Crying Out for Vindication: The Gospel According to Job (Gospel according to the Old Testament)
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Overview
With gripping interpretation and excellent anecdotes, this book links Job’s experience with the gospel, showing that his hope was the same as ours today. In Jesus, our questions and confusions are resolved, our faith vindicated, and our suffering redeemed.
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- Links Job’s experience with the gospel
- Unpacks how Job’s hope is the same as ours today
- Includes accessible redemptive-historical exegesis
Top Highlights
“It isn’t the suffering that makes the relationship closer—it is faithfulness through a life in which we are not in control and for which we can take no credit.” (Page 104)
“The issue boils down to this. For Job to give up on his claim to his integrity would be to give up on his salvation. If that one thing were to be not true, then it wouldn’t matter for him what happened with regard to the rest. Job’s claim to his righteousness and his integrity were not a claim to self-righteousness but to a righteousness awarded to him by grace and established by the word of promise of God. If that failed, then God ceased to be a teller of the truth and so not a god worthy of the name. Were that claim to be not true, then there was no way of salvation and all was lost. To give up that righteousness and integrity of faith was to lose all.” (Page 70)
“The challenge then is a simple one. Satan is saying that none of God’s people love him more than they love themselves. Their love for God, and their faithfulness to him, is not God-centered but self-centered. It’s about what they get out of God. He is accusing God of running a nasty protection racket, instead of what God is claiming it to be, a salvation based on grace evoking a personal faith that has integrity.” (Page 30)
“It is possible that this is the first book of the Bible to have been written. Certainly the events described in this book occurred before any book of the Bible had been written.” (Page 6)
“Probably the best window into a generation’s thinking is the music or the movies that hit the harmonic for them. The period from about the ages of twelve to twenty-five seems to be the time when so many issues are decided and so much of life is being shaped on the forge. It helps to listen to the music of the next generation and to check out the movies that younger people like, because through them we can pick up ‘the wind’ of the times.” (Page 15)
Why do the innocent suffer? Drawing upon his years of pastoral ministry, David Jackson takes us on an interesting journey where we experience, along with Job, “the depth of God’s grace to us in Christ—who, by his own choice, suffered more than Job to save us from the cruelty and domination of sin.” This book is a ‘must read’ for anyone going through difficult times.
—Steven Horine, Calvary Baptist Seminary, Lansdale, PA
- Title: Crying out for Vindication: The Gospel according to Job
- Author: David R. Jackson
- Series: The Gospel according to the Old Testament
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 238
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Job (Biblical figure); Bible. O.T. Job › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Job › Relation to the New Testament; Bible. N.T. › Relation to Job
- ISBNs: 9781596380257, 159638025, 159638025X
- Resource ID: LLS:GSPLOTJOB
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:16:38Z
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