What we Gain From Job's Testing

ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE WAY GOD IS TREATING YOU?

Job

THE GOOD TIMES

Verse 1

A. God Knows All About You

   1. God knows your name

   2. God knows your lifestyle

   3. God knows what you do

   4. God knows what you think

   5. God knows your obedience to Him

   6. God knows your love for Him

Verse 2,3

 1. God knows your family

 2. God knows every thing that you have

 3. God knows the reputation you have un the community

 4. God blesses you according to your obedience.

Verse 4.5

1. God allows you and your family to have some good times

2. God knows your worship

3. God Honors your prayers for your family.

THE TEST TIMES

Verse 6-8

1. There will come a day when God will test your faith.

2. God communicates with Satan on your behalf.

3. By God’s standards, you may be doing all that He ask.

    yet He plans trouble for your life.

4. God may cause Satan to take notice of you.

Verse 9-12

1. Doing the good times God has a hedge of protection

    around you.

2. At Satan request, God may give Satan permission to

    bring trouble into your life.

3. Satan can only do to you what God allows.

DEFENDING THE GOSPEL UNDER TRIALS

Verse 13-22

1. When things get bad, they may get worst before they get

     better.

2. When it rains it pours

3. It it ain’t one thing it is another.

4. Job lost all his workers

    a. He lost all his sheep

    b.  He lost all his camels

    c.  He lost his ten children

Verse 20=21

1. The test was to see without his stuff, would Job

    curse God

2. Can you praise God in the middle of your misery?

    

    

Job 1:20-22

20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head.    

    Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said:

       Naked I came from my mother's womb,

      and naked I will depart.

      The Lord  gave and the Lord  has taken away;

      may the name of the Lord  be praised."

22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Got to remember even in the bad time you are still blessed

Verese 2:1-8

1. If Satan can’t get you one way, he will try another way.

2. Up to this point Job was not affected to point of

    abandoning his faith in God.

3. God may put you through greater trials to test your faith

    in Him.

4. At Satan’s request God allowed Satan to put sores

    all over Job’s body.

5. Job sorrows turned his wife against him.

        

DEFENDING YOUR FAITH

Job 2:9-10

9 His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity?    

            curse God and die

10 He replied, "You are talking like a foolishb woman. Shall we   

     accept good from God, and not trouble?"

     In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

    The good and the bad are part of Christian faith growing

V. 2:11 – Chapter 37

1. Satan will use your friends to accuse you of sin.

2. You lost all your resources, all your children, lost the

    respect of you sole mate, what could be next?

3. Job three best friends showed up to prolong his

    misery with accusations.

4. They didn’t come to console Job.

    They came to prove Job was guilty of some hidden

    crime.

5. When people are going through misery, they don’t

    need you judgment, they need your compassion.

PRAYING TO GOD

1. God does not always give you the answer you are

    looking for .

         Job 38:1-4

      Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said:

      "Who is this that darkens my counse

      with words without knowledge?

       Brace yourself like a man;

     I will question you, and you shall answer me.

      "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?

      Tell me, if you understand.

SELF EVALUATION

Chapter 42

 1. Before you accuse God of letting bad happen to you

     consider your sinfulness.

2. God is justified in anything He does to you   

Job 42:5-6

My ears had heard of you

but now my eyes have seen you.

Therefore I despise myself

  and repent in dust and ashes."

After Job’s council with God, he recognized, that

while his life pleased God, he stilled was a sinner

In need of God’s grace.

Job recognized that his self righteousness did not

satisfy God’s demand for righteousness.

Verses 42: 7-9

1. Getting right before God requires repentance

2. Getting right before God may require you

    to pray for your accusers.

RECOVERY AND DELIVERANCE    

Verse 42:12-13

Faint Not And Reap The Harvest

    

Job 42:10-14

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 silvera and a gold ring.

12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's 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.

    

Gal 6:9

9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we    

   shall reap, if we faint not.

QUESTIONS

1. What was the purpose of God’s test for Job?

2. Who benefited from Job’s test?

3. Who benefited from Job’s recovery?

4. How does what happen to Job help you?

5. Would you allow God to use you to benefit the Body

   Of Christ ?

Rev. Melvin Mitchell