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Before you begin your Bible study, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, be sure you have named your sins privately to God the Father.

/If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

[Known, Unknown and Forgotten sins] /(1Jn 1:9)

 

You will then be in fellowship with God, Filled with God the Holy Spirit and ready to learn Truth from the Word of God.

 

/God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth./

(John 4:24)

 

 

 

*PREPARATION FOR DISASTER; *NATIONAL AND OR PERSONAL

 

     Did you ever get a strange feeling that you were going to die or that something terrible was going to happen?

Then what I am going to say is dedicated to you; just in case!

It is also dedicated to those of you who will have had a miserable social life this year . . . to those of you who will be “Dear Johned.”

It is dedicated to those of you who are actually going to die this year.

It is dedicated to the men who will be in uniform during the lowest ebb in the history of our armed services.

And above all, this is dedicated to our United States of America, which is in great trouble in every area!

We have a government backed by a majority of people who are almost totally divorced from Reality whether it concerns the military, Law enforcement, judicial, foreign or domestic policies, crime or drugs.

For example, if they are convicted, drug pushers today may get a couple of years or a suspended sentence, when they ought to be executed for chemically destroying the souls of others!

The same Principle is found almost everywhere.

The military is being destroyed right before our eyes.

Those men who are entering military service today are going in at the all-time low.

Not only is the military persona non grata with our general public, but it is also functioning under a defeatist no-win policy.

In Korea not long ago, a missile battery commander requested permission to shoot down a Russian fighter plane.

The battery could have easily knocked the plane down, since it fired a very excellent missile that zeroed in on the exhaust of the plane, which was within range for a long distance.

The request wound up going through channels.

At every stage it got very quickly on the “hot line” but no one would act.

The close echelon stages were afraid to act; the same thing was true higher up, and of course by that time the plane was out of range.

But the whole incident stirred up a tremendous fuss and gave everyone such a scare that the brass wanted to court martial the commander, even though he didn’t fire one shot!

His attitude later on was, “I should have pressed the button!

I am court martialed either way, so I might as well have done something for my country!”

People everywhere are saying, “What shall we do?

Shall we organize?

Shall we go out and buy a ranch somewhere?’’

What is the solution?

The answers are found in the WORD OF GOD — the Bible — and only there!

But you have to know how and where to find them!

Although the solution begins with God, God is not a “Genie” whom you rub and you get your wish!

Nor is He a “Button” that you push and presto!

your troubles are over!

God has a master plan, and it is our responsibility to find out how to get in His plan and to know where we fit in to it.

His plan is revealed in the Bible and is worked out in our lives through the Spiritual life.

(Php 2:12) Therefore, the solution for every problem, every disaster, personal or national, lies in KNOWING TRUTH!

And knowing Truth begins with positive volition toward Truth first in Salvation, then in the daily function of the grace apparatus for perception.

(Operation Z)

 

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The passage before us has some wonderful Promises for every believer, but they are for the believer only for those who have entered God’s plan by faith in Jesus Christ.

Phase One of His plan is stated in: (Eph 2:8-9)

      

PHASE TWO

      

/     But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God./ (Job 5:8)

 

     /“I would seek”/ is an expression of continuous positive volition toward Truth.

There are actually many kinds of positive volition in people.

First of all, there are those who have positive volition based on INSTANT INSPIRATION.

This type of volition is weak and unstable.

These are the ones who talk a great fight because they are temporarily inspired for one reason or another.

Then something happens, and they are distracted, or they become bored or offended, and they fade out.

A second system of positive volition, which is also very weak and very inadequate, is turned on when people start having trouble.

This is called TROUBLE INSPIRATION positive volition.

When disaster or catastrophe comes along, they begin to look for a quick solution for an easy way out!

They want God, as it were, to make it stop hurting.

This leads to a third category of those who are positive — individuals who might be called THE BRIBE CROWD, or the “genie’’ crowd.

They are trying to bribe God for something.

They regard Truth as the means of getting something they want at the moment.

Just to make sure that God is on their side, they become interested in Truth for a while.

These people are generally on the verge of prosperity.

Then as prosperity develops or expands, they lose interest in Truth.

The fourth category are those who have SHOCK POSITIVE VOLITION.

They have had a one-shot disaster something like dope addiction or alcoholism.

They realize the bottom has dropped out of their life and everything is topsy-turvy; so they have been shocked into positive volition.

Maybe they have tried Alcoholics Anonymous and recognize that this represents a human viewpoint solution just one weak person trying to prop up another weak person.

So they know that Truth is the only answer.

Some of these people will make it, and some won’t!

Then there is the WISE CROWD those who know that no matter how they feel, no matter what the situation, they cannot miss Truth, for that is their Spiritual food.

(Job 23:10-12) They know that the soul requires food even more than the body; that /“Man shall not live by bread alone, [Physical food, human needs] but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” [Spiritual food: God's Reality; for us to be able to live Spiritually!]/ (Matt 4:4) In Principle, this Verse is dealing with those in the fifth category those who have positive volition toward the Word of God on a daily basis.

/“I would seek God”/ could be better translated, /“I will be positive toward GOD”/ — AND HIS THOUGHTS ON EVERY SUBJECT!

The second Phrase of, (Job 5:8) and unto God would I commit my cause,” should be translated,/ “I will put my cause with God,”/ or, /“I will throw my cause to God.”/

In other words,/ “I will put it in His hands.”

/The passage then goes on to develop the Reasons for turning to God; in short, because of Who and What He IS; and What He Thinks With: Truth! (Prov 8:17-23)

 

     /Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number!

/(Job 5:9)

 

     /“Who does”/ means that He manufactures something out of something.

Out of His Thinking God manufactures a plan — a plan of grace!

He provides definition for life.

In the day in which we live, this plan, as it is defined, is found entirely in the Word of God and confined to the teaching of the Word of God.

Therefore, we would say today, /“Who manufactures out of Truth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number!”

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     /He gives rain on the earth And sends water on the fields, So that He sets on high those who are lowly, //And those who mourn are lifted to safety.//

//He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success.

He captures the wise by their own shrewdness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.//

//By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.

//But He saves from the sword of their mouth, And the poor from the hand of the mighty.//

//So the helpless has hope, And unrighteousness must shut its mouth.

//Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

//For He inflicts pain,// and gives relief; //He wounds,// and His hands also heal./

(Job 5:10-18)

 

Verse 19 picks up the thread and amplifies: (Job 5:9)

 

     /From six troubles He will deliver you, Even in seven [Unexpected disaster] evil will not touch you.

/(Job 5:19)

 

     /“Deliver”/ means to rescue someone from imminent danger, such as drowning or sinking sand or from some kind of a trap.

But since the verb is in the hiphil stem in the Hebrew, it says literally, /“He shall cause to rescue;” /therefore, it is God and and His Thinking which actually do the rescuing!

God provides Truth, He provides the volition of the individual, and the volition linked up with Truth is the rescue point!

That’s why the subject begins with positive volition back in.

(Job 5:8)

     Six is the number of man and seven is completion; and indicates complete protection and deliverance form even the unforeseen troubles!

/“Yet man is born for trouble, as sparks fly upward”;/ (Job 5:7) these basic categories of trouble are actually discussed in: (Rom 8:35-39)