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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Jesus comes forgiving and changing the immoral. He bridges the chasm between sordid and glorious. He invites us to cross over from death to life. What was perverted can be converted. To disagree with immorality is not simply to condemn the immoral. It is to identify particular forms of lostness that need finding. We worship a seeking and finding God. We have been sought out and found by a Savior. He reproves the unruly in order to invite us to come seek help.
David Powlison

The kingdom was lost to us at the fall and pictured for us as a shadow in the history of Israel. But now, through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the kingdom of God has been inaugurated anew. Sin has been defeated. The church lives out the life of the kingdom by the power of the Spirit. And we look forward to the day when the king returns and consummates His reign, a reign that will have no end.
Michael Lawrence

Bible – English_World – Job Chapter 13:1-28.

Index: World English Bible

 

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13:1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.

13:2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

13:3 “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

13:4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

13:5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

13:6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

13:7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

13:8 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

13:10 He will surely reprove you If you secretly show partiality.

13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13:13 “Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

13:14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

13:15 Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

13:16 This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

13:17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

13:18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

13:19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

13:20 “Only don’t do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:

13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me; And don’t let your terror make me afraid.

13:22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.

13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

13:24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

13:25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

13:26 For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

13:27 You also put my feet in the stocks, And mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet:

13:28 Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.