DO WE FEAR GOD FOR SOMETHING OR NOTHING? (2)
Scripture: Job 2:1-13
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Do We Fear God for Something or Nothing? (2)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Job 2:1-13
Introduction
I woke up on the morning of April 25 to an empty, quiet house. Teresa had taken the kids to Virginia Beach to see family that weekend and I had stayed here in order to preach on Sunday morning. I had been by myself all weekend and thus had spent the weekend doing what probably any guy in his 30s would do when his wife and kids are gone: sermon study. I had decided a few weeks before to preach this series on Wisdom and thus had been studying quite a bit to try to wrap my mind around the topic and get ready. This particular weekend had been spent getting ready for the first book in the series: the book of Job. I had read through the book over and over again all week and had started exegeting the first couple of chapters.
I woke up, thus, that Monday morning to head into the office, but first thought I'd do the husbandly thing and take our trash down to the dump. As I returned the house though I started feeling funny and a little dizzy. I really just wanted to lay down but I had a meeting here at the church that morning that I didn't want to miss and so I, probably foolishly, drove into work. The meeting was around 10, if I remember correctly, so I sat at my desk and opened my Bible to Job 2 and picked up where I had last left off. I had already finished the first two paragraphs of the text but I had stopped at verse 9, because, frankly, I didn't really know how to understand and take verse 10, where Job says to his wife, '''You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?' In all this Job did not sin with his lips.''
That phrase, the implication of it, that we receive not just good things from God, that He doesn't just allow bad things to happen, but that God actually sends what seems to be from our perspective bad things, blew my mi ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Job 2:1-13
Introduction
I woke up on the morning of April 25 to an empty, quiet house. Teresa had taken the kids to Virginia Beach to see family that weekend and I had stayed here in order to preach on Sunday morning. I had been by myself all weekend and thus had spent the weekend doing what probably any guy in his 30s would do when his wife and kids are gone: sermon study. I had decided a few weeks before to preach this series on Wisdom and thus had been studying quite a bit to try to wrap my mind around the topic and get ready. This particular weekend had been spent getting ready for the first book in the series: the book of Job. I had read through the book over and over again all week and had started exegeting the first couple of chapters.
I woke up, thus, that Monday morning to head into the office, but first thought I'd do the husbandly thing and take our trash down to the dump. As I returned the house though I started feeling funny and a little dizzy. I really just wanted to lay down but I had a meeting here at the church that morning that I didn't want to miss and so I, probably foolishly, drove into work. The meeting was around 10, if I remember correctly, so I sat at my desk and opened my Bible to Job 2 and picked up where I had last left off. I had already finished the first two paragraphs of the text but I had stopped at verse 9, because, frankly, I didn't really know how to understand and take verse 10, where Job says to his wife, '''You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?' In all this Job did not sin with his lips.''
That phrase, the implication of it, that we receive not just good things from God, that He doesn't just allow bad things to happen, but that God actually sends what seems to be from our perspective bad things, blew my mi ...
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