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Job has lost everything. Job has lost his possessions and wealth. Job has lost his way of life. Job has lost his ten children. Job has lost his health. Satan has taken Job to the edge of his life, yet Job still breathes. Job’s wife has told Job that if God is not going to protect him from suffering and hardship, then there is no reason to serve God. The logical thing to do would be to give up your faithfulness, curse God, and die. Job responds that such thinking is foolishness. In spite of all of his pain, Job has proclaimed critical faithful words. We will accept the good that comes from God and we will also accept the adversity (Job 2:10). We come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. No matter which happens, blessed is the name of the Lord (Job 1:21). In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrong (Job 1:22; 2:10). But now what? The book does not end. There are 40 more chapters of content regarding the life of Job. Further, the trial does not end. It is easy to leave Job right here, saying the right words, but not follow through with the rest of the account. But Job’s suffering did not stop at the end of chapter 2. Job’s faithful words have not changed the outcome of anguish in his life. We are not specifically told how much time has passed by when the friends of Job arrive. It is easy to think that when we read Job 2:11 that the three friends got in their cars, drove down the street, and came to Job’s house. But we are told that these friends live in completely different parts of the world. Job 7:3 indicates to us that Job has been going through this suffering for months. It has not been hours. It has not been days. It has not been weeks. This has been going on and on for months. Nights of anguish and sleeplessness (cf. Job 7:4). Every night trying to go to sleep, believing you are about to die, only to wake up again in continuing pain (cf. Job 7:7-8)…

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The book of Leviticus ends with hopeful instructions for the people. The message of Leviticus has been the message of holiness and atonement. God is holy and the people must therefore be holy. God will make the people holy through atonement and by giving them instructions to follow so that they can remain in fellowship with him. The final three chapters of Leviticus describe the rich blessings and provisions of God for his people for all areas of their lives. By seeing God’s provision and blessings for his people in the past, we will have confidence for our lives today that God will provide and bless us in Christ…

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The book of Leviticus is the manual for knowing how we can remain in fellowship with God. God has come down and the glory of the Lord has filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40). Now that God is among his people, directions must be given for how the people can dwell with him without being consumed because of their lack of holiness. The first seven chapters describe the necessity for sacrifices to be able to remain in fellowship with God. Sacrifices are needed to deal with our sins. You can go online and read or listen to the lessons I did on these sacrifices that God prescribed and see how Jesus and his sacrifice is the fulfillment of those sacrifices…

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The book of Lamentations takes the reader on a journey of grief. In our last lesson we introduced the concept that the people of God are frequently pictured as expressing their grief. More than one-third of the Psalms are considered psalms of lament and grief. The book of Lamentations contains five poems proclaiming grief on the behalf of the people regarding the destruction of Jerusalem and the Lord’s temple. What we are doing in this series is looking at how the author of Lamentations is teaching the people how to move through the mountain of grief. In our first lesson we noticed how the author is showing that the people can proclaim their pain to God without complaining. In Lamentations 2 we are going to see the struggle that the author has and what he teaches the people to do while they struggle with their grief. Please open your copies of God’s word to Lamentations 2…

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How bad can your life get before you would challenge God and give up on him? How bad does the trial have to be before it would cause you to break? Satan is attempting to find out what it takes to break Job and his faith. We could read the first chapter of the book of Job and hope that this was the end of the account. Job suffered greatly but did not curse God. Job lost everything but he did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing. Now go and be like Job. But as you look at your copies of God’s word, you can thumb through the book of Job and see that there is so much more to say and so much more teach about suffering and the way God runs the world…

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Please open your copies of God’s word to Job 1. In our message last week we notice the question of suffering. The question of suffering regards your motivation for serving God. Suffering asks the question if we serve God for God or if we have ulterior motives. Suffering shows if we serve God for his blessings rather than serving God for the goodness and glory of God. Satan is the adversary, accusing God’s people of only serving God because God does good for them. Satan proclaims that Job will curse God if he made his life difficult. But God has full confidence in his people that they see the infinite value of God and are willing to give up anything to be with him and have a relationship with him. With the question of Job’s motivation on the line, we now watch what will happen to Job. As we read these events, please imagine if these things happened to you and how you would respond to suffering…

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We knew something was wrong but we did not know what. After having two other children, we knew that there was something that was not quite right. Our concerns were dismissed but we knew something was amiss with our third child. We went to all kinds of specialists, trying to determine what was the cause of the problem. Doctor after doctor, office visit after office visit, but still no answer. Maybe it was nothing. Maybe everything will be okay. But as we sat the doctor’s office with a geneticist in Miami, she brought us the bad news. The tests have confirmed that your daughter has Prader-Willi syndrome. I had never heard of this before. What is it? What does this mean? Is there a cure? Is there a treatment? How did this happen? What did we do wrong? Are they sure that this is right? What now? So we left the doctor’s office, walked to the car, and started the 90 minute drive home. There are no words to describe the various emotions that came over us. There were no words to say. There were no answers, no help, no comfort, and no way forward…

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We are beginning a new series called God In The Storm in which we are going to look at the key teachings about suffering and trials from the book of Job. I want to state at the outset of this series that it is not my goal to cover every verse in the book of Job. About 10 years ago I did preach through the book of Job and I would direct you to find that series on our website so that you can listen or read those messages. My goal for this series is to take some of the key teaching messages that are found in the book of Job in an effort to give us hope and strength for the trials we experience in this life. Open your copies of God’s word to Job 1 and in our first lesson we are going to consider the question of suffering…

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