{"id":7268,"date":"2020-01-21T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2020-01-19T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T00:46:15","slug":"job12_13-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/job12_13-15\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Absolutely Powerful One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job 12:13-25\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Job 12:13-25.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Job 12:13-16 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man he imprisons cannot be released.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0To him belong strength and victory; both deceived and deceiver are his.
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\nOn verses 13-16:\u00a0\u00a0There is no one like our God.\u00a0\u00a0No one can match His wisdom or power (v13). Whatever God says goes (v14).\u00a0\u00a0He is sovereign over creation (v15).\u00a0\u00a0Neither the gullible nor the crafty are any match for Him (v16).<\/p>\n

Job 12:20-21 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 17-25:\u00a0\u00a0Here Job uses poetic language to describe how God disempowers the powerful.\u00a0\u00a0Why would God give power to people only to take it away?\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s so that people would realize that \u201cTo\u00a0God\u00a0<\/em>belong wisdom and power\u201d (v13), that no one would boast in their own strength, but only in the Lord.\u00a0Paul puts it this way:<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 1:27-31 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things–and the things that are not–to nullify the things that are,
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0so that no one may boast before him.
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God–that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, there is no one like You.\u00a0\u00a0All wisdom and power belong to You.\u00a0\u00a0Whatever You say goes.\u00a0\u00a0Whatever You decide stands.\u00a0\u00a0Thank You for those times when I realize the limits of my own power or other people\u2019s power.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a reminder that You are the only absolutely powerful one.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Job 12:13-25.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!
\n\u00a0
\nJob 12:13-16 (NIV)\u00a0
\n13\u00a0\u00a0“To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.\u00a0
\n14\u00a0\u00a0What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man he imprisons cannot be released.\u00a0
\n15\u00a0\u00a0If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.\u00a0
\n16\u00a0\u00a0To him belong strength and victory; both deceived and deceiver are his.
\n\u00a0
\nOn verses 13-16:\u00a0\u00a0There is no one like our God.\u00a0\u00a0No one can match His wisdom or power (v13). Whatever God says goes (v14).\u00a0\u00a0He is sovereign over creation (v15).\u00a0\u00a0Neither the gullible nor the crafty are any match for Him (v16).
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\nJob 12:20-21 (NIV)\u00a0
\n20\u00a0\u00a0He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.\u00a0
\n21\u00a0\u00a0He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}