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Prayer
Last week we saw that “Even when all hell breaks loose, trusting Christ allows us to kiss the wave that throws us against the Rock of Ages.”
Our suffering is meant to point us back to the Christ who has ultimately suffered for us under God’s wrath.
How He took on our sin and has given us His righteousness.
Even when all hell breaks loose,
we can trust God’s plans and purposes in all things.
Scene III
“God Grants Satan to Harm Job”
These first two verses are identical to the situation we talked about last time.
Last week, we saw a picture of God being the Sovereign ONE ruling everything but doing so Governmentally over the creation.
Sovereignly ruling even over His enemies.
Yet Governmentally permitting even evil to happen.
We saw how God is completely in charge and nothing escapes His plans.
Everything we have ever experienced or ever will experience has passed through God’s Sovereign Hand.
This even includes over Satan’s activity.
The Lord’s again holds up and clearly says that Job is His servant.
That there is NONE like him on the earth, he is blameless, upright, fears God, and turns away from evil.
Job has in no way turned or “sold out” his integrity.
The Lord goes on to describe what Job has done, he has held fast to his integrity.
He has held fast to his integrity despite Satan’s activity.
Satan’s Desire
“Job’s Destruction”
Job 2:3 (ESV)
He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”
We should note something here: Satan has no interest in “testing” Job.
Satan’s interest here is in destroying Job.
He does not desire to simple “test” him.
He wants him gone.
The Lord is pointing to the fact that the testing of Job has actually strengthened his integrity.
God is pointing to the fact that since Job has not caved in, that it is without grounds that Satan tempted him to begin with.
Application
This means something for us here that we had better recognize.
Evil never wants to just harm us.
It may seem on the surface that Satan would just like to harm us, but it desires to destroy us.
Does Satan still attack Christians today?
Like we saw from 1 John, the answer is yes.
Don’t Be Surprised
“Destruction as an End”
What this means for us is that every ideology which is contrary to Christ is seeking this same thing for us.
It may seem tame, but it is truly seeking to destroy us.
I once heard the story of a young girl who was posing for a photoshoot was doing so in front of a lion.
She would pose for her photo shoot often in front of the lion and never had a second thought about it.
Until one day it turned on her and attacked her.
Obviously we look at this and we roll our eyes because we see a young girl lying on a 400 pound beast.
The unfortunate thing is that is what we often do with different ideologies or
As one author said, “Expect it, detect it, and reject it”
So we are naive to think that Satan no longer attacks believers.
But we also need to place Satan’s attacks in the rightful place.
Defeated but Prowling
“Shelter in the Son”
Unlike in the story of Job, Satan does not have the kind of place he did in this story.
When we think of the cross of Jesus Christ, we need to also have a cosmic element in view.
To have a cosmic element means that Jesus not only dealt with our sin.
But He also destroyed the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8 (ESV)
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
The defeat was over our sin, but it was also over the devil.
Christ destroyed the works of the devil.
Which is why the writers of the New Testament can say, Romans 8:1
This means that Jesus has destroyed the ONE who accused us before God night and day.
Listen to what Satan’s response to the Lord is...
Satan’s charge is again two fold...
Satan’s Accuses Job
“Your Skin In Place of Mine!”
Satan’s response to the Lord is that “Skin for skin” which is basically an expression which means that all that matters is “self preservation”
“the skin of others—the outer skin of my possessions and family—will be sacrificed if I can keep my own skin, my own life and health.”
He is again saying that Job only worship’s God to get good health from him.
He only worships God because he isn’t sick himself.
Satan’s Accuses God
“You’re Still Not Worthy”
Again, he is saying something to God like this...
“Job doesn’t really love you, he only worships you because you have spared his life!”
“If you harmed Job, he would no longer worship you!”
Divine Permission
“Passing Through His Hand”
God also acknowledges that Satan is the cause for Job's destruction.
Though the Lord gave permission, the Lord is NEVER charged with evil or destruction.
The permission here is given from God to Satan.
Before this moment, Satan had no ability to touch Job.
He could touch everything that Job had but he couldn’t touch his body.
He could touch everything that Job loved but he couldn’t touch him.
This is critically important because again we see that everything must pass through God’s hand.
Everything we have ever experienced has passed through the Sovereign hands of our creator.
With Constraints
“Only This Far”
Not only will he give permission, but there are limits to the permission.
The limits here is he can touch him but he cannot kill him.
He can harm him but to a point.
The scene now shifts again from the “presidential cabinet” of sorts to back on earth.
Before we move on, I want us to consider something…
A possible lie we could believe then is...
“God didn’t have anything to do with this awful situation.”
“God was completely uninvolved with this terrible scenario.”
The reason these lies are so destructive is it usurps how the world actually is.
We think that God is good and kind, which is right,
and that He would never have anything to do with this evil incident.
When we do this, we then give Satan all the responsibility and think he somehow acted outside of God’s plan.
This very subtilely begins to erode our trust that God somehow was out for a walk when Satan attacked this person.
The truth we need to see here is though that God’s plans and purposes are always accomplished.
Even when all hell breaks loose, we can trust God’s plans and purposes in all things.
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