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seldom does. If anyone, whether they are Christian or non-Christian, violates
those laws they are going to be hurt. Fire, gravity, sea currents, exposure.
These are laws of God. God does not exempt His children from suffering.
Recently, you remember down South there was a Bible school. There was a
dam, and the dam broke. God did not stop that water just because a Bible
school was in front of that dam, and many people lost their lives.
Here is what God does without violating the free will. Someone might
choose to build under that dam or stand under that tower or get on that
airplane. Someone drives their car and gets hit by a drunk driver. Someone
else gets cancer or some other disease. Here is what God does. What part
does God have in it? God rules and overrules. “All things work together
for good”. He changes the curse into a blessing. He turns it around for
good. He uses those things to perform His own will. He works out His
purposes. But we are not puppets. We are not marionettes. He is not
pulling strings. People are not run by remote control. He is not guiding us
that way. Romans 8:28 is true. “And we know that all things work together
for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose.” Christians love to quote that scripture and hold on to it as if it
could reverse some bad experience they’re going through. But as often is
the case they fail to read one more verse which brings light and puts into
context the meaning in God’s Kingdom and purpose. Romans 8:29,
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren.”

All things work together bringing us into the likeness of the “Image of His
Son” Not to make you healthy, wealthy and wise in this earth. But to fulfill
God’s desire for you. His purpose is to have many sons and daughters and a
Bride for His son. Material blessings fall on the just and on the unjust, and
the wicked sometime are blessed because God has reserved the day of
judgment for them. And curses fall on the righteous to conform them to the
image of His Son.
Anyway, back to Job. Bildad must speak once more. It is a short chapter, but
he has to get in the last word, and here is what it boils down to. I am talking
about chapter 25. You can see how short it is. Job, I cannot answer your
argument, but I still think you are a dirty sinner. That is his argument. Then
Job gives one of the longest of his discourses – chapter 26 through 31. Now
that everyone has shut up – the debates are over – he gets a little softer, and
he says I have been asking you about big things and I know you cannot
answer. Only God can answer those. But I have presented some problems
and you could not even answer them. So he says let me answer the surface
things first of all. First of all, he says, verses 5-14 of chapter 26, I have a
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