sermons on suffering
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sermons on suffering. The Book of Job. Job outlined. Shock and Sorrow (Job Responds) Struggle (Job and Friends w Restle ) Surrender (God Revealed through Elihu ) Sanctification (God Reveals Himself) Service (God Reverses Job’s life). 2 explanations for suffering. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Book of Job
SERMONS ON SUFFERING
JOB OUTLINEDShock and Sorrow (Job Responds)Struggle (Job and Friends wRestle)Surrender (God Revealed through Elihu)Sanctification (God Reveals Himself)Service (God Reverses Job’s life)
2 EXPLANATIONS FOR SUFFERING
1. To demonstrate God’s victory over Satan
2. To refine faith
REFINE AND HEAL
Not an executioner’s whip….
But a surgeon’s scalpel!
37:2 “Listen to the roar….rumbling of His mouth”
ELIHU: A GATHERING STORM
38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm…
GOD SPEAKS
GOD SPEAKS1. 4 chapters2. Job is asked 56 questions.(80 % of questions are statements
in disguise.)
GOD SPEAKS1. Names 24 environmental
phenomena
2. Names 12 animals
lion raven mt. goat
deer donkey ostrich
stork horse hawk
Eagle _____ _______
storms planet angels morning
dawn light springs expanse
snow hail lightening wind
rain desert dew ice
stars rivers clouds sea
lakes grass frost seasons
ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS38:1-38 38:39 – 40:24
GOD SPEAKSGod of power
“More than meets the eye.”
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.”
JOB IS GETTING ITa 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.
GOD SPEAKSGod of Justice:
[Job, can you] “Look at every proud man and bring him low…” (40:11)
GOD SPEAKS: TWO MORE ANIMALS
behemoth (beast par exellence)leviathan (large marine creature)
DINOSAURS IN THE BIBLE?
Behemoth and Leviathan
Figurative or……?
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…
JOB’S CONFESSION
My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
JOB’S CONFESSION
Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
GOD’S ABSOLUTION“my eyes have seen you”19:25 ff. “my redeemer lives…I myself will see him with my own eyes…”
WHAT GOD DOESN’T SAY:
A word about Job’s suffering
A word about Job’s righteousness
A word about Job’s losses
WHAT GOD DOES SAYThis 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
WHAT GOD DOES SAY
All this I do out of LOVE.
I am your REDEEMER, you cannot save yourself