Have You An Arm Like God?: A Thematic Study on the Character of the Saving great

Description: Have You An Arm Like God? by Jeffrey K. Wisner Job is a person lifted out of ancient history in dramatic fashion, addressing the most basic questions of life: Is God good and just? What does it mean to possess a secure relationship with God? How can security be obtained? The suffering of Job provides the impetus for a theological debate. Jobs friends believe his sins caused his troubles. Job refuses to submit to their hypocritical diatribes. He prefers an audience with God. He presumes to indict Gods testimony of justice in the world. After his friends exhaust their efforts, a young man confronts Jobs magisterial presentation. He challenges Jobs declarations concerning Gods person and work. He prepares him to meet with true majesty. The Lord continues to challenge from a whirlwind. His first speech reinforces His power of justice, His ability to sustain life, and His design through creation, revealing the character of a God who oversees life with good intentions. The second speech addresses Gods ability to judge and destroy the personality of evil. The center of this speech reveals a Messianic expression of hope. The way in which God introduces this testimony reinforces the understanding this Coming One is God Himself. The knowledge gained by Job propels him into a spirit of praise and worship, preparing him to minister as a priest for his erring friends. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Job is a person lifted out of ancient history in dramatic fashion, addressing the most basic questions of life: Is God good and just? What does it mean to possess a secure relationship with God? How can security be obtained? The suffering of Job provides the impetus for a theological debate. Jobs friends believe his sins caused his troubles. Job refuses to submit to their hypocritical diatribes. He prefers an audience with God. He presumes to indict Gods testimony of justice in the world. After his friends exhaust their efforts, a young man confronts Jobs magisterial presentation. He challenges Jobs declarations concerning Gods person and work. He prepares him to meet with true majesty. The Lord continues to challenge from a whirlwind. His first speech reinforces His power of justice, His ability to sustain life, and His design through creation, revealing the character of a God who oversees life with good intentions. The second speech addresses Gods ability to judge and destroy the personality of evil. The center of this speech reveals a Messianic expression of hope. The way in which God introduces this testimony reinforces the understanding this Coming One is God Himself. The knowledge gained by Job propels him into a spirit of praise and worship, preparing him to minister as a priest for his erring friends. Excerpt from Book The theme of Job resonates with eternal implications. It takes into account the depth of Jobs desire to experience the blessing of God in the fullest possible manner. Jobs whole life is turned inside out through his suffering. Through it all he longs for a renewed security with God. He cries out for a renewed relationship. He seeks passionately for answers to be given which will solidify this relationship. Through the drama that surrounds the difficulty of his suffering, the book weaves together a theme that magnifies the character of a saving God. Salvation is in God alone. It is a simple and foundational truth displayed in this earliest of books in scripture and one constantly reinforced throughout scripture. Is God great in salvation? Can God bring His own though the valley of the shadow of death? What is the foundation of trust in this God of salvation? Is trust situated in the strength of ones own arm? Or is trust centered in the character of God who reveals through creation and the promise of a Coming One the depth of His capacity to destroy evil and establish justice? Job and his friends need to embrace the security of what it means to have a true relationship with God. It is not based on any ability to earn the right to receive His grace. It is based on trusting in the fullness of the character of God. God is great. His greatness is never more prominent than when he brings to completion His own saving work in those who truly belong to Him. The great temptation in working through job in our present day attitude is to imagine his struggle before God as depicting an image of Prometheus, the god who brought fire to man in disobedience to the command of Zeus. Somehow Job in his courageous cry before God merits our admiration. Job refuses to accept Gods sovereign oversight without demanding an accounting by God. There is something in our being that wants to rise above the irrationality of life to secure for ourselves a valid control over the forces that seek to destroy meaning and hope. We imagine that journey and that success, depends upon ourselves. If we do not squeeze the juice from life, we shall miss the sustenance needed to transcend our moment of time. If we do not seize the moment we shall be cast upon the dust-bin of history. The book of Job is not about the successful journey of a man who thrashes his way through the maze of lifes perplexity. This book is imminently about God. The mystery of His providence stymies the reader right from the beginning. What God sets in motion demands an answer only He can fulfill. His sovereign power controls the actions and direction. He is the subject matter of the conversations that dominate the dialogue. The passion of Elihu is to defend the honor of God: For God is greater than man (33:12). The Lords speeches solicit a real confession from Job in 40:4-5, along with a testimony of praise that rivals other expressions within Scripture. The final speech of God is not a useless addendum. God reveals something specific that causes Job to be filled with wonder: I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear; but now my eye sees You. The faith of Job and the faith of mankind must be intimately woven into the fabric of the greatness of the character of a saving God. Details ISBN151270718X Author Jeffrey K. Wisner Pages 432 Language English ISBN-10 151270718X ISBN-13 9781512707182 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title HAVE YOU AN ARM LIKE GOD Year 2015 Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2015-08-31 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white UK Release Date 2015-08-31 Place of Publication Nashville, TN AU Release Date 2015-08-31 NZ Release Date 2015-08-31 US Release Date 2015-08-31 Imprint WestBow Press Publisher WestBow Press Subtitle A Thematic Study on the Character of the Saving greatness of God in the Book of Job Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:95178904;

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