Job 24:1—26:7
June 22, 2023
It’s okay to admit that you don’t have all the answers. Today on the Bible Bus, Bildad asks an important question: “How can man be clean in God’s sight?” While they didn’t have an answer to this question in Job’s day and age, we can find comfort in knowing today that Jesus is the answer.
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Look for God, and you’ll find Him. Although Job didn’t fully understand God yet, he expressed a longing to be in His presence. Because of his desire to know God, a glimmer of light breaks through Job’s dull, colorless world. Will Job find an explanation for his suffering? Or better yet—will he find God? Listen up.
June 21, 2023
God doesn’t want us to run in circles; He wants us to walk with Him. Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad keep accusing Job of the same things, only they get harsher each time around. Determined to defend himself, Job’s language gets stronger, too. None of them truly know and understand God. In studying these chapters, we learn that the only way to break free from circular reasoning is to get to know God in His Word.
June 20, 2023
Have you heard of “the song that never ends”? What about the argument that never ends? Today on the Bible Bus, witness a stand-off between Job and his friends—again. While they could all build a good case for their debate, they didn’t know God well enough to come to the right conclusions about Him. The result? An argument that just kept going in circles.
June 19, 2023
Being kind is more important than being right. Unfortunately, Job’s friends valued being correct more than comforting Job in his time of need. In vivid language, Job rebukes his friends for the way they treat him and tries to justify himself and say God is wrong for allowing his suffering. Follow along as Dr. McGee teaches us how each of these men, including Job, had a wrong view of God.
June 16, 2023
You can always trust God’s plan, even if you don’t understand it. He has a better purpose and design for our lives than we could ever imagine. When Job doesn’t understand God’s plan, he cries out to Him in prayer. Dr. McGee teaches, “The primary purpose of prayer is not to change God, but to change us.” In today’s lesson, listen in and learn from Job’s candid conversation with God.
June 15, 2023
Don’t miss the forest for the trees. All of Job’s friends missed God’s grace for His law—perhaps because the law is easier to make sense of. While God is righteous, just, and hates sin, He is also gracious, merciful, and slow to anger. Today on the Bible Bus, we’ll hear what Zophar has to say and discover Job’s unwavering faith in God, despite his friend’s harsh words.
June 14, 2023
Pride wears many different outfits. While many think of pride as arrogance, sometimes pride likes to disguise itself in shame, guilt, and self-pity. In today’s lesson, Dr. McGee teaches us that Job’s destructive thoughts about death stem from his hurt ego more than his sorrow.
June 13, 2023
Some things just don’t make sense. When Job tries to describe his agony to gain his friends’ compassion, they aren’t convinced. Bildad was so determined to make sense of Job’s suffering that he accused Job of being a hypocrite. Imagine that—in your greatest time of difficulty, your friend calls you a hypocrite. Listen in to learn how logic and reasoning—without compassion— can do more harm than good.
June 12, 2023
We are called not only to speak truth, but to speak it in love. While much of what Eliphaz said was true about God, it was not loving or helpful to Job in his time of need. Eliphaz completely disregarded Job’s integrity. This only hurt Job further. In our study of Job 5 and 6 today, discover the importance of discernment. Sometimes, it’s better to hold your tongue than to speak unhelpful, unloving truth.
June 9, 2023
Sometimes, there isn’t a name for our suffering. In chapters 4 and 5, Eliphaz tries to name Job’s suffering as discipline from God. Surely Job must have been hiding wickedness in his life, right? Many of the things Eliphaz said were spoken out of his own misunderstanding of God’s character. Follow along as Dr. McGee teaches about the importance of knowing Who God is before trying to name His intentions.
June 8, 2023
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