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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>OCT
18 - JOB 4-14 - FIRST TRIAD</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"><b>1.
5:26 (4-5, ESV) ELIPHAZ: APPEAL TO EXPERIENCE. <font size="3">“You
shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in
its season.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">In this
Eliphaz was truly prophetic concerning Job, </span><span style="font-weight:normal">though
he badly missed Job’s true state before You, Father. Human thinking
based on experience sells us short. You alone give true revelation,
Father - not the pathetic conclusions of humanism. </span><b><i>Hallowed
be your :name.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>2.
6:14-15 (6-7) JOB: PLEADS FOR TRUST. <font size="3">“He who
withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
</font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">15 </font><font size="3">My
brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that
pass away.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">How sad
Job’s complaint concerning his friends, their lack of understanding
and lack of compassion! Father, </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You
alone</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are our hope, even when we do not understand Your ways. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
8:8-10 (8) BILDAD: APPEAL TO HISTORY. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“For
inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have
searched out. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">9
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For we
are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a
shadow. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">10
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Will
they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their
understanding?” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">David
said he was wiser than his teachers and elders because he kept Your
Word, Father! So history </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">doesn’t
do it</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">!
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your :will
be done, as in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">4.
9:1-2 (9-10) JOB: TRUSTS APART FROM UNDERSTANDING. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Then
Job answered and said: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Truly
I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">History
is just facts: Revelation of theology is practical application of
facts, and that is Your domain alone, Father. In Jesus You proclaimed
</span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">justification by
faith</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
on the basis of </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Grace
alone</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">.
Calvary was Job’s answer, not history through Bildad. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
11:1-2 (11) ZOPHAR: APPEAL TO REASON. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Then
Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Should
a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged
right?</span></font></b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Reason</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
missed the mark in coming at Job’s problem too! Only </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Father, can look on the heart (1 Samuel 15:7). </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></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
</span><span style="text-decoration:none">12:1-2; 13:4-5 (12-13)
JOB: PROVES THEIR REASON UNREASONABLE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Then
Job answered and said: </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">2
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“No
doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">13:4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">As for
you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">5
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Oh
that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Job
proved by reason that most reason is unreasonable! Father, we move to
trust in You alone in the face of perplexing circumstances. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">7.
14:14 (14) JOB: HIS PHILOSOPHY OF MAN. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“If
a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would
wait, till my renewal should come.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Job
had hope in the Resurrection of the body even in his present terrible
condition! And he still trusted You Father, in his present! What an
example! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil</span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">
one!</span></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
13:15 (12-13) JOB: A REMARKABLE CONFESSION. </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Though
he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his
face.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">May
we take to ourselves the first part of his confession.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Quote
from William McKinley - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
financial honor of this government is of too vast importance, is
entirely too sacred to be the football of party politics.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 108:3-5 (108) WITH GOD WE SHALL DO VALIANTLY.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“I will
give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to
you among the nations. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">4
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">For
your steadfast love (CHEsed) is great above the heavens; your
faithfulness reaches to the clouds. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">5
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the
earth! </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Father,
to David's ascription of praise, we add our Doxology: </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">A
Song, or Psalm, of David. To be sung jubilantly as a national hymn </span><span style="text-decoration:none">or
solemnly as a sacred Psalm. We cannot find it in our heart to dismiss
the Psalm by merely referring the reader first to Psalm 42:7-11 and
then to Psalm 40:5-12, though it will be seen at once that those two
portions of Scripture are almost identical with the verses before
us. It is true that most of the commentators have done so, and we
are not so presumptuous as to dispute their wisdom; but we hold for
ourselves that the words would not have been repeated if there had
not been an object for so doing, and that this object could not have
been answered if every hearer of it had said, “Ah, we had that
before, and therefore we need not meditate upon it again.” The
Holy Spirit is not so short of expressions that He needs to repeat
Himself, and the repetition cannot be meant merely to fill the book:
there must be some intention in the arrangement of two former divine
utterances in a new connection; whether we can discover that intent
is another matter. It is at least our</span><span style="text-decoration:none">s</span><span style="text-decoration:none">
to endeavor to do so, and we may expect divine assistance therein.
We have before us “The Warrior’s Morning Song,” with which he
adores his God and strengthens his heart before entering upon the
conflicts of the day. As an old Prussian officer was wont in prayer
to invoke the aid of “his Majesty’s August Ally,” so does David
appeal to his God and set up his banner in Jehovah’s name.
Some expressions are so admirable that they ought to be used again;
we would throw away a cup because he drank from it before? God should
be served with the best words, and when we have them, they are
surely good enough to be used twice. To use the same words
continually and never utter a new song would show great slothfulness
and would lead to dead formalism, but we need not regard novelty of
language as at all essential to devotion, nor strain after it as an
urgent necessity.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">108:1.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Even with my glory.
</b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">With my
intellect, my tongue, my poetic faculty, my musical skill, or
whatever else causes me to be renowned and confers honor upon me. It
is my glory to be able to speak and not to be a dumb animal,
therefore my voice shall show forth Your praise; it is my glory to
know God and not to be a heathen, and therefore my instructed
intellect shall adore You; it is my glory to be a saint, and no more
a rebel, therefore the grace I have received shall bless You; it is
my glory to be immortal and not a mere brute which perishes,
therefore my inmost life shall celebrate Your majesty.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">108:5.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Be Thou exalted, O
God, above the heavens: and Thy glory above all the earth. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">Let
Your praise be according to the greatness of Your mercy. Ah, if we
were to measure our devotion thus, with what ardor should we sing!
The whole earth with its overhanging dome would seem too scant an
orchestra and all the faculties of all mankind too little for the
hallelujah. Angels would be called in to aid us, and surely they
would come. They will come in that day when the whole earth
shall be filled with the praises of Jehovah. We long for the time
when God shall be universally worshiped and His glory in the gospel
shall be everywhere made known. This is a truly missionary prayer.
David had none of the exclusiveness of the modern Jew or
the narrow-heartedness of some nominal Christians. For God’s sake,
that His glory might be everywhere revealed, he longed to see heaven
and earth full of the divine praise. Amen, so let it be.</span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">108:12.
</span><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Give us help from
trouble: for vain is the help of man. </b></span></i><span style="text-decoration:none">We
ought to pray with all the more confidence in God when our confidence
in man is altogether gone. When the help of man is vain, we shall not
find it vain to seek the help of God. </span><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</b></span></font></font></p>
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