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If Man’s Heart Is in Enmity to God, How Can He Fear God and Shun Evil Since the people of today do not possess the same humanity as Job, what of the substance of their nature, and their attitud...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 56
Although God Is Hidden From Man, His Deeds Among All Things Are Sufficient for Man to Know Him Job had not seen the face of God, or heard the words spoken by God, much less had he personally experien...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 55
Job Blesses the Name of God and Does Not Think of Blessings or Disaster There is a fact which is never referred to in the Scriptures’ stories of Job, which will be our focus today. Although Job had n...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 54
Job Has Heard of God by the Hearing of the Ear (Job 9:11) See, He goes by me, and I see Him not: He passes on also, but I perceive Him not. (Job 23:8–9) Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 52
The Relationship Between God’s Consignment of Job to Satan and the Aims of God’s Work Although most people now recognize that Job was perfect and upright, and that he feared God and shunned evil, thi...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 51
The Real Face of Job: True, Pure, and Without Falsity Let us read the following: “So went Satan forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crow...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 50
The Manifestations of Job’s Humanity During His Trials (Understanding Job’s Perfection, Uprightness, Fear of God, and Shunning of Evil During His Trials) When Job heard that his property had been sto...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 49
In Job’s Daily Life We See His Perfection, Uprightness, Fear of God, and Shunning of Evil If we are to discuss Job, then we must start with the assessment of him uttered from God’s own mouth: “there ...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 48
Job Defeats Satan and Becomes a True Man in the Eyes of God When Job first underwent his trials, he was stripped of all his property and all of his children, but he did not fall down or say anything ...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 47
Job Curses the Day of His Birth Because He Does Not Want God to Be Pained by Him I often say that God looks within people’s hearts, and people look at people’s exteriors. Because God looks within peo...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 46
People’s Many Misunderstandings About Job The hardship suffered by Job was not the work of messengers sent by God, nor was it caused by God’s own hand. Instead, it was personally caused by Satan, the...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 45
Another Manifestation of Job’s Fear of God and Shunning of Evil Is His Extolling of God’s Name in All Things Job had suffered the ravages of Satan, yet still he did not forsake the name of Jehovah Go...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 43
Satan Once More Tempts Job (Sore Boils Break Out Across Job’s Body) a. The Words Spoken by God (Job 2:3) And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in ...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 42
Job’s Reaction (Job 1:20–21) Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I r...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 41
Satan Tempts Job for the First Time (His Livestock Is Stolen and Calamity Befalls His Children) a. The Words Spoken by God (Job 1:8) And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job, tha...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 40
Assessments of Job by God and in the Bible (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. (Job 1:5)...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 38
The People of the Last Days Only See God’s Wrath in His Words, and Do Not Truly Experience the Wrath of God From the time of creation until today, no group has enjoyed as much of God’s grace or mercy...Daily Words of God: Knowing God | Excerpt 37
God Must Destroy Sodom (Gen 18:26) And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. (Gen 18:29) And he spoke to Him yet again, an...