A Second Horrible Day For Job Series

A second horrible day for Job

Job Sermon Series, Part 3

Introduction (Job Slide)

- The book of Job is going to be a very challenging study for us

- Most people think this is about a man named Job who had a rough life

- However, we can easily fail to focus on the main character … God

- Job was a man who was considered blameless before God

- Bottom line: No one could rightly charge Job with morale failure

-- He also feared God: he lived in awe, respect, took God seriously

- Critical to see: What happens is in the course of ONE day

• Oxen were attacked by the Sabeans and carried them off

• The sheep and the servants were killed by (prob.) a lightning storm

• The camels were stolen by an invading Chaldean army

• His sons and daughters were killed by a mighty wind (tornado)

- Job’s response:

- Rather, in submission to who God is and what God has done for him

-- Not what God has done TO him, but what God has done FOR him

- Read Job 2:1-13

- Pray

Point 1 – Another day in Heaven

- In an instant, we see a second day of heavenly occurrences unfold (v1)

-- From Ch. 1, we saw that this happens, and now we see it is a routine event

-- Daily, angels of the Lord come to report their activities and receive instruction

- Satan, the great accuser, also comes with the angels to give his report (v2)

-- Once again, God asks him the same question, “Where have you come from?”

-- And again, Satan answers under God’s authority what he has been doing

-- APP: His job is the wreak havoc on this earth, under God’s authority

- Our world is where Satan lives and reigns, and his authority is granted by God

- Why is this important? So that we might understand how he works

-- We saw in Ch. 1 how he speaks to God, with cunning and deception

-- APP: Our lesson? If he would speak to God this way, we are not IMP to him

- So, God, knowing what Satan has been up to, asks a pivotal question

-- “Have you considered my servant, Job?” (v3)

- Let’s pause here … because we know that this was asked in Ch1, v8

-- And from that, we know what the devil was granted authority to do to him

-- So, why would God re-ask this question to the father of lies and deception?

- Simple! Satan’s first round of attacks had proven futile against his faith

-- Job did NOT curse God as Satan had predicted, and Satan was proven wrong

-- IMP: God knew this would happen, He knew what the result was, and was right

- The Lord is saying: My servant is still solid, still with total faith

-- Job had not sinned, and therefore what happened to him was b/c of Satan

-- It was not because Job was being punished for sinning against God

- Job … was blameless and upright before God … we should be also!

-- Re: We must NOT shake our fist at God when things happen

-- IMP: We do not know the “why”, for example Job didn’t know either!

- TRANS: Therefore, Satan decides to go at this from another direction …

Point 2 – Satan attacks Job … AGAIN!

- With unfailing faith in himself, Satan decides to go all-in with God

-- His cry in v4 is critical for us to see: “Skin for Skin!”

-- He actually charges Job with sacrificing all he has to save his own skin!

-- APP: Satan contends that Job gave everything up to benefit himself

- Re: He is the great accuser, and willing to do whatever it takes to get his way

-- Satan is implying that it is not because Job loves God that he is faithful …

-- … but now, he has willingly given up everything to make sure he is protected

- So once again, Satan asks God to strike Job personally (flesh/bones) (v5)

-- Satan’s hope is that Job will be broken and will curse God, finally

- So, God grants him authority to attack Job’s body

- However, he gets the same instruction: “you must spare his life” (v6)

-- APP: You can do what you like, but you cannot kill him

- Challenge: What if you were Job, would you survive this onslaught?

- Immediately, Satan went out to attack Job … and inflicted him horribly (v7)

-- He was given painful sores from his feet to his head, producing pain 24/7

-- These were probably something similar to boils, with no relief available