introduction to job
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1. Look at the Big Picture
2. Zoom in on the opening scene.
Three Perspectives on Wisdom
Proverbs Ecclesiastes Job
Three Perspectives on Wisdom
Do good = the good lifeDo evil = pain and suffering
The contract with God
(see also Deuteronomy 30:11-20)
Proverbs
Three Perspectives on Wisdom
It’s all meaningless…
There is a season, turn, turn, turn…
Everything is dust in the wind…
Ecclesiastes
Three Perspectives on Wisdom
God is good and just
Bad people suffer, good people don’t
Job is good,Job suffers
Job
Once upon a time,
in the land of Uz…
A long time ago, in a land far, far away…
GOD’S COURTROOM
satan means accuserLike a prosecuting attorney
Job only loves God because he lives the good life…
Take it away and he’ll curse God.
Why do you love God?
Do good = the good lifeDo evil = pain and suffering
The contract with God
(see also Deuteronomy 30:11-20)
Proverbs
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 (NRSV)