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Bildad's Final Words and Job's Awe of God's Majesty 0:10 Good morning. Welcome to stand on the word as our journey through the book of Job continues. Chapters 25 through 29 today. Alright. We have Bildad's final. It's his third and0:21 final speech. We have Job's reply to him, and then we have Job's final reply to his 3 friends, which goes all the way through chapter 31. 1. Verse 28 of chapter 28, and to man, he said, behold the0:33 fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. Okay. Let's jump right into Bildad's final speech, which is pretty short. Verse 1. Then Bildad the0:45 Shuhite answered and said, dominion and fear belong to him, that is God. He makes peace in his high places. Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not rise? How then can man be0:57 righteous before God, or how can he be pure who was born of a woman? If even the moon does not shine and the stars are not pure in his sight, how much less man, who is a maggot, and son of man, who is a1:09 worm? Well, as I said, this is a short chapter. Bildad's apparently running out of steam here. Apparently, unable to refute the evidence presented by1:21 Job about the prosperity of the wicked. Bildad dropped that argument, and he focuses now on Job's desire to appeal directly to God. Now Bildad was not1:33 incorrect in his assertions. We talked about before that they've been speaking truth. It's just been misapplied. In this case, once again, he was speaking truth that just did not apply to the case of Job. Now1:45 look what he laid out in this very short chapter. God is sovereign, and man should reverence him. True. God is a God of order and authority which that brings1:56 peace. That is true. God is a God of unlimited power. Yes. That's true. God has jurisdiction without limit. Yes. He does. Man at his best has no ability to2:08 stand before a holy god. That is true. On his own, he cannot. The the lights of heaven as magnificent and beautiful as they are, the stars, the moon, the sun, which by the2:20 way many have worshiped over the history of man, those are little more than clods of dirt in the presence of God. And though created in the image of2:32 God and therefore having inherent value, that is mankind, on our own, we are worms before God. That is true. So in chapter2:43 26, Job replies to Bildad, essentially agreeing with what Bildad said, but and even building upon it, but questioning why he said it as it2:55 did not apply in this situation. Verse 1. But Job answered and said, how have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength?3:07 How have you counseled 1 who has no wisdom? And how have you declared sound advice to many? To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you? The dead tremble, those under3:19 the waters, and those inhabiting them. Sheol is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. He stretches out the north over empty space, and he hangs earth on nothing.3:30 He binds up the water in the thick clouds, yet the clouds are not broken under it. This is talking about creation and how magnificent creation is. He covers the face of his throne, and he3:42 spreads his cloud over it. He drew waters at the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. He3:54 stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding, he breaks up the storm. By his spirit, he adorned the heavens. His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. Indeed, these are the mere4:06 edges of his ways, and how small a whisper we hear of him. But the thunder of his power, who can understand? There's so little that we can grasp of God4:18 because he is so magnificent. So Job builds upon what Bildad said. Now in chapter 27, Job begins his final response to his 3Job's Unwavering Integrity Before God 4:29 friends. As I mentioned, that goes all the way through chapter 31, so we're gonna have to look at that the conclusion of that next time. But let's begin in verse 1 of chapter 27. Moreover, Job continued his4:41 discourse and said, as god lives, who has taken away my justice and the almighty who has made my soul bitter. You know, 1 thing we see here with Job is that he's being honest. You know, it's okay to be honest before4:53 God. Yeah. It's okay because he knows. God knows everything. And so, you know, we shouldn't put on a, you know, a happy face when we're not happy. Now we need5:05 God to correct us. Sometimes we need the Holy Spirit to help us, but Job is saying, look. He's taken away my justice and the almighty who has made my soul bitter. As long as my breath is in me and the breath of God is in5:16 my nostrils, my my lips will not speak wickedness nor my tongue deceit. He's saying, I'm not gonna speak the untruth. I'm not gonna say something that is not true, and that means both about5:28 God and himself. Far be it from me that I should say, you are right. Till I die, I will not put away my integrity from me. I'm not gonna just say uncle and say, okay.5:40 I I I'm you know, I I agree with you. You're right. When you're not right, he he wasn't going to give into that. He was not going to speak unrighteousness or that which was not true.5:53 My righteousness, I hold fast and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live. I'm speaking out out of my heart, out of my conviction, out of my conscience. May my enemy be like the6:04 wicked and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous. Now I wanna move because we don't have much time. I wanna move to chapter 28, which reads really like a a a chapter out of, the book ofThe Hidden Treasure of True Wisdom 6:16 Proverbs. As as Job said said, men can find precious substances in the earth. All kinds of things are in the earth, but he cannot find the source of wisdom. Look at verse6:28 1. This is a great chapter. It really is. Surely, there is a mind for silver in a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. Man puts6:40 an end to darkness and searches every recess for ore in the darkness in the shadow of death. He breaks open a shaft away from people in places forgotten by feet. They hang far away from6:52 men. They swing to and fro. They can dig deep into the earth, and they can find these minerals, and they can find these metals. As for the earth, from it comes bread, but7:04 underneath it turns turned up as by fire. Its stones are the source of source of sapphires, and it contains gold dust. That path no bird knows nor has7:15 the falcon I seen. Animals haven't seen this, but man has discovered it. The proud lions have not trodden it nor has the fierce lion passed over it. He puts his hands on the flint. He overturns7:28 the mountains at the roots. He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eyes sees every precious thing. He can find all of this. He dams up the streams from trickling. What is7:39 hidden, he brings forth to light. But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man does not know its value7:52 nor is it found in the land of the living. The deep says it is not in me, and the sea says it's not with me. It cannot be purchased for gold nor can silver be weighed for its price. It cannot be8:03 valued in the gold of Ophir, the in precious onyx and sapphire. Neither gold nor crystal can equal it nor can it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold. No8:15 mention shall be made of the coral or quartz, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it nor can it be valued in pure gold.8:27 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the place of understanding? All these other things can be discovered by man, and man has made it made it his focus8:39 to dig deep in the earth and and get these precious jewels and gold and silver and metals. But from where does wisdom come, and where is the8:51 place of understanding? It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air. Destruction and death say we have heard a report about it with our ears.9:03 God understands its way, and he knows its place. He, for he looks to the ends of the earth, and he sees under the whole heavens to establish a weight for the wind and a9:15 portion the waters by measure. When he made a law for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt, then he saw wisdom and declared it. He prepared it. Indeed, he searched it9:26 out. And to man, he said, behold here it is. We're coming down to it. Behold the fear of the lord, that is wisdom. And to depart from evil9:38 is understanding. The answer is Proverbs 9 10 says, the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy 1 is understanding. Great9:50 chapter. Alright. Chapter 29, we'll wrap this up for today. Job further continued his discourse and said, oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me,Remembering God's Favor and Holding to Hope 10:02 when his lamp shone upon my head, and when his light and by his light, I walked through darkness. Just as I was in the days of my prime, when the friendly counsel of God10:14 was over my tent, when the almighty was yet with me, when my children were around me, when my steps were bathed with cream and the rock poured out rivers of oil for me. So in Job10:26 29 here, Job looks back on a season when God's favor clearly rested upon him. You know, what can we take away from his reflection here? Simply10:38 this, we cannot always understand the ways of God. We can't always explain it. We can't understand it. But this we know what is now is10:49 not necessarily what will be. As God allows things to be taken away, he also is able to restore. So don't give up hope.11:01 Hold on. Just just 1 more day. When when we cannot hear God or see him at work in our lives, what it may even feel as Job described it, we God has gone silent.11:13 He's walled us off, and we're isolated. Job describes it, but we must hold on as Job did, not not to our own righteousness, which11:24 is, as I said earlier, our righteousness before God is like filthy rags. So we can't hold on to that. We can't hold on to our strength. Everything Job had was taken away, but what he did hope on hope11:37 hold on to was hope in God. And you see, we can hold on to that hope that is found in Jesus Christ, that hope that springs11:49 eternal. Father, we thank you for your word. And, Lord, there's so much to gain in understanding through this book of Job and what he went through because, Lord,12:01 we know that this was brought about on him through the work of Satan. And and but, Lord, it was for you allowed it for a multitude of reasons, even 1 for our edification.12:13 And so, father, I pray that we would, number 1, have an understanding that that some of the things that are happening, we just don't understand them, but we can we can we can hope in Jesus Christ. We can hold on to that12:24 hope. We can find strength and encouragement in that, and we know that your character does not change. Your truth does not change. And so we anchor ourselves to that, and12:36 we thank you for it. In Jesus' name, amen. Alright. Thanks for joining me this morning, and until next time, keep standing on the word.12:48 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan available for free at frc dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day,13:00 you can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 Bildad's Final Words and Job's Awe of God's Majesty4:22 Job's Unwavering Integrity Before God6:13 The Hidden Treasure of True Wisdom9:58 Remembering God's Favor and Holding to Hope
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