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Job
Study 4

job 11-14
Who can bring what is pure from the impure?

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Impure No one best job
speaking, but actually he

enters in our study in our
Chapters 11 to 14 here enters

now the third of our
conferences and that sofa and

he's wein to read if we made
from Chapter 11 and I'll read

beginning at verse two, then
Zia the Nath replied are all

words to go and answered. is
this talker to be vindicated

goes on.

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And then we ought to say that
if Ellis the first of the

believe that if we trust God,
we'll be blessed with health

and wealth, And then if build
at the second one argue that

this will only come to those
who earned it. So how would you

describe Zulus argument? you
know, I think he sort of

seasons of a bit more sort of
spiritual in a way, and he kind

of is thinking. Well there. You
go like devote your heart to

him like the others are sort of
thinking about what you should

do. Go to this or stop doing
that and all those things and

he's like no. it's more about
your inner life job you need to

set yourself inside where you
really need to do the reason

you're suffering job is you
need to go on a retreat or do

have more quiet times. If you
have more quiet times and set

yourself inside, then the Lord
will be right. In fact, your

life will be brighter the noon
day if you could only be more

spiritual and on the other
hand. Has this view of God he

has like Oh the wisdom of God
is so huge and God is so great

and so high and andaz. so in
the one hand that they that

they're very majesty and wisdom
of God is this great thing

That's almost against us in a
way, but then it's like Joe but

you could you could reach that
if you were just really devoted

and and and zealous and So
Clean yourself inside out,

which, of course, Joe was very
anxious because he's like the

Lord's examining me very close
and I can't stand that

examination. So if I was like
Kaia Kan Joe. Quiet time more

Bible study and then you will
be able to do it. I don't know

I think it's quite quite many
even says at the end. If you do

that, you will be able to die
with no fear and you're like

whoa. so that's quite
something. So now this is our

job comes back. I mean, Chapter
12 verses one and two sounds a

bit sarcastic. Here's jobber
playing darkness. You are the

people and wisdom will die with
you, but I have a mind as well

as you I'm not inferior to you
and so he goes on in that kind.

Well, approach

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Kind of truth from that we
might just say that God is very

big or you know he loves beauty
or something like that, but

actually throughout the
Scriptures. when people look at

the natural world, They lett
all sorts of things about the

father's care about how we can
trust in the Lord so Job is

forever looking at the animals.
Elihu we'll see he looks at the

animals and brings up the
animals. The Lord himself and

and job 38 and and following he
brings up the animals the Lord

when he takes flesh in the
sermon on the Mount Hess you.

Instead of the birds consider
the lilies, you can learn all

sorts of theology. I think it's
very confronting for us because

I I genuinely I generally look
at the natural world and I

think it a bit like a factory
floor and everything's just

mechanical and you pull a lever
and there's just Buggs and all

animal life is just kind of DNA
replication machines that are

sort of designed for
efficiency. When anyone in the

Bible looks at the natural
world, they say it's the it's

the Father's House and in Psalm
80 - four you know the. Just

want to be near the Lord In
Psalm hundred and four, they

look to the Lord for food in
Psalm Hundred and 40 - eight.

They praise the Lord. I think
we have such an impoverished

view of the natural world.
these days, we need to get back

to how Joe's or things they do
you remember when we had that

time in book by book with
Steven Longo, the man who was

brought to faith in Christ at
the very meeting, you got to

blow up with explosives Yes and
that night, he said, as he went

to bed as a At the stars he
saw, he said, I saw them for

the first time. It's how
beautiful they are next day. He

woke up and thought those birds
wonderful. Then he went up to a

tree and hugged him and said
Jesus can you see me This is

how much I love you. It's the
hugg it. If you were here, I

would hug you like a hug this
tree exactly that's right. So

now Bess basic Repubs sofa in
Chapter 12. How would you how

can we kind of summarize it?
Well? I think it's as you say

at the beginning of the chapter
when he's really. You are not

any comfort at all and in this
verse five of Chapter 12 mandie

have contempt for misfortune at
the faith of those who faces

the and say look you're you're
looking at me and suffering and

you're comfortable and you're
not relating to this at all.

You're not really helping at
all you're in the position of

comfort and that's the thing
isn't it to say you know it's

very easy when people are not
suffering to just make Oh well.

Tell you the problem with this
is you're like no don't say

that if you don't understand
don't say anything and say I

wish you wouldn't do that from
a position of comfort look down

on me and make me feel worse
with rubbish advice of thing.

but then he looks at the way
the Lord cuz so far in the

friends and said Listen, this
is the way the world the world

works, but then Job says, Is it
really like that? and he says,

look at the way the world
actually works that the Lord

does raise up and bring down,
but it doesn't seem to work

along the lines of the goodies
are lift. And the bodies are

pulled down, he says. When I
look at the world, I see like

priests like the the the
religious people, the people

who are supposed to be the
goodies. Sometimes they're the

ones who are stripped and and
brought down or the lips of

trusted advisers taken away. so
he says No. I don't think the

world is as simplistic as you
guys say it is so first of all

it says that but I like it in
Chapter 13 because he's really

saying verse three chapter 13.
It's very important. Yes, he's

saying. Look. I don't think the
world is quite what you think.

But what I really need is to
meet with the Almighty. I

decided to speak to the
Almighty to argue my case with

God. so he's like saying I'm
looking for answers. Yeah, I

mean I hear what you're saying.
I don't think it fits. it

doesn't come from me. It
doesn't seem to be how the

world works, but I what I
really need is him. I need him

so job is just pressing on
really right through Chapter

12, Verse 13, and he's feeding
his case and it's that first. I

just have to speak to the
Almighty to argue my case with

with God how dangerous is it to
engage with God like that?

Well? It depends. it depends if
you're outside of Christ coming

before the most Holy father,
who's eyes are to pure to even

look on evil. It's it's a
perilous thing to come before

the father outside of Christ,
Hebrews 10 Verse 31. It's a

dreadful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God and yet

in Christ in Christ in the
great mediator who has one hand

on us and one hand on the
Father In Him, we can. Him and

we can call him father and we
have that intimacy and so from

job 13 verse three, We see that
what Joe really wants more than

an answer. I mean he does ask
for an answer. He does. He does

20 times. He asks God, you know
why is this happening to me and

we can understand that but more
than that from far more deeply,

he wants the Lord himself. He
wants to know Christ himself

and know the father through him
and when we see that that trust

coming through, especially in
verse 15 of Chapter 13, though

he slay. Yes, will I hope in
him? That's what he wants. He

wants the Lord himself no
matter what happens. Oh, that's

a verse that matters have used
and people in the deepest

suffering or deepest Mara. If
you slay Yes, I will trust him

and like when we we're with
John Erickson taran and she was

saying from who you know she
knows what it's like to suffer

and be brought low and I like
the fact that people would

often say to her. Oh, here's
the answer or here's what you

need and she'd go look the Lord
doesn't what was. It doesn't

always give us answers. He
gives us himself yes and and

not from her so powerful cuz
that's true. It was very

powerful from her. So it wasn't
just the trajectory of your day

when you broke your your back
the just the wrong angle. No,

it wasn't any of that. Yes, he
gave himself. That's that's

very important. Only Heian
Chapter 14. Where does job

meditate on human mortality at
the beginning? Do you see that

Chapter 14? Well, that's true
because. Way all these

characters are saying well,
life like let's have a

wonderful life and if you you
know whether you've got this

inner sunshine so far off and
the others are saying and you

can have all the health and
wealth and wonderful times and

in a way just saying Whoa. Just
hang on man Born of woman is in

a few days and full of trouble.
trouble brings up like a flower

with us away like a shadow.
Yeah. So he it's the really the

advice of Moses as well.

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Look whether I have loads of
suffering or in the last days

of my life, or maybe I've got a
few more days. Whatever

nevertheless, each day, I need
to learn this. The word of the

Lord stands forever. I do not
and I have no life other than

him. If I'm built on him, I
have a life that's secure him

forever without him And just
like smoke or like a weed and

nothing other than him. It's a
it's a powerful meditation that

we need to regular. Have 250
years ago, People would think

quite a lot about death because
it was close to them in the

West as it's not so close to us
now with better health and all

the rest of it. so but it's
right, isn't it for a young

person to quite early on to
think well, What about eternity

my future? my mortality? all of
that? What is job think about

death in Chapter 14, for
example, verse 14. If a man

dies will he live A-game Well,
Joe has been thinking.

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To me something beyond the
grave, but then he thinks a bit

further in verse 10, but he
says, but man dies at his laid

low. You know for us. It's not
so much the circle of life.

It's just an arrow pointed
straight from the grave which

is a terrifying thought for
him, but he thinks about it

some more and then we get to
verse 30 and he says. If only

you Lord would hide me in the
grave and conceal me till your

anger has passed or should we
say past over we sort of

thinking. 12 turns that way
that there is a shelter in the

grave And just like the
Israelite Shelton under the

blood of the lamb. So we who
trust in Jesus and in His death

as we go into death, then we
can be sheltered from God's

wrath And then we will be
remembered and verse 13 and the

verse 14. We will wait for our
renewal to come in verse 15. I

love this You Lord will call
and I will answer you as we

think of Lazarus at the tomb
saying to. Or rather Jesus at

the tomb, saying Lazarus come
out he he longs for Lazarus

verse 15. He calls to Lazarus
and then verse six verse 16 out

we will come from the grave,
but we will leave our sins

behind. so that's a great hope
resurrection from the dead, but

then in verses 18 to 20 - two
job sort of takes his eyes off

that truth. And then it becomes
a very bleak kind of thing. he

seems to sink down into his
suffering when he doesn't have

his eyes fixed on Jesus and If
I remember, it's because I

remember talking to an
international leader, it was a

privilege to talk with him
because he was suffering

greatly with this the whole
bunch of people that he was

supposed to be leading in this
part of the world and his

people in despair, They said to
him what do we do or how we

survive all this and his answer
was we are in the Middle of a

great storm, but Jesus is with
us in the boat and if we can

keep our eyes on Jesus, he will
help us.

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