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Job - Lesson 14

What Job Teaches US in The Land Between...
Seven Things Job teaches us about Ourselves.

• We never know ahead of time the plans God has for us.

• Ours is a walk of faith, not sight. Trust not touch.

• Jeremiah 10:23-24, 19:11-13, Proverbs 16:9, 20:24, Isaiah 55:8-9, Phil. 4:6-7, James 1:2-4, I Peter 5:6-7, Job 1:20-22

• Be ready for anything, and I mean anything. Hands open, not clinched.

• A vertical perspective will keep us from horizontal panic.

• This is where we learned that it is easier to lower our view of God than raise our faith to such heights.

• When times our good it is easy to view God well, but bring in a tough chapter and it becomes very easy to question God.

• Discernment is needed to detect wrong advice from well meaning people.

• Job 2:10 – We only take the good things from God and not the bad?

• Where does discernment come from?

7 Things Job Teaches Us About Ourselves.

• When things turn from bad to worse, sound theology helps us remain strong and stable.

• Be careful that you never substitute psychological gobbledygook for good biblical theology.

• Caring and sensitive friends know when to come, how to respond, what to say.

– Take a peak at Jonathan, he forsakes his right to Saul’s throne and fully supports and defends his friend David.

– When David’s life took a turn for the worse, here comes Nathan to confront in a caring manner. We need Jonathon and Nathan’s in our lives today. Do you?

• It is easy to be Monday-morning quarterback when we encounter another’s outburst.

– These type of people think “I would never act like that”. “How could she call herself a Christian and act like that?”

• The cultivation of obedient endurance is the crowning mark of maturity.

– Endurance is “a long obedience in the same direction”.

– As Oswald Chambers said “To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God will in the midst of the suffering makes all the sense in the world”

7 Things Job Teaches Us About God

• There is nothing that God cannot do.

– Job 42:2 – “I know that YOU can do all things”.

– In today’s world, the word awesome is overused. God is awesome. See verses Jeremiah 32:17, 32:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27. We read that nothing is impossible with God. Now that is awesome.

• It is impossible to frustrate God’s purposes.

– No one can cancel the Lord’s agenda. Over time you actually find comfort in that thought.

• God’s plans are beyond our understanding and too deep to explain.

– Job 42:3 in the Message says “I babbled on about things far beyond me, made small talk about wonders way over my head”.

– It took humility to say that.

– There will be times when you want to say that you are disappointed with God.

– But take note of when God took Job on a walk around the universe. In essence God says “until you know a little more about running the physical universe, Job don’t tell me how to run the moral universe”.

7 Things Job Teaches Us About God

• Only through God’s instruction are we able to humble ourselves and rest in HIS will.

– Imagine the scene of God asking you those questions. You better be humbled, or check for a pulse because you are not human if aren’t humbled.

– What I love is there are no comments about “my rights” from Job. No self pity.

– This makes I Peter 5:6-7 come alive

• When the day of reckoning arrives, God is always fair.

– Read Hebrews 6:10 – (The Message says “God doesn’t miss anything”)

– He doesn’t adjust His timetable to meet ours.

• No one can be compared to God when it comes to blessings.

– In Job 42:9-15 we read that God accepted, restored, increased and blessed.

– Remember that God doesn’t bless a perfect man here.

• Only God can fill our final years with divine music that frees us to live above our circumstances.

– Job truly came to know God, not in spite of his pain, but because of his pain.

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Job - Lesson 14

What Job Teaches US in The Land Between... Seven Things Job teaches us about Ourselves.

• We never know ahead of time the plans God has for us.

• Ours is a walk of faith, not sight. Trust not touch.

• Jeremiah 10:23-24, 19:11-13, Proverbs 16:9, 20:24, Isaiah 55:8-9, Phil. 4:6-7, James 1:2-4, I Peter 5:6-7, Job 1:20-22

• Be ready for anything, and I mean anything. Hands open, not clinched.

• A vertical perspective will keep us from horizontal panic.

• This is where we learned that it is easier to lower our view of God than raise our faith to such heights.

• When times our good it is easy to view God well, but bring in a tough chapter and it becomes very easy to question God.

• Discernment is needed to detect wrong advice from well meaning people.

• Job 2:10 – We only take the good things from God and not the bad?

• Where does discernment come from?

7 Things Job Teaches Us About Ourselves.

• When things turn from bad to worse, sound theology helps us remain strong and stable.

• Be careful that you never substitute psychological gobbledygook for good biblical theology.

• Caring and sensitive friends know when to come, how to respond, what to say.

– Take a peak at Jonathan, he forsakes his right to Saul’s throne and fully supports and defends his friend David.

– When David’s life took a turn for the worse, here comes Nathan to confront in a caring manner. We need Jonathon and Nathan’s in our lives today. Do you?

• It is easy to be Monday-morning quarterback when we encounter another’s outburst.

– These type of people think “I would never act like that”. “How could she call herself a Christian and act like that?”

• The cultivation of obedient endurance is the crowning mark of maturity.

– Endurance is “a long obedience in the same direction”.

– As Oswald Chambers said “To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God will in the midst of the suffering makes all the sense in the world”

7 Things Job Teaches Us About God

• There is nothing that God cannot do.

– Job 42:2 – “I know that YOU can do all things”.

– In today’s world, the word awesome is overused. God is awesome. See verses Jeremiah 32:17, 32:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27. We read that nothing is impossible with God. Now that is awesome.

• It is impossible to frustrate God’s purposes.

– No one can cancel the Lord’s agenda. Over time you actually find comfort in that thought.

• God’s plans are beyond our understanding and too deep to explain.

– Job 42:3 in the Message says “I babbled on about things far beyond me, made small talk about wonders way over my head”.

– It took humility to say that.

– There will be times when you want to say that you are disappointed with God.

– But take note of when God took Job on a walk around the universe. In essence God says “until you know a little more about running the physical universe, Job don’t tell me how to run the moral universe”.

7 Things Job Teaches Us About God

• Only through God’s instruction are we able to humble ourselves and rest in HIS will.

– Imagine the scene of God asking you those questions. You better be humbled, or check for a pulse because you are not human if aren’t humbled.

– What I love is there are no comments about “my rights” from Job. No self pity.

– This makes I Peter 5:6-7 come alive

• When the day of reckoning arrives, God is always fair.

– Read Hebrews 6:10 – (The Message says “God doesn’t miss anything”)

– He doesn’t adjust His timetable to meet ours.

• No one can be compared to God when it comes to blessings.

– In Job 42:9-15 we read that God accepted, restored, increased and blessed.

– Remember that God doesn’t bless a perfect man here.

• Only God can fill our final years with divine music that frees us to live above our circumstances.

– Job truly came to know God, not in spite of his pain, but because of his pain.

What Job Teaches US in The Land Between...
Seven Things Job teaches us about Ourselves.