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Secretly I am a galactic warrior from another planet but don’t tell anyone, I am here to save earth from those pesky aliens
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Welcome To Hope C Hopkins Website |
Secretly I am a galactic warrior from another planet but don’t tell anyone, I am here to save earth from those pesky aliens
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Continuing on with last week’s life after death, Job lost everything. He lost his family, his wealth. Yet he continued to trust in God. He did not waver in faith though he was broken. He kept the faith even when his wife and friends were against him; he continued to trust in God. Job stated in the 14 chapter and 14 verse of Job, “If a man die, shall he live again?” The question is clearly intended to be answered in the negative. But through Job’s hurt without him knowing it God was using him to tell us about trusting in God and life after death. How many know that through the hurt God still uses you. Even when you’re beaten and broken down and have no hope because you trust in God and love him he will use you to help others and in turn he will help you. He will give you hope, he will give you peace because he loves you as it reads in Proverbs 11 and 25 Whoever brings a blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. Now getting back to Job’s statement, If a man die, shall he live again? It’s not a dispassionate inquiry, but an expression of hopelessness. Let a man once die, and of course he cannot live again. Were it otherwise, then, Job says, all the days of my appointed time will I wait; or, rather (as in the Revised Version), all the days of my warfare would I wait; I would patiently endure any sufferings in the larger hope that would then be open to me. I would wait till my change (rather, my renewal) come. The exact nature of the 'renewal’ which Job seems here to expect is obscure. Perhaps he is pursuing the idea, broached in ver. 13, of his being conveyed alive to Hades, and looks forward to a further renewed life after he is released from that "land of darkness." When you see this it is clear that Job didn’t understand death. As he states in the same chapter: but when people die their strength is gone, they breathe their last and then where are they? After saying that when you read further on Job asks, can the dead live again? If so this would give me hope for all my years of struggle and I would eagerly await the release of death. What Job didn’t know was there was life after death. Job is known as the man of sorrows. No doubt he thought when he died that was it, thinking he was no more that’s why he asked the question, ‘but when people die their strength is gone, they breathe their last and then where way are they?’ Job didn’t really understand death, it was a mystery, something that he couldn’t fully comprehend. And many people are like Job, they don’t know where they’re going when they die. If they don’t understand death they think when they die that’s it, we are no more but that’s not the case. Though Job didn’t get his answer at that time, century after century past and finally the doubting, almost despairing, cry put into the mouth of the man of sorrows of the Old Testament is answered by the Man of Sorrows of the New Testament, Jesus Christ son of the living God.
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