6 Responses to “November 11, 2009”

1. Al Little
   November 11th, 2009 @ 8:30 pm

   There is no link to start the 11/11/09 teaching.

2. Dr Michael L Brown
   November 11th, 2009 @ 9:22 pm

   Al,

   The shows are uploaded the next day, normally by morning or at least by mid-day. Check back then, and thanks for the interest.

3. Ben KC
   November 12th, 2009 @ 11:09 pm

   God is doing great things all around the world. I just want to share what God is doing at IHOP located in Kansas City, MO. God is bringing healing and deliverance for these 2 past days and still going. If its still continuing, you can check out:

   http://www.ihop.org/watch.

   Be blessed.

4. Richard Coords
   November 13th, 2009 @ 11:11 am

   This was a fantastic program!

   Michael Brown: “Sickness, suffering, sovereignty of God, Satan, what does God do?; what does Satan do?, especially as it relates to human sickness and disease?” (Line of Fire)

   Michael Brown: “From the Book of Job, there are two very important truths that we learn. Number one, you see someone suffering, maybe a godly person, someone who loves the Lord, and you’ve known them for years, and suddenly all kinds of calamity, sickness, tragedy in the family, don’t say, ‘Oh, they must have sinned real bad, because these things only happen to wicked people,’ like Job’s friends did. Don’t judge Job, don’t judge your friend who loves the Lord, and say, ‘they must have sinned, otherwise this couldn’t have happened.’ Conversely, there’s another great lesson from Job. Don’t judge God. Job was wrong to think that God did these things. God gave permission to Satan, but it was the malignant hand of Satan that afflicted Job, that afflicted the children, that killed the children and destroyed the livestock. That was the work of the devil, the destroyer. That was not God doing that to Job. There is a distinction in the text. God says to the devil, ‘You’re moving Me to destroy him without a cause; you’re trying to incite Me.’ Job wrongly judged God, and said, ‘God’s guilty.’ See, the friends said, ‘Job, you’re guilty.’ Job said, ‘God, You’re guilty.’ Both were wrong. Sometimes inexplicable things happen to the righteous, but it is wrong to turn around and judge the person and say, ‘you must be in sin; that’s why this happened.’ And it is wrong to turn around and say, ‘Well, we don’t know why God sent that.’ Who said God sent it? Just because it happened, doesn’t mean that God sent it.” (Line of Fire)

   The irony is that initially, Job held the Calvinistic sovereignty perspective, which of course was wrong: “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” (Job 1:21) But it wasn’t the Lord who had “taken away.” That was the devil. The devil approached God; the devil made the challenge, which God merely permitted. Job adds: “Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10) Notice that the more Job reflected on God’s, alleged, sovereign role in suffering, the more it upset him, and the more it made him want to blame God, both for causing it, and for wrongly judging him. Job’s sovereignty outlook had no room for someone else being the cause. The Calvinistic sovereignty outlook means that everything has to fall back upon God, which in the last case, is the mysterious, hidden decrees of God, which is what Calvinist still think about the passage!

5. Dr Michael L Brown
   November 13th, 2009 @ 2:59 pm

   Thanks for the insightful post!

6. Erika
   November 14th, 2009 @ 2:18 pm

   Dear Dr. Brown,

   I was truly happy to hear you tell us the Amazing Ten
   Commandments Experiment. To me this is my personal motivation to focus also on the “Old Testament” and not only on the new one, since in my opinion the Old Testament shows us the minimum of God’s standards and His plan for our life. What I mean by minimum is described in Matthew 5:17-48. The Old Testament shows us what Yeshua wants to fulfill in our lives. In my opinion the New Testament gives us a very brief overview of how the Word is made flesh – but how can we really live it out and work on this with God’s help (Phiippians 2:12-13) if we don’t know the Word – the Torah – ALL the 66 books of the bible – God’s intention and plan for our lives? This is a very difficult question for people who come out of Churchianity. So for example the Temple service in the Old Testament shows us God’s plan for the human body (we are God’s Temple) and also is a good picture of how to serve God in spirit and truth without having a literal Temple here. And it also shows us God’s Temple in heaven and the nature of God. In Revelation 11:1 it is written “measure the Temple” – that means: Don’t forget it! How about first learning about it before not forgetting it?

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