DANIEL CHAPTER ONE

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Job 30:25-31

- In Job’s words there is only despair!

- He has no hope!

- He is waiting for nothing except pain and suffering!

- The only thing left to him is complaining!

- And crying for help!

- And the individuals are apparently deaf!

- They could do something instead of barking!

- They could wash him!

- They could put something on his wounds!

- They could give him something to keep him warm!

- They could bring him food!

- They could show they are here to help him!

- But no they do nothing, just barking!

- Do you remember the good Samaritan?

- What did he do?

- And what did the others do?

- Sometimes people commit suicide because they can’t do it!

- It’s too much for them!

- The limits are different for each of us!

- We can’t judge people when they commit suicide!

- But we can help people before they commit suicide!

- Any action can help!

- It can be the presence!

- It can be the words!

- It can be doing things together!

- But above all, showing that we care for someone by doing something!

 

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Job 31:1-6

- Job doesn’t understand what’s on!

- He doesn’t understand what he did wrong!

- For him, acting wrong is nonsense!

- But he knows that God knows him!

- He knows that God knows his integrity!

- And he will recognize it!

- There is no other way!

- When we read the book of Job, one thing is sure: Both Yah.weh and Job know each other quite well!

- They also have a special relationship!

- When we read the book of Job, we are told about the kind of relationship we have with Yah.weh!

- It tells about the quality of this relationship!

- Are we Yah.weh’s friend or a stranger?

- And above all, what do we do or nor to be Yah.weh’s friend or a stranger?

- For Job, everything is clear!

- What about us?

 

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Job 31:7-12

- Then Job makes a list of all his actions!

- He wants to know what he has done wrong!

- Then he will accept the punishment!

- He is a man of justice!

- He is an upright man as God says!

- So if God says it, it means a lot about Job!

- That’s why we should be careful when we speak about Job!

- That’s why we should be careful when we speak about faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- Always taking into account the context of the time and not ours!

- Having into account all the elements helps not making mistakes!

- And again there is a big difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow!

- My footsteps!

- My heart!

- My hands!

- A fire devouring and destroying and consuming!

- Job always goes straight to the point!

- He never goes on the right or on the left!

- No deviation!

- What guidance to help us looking for the right relationship with Yah.weh!

 

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Job 31:13-21

- Justice to his servants!

- The poor!

- The widow!

- The orphan!

- Job asks for justice!

- If he can do that, it’s because he is used to dispensing justice!

- It is probably difficult to remember each action of justice!

- But his heart and mind are filled with justice!

- Even when he is in trouble, he keeps feeling it!

- That’s his way!

- His strength!

- That’s also why he has such a powerful relationship with God!

- He used to care for everybody!

- He was extreme in doing good to others!

- As Job speaks in such a way, he shows the kind of relationship he has with Yah.weh!

- And once again, he shows us what kind of relationship we must have with Yah.weh!

- There is only one way, not two ways!

- What a difference between the ways of this world!

- Absolutely away from corruption versus total corruption!

- Purity versus total corruption!

 

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Job 31:22,23

- If he is guilty of anything, he accepts the consequences!

- But he knows what he did!

- He follows only one way, God’s way and God’s justice!

- He is surrounded by it!

- It shines on him!

- You just have to listen to him and drink his words and catch them and their fluidity!

- Job is free because he is so close to God!

- Freedom of heart and freedom of mind!

- How is it possible for this world to understand Job, his thoughts and his actions!

- He belongs to another world!

- This world means FAKE!

- Job means PURITY, PURITY OF THOUGHTS AND PURITY OF ACTIONS!

 

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Job 31:24-28

- Job was a rich man but his priority was his faith in God !

- We remember what Jesus said about rich people, that is it is really difficult for them to get into God’s kingdom because of their wealth !

- But Job is not in this case !

- He did not let wealth contaminate his heart and mind !

- On the contrary, he would use it to help people !

- And wealth didn’t prevent him from having a strong relationship with God !

- Look at rich people today and you will see and understand the difference !

- It is so evident, so clear !

- And he would only worship Yah.weh and no other gods or material objects!

- So simple and so complicated at the same time for mankind!

- Mankind can’t understand what is simple and needs to complicate everything!

- Human tradition versus Yah.weh’s worship!

- You really read the Bible and then you look at human tradition!

- There is no comparison!

- So easy to find the difference if we really want it!

- Same with the book of Job!

- It is so different from what people usually say about it!

- As usual, only one way, but it has nothing to do with what people think!

- That’s why it is necessary to study it again and again, deeply and deeply!

 

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Job 31:29,30

- Heart and mind!

- Yes, for Job, heart and mind are connected!

- Yes, for him, what you think is as important as what you say!

- Usually people say one thing and think another!

- But Job is one, heart and mind are one!

- That’s what God is looking for!

- That’s why the connection he has with Job is so strong!

- That’s why the devil tried to destroy it!

- And that’s why he couldn’t do it!

- Yes, Job’s heart and mind are not two but one!

- Yes, indestructible!

- he is always equal to himself!

- He never changes!

- He always stays the course!

- He is a rock and he keeps faithful to Yah.weh!

- Pure gold indeed!

- He doesn’t need to be purified!

- he does it continually!

- it is a natural process for him!

 

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Job 31:31-34

- Hospitality!

- Justice!

- Everywhere we get written speeches written by other people!

- It’s like singers who sing songs written by others!

- Words!

- But is the speech true?

- Personally I have never been able to listen to a speech!

- Everywhere you get people who speak on TV, on the radio, they speak and speak to fill the gaps!

- It’s like inflation!

- And it rains words and more words!

- But what do we do with empty words?

- A society of empty words with no more meaning!

- Everything is diluted!

- Is that what’s left?

- I believe in real life!

- And the Bible is real life with some individuals having a deep connection to God whereas the majority doesn’t!

- Yes, I believe in that!

- But I don’t believe in the wind!

- Job knows perfectly who he is and what he is!

- And the others know it too!

- Now looking like him is another story!

- It requires hard work!

- We need to purify ourselves!

- We need to refine ourselves!

 

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Job 31:35-37

- Job knows who he is and what he did and what he did not do!

- He knows the type of relationship he has with God and nobody will take it from him!

- Never!

- It is indestructible!

- Because it is built on rock!

- He would never let anyone accuse him before God without defending himself!

- His relationship with God is too strong and unbreakable!
- He can’t live without it!

- Job is proud of his righteousness!

- He cares about his respectability!

- We can say he is extrem!

- He is not a baby!

- He is an old man with a lot of experience!

- If Yah.weh says there is no one like him on earth, it means that Job has been working for it all his life!

- And above all, if the devil attacks him and no one else, he also thinks there is no one like him on earth!

- And if he can turn him away from Yah.weh, he can do it with any human being!

- But if he could do it with anyone, he couldn’t do it with Job!

- Thus it is the best example of faithfulness to Yah.weh!

- In fact, he is the symbol of faithfulness to Yah.weh!

- And above all, he shows that the devil is a liar and a fake!

 

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Job 31:38-40

- Each word of Job goes in the same direction!

- His way goes to God!

- There is no other option for him!

- And he can’t turn on the left or on the right!

- He can only go straight away!

- Every action he does has only one purpose!

- Getting closer to God!

- Even when it is written “the words of Job end here” they keep resonating or echoing in the minds of the people who listen to him carefully!

- And they never stop!

- How is it possible for Job to stop speaking?

- It seems unbelievable!

- We can imagine Job speaking again and again without stopping!

- It seems to be that if Job is alive he must keep speaking and defend himself!

 

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Job 40-42

- Yah.weh answers Job!

- Then in Job 40:2-5, Job finally answers Yah.weh!

- He says he is unworthy!

- He tried to explain himself with Yah.weh but the time has passed!

- So Yah.weh keeps answering Job in Job 40:6-24!

- Same in Job 41!

- Finally in Job 42, Job recognizes his limits compared to Yah.weh!

- Remember Job lived before or around the time of Abraham !

- No books of the Bible, nothing !

- Just Job and God !

- And he was able to follow the way straight away !

- There was no one like him on earth !

- Then the first part of the Bible was written !

- And the Israelites were completely unable to follow it !

- Then the second part of the Bible was written !

- And what’s the result ?

- How many people read it daily ?

- Look at this dying old world !

- Human beings never understand anything !

- They are stubborn and selfish !

- Only a few individuals!

 

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CONCLUSION

- But now Job can speak to Yah.weh!

- Yah.weh has listened to Job’s prayers!

- Yah.weh says he is angry at the three men because they didn’t speak the truth about him!

- On the contrary, Job spoke the truth about him!

- It is in Job chapter 42!

- Yah.weh says it himself!

- It is completely crazy!

- And many people say the opposite!

- How is it possible to speak against Yah.weh!

- UNBELIEVABLE!

- thus the three men must offer a sacrifice for themselves and Job must pray for them!

- And once again Yah.weh speaks about their FOOLISHNESS!

- And Yah.weh will accept Job’s request to save their lives!

- Everything is written!

- But it is necessary to read all the words carefully and with our hearts not only with our minds!

- After Job’s prayer, Yah.weh removed Job’s tribulation and restored his prosperity!

- Thus every step on time!

- And he received the double of what he had before!

- And Job can live 140 years more!

- And he sees his children and grandchildren (four generations)!

 

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Job 1:


- Job was an upright man of integrity!

- He Feared God and shunned what was bad!

- And Yah.weh knew him personally!

- And Job knew him personally!

- When you think about Job, do you think about your personal relationship to Yah.weh?

- Do you have a personal relationship to Yah.weh?

- It starts by knowing God’s name!

- How do you want to have a personal relationship to God if you don’t know his personal name?

- Why having a personal relationship to Yah.weh?

- He is the one who is going to destroy this human society to develop a new one under his leadership!

- Do you speak to him every day?

- Personal relationship implies personal talk!

- Job would get up early in the morning and offer up burnt sacrifices for each of his sons!

- He feared they could curse God in their heart!

- And he had no Bible, nothing!

- Do you have a Bible?

- Do you use it every day?

- How far we are!

- Light-years from Job!

- Like the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda, 2.5 million light- years!

- Do we have excuses?

- I don’t think so!

- We are just stupid human beings destroying our earth because of greed and selfishness!

- And human beings keep doing children and they are not ashamed!

- And every day it’s getting worse!

- Violence and more killings!

- And they always find excuses!

- MONEY! MONEY!

- Waiting for God to clean that!

 

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Job 1:

- God is clear about Job:

- There is no one like him on the earth!

- He is an upright man of integrity!

- Fearing God and shunning what is bad!

- And there comes the devil!

- Apparently quite a lazy one!

- He has nothing better to do than accusing a faithful servant of God!

- What a shame!

- Thus he shows himself, good to nothing!

- A parasite!

- There is no one like him on earth?

- What about us?

- Do we know where we are?

- Are we somewhere in connection with Yah.weh?

- Do we have values?

- Do we regularly think about such values and what the bible says about Yah.weh’s values?

- Do we have a deep connection with Yah.weh?