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The Question of the Ages—Why?
Who’s in Charge, Here? Part 2
Job 1:6-12 (NIV) – [6] One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. [7] The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.” [8] Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” [9] “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. [10] “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. [11] But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” [12] The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
1. Satan has access to God. (v.6)
Zechariah 1:10-11 (NIV) – [10] Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth.” [11] And they reported to the angel of the Lord, who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”
Genesis 6:1-4 (NIV) – [1] When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, [2] the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. [3] Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.” [4] The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Numbers 13:33 (NIV) – [33] “We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
2. Satan has free reign on the earth. (v.7)
Colossians 1:12-14 (NIV) – [12] giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. [13] For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, [14] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
3. God presents Job to Satan as a challenge. (v.8)
4. Satan charges that Job’s love is conditional. (v.9-11)
a. Just as humanity was convinced that God’s blessing was conditional upon one’s good deeds, so Satan was convinced that Job’s obedience was based solely upon God’s protection and provision.
John 6:26 (NIV) – [26] Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.”
b. God places hedges around His people for protection from Satan and from ourselves.
Hosea 2:6 (AMP) – [6] Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way [even yours, O Israel] with thorns; and I will build a wall against her that she shall not find her paths.
c. The LORD blesses the work of our hands.
Deuteronomy 2:7 (NIV) – [7] The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.
Psalms 90:17 (NIV) – [17] May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands.
d. Satan’s assertion is that in the absence of God’s blessing, Job will quickly resort to cursing.
5. God releases Job into Satan’s hands with limits. (v.12)
a. God did not strike Job directly but gave Satan the authority to do whatever he willed.
b. Even still, God, in his sovereignty, set limits.
c. Though God did not directly cause Job’s suffering, He allowed it to happen, and this is the root of our problem of trying to understand why.
d. Satan is limited and under God’s supreme authority.
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The Question of the Ages—Why?
Who’s in Charge, Here? Part 2
Job 1:6-12 (NIV) – [6] One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. [7] The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.” [8] Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” [9] “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. [10] “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. [11] But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” [12] The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
1. Satan has access to God. (v.6)
Zechariah 1:10-11 (NIV) – [10] Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth.” [11] And they reported to the angel of the Lord, who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have gone throughout the earth and found the whole world at rest and in peace.”
Genesis 6:1-4 (NIV) – [1] When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, [2] the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. [3] Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.” [4] The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Numbers 13:33 (NIV) – [33] “We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
2. Satan has free reign on the earth. (v.7)
Colossians 1:12-14 (NIV) – [12] giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. [13] For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, [14] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
3. God presents Job to Satan as a challenge. (v.8)
4. Satan charges that Job’s love is conditional. (v.9-11)
a. Just as humanity was convinced that God’s blessing was conditional upon one’s good deeds, so Satan was convinced that Job’s obedience was based solely upon God’s protection and provision.
John 6:26 (NIV) – [26] Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.”
b. God places hedges around His people for protection from Satan and from ourselves.
Hosea 2:6 (AMP) – [6] Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way [even yours, O Israel] with thorns; and I will build a wall against her that she shall not find her paths.
c. The LORD blesses the work of our hands.
Deuteronomy 2:7 (NIV) – [7] The LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast desert. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.
Psalms 90:17 (NIV) – [17] May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us—yes, establish the work of our hands.
d. Satan’s assertion is that in the absence of God’s blessing, Job will quickly resort to cursing.
5. God releases Job into Satan’s hands with limits. (v.12)
a. God did not strike Job directly but gave Satan the authority to do whatever he willed.
b. Even still, God, in his sovereignty, set limits.
c. Though God did not directly cause Job’s suffering, He allowed it to happen, and this is the root of our problem of trying to understand why.
d. Satan is limited and under God’s supreme authority.