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Bildad's Final Speech and Job's Awe at God's Power 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 and final0:22 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. Verse 28 of chapter 28, and to man, he said, behold the fear of0:34 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 the Shuhite0:46 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 be righteous0:58 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 a worm?1:10 Well, as I said, this is a short chapter. Bildad's apparently running out of steam here. Apparently, unable to refute the evidence presented by Job about the1:22 prosperity of the wicked. Bildad dropped that argument, and he focuses now on Job's desire to appear1:34 assertions. We talked about before that they've been speaking truth that just been misapplied. In this case, once again, he was speaking truth that just did not apply to the case of Job. Now look what1:45 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 brings peace.1:57 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 to stand2:08 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 the way,2:20 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 of God2:32 and therefore having inherent value that is mankind. On our own, we are worms before God. That is true. So in chapter 26,2:44 Job replies to Bildad, essentially agreeing with what Bildad said, but and even building upon it, but questioning why he said it as it did not apply2:56 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? How have you counseled 13:08 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 under the waters and those inhabiting3:20 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. He binds up the water in his3:32 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 he spreads his his cloud over it.3:44 He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke. He stirs up the sea with his power,3:56 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 mere edges of his ways,4:08 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 God because he is so magnificent.Job's Oath of Integrity 4:20 So Job builds upon what Bildad said. Now in chapter 27, Job begins his final response to his 3 friends. As I mentioned, that goes all the way4:32 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 his discourse and said, as God lives, who has4:44 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 before God. Yeah. It's okay4:56 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 need God to correct us. Sometimes we need the Holy Spirit5:07 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 in my nostrils, my my lips will not speak5:19 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 about God and himself. Far5:31 be it for 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. I I I'm you know, I I agree with5:43 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. My righteousness, I hold fast5:55 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 the wicked and he who rises up against me like6:07 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 of Proverbs. As as JobThe Hidden Treasure of Wisdom 6:19 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 verse 1. This is a great chapter. It really is.6:31 Surely, there is a mine for silver in a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth and copper is smelted from ore. Man puts an end to darkness and searches every6:43 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 from men. They swing to and fro. Somebody they6:54 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, but underneath it turns turned up7:06 as by fire. Its stones are the source of source of sapphires, and it contains gold dust. That path no bird knows, nor has the falcon eye seen. Animals haven't seen this, but7:18 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 overturns the mountains at the roots. He cuts7:30 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 is hidden, he brings forth to7:41 light. But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man does not know its value nor is it found in the land of7:53 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 be valued in the gold of8:05 Ophir, the in precious onyx and sci fi. Neither gold nor crystal can equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold. No mention shall be made of the coral8:17 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. From where then does wisdom come?8:30 And where is the place of understanding? All these other things can be discovered by man, and man has made it made it his focus to dig deep in the earth and and get these8:42 precious jewels and gold and silver and metals. But from where does wisdom come and where is the place of understanding? It is hidden from8:54 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. God understands its way, and9:05 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 a portion the waters by measure.9:18 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 it out. And to man, he said, behold9:30 here it is. We're coming down to it. Behold the fear of the lord, that is wisdom. And to depart from evil is understanding. The answer is9:41 Proverbs 9 10 says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy 1 is understanding. Great chapter. Alright. Chapter 29, we'll wrap this up for today.9:53 Job further continued his discourse and said, oh, that I, whereas in months past, as in the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone upon my head, and whenReflecting on Past Blessings and Holding to Hope 10:05 his light when by his light, I walked through darkness. Just as I was in the days of my prime, when the friendly counsel of God was over my tent, when the almighty was yet with me,10:17 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 Job 29 here, Job looks10:29 back on a season when god's favor clearly rested upon him. You know, what can we take away from his reflection here? Simply this, we cannot always10:40 understand the ways of God. We can't always explain it. We can't understand it. But this we know what is now is not necessarily what will be.10:52 As god allows things to be taken away, he also is able to restore. So don't give up hope. Hold on. Just just 1 more11:04 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. He's walled us off, and we're11:16 isolated. Job describes it, but we must hold on as Job did, not not to our own righteousness, which is, as I said earlier, our righteousness before God is like11:28 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 hope hold on to was hope in God. And you see,11:39 we can hold on to that hope that is found in Jesus Christ, that hope that springs eternal. Father, we thank you11:51 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, we know that this was brought about on him12:03 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. And so, father, I pray that we12:15 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 that hope. We can find strength and12:27 encouragement in that, and we know that your character does not change. Your truth does not change. And so we anchor ourselves to that, and we thank you for it. In Jesus'12:38 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, you13:00 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 Speech and Job's Awe at God's Power4:14 Job's Oath of Integrity6:15 The Hidden Treasure of Wisdom9:54 Reflecting on Past Blessings and Holding to Hope
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