Ep. 145 - Lessons From the Life of Job

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In today's episode, the guys discuss the lessons to be learned from the life of Job. The book of Job stands out in many unique ways: it is likely the oldest book in the Bible, about a non-Jewish person, is set in a place far away from Israel, and is written in a way that should be acted out as a play. Job was a man of devotion who cared deeply about his children’s souls and spiritual state. As parents, we need to be students of our children, studying them regularly and treating them as indivi...

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0:00.0	I love the book of Job, how can I put it nicely?
0:03.6	I feel proud of Job because I tend to whine when I'm suffering and Job didn't whine right
0:09.6	up till about chapter 30 or something.
0:12.5	He didn't really well and then he just started whining and saying, where has God I want
0:15.3	to speak to him?
0:16.7	And the lesson I get from the book of Job is that you can escape suffering a little bit
0:20.4	by going ahead and looking to see what Job's lesson wasn't learning from it and saying to
0:25.9	yourself, I have heard of you by the hearing my ear, but now my eye has seen you.
0:30.2	Wherefore I have hauled myself in repent and dust and in ashes and that's the revelation
0:34.2	you got when God revealed himself to him.
0:36.6	Job had a stack of questions for God and God appeared on the scene and didn't answer any
0:41.7	of them.
0:42.7	He just gave him 70 questions, one after the other.
0:45.1	And that caused Job to lay his hand on his mouth and that's a revelation of God that every
0:49.7	one of us need so that we can persevere in our sufferings.
0:56.9	And someone please explain to me the mystery which I call the obsession with tofu.
1:04.7	Oscar, you come across to me as a tofu guy.
1:08.6	I do one of my favorite restaurants is a vegan restaurant, but they don't have tofu there.
1:12.9	But you love tofu, don't you?
1:13.9	No, I don't.
1:14.9	Seriously?
1:15.9	I mean, I'll eat like the soup that they give you before sushi, I think that has tofu
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