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Sunday 8/5/23

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

📺️ Job 13 🔊

¹Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

 ²What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

 ³Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

 ⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

 ⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

 ⁶Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

 ⁷Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

 ⁸Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

 ⁹Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

 ¹⁰He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

 ¹¹Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

 ¹²Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

 ¹³Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

 ¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

 ¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

 ¹⁶He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

 ¹⁷Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

 ¹⁸Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

 ¹⁹Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

 ²⁰Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

 ²¹Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

 ²²Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

 ²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

 ²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

 ²⁵Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

 ²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

 ²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

 ²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Written By: God through Inspiration

Penned By: Unknown, possibly Job, Moses, Solomon, and Elihu

Date Penned: (2000-1800 BC)

Overview: Faith in God's Sovereignty Through Trials (c 1-42)

Theme: Three Friends Answer Job (c 3-31)

Message: Job Speaks (v 1-28)

Job 13 Commentary

(3:1) Joe Rebukes His Friends - Job compared his three friends to physicians who did not know what they were doing. They were like eye surgeons trying to perform open-heart surgery. Many of their ideas about God were true, but they did not apply to Job's situation. They were right to say that God is just. They were right to say that God punishes sin. But they were wrong to assume that Job's suffering was a just punishment for his sin. They took a true principle and applied it wrongly, ignoring the vast differences in human circumstances. We must be careful and compassionate in how we apply biblical condemnations to others; we must be slow to judge.

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today we continue in the Book of Job with Chapter 13. In our text today we see Job comparing his 3 friends to a surgeon who did not know what he was doing. There was truth spoken but wrong assumptions were made along with wrong applications. In making a personal application we see that we are to apply the word of God while rightly dividing the Word of Truth. We must take Scripture in their context to make application. How about you? Do know the Bible and if you do can you make accurate application of the Scriptures? Let us learn from our text today and the expression of Job to his friends to remember to rightly divide the Word of Truth to Apply to our Lives.

Closing Prayer

Father in the Name and through the Blood of Jesus we pray that we would Take Today's Reading of Your Word and Give Us Understanding of Its Text, that You Apply this Word to Our Lives, and that you would help us grow in You. Father, Finally we Pray for Your Kingdom to come, that Your Will to be Done here on Earth as it is in Heaven. That You would Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen

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