FALSE ASSUMPTIONS (2 OF 5)
False Assumptions (2 of 5)
Series: Shattered
Dave Gustavsen
Job 3-37
This is the Word of God.
We're taking a few weeks to study the book of Job, which is the classic story of a very good man who had a very good life. And then everything collapsed. In one day, he lost most of his possessions, almost every one of his employees, all of his children, and his own health...and that's just the first two chapters. So for the next 35 chapters, with the help of his three friends who came to join him, plus a fourth one who shows up late, he tries to make sense of what just happened.
Have you ever actually read through the book of Job? It's not easy! It's very poetic; it's sometimes repetitious; and it's basically made up these cycles, right? Job says something, and then one of his friends says, ''No, I don't think so; it's like this...'' And then Job says, ''You've got to be kidding me! Here's why you're completely wrong...'' And then another friend says, ''No, let me tell you guys how it is.'' And around and around and around for 35 chapters, which I tried to represent that in the opening Scripture reading.
So it's a challenging book. BUT...if you pay attention to what Job's friends have to say, you start to realize, wait a minute: they're all basically saying the same thing. They have a certain philosophy of how life works. I would call it a formula-because it's very neat and very predictable. Like, ''If you do this, you'll get this; but if you do that, you'll get that.'' And one of the reasons Job is such an enduring book is because that formula mentality is still very much alive today, and it probably affects us more than we think it does. So that's what we're going to talk about today.
Let me break it into three parts: The Popularity of the Formula, The Danger of the Formula, and Something Better than a Formula. Alright? The popularity of the formula, the danger of the formula, and something better than the formula.
So, first, let's talk about T ...
Series: Shattered
Dave Gustavsen
Job 3-37
This is the Word of God.
We're taking a few weeks to study the book of Job, which is the classic story of a very good man who had a very good life. And then everything collapsed. In one day, he lost most of his possessions, almost every one of his employees, all of his children, and his own health...and that's just the first two chapters. So for the next 35 chapters, with the help of his three friends who came to join him, plus a fourth one who shows up late, he tries to make sense of what just happened.
Have you ever actually read through the book of Job? It's not easy! It's very poetic; it's sometimes repetitious; and it's basically made up these cycles, right? Job says something, and then one of his friends says, ''No, I don't think so; it's like this...'' And then Job says, ''You've got to be kidding me! Here's why you're completely wrong...'' And then another friend says, ''No, let me tell you guys how it is.'' And around and around and around for 35 chapters, which I tried to represent that in the opening Scripture reading.
So it's a challenging book. BUT...if you pay attention to what Job's friends have to say, you start to realize, wait a minute: they're all basically saying the same thing. They have a certain philosophy of how life works. I would call it a formula-because it's very neat and very predictable. Like, ''If you do this, you'll get this; but if you do that, you'll get that.'' And one of the reasons Job is such an enduring book is because that formula mentality is still very much alive today, and it probably affects us more than we think it does. So that's what we're going to talk about today.
Let me break it into three parts: The Popularity of the Formula, The Danger of the Formula, and Something Better than a Formula. Alright? The popularity of the formula, the danger of the formula, and something better than the formula.
So, first, let's talk about T ...
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