Job 12:1-15:35, 1 Corinthians 15:29-58, Psalms 39:1-13, Proverbs 21:30-31
Today is the 24th day of August welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today as we come together and take the next step forward through the Scriptures through this month and through this year through our lives. We are obviously in the book of Job right now, making our way through. Things have started to get heated up in the conversation between Job and his friends. He’s been very much pouring out his heart and saying how he feels and confessing that he’s confused and frustrated and in pain and anguish and depressed. His friends have tried to comfort him, but he’s kinda stickin’ to his story. And the thing that he believes, you know, is making him so depressed and it’s not only the tragedy that he’s experienced, but why, right, why is God judging him, which is what he believes, that what has happened to him has happened at God’s hand and he doesn’t know why and he would like to be told. Like he would like an audience with God to be told. Of course, his friends are like, you know, you did something wrong and you need to humble yourself. And when he won’t listen to that that’s kinda what’s got them upset at him. And, so, we continue today with Job 12 through 15.
Commentary:
Okay. So, in the book of Job, we should be seeing kind of where the rub is, or where the tension is. He’s not like…Job’s fighting with his friends who had come to comfort him. And they are trying to comfort him, but they have…they are at an impasse of their understanding. Job believes God is righteous, just, true, merciful, good, holy, all of these things. And, so, do his friends. They all leave this about God. So, where they have divergent paths is why this is happening to Job. Job believes he is innocent and doesn’t deserve this suffering. He is confused. So, he believes in a righteous and just God, but he also in himself believes that he has been honorable and righteous before God. And, so, that this perceived judgment from God is unwarranted and he would like answers. His friends also believe God is righteous and just and cannot find an equation, right, some kind of formula that would work for God to be harsh upon Job if he didn’t deserve it. So, in a matter of speaking, we have human beings arguing about God’s justice. Imagine that. So, Job’s friends don’t really have a grid for impartiality, which is one of the things that Job is complaining about and he knows it. He knows like he’s the only one that thinks he’s innocent and no one else is an advocate, like nobody else is there. And his friends they…they don’t have a grid for God to be doing what Job is claiming and they have no way to just be impartial and go, well, let’s argue this out then because their sense of God’s justice is deeply, deeply ingrained, just as deeply as it is and to Job. And, so, they have to defend God. And Job even knows that if he could get an audience with God what would…what will he say? Like he’s got his case prepared, but God’s wisdom and might and power, like so far beyond any human capability. What’s he gonna say? Everything he says is gonna to get rebutted and he knows all this, and he feels like, although his friends are trying to argue this out and convince him that they don’t know anything that he doesn’t know, they’re human beings just like he is. They may be wise but he’s wise too and respected too. And that brings us to one of the most, for me, riveting passages of Scripture. There are a couple of them in Job that just make you step back and go what…what kind of posture of heart…like how do you get…how do you get that level of trust? Because Job is saying one way or the other I need to see God. God has the answers. Nobody else has the answers. I’ve got to find God, but I don’t know where and I don’t know what it would be like if I do. And, so, Job says, “even if he slays me still I will hope in him.” Or quoting from the translation that we’re reading from this week, “God might kill me, but I have no other hope.” He’s saying even if finding God proves hopeless I will still hope in God. And this is one of the keys to the territory that we are in, and what the book of Job is dealing with. What if we can’t get the answer were looking for? Where will we put our hope?
Prayer:
Father…Holy Spirit come into that. That…this is very, very deep within us. This is core stuff down deep within us because so often it is our lack of knowledge or understanding that sends us off on some kind of wild chase that leads us nowhere but a big circle. And we suffer so much more than we have to. Our hope is in You and we can declare this and we do declare this. Even if we’re for declaring it in faith our hope is in You because there is no other hope. And yet there are plenty of times that we find confusion and uncertainty. And in the book of Job, we see a person who has been stripped down to nothing, a person who has lost everything that can be lost and would find death as to be a relief. That’s about as far stripped away as a human being can get. And yet we see in Job, even though he’s stripped to bedrock he still has hope in You, even if there is no hope. Help us to ponder that, meditate upon that, consider that, till that into the soil of our hearts. Come Holy Spirit we pray. In the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.
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Community Prayer and Praise:
Family just come together with me as I pray for our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. I’m reminded of the time I was in Israel with DAB a couple years ago. We were up on the Golan Heights and Brian shared how the brothers and sisters in Syria said they just felt forgotten sometimes and asked for prayer. And we are hearing of the deliverance of the Jews through Esther right now and there’s no coincidence with God. It’s for such a time as this. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And just a couple days ago Brian read psalms 35 and that is my declaration, my decree that I am praying over the people of Afghanistan. My brothers and sisters there, the innocent there. And just agree with me. Father God oppose those who oppose them Lord and fight for those that fight against them Lord. Take Your shield and Your armor and come to their rescue. Lift up Your spear into war axe against those that pursue them and promise that You will save them. May those who try to kill them be defeated and disgraced in the name of Jesus. May those who plot against them be turned back and confused. May they be like the straw blown by the wind as the Angel of the Lord pursues them and may their path be dark and slippery while the Angel of the Lord strikes them down. Because without any reason they have laid a trap. But God I will say I am glad because of the Lord. I am happy because You have saved them. If their hearts will not turn to You Father God then just destroy them but rescue Your children in Jesus…
Dear DAB family this is Russell from superior. I’m just feeling sad about everybody that’s left behind in Afghanistan. You know, a lot of these people feel like they’re in a holy war. I don’t know. But, you know, they’re talking about Christians that are left behind over there, behind enemy lines and, you know, why they’re going to do what they do. I just would like to remind us all we need to be praying, you know, and using the only weapon that we have, the power of prayer. I know we all are strong in this prayer, and I’ve seen a lot of miracles happen with this prayer group. So, just if everybody could join me in a prayer. Dear heavenly Father God please protect those that are there, those that are willing to die for Your name. Please, you know, protect them, please watch over them, you know. It’s sad, You’re the only true God and these people are dying for nothing. Please protect those ones that You can dear heavenly Father. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Hey siblings it’s your little sis His Little Cherri in Canada. And I’m show glad we’re reading the story of Esther in the Old Testament. And I’m seeing something different in it that I’ve ever seen before because I’m in a different place then I’ve ever been before. Esther strikes me as someone who is quite shy and hesitant, at least that’s how she comes across in the story. And when Mordecai asks her to go before the king she doesn’t want to. And of course, no one would. Anyone would be freaked out. But I just I just see her as being like me. I am not a __ flamboyant person. I mean I have been at times in the past when I was passionate and on stage and on the ministry teams and blah blah blah. But since my health issues I’m in a very slow quiet place. A lot of my flamboyant friends have faded into the word work because I can’t keep up with them and most of my close friends now have health problems like I do. And, so, I find myself and the company of the afflicted and it’s a very different place to be. And yet it’s a good place, it’s such a good place to be. And the story of Esther just encourages me because I see that God used her in a powerful way even though she…she was hesitant. And, you know, she kept inviting king and Mordecai to dinner after dinner before she got around to the point. And if she’d done it any other way, I don’t think it would have worked out as well. So, I’m so encouraged that God can use me exactly where I am.
Greetings and salutations thanks and praise to the most-high this is Tim Pickle here from the corn state. If you could please be praying for my wife Bailey. Our baby is due October 6th woo. But my wife suffers from high blood pressure so they’re talking about even taking the baby out before 37 weeks. So, if you could please be praying for just peace and God’s hand to be over the situation and everything turns out the way that He wants it to be. Amen. Thank you all very much. I hope you have a…
Hello DAB my name is people on the water and I’m from Indiana calling in for a young man named Jonathan. It’s crazy for me to call him a young man because he’s two years older than me but I’m still assuming that 18 and 20 is still a young man. Either way, Jonathan as I was hearing your call even before you said pornography or lust that’s what I was thinking about. And you came in, you just said you feel disgusting. Although you are new here, I don’t know if it was a week or a month that you’ve been a part of the DAB but I’m glad you’re here man. I’m glad you’re here brother. I don’t have the words to encourage you right now, honestly but I just I…I lift you up in the name of the Holy Spirit. As someone on the 14th said, it’s as simple as just trusting God. And I pray that you see that simplicity through your trials and through your temptations, that you might submit yourself therefore to God and watch the devil flee because it is a free and it is a possible thing. Man, thank you for sharing. Love you DAB. In Jesus’ name I pray and I ask. Make it a great day. Amen.
Hello DABber family this is the Burning Bush that will not be devoured for the glory of our God and king. Today is Friday and I just heard a prayer request from one of our DABber kids and it sounded like we were praying for grandma who has multiple myeloma and praying for grandma to have energy to play with them in the pool. And that just put a big smile on my face. I am definitely praying for you dear. I am praying for your grandma. I’m praying that God will supernaturally heal her. I pray that she will have so much energy that she will have so much fun with you in the pool. I even pray for extra energy for her to do more stuff with you, play with you, run with you, whatever it is you need grandma to do. I am definitely praying for you. And I know that God heard your prayer even before I called. And I believe that He sent angels, that He released angels in heaven to execute to your request because He loves you so much. This just made my day. It’s exciting to know that we have kids listening. I have a 14-year-old now who came to me a couple days ago and said to me, mum can listen to DAB before I go to bed? And it just made my day because I used to play it for him from his birth. Like all his life I’d play it for him before bedtime. And, so, I’m glad that he’s picking it up again. I love you guys. Love all the kids out there. God bless. Bye.