One of the lessons of Job is this: Everyone must increase in the knowledge of God (Colossians 1:9, 10)
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Tom Nettles
Within and Beyond Job | Tom J. Nettles
God’s granting of pleasure in this life should drive us to see the bountiful nature of his goodness and mercy, and any interruption of our pleasure in this life, whether mild or severe, is designed to bring us to a knowledge of sin and the need for a mediator that can restore righteousness, for God will not be finally reconciled to us apart from true and complete righteousness.
“He Who Rebukes God, Let Him Answer” | Job 42 | Tom J. Nettles
Job’s patience is demonstrated in his continual insistence that God had everything to do with his present situation of life. He became neither an atheist nor a deist but a more insistent searcher in quest of a true knowledge of God.
All Creatures of Our God and King | Job 40-41 | Tom J. Nettles
Having shown Job his inability to comprehend the massive complexities, beauty, power, and interdependence of the natural world, the first part of chapter 40 (40:1-14) takes an interlude. God challenges Job to match him in extending his moral purpose into the world.
Where is the Disputer of this Age? | Job 38:8 – 39:30 | Tom J. Nettles
God sets before Job an amazing array of mysteries of the created order and peppers him with questions.
The Opportunity Comes | Job 38:1-7 | Tom J. Nettles
God challenges Job to show that he is qualified to stand toe-to-toe with God on the issue of his purpose in the world.
Consider the Wonders of God | Job 36:19-37:24 | Tom J. Nettles
God works all things after the counsel of his own will (Ephesians 1: 11), so no one may question his operation of the world or of their own lives.
Treasure the Ransom | Job 36:6-18 | Tom J. Nettles
Elihu interacts with Job on the mystery of God’s ways with a sinful world, its sinful people, his wrath, and...
God is Good | Job 36:1-6 | Tom J. Nettles
Goodness does not mean moral gullibility and can include no compromise of perfect justice.
Empty Objections | Tom J. Nettles
Any level of righteousness attained by a creature adds nothing to God, for he is perfectly righteous, unchangeably holy and can neither be increased or decreased in any of his permanently resident perfections.