Hi, guys!
Been wanting to share another little tidbit of a study from God's word, on the order of the Leviticus notes.
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1. Job, a godly man (Job 1:8, 2:3), was sorely afflicted by God (1:21, 2:10) and lost everything (1:13-19) because of a controversy between God and Satan (1:8-12, 2:3-6).
BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE: Things happen on earth because of reasons in heaven we know nothing about.
But Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing (unfairness) - 1:22.
2. The NT reveals that man charges God with unfairness for two reasons:
Your ways are not my ways,
My ways are higher (better) than your ways (Is 55:8-9).
I do no wrong (Dt 32:4),
All my ways are just (Da 4:37, 9:14; Ps 145:17),
and I do what is right (Da 4:37, cf v.35)
Who is wise enough that he should instruct God (Isa 40:13)?
And who has given to God that God should owe him? (Job 41:11)
6. Back to Job: While Job did not sin in what he said (Job 2:10), because he did not curse God (1:11, 2:5), he did:
charges Job with
I am all wise and all just (Is 40:13-14; Ps 89:14),
I do what is best and what is right (Dt 32:4; Ps 119:68; Da 4:37).
TRUST ME, and lean not on your own understanding.
PERSONAL APPLICATION: The sovereignty of God requires our trust, not our understanding. (Ro 11:33)
Been wanting to share another little tidbit of a study from God's word, on the order of the Leviticus notes.
- - - - - - - - - - -
1. Job, a godly man (Job 1:8, 2:3), was sorely afflicted by God (1:21, 2:10) and lost everything (1:13-19) because of a controversy between God and Satan (1:8-12, 2:3-6).
BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE: Things happen on earth because of reasons in heaven we know nothing about.
But Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing (unfairness) - 1:22.
2. The NT reveals that man charges God with unfairness for two reasons:
- a) he misunderstands the meaning of fairness (Mt 20:8-15)
- b) to justify his own sin (Mt 25:24-30) - the wicked lazy servant (v.26) charges his master with unfairness (v.24) to justify his laziness as prudence (v.25).
- Ro 9:18-19 - How can he condemn us? Who can resist his will (sovereignty)?
- Paul's answer to man's charge of unfairness against God is
- the same as Jesus gave in the parable (Mt 20:15); i.e.,
- to assert the authority of God (Ro 9:20-21).
Your ways are not my ways,
My ways are higher (better) than your ways (Is 55:8-9).
I do no wrong (Dt 32:4),
All my ways are just (Da 4:37, 9:14; Ps 145:17),
and I do what is right (Da 4:37, cf v.35)
- PERSONAL APPLICATION: We must decide who is right, and whom we will believe, man or God.
- not to grant faith to Israel, his covenant people (Ro 11:7-8), but to cut them off (Ro 11:17, 19-20, 22) and
- instead grant faith to the Gentiles, who were foreigners to the covenant (Eph 2:11-12) is
- Ro 11:33-36 -
Who is wise enough that he should instruct God (Isa 40:13)?
And who has given to God that God should owe him? (Job 41:11)
6. Back to Job: While Job did not sin in what he said (Job 2:10), because he did not curse God (1:11, 2:5), he did:
- feel he had a right to an explanation, which God owed him (Job 9:16, 10:2, 13:3, 22-23)--presumption
- complain because God afflicted the righteous but not the wicked (24:12)--discrediting God's justice.
charges Job with
- ignorance (chps 38-39),
- casting shadows of ignorance over his wisdom (38:2), and
- discrediting his justice (40:8) in order to justify himself to his friends (6:29, 13;12-19), who were using his affliction as proof of his unrighteousness (22:4-30, 34:10-12, 31-37, 35:12-16, 36:8-17)
- justice (40:8)
- power (40:9)
- majesty (40:10) and
- dominion (40:11-14).
- We do not judge God (Is 10:15), he judges us (Job 40:2).
- Nor do we call God to the bar of our reason (Ro 9:20; Is 45:11-12)
to judge him based on human understanding and human ways (Job 1:22) - The Bible calls that "turning things upside down as if the potter were thought to be like the clay." (Is 29:16, NIV)
- humbled (42:3), repents (42:6) and embraces the sovereign actions of God (40:2, 5), although
- he is never given an explanation for his affliction (see #1, Biblical Principle).
- Job no longer needed an explanation (42:3), for he had experienced the glory of God (42:5, cf 19:26-27), which far surpasses anything found on earth (Php 3:8-10).
- deeper heart knowledge and realized fellowship with God (42:3, 5, 8, cf 19:26-27; Ps 42:1-2, 63:1, 84:1-2).
- double possessions (42:10)--foreshadowing of spirituall possessions (Heb 10:34; 1Pe 1:4-5),
- long life (42:16)--foreshadowing eternal life (Jas 1:12).
- the Righteous One (Ac 7:52, 3:14),
- sorely afflicted by God (Is 53:3-5)
- because of a controversy with Satan (Ge 3:15; Jn 12:31; Mt 12:29; Lk 10:18-19),
- who was emptied and humbled (Php 2:5-8)
- for his greater glory (Heb 12:2; Php 2:9-11; 2Co 4:17), and
- exalted to intercede for his friends (Ac 2:33; Heb 7:25, cf Job 45:7-10).
I am all wise and all just (Is 40:13-14; Ps 89:14),
I do what is best and what is right (Dt 32:4; Ps 119:68; Da 4:37).
TRUST ME, and lean not on your own understanding.
PERSONAL APPLICATION: The sovereignty of God requires our trust, not our understanding. (Ro 11:33)
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