February 23, 2025 • 25 mins
Bread of the Word Ministries: Providing Breadcrumbs to a Meaningful and GOD-Saturated Life, One Verse at a Time*** Please enjoy this BOTW Sunday Afternoon Gospel Message! This episode continues a study through the Book of Job. For an overview of the Book, check out these sermons from my pastor: Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Qr0JJqS9o&t=720s Part Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDp6g4i-EFc For more information about the Bread of the Word Podcast or the Truth in Love Network, check out these links: BOTW44.Podbean.com https://www.truthinlovenetwork.com/
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Blessed is the man
who walketh not in the council the ungodly
nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth
in seed of the scornful
but his delight is on the law of the LORD
and on His law
doth humanity day and night
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and he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that bringing forth his fruit and his season
his leaf also
shall not whether
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Welcome
to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
(01:01):
and let the Bible speak to us all
let us, as a former generation said
go add fontes
to the fountain
and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
let's dig in together
(01:26):
hello and welcome back to the Bread of the Word podcast.
We go add fontes to the fountain to the Word of God
to be nourished and sustained by all the God is
as he's revealed himself to us.
My name is Tyler,
and we are continuing our March to the Book of Job,
verse by verse chapter by chapter moment by moment
and today we are coming to chapter 27,
reading through the first 7 verses
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and we have. We're still dealing with the
statements of Job in response to Bildad
and he gave a brief
statement in chapter 26, but now he's
fleshing it out a little more deeply
and picking up in verse 1 of chapter 27.
It says, moreover,
Job continued his parable and said As God liveth
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who hath taken away my judgment
and the Almighty who hath vexed my soul
all the while my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
God forbid that I should justify you
until I die. I will not remove my integrity from me
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my righteousness. I hold fast and will not let it go
my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live
let my enemy be as the wicked
and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous
that's our text' today
and right off the bat.
It says that Job is speaking in parables
and I thought that was interesting because
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many of us that are familiar with the New Testament
will sooner or later
pick up on this idea that Jesus speaks in parables
and what that essentially is
he speaks in a wise saying that doesn't
always make sense right out the gate
there was something
for people to ponder to be challenged by to
oftentimes be confused by
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that Jesus spoke in a way that it made sense to some
and it made no sense to others
and Job likewise is speaking in parables
if you want to get into the linguistics,
the word that we translate is
parable could also be taken as proverb
which where we get
the name for the
book of Proverbs
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is there a collection of wise statements
that need thought that need to be mold over a bit
and this is what Job has proven to be
this is why we're some 2 years in the book Job
because it is a
very long set of parables of things that
require a little more
meditation than a glance.
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A casual glance doesn't
get us far enough into the meaning of these words.
It takes a little more.
Job continues his parable, and he says as God liveth
who hath taken away my judgment
and the Almighty who has vexed my soul
all the while
my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness,
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nor my tongue utter deceit.
That is one sentence with a lot of closet
that makes it really hard to break down grammatically.
Essentially as God liveth
my lips shall not utter wickedness,
nor my tongue speak to see
that's the statements
there's a lot of qualifiers in the middle of that
but that is the statement is that as God liveth
I will be true.
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That is the statement of Job, and
we have all these additional clauses that
bring extra context to that extra meanings, but the
bare bones of the statement is that as God liveth,
my tongue shall not utter deceit,
and so as long as God lives
which is
that is a very common phrase throughout the Old.
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Testament is as surely as the Lord liveth
there are some variation of that
not because we think God can die
but because God is eternal
and so to stake a claim in the surety of His eternality
is a big deal
to say. As. Surely as. God lives
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knowing full well that God is eternal
the God does not have a birth and will not have a death
as surely as God exists
this shall come to pass.
That is essentially the statement here
and so as surely as God lives even though He says
it is He who has taken away my judgment
and it is the Almighty
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El Shadai, the Overpowerer who hath vexed my soul.
Though he's done this
though He has put me in this place that I'm in
Though He has brought
the suffering, Though He has brought
everything that I'm dealing with,
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I will be true,
I will endeavor endeavor
to be true
as surely as the Lord lives that is
the
conviction of Job. Here
it says all the while
this has happened all the while God has vexed my soul
all the while He has taken away my judgment.
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It says the breath
while my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
that is straight out of Genesis.
If we go back to Genesis
as even all the way to the creation account
1 In the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth and
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the earth was without form and void,
and darkness was upon the face of the deep
and the Spirit of God.
The ruaq Elohim, the great wind of God, so to speak
moved upon the face of the waters.
And if we jump ahead to chapter verse 26,
and God said,
Let us make man in our image and after our likeness,
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and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air
and over the cattle and over the earth
and over every
creeping thing that creep is upon the earth
so God created man in his own image
and the image of God created he them
male and female created he them
and he goes on
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to retell this
it was a little more detail. A little bit later
in chapter 2, verse 7
he says god formed man of the deaths of the earth
and he breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life,
and man became a living soul.
And all this language
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is tied to what we see in Job.
I mean. He says that the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
he is affirming
what we see in Genesis, though
it is my belief that Genesis was written later
there is that
there was likely an oral tradition
where these things were passed down
but this language comes from Jope,
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and so they're authenticating each other
that this is what happened this is how it happened
but more on from that
job is reminding himself
that the Spirit of God is in his nostrils that
God is within him
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that God has
breathed into him the breath of life, so to speak
and so, even though
God has brought suffering
though God has brought great hardship upon Job,
Job is reminding himself
that the Spirit of God has entered into his nostrils
there is a unique intimacy that he has with God
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has been given to him
not because of his own goodness,
not because of his own righteousness,
but simply because of who God is
that though he may
not like what God is doing in this moment,
god has breathed into him
into his nostrals from his own spirit
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and he asks Bildead a couple chapters
earlier from who his spirit
came from thee?
For what
spirit do you speak of the wisdom that you have
but when we come to God,
there's no doubt that the Spirit of God has
entered into his nostrils
this is the stark parallel, the stark contrast
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between Bildad and God
as we've seen' time and time again' in this Chap--in this
book
is that job's friends have
shown themselves to be fools that he's called them
worthless counselors,
and yet God is not Bildad, lfaz, or Zofar.
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That is not who he is
and that is not who he is to joke
just that as that ever famous phrase
from earlier on in this book, though
he slay me yet shall I praise him
that is the attitude of Job here though it is hard
though it is a fight for him to look to God
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to cling to God
in the midst of his suffering he endeavors to do so
knowing that it is by God he is alive
even though it is the same
God who has brought intense suffering upon him
so all the while my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue
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utter deceit.
Flip over to Psalm119.
Psalm one 19 has a very similar
outlook
and we're not entirely sure what the context of Psalm
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119is.
I read a book by Brian Borgman a couple years ago that
made the case that
Psalm119was likely written by Daniel,
that this is likely a psalm written during the exile
and I honestly kind of agree
we can't nail that down
100 percent without
adding to the text in some way,
but just by inferring from the way it talks
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I could see it being a psalm of someone in exile
but the attitude of whoever wrote Psalm119
says, open thou mine eyes
and I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
I am a stranger in the earth
hide not thy commandments for me
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my soul breaketh
for the longing that hath unto thy commandments
at all times
thou hast rebuke the
proud that are cursed,
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which do air from thy commandments
remove from me
reproach and contempt
for I have kept thy testimonies
princess also did sit and
speak against me,
but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes
thy testimonies are my delight
and my counsellors.
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My soul cleaveth unto the dust,
quicken thou, me, make me, alive
according to thy word.
I have declared thy ways, and thou heardest me. Teach me.
Thy statutes,
make me to understand the way of thy precepts,
so shall I talk of thy wondrous works
my soul melteth for heaviness
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strengthen me according to thy word,
remove from me the way of lying and grant me thy law
graciously. I have chosen the way of truth
thy judgments have I laid before me I have stuck
unto thy testimonies O Lord, put me not the shame
I will run the way of commandments of thy commandments
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when thou shall enlarge my heart
and so while there's so much in someone 19
that is, a picture
is a phrase similar to I have kept thy statutes
I have done this. I have done that.
There is also this tension
that he does not believe he has done it well enough
and so he constantly balances that
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those I have kept thy statutes with.
Oh Lord, teach me thy statutes.
Oh Lord, take lying from my heart
do this, do that,
make me pure,
and so while there is this tension
it does parallel what? We see in Job,
though he slay me, yet I will praise him
though I have endeavored to do well,
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make me pure.
And so verse 4 in Joe 27.
My lips
shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue utter deceit
god forbid that I should justify you speaking of Bildad.
God forbid that I should justify you
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in your statements
that I am suffering because I have sinned
God forbid that you are justified by my life
because I will not remove my integrity from me
my righteousness. I hold fast and will not let go
and as we have seen
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previously, we have seen Job taking the
position in the beginning of the book as a priest
chapter 1, verse 1,
there was a man in the land of us whose name was Job,
and that man was perfect and upright,
and one that feared God and a shoot evil
and there were born unto him 7 sons and 3 daughters
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his substance also was 7000 sheep and 3000 camels
and 500 yolk of oxen and 500
donkeys and great household.
So that this man
was the greatest of all the men of the East,
and his sons went and feasted in their houses
every one of his day,
and sent and
called for their 3 sisters to eat and drink with them
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and it was so
when the days of their feasting were gone about
that Job sent and sanctified them
and rose up early in the.
Morning and offered burnt
burnt offerings according to the number of them all
for Job said, it, may be that my sons, have sinned
and cursed God in their hearts
thus did Job continually.
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Job was in the practice of interceding
before God on the behalf of his sons and daughters
he was
practicing this idea that righteousness was provided
that righteousness was granted
to His children.
So when we read statements like this
my righteousness, I hold fast.
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It is a righteousness that is provided
the just as that righteousness
and that covering was provided for his son
so it is provided for Job.
The only righteousness that Job can hold to
in the myths of this
is the fact that God has made him pure.
The God has called him his
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hast thou considered my servant
Job?
No one on earth is like unto him
one who feareth God and issueth evil
that is something that God has called him
that is something God has made him to be,
and this he holds fast to
in the midst of his suffering in the midst of
all the negative, in the midst of the accusations
from Satan and Bildad and Elephaz and Zofar,
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in the midst of all that
he holds fast to the fact that God has called him his
god has called Job my servant
and so he says I hold fast to this righteousness.
I will not let it go.
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My heart shall not reproach me
as long as I live
let my enemy
be as the wicked and he that riseth up against me
as the unrighteous.
In other words, God is not my enemy
when we read statements like god has vexed my soul
we would think that he's saying God is going to be
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my enemy. God is opposed to me
but the statement that he's using
to remind himself in this
and to rebuke the claims of Bildad
that God is not my enemy,
though he uses the name El Shadai the Overpower
El Shadai is not opposed to Job.
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El Shadai is not his enemy
let the one I consider the enemy
be the wicked,
not the righteous.
That is the statement of Job,
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let my enemy be as the wicked.
To quote Song of Salomon
my beloved is mine and I am his
and he feedeth me among the lilies.
This is the relationship he has with God.
God is not his enemy, god is his friend,
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god is his defender
and in the Book of Job he has none else
he has lost possessions, he has lost family.
I would even contend that he has lost friends
because these 3
friends that came to comfort him have done
virtually nothing but accuse and condemn him
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he has no defense but God.
He has no friend but God. He has no advocate
but God,
and all this
is modeling to us
to his friends, to Satan
that God
is good.
That God is in job's corner.
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that just as Job
went to the temple to intercede for his sons
so that relationship has not ended
the statement from from Satan
was that when this happened that
Joe would curse God to his face,
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but the reality is that Job continues praying,
he continues seeking God, he continues to do
he brings his heartache to God,
he brings his frustration, he brings
the deepest possible pain
and lays before God,
which is exactly
what Satan said that Job would not do
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this right here
these statements to God you avex my soul
is pure evidence
and vindication
on the part of God.
God is vindicated by these statements because Satan
was wrong
because Job has continued to commune with God
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even when that communion has caused him pain,
though he slay me,
yet will I praise him
all that we would have this perspective
on suffering on weakness.
My church has been going through Romans 14
for several weeks now.
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We've been marching through the Book of Romans
for quite some time now,
but we've come to Romans 14,
which deals with the reality that there are
weak people in the church.
1 Chapter 14
verse 1 hymn that is weakened the faith receive ye
but not to doubtful disputations
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for one believeth that he may eat at all things
another who is weak eat as herbs
the hymn let not him that eath
despise, him that eath not,
and let. Not him, Edith,
him that Edith not judge, him
that Edith for God hath received him
for God hath received Him,
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and one thing that has
really challenged me
in this chapter at the last couple Sundays
has been that
God says there are weak people,
but He doesn't say the weak
weak people need to just
grow up and get with the program
he says, receive the weak people,
accept them for God has accepted the weak
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and there may be a day where they become strong,
but as they are they are weak
and God has received them,
and he says that all that I receive I will in no way
I will in no wise cast out
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and so God has received the weak.
He has received the strong
and the strong and the weak coexist together
in the case of job,
job has much weakness
and yet God has received him
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the friends have not received him
the friends have condemned, they have
accused, they have
belittle, they, have berated
they have done everything that Paul would say not to do
with regards to a brother who is weak
who is suffering
because they don't do much to build him up
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they do more to tear him down than anything
I think it was Calvin
that said that the wisest thing they did was
sit there in silence for 7 days.
Once they start talking it all goes downhill
and yet God says in Romans to Paul,
that when there are weak among you
receive them,
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there are people like Job
in our churches.
There are people that are in a season of weakness
in a season
of deep dependence because there is none else
and may we be a people
that accept the weak that receive them
because God has received them?
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And there are times where we will in turn be
the weak one.
And may we have people that will receive us
who will accept us because God has
god has received us,
for we are all the sheep of his pasture
the Lord is our Shepherd, and we shall not want
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and all is to say
that we are His,
the strong and the weak. We are His,
and
just as Job is
fighting to praise God in the midst of his suffering
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so we may be called to do likewise
or we may find ourselves in a position
where we are to come
alongside the Jobes
of that walk this earth,
and we may be
find ourselves in a place
where God sets us up to be an
encouragement to come alongside
those that are weak
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and we should receive them
because God has received them.
Thank you for listening.
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god Bless Matthew 44.
Blessed is the man
who walketh not in the council the ungodly
nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth
in seed of the scornful
but his delight is on the law of the LORD
and on His law
doth humanity day and night
(00:38):
and he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that bringing forth his fruit and his season
his leaf also
shall not whether
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Welcome
to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
(01:01):
and let the Bible speak to us all
let us, as a former generation said
go add fontes
to the fountain
and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
let's dig in together
(01:26):
hello and welcome back to the Bread of the Word podcast.
We go add fontes to the fountain to the Word of God
to be nourished and sustained by all the God is
as he's revealed himself to us.
My name is Tyler,
and we are continuing our March to the Book of Job,
verse by verse chapter by chapter moment by moment
and today we are coming to chapter 27,
reading through the first 7 verses
(01:50):
and we have. We're still dealing with the
statements of Job in response to Bildad
and he gave a brief
statement in chapter 26, but now he's
fleshing it out a little more deeply
and picking up in verse 1 of chapter 27.
It says, moreover,
Job continued his parable and said As God liveth
(02:14):
who hath taken away my judgment
and the Almighty who hath vexed my soul
all the while my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness,
nor my tongue utter deceit.
God forbid that I should justify you
until I die. I will not remove my integrity from me
(02:34):
my righteousness. I hold fast and will not let it go
my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live
let my enemy be as the wicked
and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous
that's our text' today
and right off the bat.
It says that Job is speaking in parables
and I thought that was interesting because
(02:55):
many of us that are familiar with the New Testament
will sooner or later
pick up on this idea that Jesus speaks in parables
and what that essentially is
he speaks in a wise saying that doesn't
always make sense right out the gate
there was something
for people to ponder to be challenged by to
oftentimes be confused by
(03:16):
that Jesus spoke in a way that it made sense to some
and it made no sense to others
and Job likewise is speaking in parables
if you want to get into the linguistics,
the word that we translate is
parable could also be taken as proverb
which where we get
the name for the
book of Proverbs
(03:37):
is there a collection of wise statements
that need thought that need to be mold over a bit
and this is what Job has proven to be
this is why we're some 2 years in the book Job
because it is a
very long set of parables of things that
require a little more
meditation than a glance.
(03:59):
A casual glance doesn't
get us far enough into the meaning of these words.
It takes a little more.
Job continues his parable, and he says as God liveth
who hath taken away my judgment
and the Almighty who has vexed my soul
all the while
my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness,
(04:21):
nor my tongue utter deceit.
That is one sentence with a lot of closet
that makes it really hard to break down grammatically.
Essentially as God liveth
my lips shall not utter wickedness,
nor my tongue speak to see
that's the statements
there's a lot of qualifiers in the middle of that
but that is the statement is that as God liveth
I will be true.
(04:43):
That is the statement of Job, and
we have all these additional clauses that
bring extra context to that extra meanings, but the
bare bones of the statement is that as God liveth,
my tongue shall not utter deceit,
and so as long as God lives
which is
that is a very common phrase throughout the Old.
(05:04):
Testament is as surely as the Lord liveth
there are some variation of that
not because we think God can die
but because God is eternal
and so to stake a claim in the surety of His eternality
is a big deal
to say. As. Surely as. God lives
(05:24):
knowing full well that God is eternal
the God does not have a birth and will not have a death
as surely as God exists
this shall come to pass.
That is essentially the statement here
and so as surely as God lives even though He says
it is He who has taken away my judgment
and it is the Almighty
(05:46):
El Shadai, the Overpowerer who hath vexed my soul.
Though he's done this
though He has put me in this place that I'm in
Though He has brought
the suffering, Though He has brought
everything that I'm dealing with,
(01:00:02):
I will be true,
I will endeavor endeavor
to be true
as surely as the Lord lives that is
the
conviction of Job. Here
it says all the while
this has happened all the while God has vexed my soul
all the while He has taken away my judgment.
(01:00:22):
It says the breath
while my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
that is straight out of Genesis.
If we go back to Genesis
as even all the way to the creation account
1 In the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth and
(01:00:44):
the earth was without form and void,
and darkness was upon the face of the deep
and the Spirit of God.
The ruaq Elohim, the great wind of God, so to speak
moved upon the face of the waters.
And if we jump ahead to chapter verse 26,
and God said,
Let us make man in our image and after our likeness,
(01:01:05):
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air
and over the cattle and over the earth
and over every
creeping thing that creep is upon the earth
so God created man in his own image
and the image of God created he them
male and female created he them
and he goes on
(01:01:26):
to retell this
it was a little more detail. A little bit later
in chapter 2, verse 7
he says god formed man of the deaths of the earth
and he breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life,
and man became a living soul.
And all this language
(01:01:47):
is tied to what we see in Job.
I mean. He says that the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
he is affirming
what we see in Genesis, though
it is my belief that Genesis was written later
there is that
there was likely an oral tradition
where these things were passed down
but this language comes from Jope,
(01:02:08):
and so they're authenticating each other
that this is what happened this is how it happened
but more on from that
job is reminding himself
that the Spirit of God is in his nostrils that
God is within him
(01:02:31):
that God has
breathed into him the breath of life, so to speak
and so, even though
God has brought suffering
though God has brought great hardship upon Job,
Job is reminding himself
that the Spirit of God has entered into his nostrils
there is a unique intimacy that he has with God
(01:02:54):
has been given to him
not because of his own goodness,
not because of his own righteousness,
but simply because of who God is
that though he may
not like what God is doing in this moment,
god has breathed into him
into his nostrals from his own spirit
(01:03:14):
and he asks Bildead a couple chapters
earlier from who his spirit
came from thee?
For what
spirit do you speak of the wisdom that you have
but when we come to God,
there's no doubt that the Spirit of God has
entered into his nostrils
this is the stark parallel, the stark contrast
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between Bildad and God
as we've seen' time and time again' in this Chap--in this
book
is that job's friends have
shown themselves to be fools that he's called them
worthless counselors,
and yet God is not Bildad, lfaz, or Zofar.
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That is not who he is
and that is not who he is to joke
just that as that ever famous phrase
from earlier on in this book, though
he slay me yet shall I praise him
that is the attitude of Job here though it is hard
though it is a fight for him to look to God
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to cling to God
in the midst of his suffering he endeavors to do so
knowing that it is by God he is alive
even though it is the same
God who has brought intense suffering upon him
so all the while my breath is in me
and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
my lips shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue
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utter deceit.
Flip over to Psalm119.
Psalm one 19 has a very similar
outlook
and we're not entirely sure what the context of Psalm
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119is.
I read a book by Brian Borgman a couple years ago that
made the case that
Psalm119was likely written by Daniel,
that this is likely a psalm written during the exile
and I honestly kind of agree
we can't nail that down
100 percent without
adding to the text in some way,
but just by inferring from the way it talks
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I could see it being a psalm of someone in exile
but the attitude of whoever wrote Psalm119
says, open thou mine eyes
and I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
I am a stranger in the earth
hide not thy commandments for me
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my soul breaketh
for the longing that hath unto thy commandments
at all times
thou hast rebuke the
proud that are cursed,
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which do air from thy commandments
remove from me
reproach and contempt
for I have kept thy testimonies
princess also did sit and
speak against me,
but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes
thy testimonies are my delight
and my counsellors.
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My soul cleaveth unto the dust,
quicken thou, me, make me, alive
according to thy word.
I have declared thy ways, and thou heardest me. Teach me.
Thy statutes,
make me to understand the way of thy precepts,
so shall I talk of thy wondrous works
my soul melteth for heaviness
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strengthen me according to thy word,
remove from me the way of lying and grant me thy law
graciously. I have chosen the way of truth
thy judgments have I laid before me I have stuck
unto thy testimonies O Lord, put me not the shame
I will run the way of commandments of thy commandments
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when thou shall enlarge my heart
and so while there's so much in someone 19
that is, a picture
is a phrase similar to I have kept thy statutes
I have done this. I have done that.
There is also this tension
that he does not believe he has done it well enough
and so he constantly balances that
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those I have kept thy statutes with.
Oh Lord, teach me thy statutes.
Oh Lord, take lying from my heart
do this, do that,
make me pure,
and so while there is this tension
it does parallel what? We see in Job,
though he slay me, yet I will praise him
though I have endeavored to do well,
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make me pure.
And so verse 4 in Joe 27.
My lips
shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue utter deceit
god forbid that I should justify you speaking of Bildad.
God forbid that I should justify you
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in your statements
that I am suffering because I have sinned
God forbid that you are justified by my life
because I will not remove my integrity from me
my righteousness. I hold fast and will not let go
and as we have seen
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previously, we have seen Job taking the
position in the beginning of the book as a priest
chapter 1, verse 1,
there was a man in the land of us whose name was Job,
and that man was perfect and upright,
and one that feared God and a shoot evil
and there were born unto him 7 sons and 3 daughters
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his substance also was 7000 sheep and 3000 camels
and 500 yolk of oxen and 500
donkeys and great household.
So that this man
was the greatest of all the men of the East,
and his sons went and feasted in their houses
every one of his day,
and sent and
called for their 3 sisters to eat and drink with them
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and it was so
when the days of their feasting were gone about
that Job sent and sanctified them
and rose up early in the.
Morning and offered burnt
burnt offerings according to the number of them all
for Job said, it, may be that my sons, have sinned
and cursed God in their hearts
thus did Job continually.
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Job was in the practice of interceding
before God on the behalf of his sons and daughters
he was
practicing this idea that righteousness was provided
that righteousness was granted
to His children.
So when we read statements like this
my righteousness, I hold fast.
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It is a righteousness that is provided
the just as that righteousness
and that covering was provided for his son
so it is provided for Job.
The only righteousness that Job can hold to
in the myths of this
is the fact that God has made him pure.
The God has called him his
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hast thou considered my servant
Job?
No one on earth is like unto him
one who feareth God and issueth evil
that is something that God has called him
that is something God has made him to be,
and this he holds fast to
in the midst of his suffering in the midst of
all the negative, in the midst of the accusations
from Satan and Bildad and Elephaz and Zofar,
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in the midst of all that
he holds fast to the fact that God has called him his
god has called Job my servant
and so he says I hold fast to this righteousness.
I will not let it go.
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My heart shall not reproach me
as long as I live
let my enemy
be as the wicked and he that riseth up against me
as the unrighteous.
In other words, God is not my enemy
when we read statements like god has vexed my soul
we would think that he's saying God is going to be
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my enemy. God is opposed to me
but the statement that he's using
to remind himself in this
and to rebuke the claims of Bildad
that God is not my enemy,
though he uses the name El Shadai the Overpower
El Shadai is not opposed to Job.
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El Shadai is not his enemy
let the one I consider the enemy
be the wicked,
not the righteous.
That is the statement of Job,
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let my enemy be as the wicked.
To quote Song of Salomon
my beloved is mine and I am his
and he feedeth me among the lilies.
This is the relationship he has with God.
God is not his enemy, god is his friend,
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god is his defender
and in the Book of Job he has none else
he has lost possessions, he has lost family.
I would even contend that he has lost friends
because these 3
friends that came to comfort him have done
virtually nothing but accuse and condemn him
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he has no defense but God.
He has no friend but God. He has no advocate
but God,
and all this
is modeling to us
to his friends, to Satan
that God
is good.
That God is in job's corner.
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that just as Job
went to the temple to intercede for his sons
so that relationship has not ended
the statement from from Satan
was that when this happened that
Joe would curse God to his face,
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but the reality is that Job continues praying,
he continues seeking God, he continues to do
he brings his heartache to God,
he brings his frustration, he brings
the deepest possible pain
and lays before God,
which is exactly
what Satan said that Job would not do
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this right here
these statements to God you avex my soul
is pure evidence
and vindication
on the part of God.
God is vindicated by these statements because Satan
was wrong
because Job has continued to commune with God
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even when that communion has caused him pain,
though he slay me,
yet will I praise him
all that we would have this perspective
on suffering on weakness.
My church has been going through Romans 14
for several weeks now.
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We've been marching through the Book of Romans
for quite some time now,
but we've come to Romans 14,
which deals with the reality that there are
weak people in the church.
1 Chapter 14
verse 1 hymn that is weakened the faith receive ye
but not to doubtful disputations
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for one believeth that he may eat at all things
another who is weak eat as herbs
the hymn let not him that eath
despise, him that eath not,
and let. Not him, Edith,
him that Edith not judge, him
that Edith for God hath received him
for God hath received Him,
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and one thing that has
really challenged me
in this chapter at the last couple Sundays
has been that
God says there are weak people,
but He doesn't say the weak
weak people need to just
grow up and get with the program
he says, receive the weak people,
accept them for God has accepted the weak
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and there may be a day where they become strong,
but as they are they are weak
and God has received them,
and he says that all that I receive I will in no way
I will in no wise cast out
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and so God has received the weak.
He has received the strong
and the strong and the weak coexist together
in the case of job,
job has much weakness
and yet God has received him
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the friends have not received him
the friends have condemned, they have
accused, they have
belittle, they, have berated
they have done everything that Paul would say not to do
with regards to a brother who is weak
who is suffering
because they don't do much to build him up
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they do more to tear him down than anything
I think it was Calvin
that said that the wisest thing they did was
sit there in silence for 7 days.
Once they start talking it all goes downhill
and yet God says in Romans to Paul,
that when there are weak among you
receive them,
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there are people like Job
in our churches.
There are people that are in a season of weakness
in a season
of deep dependence because there is none else
and may we be a people
that accept the weak that receive them
because God has received them?
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And there are times where we will in turn be
the weak one.
And may we have people that will receive us
who will accept us because God has
god has received us,
for we are all the sheep of his pasture
the Lord is our Shepherd, and we shall not want
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and all is to say
that we are His,
the strong and the weak. We are His,
and
just as Job is
fighting to praise God in the midst of his suffering
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so we may be called to do likewise
or we may find ourselves in a position
where we are to come
alongside the Jobes
of that walk this earth,
and we may be
find ourselves in a place
where God sets us up to be an
encouragement to come alongside
those that are weak
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and we should receive them
because God has received them.
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