Job 32:1 (KJV) A Shameful Misuse

Job 32:1 (KJV)

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Here is an example of the fallacy of the “chapter and verse” method of proving a thing to be Scriptural. This verse, read of its own accord, becomes exactly the opposite lesson the Word of God teaches as a whole.

Job was not “righteous in his own eyes.” That the three men judged him so does not make it so. That Elihu agreed with them does not make it so. That God recorded their judgment in this passage does not make it so.

John Gill writes of this passage, “Job was no self-righteous man, nor was he so charged by his friends; to say he was is to abuse his character, and is contrary to that which God himself has given of him; nor would he have so highly commended him as to suggest there was none like him on earth, when of all men in the world there are none more abominable to God than a self-righteous man; see Isaiah 65:4.[1] It is contrary to Job’s knowledge of and faith in Christ, as his living Redeemer, Job 19:25;[2] and to many clear and strong expressions, confessing his sin, disclaiming perfection, and declaring himself no self-justiciary, Job 7:20.”[3]

This is what “rightly dividing”[4] means. It does not mean we divide out one portion of the Bible as not applying to us. It means studying the Bible in its whole context to discern the truth.

Any other use of the Bible is shameful.

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[1] Isaiah 65:4 (KJV)
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

[2] Job 19:25 (KJV)
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

[3] Job 7:20 (KJV)
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

[4]2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Job 32:1 (KJV) A Shameful Misuse

Job 31:27 (KJV) We Mustn’t Kid Ourselves

Job 31:27 (KJV)

And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

Job hits a sore subject right here. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? The immediate context has to do with wealth. Trusting gold, elevating ourselves as if we had gotten it by our own means.

We mustn’t kid ourselves. I’ve not met a soul, not even one, who hasn’t, to some degree, expressed the sentiment that he or she was better than another:

• Smarter
• Harder working
• More disciplined

Which they believe accounts for their better standard of living.

Job gets to the heart of this matter in Job 31:15 (KJV)
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

We have no good reason to judge, condemn, or look down on anyone.[1]

We are who we are because God made us thus. [2]

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[1] To the one who objects about those who break the law, and are in some way a menace to society, God provided government for the purpose of judging them. We are free then to forgive them and to pray for them.

[2] Romans 9:20 (KJV)
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

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Job 31:27 (KJV) We Mustn’t Kid Ourselves

Job 29:5 (KJV) Those Days of My Youth

Job 29:5 (KJV)

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

In the slightest sense, I can feel a little bit of what Job expressed. Frequently, I dream of those days of my youth.

• When the kids were still in the house
• When Anita and I were young and healthy
• When I had years of ministry ahead of me
• When I traveled and preached all around Oregon
• When I was on the board at the Bible College

I was thinking earlier about those days. Every day I waited for God to show up. I needed God to show up. And God did show up. God proved Himself so often that there came the point when doing the work of the ministry almost took no “faith.” I was so secure in God’s presence that I had little concern. I expected He would be there. I prayed daily for His presence, and it felt like He came daily.

Years have moved on, and we are in a new stage of walking by faith.

• Age has crept up.
• Health has begun to fail.
• I can no longer preach with the vigor I once did.

We wonder whether God can or will use us if we haven’t the energy we put into ministry in former years.

Things have changed in the sphere of contemporaries. It used to be I had heroes to look up to and peers to work alongside.

• My heroes have almost all gone to glory
• My peers are facing the same health struggles we are
• Those coming behind us are far enough behind that it feels like many of them never knew us

I have plans.

I have work to do.

But I must ask whether God will show up to support us in this new day.

God allowed Job to be used in his youth. Then God refitted his faith to be used again in later life.

God grant the same for me and my friends.

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Job 29:5 (KJV) Those Days of My Youth

Job 24:1 (KJV) Too Acquainted with the Work of God

Job 24:1 (KJV)

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Remember that this is Job’s response, especially to the accusations of Eliphaz. Eliphaz had challenged him, Job 22:21 (KJV)
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job responds, “God’s ways are so clearly seen; how can you not see Him at work in this?”

You and I know God was at work in the events surrounding Job. The first two chapters especially tell us this. Job knew it to be the case. God knew it to be the case. Even Satan knew it to be the case. Perhaps even Job’s friends had known it at first.

But like most of us, I think they forgot about God. They got so engrossed in the trouble Job was in they forgot that the very best they could have done was to stay by his side, remain silent and pray.

Why is it that, given enough time, we all think we must say something?

The first one to speak loses.

I am reminded of the challenge of the Lord,
Matthew 16:2-3 (KJV)
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

We are perhaps our most vulnerable when we become so acquainted with the work of God, we forget it is the work of God.

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Job 24:1 (KJV) Too Acquainted with the Work of God

Job 21:15 (KJV) The Losing End?

Job 21:15 (KJV)

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job twenty-one sounds a ton like Psalms seventy-three. It is not unlike what we see happening in our own time. From the natural eye, it looks like those who love the Lord are on the losing end.

The Psalmist was envious of the foolish.

• He said the ungodly prosper
• He said even in death they seem to fare better

Job spoke of,

• The longevity of the wicked
• The seed of the wicked
• The safety of the wicked
• The prosperity of the wicked

The Psalmist said the ungodly say, “How doth God know?”

Job writes that the ungodly say, “What profit should we have if we pray to Him?”

I write this in June 2023. Our President has a gay pride flag over the Whitehouse and hosted a gay pride party there this last week. Pictures and videos of the event are shameful and wicked. Indeed, these people ask, “How doth God know?” And “What profit should I have if we pray to Him?”

The Psalmist answers for himself, for Job, and for us.
Psalms 73:16-18 (KJV)
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

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Job 21:15 (KJV) The Losing End?

Job 20:2 (KJV) Wise Advice

Job 20:2 (KJV)

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

Now, here is a good lesson learned from the opposing point.

Zophar and his friends, Job said, were miserable comforters. They were obviously religious and felt like they had a closeness to God. Scofield says Eliphaz rests on his experience, Bildad on his traditions, and Zophar on his dogmatism.

Zophar said he had heard Job’s counter, his rebuttal (or his check) of Zophar’s reproach. He, however, began this discourse with the words,

• “My thoughts cause me to answer” and
• “For this I make haste”

My thoughts
Not the Word of God. Not the leading of the Holy Spirit. But his own thoughts. His impression. His preconceptions. His wisdom.

I make haste
It’s always a terrible idea to make haste. Especially when it comes to the words that proceed from our lips. I had barely begun in the ministry when I heard Pastor Kim Grey (then in Roseburg, OR) advise, “It is wise to leave something unsaid every day.” That’s not always easy advice to follow. But it remains wise advice.

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Job 20:2 (KJV) Wise Advise