How many of you are familiar with the game of baseball and why their are starters and set up men and closers as pitchers…
Explain how this impacts hitters… Jobs friends are like batters who are facing the same pitchers after extra innings. They have seen all their pitches and the pitchers tired so the batters just start teeing off on him. There is nothing he can do. He feels hopeless. This is how Job feels as he is under a barrage of attacks from his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar.
Job’s three friends are relentless in their accusing Job of hypocrisy of having secret sin declaring to him by what they see in his life as the reason he is now being judged
Job 13-14
February 7, 2019 • Mike Osthimer
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Job 38-42
May 1, 2019 • Mike Osthimer
Here is chapter 38 we will learn of the wisdom of God and the limitations of mans wisdom. God In chapter 40 we will learn of the power of God and the limitation of mans’s power. Ultimately in chapter 42 we learn of the love of God. Job finally gets his audience with God, the very thing he has wanted since he first began to suffer the trials he has been in. Job had accused God of unrighteousness and the justice of God in his trial due to the things Jobs friends had told Job he was being judged by God because of hypocrisy or secret sin. Job unfortunately bought into their lies and began to question the goodness of God. Job thought God was judging Job’s life… God posses 70 “you want to be God” questions for Job. If you feel like God isn’t doing a good job at running the universe and the affairs of human life you should be able to answer these questions. This is like a want to be God 101 class.