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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>T4201R
- JOB - OVERVIEW - THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>1.
1:1 (1-2) PROLOGUE. “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose
name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that
feared God, and turned away from evil.” </b><span style="">Father,
like Job we who live godly in Christ Jesus, do suffer persecution.
But Kingdom principles are in this realized, for we are then
identified with Christ in His suffering (Colossians 1:24). </span><b><i>Hallowed
be your :name.</i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>2.
3:11, 16 (3) JOB'S OPENING LAMENTATION. “Why did I not die from
the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me? <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">16</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
</font>Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that
never saw light.” </b><span style="">O Father,
our hearts go out to Job, for we know the true nature of his testing,
and the end from the beginning. In the dumbness and mystery of
suffering, may we accept Your will. </span><b><i>Your :kingdom come.</i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b>3.
13:15; 14:14 (4-14) FIRST TRIAD. “Behold, he will slay me; I
have no hope; Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">14:14
</font> If a man die, shall he live <i>again</i><span style="font-style: normal;">?
All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should
come.” </span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">Father,
we are strengthened immeasurably by the example of Job. He clawed his
way to faith and trust! </span></span><b><i>Your :will be done, As
in heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;">4.
19:25-27 (15-21) SECOND TRIAD. “But as for me </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>I
know</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
that my Redeemer lives, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
</span></span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">26</span></span></font><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And after my skin, </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">even</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
this </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">body</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; </span></span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">27</span></span></font><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And my eyes shall behold, and
not as a stranger, My heart is consumed within me.” </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">What
a testimony of revelation-faith! Father, we bless You for such
revelation to Job and man. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
23:10, 12 (22-37) THIRD TRIAD. “But he knows the way that I
take; When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. </span></span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">12
</span></span></font><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured
up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Yes
Father, trial and temptation is the way of man in this life. Always
be with us in them, that we may come forth as gold. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
38:1-2 (38-41) GOD'S CLOSING INTERVENTION. “Then Jehovah
answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, </span></span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">2</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></font><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Who
is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">O
Father, restrain us from foolish words! Hold us back from speaking
during the throes of testing! </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
42:5-6 (42) EPILOGUE. “I had heard of you by the hearing of the
ear; But now my eye sees you; </span></span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">6</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></font><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Wherefore
I abhor </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">myself</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
And repent in dust and ashes.”</span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
Yes, this is as it should be. A revelation of You, Jehovah Father,
puts us in right understanding and relationship. </span></span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">one.</span></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">NOTE:
First Quote, p.10: </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">There
are things in our heavenly Father's dealings with us which have no
immediate explanation. There are </span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">inexplicable</span></u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
providences which test us to the limit, and prove that rationalism is
a mere mental pose. The Bible and our common sense agree </span></span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>that
the basis of human life is tragic</u></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
not rational, and the whole problem is focused for us in this Book of
Job. Chapter 13:15 is the utterance of a man who has lost his
explicit hold on God, but not his implicit hold - “Though He slay
me, yet will I trust in Him” (R.V., “wait for Him”). That is
the last reach of the faith of a man. Job's creed is gone; all he
believed about God has been disproved by his own experiences, and his
friends when they come say, in effect, 'You are a hypocrite, Job, we
can prove it from your own creed'. But Job sticks to it - 'I am not
a hypocrite, I do not know what accounts for all that has happened,
but I will hold to it that God is just and that I shall yet see Him
vindicated in it all'.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Second
Quote, p.103: </span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Because
a man has altered his life it does not necessarily mean that he has
repented. A man may have lived a bad life and suddenly stop being
bad, not because he has repented, but because he is like an exhausted
volcano. The fact that he has become good is no sign of his having
become a Christian. The bedrock of Christianity is repentance. The
apostle Paul never forgot what he had been; when he speaks of
'forgetting those tings which are behind', he is referring to what he
has attained to; the Holy Spirit never allowed him to forget what he
had been (</span></span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">see</span></span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
1 Corinthians 15:9, Ephesians 3:8, 1 Timothy 1:13-15). Repentance
means that I estimate exactly what I am in God's sight and I am sorry
for it, and on the basis of the Redemption I become the opposite. The
only repentant man is the holy man, i.e., the one who becomes the
opposite of what he was because something has entered into him. Any
man who knows himself knows that he cannot be holy, therefore if he
does become holy, it is because God has 'shipped' something into him;
he is now 'presenced with Divinity', and can begin to bring forth
'fruits meet for repentance'.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">A
man may know the plan of salvation, and preach like an archangel, and
yet not be a Christian (cf. Matthew 7:21-22.) The test of
Christianity is that a man lives better than he preaches. The reality
of the heredity of Jesus Christ comes into us through regeneration,
and if ever we are to exhibit a family likeness to Him it must be
because we have entered into repentance and have received something
from God. If the disposition of meanness and lust and spite shows
itself through my bodily life, when the disposition of Jesus Christ
is there, it will show through my bodily life too, and one need never
be afraid that he will be credited with the holiness he exhibits.
“Now my eye sees You,” said Job, “wherefore </span></span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I</span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
abhor myself” (“</span></span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I</span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></i></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">loathe
my words”, R.V. marg.) “and repent in dust and ashes.” When I
enthrone Jesus Christ I say the thing that is violently opposed to
the old rule. I deny my old ways as entirely as Peter denied his
Lord.</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font size="3">Jesus Christ's claim is that He can put a new
disposition, His own disposition, Holy Spirit, into any man, and it
will be manifested in all that he does. But the disposition of the
Son of God can only enter my life by the way of repentance.</font></p>
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<font size="3">(The above quotes are taken from “Baffled to Fight
Better,” Oswald Chamber's Commentary on the book of Job. The book
is well worth while procuring and reading. - J.A.W.)</font></p>
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