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brain. God was a small god to him because He was confined to Job’s ability
to comprehend. That’s why you have so many priests, and pastors and
scholars with their heads filled with “god info” but wouldn’t know Jesus if
they ran into Him on the street.
You see, this is the whole need for revelation. The Lord reveals to Job His
power because Job only knew of God’s awesomeness in a theological way.
He never had a revelation of it. You see, what you get by scholarship, study,
reading, information, discovery and experience, you do not really have. You
do not have anything that God does not give you.

He had some good teaching, and that is the trouble with the world today.
They have the right theology. They will give you a creed and a code of
ethics. They will say I believe this, I believe that, I believe in the Bible, I
believe la, la, la, la, la, la. They do not have it. Because, it comes from
God. And Job had to get it by revelation. Boy, that is one thing I learned.
Just like Job I thought I knew God and His attributes but it was in my head.
When we lose confidence in our understanding then God opens the eyes of
our hearts. Job had to reach a place where God could finally reveal it.

Faith begins where your understanding ends. God is transcendent. He is on
the other side of this. I Corinthians 2:9 “That which eye cannot see and ear
cannot hear, neither which has entered into the heart of men, the things
which God has prepared for those that love Him, He has revealed them to
us by His Spirit.” That’s the revelation. Galatians 1:11-12 bears this out:
“For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I
taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”
That is what Job did not have, and that is why he was so frustrated. He was
arguing. He wanted God to fit in his box. “I want to know everything God is
doing. I want to know why He is doing it. I want to know when He is
doing it. And if He violates any of my principles, if He goes against my
ideas, then God is wrong”. Whew. A high view of God? He had a low view
of God. Just because he said God is in charge of Pleiades and Orion and all
the stars, it doesn’t mean he had a large view. All right, that is the first thing
I see.
The second principle is this; The awful despair that comes from regarding
God as your enemy. This is one thing I fear about those who do not believe
in eternal security. Now I am not talking about those who deny eternal
security as a doctrine, because they are just parrots anyway. Their church
teaches that it is not true, and they have heard a bunch of verses and so
they parrot them back. I am talking about someone who really in his heart
feels like God is against them. I will tell you, man was not made to bear that

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