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Hey, this is Shelby and Scott. We are wrapping up the Book of Job today, which is pretty exciting.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so we. We looked yesterday at God's first speech to Job and where he was really putting human wisdom on trial. And in the second speech, he challenges Job to basically demonstrate his power. And Job has questioned the way God runs the world, and now God calls him on this, and he's like, all right, would you really challenge my justice? Like, would you declare me guilty to justify yourself is what he says. The point here is, like, only someone with God's power and who created the world can really speak knowledgeably about how the world is supposed to work and how it does work. And you got this interesting section on these creatures, behemoth and Leviathan, which, you know, we don't know exactly what these are. Referring to something. It's maybe a hippo and a crocodile, probably. The idea is you have the greatest land creature and then the greatest sea creature. And the point here is, if Job can't control these creatures, then how can he possibly stand against God? Like, as a creature, Job can make no demands on God. God is not accountable. God is not answerable to Job. And Job comes to realize this by the end of the book. In chapter 42, he humbles himself. I love this epilogue. It just feels vindicating where Job's friends get put in their place by God. It's like, at last. All right. And then. And then God blesses Job at the end of his life by giving him a double portion of all that he had lost. Job has not been a perfect man by any means throughout this book, but he has proved Satan wrong in the end. Like, he is willing to serve God just for God's sake and not necessarily for what he gets out of the relationship with the Lord. Like, he doesn't need his possessions to love God, but God in his grace, does shower him with a lot of possessions here at the end.
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Yeah, he sure does. So we've covered a lot of ground in the book of Job as we just wrap up the book as a whole. Do you have any final thoughts or takeaways for us?
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Yeah, I have a few. Just going through this book, I've often thought again, and I've mentioned this before, the different vantage point we have as Christians today than Job had back then. In a lot of ways, I think we're similar to Job, like, we often experience the world as he did. There is a lot of similarities. We all suffer. We go through hard times. There are times where maybe we wouldn't even necessarily feel comfortable calling it suffering, what we're experiencing, but where we just don't know what God's up to in our lives. We just don't see can make sense of our lives. And we just don't understand often what God in his power as wisdom is doing in our lives. But we do know a lot more than Job did. Like, we have the full counsel of God's word. We've seen that God himself took on flesh and willingly endured suffering for our good, which is so beautiful. And, you know, just the fact that Jesus is the most innocent, pure person who ever lived, experienced tremendous suffering for our sake. So, you know, while this book of Job doesn't answer the question of why we go through what we go through, it does. Along with all of Scripture. Scripture really just helped to reorient our perspective on life, which I think is great. Like, scripture reminds us of what's true and sometimes just as important, what's not true. And so when we're going through confusing or hard or just confusing seasons, like, there's a few things we know. We know that God hasn't abandoned us. We know that God is for us, which is proved by Jesus's crucifixion. And three, that we know that we have a glorious future ahead of us where we will dwell with him forever. And so now again, we may have trouble reconciling truths like that with what we're going through at any given point. But we need to answer the same question that God essentially posed to Job, which is, hey, when nothing in your life makes sense, will you trust me? Like, will you trust that I'm good when you can't see the full picture of what I'm up to? And God has demonstrated over and over and over again through all of the Bible. And if we're honest, if we take time to look back in our own lives, he's proven that. That he's worthy of that kind of trust because he has given up everything for us.
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Yeah, man. What phenomenal takeaways. What a great way to wrap up this book as a whole. I have hardly anything to add to that. That was a great summary. But, you know, some of the concluding words from Job, he said, I had heard about you, but now my eyes have seen. What I just take away from that is, you know, Job had this experience where he's suffering greatly. God comes to him. He doesn't answer Job's questions. He simply just comes and reveals himself a little more fully to Job. And that's enough for Job. That's enough. Job, in this deepest sorrow and suffering is like, it's enough that I know you, Lord, in the midst of this. And I found that to be true in my own life, too. I find it to be such an encouragement that just knowing God is enough. And so I'm walking out of this book with that encouragement held closely and just thankful for all we've learned through the Book of Job. Thank you so much for walking us through this book. Yeah, it's been amazing, Scott. All right, that wraps up the Book of Job.