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Introduction
In 1983, Edvard Munch painted a series of three paintings.
Much had a very difficult childhood.
His mother died when we has only 5 years old.
His sister suffered from a bipolar disorder and was locked up in a psychiatric hospital.
She eventually died when he was 15 years old.
His father was a very religious man but a very tough disciplinarian to the point of having psychotic behavior.
One day, Edvard Munch was overlooking a bridge in Oslo.
This bridge had been the site of many suicides.
You could also see the psychiatric hospital where his sister had been locked up.
He felt such an overwhelming anguish and emotional pain that he was lead to paint one of his most famous pieces: The scream.
The scream is a painting in three scenes.
The first scene shows a calm man overlooking a bridge.
The second scene the man seems depressed.
The colors become more vivid.
The third scene you finally see the man in anguish and you can almost hear his painful scream.
Pain is ever present in all of our lives.
We will also face emotional or physical pain at some point in our lives.
We live in a fallen world.
This world suffers the effects of sin.
Because of sin, pain and death entered the world.
We are sinful human beings that cause pain in our fellow human beings.
Our own sinfulness leads us to commit sins against our fellow human beings.
Human beings have: murdered, have caused others to become addicted, have broken the hearts of their spouses, have neglected their children, have treated other ethnicities as being inferior.
The book of Job is a book about suffering.
The book of Job does not explain the reason for suffering - but it prepares us to know how to endure suffering.
We will consider the following:
Who was Job?
How did he suffer?
How did Job endure his suffering?
I. Who was Job?
I. ¿Quién era Job?
The Bible introduces Job in the first verse of this wonderful poetic book:
Immediately we are introduced to a man that the Bible describes as “blameless and upright”.
This is a man that “feared God and shunned evil”.
He was a God-fearer.
He was a man who served and praised God.
He was a man devoted to the worship of the one and true God.
In verse 5 we see an example of Job’s devotion to God.
He would offer sacrifices to God every day on behalf of his children in the event that they had sinned against God.
There are many who believe that suffering is always due to sin.
Suffering can be a result of our personal sin - but not always.
Job is a perfect example of a man who suffered greatly and yet the Bible describes him as a righteous man.
People who we would consider “good” are also prone to suffer in this life.
Believers are prone to suffer persecution, disease, tragedies, and other unfortunate circumstances.
Job was a morally righteous person who also had great wealth.
Job 1:
Job lived in an agricultural society where wealth was not measured by silver or gold but rather by livestock.
He had many herds of camels, oxen, and donkeys.
In order to keep his livestock operation in order he had to have many servants that would tend to them.
The Bible also tells us of his large family.
Remember, Job lives in a time where infant mortality is at an all time high and yet the Bible describes his seven sons and three daughters.
The Bible gives us a summary of the man Job - “He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.”
(1:3).
This is a God-inspired description of this great man of God.
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How did Job suffer?
II.
¿Cómo sufrió Job?
God allows Satan to wreak havoc on Job.
Satan is allowed touch everything that Job possesses except for his own life.
In :
Job looses his livestock and servants.
Job looses his children when his eldest son’s home caved in.
He has lost everything.
He has lost his family and his livelihood.
God further allows Satan to wreak havoc upon Job’s body.
In :
Job is struck with a skin disease that causes immense suffering.
Job 2:
His physical suffering is compounded by his deteriorating relationship with his wife.
Job
Job’s suffering was increasingly getting worse.
He is definitely a living example of the phrase “When it rains it pours”.
No doubt you and I have suffered, but have any of you recently:
Lost your job?
Lost all you possess?
Lost your family?
Lost your health?
Lost the respect of your spouse?
…all in the same week?
Surely, we have suffered but not to this extent.
III.
How did Job endure his suffering?
III.
¿Cómo soportó Job el sufrimiento?
Do not forget that we know how Job’s story ends.
We know how God healed his diseased body, how God allowed him to become wealthy once more, how he had many children.
We know the ending of this story as it is presented in .
Job did not know how his suffering will eventually end!
All he knew was overwhelming suffering.
We can see various moments of weakness throughout his suffering:
Job 3:
It is not wrong to feel anguish and pain when we are suffering.
It is not wrong to feel overwhelmed and confused when we are suffering.
We are fragile human beings.
We are not super human.
We are not called to be emotionless robots.
We are fragile human beings who feel pain and anguish.
Even the Lord Jesus Christ felt the anguish of pain.
He had his own dark night of the soul as he prayed in Gethsemane moments before his arrest that would eventually lead to his death by crucifixion.
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