of depression the routine of
depression someone has described it like
this in nautical terms listen carefully
you'll get this picture the height of
the wave determines the depth of the
valley that follows it all of us West
Coast people we've been we've been out
in the waves and we know that when a big
wave comes and almost blows us away that
after that there's a huge dip and and
then the next wave comes in the realm of
depression that is often the routine in
the scripture you see this for instance
Elijah was used by God to confront the
prophets of Baal if you look at First
Kings 18- 19 you will discover a
thrilling event in which God performed a
mighty miracle in answer to Elijah's
prayer God sent fire down from heaven
and burned up the sacrifice that had
been loaded up with with water and
Elijah knew God's Mighty
power and within just a matter of hours
he was running for his life from Queen
Jezebel and when he couldn't run any
longer he collapsed under a juniper tree
and asked God if to kill him said I want to
to
die you see often times after a Mountaintop
Mountaintop
experience you can suffer the valley
afterwards anybody been through that
anybody ever know that you you stand on
the mountain with your hands up high but
interestingly enough the word Satan does
not appear in the Book of Job after
chapter 2 listen to me listen
carefully the word Satan appears in job
2:7 and it doesn't appear again in the
book it seems as if Satan's testing of
job was finished with the completion of
the second
chapter job stood strong against the
test of Satan when he was Under Fire and
his family was taken and his health was
taken and his wealth was taken he hung
in there during that
time but when the contest was
concluded he fell into deep
despair all of the anguish turned inward on
on
him and you know it's not recorded of
Jesus that he was ever
depressed but he was tempted by the
devil do you remember that and you know
when it happened immediately after his
baptism sometimes if we suffer from
bouts of depression we do well to
observe its routine in our lives and
then the response to
depression and I need to just say I feel
like I'm apologizing here because folks
I am not a psychologist I'm not a
psychiatrist I'm just a student of the
word of God I'm trying to tell you only
what I observe in the scripture you got
to go beyond that yourself but here's
what I want you to know the response to
depression is not something I can cover
adequately cuz there's all different
ways to respond to to
it but I do have one observation from this
this
story and here it is face your depression
depression
honestly job did not hide his feelings
it was his honesty about his feelings
that ultimately brought him back to
health he refused to bury it before God
and anybody that would listen when he
finally hit it he just let it all all
out and expressed what was going on in his
his
heart honesty is always the best
policy on one uncharacteristically awful
afternoon during the 1950s Yankee
Slugger Superstar Mickey Manel struck
out three
times and he was badly depressed about
it he was sitting in the clubhouse he
remembered he said I sat down on my
stool and held my head in my hands like
I thought I was going to start
crying and I heard someone come up to me
and it was little Tommy Bara Yogi Bar's
boy standing there next to me and he
tapped me on the knee nice and soft and
I figured he was going to say something
nice like hey you hang in there or
something like
that but all he did was look at me and
then in his little kid's voice he said you
stink now I can't say this for sure but
I I would imagine Mickey Mano felt
better after that you
know most of us find it a lot easier to
be honest with somebody else than we are with
with
ourselves often in the Psalms we read of
David crying out to the Lord and this is
what job did too job 711 says this
therefore I will not restrain my mouth I
will speak in the anguish of my spirit I
will complain in the bitterness of my soul
soul
the fact that there is a point at which
Any Man simply throws in the
towel is Illustrated in the life of Job
he does not abandon his faith he just
gets thoroughly sick and tired of trying
to put a good face on things
and this is not sin it's just honesty
job is a forthright plain Spoken Man the
sort of person who's not afraid to say
what's on his heart and we need
grudgingly to acknowledge that such
uncommon honesty may be one of the
greatest virtues that a saint can
possess he's not putting a spin on his
walk with God he's in a dark place and
he acknowledges
it the reality of
depression and the recognition of it the
routine of it the response to it and
finally the result of it once again as
our friend Paul Harvey said here's the
rest of the
story even before his testing was over
job expressed confidence in the end
result in chapter 23 and: 10 he says but
he knows the way that I
take and when he has tested me I will
come forth as gold
wow and after it was over he expressed
gratitude for what had happened in his
life in job 42:5 he said I have heard of
you God by the hearing of the ear but
now my eye sees you therefore I abore
myself and repent in dust and Ashes he
said Lord God I used to know about you
but when you took me through this test
man I I know you now how many know that
when you go through test testing and God
walks through with you you come out of
it with a greater sense of intimacy with
almighty God than you've ever had in
your life that's what job is
experiencing in his book The Gospel
According to job Mike Mason summarizes
the impact of a chapter like Job chapter
3 I've had many people say they've never
heard a message on Job 3 I understand why
why
but listen to his analysis of why we
should never avoid even a passage like
this he said for the person who
struggles and agonizes the Very
blackness in the Bible is gold just the
presence in scripture of a book so dark
and chaotic and thoroughly eccentric as
job should come as an immense Comfort to
any suffering believer for the book says
in effect this is what faith is often
like do not be surprised if you find
yourself confused and doubting and
Afflicted and all but crushed it does
not mean you have lost favor with God
end of quote Charles Spurgeon left
behind a couple of little books called
lectures to my students and I have those
books my father gave them to
me these are the things he would say to
his preacher boys when he'd get them
together and hold classes and he would teach
teach
them and in one of his lectures to his
students here's what he said he said
before any great achievement some
measure of depression is very
usual such was my experience when I
first became the pastor in London My
Success appalled me and the thought of
the career which it seemed to open up so
far from a lading me cast me into the
lowest depths who was I that I should
continue to lead so great a multitude I
would take me to my Village obscurity
immigrate to America find a solitary
nest in the Backwoods where I might be
sufficient for the
things which would be demanded of me and
then he said this depression comes over
me whenever the Lord is preparing a
larger blessing for my Ministry the
cloud is always black before it breaks
and overshadows before it yields its
Deluge of Mercy depression has now
become to me as a profit in rough
clothing later on in the book he says
depression has become his John the
Baptist announcing something good that
is about to
happen you see the routine of depression
is not only the valley after the
Mountaintop it's the valley often before the
the
Mountaintop we were not made as human
beings to sustain holy highs throughout
every minute of our life we cannot do
that and God allows the dark moments so
that we can appreciate the moments of
glory and light that come before and after
and if you're going through a time of
depression maybe triggered by some of
the things that have been happening in
our culture let me assure you you have
not lost favor with god he has not
forgotten you nor could he ever his love
for you is so great and so
immense that there is no precedent for
it it is unprecedent there's nothing to
which we can compare it and if God would
love you so much that would not even
spare his only begotten son but would
send him into this world so that you
might be redeemed do you think he is
going to forsake you in the midst of a difficult
difficult
moment he has promised I will never
leave you nor forsake
you and I have no evidence anywhere that
God has ever out promised himself or
gone back on his
word if you feel unloved by God it's
because the problems of your life have
fogged up the screen through which you see
see
reality find somebody who can help you
and pray with you whatever you do don't
not talk about it find somebody who can
help you you can get past it you can get
Beyond it and like job you will stand and
and
say when he tested me I came out as
gold God never wastes anything and he
will not waste these moments on your life
life
so if you're in the midst of some deep
moments of discouragement maybe pressing
over the threshold into Despair and
depression I'm here to tell you today
you and he knows what you're
experiencing and he will never ever turn
his back on you so don't you turn your
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today next time on turning
point it is true to say that all
suffering is the result of sin it is
totally untrue to say that any
particular suffering is the result of
some particular sin and what elaz was
saying to job was job if you'll comb
through your history you'll find the
awful things that you did that made it
necessary for God to make you suffer
like you are suffering and that was
wrong don't ever go there join Dr
Jeremiah next time for his message
helping the
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