Sunday, May 5, 2024, 05:17
Next in Job 2 Satan was allowed to touch Jobs health.
But Jobs response was
“Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?”
In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
{{ O to have such a response when we come up against hardship, difficulties, danger or misfortune.
For so many even in the church let hard times take them down, blaming GOD and turning to their own understanding, and turn away from the LORD, rather than taking it as a time to build faith and reliance in our Lord Jesus.
Job was so right "Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?”
Praise be to GOD for all things work together for good for those who love the LORD
Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:5
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. }}
Job 2:1-6
¶ Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.
The LORD said to Satan,
“Where have you come from?”
Then Satan answered the LORD and said,
“From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”
The LORD said to Satan,
“Have you considered My servant Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil.
And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
Satan answered the LORD and said,
“Skin for skin!
Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”
{{{ “all that a man has he will give for his life.”
How true is that?
Will you give all that you have to protect your own life?
Will you give your very soul to save your earthly body?
Are you willing to give up eternity with the LORD, to have what men call a prosperous life now on earth?
What are you willing to surrender?
As for me, this world is not my home, and as Paul so well put it
“to live is Christ to die is gain.”
Philippians 1:21
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. }}}
So, the LORD said to Satan,
“Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.” GOD is still in control.
Job 2:7-8
¶ Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
Job 2:9-10 ¶
Then his wife said to him,
“Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”
But he said to her,
“You speak as one of the foolish women speaks.
Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?”
In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
{{{ something to realize and take into consideration when evaluating the words of others no mater how close you may be to them.
Ask; are the words they speak in line with the word of GOD or are they in line with the ways of the world?
Are they just foolishness?
Directing you away from the truth, away from the love of the Lord? }}}
{{{ Is it not better to go through hardships trusting the LORD to take you through rather than trusting in self or men?
If you Love the LORD and do all you can to keep His commandments, having your faith firmly planted in Him, having faith in Him and Him only, not self, others or the ways of this world.
Faith in the LORD even unto death.
i would much rather die knowing my faith was in the LORD rather than even a doctor, for a doctor can not save the soul of a man.
Rather than even a politician or government, for nether can save the soul of a man.
The Lord Jesus is our only hope for salvation, our only hope for our soul to be saved from hell.
So when you / we come in to heard times,
trust in the LORD not your own understanding,
do not blame the LORD for your trials and hardships,
but rather praise the Lord for His promises to keep you.
Seek the will of the LORD in your life,
not your life itself.
Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.
Matthew 6:34
“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own. }}}
Cant it be said of you;
Fill in your name
_______________ is blameless and upright, fearing God, and turns from evil?
think about it.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 08:24
The testing of Job
Job 1:6-12
¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
The LORD said to Satan,
“From where do you come?”
Then Satan answered the LORD and said,
“From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”
The LORD said to Satan,
“Have you considered My servant Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”
Then Satan answered the LORD,
“Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side?
You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Then the LORD said to Satan,
“Behold, all that he has is in your power, only do not put forth your hand on him.”
So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.
{{{{ As the Lord has done for Job He will also do for those who are willing to live a blameless and upright life, those who fear God and turn away from evil.
This is something i think we all struggle with.
But in reality, it shouldn’t be that difficult. It seems we allow the world and its ways to come between us and God , do to weakens on our part, more concerned about what others think and trying to get the acceptance of others rather than only being concerned about what God thinks about us.
My goal is to daily, and moment by moment (to constantly) be aware of my relationship with Christ Jesus, to live a blameless and upright life, fearing GOD not men, and as the Holy Spirit makes me aware of sin in my life. turn from it and turn to the Lord.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but to lose his soul?
Mark 8:34
¶ And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?
For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
Ho to be a man like Job, so planted in the Lord that what man think of me has no value or impact on my life, to be so grounded in the Lord that obeying His commandments is a daily goal.
So grounded that worldly loos is not the loss of salvation but rather building of my corrector in Christ my Lord. }}}}
Job 1:13-19
¶ Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, a messenger came to Job and said,
“The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabeans attacked and took them.
They also slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another also came and said,
“Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:20
¶ Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there.
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
{{{{ Job lost every thing that showed worldly worth, worldly value, but yet when told of what has happened he worshiped God.
For He understood that it is the LORD who gave it all to him and it is the LORD who can take it all away, and after loosing so much he could still say “Blessed be the name of the LORD”.
We lose our keys and we think it is the end of the world, we lose a job and we are devastated, we lose a relative or friend to death and we blame God. We are told Job was a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.
To love the world, man beast or things, more than we love the LORD, to fear the world, mankind, what they say or think or to fear the loss of others or things more than we fear the LORD. Is to lose our soul.
Can it be said of you, (of me) we are blameless and upright, fearing God and turn away from evil.”
Are you blameless and upright, do you fear God have you turned from evil?
Job is an example for us, of the fact that when the Lord Jesus tells us in
Matthew 6:33
“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. If He tells us to seek His kingdom and His righteousness, then they are capable of being obtained.
1Peter 1:13-16
¶ Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written,
“YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”
1John 3:1-3
¶ See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.
For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
1 Corinthians 6:16-2 Corinthians 1
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols?
For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
“I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE,” says the Lord. “AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN;
And I will welcome you.
And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Therefore, having these promises, beloved,
let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
You can find Job in world history and what the bible says is also stated in world history.
Job being a man of God-fearing God more than men having gone through losing everything even family did not sin nor did he blame God.
But spoke these words;
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there.
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
When you go through heard times can you still say
“Bless the name of the LORD”?
It is sad that most of humanity fear the world more than God?
Are you more concerned with what mankind thinks of you then what God thinks?
As we read on, we see that Job’s standing with God is the best place for Him to be.
The question is are we willing to stand in that same place?
Are you willing to live a blameless and upright life?
do you fear God?
have you turned away from evil? }}}}
i know that was a lot of repeating but it is important to understand and apply our lives to.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 07:14
Who was Job?
Job 1:1-5
Reading the book of Job, we find Job lived in the land of Uz
and that he was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
{ turning away; is to constantly turn away }
We learn that Job was the father of seven sons and three daughters.
That he was rather wealthy,
He owned 7,000 sheep. 3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female Donkeys, and very many servants, and that he was considered the greatest man of all the men of the east.
We also find that Job’s sons held feast in the homes of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
And Job being upright and fearing God, when the days of feasting had completed their cycle,
Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering seven burnt offerings one for each of his son’s; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” And out of his dedication to God this Job did continually.
Next, we are taken into the presence of God;
Job 1:6-8
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
The LORD said to Satan,
“From where do you come?”
Then Satan answered the LORD and said,
“From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”
The LORD said to Satan,
“Have you considered My servant Job?
For there is no one like him on the earth,
a blameless and upright man,
fearing God and turning away from evil.”
These are the first things that caught my attention;
1. “The sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD”
2. “And Satan also came among them.” Satan answered the LORD and said,
3. “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” The LORD said to Satan,
4. “Have you considered My servant Job?”
(1.) From reading more than i could post here,
What i came to was that the sons of God are beings who live in the heavens,
and as Satan rebelled against God seems so did some of the sons of God and left heaven to be with the women of earth, the descendants of Atam.
And when the time comes (Gods timing) they will be reviled to mankind.
What is said about the sons of God;
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Who were the Nephilim? They were or are the descendants of the sons of God who came to earth and got women of earth pregnant, those were the descendants the Nephilim that Anak was a part of so his descendants are descendants of the Nephilim, they are or were the giants spoken of in the bible.
Goliath and his brothers would have been descendants of the Nephilim
Numbers 13:32-33
So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.
“There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Anak
(2.) “And Satan also came among them.”
i find this rather interesting.
For decades in church, we have been told no sin can be found in heaven; no sin can be in the presents of Father God.
If so, then what was Satan doing accompanying the sons of God when they came to present themselves before the LORD?
After spending days reading and praying for the Holy Spirit to teach me, to show me what i was missing, here is what I ended up with.
When the time comes and the Lord Jesus returns to take us to heaven Satan and all sin will be cast down from heaven.
And sin will no longer be allowed to have any refection in Heaven.
We are made pure by what Christ Jesus completed on the Cross and rising from the dead victories over death, hell and the grave. Making us clean of sin.
From that point in time, it has been man’s responsibility to choose to follow Christ and His teachings or not, it is our responsibility to take our short comings (our sins) to the Lord asking to be forgiving and turning from our sins and to Him. (repenting)
And other then that it is not up to me or us to determine what GOD can do or not do. And in His time, He will make things clear.
i know a little sidetracked but will get to the point of Job
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Just found that all interesting
Job 1:6 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
Tomorrow we move on
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 07:52
We go to church every Sunday to hear something new every time,
not remembering what was said the Sunday before.
As most of you know we don’t work that way here, we don’t need something new every week nor everyday
it is more important that we learn what we are taught,
if you can hear something one time and have it learned then why did you have to take so much time to learn things in school????
And then still get things wrong when it came to test time.
It is well worth the time to go over what you have heard and listen to each word.
Take it in and allow the time needed to make it a part of your life.
It is sad that by many, much of the bible can be resighted from member but not applied to real life.
Being able to live out the word of GOD is much more rewarding then just restating a verse.
Please take the time to listen to or relisten to the clip below.
ill be back in a couple days
Here at Hodgepenny’s we take the time to allow the words of Father God, Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit to attach to our lives so we can live them out.
What use is a library full of books if all you do is read them and put them back on the shelf to only collect dust?
We fell it is better to as if it were, to eat the book; to spend the time in each section of the book to the point that the book becomes a physical part of our being, so that our life’s shin forth the book and the one who wrote and is the substance of the book.
And the book we have chosen is the Bible the word of GOD.
The one who holds us in the palm of His hand.
The one who will never leave us nor forsake us.
The one who will be with us even unto death.
The one who direct our path, who says go to the right, go to the left, stop, go forward.
Started reading Job, very eye opening, when i’m back, will share with you what the Holy Spirit has been sharing with me.
Remember to seek God’s Kingdome and His righteousness, this is to be done moment by moment every day,
not just once or twice a week.
Put Christ first and have a blessed day
Out for now
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 03:53
where does your church leaderships stand?
Where do you stand?
Is this what your church is saying?
It is time to stop playing church!
It is time to stand for what is right!
It is time to take action!
If you call your self a Christian then you better start living like one.
Stop playing with the world and its ways, we are to occupy till Christ comes,
We are to make a difference, we are the salt of the earth, we are the light set on the hill, we are the audible voice of the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus.
We are not to be in beaded in the things of this earth, worldly ways, nor stuff and things.
We are to live a simple life dependent on Christ Jesus, not money, entertainment, position, fame none of the worldly distractions.
Our sight is to be set on Christ Jesus and keeping His commandments.
As the church the bride of Christ, are we spending our time promoting the world and its ways?
Or Christ Jesus.
Sorry; but i am disgusting by most of what i see coming from most church pulpits and the life style lived out by the church leadership and attendees now days,
Sunday and Wednesday the body sets and hears the word of GOD but Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday it is all about self and the world.
What sports game, what activity, what movie, what I did, what I have done in the past, what I said, how great and wonderful I am.
So caught up in the world and it's ways that Jesus is set on the back wall and forgotten most of the time.
O we pray for our meals, especially when in public,
“Oh Lord bless me”
But totally forget we are to bless Him.
We are to seek His Kingdome and His righteousness.
But most church leaders live a life that says “I will seek my Kingdome, and not live to much righteously, or I might not be excepted by men, those in the world.”
John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the Church;
“for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God”.
If i find that attitude in the Church disgusting i can’t imagen how it makes GOD feel.
My life is not perfect we are all sinners, and fall short of the righteousness of Christ.
i am well awear of this so i set out each day to grow further in to His righteousness, and try to stay out of foolish conversations.
And to obey the teaching of the Holy Spirit who dwells in me.
1Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
Matthew 7:21-24
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;
DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Listen to this and take to heart what the Lord is telling you.
Where will you stand?
Listen to this then ask your self where you are standing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaFL0Bt5_EQ
if clicking on does not work copy and past in your browser.
What will you stand for?