Getting Job-ed

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 ESV We’ve talked about this in …

Getting Job-ed Q&A This is the conclusion of the Getting Job-ed Bible Study. These will be the questions we had at the end of the book and also a couple of extra that were asked and that we added. We encourage you to go back to some of the earlier …

Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his …

Getting Job-ed Part 8: Job (Conclusion) In this part, we’ll end the study in the Book of Job by seeing what Job’s response is to God. This is what Job has been waiting for in the whole book: to address God face-to-face.  

Getting Job-ed Part 7: God In this part, we will see that God is now speaking for Himself to Job and his friends. He is picking up right where Elihu left off. God is getting at the heart of Job’s issue that has become prevalent in the Book of Job: …

O Come let us Adore Him… – O Come All Ye Faithful, 1751, John Francis Wade Christ is the Lord, then ever! ever praise we! His power and glory, evermore proclaim!- O Holy Night, 1843, Placide Cappeau and Adolphe Adam Christmas is about worship. We worship and admire anything and …

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn… He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. Luke 2:7 and John 1:11 ESV   …

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity …

Getting Job-ed Part 6: Elihu   In this part, we will explore the address given by the final friend: Elihu. We have to take his address as truthful and what it says about God.  

 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice… And I will set up over them one shepherd, my …

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Luke 24:44 We have to constantly be breaking the mentality that the …

Getting Job-ed Part 5: Job and the Three Friends In this part, we’ll explore the conversation between Job and his Three Friends. We’ll see a mix of ok theology, bad theology, and theology we call “Prosperity Gospel.”    

When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will …

“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen…” Deuteronomy 18:15 ESV Moses is an Old Testament heavy-weight contender. Jesus comes on to the scene and says that Moses and the Prophets wrote about Him (Luke …

The Lord said to Abram: Go from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who …