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The entire world today is seeking wisdom! Education is prevalent in every
city. Literally thousands of young and old alike are attending universities.
But how many of them really know the meaning of wisdom? Wisdom is seeing
things from God's point of view.
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The following testimony is that of a man by the name of Andre.
I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU CAME TO ME (Matthew 25:36c)
"My testimony to my Christian Brothers and believers in Jesus Christ our
Savior. I want to thank the Lord for saving me from the life I was once
leading. First of all, I was living in darkness and I thought that I truly
loved the way I was.
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1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of
the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
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Today's Bible Study
JUNE 7
JUNE 7
In chapter 32 a fourth friend enters the picture. He begins
a speech which continues through chapter 37. Someone had to
intervene, for the discussion between Job and his friends was
getting more heated all the time. Thus Elihu appears as a moderator.
In this chapter he directs his speech toward Eliphaz, Bildad, and
Zophar. He was angry with them because they had condemned Job as a
hypocrite, though they had found no reasonable foundation for their
arguments. They had declared repeatedly that Job was suffering
because of his sin, and that God was judging him because of his lack
of repentance. They posed as wise men, offering their counsel. With
this Elihu strongly disagreed. He had listened to Job's accusers
take advantage of him; now he would stand and speak for the truth.
In chapter 33 Elihu speaks very pointedly to Job. He is
concerned that Job listen to everything he has to say, and more
concerned that Job will take these things to heart. In verses 8 and
9 he charges that Job has gone too far in his attempt to answer his
accusers. Job was a man of purity and high moral standards, but he
was still a man. Indeed, he was not what his three friends had
declared him to be, a vile, hypocritical sinner. But like all the
rest of us, he was human and under the condemnation of sin. Jeremiah
17:9 also applied to Job. "The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?".
Much of Elihu's speech consisted of his telling Job and his
accusers what wonderful things he was going to say! However, like
Job's accusers, his chief wisdom was in the use of words which
concealed, rather than making plain, what he meant. His main
contention seems to have been that suffering is intended of God to
be corrective rather than punitive.
Madam Guyon
