1. Read the Bible looking for Jesus … live looking for Jesus to come back.

2. JOB

3. Summary of Job’s Story Line  Prologue (Chs. 1-2)  Dialogue/Monologue Cycles (Chs. 3-start of 42)  Epilogue (end of Ch. 42) JOB

4. Summary of Job’s Story Line  Prologue (Chs. 1-2) Satan accuses Job before God God permits Satan to cause Job suffering Job experiences great loss and pain Job visited by friends to comfort and discuss his predicament JOB

5. Summary of Job’s Story Line  Dialogue/Monologue Cycles (Chs. 3-start of 42) Three Cycles of Speeches A Wise Evaluation -- Elihu God’s Rebuke JOB

6. Summary of Job’s Story Line  Epilogue (end of 42) – Job restored JOB

7. Summary of Job’s Story Line  Prologue (Chs. 1-2)  Dialogue/Monologue Cycle (Chs. 3-start of 42)  Epilogue (end of 42) JOB

8. 1. Job Experiences The World Into Which The Word Becomes Flesh JOB

9. The Sufferings of Job physical pain

10. Job’s Physical Pain JOB “[H]e was afflicted with some kind of virulent dermatitis covering his whole body and breaking out continually in malignant ulcers and eczema. People would be bound to shun him if only in fear of contagion.”

11. The Sufferings of Job physical pain financial ruin

12. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. Job’s Financial Ruin JOB Job 1:3

13. The Sufferings of Job physical pain financial ruin emotional distress

14. My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. Job’s Emotional Distress JOB Job 16:20 Job 19:19

15. The Sufferings of Job physical pain financial ruin emotional distress destroyed reputation

16. I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. Job’s Destroyed Reputation JOB Job 12:4

17. Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. Job’s Destroyed Reputation JOB Job 19:18

18. The Sufferings of Job physical pain financial ruin emotional distress destroyed reputation spiritual dilemma

19. Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. Job’s Spiritual Dilemma JOB Job 16:7-9

20. “Job loses all he has—which is not only his children and his wealth, but worse than that, his social significance and, worse still, his reputation as a righteous man.” Job’s Suffering JOB

21. “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” Jesus Enters Our Suffering JOB John 1:14

22. “Ordinary mourners may be content to rend their garments, but he himself is rent in his affliction; they sip at sorrow’s bowl, but he drains it dry. He who was the most obedient Son smarted most under the rod when he was stricken of God and afflicted; no other of the smitten ones have sweat great drops of blood, or in the same bitterness of anguish, cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me.” Jesus’ Suffering JOB

23. “We go through thorn brakes and briars of sin because we are clothed with indifference, but imagine a naked man, compelled to traverse a forest of briars-and such was the Savior, as to his moral sensitiveness. He could see sin where we cannot see it, and feel its heinousness as we cannot feel it: there was therefore more to grieve him, and he was more capable of being grieved.” Jesus’ Suffering JOB

24. “…when Christians think seriously about evil and suffering, one of the paramount reasons we are so sure that God is to be trusted is because he sent his Son to suffer cruelly on our behalf…. The God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about, not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.” Jesus’ Suffering JOB

25. He spoke the Incarnation and so was born the Son His Final Word was Jesus He needed no other one. Spoke flesh and blood so He could bleed and make the way divine. And so was born the Baby who would die to make it mine. Jesus’ Suffering JOB

26. 2. Job Anticipates that God Will Personally Rescue Him JOB For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God. Job 19:25-26

27. “This Rescuer of [Job’s] honor lives and will rise up as the last One, as one who holds out over everything, and therefore as one who will speak the final decisive word.” Job’s Suffering JOB

28. 2. Job Anticipates that God Will Personally Rescue Him JOB 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 51-53, 58

29. 2. Job Anticipates that God Will Personally Rescue Him JOB Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 1 John3:2

30. 2. Job Anticipates that God Will Personally Rescue Him JOB I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you. Job 42:5

31. 2. Job Anticipates that God Will Personally Rescue Him JOB Then Lord haste the day when my faith shall be sight. The clouds be rolled back as a scroll. The trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall descend. “Even so” it is well with my soul.