Gal2:16...nevertheless, knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law; since by works of the Law no flesh will be justified.

Job is introduced to us as a man in great fullness: fullness of possessions and of wealth, fullness of good works and of personal RIGHTEOUSNESS, and standing before God in acceptance. Then there begins a course in his experience, the meaning and the secret occasion of which is altogether hidden from him. He knows not the why nor the wherefore, but he finds himself suddenly in the course of being stripped of everything. One thing after another is stripped from him, all his possessions, all his relations, all his friends and all his RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of works, and with it all come the investing, the encompassing, the onrushing of those hostile forces with their suggestions of accusation, condemnation, judgment. There is an encompassing of spiritual antagonism and of a spirit of death, with God hidden, withdrawn behind the clouds, and Job is left stark, bare, apparently alone, a stripped and afflicted man, oppressed in spirit, bewildered in soul and in anguish of body. The circle of all his relationships narrows to the closest, the nearest his own wife, who bids him renounce God and, in so doing, surrender his life, for that is what is meant. The man has come right down from a great height and a great fullness to a very deep depth of utter emptiness, weakness, helplessness, and is as good as dead. 

In the course of that history a transition takes place. You can hardly perceive it, but it does take place. It is a transition from a RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of works to the RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of FAITH. Whereas earlier he pleads his own cause on the basis of his own RIGHTEOUSNESS and his own works, you find him being stripped of all that and at the end of it all he is saying, “Wherefore I abhor myself” (Job 42:6) And yet he is still holding on to God, but this is a RIGHTEOUSNESS which has no foundation in his own goodness and works now. It is a RIGHTEOUSNESS which is by faith in the mercy of God. With that transition, that change from one basis to another, something else has happened. Satan has gradually been edged out of court. At the beginning Satan is there in full power ,or almost so with a great deal of liberty, doing pretty much as he likes. Then there is an almost imperceptible point at which Satan has stepped out of the scene and Job is left alone with God. Satan has had all his ground taken away, he has had to withdraw and give up the fight, he is completely worsted. Then comes resurrection from the dead into a place of new spiritual power, opening the door for God to come in in a new way, investing Job with a new fullness which is not now the fullness of his own works, but the fullness of Divine grace; not the fruit of his own labours, but the gift of God; not what he himself has brought about, but what God has given him. That is Job’s spiritual history in a few words.

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ichuka:
■ Job is introduced to us as a man in great fullness: fullness of possessions and of wealth, fullness of good works and of personal RIGHTEOUSNESS, and standing before God in acceptance. Then there begins a course in his experience, the meaning and the secret occasion of which is altogether hidden from him. He knows not the why nor the wherefore, but he finds himself suddenly in the course of being stripped of everything. One thing after another is stripped from him, all his possessions, all his relations, all his friends and all his RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of works, and with it all come the investing, the encompassing, the onrushing of those hostile forces with their suggestions of accusation, condemnation, judgment. There is an encompassing of spiritual antagonism and of a spirit of death, with God hidden, withdrawn behind the clouds, and Job is left stark, bare, apparently alone, a stripped and afflicted man, oppressed in spirit, bewildered in soul and in anguish of body. The circle of all his relationships narrows to the closest, the nearest his own wife, who bids him renounce God and, in so doing, surrender his life, for that is what is meant. The man has come right down from a great height and a great fullness to a very deep depth of utter emptiness, weakness, helplessness, and is as good as dead. 

In the course of that history a transition takes place. You can hardly perceive it, but it does take place. It is a transition from a RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of works to the RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of FAITH. Whereas earlier he pleads his own cause on the basis of his own RIGHTEOUSNESS and his own works, you find him being stripped of all that and at the end of it all he is saying, “Wherefore I abhor myself” (Job 42:6) And yet he is still holding on to God, but this is a RIGHTEOUSNESS which has no foundation in his own goodness and works now. It is a RIGHTEOUSNESS which is by faith in the mercy of God. With that transition, that change from one basis to another, something else has happened. Satan has gradually been edged out of court. At the beginning Satan is there in full power ,or almost so with a great deal of liberty, doing pretty much as he likes. Then there is an almost imperceptible point at which Satan has stepped out of the scene and Job is left alone with God. Satan has had all his ground taken away, he has had to withdraw and give up the fight, he is completely worsted. Then comes resurrection from the dead into a place of new spiritual power, opening the door for God to come in in a new way, investing Job with a new fullness which is not now the fullness of his own works, but the fullness of Divine grace; not the fruit of his own labours, but the gift of God; not what he himself has brought about, but what God has given him. That is Job’s spiritual history in a few words.

Job transition from the righteousness of works to the righteousness of faith? What the frell does that even mean? Christians and making stuff up in ignorance are like 5&6.

Kobojunkie:
Job transition from the righteousness of works to the righteousness of faith? What the frell does that even mean? Christians and making stuff up in ignorance are like 5&6.

Dude aren't you tired of trolling? Please try and be useful these year.

ichuka:
■ Dude aren't you tired of trolling? Please try and be useful these year.

Pointing out the clear ridiculousness of claims you made amounts to trolling you? Good one! Yet it is nothing for you to post these lies in the name of God, abi?

Kobojunkie:
Pointing out the clear ridiculousness of claims you made amounts to trolling you? Good one! Yet it is nothing for you to post these lies in the name of God, abi?

Please go away goats has no correlation with sheep

ichuka:
■ Please go away goats has no correlation with sheep

This from someone who is not even a citizen of the Kingdom of God i.e. not born-again. Casting me down for calling out a lie you told does not mean you are better with the God of Israel. It simply means you are just lashing out after your lies have been exposed.

Kobojunkie:
This from someone who is not even a citizen of the Kingdom of God i.e. not born-again. Casting me down for calling out a lie you told does not mean you are better with the God of Israel. It simply means you are just lashing out after your lies have been exposed.

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