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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
19 - JOB 15-21 - SECOND 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.
15:11 (15, ESV) ELIPHAZ: EXPOSES JOB THROUGH TRADITION. <font size="3">“Are
the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently
with you?” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">In Your
Kingdom Father, both tares and wheat continue together unto the end,
the harvest. Eliphaz insinuated sin in Job: secret sin, pride and
arrogance. He sought to prove it by tradition. But Father, vindicate
the righteous today as You did in Job’s day! </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.
16:1-2 (16-17) JOB: REPROVES HIS MISERABLE COMFORTERS. <font size="3">Then
Job answered and said: </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2
</font><font size="3">“I have heard many such things; miserable
comforters are you all.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Job
felt himself hopeless in the light of his circumstances and false
comforters. O Father, give us merciful hearts toward the afflicted!
Let us bring them true comfort. </span><b><i>Your :kingdom come.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>3.
18:1-3 (18) BILDAD: EXPOSES JOB THROUGH THE PAST. <font size="3">Then
Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2
</font><font size="3">“How long will you hunt for words? Consider,
and then we will speak. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">3
</font><font size="3">Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid
in your sight?” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">These
are terrible words of false comfort. Let us not have such a hard
insensitive heart, Father! </span><b><i>Your :will be done, As in
heaven, so on earth.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>4.
19:25-27 (19) JOB: APPEALS TO HIS FRIENDS FOR PITY. <font size="3">“For
I know that my <br>Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon
the earth. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">26 </font><font size="3">And
after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see
God, </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">27 </font><font size="3">whom
I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My
heart faints with me!” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">One
of the most sublime statements ever uttered by man! And out of what
circumstances! O Father, forgive us for falling so far short of our
potential and possibilities. We like Job would glorify You in the
midst of temptation’s hour. </span><b><i>Our :daily :bread Give us
this day.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>5.
20:1-2 (20) ZOPHAR HASTENS TO USE REASON AGAINST JOB. <font size="3">Then
Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: “Therefore my thoughts
answer me, because of my haste within me.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Who
needs enemies, when he has such friends! What bitter enmity is here
spewed forth! It is incredible that man can be so blind, unfeeling
and cruel. O Father, be with us in temptation’s hour, when we might
be tempted to act like Job’s false comforters. </span><b><i>And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>6.
21:1-3 (21:1-26) JOB: APPEALS FOR REASONABLENESS. <font size="3">Then
Job answered and said: </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">2
</font><font size="3">“Keep listening to my words, and this be your
comfort. </font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1">3 </font><font size="3">Bear
with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.”
</font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Mockery! That’s what
Job sensed he was receiving from his friends. How sad that when we
need comfort, we so often receive abuse. But </span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are not this way, Father. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
are the God of all comfort. </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.
21:34 (21:27-34) JOB: APPEALS FOR JUSTICE FROM HIS FRIENDS. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“How
then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left
of your answers but falsehood.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">How
can a man of falsehood comfort a man of righteousness? Impossible!
But </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">You</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Father, do </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><span style="font-weight:normal">all</span></u></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
things well! </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
deliver us from the evil </span></i></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">one!</span></font></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b><font style="font-size:11pt">NOTE</font></b></u><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
19:20-22 (19) JOB: HIS PITEOUS REQUEST. </b></span></font><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">My
bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the
skin of my teeth. </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">21
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Have
mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God
has touched me! </span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">22
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Why do
you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?”
</span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
Father, our compassion yearns over Job. May we seek out the living
and show pity. </span></span></font></font>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Quote
from</span><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="text-decoration:none">Vance
Havner - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">“You
can’t preach it like it was - if you don’t believe it like it
was.”</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in;font-style:normal" align="LEFT">
<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 109:4-5 (109) HELP ME, O LORD MY GOD. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“In
return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. </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">So
they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.” </span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Man’s
inhumanity to man, and man’s ingratitude to God! Father, we have so
often despised Your lovingkindness, Your Covenant Love. Forgive us,
and teach us to be grateful! </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">(This
Psalm of David ties in with the book of Job).</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:none">“<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><font style="font-size:11pt">To
the Chief Musician” </font></b></font></font></span><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">-
intended therefore to be sung, and sung in the Temple service! Yet is
it by no means easy to imagine the whole nation singing such dreadful
imprecations. We ourselves, at any rate, under the gospel
dispensation, find it very difficult to infuse into the Psalm a
gospel sense or a </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">sense</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
at </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">all
</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">compatible
with the Christian spirit; and therefore one would think the Jews
must have found it hard to chant such strong language without feeling
the spirit of revenge excited; and the arousal of that spirit could
never have been the object of divine worship in any period of time -
under law or under gospel. At the very outset, this title show</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">s</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
that the Psalm has a meaning with which it is fitting for men of God
to have fellowship before the throne of the Most High: but what is
that meaning? This is a question of no small difficulty, and only a
very childlike spirit will ever be able to answer it. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">“A
Psalm of David”</span></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
- not, therefore, the ravings of a vicious misanthrope, or the
execrations of a hot, revengeful spirit. David would not smite the
man who sought his blood; he frequently forgave those who treated him
shamefully; and therefore these words cannot be read in a bitter,
revengeful sense, for that would be foreign to the character of the
son of Jesse.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:2.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For
the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened
against me. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
misery caused to a good man by slanderous reports no heart can
imagine but that which is wounded by them: in all Satan’s armory
</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">there
are no worse weapons than deceitful tongues. To have a reputation
over which we have watched with daily care suddenly bespattered with
the foulest aspersions is painful beyond description; but when wicked
and deceitful men get their mouths fully opened, we can hardly expect
to escape any more than others.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:4.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">For
my love they are my adversaries. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">They
hate me because I love them. One of our poets says of the Lord Jesus,
“Found guilty of excess of love.” Surely it was His only fault.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">But
I give myself unto prayer. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
did nothing else but pray. He became prayer as they became malice.
This was his answer to his enemies; he appealed from men and their
injustice to the Judge of all the earth, Who must do right. True
bravery alone can teach a man to leave his traducers unanswered and
carry the case unto the Lord. Men cannot help but reverence the
courage that walks amid calumnies unanswering.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:13.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Let
his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their
name be blotted out.</span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Both from existence and from memory let them pass away till none
shall know that such a vile brood ever existed. Who wishes </span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">to
see the family</span></span></font><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
of Domitian or Julian continued upon earth?Who would mourn if the
race of Tom Paine or of Voltaire should come to an end? It would be
undesirable that the sons of the utterly villainous and bloodthirsty
should rise to honor, and if they did, they would only revive the
memory of their father’s sins.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:15.
The passage is dark; and we musty leave it so. It must be right or
it would not be here, but how, we cannot see. Why should we expect to
understand all things? Perhaps it is more for our benefit to exercise
humility, and reverently worship God over a hard text, than it would
be to comprehend all mysteries.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:20.
Thousands of God’s people are perplexed with this Psalm, and we
fear we have contributed very little towards their enlightenment, and
perhaps the notes we have gathered from others, since they display
such a variety of view, may only increase the difficulty. What then?
Is it not good for us sometimes to be made to feel that we are not
yet able to understand all the word and mind of God? A thorough
bewilderment, so long as it does not stagger our faith, may be useful
to us by confounding our pride, arousing our faculties, and leading
us to cry, “What I know not, teach Thou me.”</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:24.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">My
knees are weak through fasting. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Either
religious fasting, to which he resorted in the dire extremity of
grief, or else through loss of appetite occasioned by distress of
mind. Who can eat when every morsel is soured by envy? This is the
advantage of the slanderer, that he feels nothing himself, while his
sensitive victim can scarcely eat a morsel of bread because of his
sensitiveness. However, the good God knows all this and will succor
His afflicted.</span></span></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">109:29.
</span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Let
my adversaries be clothed with shame. </span></i></font></b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">It
is a prophecy as well as a wish and may be read both in the
indicative and the imperative. Where sin is the underclothing, shame
will soon be the outer vesture. He who would clothe good men with
contempt shall himself be clothed with dishonor. </span></span></font><b><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none">(From
“The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon, abridged by D.O.
Fuller)</span></font></b></font></font></p>
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