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Don’t Let Go!. Job 27:1-6. Satan never gives up. “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion , walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8 ). He can take the smallest opening & exploit it masterfully.
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Don’t Let Go! Job 27:1-6
Satan never gives up. • “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8). • He can take the smallest opening & exploit it masterfully.
As you read the Book of Job, it’s obvious that his friends believe he has let go of his integrity. • In their day, people believed that any evil that befell you was the result of sin. • Thus, Job’s suffering is the result of his sin. • Job 22:5-7. • Job, however, maintains his integrity throughout the Book.
“Regardless of others, don’t let go of your integrity!”
We must read this text through two “lenses.” • One: The “lens” of Job’s frustration. • In Job’s own words, he is an innocent & honorable man. • God: “Hastthou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fearethGod, and escheweth evil?” (Job 1:8). • Two: The “lens” of Job’s integrity. • He is an innocent & honorable man. • Job says that he won’t lose his integrity.
“Regardless of others, don’t let go of your integrity!”
Throughout Scripture, we are urged not to let go of our integrity. • “Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool” (Prov 19:1). • “I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:20). • “Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness” (1 Tim 6:11).
How is your private, personal integrity this morning? We have an obligation to be righteous before God
We must allow others to see Jesus living in us. • “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matt 5:16). • “Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world” (Phil 2:14-15).
