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Job 25: God’s Holiness, Human Smallness, and the Grace That Restores
Series: Reading the Bible Daily with Dave Host: Dave Jenkins Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 Passage: Job 25Show Summary
In Job 25, Bildad delivers his final and brief speech, emphasizing God’s greatness and humanity’s smallness. What he says contains theological truth—God is holy, sovereign, and exalted—but it is spoken without the grace and compassion that flows from understanding God’s mercy.This chapter presses a crucial question: How can a sinful person be right before a holy God? Bildad leaves the question hanging, but the gospel answers it. God’s holiness humbles us, but His mercy in Christ restores us. True humility leads not to despair, but to worship.Audio Player
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.
Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.
He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024).
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Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
