Preaching Goes Viral

Finding Security in a Troubled World

So here God hides the reality; and what God does from chapter 38 through 41 is just a barrage of questions that essentially say to Job, “You don’t even have a right to ask this question.” The Lord says, “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now gird up your loins like a man, and I’ll ask you, and you instruct Me! Where were you with I laid the foundation of the earth? Where were you” – verse 6 – “when its bases were sunk? Where were you when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” speaking of the angels most likely at creation. “Where were you when I made the sea? Where were you when I made clouds?” Verse 12, “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, caused the dawn to know its place?” It just goes on like this. Verse 16, “Have you entered into the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you?” Verse 19, “Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place?” He’s asking him questions that say, “You’re not even entitled to know anything. Who do you think you are to question Me? This is so far above you. What I do is so far above you, it is so infinitely above you, it makes no sense that you would even question Me.”

Analogies to Mythic Narratives

Grace Community Church of Sun Valley (CA)

Sun Valley, CA

Calvinist

10/27/2020 14:50