一
这该是管制我们生活的原则─约六57。
二
在实际的一面，这该是今天作我们享受的生命树─启二二14。
贰
神的目的不是要得着一个在善恶知识树线上的约伯，乃是要得着一个在生命树线上的约伯：
一
约伯和他朋友们的逻辑是循善恶知识树的路线─伯二11~三二1。
二
约伯像他的朋友一样，也停留在善恶的知识里，而不认识神的经纶─四7~8。
四
神对付约伯的目的，乃是要将他从善恶的路上转到生命的路上，好使他能极完满的得着神─四二1~6。
1
就约伯而言，纯全是他这人的总体表现。
2
在性格上，他是完全、正直的；在道德上，他有高标准的纯全。
二
约伯在积极一面敬畏神，在消极一面远离恶事─一1：
1
神造人不仅是要人敬畏祂、不犯错；神乃是按着自己的形像，照着自己的样式造人，为叫人彰显祂─创一26。
2
彰显神比敬畏神和远离恶事更高。
四
惟有神知道约伯有一个需要─他里面没有神； 因此，神要约伯得着神，好彰显神，以成就祂的定旨─四二5~6。
一
神把约伯引进另一个范围，就是神的范围里，使约伯能得着神，而不是他凭自己的完全、公义和纯全而有的成就─四二5~6。
二
神在约伯身上的目的，是要销毁他，剥夺他在最高标准的道德上，所达到并成就的完全和正直─三一6。
五
神在约伯身上施行剥夺和销毁，好将他拆毁，使神能有一条路，用神自己重建约伯，使他成为神人，在生命和性情上与神一样（但无分于祂的神格），好彰显神─弗三16~21。
一
神在约伯身上一切的对付，目的是要将约伯削减至一无所有，但维持他的生存，使神可以有时间，将祂自己分赐到约伯里面；神只在意一件事，就是祂被作到我们里面。
Ⅰ
"He has stripped my glory from me / And taken away the crown on my head. / He has broken me all around, and I am gone; / And my hope is plucked up like a tree"—Job 19:9-10.
Ⅱ
"I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You; / Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes"—42:5-6.
Ⅲ
What Job had attained in his perfection, uprightness, and integrity was altogether vanity; it neither fulfilled God's purpose nor satisfied His desire—1:6-8; 2:1-3; 27:5; 31:6; 32:1.
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God's intention with Job was to consume him and to strip him of his attain-ments, his achievements, in the highest standard of ethics in perfection and uprightness—19:9-10:
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God's intention was to tear down the natural Job in his perfection and upright-ness that He might build up a renewed Job in God's nature and attributes—1:6-8; 2:3-6.
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God's stripping and consuming were exercised over Job to tear him down that God might have a base and a way to rebuild him with God Himself so that he might become a God-man, the same as God in His life and nature but not in His Godhead, in order to express God—Eph. 3:16-21.
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How much of Christ we have gained is according to how much stripping and consuming we have suffered—2 Cor. 4:16.
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It is through His stripping and consuming that God dispenses Himself into those who love Him and seek after Him—1:8-9; 13:14.
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God's purpose in dealing with those who love Him, even in the way of loss, is that they may gain Him and that He may be expressed through them for the fulfillment of His purpose in His creation of man—Gen. 1:26.
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After we have been stripped and consumed by God, we will see God—Job 42:5; 2 Cor. 3:18; Heb. 12:14; Rev. 22:4:
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We see God so that we may be constituted with God to be the same as God in life and nature, yet we do not have any share in the Godhead—John 1:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:4.
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When we see God, we receive God and have His nature, life, element, essence, and being—Matt. 5:8.
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To see God is to be transformed into the glorious image of God; this makes us not only one with God but also a part of God that we may express God in His life and represent Him in His authority—2 Cor. 3:18.
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Eventually, Job saw God; however, the God whom Job saw was the "raw" God, not the processed God, the God who has passed through the steps of His process—incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension—Job 42:5.
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In contrast to Job, we have the "cooked" God, the God who has been processed so that we may eat Him, drink Him, and breathe Him—John 6:57; 4:14; 20:22.
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Our God is the processed and consummated Triune God, who is the consum-mated life-giving Spirit—7:39; 1 Cor. 15:45b.
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The Triune God as the all-inclusive Spirit dwells in our regenerated spirit to be our life, our nature, our essence, and our everything so that we may be con-stituted with Him for His expression—6:17; 12:12.
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We need to see the eternal economy of God, which is God's intention with His heart's desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity—as the Father in the Son by the Spirit—into His chosen and redeemed people so that they may be the same as He is in life and nature for His corporate expression—the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem—Eph. 4:4-6, 16; Rev. 21:2, 10-11.