1. The Book of Job SERMONS ON SUFFERING

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 1.To demonstrate God’s victory over Satan 2.To refine faith

4. REFINE AND HEAL Not an executioner’s whip…. But a surgeon’s scalpel!

5. 37:2 “Listen to the roar….rumbling of His mouth” ELIHU: A GATHERING STORM

6. 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm… GOD SPEAKS

7. 1.4 chapters 2.Job is asked 56 questions. (80 % of questions are statements in disguise.)

8. GOD SPEAKS 1.Names 24 environmental phenomena 2.Names 12 animals

9. lionravenmt. goat deerdonkeyostrich storkhorsehawk Eagle _____ _______ stormsplanetangelsmorning dawnlightspringsexpanse snowhaillightening wind raindesertdew ice starsriversclouds sea lakesgrassfrost seasons ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS 38:1-3838:39 – 40:24

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