March 6 Readings

You can also check out all these Reading Plans Blogs to go through the Bible in a year from Back to the Bible Reading Lists:the Chronological Reading Plan blog; OT and NT Together blog; Historical Readings blog; Blended Readings blog and Beginning to End blog In addition, there is the Theophilus1 blog in the One Year Bible format

Blended Reading Plan from Back to the Bible
Job 1-2; 1 Corinthians 1
Job 1 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Job 2 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Job 1-Job’s First Test
This is from God’s perspective. God met with the angels in heaven. Satan had joined them God asked Satan where did he come from. Satan said roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it. (James 4.7, 1peter 5.8-10. God said to Satan in verse 8,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil”Notice that God has a hedge of protection around Job, and Satan, the accuser, cannot do anything to Job (or to us) without God’s permission. God permitted Job to take away all his possessions and his children from him. This came through a series of events. Even though Job lost everything and his children, Job BLESSED God he did not curse God. “Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.” We need to realize that all things happen in our lives are UNDER GOD’S CONTROL. From learn we should learn that anything we have, we cannot take with us.(Col 3.2-4). Where is your treasure is, there is your heart also (Matt 6.19-24). What Job was saying is YOU CANNOT TAKE ANYTHING YOU HAVE IN LIFE WITH YOU EXCEPT YOUR FAITH!! “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”-C.S. Lewis

Job 2-Job’s Second Test
God met with the angels in heaven, another time. Satan had joined them God asked again Satan where did he come from. Satan said roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it. (James 4.7, 1Peter 5.8-10. God said to Satan in verse 8,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil” Notice that God has a hedge of protection around Job, even though Job had lost his children and everything. and Satan, the accuser, cannot do anything to Job (or to us) without God’s permission. God permitted Satan to cover Job with sores all over his body, but he could not kill him. Job was in so much misery that he had to use a piece of pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes. Job’s wife told him to curse God and die. Job told her that she was a foolish woman. “Shall we accept good from God and not trouble. Job DID NOT curse God despite the fact that he lost his children, everything, and was now in pain covered with sores. Job did not sin.

Other Links
Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader
Deffinbaugh on Job 1
Deffinbaugh on the man, Job
Malik-Intoduction to Job
Malik-Argument for Job
Piper on Job
Spurgeon on Job
Spurgeon, Edwards on Job
Stedman on Job

1Corinthians 1 with Commentaries, verse by verse

1Corinthians
The Church in Corinth was the model church for having PROBLEMS. There were disunity, fornication, laxity in church discipline, members taking other members to court, people getting drunk at the Lord’s table and spiritual gifts. All churches have problems, it is how the churches SOLVE the problems that make them good churches. In Chapter 1, after Paul gave the introduction, he thanked God for them, it was a remarkable prayer (v. 4-9) even for this church with problems. LINK with Gleaning from Paul Pink. Paul jumped into the issue of division. He rebuked them for the assembly having divided into factions (v.10-17) of Paul, Apollos, Cephas and Christ!
He appealed for them to be united (v.10).
Paul then spoke about the cross which is a paradox. It is foolish to those who were perishing and to those who were saved it is the power of God. The foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of God and the weakness of man’ strength (v. 25). Paul used a variety of paradoxes to let the Corinthians and (us) realize that God is at work in our lives. He said at the end that we should boast of the Lord. This was essentially what Jeremiah sais in Jeremiah 9.24, “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.

Other Links
Calvin on 1 Corinthians 1-9
Calvin on 1 Corinthians 10-16
Dr. Thomas Constable Study Notes is a PDF file, open with Adobe Acrobatic Reader
Deffinbaugh on 1Corinthians
Index to Sermons by McArthur, Ryle, Edwards and Spurgeon on 1Corinthians
Spurgeon on 1Corinthians
Stedman on 1 Corinthians
Pett on 1Corinthians 1-7
Pett on 1Corinthians 8-16
Piper on 1Corinthians
Wallace on 1 Corinthians

Jesus Saves
This Posting is NOT a commentary of the passages read today but it is a devotional. Please send a comment if something spoke to you today from the passages, links or thoughts that I have shared with you.