Part 2 — Door Opened For Job to Be Tested, Sanctified

One of his friends Elihu saw one fun­da­men­tal flaw in Job: that Job believed that he was with­out orig­i­nal sin. Job was self-righteous. Yes, he was right­eous as far as men are con­cerned, but he was not right­eous as far as God’s con­cern. Elihu points out Job was a sin­ner like every­one else and is sub­ject to the curse of sin which includes sick­ness and poverty.

Job 42:5–6 5Job 42:5–6 5
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5 I have heard of thee by the hear­ing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. ⁶ Where­fore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “I have heard of You by the hear­ing of the ear,But now my eye sees You. There­fore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.” God here had done a work of sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion and puri­fied Jobs heart because it is writ­ten blessed are the pure in heart as they shall see God.” In the end Job healed and blessed twice as much after his trial. In other words, Job did not stay sick or broke. He was healed and blessed. Why, because he saw his self-righteous in him.

What is Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion? Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is the result of being puri­fied. When the con­t­a­m­i­nants, pol­lu­tions and alloys have been burned from our souls, we emerge from the fur­nace sanc­ti­fied; that is, we now have a new pur­pose. Our part in the sanc­ti­fy­ing process requires that we sep­a­rate our­selves from Baby­lon and all that is pro­fane, unholy and ungodly.

9:20–25 “Nay but, O man, who art thou that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the pot­ter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one ves­sel unto hon­our, and another unto dis­hon­our? 22 [What] if God, will­ing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long­suf­fer­ing the ves­sels of wrath fit­ted to destruc­tion: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the ves­sels of mercy, which he had afore pre­pared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gen­tiles?”
We Chris­tians are a work in progress. The Bible calls it sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion. God’s aim is to pro­duce a ves­sel unto His glory. A ves­sel that oth­ers are able to see that we are the design and handy work of the Mas­ter Pot­ter.
The Pot­ters Clay

To start with, a pot­ter needs a lump of clay and before he can make any­thing out of it, the for­eign mat­ter must be removed from it. Any stones, twigs or debris must come out. This anal­ogy is very fit­ting as we know that we were made by our Cre­ator out of clay. Ge 2:7Ge 2:7
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7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nos­trils the breath of life; and man became a liv­ing soul. of the dust…: Heb. dust of the ground  

WP-Bible plu­gin And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nos­trils the breath of life; and man became a liv­ing soul. Ge 2:19Ge 2:19
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19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and what­so­ever Adam called every liv­ing crea­ture, that was the name thereof. Adam: or, the man  

WP-Bible plu­gin And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and what­so­ever Adam called every liv­ing crea­ture, that [was] the name thereof.”

Then the pot­ter may need to add some water and knead the clay until it is pli­able and ready to cast on the wheel. Hav­ing done this nec­es­sary prepa­ra­tion, the clay is ready to receive the shape the pot­ter has in mind.

The pot­ter must have a plan for this lump of clay before He ever places his hands firmly around it on the spin­ning wheel. In His mind he sees the fin­ished ves­sel. There­fore, every touch and each tool skill­fully used, con­tributes to fin­ish His work.

We Chris­tians are the clay, our God is the Pot­ter. If we are to become use­ful ves­sels we must not resist His skill­ful hands at work. We must not flee from the pres­sures of life it’s sig­nif­i­cant part in fin­ish­ing our vessel.

Some of the pres­sures which God exerts upon us are hard to bear, but is glo­ri­ous of them is to make us into His image and like­ness. God must remove the for­eign debris first. The lust­ful sin­ful things of this world must go. These things in us are so much part of our whole lives, but how in the world will we be able to with­draw from the wrong course of life and the evil pat­terns we’ve always followed?

First, com­ing to Christ for the new birth, means chang­ing are com­ing to the way we relate to this world. Many don’t count on that. They only come to Jesus for a fire escape from hell. But there is so much more to it.

What is our atti­tude dur­ing tri­als of sanctification?

James wrote, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into var­i­ous tri­als, know­ing that the test­ing of your faith pro­duces patients. But let patience have her per­fect work, that you may be per­fect and com­plete, lack­ing noth­ing” (1:2–4).The word “count” here means “to con­sider,” refer­ring a par­tic­u­lar “atti­tude” about something.

The word “joy” (verse 2) refers to that which we delight in or are pleased with, and James even empha­sized this by say­ing “all joy”; this is the “atti­tude” that James demanded Chris­tians have toward their trials.

Paul was one of those who, though he suf­fered much (Sec­ond Corinthi­ans 11:22–33), regarded it a joy wor­thy to suf­fer for God: he could be sor­row­ful, yet rejoice (Sec­ond Corinthi­ans 6:10); this abil­ity of Paul proves  our atti­tude has much to do with whether or not a test remains bit­ter or made  into some­thing sweet.

Look at it that God is doing deliv­er­ance by remov­ing fleshly think­ing and wrong­ful attitudes.

“Know­ing that the test­ing of your faith pro­duces patience” (James 1:3James 1:3
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3 Know­ing this, that the try­ing of your faith wor­keth patience.  

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Hebrews 12:1–3Hebrews 12:1–3
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12 ¹ Where­fore see­ing we also are com­passed about with so great a cloud of wit­nesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so eas­ily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ² Look­ing unto Jesus the author and fin­isher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despis­ing the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. author: or, begin­ner ³ For con­sider him that endured such con­tra­dic­tion of sin­ners against him­self, lest ye be wea­ried and faint in your minds.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “There­fore since we have so great a cloud of wit­nesses sur­round­ing us, let us also lay aside every encum­brance and the sin which so eas­ily entan­gles us and let us run with endurance the race that is before us, fix­ing our eyes on Jesus, the author and per­fected, or fin­isher of faith who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despis­ing the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For con­sider Him who has endured such hos­til­ity by sin­ners against Him­self so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”

God desires to break our self-will so that we can be fully devoted fol­low­ers of Jesus Christ. Bro­ken­ness is the Lord’s method of deal­ing with our self-reliance that is within us to act inde­pen­dently from Him. Through adver­sity, God tar­gets the areas of self-will in our lives. He wants to break the atti­tudes that do not honor Him—such as self-righteousness, self-reliance, and self-centeredness. The result is that He fills ours lives with spir­i­tual fruit (Gal. 5:22–23Gal. 5:22–23
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22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith, ²³ Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law.  

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What Was Paul’s Thorn on His Side?

The apos­tle Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” kept him from exalt­ing him­self, despite his impres­sive cre­den­tials (2 Cor. 12:7–92 Cor. 12:7–9
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7 And lest I should be exalted above mea­sure through the abun­dance of the rev­e­la­tions, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the mes­sen­ger of Satan to buf­fet me, lest I should be exalted above mea­sure. ⁸ For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And he said unto me, My grace is suf­fi­cient for thee: for my strength is made per­fect in weak­ness. Most gladly there­fore will I rather glory in my infir­mi­ties, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). Three times he cried out to God for its removal. Yet pride is so deadly that suf­fer­ing this ‘thorn’ was prefer­able to suc­cumb­ing to pride’s charms. God opposes the proud. (James 4:6James 4:6
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6 But he giveth more grace. Where­fore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the hum­ble.  

WP-Bible plu­gin; 1 Peter 5:51 Peter 5:5
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5 Like­wise, ye younger, sub­mit your­selves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be sub­ject one to another, and be clothed with humil­ity: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the hum­ble.  

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Jesus cor­rected Peter’s pride many times (Matt. 14:24–31Matt. 14:24–31
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24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was con­trary. ²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walk­ing on the sea. ²⁶ And when the dis­ci­ples saw him walk­ing on the sea, they were trou­bled, say­ing, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. ²⁷ But straight­way Jesus spake unto them, say­ing, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. ²⁸ And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. ²⁹ And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. ³⁰ But when he saw the wind bois­ter­ous, he was afraid; and begin­ning to sink, he cried, say­ing, Lord, save me. bois­ter­ous: or, strong ³¹ And imme­di­ately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of lit­tle faith, where­fore didst thou doubt?  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Matt. 16:21–23Matt. 16:21–23
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21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his dis­ci­ples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suf­fer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. ²² Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, say­ing, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. Be…: Gr. Pity thy­self ²³ But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Matt. 26:33–35Matt. 26:33–35
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33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. offended: or, though the faith of other men should be shaken and fail, yet mine will be firm and con­stant ³⁴ Jesus said unto him, Ver­ily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. ³⁵ Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Like­wise also said all the dis­ci­ples.  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Luke 22:54–62Luke 22:54–62
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54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter fol­lowed afar off. ⁵⁵ And when they had kin­dled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. ⁵⁶ But a cer­tain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. ⁵⁷ And he denied him, say­ing, Woman, I know him not. ⁵⁸ And after a lit­tle while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not. ⁵⁹ And about the space of one hour after another con­fi­dently affirmed, say­ing, Of a truth this fel­low also was with him: for he is a Galilaean. ⁶⁰ And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And imme­di­ately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. ⁶¹ And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remem­bered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. ⁶² And Peter went out, and wept bit­terly.  

WP-Bible plu­gin; John 13:5–10John 13:5–10
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5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the dis­ci­ples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel where­with he was girded. ⁶ Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Peter saith: Gr. he saith ⁷ Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou know­est not now; but thou shalt know here­after. ⁸ Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. ⁹ Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.  

WP-Bible plu­gin; John 18:1–11John 18:1–11
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18 ¹ When Jesus had spo­ken these words, he went forth with his dis­ci­ples over the brook Cedron, where was a gar­den, into the which he entered, and his dis­ci­ples. ² And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus oft­times resorted thither with his dis­ci­ples. ³ Judas then, hav­ing received a band of men and offi­cers from the chief priests and Phar­isees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. ⁴ Jesus there­fore, know­ing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? ⁵ They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. ⁶ As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went back­ward, and fell to the ground. ⁷ Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. ⁸ Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if there­fore ye seek me, let these go their way: ⁹ That the say­ing might be ful­filled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none. ¹⁰ Then Simon Peter hav­ing a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s ser­vant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. ¹¹ Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?  

WP-Bible plu­gin) so that the apos­tle could lead the church (Acts 2:14–47Acts 2:14–47
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14 But Peter, stand­ing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hear­ken to my words: ¹⁵ For these are not drunken, as ye sup­pose, see­ing it is but the third hour of the day. ¹⁶ But this is that which was spo­ken by the prophet Joel; ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daugh­ters shall proph­esy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: ¹⁸ And on my ser­vants and on my hand­maid­ens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall proph­esy: ¹⁹ And I will shew won­ders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: ²⁰ The sun shall be turned into dark­ness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: ²¹ And it shall come to pass, that whoso­ever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. ²² Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by mir­a­cles and won­ders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye your­selves also know: ²³ Him, being deliv­ered by the deter­mi­nate coun­sel and fore­knowl­edge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have cru­ci­fied and slain: ²⁴ Whom God hath raised up, hav­ing loosed the pains of death: because it was not pos­si­ble that he should be holden of it. ²⁵ For David speaketh con­cern­ing him, I fore­saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: ²⁶ There­fore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; more­over also my flesh shall rest in hope: ²⁷ Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nei­ther wilt thou suf­fer thine Holy One to see cor­rup­tion. ²⁸ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy coun­te­nance. ²⁹ Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patri­arch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepul­chre is with us unto this day. let me: or, I may ³⁰ There­fore being a prophet, and know­ing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, accord­ing to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; ³¹ He see­ing this before spake of the res­ur­rec­tion of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, nei­ther his flesh did see cor­rup­tion. ³² This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are wit­nesses. ³³ There­fore being by the right hand of God exalted, and hav­ing received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. ³⁴ For David is not ascended into the heav­ens: but he saith him­self, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, ³⁵ Until I make thy foes thy foot­stool. ³⁶ There­fore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have cru­ci­fied, both Lord and Christ. ³⁷ Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apos­tles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? ³⁸ Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be bap­tized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remis­sion of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. ³⁹ For the promise is unto you, and to your chil­dren, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. ⁴⁰ And with many other words did he tes­tify and exhort, say­ing, Save your­selves from this unto­ward gen­er­a­tion. ⁴¹ Then they that gladly received his word were bap­tized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thou­sand souls. ⁴² And they con­tin­ued sted­fastly in the apos­tles’ doc­trine and fel­low­ship, and in break­ing of bread, and in prayers. ⁴³ And fear came upon every soul: and many won­ders and signs were done by the apos­tles. ⁴⁴ And all that believed were together, and had all things com­mon; ⁴⁵ And sold their pos­ses­sions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. ⁴⁶ And they, con­tin­u­ing daily with one accord in the tem­ple, and break­ing bread from house to house, did eat their meat with glad­ness and sin­gle­ness of heart, from…: or, at home ⁴⁷ Prais­ing God, and hav­ing favour with all the peo­ple. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.  

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The Father uses adver­sity to breaks our self-will and trans­form us into use­ful ves­sels for His king­dom. Usu­ally when peo­ple think about fac­ing hard­ship, they focus on the suf­fer­ing and pain involved.

Con­clu­sion:

Along with Job, Paul, Moses and even Joseph, these men had call­ings and pur­poses but Pride was in their way. Fear is the spirit that can fuel pride to cover inse­cu­ri­ties, boast­ful­ness, etc. God allowed these men to go through tri­als for sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion to cleanse their flesh and test­ing to with­stand the test­ing to be released to greater des­tiny and use.

What are the fruit of the spirit? Gal. 5:22–23Gal. 5:22–23
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22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith, ²³ Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “Love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith,
23 Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law.” What does it mean “there is no law”? Gala­tians 5:18Gala­tians 5:18
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18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.  

WP-Bible plu­gin Be But led by the Spirit, you are not under law. Another way of look­ing at this is those, whose lives are adorned by the above virtues, can­not be con­demned by any law, for the whole pur­pose and design of the moral law of God is ful­filled in those who have the Spirit of God, pro­duc­ing in their hearts and lives the pre­ced­ing fruits.

Ques­tion:

Are you con­trolled by the spirit or are you con­trolled by your flesh? What flesh does God need to remove from your means of think­ing or action! Is it pride, self-righteousness, self cen­tered­ness, 20 Idol­a­try, witch­craft, hatred, vari­ance, emu­la­tions, wrath, strife, sedi­tions, here­sies, 21 Envy­ings, mur­ders, drunk­en­ness, retellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before …

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