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Encounters with GodHow Do You Respond to God?

August 17, 2014

Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)

1 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2 “I know that you can do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be

thwarted.

Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)

3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)

4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’

5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Book of JobI. The Tests (chapters 1-2)

II. The Talks (chapters 3-31)

III. The New Perspective (chapters 32-37)

IV. The Encounter (chapters 38-41)

V. The Restoration (chapter 42)

Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)

1 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2 “I know that you can do all things,

and that no purpose of yours can be

thwarted.

Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)

3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’

Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,

things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)

4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’

5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Response 1

Acknowledge that God is omnipotent and that His purposes will not fail.

Response 2

Be humble and confess what we do not understand.

Response 3

Repent of our foolish babble.

3 Responses1. Acknowledge that God is omnipotent and that His purposes will not fail.

2. Be humble and confess what we do not understand.

3. Repent of our foolish babble.

Ephesians 3:20Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.