Sermon Tone Analysis

Opening Review:

Opening Review:

-Over view the Jounery of Job:

-Highlight last three weeks of God’s Speeches:

-Ultimately what we saw Job yearning for in the book is a Knowledge that God was still with Him and that he was still right with God

-Our final chapter though scriptural extremely hard to translate and identify seems to show that God has validated Job and brought him into the realization that God has never left him

3 Parts to today's text all at times controversial and often debated:

1-6 we experience the end of the Poem with Job’s response

7-9 We see the rebuke of Job’s 3 friends and Job’s response

10-17 We see the vindication of God on Job’s life

Each will help us though see the beauty and wonder of God and hopefully show us that it is for righteousness sake that we live and breathe pursing God, not the blessings.....

Let’s Dive into the text......

1. True Comfort Is Found in Dust and Ash

Ill..... Seeing vs hearing

-Spending time in Ethiopia......2006 before I went I prayed about go read about the country but nothing could truly prepare me for the experience.

-The Beauty of God’s creation, the Hospitality of God’s people, the need for God to work, the Joy of God through the journey…

-But not only did the experience open my eyes to the reality of God’s beauty that I never knew it opened my eyes to the smallness of who I am

In the first part today this is what we see Job experience as he comes to the end of God’s speech.

-Remember God is the one who has approached Job (which was both Job’s desire and fear)

A. Job answers God’s initial questions:

-Before Diving into an answer to the Lords questions Job makes clear the fact that God is Sovereign over all nothing he does can be thwarted or changed.

A reality that was not new to Job he had claime dit earlier, but now we see it begin to be drive home into his mind and life, it is form this initial framework that he responds…to the Lord’s questions....

His first response was a sign of submission, here we see him bring himself together and responded now to the full weight of what God has laid before him

Here Job responds int he affirmative that all that He spoke lacked a full and knowing understanding of God.

He did speak from a hidden counsel because he lacked a knowledge of the mysteries of God.

-Job’s musings about how God worked and playing with the lines of God’s justice was based on his own mere observation, which he here clearly claims was missing a key component to see the whole board.

Star Wars the Last Jedi.....

The resistance commander had a plan to save the whole army, but it required great sacrifice and the plan was hidden from the crew (the main characters act on the false assumption the concocted based on observations not on fact or even knowledge of the person leading.

they know she is a great general that has won many battles but now their butts are on the line they belive she is crazy) their plan because it lacked full perspecive ends in calamity)

-Had God not stepped in maybe Job would have continued into calamity..... it’s hard to say, but By God’s grace we see he does step in and fills the gaps in Job’s thinking......sort of

Secondly....

Job 38:

Job

In the Second questions response, Job highlights the reality of what it means to hear verse seeing.....

-HE speaks now of the reality that all that he thought and beloved was based on what he was taught, possibly by others.

But now in light of the revelation of God he Knows something new and massive About God

-We talk often about the reality that the Gospel is not a testimony, but that a testimony is valid that explains the gospels impact.

-A Life transformed not merely informed…

Job’s information was lacking in some crucial areas, but now that he sees and has experienced God that has all changed for him.

He has gone from despising what God has done to him, to despising himself.

He has gone from hating that God had made him like Dust and Ash to cherish the dust and ash he has become.

Deal With The text controversies:

Repent in the text can mean (Repent for sin, Relent from His argument, Comforted in his situation)

Looks of Hebrews study can go into this one text and much has with no clear winner.

Repent becomes a hard issues because of verse 7-9

Relent seems to be and acceptable alternative it matches with how God turns away from his own charges against people in scripture

I though fall into the comfort camp for several reasons:

The Hebrew root that is used in the text has been used half a dozen times in relation to being comforted or seeking comfort in the book of Job.

(the text has used multiple Hebrew words by Eliphaz and the friends for repenting)

The Hebrew root word is directly connected to Concerning Dust and ash which is a symbol of his mortality and brokenness.

Which he despised in chapter 30

It parallels with the reality of the Christian life for those who suffer for righteousness sake, when viewed correctly.

In All of Job’s {ain he wanted to Know God had not left Him and here is brought into God’s fearsome presences he is not devoured but rather instructed.

He is not brought to destruction, but being brought top light.

-He has found comfort in God’s revelation and discipline, he has found comfort in the nothingness, because he has the knowledge that the one who controls the whole of creation is his still.

He has despised himself for losing sight of God in his trials.

And it is God who we see brings Job an even greater Gift as he brings hope, not only to Job but also to his three friends who in their “knowledge” flase spoke about God and attempted to lead their friend astray.

And so we see the life of a Christian experienced by Prayer.

2. True Comfort Is Experienced by Prayer

God Speaks again, not to Job here but to His friends....

Job 42:

-Job’s friends are condemned for how they spoke about God, while Job is commended (this has caused much controversy over the years)

-Options contend that Job is commend for repenting.......though as we see the Hebrew is connected the words said in the poetical exchanges not the questioning.

-Some Postulate then that all Job said was good and right.......This also seems to be lacking in support for Job says some harsh things from ignorance and pain

-Ultimately it seems to be connected to the reality that Job speaks of the fact that righteousness before God is the desire of God regardless of the results.

-Job has been given many an opportunity to :repent and turn back to God and receive the blessings of God, whether that be physical or spiritual” yet he has stated again and again that he will not lose his integrity for things.

-Job didn’t understand why the righteous would suffer while the unrighteous prosper, but he knew if that was the reality of things, then that would be his reality.....

-remember the original deal was based on the fact that the only reason people love and trust God and live life for him is because they get stuff...... without it they would abandon everything to get it back.

-Here we begin to see the reality of Suffering and Sanctification leading to intercessions.

-God grants Job the opportunity to intercede fro His friends.

(overview the horrible things they said, and did)

James

-Job does it with Joy… the Miserable comforters have been openly rebuked by God called to make sacrifices and called to ask Job to pray for them.

(and he does)

-Here again is why we are not like Job and Job ultimately shows us the reality of Jesus

-Gospel focus of Jesus dying for rebels and enemies… those who mocked him and spit on him, those who murdered his family..... they he interceded for, they he made a way for, they he brought back from the dead.

Romans 5:6

And it is through his role as intercessor that Job is vindicated by God

3. True Comfort Is vindicated by God

-In Job’s prayer God begins the process of restoring Job

The concluding narrative though shows us that the restoration was over time...

-7 sons, 3 daughters each given a share of his wealth and identified in their culture ways as the most beautiful (signifying desirable)

-His family and friends (whom he thought abandoned him) arrive and bring blessings of Gold and rings to help easy His suffering

-Now from a literary stand pont some feel that the ending of Job defeats the whole text of Job it reminds me of my favorite movie: Stranger than Fiction

The final scene is as follows.....

-She rewrites the book to save the main character, the English professors says it is still a good book, but it lost its greatness.

It's... .

It's okay.

- It's not great.

- No. It's okay.

It's not bad.

It's not the most amazing piece of English literature in several years... ...but it's okay.

You know... ...I think I'm fine with "okay."

It doesn't make sense with the rest of the book though.

No, not yet.

I'll rewrite the rest.

My assistant said she'd go back to the publisher... ...and request more time.

- Why?

Don't know.

It's awfully sweet though.