"Physicians of no value"
- Denisa Gabriela
- Jul 15, 2020
- 5 min read
When Job was sick and felt like dying, there were three comforters that came to him for a bit of consolation which made him feel worse than before their appearance in the picture.
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 13:4 But ye forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Notice how the he stresses the description about these comforters: "miserable comforters are ye all", "ye are all physicians of no value". After his family is gone, his friends turned against him, no riches left for him, going through these agonies of being damned, he finds the strength to confront the three persons who come to him for a bit of relief.
There are three stewards that come to comfort each person when he/she dies offering all kinds of advice and vain wisdom, even though they are present among the living right now. These three stewards are the most miserable, definite comforters that have ever existed: EDUCATION/ SCHOLARSHIP, SCIENCE, RELIGION.
Usually, men prefer the three basic comforters which are nothing but counterfeits in different forms.
Firstly, science is usually saying something soothing to the person who soon is going to leave this world. Science is good in a few things by innovations and certain developments that was proven to be quite useful in contemporaneity. However, people should not get hooked up in the hypnotic rhythm of things, since the Bible is clear on this regard.
1 Timothy 6:20-21 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. […].
Meeting our Creator is a great moment in the existence of a believer, and definitely we cannot do it with the comfort of science telling us about evolutionary matters and “mighty stages through which a man has passed.”
"Science says this, science says that, science proves..." Many fixed upon the evolutionary theory are keeping themselves away from the truth by a theory which will always remain a theory and will never be a fact. Science cannot solve anything: not even the tiniest problems you might be facing. You simply pay some money to be more comfortable in pain. What use to go on the moon, to use computers, robots if you don't know how to live here? Science deals with the symptoms, not the causes, it does not know how to stop an issue from starting. Moral level is the way through which we can deal with causes, and science has not stopped the curse of humanity, and never will. The spiritual things, causes are in God's hands, not in the realm of science.
We cannot depend on “proven” comforters, but we should walk in faith with God – Who is the only One that gives peace to a man. Job said (as mentioned before),
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
The form of the next comforter is Scholarship. "Education without salvation is damnation." Education tries to infiltrate the positive aspect of life: "POSITIVE, POSITIVE, POSITIVE!" So many modern preachers deny to preach against hell and sin and focus on love. They do not realize that preaching about love should go after exposing certain things that are more important. These preachers simply jump to ask you why you do not have the compassion upon others to talk about love since the Bible has a whole chapter about the subject. Why does God give people the rebuke in the first 12 chapters in 1 Corinthians and then dealing with the subject of LOVE? What a BALANCE!
"The government produces 23.000.000 functional illiterates annually. That's education. 23.000.000 who can't function properly and read a book and handle words in letters." Ruckman
If a man has education that does not mean he has brains, too.
When there comes a time in your life and you have to die, what can education do you?
Scholarship comes to the man to comfort him with “better readings” and modern translations, coming to tell this man that Jesus is not the only way to heaven, that in the Father’s house are not mansions, but mere rooms, and other deceptive things that are deadly to the Christian faith. This fellow is going to say to the person that there’s no place for him in the Book of Life, but in the tree of life. Scholarship is coming with a fake light to “enlighten” the dying man with a sweet lie. There is one book that can take you through one day if a doctor informs you there are only 6 moths left for you. “The greatest Book is the Old AV Bible -1611!” Ruckman
The Bible is the only Book which tells a person how to get to heaven, thing which a scholar or any other book in the world can’t tell. In fact, scholarship can mess it up. Jesus is the only cure an individual can take to be eternally secure in the proximity to the Heart of God.
The other comforter a man has is religion. Religion is something which many people have, but salvation is what a believer in Christ has. Through religion people try to justify themselves before God, although salvation was given to us simply because NO MAN can justify himself before God. Religion (with all its “different branches”) tells the person to be good, to keep the golden rule, to concentrate on the power of positive thinking, to think beautiful thoughts, to find peace within, and so on. All religions lead to the same destination: death and pit. If a person is almost gone with this comforter’s encouragements, he/she is not even able to think. Then religion continues to speak to the person that God is Good, Merciful, and He would not send anybody to hell.
Religion is a thing and it does not save you, Jesus Christ saves! It is not WHAT you know, but WHO you know!
All these are “miserable” man-made comforters, but thank God He has given us the gift of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is one comfort that no one can take away from a believer: the belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and His victory on the Cross. Jesus has promised us that He’ll never leave us.
Hebrews 13:5 [...] I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Jesus is the only way to Heaven, as He claimed here on Earth.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
In addition, Christ promised that we indeed have a Comforter here, but not like the ones humans rely on. He is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth Who works in the heart of the believer,
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
"JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL, LET ME TO THY BOSOM FLY!"
Charitable greetings,
Denisa
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