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burden. That will crush a person. That will drive him insane. That is why Job
was in such despair. Because he believed with all of his heart that God was
his enemy.
I am so glad the opposite of that is true. That we can read in our Bible, “If
God be for us, who can be against us?” And, “Even when we were
enemies, when we were sinners, Christ died for us.” So he is not against
us. Oh, my heart goes out to those trapped in this thinking. If you who are
reading this think that God is against you, and that one day He will cast your
off forever. I am telling you that you don’t need Bible verses and you don’t
need someone to explain how to get around the bad teachings of others. You
need a revelation of God as your friend, and that only comes through the
Holy Spirit. You need a revelation of the nature of God in the bloody cross
of Christ. But God must prepare your heart and frustrate your brain for that
to happen. Everything in your life happens with that purpose in mind.
The third thing that I see is; God is bigger than all our principles. Bildad was
right. God is discriminately righteous. Rewarding the righteous and
punishing the wicked. Bildad was dead right. But appearance is deceptive.
God is not under the law of time. There are a million and one reasons why
God would afflict the righteous and never violate that principle. So God is
bigger than all our principles. We think we know something. We spout off
some little principle. Oh, you don’t know about God? I will tell you about
God. We have not begun to know about God. That is one of the things I get
when I study Job – how little we know. When I stand up here and try to
teach you something, or you stand up and try to teach, we are fools. We have
not begun to scratch the surface. The foolishness of God is higher than our
highest wisdom. Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and
lean not on your own understanding.” One verse you could live your
whole life by.
So I learned these things about God. I need a revelation. God is my friend –
the friend of sinners. God is my “Kinsman Redeemer”, and He is bigger than
my little theology book and my little ideas and my little concepts. God’s
love for me is bigger than my principles. He is transcendent. Job is going to
see that down the road, and we will see when he sees. Oh, when he gets it by
revelation, he really gets it. God is not mad at Job. God is not angry because
he uttered these things or because he poured out his heart. God was happy.
Job was just being honest. He was just really bearing his naked spirit
before God. As a matter of fact, before the end of the book God rebukes
his three friends. Job is becoming the man God said he was at the beginning
of the book!

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