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JOB 20 “… he knows no quietness in his heart” (Job 20:20). It is ironic that Zophar should respond with such scathing accusations after Job has just declared his glorious hope in a kinsman-Redeemer. Zophar thought Job to be a hypocrite, one who “knows no quietness in his heart,” yet Job’s conscience is clear. Still, … Continue reading “A TROUBLED CONSCIENCE”

JOB 21 “The counsel of the wicked is far from me” (Job 21:16). Job’s reply to Zophar is highly instructive for anyone who believes that sorrow and destruction only come upon those who have rejected God and live wickedly. Despite Job’s arguments to the contrary, this is his friends’ reasoning: God always judges the wicked … Continue reading “REJECTING FALSE DOCTRINE”

JOB 16–17 “Miserable comforters are you all!” (Job 16:2). When Job’s friends first came to visit, they had every intention of comforting him in his distress. As it turned out, though, comfort was the last thing they delivered. Instead, they became a source of compounded suffering and misery for poor Job. He had already lost … Continue reading “MISERABLE COMFORTERS”

JOB 18 “The light of the wicked indeed goes out” (Job 18:5). Matthew Henry writes of Bildad’s response: “The rest of Bildad’s discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent … Continue reading “THE STATE OF A SINNER”

JOB 19 “For I know that my Redeemer lives …” (Job 19:25). If we could pinpoint one climactic moment in the book of Job, theologically speaking, it would be found in chapter 19. Up to this point, Job has been complaining bitterly about his circumstances as well as defending himself against the constant accusations of … Continue reading “A LIVING SAVIOR”

GALATIANS 5 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering … (Gal. 5:22). While God brings about His purposes through the sinful acts of man, He also restrains sin. God does not violate our free will, but He can, and often does, hinder our sinful actions. This is why it is important … Continue reading “OPERATIONS OF GRACE”

JOB 15 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God (Job 15:4). We return now to our study of Job and Eliphaz’s response in which he charges Job with six very serious transgressions: 1) He charges Job with folly. Once Job had been reputed a wise man, but Eliphaz claims that his long … Continue reading “ELIPHAZ SHOOTS HIS ARROWS”

ACTS 17:22–34 “… for in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Thomas Watson wrote “there are three things in providence: God’s foreknowing, God’s determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events.” This perspective recognizes that God’s providence creates all things and sustains all things. Foundational to this … Continue reading “THE ULTIMATE CAUSE”

PSALM 93 Your throne is established from of old (Psalm 93:2). Governments come and go. Kings rise and fall. Nations prosper and decline. Some of the greatest nations in history thought they were immovable, but God dispelled that delusion. Babylon exalted itself as the mightiest of all the nations, but it fell into ruin, its … Continue reading “THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD”

JAMES 1:12–18 Let no one say when he is tempted, “l am tempted by God” (James 1:13). One of the most common objections to Christianity concerns the problem of evil: If God is sovereign and ordains all things, then He is responsible for human wickedness. In answering this objection, we must remain faithful to the … Continue reading “THE PROBLEM OF EVIL”