Life is Hard

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Life is Hard God Is GoodA Study of Job

• When God Appears
• Job Chapters 38-42

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Introduction

• Job 3135

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Job 3135

• 35 (Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign
  now my defenselet the Almighty answer me let my
  accuser put his indictment in writing.

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Introduction

• Job 3135
• Like Job, we cry out, Why did you let this
  happen to me, God? Where are you?
• Job 381-3

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Job 381-3

• 38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm.
  He said 2 Who is this that darkens my counsel
  with words without knowledge? 3 Brace yourself
  like a man I will question you, and you shall
  answer me.

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Introduction

• Job 3135
• Like Job, we cry out, Why did you let this
  happen to me, God? Where are you?
• Job 381-3
• Brace yourself like a warrior. Were going to
  go head-to-head in intellectual combat, here.

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A Series of 70 Questions

• Job 384-5

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Job 384-7

• 4 Where were you when I laid the earths
  foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
• 5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
  Who stretched a measuring line across it?
• 6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its
  cornerstone 7 while the morning stars sang
  together and all the angels shouted for joy?

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Job 38 The Wonders of Nature

• Job 3812-15
• Job 3816
• Job 3817-18
• Job 3824
• Job 3835

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Job 3812-15

• 12 Have you ever given orders to the morning, or
  shown the dawn its place, 13 that it might take
  the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out
  of it?
• 14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal
  its features stand out like those of a garment.
• 15 The wicked are denied their light, and their
  upraised arm is broken.

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Job 3816

• 16 Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
  or walked in the recesses of the deep?

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Job 3817-18

• 17 Have the gates of death been shown to you?
  Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
• 18 Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the
  earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

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Job 3824

• 24 What is the way to the place where the
  lightning is dispersed, or the place where the
  east winds are scattered over the earth?

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Job 3835

• 35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
  Do they report to you, Here we are?

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Job 39 Wonders of the Animal Kingdom

• Job 391-2 Mountain Goats
• Job 399 - Oxen
• Job 3913 - Ostriches
• Job 3919 - Horses
• Job 3927-29 - Eagles

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Job 391-2

• 39 Do you know when the mountain goats give
  birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
• 2 Do you count the months till they bear? Do you
  know the time they give birth?

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Job 399

• 9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he
  stay by your manger at night?

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Job 3913

• 13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but
  they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers
  of the stork.

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Job 3919

• 19 Do you give the horse his strength or clothe
  his neck with a flowing mane?

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Job 3927-29

• 27 Does the eagle soar at your command and build
  his nest on high?
• 28 He dwells on a cliff and stays there at night
  a rocky crag is his stronghold.
• 29 From there he seeks out his food his eyes
  detect it from afar.

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Job 401

• 40 The Lord said to Job 2 Will the one who
  contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him
  who accuses God answer him!

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Idiotic, Ignorant, Morons
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The Enlightened Elite
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Job 403-5

• 3 Then Job answered the Lord
• 4 I am unworthyhow can I reply to you? I put my
  hand over my mouth.
• 5 I spoke once, but I have no answer twice, but
  I will say no more.

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Job 406-14

• 6 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm
• 7 Brace yourself like a man I will question
  you, and you shall answer me.
• 8 Would you discredit my justice? Would you
  condemn me to justify yourself?
• 9 Do you have an arm like Gods, and can your
  voice thunder like his?

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Job 406-14

• 10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,
  and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
• 11 Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every
  proud man and bring him low,
• 12 look at every proud man and humble him, crush
  the wicked where they stand.

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Job 406-14

• 13 Bury them all in the dust together shroud
  their faces in the grave.
• 14 Then I myself will admit to you that your own
  right hand can save you.

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Life Applications

• God is in charge of the universe.
• God will provide answers in His time.
• God uses our suffering to bring about a more
  intimate relationship with Him.
• God will make all things right in the end.

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God is in Charge of the Universe

• Heres a simple fact
• The universe does not revolve around us! It
  revolves around God!

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Don Baker

• Lifes Hidden Purpose
• Satans goal was not to destroy Job it was to
  discredit God.

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Rick Warren

• The Purpose Driven Life
• How do you know when the silver is pure?
• When I see my reflection in it.

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Life Applications

• God is in charge of the universe.
• God will provide answers in His time.
• God uses our suffering to bring about a more
  intimate relationship with Him.
• God will make all things right in the end.

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Reasons God Does Not Answer the Suffering
Question

• We are not capable of comprehending the answer.
• It would ruin the test if we knew the answer in
  advance.
• The book of Job teaches us not to expect simple
  answers when were in difficulty.

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Job 421-5

• 42 Then Job replied to the Lord 2 I know that
  you can do all things no plan of yours can be
  thwarted. 3 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. 4 You said, Listen now, and I
  will speak I will question you, and you shall
  answer me. 5 My ears had heard of you but now
  my eyes have seen you.

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Life Applications

• God is in charge of the universe.
• God will provide answers in His time.
• God uses our suffering to bring about a more
  intimate relationship with Him.
• God will make all things right in the end.

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Max Lucado

• A season of suffering is a small price to pay
  for a clear view of God.

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Job 426

• 6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust
  and ashes.

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Don Baker

• Lifes Hidden Purpose
• Something happens when God reveals himself to
  man. Adam hid Abraham fell prostrate on the
  ground Moses covered his face Isaiah repented
  of his unclean lips Daniel went into a trance
  and had a vision Saul of Tarsus fell to the
  ground and now Job repents.
• All of our arguments cease when God makes an
  appearance.

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The Word Complain

• Found more times in the book of Job than in any
  other book in the Bible!

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Job 4210-11

• 10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord
  made him prosperous again and gave him twice as
  much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and
  sisters and everyone who had known him before
  came and ate with him in his house. They
  comforted and consoled him over all the trouble
  the Lord had brought upon him, and each one gave
  him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

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Job 4212-13

• 12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Jobs life
  more than the first. He had fourteen thousand
  sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of
  oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had
  seven sons and three daughters.

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J. Vernon McGee

• Job really didnt lose his other 10 children.
  They were in heaven awaiting him, so that when
  Job got to heaven, then hes going to have 20
  children.

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Job 4214

• 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the
  second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
• Paraphrase Bible
• The first daughter he named Dove, the second he
  named Cinnamon. The third he named Dark Eyes.

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Job 4215-17

• 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women
  as beautiful as Jobs daughters, and their father
  granted them an inheritance along with their
  brothers.
• 16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty
  years he saw his children and their children to
  the fourth generation. 17 And so he died, old and
  full of years.

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Life Applications

• God is in charge of the universe.
• God will provide answers in His time.
• God uses our suffering to bring about a more
  intimate relationship with Him.
• God will make all things right in the end.

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Hebrews 116

• 6 And without faith it is impossible to please
  God, because anyone who comes to him must believe
  that he exists and that he rewards those who
  earnestly seek him.

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Mother of Steve Fair

• Steve, dont be angry at God. He is good and He
  still loves us. Its our time to walk in the
  valley, and even in my pain you must not be mad
  at God. Steve, what youve preached all these
  years, its all in vain if you do not believe
  what you say you believe.

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1 Peter 16-7

• 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a
  little while you may have had to suffer grief in
  all kinds of trials.
• 7 These have come so that your faithof greater
  worth than gold, which perishes even though
  refined by firemay be proved genuine and may
  result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus
  Christ is revealed.

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R.C. Sproul

• God promises a new body a life without pain,
  but not now. Now, He promises me the opposite.
  He tells me In the world I will have
  tribulation. But God promises His presence in
  the midst of pain and until that last enemy is
  finally destroyed, we must walk by faith.
• Faith without patience is an insult to the Lord
  of history. Ill get my new body, but not just
  yet.

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Jobs Key to Holding On

• I know that my redeemer lives, and in the end,
  He will stand upon the earth.

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Our Key to Holding On

• I know that my redeemer lives, and in the end,
  He will stand upon the earth.

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