Christ not only passed through every grief for us, but He passes on to us the comfort He found there. As Job begins his fourth speech, he delivers his famous assessment: “Miserable comforters are you all!” (Job 16:2). The two words are on a collision course with each other. The word “miserable” (Heb, ‘âmâl) is a grab-bag of distasteful ideas. […]
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JESUS HEAVEN’S GREETER: “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:56). These are the words of martyr Stephen as he approached the moment of his passage Home. But I thought His Father had said, “SIT at My right hand, till I make Your […]
“The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isa 53:6). Alexander Maclaren writes: “In the compass of three verses of this chapter, there are seven distinct, emphatic, and harmonious utterances, all bearing on one thought: the vicarious suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1. ‘He has borne our griefs.’ 2. ‘And carried […]
Bob Brown began life February 12, 1944 as a throw-away child in an orphanage in South St. Paul, Minnesota. Purchased by a young couple for $55.50, Bob was raised in a nominally Christian home, but religion did nothing to fill the void. He studied at the university and then married his high school sweetheart. During […]
If you think the worst of others, it may say more about your heart than it does about theirs. Having denounced Job’s sincerity (Job 15:1-6), and disputed his veracity (vv 7-16), Eliphaz now describes Job’s duplicity (vv 17-35). Interestingly, like many who become wrapped up in the heat of an argument, Eliphaz completely ignores everything […]
CHRIST the APPEARING ONE: “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:11-13). Christ […]
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answer me, and in Your righteousness” (Ps 143:1). H. P. Barker tells a story about a poor woman who was being pressed by a tradesman to pay an account which she knew she had already settled. In that case he demanded that […]
Did religions evolve from polytheism to monotheism? Renowned Assyriologist Stephen Langdon writes: “In my opinion the history of the oldest civilization of man is a rapid decline from monotheism to extreme polytheism and widespread belief in evil spirits. It is in a very true sense the history of the fall of man.” And anthropologist Dr. […]
When the verse says, “Faithful are the wounds of a friend” (Prov 27:6), it probably means surgery, not savagery! When I see my little grandsons parrying and thrusting with their toy weapons, I think of the proverb, “The words of the reckless pierce like swords” (Prov 12:18, NIV). If Job’s three friends have come to comfort him, they are […]
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