Posts from February 2016 (Page 2)

Posts from February 2016 (Page 2)

Job 14 – Job Replies to Zophar Part 3: “Death Comes Soon to All”

Man’s days are few and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers. No one can bring a clean thing out of something unclean. All are unclean. God determined man’s days, months, and the limits of life. Look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. There’s hope for a fallen tree to sprout again. But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and…

Job 13 – Job Replies to Zophar Part 2: “Still I Will Hope in God”

His eye had seen and heard all. Again he says he knows and isn’t inferior to them. He still desires to argue his case with God. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar are whitewash with lies, and are worthless physicians. He asks that they keep silent, and to hear his argument and pleading. He asks if they would speak falsely for God, show partiality to Him. Will they be well when God searches them out? God will surely rebuke them if they…

Job 12 – Job Replies to Zophar Part 1: “The Lord Has Done This!”

Job answered – No doubt you are the people and wisdom will die with you, he has understanding as much as them. Job isn’t inferior, who doesn’t know such things. Job is a just and blameless man and yet a laughingstock to his friends; he called to God and He answered. Robbers’ homes, idolators, and those who provoke God are secure. The plants and animals will teach us – the hand of the Lord has done this: “In His hand is the…

Job 11 – (1) Zophar Speaks: “You Deserve Worse”

Zophar answered Job – He implies that Job needs to be answered and judged right. That his babble shouldn’t silence men, and that he should be shamed for mocking. He claims that Job thinks his doctrine is pure and he is clean in the sight of God. Zophar says, Oh, that God would speak and open His lips in wisdom to you. God is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of Job less than Job’s guilt deserves. Then he…

Job 10 – Job’s Plea to God

He loathed his life, and freely complained. He is bitter in his soul, he begs God not to condemn him, and asked to know why God contends against him. Does it seem good to God to oppress the work of His hands? Job said that God knew that he wasn’t guilty, and he didn’t have anyone to deliver him out of God’s hand. God’s hands fashioned and made him, and now He destroyed Job. Job is like clay and asked…

Sibbes on Confession of Sin

Tomorrow we’ll be considering Daniel’s confession of sin in Daniel 9:1-19. I want to be clear at the outset, confession of sin can’t save us. That said, one aspect of how God saves His people is by pricking their conscience and making them feel the weight of and conviction for their sin. Our work of confession doesn’t save us or anyone else, but God’s reconciling His people to Himself through Jesus Christ bears the fruit of confession. Salvation and forgiveness of sin is…

Job 9 – Job Replies to Bildad: “There Is No Judge/Umpire/Arbiter”

Job said: I know it’s so. How can man be right before God? If one wished to contend with him, he couldn’t answer once in a 1,000 times. One hasn’t succeeded who has hardened himself against God. God rules the mountains, the earth, the sun, stars, the heavens, the seas, the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and chambers of the south. God does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number. He passes by Job and he didn’t see…

Job 8 – (1) Bildad’s False Accusation: “Job’s Suffering Is Because of His Godlessness”

Bildad spoke – How long will Job say these things and the words of his mouth act as a great wind. He accuses Job of saying that God distorts justice. He moves forward to say that his kids died because of their sin, and that if Job is pure and righteous then God will restore his station in life, and even have more. He exhorts Job to consider wisdom from the past. He accuses Job of forgetting God, so like…

Job 7 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Part 2: “My Life Has No Hope”

Job continues in this chapter – Man has a hard service on earth and his days are like a slave. He is given months of emptiness, nights of misery. He tosses and turns in his sleep. He is clothed with worms and dirt. His days are swifter than a sewer’s needle, and comes to an end without hope. Life is a breath, he believes he will never see good again. As a cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down…

Job 6 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Part 1: “My Complaint Is Just”

If my calamity was laid in the balance, it would be heavier than the sand of the sea. He admits his words have been rash. The arrows of the Almighty are in him. His spirit drinks their poison. The terrors of God are against him. Food is loathsome to him. He begs for his request that God would fulfill his hope that God would loose his hand and crush him and cut him off. This would be a comfort to…