Heritage Baptist Church of Frankfort IL

This study starts in Job but goes across the Scriptures to remind us how we can help the suffering. Many times we may not know what to do. Other times we can hurt more than we help. This study will give some helps in this area.

The hardest part for most readers of Job is the debate between Job and his friends. Do you look in detail at every verse or do look at the overall argument in each speech-- This study will help move the debate along and make more easily understood.

People sometimes state that God is not around or is not in control when bad events happen. This study answers those difficult thoughts.

Job is a pattern even in the New Testament of patience. This story of unimaginable devastation is background to the -bright spot- of Job's response to crushing suffering.

This study deals with an issue that most people want answered. In the end all people suffer and many times for reasons they will never have revealed. Job serves as model of the type of person that God sees as most prepared to meet suffering.

The book of Job pulls back the curtain on what goes on in heaven. It is something totally unexpected. God's courts are places of discussions and allowances that are hidden from human view. The discussion of God and Satan gives us an understanding of who is in charge.

This first in the series on Job gives some of the initial background details on Job. It also gives some aids on reading with understanding the whole book of Job.

Job's friends meant to help him. They had a deep care for him. They wanted him to be free from this suffering. So as philosophical doctors they attempt to diagnose Job's problem and they probe into his life. With each suggestion Job suggests that they are not applying the right medicine. It is good medicine but for the wrong situation.

God asks Job to respond to all that God has displayed. Job calls himself a light-weight in comparison to God and shuts his mouth. God then tells Job to look at two of the chief, living things in his creation, the behemoth and the leviathan. What these creatures are is a matter of controversy. However, Job was impressed with the power of God to create and control these creatures.

David had in previous psalms had been sick due to sin. This psalm emphasizes the trust that one has that God is able to deliver for sickness and from sin.