These chapters cover Job’s last lines of defense he offers in rebuttal to Bildad and by extension to his other two friends as well.
Job sees himself in favorable light which appears to be a bit larger-than-real-life depiction.
Regardless of all this, Job has sunk into a type of pride from which God is about to deliver him by a most unlikely source!
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The arguments defending individual positions continue. We begin with Job’s reply to Eliphaz. Then Bildad’s short response, followed again by Job’s long retort.
One argument of Job’s which is somewhat representative of all his arguments is that God cannot be found or approached so he can defend himself. He can see where God has been and what He has done, but cannot hear His voice which must be softer than a whisper!
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God gave permission to satan to attack Job due to an accusation against Job’s character and godly fear. This permission included all Job possessed.
Last week we examined how that could have included his adult children. This week we are examining how this could have affected his servants who also lost their lives.
At the end we just introduce the beginning of chapter 2 and Job’s second trial.
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:44 — 130.5MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 07/11/21 Series: Maintaining this hope Message – Submission, Authority & Conscience towards God Pt. 3 ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Submission, Authority & Conscience towards God Pt. 3 Past few weeks we’ve been working our way through the letter of first Peter and the last two of those weeks we’ve been looking at submission, authority and conscience towards God and how that is expressed in our relationships. In closing last week, we introduced the topic of husbands loving and respecting their wives. Husbands are to respect and honor their wives […]
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:21:37 — 138.2MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 07/04/21 Series: Maintaining this hope Message – Submission, Authority & Conscience towards God Pt. 2 ***Video is HERE*** Share this: Submission, Authority & Conscience towards God Pt. 2 Now you’ll of course remember that last week we were looking at 1Peter 3:1-5, and we covered a lot of ground regarding those verses, but we ended shy of finishing it, so let’s read the verses again to refresh our memories… 1Peter 3:1-22, “(1) In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to […]
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