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JOB
- THEME:
- Suffering and Sovereignty
- Jehovah is Sovereign
- Offer worship to God regardless of circumstances
- Bad circumstances are not always due to sin
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JOB OUTLINE:
- I. The Disasters of Job (1 - 2) I. Calamity
- II. The Dialogues of Job (3 - 37) II. Counsel
- III. The Deliverance of Job (38 - 42) III. Contrition
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JOB KEY CHAPTER 1
1-2 Job's accusation and affliction
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JOB KEY CHAPTER 3-37
3-37 Job's friends' counsel
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JOB KEY CHAPTER 38-41
38-41 Job's interrogation by God
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JOB KEY CHAPTER 42
42 Job's repentance and restoration
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JOB 14:14
"If a man dies will he live again?" Hope of immortality & glorification
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JOB 19:25-26
"I know that my Redeemer lives." Hope of coming redeemer, bodily resurrection
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JOB 23:10-12
"When He has tried me, I will come forth as gold"
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JOB 26:7
He... hangs earth on nothing. When the Bible speaks about science, it is true
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JOB 42:12-13
"And the Lord blessed the latter day sof Job more than his beginning."
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JOB KEY PEOPLE: Job
- Job - "A blameless and upright man who feared God and turned away from evil." He continued to worship and trust God despite extreme testing
- Satan - tried to got Job to curse God.
- Eliphaz - "If you sin, you suffer." (4:8; 22:23) Gave bad and unkind counsel based on the assumptions of his
- experience (4:7-9)
- Bildad - "You must be sinning." (8:6,8; 18:21; 25:4). Gave insulting and bad counsel based on the assumptions of his traditions (8:8-10)
- Zophar - "You are sinning." (11:4-6; 20:5) Gave bad counsel based upon the assumptions of his religious convictions (11:5,6,13-15); he also was very defensive (20:2,3
- Elihu - A young friend of Job who gave counsel that was wiser than those older than him (32:1-5) "God purifies and teaches the righteous"; He was against Job's self-righteousness (33:8-12, 29-30).
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JOB KEY PEOPLE: Satan
Satan - tried to get Job to curse God
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JOB KEY PEOPLE: Eliphaz
Eliphaz - "If you sin, you suffer." Experience teaches that sin leads to suffering
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JOB KEY PEOPLE: Bildad
Bildad - "You must be sinning." Traditions teach that sin leads to suffering
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JOB KEY PEOPLE: Zophar
Zophar - "You are sinning." Religion teaches that sin leads to suffering
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JOB KEY PEOPLE: Elihu
Elihu - A young friend of Job who gave counsel that was wise than those older than him (32:1-5) "God purifies and teaches the righteous"; he was against Job's self-righteousness
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