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911. Bible Study: Job 23-26 (Possible Reasons for Suffering/the Testing the Righteous · Faith by annm2705

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We'll begin with chapter 23 from the book of Job.
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First, let's pray, dear Lord, please be with us and open our
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eyes and our hearts and our minds and our thoughts to what
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you have to say through Job, through what's written in the
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book of Job. We ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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Chapter 23. Then Job replied.
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Even today, my complaint is bitter.
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His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
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He's talking about God and the suffering that He's going
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through. If only I knew where to find him
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referring to God, If only I could go to his dwelling, I
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would state my case before him and fill my mouth with
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arguments. I would find out what he would
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answer me and consider what He would say to me.
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Would he vigorously oppose me? No, He would not press charges
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against me. There the upright can establish
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their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered
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forever from my judge. But if I go to the East, he's
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not there. If I go to the West, I do not
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find him. When he is at work in the North,
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I do not see him. When he turns to the South, I
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catch no glimpse of him. But he knows the way I take.
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When he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
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It's kind of interesting that Job actually said that says when
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he has tested me and we know that Job doesn't even know that
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he's being tested right now, but it's that comes to him when he's
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stating his case to God. Verse 11 My feet have closely
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followed his steps. I have kept to his way without
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turning aside. I have not departed from the
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commands of his lips. I have treasured the words of
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his mouth more than my daily bread.
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I mean, that's a pretty big statement right there.
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I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily
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bread. This just shows how focused on
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God Job was and he's stating his case right here.
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How important God has been to him and how he just cannot
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understand why he's going through all the suffering.
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Verse 13 But he stands alone and who can oppose him?
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He does whatever he pleases. He carries out his decree
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against me and many such plans he still has in store.
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That is why I am terrified before him.
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When I think of all of this, I fear him.
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God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
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So we can also see this isn't another supporting statement
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that shows us that Job does fear the Lord.
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That's one of the things that was quoted in the beginning of
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this book was that he was an upright man and he was righteous
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and he feared the Lord on. And so this is he's affirming
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that right now where he says that is why I am terrified
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before him when I think of all of this, I fear him.
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And it, it, it says, you know, we should not fear our enemies,
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God's enemies, but fear the one who could take away who has, I
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guess, control over the destiny of our souls where we end up
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like that is really the only fear that a true believer should
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have is the fear of the Lord. And if we are in a good
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relationship with God, we have nothing to fear because we know
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that God is just, we know that he's merciful and we don't have
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to fear when we are not in rebellion.
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There's nothing to fear about God.
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In it. It says perfect love casts out
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all fear and God is love. So when we are in a perfect
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relationship with Him, the fear is cast out.
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But at the same time, there's that knowing about who God is
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and what power he has and what he can do, that it's it's
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respect for God is what that is. That fear is the respect for God
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and who he is. So God has made my heart faint.
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The Almighty has terrified me. What he's inaccurately saying
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here is it's really not God, but it's it's Satan who has access
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to him that God permitted this. We found that out in the first
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few chapters of this book of Job.
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Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness
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that covers my face. So that's the end of chapter 23.
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But he continues, Job continues. So I'm going to read chapter 24
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as well. Why does the Almighty not set
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times for judgement? Why must those who know Him look
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in vain for such days? There are those who move
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boundary stones. They pasture flocks they have
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stolen. They drive away the orphan's
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donkey and take the widow's ox and pledge.
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They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of
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the land into hiding. Like wild donkeys in the desert.
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The poor go about their labor for of foraging food.
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The wasteland provides food for their children.
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They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of
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the wicked. Lacking nothing or lacking
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clothes. I'm sorry.
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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked.
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They have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
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They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack
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of shelter. The fatherless child is snatched
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from the breast. The infant of the poor is seized
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for a debt. Lacking clothes, they go about
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naked. They carry the sheaves, but
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still go hungry. They crush olives among the
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terraces. They tread the winepress, yet
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suffer thirst. The groans of the dying rise
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from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.
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But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
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There are those who rebel against the light, who do not
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know its ways or stay on its past.
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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the
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poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
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The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk.
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He thinks no one will see me, and he keeps his face concealed.
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In the dark. Thieves break into houses, but
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by the day they shut themselves in.
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They want nothing to do with the light.
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For all of them, midnight is their morning.
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They make friends with terrors of darkness.
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They are foam on the surface of the water.
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Their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to
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the vineyards. As heat and drought snatch away
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the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have
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sinned. The womb forgets them.
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The worm feasts on them. The wicked are no longer
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remembered, but are broken like a tree.
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They prey on the barren and childless woman, and to the
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widow they show no kindness. But God drags away the mighty by
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His power. Though they they become
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established, they have no assurance of life.
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He makes. He may let them rest in a
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feeling of security, but his eyes are on their ways.
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For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone.
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They are brought low and gathered up like all others.
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They are cut off like heads of grain.
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If this is not so, who can prove me false, and reduce my words to
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nothing? And that ends Job's segment of
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the argue the discussion with his his friends.
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So I'm going to just read the questions and answers that are
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in the study Bible and we'll see where we end up time wise.
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So is God heavy-handed? Going back to chapter 23,
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though, Job felt the weight of God's hand, God's testing of
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him. God is always just.
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He is righteous in all his ways. Job did not know about the
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discussion between God and Satan that we read about in chapters
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one and two, but his statement poetically captures the truth
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that God sometimes permits us to suffer.
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To Job's credit, even though he felt that God's hand was heavy,
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Job did not curse God and die. Remember, that's what his wife
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told him to do. Was Job claiming innocence?
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Job never claimed to be sinless, only upright.
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The author of the book of Job agreed This man was blameless
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and upright. He feared God and shunned evil.
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Job knew that no hidden heinous sin had led to his present
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calamity. Job believed if he could just
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present his case before God, he would be judged innocent of all
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charges. Does God hide?
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God is present at all times and in all places.
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But like Job, we all experience time when God seems far away in
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suffering. We may not recognize God's work,
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His ways, or even His presence, though He is always with us.
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Was Job's attitude right? Job was right that God can do
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whatever He wants and nobody can stop him.
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When the all powerful God allows suffering in our lives, it's
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understandable that we would be terrified before him.
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But Job, in his great pain, was losing sight of the fact that
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God is also the source of our blessings.
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Should we fear God's plans for us?
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Those who trust in God never need to fear His ultimate plans
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for us. Job was in utter agony.
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He had no idea when all this suffering would end.
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It was natural for him to feel anxious about the future.
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But we need to balance Job's statement with the broader
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teaching in the Bible that God always has our best interest at
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heart. We find that in Jeremiah chapter
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29 and Romans chapter 8. Job himself discovered this when
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God not only restored but doubled everything God had lost
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in chapter 42 verse 12. So this is something that when I
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first read the book of Job I, it was so horrible that I just
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thought I have to go to the end to see what happens.
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And it was good that in the end God restored things that Job
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lost. So if, like I said, I, I think
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this is the only one that I can remember where a completely
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righteous person was being tested by Satan and and God was
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allowing it. I just can't recall another book
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in the Bible that this message comes through.
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So this is a very unique book in the Bible and it in its purpose
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is in here because it probably you know God.
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Well, I'm not going to assume what God why God wanted it in
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here, but it seems like to me personally that this book is in
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here to show us another aspect of suffering and why when things
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seem unjust, why it just may be God allowing us to be tested and
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and it's not a consequence of sin.
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So it's in the study Bible. It says why did testing come to
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Job. There is no single simple
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explanation for why believers go undergo suffering, but the Bible
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offers several reasons. So there are four different
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reasons here talks about strengthening our character
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proves our faith is genuine. It gets rid of unrefined
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qualities in our life and it proves believers are God's true
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children. Now I'll go into more detail on
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that, what the study Bible says. So there's four different
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purposes behind it that are shown in the Bible.
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First, testing strengthens our character.
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James says the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
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In James chapter one verse 3. Painful situations produce
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character the same way regular exercise builds muscle tone.
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Peter adds that testing proves our faith is genuine.
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That's in first Peter chapter one, verse 7.
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When the heat is on, we reveal who we actually are and what we
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truly believe. Peter also suggests that this
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testing of faith gives honor to God.
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Remaining faithful despite prolonged agony testifies to
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others how much we value and put trust in God.
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Job notes that testing can rid our lives of unrefined
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qualities, much the way a blast furnace brings out impurities in
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metals. Testing removes sinful attitudes
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in US, and we come forth as gold.
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The writer of Hebrews says that testing proves believers are
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God's children. In Hebrews 12, verses 6 through
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8, every wise parent disciplines a child in love to help the
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child develop. When God brings testing, it
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reminds us that we are His children.
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Why did testing come to Job? It never occurred to Job that
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God was allowing the testing because He was pleased with Job.
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He said, Have you considered my servant Job?
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There is no one on earth like him.
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That was chapter one, verse 8. There may be no reason behind
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our testing other than God is pleased with us.
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He may want to reveal Himself to us and others through such
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testing. And I guess we also have to
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remember that Job never cursed God with it.
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He was always he was just not sure why this was happening, but
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he didn't get he didn't go against God during all of this.
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He just asked why, but he didn't say something like I hate you,
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God or anything like that. He didn't those words never came
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out of his mouth. So he was he was stayed loyal to
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God. He just, you know, suffered and
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didn't understand what was going on here.
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But the other thing I think about these, why does testing
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come? And the Bible gives us when we
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read through the entire Bible, we find Scripture supported.
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And so God uses two or three witnesses to establish truth.
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I always think about that. So in what we just read, James
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was a witness to the testing of people, Peter wrote about it,
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Job wrote about it, and the writer of Hebrews wrote about
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it. So there you have 4 different
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people who acknowledge that, you know, suffering does come to
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good people and there is a purpose behind it.
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It strengthens our character. It proves our faith.
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It can rid us of unrefined qualities and it proves that we
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are God's children because God disciplines those he loves.
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So it's for our good ultimately, although we may not see it, but
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it is for our good when it's a righteous person who undergoes
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suffering. So white.
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Another question, why doesn't God put an end to injustice?
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God does deal with the wicked. As Job himself admitted later.
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Job was simply crying out in anguish about the cruelty and
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unfairness he saw in the world around him.
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Today we may watch the Evening News and feel the same way.
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Eventually, though, the wicked will be judged.
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Ecclesiastes 12/13 through 14. God's eyes are on their ways.
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Job 2423 says they will be brought low.
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So what is fodder? That was talking about the
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people that the poor people who were eating Fodder generally a
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coarse feed, almost any kind of grain or hay for animals.
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It likely refers to what was left in the fields after the
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owners had harvested their crops.
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And that's what the people were eating, the poor people.
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How were the wicked? Like foam on the water, like
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foam whipped by the waves, Sinners will soon be gone.
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Some wonder why Job would say this and thereby lend force to
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his friends argument that sin reaps a swift penalty.
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Others suggest that Job's point of view, more complex than that
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of his friends, allowed for exceptions to the general rule
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that the righteous are rewarded and the wicked are punished.
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Some think this may have been an expression of Job's desire to
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see the wicked judged like foam on the surface of the water.
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Did Job finally agree with his friends viewpoint?
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Job's friends had argued that suffering is God's punishment
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for the wickedness. They therefore reasoned that
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since Job was suffering, he must have committed some evil.
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Here, Job only agreed with his friends that at some point evil
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people are cut off like heads of grain.
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Job refused to grant that his suffering was proof of his own
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guilt, however. There had to be another reason,
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though for the moment he didn't know what it was.
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Then we're only 17 minutes, so I'm going to cover two more
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chapters 25 and 2625 is extremely short.
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It's just Bill Dad the shoe height response and then Job
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replies back. And so we'll read that and then
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I'll read the questions and answers for those chapters.
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And then we will pause because then it gets into a really long
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discourse by Job starting with chapter 27.
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So we'll start reading chapter 25.
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S Bill. Dad, this is one of his friends.
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Then Bildad the shoe height replied, Dominion and awe belong
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to God. He establishes order in the
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heights of heaven. Can his forces be numbered?
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On whom does his light not rise? How then can a mortal be
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righteous before God? How can one born of woman be
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pure if even the moon is not bright and the stars are not
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pure in his eyes? How much less a mortal who is
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but a maggot? A human being who is only a worm
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it seems like. OK so that's the end of chapter
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25. It seems like Bildad is kind of
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picking up on Ilpha's visitation that he had with some spiritual
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dark spirit or something because he's just like degrading what a
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human being is, calling a human being a maggot and it's only a
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worm and, and just how you know it, humans are nothing, you
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know, to God. I mean, really saying something
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really evil about human beings. So this is interesting.
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And I just thought, you know, that's kind of the the tone that
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Ilphus got when he had that spiritual being visit him in the
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early chapters of the book of Job.
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And he didn't know what it was, but it caused terror in him.
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It was obviously something evil and he didn't understand it.
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Now Job's picking up on this. So chapter 26.
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Then Job replied how you have helped the how you have helped
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the powerless, how you have saved the arm that is feeble,
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what advice you have offered to 1 without wisdom and what great
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insight you have displayed. Who has helped you utter these
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words and whose spirit spoke from your mouth Here?
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I think Job is actually discerning that he's just like
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he's spewing words of the enemy here.
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Because he's like Joe's being sarcastic, how you have helped
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the powerless, how you have saved the arm that is feeble.
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Like he's offering no help to his friend, what advice you had
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offered is to 1 without wisdom so he's rebuking his friend.
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And what great insight you have displayed.
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He's being sarcastic, who has helped you utter these words and
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whose spirit spoke from your mouth.
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So Job is questioning him now. Like, where are you getting
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that? Then Job continues in verse 5.
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The dead are in deep anguish. Those beneath the waters and all
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that live in them. The realm of the dead is naked
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before God. Destruction lies uncovered.
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space.
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He suspends the earth over nothing.
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He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not
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burst under their weight. He covers the face of the full
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moon, spreading his clouds over it.
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He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a
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boundary between light and darkness.
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The pillars of heaven quake, aghast his at his rebuke.
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By his power he churned up the sea.
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By his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
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By his breath the skies became fair his his hand pierced the
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gliding serpent. And these are but the outer
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fringe of his works. How faint the whisper we hear of
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him. Who can who then can understand
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the Thunder of his power? Now that's where we're going to
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pause. That's the end of chapter 26.
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So I'm going to read the questions and answers up to for
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these last chapters. So chapter 25 what was the shoe
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height? Little is known about the shoe
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height tribe. Abraham and his concubine Katura
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had a son named Shua and that's found in Genesis 25 verse two
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and first Chronicles one verse 32.
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Shua and his brothers went to the land of the east in Genesis
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25 verse 6. Bildad was likely from that area
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which carried the original settlers name.
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What are God's forces? This term refers to armed
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troops. It could mean angels or other
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heavenly armies like as found in Matthew 26 verse 53.
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Or it could mean the military forces of nations which are
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ultimately under God's control. The point is that God possesses
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the resources to carry out His orders and defeat His enemies.
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Isaiah 45 verse 6 says this. Our people only maggots are
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worms. In comparison to the holy power
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and majesty of God, humans seem like little more than lowly
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insects. But it's important not to
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confuse our limited human faculties with our value to God.
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Our value to God is inestimable given God's willingness to give
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his Son to die for our sins, and we're also created in the image
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of God. And there's a whole lot of
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things we should probably do a study on.
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Just all the good things that God, all the love that God has
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for humans. Do the dead suffer?
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Yes, although it's uncertain whether Joe, with his
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perspective in ancient times, had any idea of how much those
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who have died suffered. See Matthew chapter 13 and Mark
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Chapter 9 for this. When Job said the dead are in
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deep anguish, he probably meant that even the spirits of the
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dead must tremble before God's majesty.
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Thus Job was challenging Bildad, saying that Bildad didn't go far
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enough in describing God's awesome power.
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Not only the heavens and the earth, but even this shadowy
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world of the dead bow to God's dominion.
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So are we responsible for sin in our nature at birth?
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This is a good question. How can mere mortals prove their
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innocence before God? It is probably the most
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important question in life. The answer is clear.
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No one can claim personal righteousness equal to God's
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purity. Paul recognized that all have
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sinned and fall short of the glory of God in Romans 323.
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The problem is we are born into a sinful condition due to Adam's
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sin. You can find that in Genesis
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chapter 3 verses 6 through 7. In Romans chapter 5 verses verse
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12, David described this original sin as some refer to it
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saying surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my
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mother conceived me. You can find that in Psalm 51
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verse 5. But isn't it unfair?
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How can we be held accountable for something we inherit?
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The problem with such questions is that we too have sinned.
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The question instead should be what do we do with the sinful
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nature we inherit? Do we indulge in it or do we
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trust in the way God has provided to overcome it?
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Boy, that overcome it is something that I don't think
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enough churches talk about today.
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It they they are willing to say we are sinners and then they say
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thank God for grace, but they don't look at the power that
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comes through the Holy Spirit. The power of self-control is one
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of the fruits of the Spirit. This is power to overcome sin,
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not to remain in sin. And that's where I think
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churches just, you know, get it wrong.
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So then a lot of people just think, you know, oh, if I just
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believe, then I'm saved and there's no changed life.
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There's no receiving of the Holy Spirit.
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When Jesus in John chapter 3 said that we must receive the
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Holy Spirit to enter the Kingdom of God, we must be born again.
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We must become a new creation. How do you become a new
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creation? Through the power of God, Not by
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our our own, but through the power of God that comes through
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the Holy Spirit. When we willingly invite the
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Holy Spirit into our life and let God begin to change us, that
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is when we become saved. And that's what Jesus said.
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You know, how can, how can we go against what Jesus said?
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Jesus himself said this. So we're not contradicting
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something that Jesus said, but this God gives us a way to
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overcome sin. We have to know who we are in
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Christ when we had the Holy Spirit residing in us and we
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are, we are a vessel if we are doing God's will.
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God has given us lots of authority and over things.
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We are not these weak beings on earth.
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We have spiritual power through God that we can operate under.
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And I think a lot of Christians are not operating with that that
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power that's given and not aware of it, maybe by not reading the
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Bible, which is so important. So anyway, it continues through
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faith in the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
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God gives us a brand new nature with a righteous standing before
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him. This is how we take
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responsibility for our sins. How can the realm of the dead
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and destruction be naked? Job was simply saying that even
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the lowest and darkest regions of creation, God still sees
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everything. This is just God's sovereignty
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over everything. And let's see, why did Job talk
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about nature? To emphasize God's enormous
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power, The unending vastness of the sky, the clouds that carry
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immeasurable volumes of water, the dazzling brilliance of the
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horizon, and the fury of the raging sea.
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All these are but a whisper of God's overwhelming strength.
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And then what was the gliding serpent?
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Ancient Middle Eastern stories told of the sea monster Rahab
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and Leviathan the gliding serpent In the Bible, these
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monsters poetically symbolizes the forces of nature that wreak
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havoc on the earth. This verse declares that God is
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more powerful than the wildest force nature can unleash,
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Unleash. It does seem when you look more
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into this, it does seem that Leviathan, I think Leviathan's
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even mentioned in Revelation and it's mentioned again in Job too.
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I think Rahab and Leviathan, I don't know if they're this one
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and the same or if they're different, but whatever they
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are, they are something evil that that God defeats, that I
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believe Jesus defeats. And I don't really want to go
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into a huge study of that. But if you want to just search
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Rahab, there's also a prostitute named Rahab.
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And I think that might be also symbolic because it's probably
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representative of some ancient spiritual entity that rejected
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God and worshipped probably Satan.
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You know, maybe it was like a fallen Angel or I don't it's,
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I'm not saying it's an Angel. It could be some other evil
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creature that God doesn't explain where it came from, but
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something that rebelled against God.
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And and we see that we see that through Scripture that there are
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there's good and evil of God's creation.
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God created all to be good, but he when he gave free will, we
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all have the ability and either other even heavenly beings have
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the ability, the free will that they can choose to go against
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God. And stupidly, some of them did
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that and it's recorded in the Bible.
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And their outcome, their final outcome, they will be thrown
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into the burning lake of sulfur and tormented forever and ever.
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So it's really foolish that they would have chosen something like
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that. But it's documented in the
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Bible. So this gliding serpent, I mean,
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that's something evil. But then his hand pierced the
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gliding serpent. So we don't really know the full
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extent of it, but I think it's more than just a fable.
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I think there's a spiritual reality behind it.
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The more you study the Bible and learn, I think you will also
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find this and but it's not really necessary for us to do
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that. So we're going to end chapter 26
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now and then the next time we pick up the book of Job, it'll
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