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you, a million times greater, than he that is in the world. He is all done.
The cross has ended his regime. Colossians 2:15-16 “Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having
spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly,
triumphing over them in it”. “It is finished.” James 4:7

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you.”

Reading JOB to Know God

Chapter 5 Introduction of Job’s Friends

Job chapter 2 beginning at verse 11,
“Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had
come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the
Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they
made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and
comfort him. When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not
recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them
tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.
Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven
nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain
was very great.”
As we get into this section, Chapters 3-31, man’s futile attempts to
explain the problems of life, I am going to be brutal on Eliphaz, Bildad
and Zophar. I think they deserve to be criticized, and I am going to hit
them with both barrels. I was interested to read a little book by G.
Campbell Morgan entitled, “The Answers of Jesus to Job,” and in that
book (and he is the only commentator I ever read that did this) he gives
three reasons why he likes Job’s friends, and they are worth mentioning.

He said, I like these three men because they cared enough to come and
see an afflicted friend. According to the record, all of his other
acquaintances, even his family, even his wife, forsook him. Proverbs
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