The Wisdom of Loss part I: When All Hell Breaks Loose

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Sermon Brief
Foundational Elements
Title: The Wisdom of Loss part one: When All Hell Breaks Loose
Passage: Job 1 and 2
Theme: Loss/Grief
CIT: The LORD is worthy of worship regardless of what circumstances a person may be going through
Proposition: God’s people can respond with worship to any circumstance because of His faithfulness
Sermon Objective: Hearers will grow in their trust in God and find encouragement for difficult circumstances
Emphasis: Trusting in the LORD through times of good and times of evil
Key Verses:
Job 1:20 “Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.”
Job 2:9-10 “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.”
Questions: How do we respond when we experience loss? How can we trust the Lord when bad things happen to us? Why do bad things happen to good people? (These questions are asked in backward order to the narrative of Scripture. Bad things happen because of sin, but God sent His Son Jesus to die for our sins on the cross. This is why we can trust Him. A bad thing happened to a good person only once, and that was when Jesus took our sin upon Himself. Now we can respond to pain or to blessing with worship knowing our Redeemer lives! Job 19:25-27)
Formal Elements
Introduction:
Job was a wealthy man whom God had blessed with every kind of blessing you could think of. He was wealthy, he had a big family, and he had good health. Job had it all. Job was a holy man who did what was right and who honored God in the way that he lived, yet bad things still happened to him.
Body:
How do we respond when we experience loss?
Satan’s accusation: Job does not worship the Lord, he worships the blessings. Take away the blessings and the worship will follow.
Job’s integrity did not begin when bad things happened to him. His response to hardship is a result of Job’s lifestyle of worship and integrity built when things were good. (Rom. 12:1-2)
How do you respond when you face difficult circumstances? Where do you turn to?
How can we trust the Lord when bad things happen to us?
Satan’s deception: Did God really say you can’t eat from the fruit of the tree? Can you really trust that what He said is true? Take and eat and you will be wise like God knowing good and evil.
We can trust in the Lord when bad things happen because He is sovereign over all things and is working all things for our good. What happened to Job did not catch God by surprise. Instead, the Lord allowed it to happen to give Job something far greater than wealth, family, and health. He led him to a new perspective and a deeper and more intimate relationship with the God of the universe who loved him and knit him together even while he was still in his mother’s womb. (Rom. 8:28-39)
Where are some areas where it might be difficult to trust in the Lord? Do you trust that the Lord’s plan for your life is greater than your own? Even if it means putting to death old sins? Even if it means changing careers? Even if it means losing everything?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Satan’s Disillusionment: Who is God to define what is good? You’re a good person and any God that would disagree is unjust and an evil God.
The truth of it is we are all sinners, every single one of us. There are no good people. (Rom. 3:10-18) Only one person who has ever lived has lived a sinless life, and that is Jesus, who took our sin upon Himself on the cross paying the penalty of our sins and opening the door to new life with Him in eternity by His resurrection. (2 Cor. 5:15-21)
Job understood that despite what was happening to him that his Redeemer was alive and that he would spend eternity with him. (Job 19:25-27) How does your relationship with Christ influence how you respond to difficult circumstances? Who can you share the hope of Christ with this week?
Conclusion: A relationship with Jesus is worth far more than wealth, family, and health. He is worthy of our worship in every circumstance. We can trust Him no matter what because He is a good God who gave His Son Jesus freely so that we might be reconciled to Him. What God offers us in eternity far outweighs what we might lose here in this life.
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