SF290 - WHAT TO DO WHEN IT HURTS PART 1 ANSWERS FROM AN ASH HEAP (Job 2 1-10)

@PAGE NUMBER = SF290

@TITLE = WHAT TO DO WHEN IT HURTS:<R>PART 1: ANSWERS FROM AN ASH HEAP

@LEVEL ONE = JOB 2:1‑10

@LEVEL ONE = INTRODUCTION

@LEVEL TWO = The Presence Of Pain And Suffering In Our World Is All Too Real.

@LEVEL FOUR = We are constantly confronted with pain that seems to be unjust, unfair, and often just unbearable.

@LEVEL FOUR = How are we to understand and explain it what are we to do?

@LEVEL FOUR = If we are to ever understand it we must deal with these and other questions like them honestly and scripturally.

@LEVEL TWO = Guiding Principles

@LEVEL THREE = 1. Our answers to the problem of suffering must have intellectual integrity.

@LEVEL THREE = 2. People live by promises, not by explanations.

@LEVEL THREE = 3. We must live.

@LEVEL THREE = 4. We must live for others.

@LEVEL THREE = 5. The resources for positive suffering are available to us.

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@LEVEL TWO = Let Look At Job

@LEVEL FOUR = No other man in the Bible except for Jesus suffered more than Job

@LEVEL ONE = 1A. JOB'S CONDITION

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Job Lost His Wealth

@LEVEL FOUR = In Job's day a man's wealth determined his position in society.

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. Job Lost His Family

@LEVEL FOUR = Losing a love one is like losing a part of yourself

@LEVEL TWO = 3B. Job Lost His Health

@LEVEL ONE = 2A. JOB'S CONFESSION

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. What God Said (v.3)

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. What His Wife Said (v.9)

@LEVEL TWO = 3B. What His Friends Said

@SCRIPTURE = JOB 4:7‑9<R>"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish.

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@LEVEL TWO = 4B. What Job Said

@SCRIPTURE = JOB 13:15<R>Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.

@LEVEL ONE = 3A. JOB'S CONCLUSIONS

@LEVEL TWO = 1B. Relationship Is More Important Than Reasons

@LEVEL TWO = 2B. God's Purposes Are Often Hidden From Us

@LEVEL FOUR = Job helped prove to Satan that we can serve God for who He is not just for what He does.

@LEVEL TWO = 3B. We Must Be Honest With Ourselves And With God

@LEVEL TWO = 4B. Beware Of Pigeon‑Hole Theology

@SCRIPTURE = ISA 55:8<R>"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

@LEVEL TWO = 5B. Suffering Is Not Always Punishment For Sin

@LEVEL TWO = 6B. God's People Always Have Access To Him

@LEVEL THREE = Job longed for an arbitrator

@SCRIPTURE = JOB 9:33<R>If only there were someone to arbitrate between us, to lay his hand upon us both,

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@LEVEL THREE = We have one

@SCRIPTURE = 1TI 2:5<R>For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

@LEVEL ONE = CONCLUSION

@LEVEL TWO = What We Need

@LEVEL FOUR = When we hurt deeply we need a revelation not an explanation of God.

@LEVEL TWO = Where We Find It

@LEVEL FOUR = The Bible