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sermons on suffering

sermons on suffering. The Book of Job. Job outlined. Shock and Sorrow (Job Responds) Struggle (Job and Friends w Restle ) Surrender (God Revealed through Elihu ) Sanctification (God Reveals Himself) Service (God Reverses Job’s life). 2 explanations for suffering.

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sermons on suffering

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  1. sermons on suffering The Book of Job

  2. Job outlined Shock and Sorrow (Job Responds) Struggle (Job and Friends wRestle) Surrender (God Revealed through Elihu) Sanctification (God Reveals Himself) Service (God Reverses Job’s life)

  3. 2 explanations for suffering • To demonstrate God’s victory over Satan • To refine faith

  4. Refine and heal Not an executioner’s whip…. But a surgeon’s scalpel!

  5. Elihu: a Gathering Storm 37:2 “Listen to the roar….rumbling of His mouth”

  6. god speaks 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm…

  7. God Speaks • 4 chapters • Job is asked 56 questions. (80 % of questions are statements in disguise.)

  8. God Speaks • Names 24 environmental phenomena • Names 12 animals

  9. Environment Animals 38:1-38 38:39 – 40:24 lion raven mt. goat deer donkey ostrich stork horse hawk Eagle _____ _______ storms planet angels morning dawn light springs expanse snow hail lightening wind rain desert dew ice stars rivers clouds sea lakes grass frost seasons

  10. God Speaks God of power “More than meets the eye.”

  11. Job is getting it 40:4-5 “I am unworthy- how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer –twice, but I will say no more.”

  12. Job is getting it a finite creature who has no wisdom to run this world and is utterly ignorant of 99.999% of its processes has no business instructing his Maker and Ruler how to run the world or even condemning God for the way he runs it.

  13. God Speaks God of Justice: [Job, can you] “Look at every proud man and bring him low…” (40:11)

  14. God speaks: two more animals behemoth (beast par exellence) leviathan (large marine creature)

  15. Dinosaurs in the bible? Behemoth and Leviathan Figurative or……?

  16. Job’s confession 42:2-6 “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted… surely I spoke of things I did not understand…

  17. Job’s confession My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

  18. Job’s confession Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

  19. God’s absolution “my eyes have seen you” 19:25 ff. “my redeemer lives… I myself will see him with my own eyes…”

  20. What God doesn’t say: A word about Job’s suffering A word about Job’s righteousness A word about Job’s losses

  21. What god does say This is so much bigger and more complex than you can possibly imagine It all happens for a reason, MY reason… though YOU might not get it all I am involved in it all, I am involved in your life

  22. What god does say All this I do out of LOVE. I am your REDEEMER, you cannot save yourself

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