September 5, 2012
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Job 1, Rev 20 by Pastor Don Moore
Pastor Don Moore taught this on 11/4/11
Job 1:6-9 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
The sons of God – in Hebrew mentioned in Genesis 6 in conjunction with fallen angels mating with humans to produce nephilim and giants. This is reprehensible to God and it was part of satan’s plan to pollute the bloodline so that the Savior cannot be born.
Job 1:10 Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Good to know that God provides hedges for us.
Job 1:11-12 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
God permits satan (satan cannot do this without God’s permission). God removes the hedge of protection from around Job, but instructs satan that satan cannot kill Job or lay a hand on his person.
Job 1:13-19 Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house; and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, when the Sabeans raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Great devastation occurs to Job, a great wind comes – tornadoes and hurricanes, these are not only acts of God, but angels can affect the natural. And these disasters can only happen if God removes his hedge of protection.Joshua 24:19-20 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. (20) If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”
God’s protection is dependent on the condition of verse 20. God always first blesses us and we can testify to the goodness of God. When things are tough, we can remember how God blessed us and loves us.
In the Greek there are four words to express love. The English language has only one. In Greek there is fraternal love, sexual love, and friendship. The kind of love God has for us is agape, the kind of love that is based on what is best for the other – it is not a selfish love. There is a loving motive that God has behind removing His hand of protection. His goal is to make the child of God realize that they are out of position and cause them to turn back to God and draw near to God. God cannot honor disobedience.
When challenges happen we may not know how to pray or we may blame God. In the Old Testament the only way to reverse the devastation is to throw ourselves on the mercy of God. In the New Testament, we can center our heart and spirit on the grace of God which empowers us to do better, and with God’s help to cover our situation in the Blood of Jesus.
We bring our situations on ourselves and we need the mercy and grace of God to overcome and empower us to go beyond the circumstance.
God is sovereign, in a battle you can be whipped and still be righteous. You can cling to the truths of the Word and come out of your trial better when you get to the other side.
As a child of God we want to identify the sin, even if it is subtle. We don’t want to operate out of fear, for fear and faith don’t mix.
Some teach that God abandoned Jesus on the Cross, but He did not abandon Jesus. Jesus was in God’s perfect will, doing what God planned, why would God abandon Jesus who was obeying God completely? That would not be a comforting view of God. God never abandoned Jesus. Jesus was perfect, sin-free. He was able to go and preach to the souls in Abraham’s Bosom and led captivity captive. If He was not in God’s perfect will or if He was not sin-free, He would have not been able to leave Sheol.
Jesus has delivered us, h freed us from our captivity. Our deliverance is a sure thing. He wants us to have faith for God’s manifestation. We are operating in a false sense of captivity similar to being in a jail, the jailer leaves the door open and we can leave the jail, but, instead we sit in the jail even though the way to escape has been left open.
God has put everything out. He is waiting for us to come and get it.
Fear tolerated is faith contaminated.
Revelation 20:11-15 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
Death and hades are spirits. hell is a place. Death and hades are cast into the lake of fire, the second death. Anyone not found with their names written in the Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire. God did not intend for us to go to hell. But, if our deepest desire is to be nowhere near God, the only place where that is possible is the lake of fire. If we make the choice to not have God in our lives, He will honor that choice, but that was not what He intended. God does not condemn us to hell, we make the choice ourselves.God told Adam and Eve that if they disobeyed Him they would die that day. The Bible states that one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day. They lived to 996 years and then they died. None of them lived beyond the day (God’s timing) because of their sin.
1 Corinthians 15:26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
I hope this teaching blesses you.
Have a wonderful day.
Heather
