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Job 25, Righteous before GOD?

Job 25:1-3, THEN BILDAD the Shuhite answered and said “DOMINION AND FEAR BELONG TO HIM; He makes peace in His high places. IS THERE ANY NUMBER TO HIS ARMIES? Upon whom does His light not rise?

THE GREATNESS OF GOD IS UNDENIABLE, AND HIS ARMIES ARE WITHOUT NUMBER IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT! Bildad is now just repeating what everyone has already agreed to! GOD IS GREAT!

Psa 99:1-3, THE LORD REIGNS; Let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the cherubim; Let the earth be moved! THE LORD IS GREAT in Zion, AND HE IS HIGH ABOVE ALL THE PEOPLES. LET THEM PRAISE YOUR GREAT AND AWESOME NAME—HE IS HOLY.

Job 25:4, HOW THEN CAN MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD? OR HOW CAN HE BE PURE WHO IS BORN OF A WOMAN? 

Again, Bildad thinks Job is saying that he is righteous and sinless before GOD! Job agrees with this and in fact he has already stated that!

Job 9:1-2, Then Job answered and said: “Truly I know it is so, BUT HOW CAN A MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD?

THESE, SO CALLED FRIENDS, ARE OUT OF ARGUMENTS, AND IN FACT THIS CHAPTER IS THE LAST OF THEIR WORDS! BUT TO ANSWER JOB AND BILDAD; HOW CAN A MAN BE RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD!

1Cor 6:9-11, Do you not know that the unrighteous WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT YOU WERE WASHED, BUT YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, BUT YOU WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.

IT IS ONLY THROUGH JESUS THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE; FOR ALL HAVE FALLEN SHORT OF HIS GLORY! THERE IS NOT ONE THAT DOES GOOD, BUT THROUGH HIS BLOOD WE ARE HEALED, AND THE CHARGES AGAINST US DROPPED!

Rom 8:33, WHO SHALL BRING A CHARGE AGAINST GOD’S ELECT? IT IS GOD WHO JUSTIFIES. 

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Job 17, Seeing Jesus in Job’s life!

Job 17:1-2, NLT, “My spirit is crushed, and my life is nearly snuffed out. The grave is ready to receive me. I AM SURROUNDED BY MOCKERS. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.

Job 17:4, FOR YOU HAVE HIDDEN THEIR HEART FROM UNDERSTANDING…

Job 17:6, “BUT HE HAS MADE ME A BYWORD OF THE PEOPLE, AND I HAVE BECOME ONE IN WHOSE FACE MEN SPIT. 

Job, is in agony, humiliated before everyone! People pass him by shaking their heads! Is this job! Wow what happened! BUT I SEE JESUS IN JOB’S LIFE! ON THE CROSS JESUS WAS SURROUNDED BY HIS MOCKERS!

Psa 22:6-7, But I am a worm, and no man; A REPROACH OF MEN, AND DESPISED BY THE PEOPLE. ALL THOSE WHO SEE ME RIDICULE ME…

Mat 27:30-31, THEN THEY SPAT ON HIM, and took the reed and struck Him on the head. AND WHEN THEY HAD MOCKED HIM, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified.

Just like Job’s friends lacked understanding, those who crucified JESUS lacked the same!

Luk 23:34, Then Jesus said, “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY DO.” …. 

JESUS KNOWS WHAT WERE GOING THROUGH IN LIFE, BECAUSE HE LIVED IT! HE WAS TESTED, HUMILIATED, MOCKED, SPAT ON AND CRUCIFIED FOR US!

Psa 139,2-4, You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.

WHATEVER IS YOUR SITUATION, SEEK THE LORD FOR HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT WERE GOING THROUGH!

Psa 9:10, AND THOSE WHO KNOW YOUR NAME WILL PUT THEIR TRUST IN YOU; FOR YOU, LORD, HAVE NOT FORSAKEN THOSE WHO SEEK YOU.

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Job 15, Drinking iniquity like water!

Job 15:1-3, 5, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “Should a wise man answer with EMPTY KNOWLEDGE… Should he reason with UNPROFITABLE TALK, Or by SPEECHES WITH WHICH HE CAN DO NO GOOD?… YOUR OWN MOUTH CONDEMNS YOU, AND NOT I; YES, YOUR OWN LIPS TESTIFY AGAINST YOU. 

JOB, YOUR NOT CONVINCING ANYONE; STOP WITH THIS USELESS TALK! ADMIT YOUR SIN!

Job 15:11, ARE THE CONSOLATIONS OF GOD TOO SMALL FOR YOU, AND THE WORD SPOKEN GENTLY WITH YOU? 

Job consider, the LORD has taken everything from you, AND HE HAS SENT US TO YOU, THAT WE MAY COUNCIL YOU WITH GENTLE WORDS? Eliphaz believe that they, his friends, were the consolation of GOD! Wow!

Isa 5:21, WOE TO THOSE WHO ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES, AND PRUDENT IN THEIR OWN SIGHT! 

Job 15:14-16, “WHAT IS MAN, THAT HE COULD BE PURE? … If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight, HOW MUCH LESS MAN, WHO IS ABOMINABLE AND FILTHY, WHO DRINKS INIQUITY LIKE WATER!

Job never said that he was perfect, he admitted to his iniquities as a young man

Job 13:26, For You write bitter things against me, AND MAKE ME INHERIT THE INIQUITIES OF MY YOUTH.

Eliphaz was speaking truth, it just didn’t apply to Job! LIKE A THIRSTY MAN DRINKING WATER, WE DRINK INIQUITY, SIN, AS IF WE WERE DEPENDANT ON IT TO SURVIVE! WOW!

Rom 3:23, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD, 

Psa 130:3-4, IF YOU, LORD, SHOULD MARK INIQUITIES, O LORD, WHO COULD STAND? BUT THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE FEARED.

WE ALL DO FOOLISH THINGS, AND NO ONE IS RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD! BUT IN HIM WE FIND FORGIVENESS!

Psa 25:11, For Your name’s sake, O LORD, PARDON MY INIQUITY, FOR IT IS GREAT. 

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Job 13, Never leave me LORD!

Job 13:4-5, But you FORGERS OF LIES, YOU ARE ALL WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS. OH, THAT YOU WOULD BE SILENT, AND IT WOULD BE YOUR WISDOM!

Job was tired of the false accusations of his friends; speaking without knowledge of the truth. It would be better if they just stay silent!

Pro 17:28, Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

Job 13:7, WILL YOU SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD, AND TALK DECEITFULLY FOR HIM? 

when calamity strikes a person do we say “IT’S BECAUSE OF YOUR SINS”? We speak with limited knowledge, and have no idea what GOD is doing behind the scenes! 

Job 13:15, THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM…

EVEN IF GOD KILLS ME, I STILL HAVE HOPE IN HIM! Paul said, Php 1:21, “FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN”

Pro 14:32, The wicked is banished in his wickedness, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS HAS A REFUGE IN HIS DEATH. 

Job 13:20-21, “ONLY TWO THINGS DO NOT DO TO ME, … (1) WITHDRAW YOUR HAND FAR FROM ME, (2) And LET NOT THE DREAD OF YOU MAKE ME AFRAID.

1) Job knew where his strength came from, even in this situation. Job lost everything, YET HE DIDN’T WANT TO LOSE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LIVING GOD! “NEVER WITHDRAW YOUR HAND FROM ME”!

2) God is love and HE wants the best for us! Yet, Job didn’t want to be frighten of GOD! WE SHOULD NEVER BE FRIGHTEN THAT GOD WILL HURT US, BUT THAT WE WILL HURT GOD WITH OUR ACTIONS, SINS, AND UNBELIEF!

Psa 27:13-14, I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

WHATEVER WERE GOING THROUGH NOW, WAIT ON THE LORD, SEEK HIS FACE! NEVER LOSE HOPE IN HIM BECAUSE EVEN IN DEATH OUR LOVING FATHER STILL REIGNS! JUST WAIT AND SEE!

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Job 8, the Father of all comfort!

Job 8:1,3-4, Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: … DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT? OR DOES THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE? IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION.

Bildad said, “YOUR PUNISHMENT SHOWS THAT YOUR GUILTY AND YOUR KIDS GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED!”.  BILDAD, NEVER CONSIDERED HIS PAIN, NOR HIS SUFFERING!

Job 8:5-6, IF YOU WOULD EARNESTLY SEEK GOD AND MAKE YOUR SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY, IF YOU WERE PURE AND UPRIGHT, SURELY NOW HE WOULD AWAKE FOR YOU, And prosper your rightful dwelling place.

Isa 3:10, “SAY TO THE RIGHTEOUS THAT IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THEM, FOR THEY SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF THEIR DOINGS. 

Job, IF you were pure, live with integrity, and seek HIS face then HE would delivery you! YET, God doesn’t help you? YOU REAP WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN JOB!

Job 8:15, HE LEANS ON HIS HOUSE, BUT IT DOES NOT STAND. HE HOLDS IT FAST, BUT IT DOES NOT ENDURE. 

Job, you didn’t build your home, on the ROCK, that’s why it came crashing down!

Mat 7:24-25, “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I WILL LIKEN HIM TO A WISE MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON THE ROCK: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; AND IT DID NOT FALL, FOR IT WAS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.

While truth may be found in Bildad’s words, HE LACKED COMPASSION, HE LACKED MERCY, BUT WHAT HE TRULY LACKED WAS KNOWING GOD!

2Cor 1:3-4, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, THE FATHER OF MERCIES AND GOD OF ALL COMFORT, WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION, THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE IN ANY TROUBLE, WITH THE COMFORT WITH WHICH WE OURSELVES ARE COMFORTED BY GOD.

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Esther 7, the high price of sin!

Est 7:3-4, Then Queen Esther answered and said, “IF I HAVE FOUND FAVOR IN YOUR SIGHT, O KING, and if it pleases the king, LET MY LIFE BE GIVEN ME AT MY PETITION, AND MY PEOPLE AT MY REQUEST. FOR WE HAVE BEEN SOLD, MY PEOPLE AND I, TO BE DESTROYED, TO BE KILLED, AND TO BE ANNIHILATED. …

The 2nd day of the banquet and Esther gives her request before the king!  

Est 7:5-6, So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “WHO IS HE, and WHERE IS HE, WHO WOULD DARE PRESUME IN HIS HEART TO DO SUCH A THING?” And Esther said, “THE ADVERSARY AND ENEMY IS THIS WICKED HAMAN!” SO HAMAN WAS TERRIFIED BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN.

Psa 7:14-16, Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made. His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.

Est 7:9, NOW HARBONAH, ONE OF THE EUNUCHS, SAID TO THE KING, “LOOK! THE GALLOWS, FIFTY cubits high, WHICH HAMAN MADE FOR MORDECAI, WHO SPOKE GOOD ON THE KING’S BEHALF, is standing at the house of Haman.” THEN THE KING SAID, “HANG HIM ON IT!” 

GUILTY HAMAN DIED IN PLACE OF INNOCENT MORDECAI, YET OUR KING JESUS DIED FOR THE GUILTY!

Rom 8:3, For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, GOD DID BY SENDING HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH, ON ACCOUNT OF SIN: HE CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH, 

Psa 53:3, EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS TURNED ASIDE; THEY HAVE TOGETHER BECOME CORRUPT; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, NO, NOT ONE. 

THE PRICE OF OUR SIN WAS PAID BY THE FATHERS ONLY SON!

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Ezra 2, the book of LIFE!

Ezr 2:1-2, Now these are the people of the province WHO CAME BACK FROM THE CAPTIVITY, OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, WHOM NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD CARRIED AWAY TO BABYLON, AND WHO RETURNED TO JERUSALEM AND JUDAH, everyone to his own city. THOSE WHO CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL…

For 70 years they were in the land of Babylon, and with the command of Cyrus, the king,

Jer 29:10-11, FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD: AFTER SEVENTY YEARS ARE COMPLETED AT BABYLON, I will visit you and perform MY GOOD WORD TOWARD YOU, AND CAUSE YOU TO RETURN TO THIS PLACE. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, THOUGHTS OF PEACE AND NOT OF EVIL, TO GIVE YOU A FUTURE AND A HOPE.

It’s time to come back home, come back to HIS fellowship, come back and be HIS people again! It’s amazing to know that the LORD is thinking of us, HIS people; knowing how flawed we are YET STILL LOVES US!

Ezr 2:59, 62, And these were the ones who came up… BUT THEY COULD NOT IDENTIFY THEIR FATHER’S HOUSE OR THEIR GENEALOGY, WHETHER THEY WERE OF ISRAEL: …THESE SOUGHT THEIR LISTING AMONG THOSE WHO WERE REGISTERED BY GENEALOGY, BUT THEY WERE NOT FOUND; THEREFORE THEY WERE EXCLUDED FROM THE PRIESTHOOD AS DEFILED. 

The Jewish nation kept good records of their genealogy, yet some couldn’t find their names written in the book and were counted as defiled meaning they couldn’t serve GOD!

Rev 20:15, AND ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 

Luke 10:20b, BUT RATHER REJOICE BECAUSE YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.” 

THE LORD IS A GOD OF LOVE AND IT’S UP TO EVERYONE TO EITHER EXCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM!  THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND, AND HE WILL NEVER FORCE HIS WILL ON YOU! IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN HIS BOOK?

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2Chronicles 36, the day of the LORD!

In this chapter 4 kings reigned, Jehoahaz was taken to Egypt. Jehoiakim was taken to Babylon. Jehoiachin was also taken to Babylon; leaving Zedekiah who did evil in the sight of the LORD!

2Ch 36:13-14, And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God; BUT HE STIFFENED HIS NECK AND HARDENED HIS HEART AGAINST TURNING TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. Moreover ALL THE LEADERS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE PEOPLE transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the LORD ….

Everyone rebelled against the LORD

2Ch 36:15-16, And the LORD God of their fathers SENT WARNINGS TO THEM BY HIS MESSENGERS, …BECAUSE HE HAD COMPASSION ON HIS PEOPLE AND ON HIS DWELLING PLACE. BUT THEY MOCKED the messengers of God, DESPISED HIS WORDS, and SCOFFED AT HIS PROPHETS, UNTIL THE WRATH OF THE LORD AROSE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE, TILL THERE WAS NO REMEDY.

THEY REJECTED THE LORDS WARNINGS!

2Pe 3:9b, …BUT IS LONGSUFFERING TOWARD US, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE

TODAY, SO MANY PEOPLE MOCK THE WORD OF GOD, THEY REJECT THE FREE GIFT OF SALVATION WHICH COST HIM EVERYTHING.

Joh 10:11, “I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD. THE GOOD SHEPHERD GIVES HIS LIFE FOR THE SHEEP.

YET THE DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING AND THERE IS NO REMEMDY FOR IT!

Isa 13:9-11, BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES, CRUEL, WITH BOTH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER, TO LAY THE LAND DESOLATE; AND HE WILL DESTROY ITS SINNERS FROM IT. For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. “I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD FOR ITS EVIL, AND THE WICKED FOR THEIR INIQUITY; I WILL HALT THE ARROGANCE OF THE PROUD, AND WILL LAY LOW THE HAUGHTINESS OF THE TERRIBLE.

HE IS ALWAYS LISTENING TO US, REPENT NOW FOR HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS. HIS WARTH IS COMING BE PREPARED FOR HE IS NEAR!