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Life is Hard – God Is Good A Study of Job

Life is Hard – God Is Good A Study of Job. When Life Falls Apart Job 1:1 – 2:10. Introduction. If you could ask God one question, and you knew that He would give you the answer, what question would you ask of Him? Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?

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Life is Hard – God Is Good A Study of Job

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  1. Life is Hard – God Is GoodA Study of Job When Life Falls Apart Job 1:1 – 2:10

  2. Introduction • If you could ask God one question, and you knew that He would give you the answer, what question would you ask of Him? • Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? • …the question mark turned like a fish hook in the human heart.

  3. John 16:33 33“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

  4. Introduction • If you could ask God one question, and you knew that He would give you the answer, what question would you ask of Him? • The biography of Job has a lot of insight about suffering from God’s perspective.

  5. Job 1:1-3 1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters,

  6. Job 1:1-3 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

  7. Introduction • If you could ask God one question, and you knew that He would give you the answer, what question would you ask of Him? • The biography of Job has a lot of insight about suffering from God’s perspective. • Bible is teaching us about Job - not that he was wealthy, but that he was a very good man.

  8. Job 1:4-5 4 His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

  9. Job 1:4-5 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.

  10. Four Lessons to Bolster Our Faith in Times of Suffering • Lesson One • Bad Things Are Going to Happen to Good People • Lesson Two • Nothing Will Touch Us That God Does Not Allow • Lesson Three • Even Though Job Grieved, He Worshipped God • Lesson Four • Your Experience is Not Unique; Others Have Overcome Adversity and You Can Too

  11. Lesson One • Disappointment With God – Philip Yancey • “If you think life is supposed to be fair, go home and re-read the story of Jesus. Was life fair for Him?” • “For me, the cross demolished for all time the basic assumption that life would be fair.”

  12. Job 1:6-7 6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.”

  13. 1 Peter 5:8 8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

  14. Job 1:8 8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

  15. Job 1:9 9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.

  16. Job 1:10 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.

  17. Job 1:11-12 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” 12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

  18. Genesis 3:16-19 16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

  19. Genesis 3:16-19 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

  20. Genesis 3:16-19 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

  21. Katharine Bridget Comiskey

  22. Four Lessons to Bolster Our Faith in Times of Suffering • Lesson One • Bad Things Are Going to Happen to Good People • Lesson Two • Nothing Will Touch Us That God Does Not Allow • Lesson Three • Even Though Job Grieved, He Worshipped God • Lesson Four • Your Experience is Not Unique; Others Have Overcome Adversity and You Can Too

  23. 1 Corinthians 10:13 - Paraphrased “Not test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down. He will never let you be pushed past your limit. He will always be there to help you come through it.”

  24. Alexander Maclaren “If God sends us on stony paths, He will always provide us with strong shoes.”

  25. Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer? • To Mature Us • Rom 5:3-5

  26. Romans 5:3-5 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

  27. Mildred Witte Struven “A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”

  28. Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer? • To Mature Us • Rm 5:3-5 • So We Can Become a Comfort to Others • 2Co 1:4

  29. 2 Corinthians 1:4 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

  30. Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer? • So He Can Mature Us • Rm 5:3-5 • So We Can Become a Comfort to Others • 2Co 1:4 • So He Can Test Us • James 1:12

  31. James 1:12 12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

  32. Stephen Brown • “For every person who gets cancer who is a pagan, God allows a Christian to get cancer so that the world can see the difference.”

  33. Anonymous Quote “Christians are like tea bags. It’s not until we get into hot water that you see what we’re truly made of.”

  34. Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer? • So He Can Mature Us • Rm 5:3-5 • So We Can Become a Comfort to Others • 2Co 1:4 • So He Can Test Us • James 1:12 • So We’ll Be Able to Appreciate Jesus’ Suffering • Phillipians 3:10

  35. Philippians 3:10 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

  36. Job 1:13-16 13 One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

  37. Job 1:13-16 15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the sky

  38. Job 1:16-17 16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

  39. Job 1:16-17 17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

  40. Job 1:18-19 18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

  41. Job 1:20-22 20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” 22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

  42. Four Lessons to Bolster Our Faith in Times of Suffering • Lesson One • Bad Things Are Going to Happen to Good People • Lesson Two • Nothing Will Touch Us That God Does Not Allow • Lesson Three • Even Though Job Grieved, He Worshipped God • Lesson Four • Your Experience is Not Unique; Others Have Overcome Adversity and You Can Too

  43. Faith is Praying “Father, I don’t understand where you are right now and I don’t understand why this is happening to me, but I still believe you created this world. I still believe you love me and that you sent your Son to die for me. And I still believe you are going to make all things right some day. I’m really hurting right now, but I put my trust in you. Please lift me up through all of this.”

  44. Job 2:3-5 3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”

  45. Job 2:3-5 4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

  46. Job 2:6-8 6 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.” 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.

  47. Job 2:9-10 9 His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”

  48. Four Lessons to Bolster Our Faith in Times of Suffering • Lesson One • Bad Things Are Going to Happen to Good People • Lesson Two • Nothing Will Touch Us That God Does Not Allow • Lesson Three • Even Though Job Grieved, He Worshipped God • Lesson Four • Your Experience is Not Unique; Others Have Overcome Adversity and You Can Too

  49. Dave Dravecky

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