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Job 19 Verses 20 to 27 I Know That My Redeemer Lives August 28, 2022 Class Presentation Notes AA
Background Scripture:
Philippians 3:7-11 (NASB)
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Main Idea: In the midst of Job’s uncertainty, he proclaimed there was one thing he did know😊.
Study Aim: To understand that the only relationship that won’t be changed by death is our relationship with Jesus.
Create Interest:
· The legal concept of presumption of innocence(also known as innocent until proven guilty) goes back many centuries.
It means that the burden of proof is on the prosecution to show that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt before a conviction can be secured.
Although this principle lets some guilty parties off the hook, it is one of the best safeguards to keep innocent people from being unjustly convicted.
· Going back centuries more, we see that God himself gave Israel laws to protect the innocent.
Within the Ten Commandments is the law against bearing false witness (Deuteronomy 5:20).
When violated, the penalty to be placed on the false witness was to be the very consequence that he or she was willing to see the innocent undergo (19:16–21).
Two witnesses were required to secure a conviction (19:15).
· Job believed in this kind of justice.
One problem, as far as Job could tell, was that his friends were not extending the benefit of the doubt to him.
After evaluating his sorry state, they seemed to presume him guilty until proven innocent.
· We may go through times when it seems that we are being punished for no reason.
We are frustrated, we pour out our hearts to God and friends, and still nothing changes.
People around us may think we deserve what we are getting.
They become desensitized to our situation.
But we are not willing to give up, holding out hope that God will do something about the problem.
That’s where Job was in today’s text.
Where is Job in our Heroes of Faith?
· All of the heroes of the faith have not lived in our day.
To tell the truth, we fear that the heroic faith which marked the ancients is waning.
Even under the increased light, and the fuller revelation of God, which the present age now holds, many have made shipwreck concerning the faith.
· It does one good to read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, and to behold the conquests which the Old Testament saints wrought through faith.
Their faith carried a far-flung vision.
They all died, not having received the promises, but they, by faith, saw them afar off, and were persuaded of them.
· In the midst of the days of God’s Old Testament worthies, Job lived.
His name is not enrolled in the star cluster of Hebrews eleven, but the Holy Ghost, through James, did refer to “the patience of Job.”
· We are willing to grant that Job, for a time, seemed hid under clouds of despair.
His trial, as we saw in our last study, was equaled only, perhaps, by the trials of the Lord Himself.
Nevertheless, this is true.
The black clouds that shrouded Job, the dense darkness that hid from him the face of his Lord, no more than enhanced the glory of his visions of victorious faith, which came to him, ever and anon.
Job’s faith was like the occasional burst of the rays of the sun through a storm-shadowed sky.
· We are reminded time and again of the words of one who said to Christ, “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.”
· Job may have doubted, but he did not always doubt.
His disease, along with the taunts and jibes from his three false friends, no doubt led him to despise the day in which he was born; however, they never turned him aside from his final trust in the Living God.
The truth is that the faith of Job presents to us some of the most marvelous visions of trust to be found in the Word of God.
· When the Lord comes He may not find faith upon the earth, because the faithful will have been raptured; yet, we thank God that there are still those who “love not their lives unto the death.”[1]
Lesson in Historical Context:
· Though he lived a righteous life—righteous enough to receive a divine endorsement in that regard (Job 1:8)—Job experienced terrible adversity.
God, unbeknownst to Job, was in the process of disproving Satan’s contention that Job lived an upright life only because God had blessed and prospered him (1:9, 10).
God then granted Satan permission to test Job.
Would great disaster cause Job to crumble and curse God to his face as Satan claimed (1:11)?
· The bulk of the book of Job features conversations between Job and the friends who came to console him.
Their dialogue was different from the one between God and Satan.
Job and his friends shared the simplistic view that bad things happen only (or primarily) to bad people.
According to that view, if you want to know whether people are righteous or not, all you have to do is see how well they are faring.
Are they thriving?
They must be doing right.
Are they suffering?
They must be doing wrong.
· Since the friends saw that Job was suffering terribly, they assumed he was guilty of some grave offense (example: Job 4:7, 8).
Perhaps Job would have agreed under normal circumstances.
But Job was the one suffering, and he could recall no wicked action or set of habits that warranted the magnitude of his downfall.
Job had no defense other than his own claim of innocence.
· We don’t know when Job lived.
One proposal places him in the twentieth or nineteenth century BC.
This is based on the description of Eliphaz (one of Job’s friends) being “the Temanite” (Job 2:11).
Abraham’s grandson Esau (also known as Edom; see Genesis 25:30; 36:1, 8) had a grandson named Teman (Genesis 36:11).
Teman is mentioned as a place within the territory of Edom (Jeremiah 49:7, 20; compare Ezekiel 25:13; Amos 1:12; Obadiah 8, 9).
The length of Job’s life (Job 42:16) fits this period of time (Genesis 25:7; 35:28).
· Job is mentioned by name in Ezekiel 14:14, 20 and James 5:11, so we are certain that he is not a fictional character.[2]
· In our lesson studying Job 19:13-19 we saw Job experiencing Abject humiliation, treated like dirt by friends and family and feeling totally abandoned by everyone in his life.
· We learned that loneliness is painful and shows up unannounced, but God gives us grace, mercy, and humility to praise Hm in the storm, even when life seems to be falling apart.
· We learn from this that God desires for us to trust Him with every detail of our life; to spend time with Him; and to love Him with all our being.
· As we continue our study, let’s learn what Job has to say about his crisis.
Bible Study: A Plea for Help and a Statement of Assurance (19:20–27)
Job 19:20 (NASB)
20 "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
· Feeling totally alienated, Job bemoans his wretched physical condition.
His body is so wasted away that his bones cleave to his flesh.
And he is so weak he says: I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
The explanations for the last metaphor are multiple and unconvincing.
Its meaning eludes us.
With it Job seems to express his amazement that his body continues to sustain any life at all.
Just as his alienation is total, so too his physical suffering is complete.[3]
Job 19:21 (NASB)
21 "Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me.
· We ought to pause a moment and consider Job’s diagnosis.
In verse 21 Job said, “The hand of God has struck me!”
Is this true?
Let us look back at something we know but Job doesn’t.
Is it true that the hand of God has struck him?
Look back at 1:11, 12 where the Satan says to the Lord, “Stretch out your hand and touch all that he has.…”
Does the Lord stretch out his hand against Job? No, he doesn’t.
In verse 12we read, “And the Lord said to Satan, ‘Behold, all that he has is in your hand.’
” Again in 2:5, 6the Satan asks the Lord to “stretch out your hand …”; but the Lord replies, “Behold, he is in your hand.”
The hands and fingers that destroyed Job’s possessions and killed Job’s children and wrecked Job’s health were the hands of the Satan, not the hands of God.
Yes, it was the hand of the Satan acting with the permission of the Lord and within the strict constraints given by the Lord; but it was the Satan’s hand and not God’s that actually did these terrible things.[4]
· In desperation Job pleads with his friends, Have mercy on me!
The urgency of his appeal is evident from the repetition of this imperative (ḥonnûnî) and from the emphatic use of the personal pronoun you(ʾaṯṯem).
Job beseeches his friends to share the weight of his suffering made unbearable by his complete estrangement from the community.
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