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Another Very Bad Day
We are taking a look through the book of Job.
It is going to be a bit dark and troublesome for a while.
But, there are some parts that we will see as we go through that paint some positives about the Lord.
Here is something to keep in mind.
Grief can be an act of worship
The CHARACTER Job is portrayed as someone who is unfairly going through tragedy because of something happening in the unseen realm.
And it is UNFAIR.
This is a repeat of the opening formula from last week.
Now that we have read it once and we saw what happened to Job, we should be thinking:
Oh no…what will happen now
Yes! God was right about Job and the adversary will be punished.
God is calling attention to the adversary’s judgement against Job, that it was not correct.
That is important…The Adversary’s JUDGEMENT is wrong.
God calls this spirit out for doing this for no reason.
LIKE LOKI, just playing with the humans with no care for them.
God cares for the humans, but this spirit does not.
Interesting....
With all the loss, the adversary recognizes that Job does not believe HIS LIFE is in danger.
Job is righteous, he is blameless, that is God’s judgement.
The adversary makes a charge against Job and against GOD’s JUDGEMENT.
SKIN for SKIN is the adversary saying TO GOD, you are WRONG in your JUDGEMENT!
That is the core challenge.
If you lost everything would you believe you could not live?
But, please send out your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, then will he not bless you to your face?
The LORD said to the adversary, “Look!
He (Job) is in your hand, only guard his life.
Job 2:6
The adversary must GUARD Job’s life.
But everything else is up for grabs.
Don’t draw a conclusion that all skin sores are evil imposed by the adversary.
The scene is set.
This is where Job is going to remain, sitting in this ASH PILE until the last chapters of the book.
LET THE REAL TEST BEGIN!
QUESTION: What is the adversary LIMITED TO?
A: Job’s body.
His BONE and FLESH.
In Genesis 2 the man recites a poem when he sees the woman.
“…bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh...”
Is Job claiming God has given evil to him?
Is it fair?
No.
It is not a model for the garden.
Does the ADVERSARY have a choice?
Why do they sprinkle dust?
Where does human come from?
The DUST
Where does human return?
The DUST
It is like sprinkling death on themselves.
It is a way to identify with suffering.
Grief can be an act of worship
“Shall we also receive good from (the) God, and shall we not receive evil?”
(receive, accept, take, embrace, decide, interlink)
Job has a healthy outlook.
He is considering all the good
In light of the current evil.
Now, SENSITIVE AREAS...
When evil comes on us young, it often impacts any good that comes in our life.
And if we have had good in our life from our youth, then when evil comes, it can cancel all the good.
Job is innocent, and his GRIEF is going to be poured out in some amazing ancient poetry.
Job wants and believes he should be dead.
But he is not.
And that has him confused.
He believes that God has preserved him.
But he cannot (yet) understand why.
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