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How does the book of Job fit into the Christians life? Is God in control? Does God afflict His people? These questions and more are searched out, and doctrines and teaching that have been taught in the church for decades are challenged. The author takes up the lens of Christ to better understand where Job belongs in Christian doctrine. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free, and its the truth that sets us free. Jory Jewett challenges the traditions of man and gathers facts pertaining to one of the oldest writings in the Bible.
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INTRODUCTION
I was 18 years old when I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and although I had spent all my childhood in the church, it wasnt until a radical encounter with the Almighty that I was brought out of darkness and into the light. The most powerful truth I experienced in that moment was the reality of God as my Father and that He loved me. This would be a foundation that would hold me through a thousand storms of doubt, unclear doctrine and every dark-time when no other source of light was available to me. I may not have had a lot of biblical knowledge at the time but I knew that...
God loved me, He was a good Father, and through His Son Jesus I was able to see Him fully for who He was and is.
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Your view of who God is will drastically influence how you interpret scripture. Where one may see a terrifying God who threatens, another will hear the warning of a loving father.
In my early days as a Christian, I spent a lot of time on the mission field over seas. I didnt have a degree in biblical studies, nor had I any large amount of training. I was just trying to be a good son and live in the light of what I had. That light was again the fact that God was my Father and He loved me.
Now, did that stop me from a life of prayer and study of the Word? Of course not! It created in me an even greater passion for those very things. His love for me created in me a great love for all that He is. I loved His Word. I loved fellowship with Him.
My faith was simple, you might say, childlike but if I remember well, this was a faith to be commended. Faith like a child.
While on the mission field I met many wonderful brothers and sisters in the Lord. I went to church and listened to countless sermons and teachings. I can say, like most, there is always something we dont agree with, but we can still get along and walk in love and unity. With that said, some things were spoken that I didnt always understand. They would use scripture but it still didnt sit well with me. Am I saying we shouldnt be scriptural? Far from it! Lets be completely scriptural! But just because someone uses scripture doesnt make it right. I hear some say, Its in the Bible! I smirk and want to reply, So is the devil!
In my travels I have witnessed great suffering all around me. I have seen sickness take loved ones.
Many trials and temptations are all around us everyday. I wanted to know where it all fit.
Why ?
The question many ask and some assume to know.
In one instance, I remember visiting a hospital in Africa with my mission team comprised of various denominations. We were around the bed of a very sick man and we were praying for him. My heart was heavy, and it felt like I was begging God to heal the man. The compassion for this man was so strong in that moment all I wanted was him to get up and go home well. My prayers were interrupted by a member of the team telling me I needed to stop praying like that, because it may not be the Lords will for this man to be healed. I had no response for him but it didnt sit well. For a long time, and even today, the memory of this moment still stays in my mind.
It may not be the Lords will???
Where does that come from? All I knew was God was love and He was my Father. So I wanted to understand my Fathers will.
Interpretation
I love the Word of God, but I know one thing is true. We often, even unconsciously, interpret the Word of God incorrectly. Here is a good rule I promote when we deal with interpretation.
Dont interpret scripture by your experiences but interpret your experiences by scripture.
The Bible says..
"for we walk by faith, not by sight." (2Co 5:7, ESV)
and also...
"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ." (Rom 10:17, ESV)
When we allow our experiences to interpret scripture we start to walk by sight, and not by faith. One might say to me, but thats my testimony or, thats what God said to me! But if it doesnt line up with scripture, lets throw it out, no matter how emotional it makes us or how wonderful the feeling is. If it isnt in the scripture it isnt going to do us any good.
There are times when I hear some sort of doctrine or teaching and I have to ask, Did they arrive at that conclusion by scripture or through experience? Often I hear something that sounds more as if the senses brought about that conclusion more than the sure Word of God. I think of the words of Jesus when He spoke in the parable of the sower.
Regarding the seed as the Word of God, I want to direct us to the second batch that fell on the rocky ground. When His disciples asked him what the parable meant He explained...
"As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word , immediately he falls away." (Mat 13:20-21, ESV)
I want to point out one word; tribulation. Tribulation means, pressure, or testing. The enemy comes, as he always has, to test the Word of God. God spoke to Adam and Eve in the garden. He gave His word to them and the enemy came and said, Did God say? (Gen 3:1). The Father spoke from the sky to the Son following His baptism, This is my beloved son. Following this the enemy challenges this and says, If you are the Son of God. It is his scheme and he has done it since the beginning, to get man to take his eyes off of God and His word and onto their present circumstances. What they see and what they hear. Their natural senses.
In this parable, Jesus says that the testing arises on account of the Word. There are some very clear statements in scripture that are either true or a lie, and man has removed those truths from his doctrine because he has failed to realize them with his natural senses. He says, I dont see it and I dont feel it, so it must have ceased or is not for today. He says, I tried it and it didnt happen, so it must be figurative. Though some things are, there are many things that are clearly spoken in the Word and must be taken down a very long and muddy road to be misinterpreted, and yet it still happens.
Healing is a huge debate within the church as a whole and its place in Christianity. Scriptures are shared but one group says, its physical healing, while the other says, no, but it is only spiritual.
I once heard someone say in regards to a certain denomination, that they were lead by sight and not faith because they believed in healing. I thought to myself, Knowing these people, that that could not be the case, for if they had went by their sight every time they prayed and someone didnt get healed they would have stopped a long time ago, but they havent. They continue to believe that healing is for today. They continue to lay hands on the sick and believe.
Inspiration
I started this book in this way to explain my reasoning for writing on the subject of another book. That is the Book of Job.
Shortly after my adoption into Gods family I dove into the Word of God. My goal was to read the entire Bible, all 66 books.
Though I was reading many things that didnt quite make sense at first there was one thing that stood out more than the rest and that was the book of Job.
In my early days as a Christian, and even today, Ive heard various sermons on the book of Job. None of them made sense to me, but I was willing to admit I was wrong. For I was just a baby in Christ and knew very little of the scripture. I didnt want my emotions to be what dictated how I read the Bible. I knew enough to know that that would be a slippery slope.
All the sermons and all the teaching just didnt make any sense but all I knew was God was a good Father and He loved me. Might sound repetitive but its very important. In the parable of the sower, Jesus says the seed on rocky ground dies because people do not have root in themselves. I believe a great root system starts on knowing who your Father is and who you are to Him.
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