SCRIPTURE: Job 35 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen, to say the Almighty isn’t concerned. [Job 35:13] Have you ever felt that God wasn’t listening to you? Have you ever complained that God didn’t seem to care for you? Well, according to Elihu, this is wrong and you ought to be ashamed of…
systematic theology
SCRIPTURE: Job 34 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Job, you deserve the maximum penalty for the wicked way you have talked. For you have added rebellion to your sin; you show no respect, and you speak many angry words against God. [Job 34:36-37] The book of Job presents two approaches to the struggle with evil and why suffering happens. Job’s friends…
open, humble hearts
SCRIPTURE: Job 33 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it. He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds. He whispers in their ears and terrifies them with warnings. He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps…
here we go again
SCRIPTURE: Job 32 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Job’s three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence. Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him. He was…
burning with lust
SCRIPTURE: Job 31 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For lust is a shameful sin, a crime that should be punished. It is a fire that burns all the way to hell. It would wipe out everything I own. [Job 31:11-12] In this chapter Job is agreeing with God’s perspective about sin – that it is evil and ought to be punished….
peace through sorrow
SCRIPTURE: Job 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was I not deeply grieved for the needy? So I looked for good, but evil came instead. I waited for the light, but darkness fell. My heart is troubled and restless. [Job 30:25-27] Poor Job: at one time everyone honoured him as a godly man,…
the good life?
SCRIPTURE: Job 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When I was in my prime, God’s friendship was felt in my home. The Almighty was still with me, and my children were around me. [Job 29:4-5] I thought, ‘Surely I will die surrounded by my family after a long, good life. [Job 29:18] Job is reminiscing about the good old days, when he…
so smart, yet so stupid?
SCRIPTURE: Job 28 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding? [Job 28:12] God alone understands the way to wisdom; he knows where it can be found, for he looks throughout the whole earth and sees everything under the heavens. [Job 28:23-24] And this is what he says to all humanity: ‘The…
rich man, poor man
SCRIPTURE: Job 27 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The wicked go to bed rich but wake to find that all their wealth is gone. [Job 27:19] No one would argue that building a home on the beach, made out of sand, would be foolish. Obviously, it is only a matter of time that the walls will erode, and a storm will…
whose spirit speaks through me?
SCRIPTURE: Job 26 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak! How you have enlightened my stupidity! What wise advice you have offered! Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? Whose spirit speaks through you? [Job 26:2-4] Have you ever been struggling with something, and had “religious” people make things worse…