Morning Light – March 8th, 2016 Today: [Job Six] Never Answer Your Critics. In this chapter Job responds to the accusatory diatribe of Elipaz against him. Elipaz and Job’s other two friends are entrenched in their opinion that God has smitten Job. Job agrees (wrongfully) that God has indeed smitten him but is unjust in […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 7th, 2016 Today: [Job Five] Did Job Suffer Because He was Guilty? In this chapter Elipaz presses home his accusation that Job is in secret sin. He insists that people don’t suffer as Job suffers unless there is some craftiness or iniquity in them. Elipaz is descended from Esau and in […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 4th, 2016 Today: [Job Four] Can You Avoid Job’s Fate? In this chapter Job’s friends begin to speak. Eliphaz is the chief orator and suggests that Job is suffering because he has some secret sin in his life. On the surface his argument seems valid until you give some thought to […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 3rd, 2016 Today: [Job Three] Did Job Set Himself Up to Fail? In this chapter Job curses the day of his birth. Where did he get that idea? In the culture Job lived in it was common to mourn when children were born. In much of what Job complains about we […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 2nd, 2016 Today: [Job Two] Did God or Satan Smite Job? In this chapter Satan returns to God hoping to further assault Job after destroying his wealth and his family. Once again he comes among the sons of God. Who were these sons of God that Satan came in with? How […]
READ MORE Morning Light – March 1st, 2016 Today: [Job One] Satan Accuses Job before the Throne. What can you learn from the book of Job? Most Christians don’t have the courage to read Job. They avoid it for fear they might bring a “Job” experience into their life. Remember that “all scripture” is given by God […]
READ MORE Morning Light – February 29th, 2016 Today: [Esther Nine and Ten] Esther – Guidebook to Victory. Here we have the conclusion of the book of Esther. It is a story of great upheaval and threats against the people of God. It is a record of what Esther and Mordecai did and did not do in […]
READ MORE Morning Light – February 26th, 2016 Today: [Esther Eight] The Name of Jesus is Our Defense. In this chapter we see Haman is destroyed but his plan to destroy the Jews survives his execution. The king had commanded by law that the Jews be destroyed and the king’s word was unchangeable law in Persia. Therefore […]
READ MORE Morning Light – February 25th, 2016 Today: [Esther Seven] How to Defeat Your Haman. In this chapter the villain Haman finally is exposed and dispatched by the king’s sentence. Every life at some point will have a Haman to deal with. When you are threatened the wisdom of Esther and Mordecai give you a strategy […]
READ MORE Morning Light – February 24th, 2016 Today: [Esther Six] Trusting in God’s Sovereign Deliverance. In this chapter we find a sleepless king up in the night reading through the archives of his kingdom. He discovers Mordecai has acted in his defense but has gone unrewarded. It so happens that Haman cannot sleep either and is […]
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