The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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Today we continue in Job 10, where Job puts God on trial and forgets how near His love really is:

• Job refuses to "perk up." He asks why God contends with him, even while knowing God is not unjust.
• "You have fashioned me as clay." Romans 9 and 2 Timothy 2 remind us the Potter can remake vessels of dishonor into vessels of honor, and that we really don't know the plan of God.
• Suffering can uncover buried pride, and Job grows presumptuous toward God.
• Job sees God's presence as a hunting lion, the lie Satan wants us to believe about our Father.
• Psalm 139 recasts the same themes as loving nearness: we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and His thoughts toward us are precious.

Related Episodes:

Romans 9:18-24 - We Are the Clay

Job 9 - How Can a Person Be Right with God?

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Today we continue in 2 Peter 2:12-17, where Peter paints a stark picture of false teachers:

• False teachers are like unreasoning wild animals. In their destroying, they will be destroyed.
• "Reveling in the daytime" is brazen hedonism. The prosperity gospel sells a pain-free life, but is not the Gospel of Jesus.
• The best false teachers are often the nicest people. Love-bombing or flattery does not make doctrine true; Scripture is the final test.
• Eyes full of adultery and hearts trained in greed entice unsettled souls for gain.
• Balaam was a "legitimate" prophet who still led Israel away from God for pay. Even his donkey saw more clearly than he did.
• Wells without water and storm-driven clouds promise life but give none. If a pastor shows these signs, pray about whether to confront, leave, or stay and fight.

Related Episodes:

2 Peter 2:9-12 - Should Christians Speak Evil of Demons?

Numbers 22:1-20 (From Creation) - Balak and Balaam

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Today we dive into Job 9, where Job asks how anyone can stand just before God:

• "How can man be just with God?" Job accepts his friends' premise, then asks whether anyone can truly be righteous before Him.
• Our good works cannot make us righteous. Only the blood of Jesus cleanses us (1 John 1:7), not a stack of religious checkmarks.
• Suffering does not necessarily mean God is angry with you. Unseen things can be at work for a larger purpose.
• Job longs for an umpire between himself and God, a mediator, and this ancient book already points toward Jesus as High Priest.
• Job was wrong that God mocks the trial of the innocent. God lets Job put Him on trial and answers him.
• Scripture is unified. Tens of thousands of cross-references all point toward the Messiah.

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Romans 3:1-18 (From Christ) - There is No One Righteous

1 Peter 4:12-19 - (Part 2) Why Won't God Keep Good People from Suffering?

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Today, we continue in 2 Peter 2, where Peter gives several red flags for spotting false teachers:

• Red flag #1: walking after the flesh for dishonest gain - Freely you received, freely give.
• Red flag #2: despising authority - Scripture has plural elders, not a single head pastor.
• Be like the Bereans. Scripture is the final authority, not any teacher (podcasters included).
• Red flag #3: slandering the "Dignitaries" - who are the dignitaries, and what Jude 8-9 says about them.
• Doing good things does not make someone's teaching good. Watch for Balaam's kind of gain.

Related Episodes:

2 Peter 2:1-9 - In a World of Bad Theology, Be Like Lot and Noah

Acts 20:25-38 (From Christ) - Paul Warns about False Teachers and What to Watch Out For

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Jenn continues in Job 8, where Job's second friend, Bildad, speaks up with some big untruths about God and Job:

• "Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?" Bildad calls Job a windbag.
• Bildad says Job's children had it coming. Does suffering always mean you sinned?
• "Many are the afflictions of the righteous." God promises deliverance, not a pain-free life.
• Just because something is old doesn't mean it's true. Be like the Bereans and judge all things, new and old, according to Scripture.
• Bildad compares Job to a reed with no water and shallow roots.

Related Episodes:

Job 5 - Twisted Truths and Terrible Comfort

Deuteronomy 7:12-26 (From Creation) - The Prosperity Gospel is False

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*Quick note: In this episode I accidentally said we were reading 2 Peter 2:1-11, but we're actually reading 2 Peter 2:1-9. Sorry about that!

Today, we continue through 2 Peter 2:1-9, where Peter warns that false teachers will come into the church:

• Sometimes the most dangerous heresy is wrapped in a very pretty Christian bow.
• Why does a church hierarchy with no accountability set a church up for failure?
• "It shall not be so among you." Jesus calls church leaders to be servants.
• "Lord, Lord." Who are Jesus' scary words in Matthew 7 really directed to?
• Noah and Lot didn't go along with the crowd. How can we be like them?

Related Episodes:

Acts 20:25-38 (From Christ) - Paul Warns about False Teachers and What to Watch Out For

Matthew 7:13-20 (From Christ) - How to Accurately Tell A False Teacher

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In today's episode, Job stops answering his friends and starts talking to God:

• Job turns from his friends to God and prays out loud, no matter what they think.
• "Months of misery." The book of Job isn't a two-week story.
• "Am I a sea or a sea monster?" What the Leviathan meant in Job's day.
• What does it mean to curse God?
• Did David turn Job's "What is man?" complaint into praise in Psalm 8?

Related Episode:

Job 6 - Job's First Response to His Friends

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Jenn finishes 2 Peter 1, where Peter explains why we can trust what he taught:

• Peter won't stop reminding us about Jesus, even though we already know. He considered it negligent not to speak about Jesus.
• Evangelism isn't everyone's gift, but it's everyone's calling. How can you share your faith?
• Peter knows his "tent" is coming down soon. What does Peter mean by "tent"?
• "We didn't follow cunningly devised fables." Peter saw the Transfiguration himself.
• 2 ways to spot a false prophet.

Related Episode:

2 Peter 1:1-11 - You're Invited to the Wedding Feast!

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In this episode of The Bible Explained, Jenn walks through Job's answer to Eliphaz in Job 6, where Job lays it on his friends for the comfort they failed to give him:

• Job tells his friends he wouldn't be complaining if he weren't suffering, and compares Eliphaz's speech to tasteless, slimy food with no salt on it.
• Job asks God to just crush him and cut him off. Do we sometimes think we have God's plan for our lives all figured out?
• Job takes comfort that he has not hidden the words of the Holy One.
• Eliphaz told Job his piety and integrity should be his hope. But our hope cannot be in our own virtue, only in God himself.
• Job compares his friends to a deceitful brook. One minute it's there, the next it's gone. 

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Today, we start a brand new book of the Bible, where Peter gives us a list of virtues to work to in the Christian life: 

• Is Peter suggesting that works save us?

• Was Peter really the only person in Scripture to claim Jesus as "his God and Savior"?

• Peter reminds us the Christian walk is a process that we all have to learn.

• The parable of the wedding feast and the man who showed up without wedding clothes. Why did God throw him into the outer darkness?
  
  

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