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Gold through Darkness
Names of the “Friends”
Eliphaz the Temanite - My God is Refined God/My God is agile of the south (Edom/Esau)
Tsophar the Na’amatite - Bird/Winged Creature of the lovely and delightful
Bildad the Shuhite - Son of Love of the wanderers/meditators (Syrian)
Elihu, son of Barakel the Buzite - He is God, son of Bless God, of the despised (Uz)
What would you pay to replace darkness in your life with light?
Job 20-23 a
Zophar Answers...
What you have said about me is wrong.
I cannot keep my mouth shut!
(I am reminded of what James wrote in the NT.
That our tongue is a burning flame of hell fire)
Job has a response to Zophar’s speech that is great!
He turns his attention to the wicked.
And this is the comparison he is making.
JOB is NOT WICKED.
And he has not benefited on earth from his faith
At least not in the way we would think
BUT the WICKED.
Gain power
Gain money
Gain children
****They sing
The WICKED...
Job recognizes this is the way of the wicked.
****So they say to God...
Sounds like modern day doesn’t it?
****What would we gain...
This is not just modern, this has penetrated CHRISTIANITY.
THIS IS MODERN THOUGHT.
Eliphaz responds...
He goes on...
As in...
You will have special powers to CONTROL and TAME God and make him do your bidding, even if people don’t deserve it.
This is the kind of preaching that I put in the category of wicked.
But JOB does not CATEGORIZE this as punishment…it is discipline.
Unlike Job’s friends and wicked, Job does not desire Gold in his hand.
He desires to be refined and tested like Gold.
And to do that, he follows God closely, keeps his way, and does not turn aside.
Job will not let the darkness stop him...
There was another that was not silent in the face of Chaos.
God, at the time of creation, spoke into the darkness.
Job trusts that the God who can cause light to shine in the dark is IN JOB’s DARKNESS and hears him.
We opened with this question...
What would you pay to replace darkness in your life with light?
Job’s friends would say, “Give it all and God will give it back!”
Job says, “Refine me through the fire so that I become gold.”
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