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DOUBLE FOR YOUR TROUBLE

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Job 42:12, Job 42:16-17


Double For Your Trouble
Donald Cantrell
Job 42: 12, 16 - 17


This is a very comprehensive look at the trials and triumph of Job.

Job 42:12 KJV - So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

Job 42:16 KJV - After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Job 42:17 KJV - So Job died, being old and full of days.

I - The Glorious Life of Job (Job 1: 1 - 5)

II - The Ginormous Losses of Job (Job 1: 6 - 22 and Job 2: 1 - 13)

III - The Grievous Longing of Job (Job 23: 1 - 9)

IV - The Gracious Lessons of Job (Job 42: 1 - 17)

This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.

Theme: ''Job triumphed after his trials''

In Jerusalem there is a Holocaust Museum dedicated to the memory of the millions of Jews who were killed by the Nazis in World War II. It has been said that going through that museum is a very depressing experience because you see these horrible pictures and read the accounts of the ghettos and the concentration camps. But in the midst of all the dark tales of suffering, there is one amazing story of how God can transform horror into hope.

In one of those camps there was a young lady named Rachel. She endured great hardship from being made to work in the snow with inadequate clothing. She watched in horror as many of her friends and family members were killed.

Then one day, the guards left unexpectedly. She didn't know the war was over. Later that day some American soldiers arrived to set the prisoners free. One young American soldier spoke gently to her and convinced her that they indeed had come to rescue her. As she gathered her things, the young soldier stood by her, then held the door for her and said, ''After you, ma'am.''

Rachel started to cry. He asked, ''What's wrong, ma'am?''

She said, ''I ca ...

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