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Howdy fellas this week on the Daily Blade, we're leaning on the work

of Al Robertson as it pertains to men being respectable in the context of marriage. So Al

uses Job 31 to elucidate that, and we're spending time in some passages of that Old Testament

chapter this week. Yesterday, we used Job 31 versus 1, 9, and 10 to show a men should protect their eyes,

minds, and faithfulness. And today we're looking at Job 31, 13 through 15. So let's go ahead and

read that now. If I've rejected the cause of my manservant or my maid servant when they

brought a complaint against me, what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?

Did not he who made me in the womb make him and did not one fashion us in the womb?

So guys, how is a man respectable? He treats others respectably. So let's tease that out some.

If we show respect for others, it actually

shows that we revere God. So we see this throughout the life of Job. He showed tremendous esteem

and regard for those around him, and it reflected the fear he had of God. He knew, as we should know,

that mistreating one of the created would be a direct offense to the creator.

So Proverbs 1431, whoever oppresses the poor man insults his maker, but he who is generous to

the needy honors him. Also, when we show respect to others, it reveals that we recognize

the equal dignity of all humans. Again, going back to Job 31,

we see Job acknowledging that all of us are created by God inside the wombs of our mothers.

Thus, we all have equal worth and dignity in his eyes because he created us. So we are equal in

creation, as we see in Genesis 127, so God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him,

male and female he created them. And we are also equal in Christ. Galatians 328, there is neither

Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female for you are all one

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