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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b>WEEK
42 - OCT 14-20 - JOB - THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">OCT
14</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">. 1:1 (1-2) PROLOGUE.</font>
“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” (ASV ‘01). </b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">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></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i>Hallowed
be your :name.</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">OCT
15</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">. 3:11, 16 (3) JOB'S
OPENING LAMENTATION. </font> “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><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">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></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i>Your
:kingdom come.</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">OCT
16</font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">. 13:15; 14:14 (4-14)
FIRST TRIAD.</font> “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><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
we are strengthened immeasurably by the example of Job. He clawed his
way to faith and trust! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i>Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth.</i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal">OCT
17</span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal">.
19:25-27 (15-21) SECOND TRIAD. </span></font><span style="font-style:normal">
“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><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a testimony of revelation-faith! Father, we bless You for such
revelation to Job and man. </span></span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">OCT
18</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
23:10, 12 (22-37) THIRD TRIAD. </span></span></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
“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><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">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></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">OCT
19</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
38:1-2 (38-41) GOD'S CLOSING INTERVENTION. </span></span></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
“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><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, restrain us from foolish words! Hold us back from speaking
during the throes of testing! </span></span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">OCT
20</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">.
42:5-6 (42) EPILOGUE. </span></span></font><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">
“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="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></span><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Yes,
this is as it should be. A revelation of You, Jehovah Father, puts us
in right understanding and relationship. </span></span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">one.</span></span></font></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">NOTE:
</span></span></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Who
can ever plumb the depths of the mystery of suffering? Yet in this
book God unfolds at least two of His purposes that bring good and
glory to His Name out of suffering.</span></span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none">First
Quote, p.10: </span></span></b><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">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="font-weight:normal">inexplicable</span></u></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
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="font-weight:normal">,
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></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><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="font-weight:normal">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 t</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">h</span></span></span><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">ings
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="font-weight:normal">see</span></span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
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></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">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="font-weight:normal">
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="font-weight:normal">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></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">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></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">(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.)</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Young
and old alike read the book of Job with interest and empathy. Many a
time we have felt like Job. Many a time we have wondered at our
friends. Let this book work in us the desire that though baffled, yet
we will fight the good fight of faith better.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt" size="2">Memory
Verse: James 5:11 (7-11 - NNT) - <font size="3"><b>“Lo, we call them
blessed that endured: you have heard of the patience of Job, and have
seen the end of </b></font><font size="3"><i><b>the</b></i></font><font size="3"><b>
Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.”</b></font></font></font></p>
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