The Book of Job

SERMONS ON SUFFERING

JOB OUTLINEDShock and Sorrow (Job Responds)Struggle (Job and Friends wRestle)Surrender (God Reveals Truth to Job)Sanctification (Job is Restored)Service (God Reverses Job’s life)

32:8 “breath of Almighty”

ELIHU

ELIHU1. 6 chapters2. Job is silent at the end3. God doesn’t condemn

ELIHUShows why Job is wrongShows why 3 are wrongGives Godly explanation of suffering

ELIHU: JOB IS WRONG33:8-12 You say, "I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me. Behold [God] finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy; he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths." Behold in this you are not right.

ELIHU: 3 ARE WRONG33:17 “That he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from the man, and keep back his soul from the Pit”

ELIHU: 2 WAYS GOD SPEAKS

By dreams and visions (no Bible yet)

By Suffering

BOTH FOR MAN’S GOOD

ELIHU: 2 MESSAGES 2 HEARERS Godless in heart

Righteous sinner

WARNINGREFINING

TODAY’S GOSPELJOHN 9:3 “NEITHER THIS MAN NOR

HIS PARENTS SINNED,” SAID JESUS, “BUT THIS HAPPENED SO THAT THE WORKS OF GOD MIGHT

BE DISPLAYED IN HIM.”

PSALM 119:71, "IT WAS GOOD FOR ME THAT I WAS AFFLICTED,

THAT I MIGHT LEARN THY STATUTES."

IN THIS YOU REJOICE, THOUGH NOW FOR A LITTLE WHILE YOU MAY HAVE TO SUFFER

VARIOUS TRIALS, SO THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH, MORE

PRECIOUS THAN GOLD WHICH THOUGH PERISHABLE IS TESTED BY FIRE,

MAY REDOUND (CONTRIBUTE GREATLY) TO PRAISE AND GLORY AND HONOR AT THE

REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. (1 PETER 1:6–7)

OUR FATHER DISCIPLINES US FOR OUR GOOD, THAT WE MAY SHARE HIS HOLINESS. FOR THE MOMENT ALL DISCIPLINE SEEMS

PAINFUL RATHER THAN PLEASANT; LATER IT YIELDS THE PEACEFUL FRUIT OF

RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED BY IT. (HEBREWS 12:10–11)

WE WERE SO UTTERLY, UNBEARABLY CRUSHED THAT WE DESPAIRED OF LIFE

ITSELF. WHY, WE FELT THAT WE HAD RECEIVED THE SENTENCE OF DEATH; BUT

THAT WAS TO MAKE US RELY NOT ON OURSELVES BUT ON GOD WHO RAISES THE

DEAD. (2 CORINTHIANS 1:8–9)

THEREFORE, COUNT IT ALL JOY, MY BRETHREN, WHEN YOU MEET VARIOUS

TRIALS, FOR YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTING OF YOUR FAITH PRODUCES

STEADFASTNESS. AND LET STEADFASTNESS HAVE ITS FULL EFFECT, THAT YOU MAY BE

PERFECT AND COMPLETE, LACKING IN NOTHING.

(JAMES 1:2–4)