1. The Book of Job SERMONS ON SUFFERING

2. JOB OUTLINED Shock and Sorrow (Job Responds) Struggle (Job and Friends wRestle) Surrender (God Reveals Truth to Job) Sanctification (Job is Restored) Service (God Reverses Job’s life)

3. 32:8 “breath of Almighty” ELIHU

4. 1.6 chapters 2.Job is silent at the end 3.God doesn’t condemn

5. ELIHU Shows why Job is wrong Shows why 3 are wrong Gives Godly explanation of suffering

6. ELIHU: JOB IS WRONG 33:8-12 You say, "I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me. Behold [God] finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy; he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths." Behold in this you are not right.

7. ELIHU: 3 ARE WRONG 33:17 “That he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from the man, and keep back his soul from the Pit”

8. ELIHU: 2 WAYS GOD SPEAKS By dreams and visions (no Bible yet) By Suffering BOTH FOR MAN’S GOOD

9. ELIHU: 2 MESSAGES 2 HEARERS Godless in heart Righteous sinner

10. WARNING REFINING

11. TODAY’S GOSPEL JOHN 9:3 “NEITHER THIS MAN NOR HIS PARENTS SINNED,” SAID JESUS, “BUT THIS HAPPENED SO THAT THE WORKS OF GOD MIGHT BE DISPLAYED IN HIM.”

12. PSALM 119:71, "IT WAS GOOD FOR ME THAT I WAS AFFLICTED, THAT I MIGHT LEARN THY STATUTES."

13. IN THIS YOU REJOICE, THOUGH NOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE YOU MAY HAVE TO SUFFER VARIOUS TRIALS, SO THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH, MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD WHICH THOUGH PERISHABLE IS TESTED BY FIRE,

14. MAY REDOUND (CONTRIBUTE GREATLY) TO PRAISE AND GLORY AND HONOR AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. (1 PETER 1:6–7)

15. OUR FATHER DISCIPLINES US FOR OUR GOOD, THAT WE MAY SHARE HIS HOLINESS. FOR THE MOMENT ALL DISCIPLINE SEEMS PAINFUL RATHER THAN PLEASANT; LATER IT YIELDS THE PEACEFUL FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED BY IT. (HEBREWS 12:10–11)

16. WE WERE SO UTTERLY, UNBEARABLY CRUSHED THAT WE DESPAIRED OF LIFE ITSELF. WHY, WE FELT THAT WE HAD RECEIVED THE SENTENCE OF DEATH; BUT THAT WAS TO MAKE US RELY NOT ON OURSELVES BUT ON GOD WHO RAISES THE DEAD. (2 CORINTHIANS 1:8–9)

17. THEREFORE, COUNT IT ALL JOY, MY BRETHREN, WHEN YOU MEET VARIOUS TRIALS, FOR YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH PRODUCES STEADFASTNESS. AND LET STEADFASTNESS HAVE ITS FULL EFFECT, THAT YOU MAY BE PERFECT AND COMPLETE, LACKING IN NOTHING. (JAMES 1:2–4)