A Life Restored (4 of 4)
Series: Why God?
Scott Maze
Job 42:7-17
Today, we conclude a four-week look at one of the most interesting people in history - the man named Job.
Job is a really good man. God even calls him, ''...a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil ...''(Job 1:8). He's so good in fact, that God tells Ezekiel years later: ''even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God'' (Ezekiel 14:14). So God places Job on par with Noah and Daniel here. But the plot really thickens because despite his goodness, Job suffers. This is where Satan enters into our story, the master of destruction, and he seeks to destroy God. God gives Satan nearly unlimited permission to do destroy everything that is meaningful to Job's life - only God says, ''Don't touch Job's life.'' Job loses his family, his wealth, and his health in a matter of days. Most hurtful, he loses to his ten children to a wind-storm (Job 1:18-19). Things are so bad that his family deserts him and he sits outside of town on an ash heap, scrapping the sores of his body (Job 2:8). Friends attempt to console him but to no avail. God finally speaks to Job in words we find perplexing but Job finds comforting (Job 38-41). Now, we come to the end of the story where Job's life turns around.
''After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.' 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went an ...
Series: Why God?
Scott Maze
Job 42:7-17
Today, we conclude a four-week look at one of the most interesting people in history - the man named Job.
Job is a really good man. God even calls him, ''...a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil ...''(Job 1:8). He's so good in fact, that God tells Ezekiel years later: ''even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God'' (Ezekiel 14:14). So God places Job on par with Noah and Daniel here. But the plot really thickens because despite his goodness, Job suffers. This is where Satan enters into our story, the master of destruction, and he seeks to destroy God. God gives Satan nearly unlimited permission to do destroy everything that is meaningful to Job's life - only God says, ''Don't touch Job's life.'' Job loses his family, his wealth, and his health in a matter of days. Most hurtful, he loses to his ten children to a wind-storm (Job 1:18-19). Things are so bad that his family deserts him and he sits outside of town on an ash heap, scrapping the sores of his body (Job 2:8). Friends attempt to console him but to no avail. God finally speaks to Job in words we find perplexing but Job finds comforting (Job 38-41). Now, we come to the end of the story where Job's life turns around.
''After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.' 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went an ...
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