Job 8:1-11:20, 1 Corinthians 15:1-28, Psalm 38:1-22, Proverbs 21:28-29
Today is the 23rd day of August, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and as is true every day, it is great to be here with you around the Global Campfire as we gather and get cozy and take the next step forward. And I’m glad that we can be together as we take these next steps forward. As we’re move through the book of Job, and turning our focus and attention because this is where the Bible is leading us into human suffering. And one of the greatest things to know when we’re dealing with hardship, is that we’re not alone. So, it is wonderful that we can take this next step forward together, and so let’s do that. Let’s jump in, today Job, chapter 8 through 11.
Commentary:
Okay so, in our reading for first Corinthians today, Paul is discussing the resurrection of Jesus, and we can hear the passion in his voice, and there’s a reason for it. And it goes back into his story. Paul was a Pharisee and that’s his religious training. And even though he counted all of that as filthy rags, so they could know Jesus, this was his, this is his background. And during the time of like Jesus, Jesus lifetime and Paul’s lifetime, there were different schools of thoughts in Judaism. So, on the one hand we have the Sadducees, and they were, they were the most powerful. They were extremely conservative. They were the elite among the Jews and they basically consider themselves like the true descendants of the priests of Israel. And they mostly were centered in Jerusalem, where the, where the power was situated and they used their power, we watched that happen in the story of Jesus. On the other side, there were the Pharisees, and they were, they were more plentiful, they were spread out throughout the land. They were out among the people teaching. And so, they were more in touch with the people. And then collectively, councils that were made up of Sadducees and Pharisees would be called the Sanhedrin and they would wrestle with Torah, interpret, and enforce Mosaic law. And one of the big distinctions between the Sadducees and the Pharisees was that they had a different, a differing opinion on resurrection from the dead. Sadducees did not believe that the dead would rise again, when a person died, they, they returned to God. That was, that’s that. Pharisees hoped in the resurrection from the dead. So, as a training to Pharisee, Paul always hoped in the resurrection, just in resurrection from God would raise people back to life from the dead. But even though he believed that Paul, would’ve continued his pursuit of destroying the church of Jesus, had he not met the resurrected Christ.