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Mark 6: What do you find hard to believe? For me, it is hard to believe that God has given men the choice to believe that He is or He is not. How gracious is our God! Yet even with the evidence of healings, and other miracles the town of Nazareth found it hard to believe Jesus was the long-awaited prophet. They instead questioned him because they only saw him as just a carpenter. How do you see Jesus? Is He “just” a man, “just a carpenter” or is He who He said He was. The evidence demands a verdict. Yet the people of Nazareth were merely astonished.

They were not the first but joined the throng of many unbelievers. Even today if you try to talk about this Jesus, some will say only “I respect your faith…but.” Years later, Paul wanted the Romans to understand that like today, those who refuse to believe are without excuse because the very evidence of the sun rising and setting, and the other proofs of the universe should point to a God who is the Creator. So, “people are without excuse.” [Rom 1:20] This has to be the hardest verse of all that we read.

What will one say when they stand before a holy God as to why they have not believed? Not one excuse will carry weight for since creation, God has revealed Himself. How about you?

Job 25-27 Chapter 25 is a very short summary of what Bildad has discerned and it is this: he has no personal relationship with the God Job believes in. He uses the word “might” to show us his uncertainty in all of life both present and future. There is nothing to base life on if you have no God. Life is futile and without substance. You believe you were conceived, lived and died; end of discussion. That in itself is more than tragic. Job comes back to him saying you don’t realize who God is and then proceeds to extol the attributes of God. He, in essence, says what Paul said in Romans 1:20

“For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.”

And Job says these are only a few of the ways God is God and why people who deny Him are without hope. Yet I serve the living God and I know that my Redeemer lives. I will never ever set aside my integrity and I will maintain my righteousness in my suffering to my very last breath.

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Are you more like a Bildad living without hope? Or are you more like Job who will stand firm until the very end no matter what comes your way?

And now we see why God called Job his blameless man.

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Evidence Demands a Verdict

God was right after all….

And now we see why God called Job his blameless man.