MGCC Scripture Reading Podcast

MGCC Scripture Reading Podcast

por Maple Grove Christian Church

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Job Ep. 64: Why Doesn't God Set a Time?

In Job 24:1–12, Job turns outward. He's done with his own search for God — now he's looking at the world. Boundary stones moved. Orphans' donkeys seized. Hungry workers pressing wine they'll never taste. The groans of the dying rising from the city. And the chapter's gut-punch closing: God charges no one with wrongdoing. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 63: If Only I Knew Where to Find Him

Job 23 is where the dialogue gets quieter and more personal. Job isn't building an argument this time. He wants one thing: access to God. He has his case prepared. He believes he'd win the hearing. Then he looks east, west, north, south — and can't find God anywhere. What comes next is one of the most honest movements in the book: faith that doesn't resolve the darkness, and dread that doesn't silence him. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 62: Good Words, Wrong Man

In Job 22:21–30, Eliphaz closes his final speech with an invitation that sounds genuinely beautiful — submit to God, lay up his words, let him be your gold. Real truth, real promises, real theology. The problem is it's all built on a diagnosis that's wrong. And at the very end, he paints a picture of Job as an intercessor for others — not knowing that by the end of the book, that's exactly what Job will become. Just not the way Eliphaz imagined. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 61: Words He Never Said

In Job 22:12–20, Eliphaz shifts from listing Job's alleged sins to describing Job's alleged theology — and what he claims Job believes is something Job never actually said. He accuses Job of thinking God can't see through clouds. He reaches for the flood generation to warn Job where his path leads. And then he quotes Job's own words back at him, reversed. Before closing with something striking: the righteous see the ruin of the wicked and rejoice. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 60: The Charges

In Job 22:1–11, Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the dialogue — and the indirection is finally gone. He accuses Job directly: pledges taken without reason, clothing stripped from the naked, water withheld from the weary, widows sent away empty, orphans broken. All of it invented. And verses 10–11 draw the line: that's why you're suffering. The logic is tidy. It's also wrong. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 59: Nothing Left but Falsehood

In Job 21:27–34, Job closes his longest speech in the dialogue — and he closes it directly. He names his friends' argument before they make it, appeals to travelers as broader witnesses, points out that the wicked die honored and unmourned, and ends with a verdict: nothing is left of your answers but falsehood. This is also the close of the entire second cycle of the dialogue. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 58: How Often?

In Job 21:17–26, Job does his friends' arguing for them — and then takes it apart. How often is the lamp of the wicked actually snuffed out? And if God stores punishment for the children of the wicked, what does the dead man care? Job pushes on the logic, then closes with a picture that won't let go: two men, two very different lives, both covered by the same worms. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 57: Why Do the Wicked Prosper?

In Job 21:1–16, Job finally gets direct. After twenty chapters of Zophar, Bildad, and Eliphaz insisting the wicked always suffer in this life, Job looks his friends in the eye and says: that's not what I observe. The wicked prosper. Their children dance. They die in peace. And they told God to leave them alone the whole time. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 56: No Way Out

In Job 20:12–29, Zophar describes a man who savors evil like candy he can't spit out — until it turns to serpent venom in his stomach. The riches get vomited back up. The rivers of honey stay out of reach. And underneath all the vivid imagery is an accusation aimed directly at Job — never quite spoken aloud. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

Job Ep. 55: Poison in the Belly

In Job 20:12–19, Zophar describes a man who savors evil like candy he can't spit out — until it turns to serpent venom in his stomach. The riches get vomited back up. The rivers of honey stay out of reach. And underneath all the vivid imagery is an accusation aimed directly at Job — never quite spoken aloud. Thanks for listening! If you’re interested in finding out more about Maple Grove, connect with us here: Website: http://www.maplegrove.church/ Facebook: http://www.fb.com/mgccbtown/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mgccbtown/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@mgccbtown/

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