WHEN LIFE FALLS APART (1 OF 5)
Scripture: Job 1:1-12
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When Life Falls Apart (1 of 5)
Series: Why?
Jonathan McLeod
Job 1:1-12
Then Satan answered the Lord and said, ''Does Job fear God for no reason? ... But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face'' (Job 1:9-11).
SCRIPTURE READING
The author of the book of Job is anonymous, and it's unclear when it was written. Job is a book written for ''those who struggle with the justice of a sovereign God in a world filled with suffer-ing.''
[Read Job 1:1-12.]
WHY?
Life can go from good to bad in an instant. A phone call, a knock on the door, or a visit to the doctor can change everything. When life falls apart, we ask, ''Why? Why me? Why this? Why now? Why?'' Job was a man whose life fell apart. He lost everything: his wealth, his family, and his health. And most of the book of Job is about Job and his friends asking, ''Why?''
LOVING GOD FOR JUST THE BENEFITS?
God said to Satan, ''Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?'' (1:8). Satan wasn't impressed. He replied, ''Does Job fear God for no reason?'' (1:9). Satan believed that Job loved God because God had blessed him. So he said to God, ''[Take away] all that he has, and he will curse you to your face'' (1:11). When life falls apart, how is it possible to love God?
Even when life falls apart, we can love God because we have proof that HE LOVES US.
AN INNOCENT SUFFERER
For Job, life was good. He was ''the greatest of all the people of the east'' (1:3). But there came a day when everything changed. On that awful day, Job was given one piece of devastating news after another: the Sabeans stole his oxen and donkeys (vv. 14-15); fire from heaven killed his sheep (v. 16); the Chaldeans stole his camels (v. 17); and, worst of all, a storm killed his children (vv. 18-19). Job di ...
Series: Why?
Jonathan McLeod
Job 1:1-12
Then Satan answered the Lord and said, ''Does Job fear God for no reason? ... But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face'' (Job 1:9-11).
SCRIPTURE READING
The author of the book of Job is anonymous, and it's unclear when it was written. Job is a book written for ''those who struggle with the justice of a sovereign God in a world filled with suffer-ing.''
[Read Job 1:1-12.]
WHY?
Life can go from good to bad in an instant. A phone call, a knock on the door, or a visit to the doctor can change everything. When life falls apart, we ask, ''Why? Why me? Why this? Why now? Why?'' Job was a man whose life fell apart. He lost everything: his wealth, his family, and his health. And most of the book of Job is about Job and his friends asking, ''Why?''
LOVING GOD FOR JUST THE BENEFITS?
God said to Satan, ''Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?'' (1:8). Satan wasn't impressed. He replied, ''Does Job fear God for no reason?'' (1:9). Satan believed that Job loved God because God had blessed him. So he said to God, ''[Take away] all that he has, and he will curse you to your face'' (1:11). When life falls apart, how is it possible to love God?
Even when life falls apart, we can love God because we have proof that HE LOVES US.
AN INNOCENT SUFFERER
For Job, life was good. He was ''the greatest of all the people of the east'' (1:3). But there came a day when everything changed. On that awful day, Job was given one piece of devastating news after another: the Sabeans stole his oxen and donkeys (vv. 14-15); fire from heaven killed his sheep (v. 16); the Chaldeans stole his camels (v. 17); and, worst of all, a storm killed his children (vv. 18-19). Job di ...
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