Category: Morning Light Bible Study

[vsw id=”HtvOBBWpaDQ” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”yes”] Morning Light – April 20th, 2016 Source: http://ift.tt/1QmWm9I Today: [Job Thirty-Five] Today: [Job Thirty-Five] Does God Say No to His Promises at Times? In this chapter Elihu continues to chastise Job for his self-righteousness. Job is so convinced of his own self-worth that he concludes there is no advantage […]

[vsw id=”zhkcwYnuCuI” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”yes”] Today: [Job Thirty-Four] Have You Ever Mouthed off to God? In this chapter young Elihu corrects Job for railing against God. Job in his suffering feels that God has unfairly tormented him. He is convinced that he is without sin and claims that God is being unfair and is […]

Morning Light – April 15th, 2016 Today: [Job Thirty-Two] Do You Have a Fire in Your Bones? In this chapter after Job and his 3 friends fall silent, Elihu speaks up. Elihu is the youngest man in the room and has sat silently for days while these men debated, excoriated and denigrated one another and […]

Morning Light – April 14th, 2016 Today: [Job Thirty-One] Is God Obligated to be Fair? In this chapter we see the final and last gasp of Job’s insistence of his own righteousness. He maintains that because he is a good person (in his own view) that God is unfair to punish him. In this regard […]

Morning Light – April 13th, 2016 Today: [Job Thirty] When Friends Forsake Us: What Then? In this chapter Job mourns the loss of friendship and the honor that he once held in his social circle. As horrible as his suffering is it becomes exponentially worse because of the stress brought on by broken relationships and […]

Morning Light – April 12th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Nine] Do Good Works Leverage God? In this chapter Job looks longingly back at his past prosperity. He believes that now God has unfairly abandoned him. Did God abandon Job? If you are suffering could that ever be properly construed that God is punishing us in some […]

Morning Light – April 11th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Eight] Is Wisdom What You Know or Who You Know? In this chapter Job decries the lack of wisdom among men. He compares the pursuit of wisdom to the efforts men make to mine precious gems and metals from the earth. From Job’s standpoint wisdom is to […]

Morning Light – April 8th, 2016 Job Chapter Twenty-Seven: How Should Job Respond to His Friends? In this chapter Job continues his last and final monologue. He describes his idea of divine retribution. He accuses his friends of being among the hypocrites and declares that hypocrites will suffer the direst fate at the hand of […]

Morning Light – April 7th, 2016 Today: [Job Twenty-Six] Job Describes God. In this chapter Job begins his longest monologue in the book of Job. He draws on very negative adjectives to describe God. He uses words such as “nakedness, hell, death, binding, reproof, smiting, etc.” as his word association responses revealing what his thoughts […]