MelVee Sabbath School || Q4 2016 Ln 3 || The Book of Job || Does Job Fear God for Naught?

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This week the MelVee Sabbath School guest panelists (featuring Shaun Ryan as anchor, Bruce Mutaurwa Khumbulani Mpofu) continue to discuss the first two chapters of Job. This week the focus of Lesson 3 which is on the question posed by Satan questioning if, "Job Feared God For Nothing?" So Satan reckoned that if only Job's material social and health blessings were removed, he would cease to worship God. he also leveraged Job's relationships (marriage and friends) to bring about further mental torture to Job in a bid to get him to renounce his God. It is quite captivating that God did not ask if Satan saw Job's wealth, his esteemed profile as a socialite or philanthropist, his education or beautiful family and very spiritual friends. That all does not matter to God. What really matters is integrity or perfection that is built on the foundation of absolute trust in God and not riches, prosperity or any such blessings that perish by use. The BIG question in the controversy is "CAN FALLEN MEN OF TODAY BE PERFECT BEFORE God?" Well lets first answer the question, whether Job was PERFECT? If so, can we, post-mordern, 21st Century Christians also be perfect before God? The Bible simply says, "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was PERFECT and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. " (Job 1:1). Also consider 1. Genesis 6:9 ( Noah); Genesis 17:1 (Abraham ); Deuteronomy 18:13 (Israel) 2 Samuel 22:31-33 (David); Matthew 5:48 (Jesus) 6. John 17:22-23 (Lord’s Prayer) and 1 Peter 5:10 (Peter) Matthew 5:8 says, "blessed are the PURE in heart forbthey shall see God." It seems both the Old and New Testament God demands PERFECTION. Job was PERFECT we can be PERFECT. Take note of this SOP statement: "Success in this life, success in gaining the future life, depends upon a faithful, conscientious attention to the little things. Perfection is seen in the least, no less than in the greatest, of the works of God. The hand that hung the worlds in space is the hand that wrought with delicate skill the lilies of the field. And as God is perfect in his sphere, so we are to be perfect in ours. The symmetrical structure of a strong, beautiful character is built up by individual acts of duty. And faithfulness should characterize our life in the least as well as in the greatest of its details. Integrity in little things, the performance of little acts of fidelity and little deeds of kindness, will gladden the path of life; and when our work on earth is ended, it will be found that every one of the little duties faithfully performed, has exerted an influence for good,—an influence that can never perish." CE 217. In this lesson we get a whole new dimension of reality on this subject - a glimpse of the great controversy between Christ and Satan. We also get consolation of understanding the world that we live in, a world that so often baffles, dazes, even frightens us with what it tosses our way. This discussion will show you that this great controversy is not merely someone else’s fight, that you have nothing to do with. Its skin-to-skin, up-close and personal in your daily chores. The pronouncement was made, “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.” (Rev. 12:12 - NKJV). Satan has come down to the earth and to the sea, and we know for ourselves that his wrath is indeed great. Who among us, as flesh, hasn’t felt that wrath? Find out how you can be perfect. Be ye perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. Recorded and produced by: MelVee Video Productions www.melveeproductions.com www.facebook.com/Melvee.Video.Productions