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Job's Wager
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| What are the pieces of Job's story that you feel like maybe we're missing? | |
| Yeah, so I wrote a commentary in the book of Job and then did a fresh translation of Job, which is very challenging Hebrew. | |
| And then I took the key lessons from that and put it into this one chapter on Job. | |
| So in short, we know the story. | |
| This ideally righteous man supernaturally blessed by God and then loses everything. | |
| There's a wager between God and Satan. | |
| Will Job serve God without all the goodies, without all the benefits? | |
| And God has a purpose for letting Job go through all of this. | |
| And what happens is the friends, when they see Job's life, they conclude you must have sinned. | |
| You were super blessed because you're righteous. | |
| Surely if you went through this, surely if you had a stroke, surely you must have sinned, right? | |
| So that's how people often look at things, right? | |
| Just black and white. | |
| Job, we thought you were righteous. | |
| Obviously, you weren't that righteous. | |
| God's purging you. | |
| Well, so they misjudged Job. | |
| They did. | |
| Job, on his part, misjudges God because he knows he doesn't deserve this. | |
| He knows that he's really been seeking to honor God and walk in the fear of God. | |
| He doesn't deserve this. | |
| So God must not be the God he thought he was. | |
| The friends think Job's not the guy we thought he was. | |
| Job thinks God's not the God I thought he was. | |
| So the first lesson is don't do that. | |
| Don't judge the person. | |
| Well, you must have sinned because you got in that car right. | |
| You must be. | |
| Don't judge the person. | |
| And then don't judge God. | |
| Don't say, well, you're not the God I thought you were. | |
| In the midst of this, Job challenges God. | |
| Now, on the one hand, he goes way too far. | |
| He accuses God falsely of being basically a monster that just destroys people indiscriminately. | |
| However, he's also saying, God, I know you. | |
| And there has to be redemption. | |
| I know my Redeemer lives. | |
| So when you get to the end of the book, it's fascinating. | |
| When God speaks for several chapters, he doesn't answer Job's questions at all. | |
| Doesn't even touch on them. | |
| Rather, he reveals himself and his beauty and wisdom and power. | |
| And Job, where were you when I made the universe? | |
| Tell me how the mountain goes. | |
| Tell me about the mountain goats. | |
| Just tell me about that. | |
| When do they conceive? | |
| You don't know anything, Job. | |
| And you're accusing me. | |
| So God rebukes Job. | |
| Job humbles himself and repents. | |
| But then God says to the friends, I'm angry with you. | |
| I mean, this is an amazing part of the book. | |
| In Job 42, I'm angry with you because you didn't speak rightly about me as Job did. | |
| What? | |
| Job spoke rightly about God? | |
| Yes, because Job was basically saying, if the God that I know to be true is really there, then there must be justice in God's universe. | |
| There must be redemption. | |
| And God said to Job, yeah, you falsely accused me, but you recognize that I do set things right. | |
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Trust In The Cross
00:01:09
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| That in the end it does make sense. | |
| That even though we all go through things for which we have no answer now, and I know some of you are watching, you do not, you've been following the Lord for years and you still do not have an answer. | |
| You do not know why certain things happen to you the way they do. | |
| If you continue to honor God and say, Lord, even though I'm hurting, even though I don't understand this, I'm going to trust you. | |
| I'm going to look at the cross. | |
| I'm going to remember how much you love me by looking at the cross and seeing what Jesus did on my behalf. | |
| And I am simply going to trust you. | |
| He will turn the worst things into the best. | |
| He will turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. | |
| The worst situation will become an opportunity for God to glorify himself. | |
| And either in this world or the world to come, there will be a full payback and God's ways will be vindicated. | |
| And when you take hold of that, even though you may not have a specific answer for your question, you have the presence of God. | |
| And when you have that, when you encounter him, that's it. | |
| You don't need the answers. | |
| You don't need anything else. | |
| He is real. | |
| He is good. | |