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Job 33, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

January 19, 2023 Adam Setser

This chapter begins with an extreme word of contrast “But...”. There is a massive shift that occurs here

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In Bible Tags #Job Lecture Series

Column: Count Your Blessings, Starting Now (11/12/21)

November 14, 2021 Adam Setser

Consider the time you looked at the moon and actually considered the profound miracle of existence, of the perfect symmetry and balance of the Universe that things float and remain in the space-time continuum so consistently and how one-in-a-million it all is.

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Job 32, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

November 10, 2021 Adam Setser

Elihu comes to the conclusion of the debate between Job and his friends where at the end there is a stalemate since human wisdom cannot determine what is occurring in this specific situation.

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In Academic

Job 31, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou 

November 2, 2021 Adam Setser

Job has presumed that if he does this then God should do that. As if the only reason that God could cause calamity is judgment. Job doesn’t have this information but that is fundamentally wrong, think about James 1, it says count it all joy because it refines you.

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In Academic

Job 30, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

October 29, 2021 Adam Setser

For Job to think of himself so high and that it’s wrong for God to put him so low Job is still reasoning in the divine retribution principle.

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In Academic

Column: The Ministry of Finance (10/29/21)

October 29, 2021 Adam Setser

That’s when it becomes my challenge to hold up a mirror, as kindly as possible, and help them see what they can’t see, to give them freedom (not just financially).

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Column: To Those in Pain (10/22/21)

October 24, 2021 Adam Setser

There will always be problems, always be tweaks to make or lessons to learn or habits to create.

But there will only be one today, one present moment like this one.

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Job 29, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

October 20, 2021 Adam Setser

Job is saying that he is the mediator, savior, and ultimate head. This is close but not quite right.

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In Academic

Column: Cultivating Communities, not Cults (10/15/21)

October 17, 2021 Adam Setser

Communities are people bonded together not so much over who they are as much as who they are trying to become.

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Job 28, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

October 13, 2021 Adam Setser

According to the Bible, your starting point has to be divine revelation; if you don’t start there you can’t know anything truly outside of that.

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In Academic

Job 27, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

October 8, 2021 Adam Setser

Job uses this chapter to point out that his friends are faulty.

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In Academic

Column: Make a Beautiful Life (10/8/21)

October 8, 2021 Adam Setser

What if your darkness, brokenness, frustration, and difficulty were meant to be dark fibers woven into the beautiful tapestry of your life?

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Column: Let's Stay in the Sunlight (10/1/21)

October 3, 2021 Adam Setser

But what I learn, with every passing cloud that floats overhead, is that when our eyes are on Him, through it all, it is well with us.

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Job 26, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

September 29, 2021 Adam Setser

Job’s point is if you really understood creation, it would lead you to know that you don’t know anything. You can’t explain anything and that is why God is so much greater than you.

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In Academic

Column: Do it All for Joy (9/26/21)

September 26, 2021 Adam Setser

In Christianity, Jesus came to die, not so you and I could bore ourselves to tears every week, but so we could live in the overflow of His glory and experience joy unspeakable—in the good times and bad.

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Job 25, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou 

September 22, 2021 Adam Setser

Job’s point is it would have been better if Bildad and Eliphaz had stayed silent. They don’t know how things work because they are missing the key ingredient, divine revelation.

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In Academic

Column: Beyond Faith Over Fear (9/18/21)

September 19, 2021 Adam Setser

But faith isn’t the safety net underneath our brains, to catch us when we fall; it’s the window through which we look when we think about anything at all.

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Column: An Ode to Being a Rubber Ducky (9/10/21)

September 13, 2021 Adam Setser

We are afloat in this sea of knowledge, but we take it for granted. We have access to all of it, so we don’t feel the need to enjoy or experience it.

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Job 24, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou

September 6, 2021 Adam Setser

Job’s two questions were “Does God balance care, just, and power?” and “Does God even know what is going on with the planet, and if so, what is up with His timing?”

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In Academic

Column: A Love Letter to Commerce (09/03/21)

September 4, 2021 Adam Setser

My point is this: commerce is a means of grace and a means of flourishing and making life more livable.

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Job 33, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
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This chapter begins with an extreme word of contrast “But...”. There is a massive shift that occurs here

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Job 32, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
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Elihu comes to the conclusion of the debate between Job and his friends where at the end there is a stalemate since human wisdom cannot determine what is occurring in this specific situation.

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Job 31, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou 
Nov 2, 2021

Job has presumed that if he does this then God should do that. As if the only reason that God could cause calamity is judgment. Job doesn’t have this information but that is fundamentally wrong, think about James 1, it says count it all joy because it refines you.

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Job 30, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
Oct 29, 2021

For Job to think of himself so high and that it’s wrong for God to put him so low Job is still reasoning in the divine retribution principle.

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Job 29, Exegetical Notes from Abner Chou
Oct 20, 2021

Job is saying that he is the mediator, savior, and ultimate head. This is close but not quite right.

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