I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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… And then I even wrote in it a text that we looked at last week in our study in the book of Job, where Job said, I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. So I kept those two books. I was looking at them this week. And then I also found my personal daily Bible study notes journal that I kept based upon the Search the Scriptures book. So that sort of has become to me kind of like a living map of where I have been devotionally. Now, I want to talk to you in the time that we have about three basic things concerning daily devotions. What it is, what it does, and then how it's done. Very simply, what it is, what it does, and then how it is done or accomplished. First of all, what is having a quiet time? What does that mean? Here's another term for it. Drawing near. Drawing near. Deliberately coming into the presence of God. It's you sort of like getting on the phone saying, hey, God, I'm coming over to hang out. James chapter four, verse eight says, draw near unto God and he will draw near unto you. …
… and suffering. Verse 12, let's finish this chapter up. I plan to go through 24, but I'll spare you. I have not departed from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Now stop, go back real quick. Chapter 22, verse 23, the accusation of Eliphaz. If you were, if, uh, verse 22 receive, please instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart. And Job is countering that and saying, I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food, but he is unique. And who can make him change? Whatever his soul desires that he does, for he performs what is appointed for me and many such things are with him. Therefore, I am terrified at his presence when I consider this. I am afraid of him for God made my heart weak and the Almighty terrifies me because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness and he did not hide deep darkness from my face. …
… His way have I kept and not declined. Neither have I turned back from the command of his lips. I have esteemed, prized, valued the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. That's why in deep grief, you lose your appetite. You're feeding on divine manna that comes to minister to you from the heavenlies, provided for you by the Lord your God. I so respect you for going through it and being able to talk about it and letting it change you. I've seen people refer to it almost glibly. Oh, yeah, we lost too. No, no, no, no. Don't say it like that. Joe Bailey lost three boys, three boys. One is a baby, one older, and the other in a sledding accident, of all things. Oh, my goodness. And Joe said he wrote a book called A View from the Hearse. I read that book. Love the book. Joe's gone now, but his son was one of our interns at Fullerton. And Joe said, some came and they talked and talked and talked and talked the whole time. …
… When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to his path. I have kept his way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. pause and pray with me we have sung of your great names and the names of your son our father and even some names of the spirit who works within us and fills us with power and encouragement and today we speak to you through Christ not because of our deserving to do so but because of him who has opened the way to you through his blood. Thank you sincerely, our Father, for the cross where we first saw the light and the burden of our hearts rolled away. And we still walk with you by faith. We still seek you by faith. We still long to please you and to honor your name and to represent you correctly and fairly and appealingly to those who have never known that you are approachable or forgiving or full of compassion and love. …
… His way have I kept and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the command of his lips. I have valued the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. And he said that when his body was covered with boils. Let's go. The Father is at work in you. Last evening I was in a room in our home and trying to put together some final thoughts. My youngest daughter, who's been sick the last few days, crept in the room and sat down in the corner and stared at me. There's no way that you can study when Colleen stares at you. And in her bottom eyelids were little tears. She was hurting. I said, honey, are you in pain? She said, yes, sir. And I had just gone into some of this passage and I said to her, honey, have you thanked God in your sickness? She said, no, sir. How can you? I said well it really isn't easy then I thought well I'll try another approach honey do you want to thank God for your sickness no way was her answer absolutely not we really encourage reality in our home we don't cover it all I thought as she said that she learned that from her daddy because that's my concept. …
… I have kept to his way without turning aside. I have not departed from the commands of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread. As we meditate on not only these words of Job, but the story of Job, simply want to ask the question, why? Why? Let's begin our sermon with the seminary second. You all know that every moment of sermon, there's some time when we dig into the seminary language and explore what we learn in school. The question of why is the seminary issue of theodicy. Let the church say theodicy. Theodicy is the question of the justice or the righteousness of God in allowing or establishing moral or physical evil in our lives and across the earth. Let me say it again. Theodicy is the question of the justice or the righteousness of God in allowing or establishing moral or physical evil in our lives and across the earth. In the Cliff Note version, it's trying to understand how and why a good God would allow bad things to happen to good people. …