Morning Light – March 22nd, 2016: What Benefit to Us the Suffering of Christ? Today: [Job Sixteen] What Benefit to Us the Suffering of Christ? Does it mean anything that Jesus suffered for us? Will God afflict us in any case regardless of what Jesus did on the cross? In this chapter Job continues to […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 21st, 2016 Job Chapter Fifteen: How Did Satan Get at Job? In this chapter Eliphaz speaks up once again as the chief spokesman of the 3 comforters. He accuses Job of impiety and surmises that only wrong doers and hypocrites suffer as Job does. Eliphaz then plainly thinks that God is […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 18th, 2016 Today: [Job Fourteen] Is Heaven Our Only Hope? In this chapter Job laments the brevity of life and longs for death. He sees life on earth as nothing but trouble and accuses God of holding Himself aloof from man’s pitiful state of pain and heartbreak. Is this true? Many […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 17th, 2016 Today: [Job Thirteen] May We Rightly Question God? In this chapter Job continues his reply to Zophar who has attacked him savagely. Job insists that he is upright. He insists that his punishment is no indication that he is in sin or guilty in anyway. In frustration we will […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 16th, 2016 Today: [Job Twelve] Did Job Commit Blasphemy? In this chapter Job answers the accusations of Zophar, his third and most vehement critic. In so doing we find that it is difficult to distinguish the character of Job’s words from those of his friends. The only differentiation between Job’s diatribes […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 15th, 2016 Today: [Job Eleven] Can God Break His Own Word? In this chapter we meet the 3rd of Job’s friends who have come to “comfort” him in his suffering. Zophar insists that God is not knowable because one can never anticipate what He will do next. Is this true? Does […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 14th, 2016 Today: [Job Ten] Was it Necessary for Job to Suffer? In this chapter Job insists that God is plaguing him unfairly. Job’s friends on the other hand insist that Job is in sin otherwise he would not be going through all of his trouble. Which is correct? Is Job […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 11th, 2016: Who Can We Rightly Blame for Human Suffering? Today: [Job Nine] Who Can We Rightly Blame for Human Suffering? Have you ever cried out in pain “why God!”? Have you ever thought if you could just figure out where your problem originated you could somehow get out from under […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 10th, 2016 Today: [Job Eight] When Friends Pile On in Your Time of Suffering. In this chapter we meet Bildad, the second of Job’s comforters. Bildad agrees fully with Elipaz that Job is suffering because he is in reality a wicked man. The premise of his thinking, in agreement with Elipaz […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 9th, 2016 Today: [Job Seven] Have You Ever Wanted to Die? In this chapter Job prays for death. He accuses God of using him for target practice. He laments because he would have preferred to die in the night rather than face another day of suffering. We all go through such […]
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