Job Crosses Bildad

Job crosses the line… Well, several actually

By chapter 7 Job has come to the point in his calamities where he is reconsidering the nature of God.

The lines Job begins to cross are in thinging that even if he had sinned and repented, God would simply plunge him back into the mire of guilt since He is determined to destroy him. He believes that God protects the wicked and punishes the innocent and that God literally laughs and takes pleasure in the adversities of the blameless.

Making matters FAR worse is that Job keeps wishing for an audience with God to present his case, as if God cannot hear him and as if he could not just do so at any time in prayer.

Bildad is the friend who addresses Job in these chapters. He steps in and offers very solid counsel. However, like their friend Eliphaz, he comes to wrong conclusions because of he believes Job’s troubles are due to unconfessed and un-repudiated sin.

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Job weariness

Job, in your weariness will you listen?

Job’s trials are now in full bloom and his friends, upon hearing of it, come to comfort him.

After 7 days of silence sitting in ashes of mourning, Job speaks from the bitterness of his heart and curses the day of his birth. He also offers subtle blame at God for being complicit with his suffering.

His friend Eliphaz hears his words and discerns his heart of grief offering advice that was both solid and mistaken all at the same time.

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Acts Holy Spirit

The Book of Acts: Ministry WITH the Holy Spirit

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:12:05 — 121.3MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Sunday 02/06/22 Message –  The Book of Acts: Ministry WITH the Holy Spirit ***Video is HERE*** Share this: The Book of Acts: Ministry WITH the Holy Spirit As we ended a year of teaching on ‘Maintaining the Hope of His Return’ [See –Evaluating personal Roadblocks to Spiritual Growth & A Passion that leads to Purity] and thereby our complete conformity to His likeness. Then over the past few weeks we’ve transitioned to focus on the Holy Spirit, Who has been given to us, to help us remain focused upon that very hope. […]

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Sent

I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me

Podcast: Download (Duration: 59:30 — 99.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSSSunday 01/30/22 Message –  I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me ***Video is HERE*** Share this: I’ve sent them, even as You sent Me Well last week we finished up chapter 16 in John as we’re working through Jesus’s last week on Earth with his disciples as a mortal man, and the lessons He was eager to teach them which He knew were the most vital lessons they needed to learn before His departure. I want to remind you that John 12-17 are somewhat sequencil in the way they are presented […]

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