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Why Was Job Tested? P1

Jan 9th, 12 / 0 Comments

Job’s Open Door For Attack From Satan

Proverbs 26:2Proverbs 26:2
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2 As the bird by wan­der­ing, as the swal­low by fly­ing, so the curse cause­less shall not come.  

WP-Bible plu­gin “… A Curse Cause­less Can­not Come…”

Job was said to be “per­fect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” (Job 1:1Job 1:1
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The Book of Job 1 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was per­fect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) “Per­fect” doesn’t mean he never sinned, but it means one who holds noth­ing back from God.

He was totally sin­cere and ded­i­cated to God. “Upright” refers to his char­ac­ter. He lived in such an hon­est way that every­one who knew him respected him.

Satan’s Legal Right Inflict Job

As you can see from the scrip­ture above (Proverbs 26:2Proverbs 26:2
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 As the bird by wan­der­ing, as the swal­low by fly­ing, so the curse cause­less shall not come.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) — that means a curse can­not come on you unless you have an open door — sin and Job’s sin was a spirit of fear.  What was Job’s open door for the enemy to have legal right?

A Curse Cause­less Can­not Come

Heb “cause­less curse” (KJV sim­i­lar) describes an unde­served curse (cf. NIV, NRSV). The Hebrew word trans­lated “cause­less” means (khanan); it means “with­out cause; gra­tu­itous.”  Read Deut. 28 Bless­ings and Curses.

His chil­dren (all 10) did not serve the Lord.  Did he have a spirit of fear of man and did not dis­ci­pline them? He had fear for his chil­dren.  Fear is the oppo­site of faith and his fear was a form of worry which is not from God.

Job Feared Came Upon Him

Let us note the words of Job: “For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me” (3:25). What this verse reveals to us is of tremen­dous sig­nif­i­cance. Before these ter­ri­ble things hap­pened to him, Job already had had fear for his  chil­dren.  They were not right­eous like him but were sin­ners.  Instead of Trust­ing the Lord for his Chil­dren, he sac­ri­ficed for their sins.

Job 1:5Job 1:5
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5 And it was so, when the days of their feast­ing were gone about, that Job sent and sanc­ti­fied them, and rose up early in the morn­ing, and offered burnt offer­ings accord­ing to the num­ber of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job con­tin­u­ally. con­tin­u­ally: Heb. all the days  

WP-Bible plu­gin says that Job was always offer­ing sac­ri­fices on behalf of his sons in case they had sinned.  His chil­dren were liv­ing a hyp­o­crit­i­cal, sex­u­ally sin­ful, drunken, God hat­ing lives.

Did his chil­dren honor Job?  Prov. 4:1, Col. 3:20Col. 3:20
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20 Chil­dren, obey your par­ents in all things: for this is well pleas­ing unto the Lord.  

WP-Bible plu­gin, Lev. 19:3Lev. 19:3
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3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sab­baths: I am the LORD your God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin, Lev. 19:3Lev. 19:3
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3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sab­baths: I am the LORD your God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin2 The child’s duty to their par­ents is first to honor, care for and rev­er­ence them. Job’s chil­dren refused this admo­ni­tion from God and died young and sent to hell-fire forever.
Job 1:1–2 The Lord said to Satan, behold, all that he (Job) has is in your power only upon him­self (body) put not forth your hand. This pro­hi­bi­tion by God was later lifted and Satan allowed to attack Job phys­i­cally for sev­eral months.

Job Fear­ful Over Children’s Sin

Why, because Job was fear­ful lest his chil­dren would die; he was afraid that he might lose all his prop­erty. Satan’s first job is to plant this fear in man in a form of worry. If the fear is accepted, things will soon hap­pen; if it is rejected, noth­ing will come of it. Lis­ten to what Job says here “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has hap­pened to me.” Job 3:25Job 3:25
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25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. the thing…: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me  

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Satan has to get one’s con­sent before he can curse. If this con­sent is with­held, he can­not work, for man has free will. With­out man’s con­sent, Satan can nei­ther tempt him to sin nor attack him at will. So, in the case of Job, Satan first implanted a lit­tle thought of fear in Job. Hav­ing once accepted the thought, it made Job tremble.

To think that God would allow Satan to attack us with­out a cause is absurbed.  What kind of God would do this?  We don’t see any­where else in scrip­ture of God’s attack except when there is sin of some type — unfaith­ful­ness, doubt, unbe­lief, etc.

Objec­tive — Why Job Was Tested:

God did not afflict Job, Satan did.  God gave Satan per­mis­sion. Answer: Isn’t it com­fort­ing to know Satan can do noth­ing with­out God’s knowl­edge and per­mis­sion!   If Satan is attack­ing us, God allowed it because of open door.Job’s open door which is fear.

The suf­fer­ings of Christ point to the same prob­lem: Why? We can dimly per­ceive how he was “made per­fect through suf­fer­ing,” and how his per­fect sub­mis­sion to that suf­fer­ing laid the eter­nal foun­da­tion for the world’s redemp­tion from all suffering. 

All Man Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion Process — Dying to Self

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is a process of tri­als to get what is not of God out of us or to purify us.  Is there any man on earth or ever on earth who was per­fect and with­out sin?  No not at all.  Suf­fer­ing is a part of test­ing but really it is a sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion process. Job’s test­ing to see if he would turn against God.  He even had three (3) best friends who accused him. 

Paul writes, “…There is no one right­eous, not even one; there is no one who under­stands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worth­less; there is not one who does good, not even one” (Romans 3:10–12Romans 3:10–12
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
10 As it is writ­ten, There is none right­eous, no, not one: 11 There is none that under­standeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprof­itable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). The Bible says Job was the best man in all the East. That doesn’t mean that he was right­eous and good in God’s sight. He was sim­ply the best man from a human per­spec­tive, but even the best man is a sin­ner in God’s sight, and that includes Job. A sin­ner has no right-standing or rights with God.

Go to Part 2 — Why Job Was Tested — Tri­als and Tribu­la­tions / Sanctification

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Trials and Tribulations — 3

Jan 9th, 12 / 0 Comments

Con­tin­u­a­tion of Tri­als and Tribulations

It can­not be about peo­ple but only the Lord regard­less what fiery darts com­ing out of oth­ers as accu­sa­tion, attack­ing your rep­u­ta­tion, betrayal, destruc­tion, etc.  You gotta stand, even in weak­ness, that God is for you and not against you and that he is all your all.  Even though it feels like you are walk­ing in the shadow of death what I call the dark night of the soul but to not fear no evil accord­ing to Psalm 23:4Psalm 23:4
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
4 Yea, though I walk through the val­ley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they com­fort me.  

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“Even though I walk through the val­ley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they com­fort me.”  You can­not allow peo­ple to rule you but God to rule you.

Many times it does feel like afflic­tion of the soul or your emo­tions.  Your emo­tions do go to hel­ter skel­ter but you gotta hang on that the Lord is doing a new thing and will deliver you accord­ing to  Psalm 34:19Psalm 34:19
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19 Many are the afflic­tions of the right­eous: but the LORD deliv­ereth him out of them all.  

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“Many are the afflic­tions of the right­eous, but the Lord deliv­ers him out of them all.”

and that God will sup­ply all your needs emo­tion­ally and phys­i­cally accord­ing to Philip­pi­ans 4:19Philip­pi­ans 4:19
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19 But my God shall sup­ply all your need accord­ing to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  

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“And my God will sup­ply every need of yours accord­ing to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” and that  2 Corinthi­ans 4:162 Corinthi­ans 4:16
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16 For which cause we faint not; but though our out­ward man per­ish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  

WP-Bible plu­gin  “So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wast­ing away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”

You have choices to make in the dark night of the soul.  That means, deter­min­ing not to go bit­ter but count it all joy like I said ear­lier and praise the Lord like Paul did in Jail and the Lord deliv­ered him.

Oth­er­wise, if you don’t for­give, two things can hap­pen, 1. have feel­ings of insan­ity and tor­ment or develop sick­ness and dis­ease.  Because a bro­ken heart dryth the bones, that is where your immune sys­tem is.

Accu­sa­tions will come that are not true.

I’m shar­ing this part so who­ever reads this going through the fiery darts will real­ize these are tri­als and tests of char­ac­ter.  I had to see I could not defend myself but trust God regard­less where it took me.  Where I got messed up at first is I thought if I do the right thing every­thing would cor­rect itself but that is not the case.  Many times it can fall apart regard­less how you try to be hon­or­able not talk­ing, not giv­ing any accu­sa­tion, or anything.

The accu­sa­tions from those you care about, do break your heart.

Yes, when going through betray­als, accu­sa­tions and rejec­tion,  you didn’t always do the right thing.  I made many mis­takes in this friend­ship.  Through my bro­ken­ness, I had to see and look at my heart and real­ized I made a lot of mis­takes and that I can­not blame the other per­son but I had to take respon­si­bil­ity and go to the Lord for for­give­ness and healing.

Many times friend­ships are sev­ered for­ever which do break your heart deeply.  But God has a greater pur­pose in all of it.  You have to trust God and believe and move on and not get hung up in the past of what if. I had to stand in faith and rejoice regard­less of the out­come accord­ing to Romans 5:2–5Romans 5:2–5
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but we glory in tribu­la­tions also: know­ing that tribu­la­tion wor­keth patience; 4 And patience, expe­ri­ence; and expe­ri­ence, hope: 5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  

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“Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our suf­fer­ings, know­ing that suf­fer­ing pro­duces endurance, and endurance pro­duces char­ac­ter, and char­ac­ter pro­duces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

I had to see it was a trial and do what the Word says to do and that was to rejoice in our suf­fer­ings… A very dif­fer­ent con­cept when your heart is bleed­ing but did it because it pro­duces endurance, char­ac­ter, hope with­out shame.  I was doing it out of obe­di­ence of being bro­ken and realigned cor­rectly to the Lord.  We serve a jeal­ous God.

In my past, I used to com­plain about every­thing.  No more.  I made a deci­sion from what I’ve learned in the last two years was to rejoice in all things regard­less how it appeared but to put on my spir­i­tual eyes and stand on Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:1
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11 1 Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen. sub­stance: or, ground, or, con­fi­dence  

WP-Bible plu­gin “Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen.”

Since then, I have found myself again.  I had lost myself and didn’t even know who I was but now I’ve found myself and mov­ing for­ward with new peo­ple and enjoy­ing life to the fullest.

When you go through these tri­als and tribu­la­tions you come out gain­ing new wis­dom accord­ing to Romans 11:33Romans 11:33
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33 O the depth of the riches both of the wis­dom and knowl­edge of God! how unsearch­able are his judg­ments, and his ways past find­ing out!  

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“Oh, the depth of the riches and wis­dom and knowl­edge of God! How unsearch­able are his judg­ments and how inscrutable his ways!”

When you do go through tri­als and tribu­la­tions it is self dying like Christ.  You are only par­tak­ing a very small por­tion of his suf­fer­ing but it opens your eyes to what he really and truly went through in killing your flesh to be more like him.

Gala­tians 2:20Gala­tians 2:20
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
20 I am cru­ci­fied with Christ: nev­er­the­less I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave him­self for me.  

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I have been cru­ci­fied with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave him­self for me.

Dying to self is a good thing.  Tri­als and tribu­la­tions brings up the nasty stuff so that you can cru­cify it with Christ.  In fact it is the best way to deal with the flesh when you go through tri­als and tribulations.

Part 1 — Tri­als and Tribulations

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