60. How Can a Man Be Justified?

Hymns: RHC 199 The Old Rugged Cross, 189 I Know a Fount, 173 There Is a Fountain

Job 25:1-6

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, ²Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places. ³Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? ⁴How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? ⁵Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. ⁶How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? (Job 25:1-26:1 KJV)

How Can a Man Be Justified?

INTRODUCTION

Job 25 is the last speech of Bildad and of his three friends. Job 26-31 is Job’s final defense. The “low level, superficial and shallow theological analysis” (Whitcomb) of his friends that were flawed, inadequate, and misleading could not help us understand the purpose of suffering in the believer’s life. So, an often ask question “Why would the righteous suffer in the just government of the universe by a holy righteous God?”