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Daily Transcripts
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08/25/2014
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Job 16:1-19:29 ~ 1 Corinthians 16:1-24 ~ Psalm 40:1-10 ~ Proverbs 22:1
Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. Today is August 25th. I’m Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today as we continue our journey forward. Another big step, we only have 365 steps that we take each year travelling through the adventure and the amazing beauty that the scriptures are in a year. So, we’ll take another one of those steps today. This week we’re spending reading from the New Living Translation. We are in the book of Job.
Commentary:
Okay, we see some remarkable things going on in the book of Job. Alright, so Job, a good upstanding, righteous man falls on unbelievably hard times and just really unspeakably tragic times. He’s reduced to a shell, literally, skin and bones of the man he once was. It’s not just his health. He’s lost it all. He’s lost everything. He is unbelievably low, right? You can hear it in his speech, just struggling with anxiety, deeply distressed and depressed. I know, I mean, we can look back on seasons of our lives and maybe some of you are going through seasons like that right now. You can shake your head and go, “I know what this feels like.” We all know what this feels like. Although, really there’s none of us that can say, “Yeah, I’ve suffered like Job.” Not to this degree, at least I don’t know anybody that’s been through what Job has been through.
His friends come to comfort him. None of them are doubting God. This whole conversation, none of them are doubting the Almighty. They just differ in their interpretation of what’s happening to Job and why it’s happening to Job. Job’s friends have a clear intention here. They do want to encourage Job. They feel like the way that Job can get out of the mess he’s in is that he humble himself and confess that this is his fault, that he has done this, he deserves this, he deserves worse than this and throw himself upon the mercy of God. Then God will forgive him and restore him. That’s the point that they’re trying to get across as they argue back and forth.
Job, on the other hand, is saying, “I’m not accepting your wisdom on this. I’m not accepting your counsel on this because I don’t think that’s what’s happened here. I don’t feel like I did anything and I want to see God. I want to talk to God about this. I want Him to show me where it was that I stepped out of line.”
Of course, his friends feel like this is just an absolutely over the top arrogant posture that just proves that what they think about Job is right, his arrogance and feeling like he’s a righteous person that deserves to stand before God. We would all take that position because it looks like pride. I mean it looks delusional.
Job is isolated now. He doesn’t have any …even his friends are not his friends in his own heart and mind. He’s isolated and feels like he’s the only one here that knows his own heart. Right? Sound familiar? I mean, maybe that’s what you’re going through or maybe you’ve been through those kinds of circumstances. There’s so much humanity in what’s going on here. We’ve received all the promise verses and we’ve passed this stuff around to each other, these little anecdotes that will fix everything. Job’s got a situation where the traditional wisdom and answers are being given to him but it’s not cutting through. He’s considered all of that and he feels like he can’t get what he’s looking for from other people. He’s got to get the answers that he’s looking for directly from God, but he doesn’t know how to get there before God. How can you summon God to account for himself? He understands the crazy arrogance of that but he’s pressing through. This human wisdom isn’t going to cut it.
But they are beating him down. They’re not trying to beat him down. They’re just trying to tell him the truth. They’re trying to be honest with him. This is the way that they see it. Then what rises up from Job today is absolutely riveting. It’s like he’s giving them answers. He’s speaking out of his mind but his heart rises up within him. “As for me, I know that my redeemer lives and he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God. I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes and I am overwhelmed at the thought.”
It’s like Job is at this crossroads where he’s been given all of the counsel and wisdom that humanity can give him. He’s got to decide is that the explanation or am I hoping in something greater? It rises up within him. It’s quite beautiful. I mean we all hold on to this same hope. I know that my redeemer lives.
Prayer:
Father, that is our declaration in the face of all of our doubts and all of our misunderstandings and all of our assumptions and all of our judgments against you, all of the things that we go through that we don’t understand and then default blame you for. We set all that aside and allow our spirits to rise up within us and declare with Job, “As for me, I know that my redeemer lives” because we know that you do and that you are present and that you are in all of this with us. So, we invite you again. In any way that we are shutting you out, we invite you in. We need you in life with us, in every aspect of life with us. There’s nothing off limits to you. How foolish of us to have ever tried to compartmentalize our lives so that there are places that you are not. We invite you into all of it, every aspect, every hardship, every doubt, every fear, every misunderstanding and then all of the joy, all of the peace, all of the wonder and awe that the gift of life brings to us. We invite you into all of our relationships, all of our secret thoughts, all of the words that come out of our mouths, all of the things that are stored in our hearts, everything that makes us who we are, everything that gives us an identity. We need you in all of that. Come Holy Spirit, you are so welcome here. We ask for your presence in all of it, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Hello. Good morning Daily Audio Bible family. This is Regis, your brother calling from Iraq. I'm just calling first of all to say thank you to Brian for the Hashtag Reframe message that he spoke. It really touched my heart and I was so thrilled to hear the theme of the story behind the book. I can’t wait to receive mine. Thank you so much Brian. May God bless you for your openness and your sincerity __________ God __________. I’m also calling to pray for Pastor Gene from Bradenton, FL who asked recently for prayer. I pray, Lord, that you shall bless Pastor Gene and to also remember the person who is in the hospital. I prayer also for her ministry. Lord, provide and open doors. Make a way where there seems to be no way. Open, Almighty God, her eyes to see the __________ you are putting ahead of her. I pray, __________ God, also for all of brothers and sisters who send in their prayer requests to you. Almighty God, we thank you and we honor you for your answers and for your miracles, the ones that we hear as testimonies and praise reports. We thank you and we honor you, in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen. Bye-bye. God bless you. Regis, calling from Iraq. Love you so much, holy family. Bye-bye.
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Hello everyone. Good morning. This is Jay from New Jersey. I’m calling to pray for Tiffany whose son came home with bruises all over his body. Heavenly Father, in the mighty, majestic, powerful, wonderful, and excellent most high name of Jesus Christ, we come before you now, Father, with humble hearts and minds centered on one prayer for a young child who came home with bruises, Father. We pray now in the name of your son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that your Spirit will convict the person or persons that committed this egregious act, Father. We pray that, above all these things, the will of God will be done in this situation. Father, we pray now with our hearts united and our spirit centered on your will. Father, we pray for the comfort of this family. We pray for the comfort of this child, Father. We know sometimes, God, that we do not get understanding for things that are allowed to happen in this realm that we call Earth, but Father, we place our trust in you. We continue our faith in you, God, and in your Son, our Savior. Father, we pray now in the name of Jesus Christ that you will continue to hold us close to your heart. Father, we pray that this person will come forward and confess, Father, for the sin they have committed. We extend forgiveness to them in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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