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Job: A perfect and upright man
Friends, I would like to ask you to read this verse:
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Now read these verses:
Eccl 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Rom 3:10-11 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
What's going on here? Is this one of those fabled "contradictions" that the Bible skeptics are always yammering about? Well, when the verses have been yanked out of context like that and lain side-by-side, it certainly appears that way. But what's really going on?
You have to read the whole story to understand what it means when the first chapter of Job describes him as perfect and upright. He was righteous by comparison to other men -- Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophor were ultimately unable to find any fault with him -- but we learn later in the book how pitiful man's righteousness is compared to God's standards. God explains to Job exactly what that means -- first through Elihu (Job 32-37), and then when Job still doesn't get it, God shows up and explains it to him in person (Job 38-41). Finally, Job understands, sees himself as God sees him, and says:
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job finally understood that he wasn't anywhere close to God's standards of righteousness. No one is, and nothing we can do on our own can change that (Isa 64:6). It is only through the Grace or our Lord, Jesus Christ, that any one of us is capable of meeting God's standards of righteousness.
If you aren't living your life for Jesus, refraining from sin, and always doing God's Will rather than your own -- if you aren't singing His praises every day you're alive and looking forward to Heaven where you can sing His praises non-stop minute of every day forever -- then you are in a state of rebellion and you are spitting in God's eyes with every move you make (1Sam 15:23).
Everything that Job experienced at the hands of Satan are nothing compared to what he, you, I, and everyone else all deserve, which is an eternity of torment in Hell. I praise the sweet name of Jesus every day for taking my sin away from me, so that I can be fit to be in the presence of God when I am called home. We deserve eternity in Hell for the commission of a single sin, and I know I've sinned more than once. Thank you, Jesus!
Pastor Billy-Reuben
Friends, I would like to ask you to read this verse:
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Now read these verses:
Eccl 7:20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Rom 3:10-11 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
What's going on here? Is this one of those fabled "contradictions" that the Bible skeptics are always yammering about? Well, when the verses have been yanked out of context like that and lain side-by-side, it certainly appears that way. But what's really going on?
You have to read the whole story to understand what it means when the first chapter of Job describes him as perfect and upright. He was righteous by comparison to other men -- Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophor were ultimately unable to find any fault with him -- but we learn later in the book how pitiful man's righteousness is compared to God's standards. God explains to Job exactly what that means -- first through Elihu (Job 32-37), and then when Job still doesn't get it, God shows up and explains it to him in person (Job 38-41). Finally, Job understands, sees himself as God sees him, and says:
Job 42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job finally understood that he wasn't anywhere close to God's standards of righteousness. No one is, and nothing we can do on our own can change that (Isa 64:6). It is only through the Grace or our Lord, Jesus Christ, that any one of us is capable of meeting God's standards of righteousness.
If you aren't living your life for Jesus, refraining from sin, and always doing God's Will rather than your own -- if you aren't singing His praises every day you're alive and looking forward to Heaven where you can sing His praises non-stop minute of every day forever -- then you are in a state of rebellion and you are spitting in God's eyes with every move you make (1Sam 15:23).
Everything that Job experienced at the hands of Satan are nothing compared to what he, you, I, and everyone else all deserve, which is an eternity of torment in Hell. I praise the sweet name of Jesus every day for taking my sin away from me, so that I can be fit to be in the presence of God when I am called home. We deserve eternity in Hell for the commission of a single sin, and I know I've sinned more than once. Thank you, Jesus!
Pastor Billy-Reuben
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