Job's Seventh Answer Job 23-25

 

Job 23 -25 Job’s Seventh Answer

 

Job expresses a deep longing for God. He is beginning to sense that he is being sifted by God and that God will bring him through his trials. He doesn’t need a throne of judgment; he has already been there. He wants to defend himself. No one can go to God and defend himself. We all must go before God to plead guilty before Him. All of us are guilty.

Any man that has a longing for God in his heart is going to find Him. God will meet him. He is close.

Job said, “I am being tested for a purpose. I don’t know what it is, and I don’t understand it, but God is using this in my life.” God has never promised that we will miss the storm, but He has promised that we would make it out safely. Some of the lessons in the Word of God cannot be learned just by studying them. They are learned by experience.

Job lists the sins of others. Some are dishonest, they remove the landmarks of the land. They take advantage of other people, even those who are in need. Job asks, “Why does this happen?” They have committed murder, and they have robbed, they have committed adultery; this whole evil group is permitted to go down to the grave like all the others. Job says, “I just don’t understand it. I want to know why I am picked out, why I am the one being treated in this way.”

It is the same question that comes into the minds of many people. Job does not understand God, and we will find that Job doesn’t understand himself either. And yet Job has a great faith in God with the limited knowledge that he has.

 

Chapter 25 – Bildad’s Third Speech

 

Bildad says, “The Law of God is that He will punish sinners.” And yet he wonders why Job doesn’t break if he is a guilty sinner. Bildad needs to remember that God’s ways are past finding out.

How can a man who is born of woman be clean in God’s sight? That’s the question. Bildad did not have the answer. Only the Lord Jesus Christ has the answer to that question.

 

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