Jim Bakker Show - What Secrets Can You Find In Job - Dr. Michael Brown
Aired: 2021-09-24
Duration: 04:03


=== Job's Wager (03:08) ===

[00:00:00]  What are the pieces of Job's story that you feel like maybe we're missing?
[00:00:07]  Yeah, so I wrote a commentary in the book of Job and then did a fresh translation of Job, which is very challenging Hebrew.
[00:00:14]  And then I took the key lessons from that and put it into this one chapter on Job.
[00:00:19]  So in short, we know the story.
[00:00:20]  This ideally righteous man supernaturally blessed by God and then loses everything.
[00:00:25]  There's a wager between God and Satan.
[00:00:28]  Will Job serve God without all the goodies, without all the benefits?
[00:00:32]  And God has a purpose for letting Job go through all of this.
[00:00:36]  And what happens is the friends, when they see Job's life, they conclude you must have sinned.
[00:00:43]  You were super blessed because you're righteous.
[00:00:45]  Surely if you went through this, surely if you had a stroke, surely you must have sinned, right?
[00:00:50]  So that's how people often look at things, right?
[00:00:53]  Just black and white.
[00:00:55]  Job, we thought you were righteous.
[00:00:56]  Obviously, you weren't that righteous.
[00:00:58]  God's purging you.
[00:01:00]  Well, so they misjudged Job.
[00:01:01]  They did.
[00:01:02]  Job, on his part, misjudges God because he knows he doesn't deserve this.
[00:01:08]  He knows that he's really been seeking to honor God and walk in the fear of God.
[00:01:12]  He doesn't deserve this.
[00:01:13]  So God must not be the God he thought he was.
[00:01:15]  The friends think Job's not the guy we thought he was.
[00:01:18]  Job thinks God's not the God I thought he was.
[00:01:21]  So the first lesson is don't do that.
[00:01:23]  Don't judge the person.
[00:01:25]  Well, you must have sinned because you got in that car right.
[00:01:27]  You must be.
[00:01:28]  Don't judge the person.
[00:01:29]  And then don't judge God.
[00:01:31]  Don't say, well, you're not the God I thought you were.
[00:01:33]  In the midst of this, Job challenges God.
[00:01:36]  Now, on the one hand, he goes way too far.
[00:01:41]  He accuses God falsely of being basically a monster that just destroys people indiscriminately.
[00:01:46]  However, he's also saying, God, I know you.
[00:01:50]  And there has to be redemption.
[00:01:52]  I know my Redeemer lives.
[00:01:54]  So when you get to the end of the book, it's fascinating.
[00:01:57]  When God speaks for several chapters, he doesn't answer Job's questions at all.
[00:02:04]  Doesn't even touch on them.
[00:02:05]  Rather, he reveals himself and his beauty and wisdom and power.
[00:02:08]  And Job, where were you when I made the universe?
[00:02:11]  Tell me how the mountain goes.
[00:02:13]  Tell me about the mountain goats.
[00:02:14]  Just tell me about that.
[00:02:15]  When do they conceive?
[00:02:16]  You don't know anything, Job.
[00:02:19]  And you're accusing me.
[00:02:20]  So God rebukes Job.
[00:02:22]  Job humbles himself and repents.
[00:02:24]  But then God says to the friends, I'm angry with you.
[00:02:27]  I mean, this is an amazing part of the book.
[00:02:29]  In Job 42, I'm angry with you because you didn't speak rightly about me as Job did.
[00:02:35]  What?
[00:02:36]  Job spoke rightly about God?
[00:02:38]  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.
[00:02:46]  There must be redemption.
[00:02:48]  And God said to Job, yeah, you falsely accused me, but you recognize that I do set things right.

=== Trust In The Cross (01:09) ===

[00:02:55]  That in the end it does make sense.
[00:02:57]  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.
[00:03:09]  You do not know why certain things happen to you the way they do.
[00:03:13]  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.
[00:03:19]  I'm going to look at the cross.
[00:03:20]  I'm going to remember how much you love me by looking at the cross and seeing what Jesus did on my behalf.
[00:03:26]  And I am simply going to trust you.
[00:03:28]  He will turn the worst things into the best.
[00:03:32]  He will turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
[00:03:35]  The worst situation will become an opportunity for God to glorify himself.
[00:03:39]  And either in this world or the world to come, there will be a full payback and God's ways will be vindicated.
[00:03:47]  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.
[00:03:54]  And when you have that, when you encounter him, that's it.
[00:03:58]  You don't need the answers.
[00:04:00]  You don't need anything else.
[00:04:01]  He is real.
[00:04:02]  He is good.