Praise the Lord everybody,
Thanks for all your prayers,
gifts and support; it’s really appreciated.
From about the summer, the Lord
has have me going detail by detail through the
entire bible and I just finish the book of Job;
yeah, that’s how slow it’s coming along, yet I’m
in it everyday. Let me tell you, this bible is
FULL.
I wanted to skip the book of Job
and some others, because I’ve read some of them
more than twice. Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit
pushed me to read “Job” again and I’m extremely
glad because the nuggets found in it are
stupendous.
I had no idea that the entire
book of Job was talking about ‘JUSTIFICATION,’
unequivocally. I was so blown away when I
realized it, because I’ve heard almost every
preacher touch on Job but I’ve never heard
Justification preached; and that’s what the book
is about. In fact, the book use the word
‘justify’ more than any other book that I have
previously read from Genesis.
THE BOOK…
What had happen was that Job’s
friends had accused him of secretly sinning
because of all the stuff that had happen to him;
not knowing the prior meeting with satan. And
guess what? Most church folk are still like that
today, some can’t even wait to see you fall.
Job’s friends gave dozen of
instances of men who suffered because of sin and
their wickedness and therefore not being “right
with God.” Job answered them by showing men in
sin who lived and died peacefully, enjoying all
the blessing of the Land. He also showed them
men of good character and godliness who suffered
even though they were godly (it’s still like
that today).
In other words, Job’s friend and
some of us believed that all calamities that one
faces are caused by personal, inherent or
congregational sins. Not only that, but it is
also believed that because of this “you are not
right with God,” or to a lesser extent, have out
rightly sinned.
By the way, by this time I’m
assuming that you have read or know about the
“Book of Job”; if not, it’s a wonderful book
right after the “Book of Esther” and according
to the number of Books the Catholic Church
picked for us to read, it’s the 18th book from
Genesis.
NOT SO…
Now, Job showed his friends this
paradox of how some men of good standard
suffered and some evil men live wonderfully, as
against their notion that all men who suffered
as he did was because they are “not right with
God” or to a lesser extent, have sinned. This
took up 38 chapters after Elihu’s answer; that’s
majority of the book (42 Chapters in total).
From these 38 chapters we see
that God allow this to happen to talk about the
coming savior and what it means to be born again
or in essence, Justified. In other words, from
these passages we could see a clear cry for
justification because man then and now had it
all wrong; we saw a cry for a definite way man
could know for sure that he is right with God
regardless of…, because this suffering thing had
fail, as was seen in Job’s experience. Job
himself exclaimed, “I am full of confusion” (Job
10:15) because he also thought he was kept from
calamities because he was good and justified.
Then after the toss back and
fro, Bilad, one of Job’s friend, spoke out his
confusion as well and said, “How then
can man be justified with God? Or how can he be
clean that is born of a woman?” (Job
25:4)
That was what the entire book
was trying to bring out, a need for
justification and a way to know it, because all
earthly wisdom had failed.
Job himself cried,
“Neither is there any daysman betwixt
us, that might lay his hand upon us
both” (Job 9:33). Or, “O that
one might plead for man with God, as a man
pleadeth for his neighbour!”(Job
18:21).
THE MESSIAH…
Who were these two verses
talking about? Jesus Christ of course, “for
there is one mediator between man and God, the
man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5). In other words,
Job didn’t know that he was used to speak of the
Justification to come, though he knew he was
speaking under inspiration, because he said, “Oh
that my words were now written! oh that they
were printed in a book!” (Job 19:23).
This “one man that plead
for man with God” that Job wanted was
Jesus Christ. He would be the justifier of the
just and the unjust as I’ve seen been displayed
in the scriptures from Genesis; “And the
scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
heathen through faith, preached before
the gospel…” (Gal 3:8).
Meaning, even if you loose your
bank accounts, job, wife/husband, fiancé,
ministry, money, joy, health, hopes and dreams,
it doesn’t mean you’re not justified (or
sometimes have sinned); but sometimes, through
Jesus Christ, it’s because you’re justified as
seen with Job; “For by one offering he hath
perfected forever them that are sanctified” (Heb
10:14), even if you have sinned.
THE POWER OF
SIN…
You see, the bible said that
devils are accusers of the brethren (Rev 12:10)
and as seen in the book of Job, they do this to
get the right to torment you to death.
Therefore, if you have sinned they would have
legal right to torment you
ABOVE measure. If you read
revelation 12 verses 1-11 and understand it,
you’ll see that because of Jesus Christ and
salvation, this privilege that the “sons of God”
(fallen angels and lucifer) had in the book Job
when they came to God have been taken away and
there is no more place in heaven found for them.
Verse 10 reads, “Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the
power of his Christ: for the accuser of our
brethren is cast down, which accused them before
our God day and night. And they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not
their lives unto the death.”
The only person I know who was
exemplary and "sinless" (outstanding character)
in his dispensation is Job. The mere fact, a
saint had a child out of wedlock, stole from the
treasury, backbite the pastor, got caught in
adultery once his/her entire life and other
sins, yet still can life up his or her hand to
God in congregation, shows that you are
justified. Because, just by these sins alone,
old Lucifer and his brethrens would have you for
good.
Through Jesus Christ, man now
has a measure to show to the world that they are
right with God even if things are not right with
them. Isaiah prophesied it, “Their righteousness
is of me saith the Lord…” In other words, even
if they look like they’re not going to make it,
broke, disgusted and busted, confused,
tormented, sick, diseased and even dying, “their
righteousness is of me saith the Lord.”
Again, you’re righteousness is
not of you but it’s God that justified you. So
even if you’ve sinned after becoming saved, it’s
God that is your righteousness and not yourself.
You might be messed up, but it’s Jesus Christ
that took it and paid it. For instance, me and
my buddy went to the Christian Concert, I had no
money and couldn’t get in, my friend had lots of
money and gladly said to the cashier, “it’s on
me!”
In other words, physically you
have sinned and is messed up, but when men and
angels see you, they see Jesus Christ and his
righteousness. You are made one with him and
according to Heb 10:14, it’s eternal. You can
always come to God, speak, he will listen and
answer as seen with Job at the end.
SOMETIMES YOU’VE NOT
SINNED…
Now, Elihu, the young fellow
that came along after Job’s friends, had spoken
the same exact thing as the first three, read
chapter 36:17-18, “But thou hast fulfilled the
judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice
take hold on thee. Because there is wrath,
beware lest he take thee away with his stroke:
then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.” Here
the presumption of this fellow, “thou hast
fulfilled the judgment of the wicked.” In other
words, he’s being judged because he’s wicked.
Not only that, this young fellow was angry
because he thought Job, “justified himself
rather than God” (Job 32:2). He went further to
say it to him, “He putteth my feet in the
stocks, he marketh all my paths. Behold,
in this thou art not just” (Job
33:11-12).
You have some folk like that in
church today; see you going through your going
through and quick to cast judgment of
condemnation saying you’ve sin and hissing “not
all who say Lord, Lord is going to make it.”
Even if you have sinned, Christ made it clear to
us that you’re going to make it, guaranteed!
Further more, when the Lord
answered Job about his greatness, it wasn’t a
rebuke but a conformation of what Job had said.
For instance, it couldn’t be a rebuke when Job
had 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” (Job 1:21). In other words,
glorifying God that he can do all things and
he’s great. Moreover, the very narrator said Job
didn’t do anything worthy of God’s rebuke; “In
all this Job sinned not, nor charged God
foolishly” (Job 1:22).
FINALLY…
Therefore, the conclusion of the
whole matter is this, once you’re born again
–repented, baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and spirit, evidence by speaking
in another tongue- YOU ARE JUSTIFIED!
If God said you are justified,
then you’re justified and no sufferings,
calamities, preacher’s word, leader’s demotion,
accusations and sin can reverse that. Even if
God physically come and strangle you in front of
all the church folk, you’re still justified;
“For by one offering he hath perfected
forever, them that are
sanctified” (Heb 10:14). Forever means eternal;
taken from two Greek words, 'Eis'-meaing into
and 'Dienekes'-meaning continuously, continuous.
So then, it’s never ending.
If this is you, a born again
believer, “There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are
in Christ Jesus” (Rom 8:1). Quit putting down
yourself, quit letting others putting you down,
quit letting your fallings make you feel
defeated. You are perfect!
Guess what? My good friend Elder
Campbell told me this (paraphrasing), “we try to
be so perfect all the days of our lives, asking
God to take away the sin that he already took
away. Feeling so ugly when we fall and
condemning others when they do. The book said,
‘In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye…this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality.’ (1 Cor
15:52-53). In other words, Oneil, all that we as
Christians are trying to do [wasting time] to be
cleanse after we are already assured
cleanliness, is going to take place in
‘the twinkling of an eye.’”
How powerful I thought, at the
split of a second your dirty Adamic nature will
be clean. That’s why you’re justified by faith,
faith is something not readily seen but
believed. QUIT KILLING YOURSELF OVER YOUR
FALLINGS!
I really could go on with this
and I want to, but if I do most people wont read
it because it would be too long. So if you have
the time please go to www.threeq.com/book.html and read the chapter on Justification
and you can also listen the following internet
radio broadcast on the topic. My desire is for
all apostolic churches to get this understanding
and for ‘some’ preachers to stop killing the
saints with their words of condemnation. Tell me
who is it that will lay anything to the “charge
of God’s elect!?”
Click here to listen, “What is
justification” Before
clicking it, please go HERE to see how to listen to it.
One love ya’ll
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