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Innocent Glory Knowledge Love Immediate Ultimate: Review

The document discusses the themes of innocent suffering, the importance of God's glory over personal comfort, and the nature of true friendship as exemplified by Job's friends. It highlights Job's profound sorrow and confusion amidst his suffering and emphasizes that true friends provide support without trying to offer quick solutions or explanations. The text sets the stage for further exploration of the mistakes made by Job's friends in their responses to his plight.

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Innocent Glory Knowledge Love Immediate Ultimate: Review

The document discusses the themes of innocent suffering, the importance of God's glory over personal comfort, and the nature of true friendship as exemplified by Job's friends. It highlights Job's profound sorrow and confusion amidst his suffering and emphasizes that true friends provide support without trying to offer quick solutions or explanations. The text sets the stage for further exploration of the mistakes made by Job's friends in their responses to his plight.

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REVIEW — When Your World is Turned Upside Down (Job 1:1-2:10) ...

Lesson #1 — There is such a thing as INNOCENT suffering.


Lesson #2 — The GLORY of God is more important than your or my or Job’s comfort.
Lesson #3 — Biblical prosperity is growing richer in our KNOWLEDGE and LOVE of God.
Lesson #4 — Satan is the IMMEDIATE cause of suffering, but God is the ULTIMATE cause.

INTRODUCTION — Why won’t God speak to me?

The Reality — God waits a long time to speak to Job (Cf. Job 38:1 “Then the Lord answered Job ...”)

The Reason — Why was God silent with Job?

LESSON — Job’s Sorrow in The Midst of Silence 2:11-3:26

I. JOB’S COMFORTERS (His True Friends) 2:11-13

“Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity ...”

The Reminder: What is a friend?

“A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend


who sticks closer than a brother” (Proverbs 18: 24)
Cf. 2 Samuel 16:16-17

True friends are defined by words like: UNBREAKABLE, covenant LOVE and
LOYALTY.
The Relationship: Who are Job’s friends? v. 11a

q Eliphaz (God is fine gold) the Temanite — The OLDEST one (Cf. Job 15:10, 42:7;
Jeremiah 49:7; Obadiah 1:8)

q Bildad the Shuhite — The UNKNOWN one.

q Zophar (young bird) the Naamathite — The YOUNGEST one.

The Response: What did Job’s friends do? vs. 11b-13

“And they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort
him. When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him,
they raised their voices and .... for they saw his pain was great.”

II. JOB’S CONFUSION (His Tormenting Frustrations) 3:1-26

q Job wishes he had never been BORN. vs. 1-10

q Job wishes, had he been born, he had not LIVED. vs. 11-19

q Job wishes he would DIE. vs. 20-26

Application — How True Friends Treat Friends in Their Times of Suffering ...

1. A true friend recognizes that simply quoting a Scripture — or a list of them — will
not eliminate SUFFERING. The Bible is not an aspirin or band-aid in times of suffering. (Cf.
Proverbs 15:23, 25:11)

2. A true friend refrains from the temptation to try and say something PROFOUND —
We don’t need to summarize “why” something is happening. (Cf. Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians
2:16; Proverbs 25:2)

3. A true friend realizes that you don’t always have to speak to express genuine LOVE
and CARE. (Cf. John 11:35-36)

Next Week — Where Job’s Friends Went Wrong: What They Shouldn’t Have Said — Chapters 4—7

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