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.
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.
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.
God sets before Job an amazing array of mysteries of the created order and peppers him with questions.
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.
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.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 27th, 2024. CBTSeminary is grateful to announce the finalization of a new partnership with The Institute for Reformed Biblical Counseling (IRBC). IRBC primarily functions as a vehicle for training potential counselors and...
*Editors Note: This is part 3 in an ongoing series titled "TEXTUAL ODDITIES OF THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS IN 1 JOHN." Read part 1 here:...
Earlier this month, we held our Labor Day Modular Course on Textual Criticism. Dr. Timothy Decker, Michael Emadi, and John Miller lectured on Textual Criticism in their respective areas of biblical studies. Over 20 students attended the module in person in Owensboro, KY. The goal of the course was to guide students toward achieving a basic comprehension of the issues surrounding Old Testament and New Testament Textual Criticism.
“Every art and science are reduced to a system or body; and why should divinity, the most noble science, be without a system?”
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