Salt Guide to Practical Holiness

Salt Guide to Practical Holiness

Job

MY SERVANT JOB, THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM IN THE

EARTH, A PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN, ONE THAT

FEARETH GOD, AND ESCHEWETH EVIL?" Job 1:8

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1:20 THEN JOB AROSE, AND RENT HIS

MANTLE, AND SHAVED HIS HEAD, AND

FELL DOWN UPON THE GROUND, AND

WORSHIPPED, 21. AND SAID, NAKED

CAME I OUT OF MY MOTHER'S WOMB, AND

NAKED SHALL I RETURN THITHER: THE

LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN

AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE

LORD. 22. IN ALL THIS JOB SINNED

NOT, NOR CHARGED GOD FOOLISHLY.

The  test  of  true holiness is  reaction  to 

adversity.



"It  was  a shrewd remark of  Andrew  Fuller, 

that  a man has only as much religion  as  he 

can command in trial."



"Submission  to  Divine arrangements  [provi-

dence] is the highest test of obedience."



    2:3  AND THE LORD SAID  UNTO  SATAN, 

    HAST THOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB, 

    THAT  THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM IN  THE 

    EARTH, A PERFECT AND AN UPRIGHT MAN, 

    ONE THAT FEARETH GOD,  AND ESCHEWETH 

    EVIL?  AND STILL HE HOLDETH FAST HIS 

    INTEGRITY,  ALTHOUGH THOU MOVEDST ME 

    AGAINST HIM,  TO DESTROY HIM WITHOUT 

    CAUSE.



The  book  of  Job has been  avoided  by  the 

average   Christian  because  there  is   the 

feeling  that Eliphaz,  Bildad and Zophar was 

giving bad advice and therefore not worthy of 

much  regard.   These three "comforters"  had 

some good advice, but they had applied it all 

to the wrong man.   We would be wise to quote 

them  more  often  and treat  much  of  their 

advice with more respect.



They teach us;

JOB SALT GUIDE TO PRACTICAL HOLINESS ____________________________________________________________ 1. That waiting seven days in meditation before the Lord doesn't necessarily make one infallible. 2. You can be righteous and wrong. 3. You can be easily wrong when you judge only by what is visible. 4. That being absolutely sure of your righteousness and speaking with opinion can injure both yourself and the one needing healing. 5. That there are exceptions in every case to be judged; that there are different sets of circumstances in each troubled life, and that one pat formula does not apply to all. " 'Show us a perfect man!' Consider Job. God Perfection pronounced him 'perfect.' Will you contradict God? Better 'mark the perfect Job man' for your association and imitation, pleasure and profit." *1 8:20 BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY A PERFECT MAN, NEITHER WILL HE HELP THE EVIL DOERS: 15:16 HOW MUCH MORE ABOMINABLE AND FILTHY IS MAN, WHICH DRINKETH INIQUITY LIKE WATER? We have developed a very high tolerance for sin. 24:2 SOME REMOVE THE LANDMARKS; THEY Fathers VIOLENTLY TAKE AWAY FLOCKS, AND FEED THEREOF. ========================== *1 THOMPSON, PEPPER, Daily Holiness Textbook 28:28 AND UNTO MAN HE SAID, BEHOLD, THE FEAR OF THE LORD, THAT IS WISDOM; AND TO DEPART FROM EVIL IS UNDERSTANDING. Not sin, but evil. Evil is often in the form Influence Evil of innocent fun, influence - but it leads to sin! The Holy Spirit has come to keep us from more than sin, but the evils that corrupt and lead to sin.