{"id":7388,"date":"2020-01-26T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2020-01-26T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T22:48:52","slug":"job14_13-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/job14_13-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Hope of Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Job 14:13-22 \u00a0 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Job 14:13-22.<\/p>\n

Job 14:13-15 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 13-22:\u00a0\u00a0Job longs for life after death, that somehow God would gloriously resurrect his life after he dies (v13-15) and no longer count his sins against him (v16-17).\u00a0\u00a0But as much as Job hopes for this, Job sees resurrection as an unrealistic possibility and concludes that life is hopeless (v18-22).<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0Deep down we all wish for immortality.\u00a0\u00a0While Job thought his hope for resurrection was nothing more than wishful thinking, those of us who have trusted Jesus as our Saviour have the real hope of resurrection one day.\u00a0\u00a0As Jesus says,\u00a0\u201cI am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;\u00a0and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26 (NIV))\u00a0\u00a0Jesus promised that those who believe in Him will experience God raising them up after they die.\u00a0\u00a0Not only that, Jesus Himself physically, bodily, spiritually, emotionally \u2013 in every way \u2013 rose again from the grave to prove that His promise was not just wishful thinking or empty words.\u00a0\u00a0Thus the apostle Paul can confidently write: \u201cwe do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep [i.e. those who die], or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.\u201d (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 (NIV)).\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a01 Corinthians\u00a015:52\u00a0(NIV), Paul describes our future resurrection with these words:\u00a0\u201c\u2026For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Praise God.\u00a0\u00a0For Job and for many people, immortality and resurrection are nothing but wishful thinking. But for the Christian, resurrection is a real hope grounded in God\u2019s promise and the fact of Jesus\u2019 own resurrection.\u00a0\u00a0When you have Jesus, death does not have the last word on your life; resurrection does.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, thank You that in You I have a hope that is stronger than death.\u00a0\u00a0Just as You died and then rose from the grave never to perish again, thank You that one day when I die, I will rise again too.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Job 14:13-22.<\/p>\n

Job 14:13-15 (NIV)\u00a0
\n13\u00a0\u00a0“If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!\u00a0
\n14\u00a0\u00a0If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.\u00a0
\n15\u00a0\u00a0You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
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\nOn verses 13-22:\u00a0\u00a0Job longs for life after death, that somehow God would gloriously resurrect his life after he dies (v13-15) and no longer count his sins against him (v16-17).\u00a0\u00a0But as much as Job hopes for this, Job sees resurrection as an unrealistic possibility and concludes that life is hopeless (v18-22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7388","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\/7388","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=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}