JOB 2:1-10 FOOLISH SPEAKING 10-6-07
Today we’re going to talk for a little while about Job, and some of the many trials that came his way.
Listen as I read today’s text found in Job 2: 1-10
1Again there was a day when the sons of God [from Job and Psalms,” sons of God” is applied to angels.” came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. [Remember, Satan is a fallen angel himself] ****unclean spirit, etc--
2And the LORD said unto Satan, “From whence comest thou?” And Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.” 1st pt.5: 8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
What we read now is such as a courtroom scene in heaven, and God said that Job was innocent, and Satan says he was guilty, Satan says the only reason he serves you is because of what you give him, to take it away and Job would turn on God.
3And the LORD said unto Satan, “Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect* integrity- 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.”
4And Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. 5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
6And the LORD said unto Satan, “Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.”
7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8And he took him a potsherd*to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
9Then said his wife unto him, “Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.”
10But he said unto her,
“Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh.
What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
In one day Job is struck with boils from the sole of his foot unto his head. He was stripped of his fortune and his family (seven sons and three daughters). What heart breaking grief he must have experienced.
Other than Jesus Himself I can think of no other person in the bible that suffered more than Job.
All that he had left was his wife, and even she seemed to turn against him. "Curse God and die," she told Job. Her advice was wrong, but when we think about it, she too had lost ten children in one day, and that would be enough to devastate any mother.
The family wealth was now gone, and she is no longer "the prominent lady in the East that she once was. Her husband, once the greatest man in the east was now sitting at the city garbage dump, suffering from a terrible disease. She had nothing left.
Rather than watch her husband waste away in pain and shame, she thought it would be better that God strike him dead and get it over with. "Curse God and die" she said to him.
She advised her husband to do the very thing that Satan had been trying to get him to do: curse God.
Do you suppose that the reason she wasn’t killed like the rest of the family, that Satan thought that maybe she would make life harder for Job rather than easier.
Job was stripped of his wealth. One after another, frightened messengers reported that 500 yoke of oxen, 500 donkeys, and 3,000 camels were stolen in enemy raids; 7000 sheep were struck by lightning and killed; and all 10 of his children were killed by a windstorm.
King Solomon said in Ecc. 9:12 12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
With God’s permission Satan afflicted Job with a terrible disease.
But Jobs answer to his wife was. 10-thou speakest as one of the foolish."
In the Bible we find a number of times where God refers to certain individuals as speaking and acting as fools. But God is omniscient, and He alone is certainly qualified to label these folk as such.
A person speaks and acts as a fool when he rejects the existence of God- Psalm 14:1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Some men wish there was no God, and so he goes as far as to think and say that there is no God.
But all the evidence points to the undeniable fact that there is a God. By looking around us it is obvious that Someone with intelligence created, ordered, and organized this great universe.
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork," (Psalm 19:1).
"For every house is builded by some man; but He that built all things is God," (Hebrews 3:4).
There is no way that creation just happen to evolve to its present state, its about like pitching a disassembled watch into the air and when it hits the ground its all put together and running.
Design demands a designer. God has written in such clear writing upon his creation that to deny Him is to be a fool. On earth there are so called atheists, but in hell they cannot be found. There are not any unbelievers in hell.
Romans 1:20 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Margaret & I saw a genuine fool on TV some time ago on the news, this foolish woman won some kind of award for what ever it was, and she made the foolish statement “ that a lot of people that receive awards thank Jesus for allowing them to win”, then she ignorantly said that Jesus had nothing to do with her receiving any thing. And some foolish people in the audience responded in agreement.
It made me think of PS.2: 1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? --- 4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure
Proverbs 10:31The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh forwardness
PROVERBS 15: 2 the tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Also a person really is thinking foolishly when he speaks as though tomorrow will always come.
Luke 12:16-20 we read about a man who was thinking on the physical and temporal things’ things that he could see and touch, not the eternal things, Luke 12:16 And He spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18And he said, this will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: this foolish man thought only of the temporal, the temporary things (my barns, my fruits, and my goods]
Proverbs 27:1 "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." There are thousands of people in the world today that want be alive tomorrow.
This present time is given to us in order that we can prepare for the future. There’s an old saying that says, "The road of by and by leads to the house of never."
Our short life here on earth is sorter like a dressing room, we’re getting ready today for our real life yonder in the future.
Nowhere in the Bible does God encourage man to trust Him tomorrow. We’re told to come now. Isaiah 1:18 says 18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD – God urges man to be reasonable.
Well, Job’s wife was thinking about the physical and not the eternal. Its as though she was thinking "Job, it just not worth it. All your Property is gone; your children are gone; your wealth is gone; and your health is gone’ you have nothing to live for.”
But Jobs answer to her was vs.10 “thou speakest as one of the foolish”
There is more than just the physical and temporal; there is the eternal and spiritual."
I wonder, what we may have talked about the most these last few days?
Did we talk more about the crisis in the world than we did about Jesus the
Christ?
How many decisions have we made lately with regards for the financial instead of the spiritual? What are we seeking first?
Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Most likely our conversations today is about things: cloths, housing, automobiles, and bank accounts. A man actually speaks foolishly who speaks little about the eternal and spiritual things.
Jesus said in Mark 8: 36For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
How many times do we say things like, "What are we going to do today, or some thing like, are we going deer hunting this week end?
Jesus said in Matt. 6: 21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Proverbs 12:15 "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes."
To plan without God is really foolishness. For us to go through our life deciding and saying what we are going to do without giving consideration to what God would want is foolishness.
James 4:13-15 13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year,** and buy and sell,** and get gain:** 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
The problem that James points out is not that gain had too big a place in this man’s life, but that God had no place at all. We are admonished in the Bible to walk humbly before God and not to walk proudly without God.
We read in Job 7:6 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 9: 26 26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
We all need to recognize that God has His great plan under way. To fail to recognize that is to act and speak foolishly.
Human life lived apart from and without God is a colossal failure.
When we depart this life, it won’t be long at all until no one will even remember
that we ever exited, except God, and He has a record of everything we ever said or did.
Many of us never learn to really live here on this earth until our lives are about spent.
Our lives are short, It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Compared to eternity, the span of our lives is very short indeed.
And we don’t want to spend our time in strife and envy and jealousy.
And we can spend our lives this way, but if you’re so unfortunate enough to find yourself in hell one day, you’ll never spend eternity there because it will never be spent, it will never end. We can and do spend our lives, but time in hell will never be spent.
We need to come to Jesus Christ, turn our lives over to Him and that’s when we really start living any way. Jesus said in John 10:10… I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”
He wants to use our life that is a life of fruitfulness for His sake.
For a man to brag about his future plans while ignoring God’s sovereignty is foolish indeed.
