This sermon from Pastor J.D. Montieth highlights the most foundational and important lessons in life from the oldest book in the Bible, the Book of Job. This sermon, the fifth in the series on the Book of Job, Job and His Three Friends: The Introduction of Bildad, introduces the second of Job’s three friends, Bildad the Shuhite: “Bildad, showing little patience towards Job, voices his irritations with Job’s response to Eliphaz. It is worth considering that though men improperly apply truth to the wrong situations, the truth itself still retains its own integrity. Hence, though men may speak God’s Word where it does not apply, it is still the truth. Bildad’s words, though spoken by a miserable comforter, are still true words. As God will neither pervert judgment nor deny justice. He cannot deal either unjustly or unrighteously with men. There is nothing for Him to gain by doing so, and nothing unrighteous in Him, that could cause such an action. Therefore, as a fair and just God, He cannot, and will not ever judge any man unrighteously. Men reap as they have sown, and they themselves determine their own fate. Teaching us that if God executes judgment in men’s lives, for either good or evil, it is what is deserved, according to His divine laws. To infer otherwise, must conclude God to be a corrupt Judge Who perverts justice.
“Job’s belief was that he was treated as a guilty man, without a proper trial and ability to defend himself. Thus, he infers that God not only perverted judgment, but would not even allow defense. But in the end, it would be God Who would demand of Job for what he had done, and not Job complaining to God about God’s unfairness. Job, after being corrected by the Lord, repeats none of his previous claims against God, but rather confesses his own vileness. This because after Elihu’s and Jehovah’s reproof, Job’s heart had turned from accusation against God, to conviction of himself.
“What is learned here in Job’s life, should be considered by all men: that it is one thing for the atheist and God-rejector, and even professing Christians to indict God on this earth, but quite another thing to stand before the majesty of God’s power in Heaven. One thing for even God’s children to question God’s judgments in their life, and another to have to give account of their own.
“Christ shall sit on His throne, and every man shall have to give an account, of the things done in His body. This will include things done by his tongue, his hand, and his heart. See, all men will have to give account to the Lord. Job, as perhaps the oldest book of the Bible, then clearly teaches this—that those who complain against God’s justice, will have to stand and give an account before God’s throne.”