1. The Book of Job Copyright © Simon G. Harris 2011
Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission
The Book of Job

2. The Book of Job Job is ... - blameless
Job 1:1In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
Job is ...
- blameless

3. The Book of Job Job is ... - blameless - blessed
Job 1:2-3 He had seven sons and three daughters, 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.
Job is ...
- blameless
- blessed

4. The Book of Job Job is ... - blameless - blessed but he loses it all
Job 1:19 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!"
Job is ...
- blameless
- blessed
but he loses it all

5. WHY
do bad things happen to
good people?

6. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Deuteronomy 6:4-5Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- God is looking for a people who will love him with all of their hearts

7. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Satan: Job only loves you for what you give him
Job 1:9"Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied.

8. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Satan: Job only loves you for what you give him
Job 1:10"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.

9. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Satan: Job only loves you for what you give him
Job 1:11But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."
Satan: If you take it away Job will curse you

10. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Satan: Job only loves you for what you give him
Job 1:12The 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.
Satan: If you take it away Job will curse you
God: Try it!

11. Do you
LOVE me
whatever
the Circumstances?

12. Do you
LOVE GOD
more than
everything?

13. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Job loved God more than everything
Job 1:20-21At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship

14. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Job loved God more than everything
Job 1:20-21 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."
Job trusted God more than anything
Satan is defeated

15. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Job loved God more than everything
Job 2:10He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Job trusted God more than anything
Satan is defeated

16. Hear the real question (1-2:10)
Job loved God more than everything
Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;
Job trusted God more than anything
Satan is defeated

17. How much
do you
LOVE HIM ?

18. Beware of human folly (2:11- 31)
Job 2:11When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
- Are you the kind of friends people want to see when they are in distress?

19. Beware of human folly (2:11- 31)
Job 2:11When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
Folly: God blesses the righteous & punishes the wicked

20. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 32:4-7Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he So Elihu ..said: "I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know. 7 I thought, 'Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.'
Folly: God blesses the righteous & punishes the wicked

21. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 32:8But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
The answer to the struggle of suffering is spiritual

22. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 1:6-7One 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."
The answer to the struggle of suffering is spiritual

23. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 36:22-26"God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, 'You have done wrong'? Remember to extol his work, which men have praised in song. 2All mankind has seen it; men gaze on it from afar. 26 How great is God--beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
The answer to the struggle of suffering is spiritual

24. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 36:22-26"God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him? Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, 'You have done wrong'? Remember to extol his work, which men have praised in song. 2All mankind has seen it; men gaze on it from afar. 26 How great is God--beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
Some questions are left unanswered because we cannot understand the answer

25. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 37:23-24The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress. Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?"
Some questions are left unanswered because we cannot understand the answer

26. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 38:1-2Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said: "Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
Some questions are left unanswered because we cannot understand the answer

27. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 42:1-3
Then Job replied to the Lord: "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
Some questions are left unanswered because we cannot understand the answer

28. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 42:1-3
Then Job replied to the Lord: "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
The answer to the struggle of suffering is found in an encounter with Almighty God.

29. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 42:1-3
Then Job replied to the Lord: "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
Encounter ...
i. the person of God

30. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 42:5-6
My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
Encounter ...
i. the person of God
ii. the presence of God

31. Discover the true answer (32-42)
John 16:7
But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counsellor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Encounter ...
i. the person of God
ii. the presence of God

32. Discover the true answer (32-42)
Job 42:
After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had ...After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so he died, old and full of years.
Encounter ...
i. the person of God
ii. the presence of God
iii. the promise of God

33. Discover the true answer (32-42)
1 Corinthians 2:9
However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"--
Encounter ...
i. the person of God
ii. the presence of God
iii. the promise of God