March 7 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 3-4; 1 Corinthians 2
Job 3 with Commentaries, verse by verse
Job 4 with Commentaries, verse by verse

Job 3
Job mourns about the day of his birth. He wanted to die in his misery. He asked the question WHY? See the questions in Job 3:11-12 "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire? 12 "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck? (NASB) 16, Job 3:16 Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?(NIV) Job 3:20 "Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul, Job 3:23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?(NIV). Job was not the only one in the Bible who questioned God about the predicament he was in . Another example is Jeremiah Jer 20:14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! 15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, "A child is born to you-- a son!" 16 May that man be like the towns the LORD overthrew without pity. May he hear wailing in the morning, a battle cry at noon. 17 For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever. 18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

But he DID NOT curse God. Job, after all is a human being in his suffering and complains to God but he was true to God.

Job 4
Sometimes when your friends come to give you advice, it is not an advice but accusations. They do not see the situation you are in as fully as how God sees you. God knows what is going on. Man does not. This was the situation with Job. Eliphaz the Temanite came to Job to comfort him. Eliphaz asked him why wasn't he living the way how he tells his friends how to live. He probably hinted that he was a hypocrite. (v.1-6). He then told Job that he reap what he sowed (Job 3.8, Gal 6.7-8). Lastly he shared the mystical dream that he claimed he had. He was basing his advice on this dream to give Job. He did not based his advice on the Word of God.

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 2 with Commentaries, verse by verse

1Corinthians 2
Paul told the Corinthians in verse 2 "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." Paul got straight to the point, he made Jesus Christ the only subject of his teaching and preaching with the Corinthians. It is so easy to get sidetracked on a lot of issues in evangelism and discipleship in the church. But if you stay focus on Jesus, then everything will fall in place.
The Corinthians pride themselves on having wisdom. Paul pointed out to them. that there was a wisdom for the mature. It was God's secret wisdom which comes from the Holy Spirit. Paul was not going to teach the things of men but of God. He said if the rulers had this wisdom, they would not have crucifed Jesus Christ, the Lord of Gloty. He taught about the Spirit: 10b The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. The Spirit that he talked about does not come from the world but from God. What about us? Do we rely on our own wisdom and strenght to live the Christian life. Well if we do, we are bound for failure. It is the Spirit who enables us to see the things of God and to understand what God wants to reveal to us.

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.