When The Hedge Breaks In

Remember Who We Are Fighting!!

Ephesians 6:12 NASB95

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

1 Peter 5:8 NASB95

Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

God Has Confidence In His People

Job 1:8 NASB95

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”

The Hedge Comes Down

Job Does Not Deserve This

Job 1:1 NASB95

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.

Job 2:3 NASB95

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Job Loses Everything Instantly

Job Looses His Livelihood

Job Looses His Family

Job Looses his Health

Job Remains Faithful To God

Job 2:10 NASB95

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job Faces Adversity

His Wife

Job 2:9 NASB95

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

His Friends

Job 2:12 NASB95

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

Job 32:1–3 NASB95

Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God. And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 42:7 NASB95

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

Job Appeals To God

Job 31:39 NASB95

If I have eaten its fruit without money, Or have caused its owners to lose their lives,

God answers Job

Job 38:1–2 NASB95

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

Job 40:1 NASB95

Then the Lord said to Job,

Job 40:6 NASB95

Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said,

So What Can We Learn?

The Hedge Will Come Down

Satan Seeks After Us

We Cannot Loose Our Integrity