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DougE6:

whats interesting about Job, is that after God called him out on his self righteousness, by a VERY DEEP and HARD TRIAL, that Job repented of that attitude and sin. Then God fully restored him double, and God even rebuked and reprimanded his tormenting "friends" who claimed all Job's troubles were the result of sins in his life, that Job had to defend himself against their accusations. His friends did not have a clue what was really going on, that God was showing His ways of interacting with Satan, that God was reproving Job in showing him the differnce between God and man, and God was giving us a window into His sovereignity, how He runs things.

But to follow my first point, if Job was pretty much blameless before this trial, and now had repented of His self righteousness, then a person could make a strong arguement that by the hand of God, Job had become an overcomer...I cannot see what else God would have to do in his heart and mind and life.  As we are His workmanship, a whole lot of work was done in Job. What would be left? Blamess and NO longer self righteous. WOW.(this arguement is also, of course, taking into account the essential future work of Jesus on the cross to allow God to forgive all of Jobs sins)

It is a good example of the lengths God will go to make someone into overcomers. Even sending Satan to do imaginably challenging things to us. So God will scour every last sinful carnal tendency out of each of us...eventually. Just like Job.

arion:
The crux of it is very simple to me.  Job endured because God willed it to be so for a testimony against Satan.  It was no different for Jesus because God wouldn't let him fall and our path is no different either.  We trust by 'faith' because God gives us the faith in the first place to believe in spite of circumstances that would lead us to a different conclusion.  Those that don't have the faith is because God has yet to give it to them.  It's not my faith.....it's His.

Gina:

--- Quote from: Arion on December 14, 2011, 09:26:02 AM ---The crux of it is very simple to me.  Job endured because God willed it to be so for a testimony against Satan.  It was no different for Jesus because God wouldn't let him fall and our path is no different either.  We trust by 'faith' because God gives us the faith in the first place to believe in spite of circumstances that would lead us to a different conclusion.  Those that don't have the faith is because God has yet to give it to them.  It's not my faith.....it's His.

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YES!

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