Getting Job-ed

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 …

Getting Job-ed Part 4: Affliction.   In this part, we start to dive deeper into what this book is about. We see that Job is afflicted by Satan, but all within the Sovereignty of God.    

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8 ESV This may seem like a strange advent article, but I think it’s …

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  The light …

Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room. –Joy to the World, Isaac Watts, 1719 Happy first day of Advent (days leading up to Christ’s first coming)! We will be releasing an Advent study every day leading up to December 25th. So let’s jump in. We tend to make excuses about how …

Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan. In this part, we will explore the two sets of dialogs seen in Job 2-3 between God and Satan. These dialogs should make us question our longstanding views and begin to reshape our concepts of:   1. God and His Sovereignty 2. Satan …