June 11, 2025 • 30 mins
The book of Job has been recognized as a great work of literature for centuries. But it is much more than that. It is an incomparably profound book on the most perplexing of human questions. It shows not only that bad things happen to good people, but that the worst of things can happen to the best of people.
We will never fully relate to the sufferings of this man. But we do know something he did not, at least not in the book itself. The Lord reveals in Job chapters one and two a discussion between God and the devil. This is where the story began. God said that Job was an honest and sincere man, and the devil said he was not.
Sometimes it is shamefully easy for us to read this book and analyze Job. We can sit in a comfortable chair in the best of health and read about his trauma. But although we may never experience the level of pain and loss he endured, we can learn some things before trials come that will help us when the storms of life arrive.
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Hi, I’m Kerry Duke, host of My Godand My Neighbor podcast from Tennessee
Bible College, where we see the Bibleas not just another book, but the Book.
Join us in a study of the inspiredWord to strengthen your faith and to
share what you've learned with others.
I know you want to learn more aboutthe problem of sin and suffering in
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life, and especially in your life.
And in order for us to understandmore about this problem, we
need to read the Book of Job.
This is like a textbook on thissubject to say the very least.
It's much better than any bookthat any man has ever written.
Now you can search for books and you canfind some that are good and some that are
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bad on this topic, but you will never finda book written by a mere human being that
can equal this Old Testament book of Job.
It has many great lessons for us.
You will learn much if you'lljust read the Book of Job.
It has a lot of deep and profoundtruths on this subject, and
one of these is that bad thingssometimes happen to good people.
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Actually, in Job's case, itshows us that the worst things
can happen to the best people.
And we know that Job was one of the trulygreat men in the Bible because of verses
like Ezekiel, chapter 14, verse 14.
Ezekiel the prophet wanted to tellthe people about great men in the
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Bible and use them as an exampleof the point that he was making.
And in order to make that point, hementioned three of the greatest men
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Noah, Daniel, and Job.
God Himself says in this book severaltimes that there was “none like him on the
earth.” The New Testament says in Jameschapter five, verse 11, “You have heard of
the patience of Job.” So let's read aboutthis great man Job in Job] chapter one.
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I'm going to begin reading in verseone, and I'll read through verse five.
“There was a man in the land of Uzwhose name was Job, and that man
was blameless and upright, and onewho feared God and shunned evil.
Seven sons and three daughterswere born to him also.
His possessions were 7,000 sheep,3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500
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female donkeys, and a very largehousehold, so that this man was the
greatest of all the people of the east.
And his sons would go and feast in theirhouses, each one on his appointed day,
and would send and invite their threesisters to eat and drink with them.
So it was when the days of their feastinghad run their course, that Job would send
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and sanctify them, and he would rise earlyin the morning and offer burnt offerings
according to the number of them all.
For Job said, ‘It may be that my sonshave sinned and cursed God in their
hearts.’ Thus did job regularly.”The King James says continually.
Now, let's go back to verse one andconsider what God has said about
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this great man in the first place.
He said that he was blameless.
The King James uses the word perfect.
The New King James usesthe word blameless.
Sometimes people misunderstand the word“perfect” in the King James Version when
it applies to men because they thinkof the word perfect as being sinless.
They think of sinless perfection,and that is not what the word means.
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And that may be why the New KingJames Version avoided that word
and just gave the word blameless.
But even then, you have to qualify that.
Now, the idea here of perfection orblamelessness is that he was complete.
When you see the word blameless in theNew King James, or the word perfect in
the King James Version, think of complete.
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Think of someone who iswhole in his moral life.
He didn't deliberately leaveout an area in his moral life.
He didn't hide a part that was wrong.
He was one who tried to dogood in every area of his life.
Now, it doesn't mean that he wassinless at all because in Job
chapter 13 verse 26, Job doesmention the iniquities of his youth.
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So we're talking about a man whowas well-rounded in his moral life.
Let's look at the contrasthere just to make the point.
There are some people who pick out someparts of their life and say, “I want
to do what's right in those areas,” butthey leave out other parts of their life.
Well, they're not whole.
They're not complete.
For instance, some people are good givers.
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They give generously, but theyuse bad language in their life.
Or they're good atparticipating at church.
They'll take a part in churchservices, but they get home and
they treat their mate wrong.
They are not whole, they are notcomplete, they're not blameless or
perfect like Job was in that sense.
Now the second thing that God saysabout him was that he was upright.
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That's verse one.
That means that he was straightforward.
He was just, he was upright.
He was an honest man.
He was a man whose yeswas yes and his no was no.
There's no deception in Job.
There's no show in Job's life.
There's no hypocrisy in him.
He's not a perfectly sinlessperson, but he is a good man.
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He's a person who's the same.
He is consistent.
He has the same values and thesame morals regardless of who
he's with or who he's around.
He's one who has dignity.
He has self-respect, and he doesn'tbring shame on himself or on his family.
He's one that you can depend onfor integrity and for honesty.
Now that's the idea ofa man being upright.
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He's a man also—and this is very importanthere—the Bible says that he feared God.
Yes, the Bible does talk about fearingGod, and it puts an emphasis on that.
Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10,verse 28, “Fear not them which kill
the body, but are not able to killthe soul; but rather fear Him, who
is able to destroy both soul and bodyin hell.” A man must acknowledge God.
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He must love and respect God.
Yes, he must be humble before God,but he must learn to fear God.
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 12,verse 13, “Let us hear the conclusion
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Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is
the whole” or “the whole duty of man.”If a man fears God, he will look at
others and he will look at everythingin life the way that he should.
Now, if he doesn't fear God, then justabout anything in his life will go.
In Romans three, verse 18, the Bible sadlysays of people in Paul's day something
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that we could say about many in our time.
Romans 3:18 says, “There is no fearof God before their eyes.” But Job, on
the other hand, was a God-fearing man.
He worshiped God.
He remembered God in all that hedid, and he respected God's law
and he respected the Lord himself.
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Now, that's important to remember becauseJob says some things in this book a little
later that were disrespectful of God.
Yes, he did.
He said some things to God andabout God that crossed the line.
Now, we'll talk about that later, butI'm simply laying the foundation here to
show that Job was not a deliberate man inthat he didn't intentionally go into this
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situation thinking that he was going tosay something that was sarcastic to God,
something that was disrespectful to God.
As a matter of fact, he didn'tknow any of this was coming.
All of this that happened to Job hithim, as we would say, out of nowhere.
And so Job is having to dealwith this just like we do.
Sometimes we don't go into a situationthinking that we're going to say
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or do things that we sometimesend up doing and regret later,
but trials press us to our limits.
And you're going to see in this book thatthis man was pressed to the very limits
of his physical being, his intellect,his emotions, and his spiritual values.
So here's a man who did notdisrespect God as a whole in his life.
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He is a God-fearing man, and yethe's going to be tested here.
The next thing that is said about himis that he's a man who shunned evil.
That means he turned away from evil.
He didn't go along with, hedidn't laugh at, he didn't
condone or participate in evil.
As a matter of fact, later in chapter31, when Job is defending himself before
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all these accusations of his friends,he said that he turned his eyes and his
ears and even his thoughts away from sin.
So he is a God-fearing man who hates evil.
He avoids it.
He doesn't get close to it.
He stays away from placesand people that encourage it.
So Job turned away from evil, and thatis a Christian trait that we ought to
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have in our lives every single day.
He is also a family man.
The Bible talks about hiswife and his children.
It first talks about his children.
We'll read about his wife later on.
And he has, by today'sstandards, a large family.
He has seven sons and threedaughters, and they're grown up.
They're on their own because theBible in verse four talks about them
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being in their houses and also talksabout their houses in verse 13.
So they were doing well for themselves.
They had their own places.
They had plenty to eat.
They enjoyed being together.
They got along with each other,and that's quite an accomplishment.
The very fact that these children,these siblings, like to get together
and eat often in verse 4 and inverse 13 was a blessing to Job.
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Many families even in the Biblethat didn't have that kind of peace.
And job is also a very wealthy man.
It talks about his livestock now.
It doesn't really go into tellingus how much land that he had, how
many houses that he built, how muchsilver or gold that he had, because he
probably had a lot of all those as well.
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But it does talk about his livestock,and we need to remember as we read
about this that that livestockrepresented a vast amount of money.
So the Bible says that he had 7,000 sheep.
That is a lot of wool that he could sell.
That's a lot of money.
He had 3000 camels.
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Well, people used camels back inthose days for personal travel,
for hauling goods for business.
That's like having 3000trucks to haul things.
He had 500 yolk, thatis, 500 pair of oxen.
Now that's like having500 tractors for plowing.
That's a lot of money for a lot of land,a lot of crops, and a lot of sales.
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He had 500 female donkeys to carry loads.
That would be like havingwagons and trailers.
So the Bible says also that Job had a verygreat, that is a very large, household.
Now remember that his seven sonsand three daughters are grown.
They're out on their own.
They have their own placesor their own houses.
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So this very large householdthat the Bible says Job still
had refers to his servants.
This refers to men and women, tomales and females who worked for Job.
In Bible times, it was common forpeople to have servants in their family.
Now, sometimes they could only affordone, but if a man was very wealthy,
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he might have dozens or even hundreds.
For instance, you read aboutAbraham in Genesis chapter 14,
arming 318 of his servants.
Those were males that wentwith him to battle so that they
could rescue Lot his nephew.
So that means that Abrahamhad a vast amount of land.
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He had all kinds of responsibilitiesand he had hundreds of workers
to take care of those duties.
Now, the Bible doesn't give us anexact number of all the servants that
Job had, but with all this livestockand all these responsibilities,
he must have had a lot of workers.
So this is a very wealthy man.
The Bible says that he is thegreatest of all the men of the East.
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He's the wealthiest.
He's evidently the most powerfulor influential man in that area.
Job had wide influence.
He was well respected.
People listened to him.
He was a fair and a generous man.
And so here we have anotherexample of a man who was very
rich, and yet he was very good.
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Now that might be theexception to the rule.
You say it might be hard for aman to have a lot of money and
yet still be a good, honest man.
And yet you find two of the greatest menin the Bible were very wealthy people
who were also rich in their faith.
And those two that I'm talkingabout are Abraham and Job.
The Bible says in Genesis 13 versetwo that Abraham was very rich.
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And here the Bible talksabout all the wealth of Job.
So as we look at this passage sofar, it looks like Job has it all.
He has character.
He has honor.
He has a peaceful family.
He has wealth, he has security, buthis virtues go even further because you
find something out about his spiritualand his moral life that is impressive.
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In verse five, the Bible shows thatJob was a very conscientious man.
He was a very sincere man abouthis religion and about his morals.
Remember that verse four saysthat his sons and daughters would
get together and have a meal.
They enjoyed one another's company.
And the Bible says in verse five, aftertheir days of feasting, after their get
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togethers, that Job would send for them.
He would tell them to come togetherfor a serious purpose this time
and he would sanctify them.
He got them ready for worship.
Whatever that involved,Job got them ready.
And the Bible says that heoffered burnt offerings according
to the number of them all.
Now in the law of Moses, only thepriest could do that, and they
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could only do that at the temple.
But Job is offering for his children.
He is offering for his family,and that's what ordinarily took
place during the patriarchal age.
That's why we call itthe Age of Patriarchy.
That's the time of father rule.
So it looks like because of thatthat the book of Job happened
sometime during the patriarchal age.
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So this is a very old book if that's true.
Now, why did Job do this?
Because he said, “It may be that mysons have sinned and cursed God in
their hearts.” Now, he didn't say thatmy sons have sinned and so I'm going to
offer burnt offerings for all of them.
He said maybe they have.
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Just in case if they have sinnedand cursed God in their hearts,
I want to offer a sin offering.
He didn't wait until theyhad sinned and then offer.
The Bible says that he wantedto do that just in case.
It's not that they havesinned, but in case they have.
Now that's being conscientious.
And look at what else this showsabout Job and his attitude and
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his feelings toward his children.
Job was more concerned about their souls.
He was not satisfied that they hadgood homes, that they got along with
each other and that they were happy.
Now, a lot of parents would stopthere and say that everything was
just great with their children.
And it's good that you havethose kinds of blessings.
I'm certainly not trying tocriticize that or downplay that.
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In other words, if children have theirown homes, if they've worked and they've
got their homes, if they get alongwith each other, and if they're happy
being around each other, that's great.
But Job said there's more to it thanthat, and that is you have a relationship
to God and we have to treat God right.
It's one thing to get along witheach other, even in the family, but
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there's something higher, and thatis those children who are getting
along with each other must love God.
And Job was more concerned aboutthat than he was those earthly ties.
Here's something else to think about.
Job was not too proud to admit thathis children might have done wrong.
Sometimes parents can seeno wrong in their children.
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They don't even entertain the idea orthe possibility that their children
might have done something wrong.
Not Job.
He wasn't blind.
He was more honest than that.
He knew his own children.
He knew his sons and his daughters.
He loved them, but heknew that they were human.
He knew that they were capable of sin.
And notice that verse five tells usthat Job did this for all his children.
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He was concerned about all of them.
Notice also that although he is a busyman with all kinds of responsibilities, he
rose up early in the morning to do this,and that was not just once in a while.
He did this continually.
He didn't just do it two or threetimes in his lifetime or once a
year or once every six months.
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He did this continually.
Now, if a man like Job withall his responsibilities could
do this, then why can't we?
Sometimes we get up in the morningand we talk about and we think about
all that we've got to do today.
Sometimes we complain about it, weget in a rush, and what do we do?
We don't even pray.
We don't even read our Bible.
We don't even really seriously thinkabout our souls and about spiritual truth.
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We're thinking about the things that we'vegot to get done for this physical life.
The Bible says that Job didthis on a continual basis and
he rose up early in the morning.
He didn't get up early so thathe could check on his livestock
or catch up with his workers tosee if they were doing their job.
He didn't get out early in the morningso that he could survey his land.
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He got up early in the morning so that hecould set his mind on something much more
important than all of his possessions,and he had much more than we have.
This man got up early in the morningto make sure that his spiritual
life was right, to make sure thathis spiritual house was in order.
And this is a great lesson for us.
If we don't learn anything else fromJob chapter one verses one through five,
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it ought to be that we need to be on acontinual basis people who are sincere
and people who are conscientious, notjust in a church building but at home.
So that is the characterof this man named Job.
He was a good moral man, andeven God himself said there
is none like him on the earth.
Now that's very important to rememberbecause you're going to read in this
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book about all the troubles that Job had.
And the more you see him makinghis case for himself and his three
friends accusing him, the easier itis for you to forget what you've read
here in Job chapters one and two.
That's very hard to do becausethe argument becomes so
intense that you forget someof these very basic facts here.
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So don't forget that Job is a good moralman and that he does not deserve this
suffering that is brought upon him.
The second thing to remember isthat Job and his three friends never
entertained the possibility that we'reabout to see, and that is that God
himself was not the one that causedthis suffering, but it was Satan.
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So let's go now to one who didn'thave anything good to say about Job.
You notice in verses one throughsix that God is talking and God has
nothing but good to say about Job.
But when the devil steps intothe situation beginning in
verse six, all that changes.
The Bible says in Jobchapter one, verse six.
“Now there was a day when the sons ofGod came to present themselves before
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the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
And the Lord said to Satan,‘From where do you come?’”
Now, this scene is one of, as theBible says, the sons of God coming to
present themselves before the Lord.
These are evidently angels.
You'll read over in Job chapter38 verses six and seven that these
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angels are evidently the onesthat are being talked about here.
They're called the sonsof God in some verses.
Now, that doesn't mean that every timethat you see the expression sons of God
in the Bible that that refers to angels.
But here and in Job 38 verses six andseven, it evidently refers to those
angels, and that evidently showsalso that Satan was a fallen angel,
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that he was an angel that sinned.
The Bible talks about them, of course,and we've talked about that in several
lessons in Second Peter, chapter two,verse four, and in Jude verse six.
So these sons of God or theseangels evidently come to present
themselves before God becausethey're accountable to God.
A similar scene is First Kingschapter 22, 19 through 22, where the
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Bible talks about the host of heavenappearing before God, and the Scriptures
say Satan came also among them.
Now the Bible doesn't answer questionsthat we might raise about this.
The Bible doesn't answer the question,“Well, why is he there? Or how often
does this happen? Or how symbolicis this?” Satan is the adversary.
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Satan is the enemy who acts like he'syour friend, but he's out for no good.
And that's what we're about to see here.
So God said to Satan, “Where did youcome from?” Now that doesn't mean that
God didn't know where he came from.
Sometimes in the Bible, God asked aquestion not to get an answer so that
he could get information, but to makea point, to make an impression on that
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person, sometimes to rebuke an individual.
In Genesis chapter three, verse nine, theLord asked Adam, “Where are you, Adam?”
God already knew. In Genesis chapterfour, verse nine, God asked Cain, “Where
is your brother?” So the Bible saysthat the devil answered in this way.
In verse seven, he answered the Lord andsaid, “From going to and fro on the earth
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and from walking back and forth on it.
“ The devil works in this world.
He is real.
He is at work.
You can't see him because he'sa spirit, but you can see his
work or his results everywhere.
The devil is always looking for peopleto get them to sin, to rebel against
God, to despise God, to despise his law.
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In First Peter, chapter five, verseeight, the Bible says, “Be sober,
be vigilant, because your adversarythe devil walks about as a roaring
lion seeking whom he may devour.”
In Luke chapter 22, verse 31 and 32,Jesus said, “Simon, Simon, Satan has
desired to have you, that he may siftyou as wheat. But I've prayed for you
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that your faith fail not. And when youare converted, strengthen your brethren.”
This is what he has always done.
The devil is always trying tocause confusion, to stir hate,
to incite selfishness, pride,rebellion, and disrespect.
Then God issued a challenge to the devil.
He said in verse eight, “Have youconsidered my servant Job, that
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there is none like him on the earth,a blameless and upright man, one
who fears God and shuns evil?”Now we enter into the controversy.
Now we enter into thedebate stage in this book.
As a matter of fact, G. CampbellMorgan years ago said that this is a
controversy between heaven and hell,and that's a pretty good way to put it.
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The Bible says in verse nine,“Satan answered the Lord and said,
‘Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have you not made a hedge aroundhim, around his household and around
all that he has on every side?
You have blessed the work ofhis hands and his possessions
have increased in the land.
But now stretch out your hand andtouch all that he has and he will
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surely curse you to your face.
And the Lord said to Satan, ‘Beholdall that he has is in your power.’
Only do not lay a hand on hisperson.” So the debate is simply this.
God said there is none like Jobin the earth, and Satan said no
he's not really a good man at all.
You're wrong about that.
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The devil said in verse nine, “Doesjob fear God for nothing?” You
remember verse one says Job feared God.
And then God said inverse eight he fears God.
The devil says he may fear God, buthe's not doing that for nothing.
He's got a motive.
He's not sincere about that.
He's not being good for nothing.
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He's only acting like heloves you and fears you.
He's not sincere.
He's got an ulterior motive.
And the ulterior motive is this.
He is only acting good becauseGod, you give him all these things.
Job was rich.
God had blessed him.
He had been protected;he had been preserved.
The devil said well you'vemade a hedge around him.
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You've not only given him allthese things, but you've been
protecting him all these years.
That's the idea of the hedge.
You fenced him in; you've shielded him.
So the first thing that thedevil does is to accuse.
That is what he always does.
The word devil comes from a wordin Greek in the New Testament
which means a slanderer.
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In Genesis chapter three, theBible shows that he is talking to
mankind and he is slandering God.
Here in Job chapter one, he's talkingto God and he's slandering a good man.
He always misrepresents.
So we need to ask ourselves aswe look at the devil dealing with
God here, why do I serve God?
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Why do I go to church?
Why do I worship?
Why do I give?
Is it mere habit?
Is it family tradition?
Is it because it's an enjoyableplace to go and be with people?
Is it the attention that I get?
We need to examine our ownhearts and ask ourselves, why
do I live the Christian life?
Are we sincere?
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Now, time tells and trials reveal.
We will be put to the test.
Now, that test may not be as severe asthe test that Job is about to have here,
but our faith will always be tested.
So the devil is brazen enough to challengeGod and to deny what God has said.
God plainly said he is a good man.
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The devil said no he is not.
He is only being religiousand moral because in a sense
you have paid him off, God.
You have given him all thesethings and he is just serving you
to see what he can get out of it.
And if you take away all the physicalblessings that you've given him,
then he will curse you to your face.
That's what he says in verse 11.
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He says in verse 11—now remember, thisis the devil talking to God—"But now
stretch out your hand and touch all thathe has.” And by “touch” he means to harm.
He means destroy.
Touch all that he, that is, that Job has.
The Bible has already talkedabout all the possessions of Job.
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Verse three says his possessions wereall these sheep and camels and oxen
and donkeys and a very large household.
And the devil says if you take allthat away from him, you will see
what kind of man he is and see thatJob is not really a good man at all.
He is just serving you because of allthe good things that you give him.
This is what started this whole situationthat we read about in the Book of Job.
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God and the devil have this disagreement.
The devil says a man will not serveGod just because he loves him.
A man serves God only because ofwhat he can get out of God, only
because of what God gives him.
But God said that's not true.
God said not only is it possible for aman to serve Me simply because he loves
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Me without any reference to Me givinghim anything, but Job is an actual case.
Job is a man who will serve Me whetherhe has a lot or little or nothing.
It doesn't matter becausehe truly fears me.
He is sincere.
The devil is saying nobody is sincere.
He's saying that nobody isunselfish in serving God.
He is actually blaspheming God here.
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He's not just criticizing Joband mankind, but he's actually
looking at God and criticizing God.
He's telling God that he doesn't deserveto be served in that unselfish fashion.
So the devil is disagreeing with andhating everybody here like he always does.
Now God accepted his challenge.
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The Bible tells us in verse 12, “And theLord said to Satan, behold all that he
has is in your power. Only do not laya hand on his person. So Satan went out
from the presence of the Lord.” So Godaccepted his challenge, and this is not
like some childish game of I dare you,or a couple of men betting on something.
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God had reasons for allowing thisto happen, reasons He was not and
is not obligated to explain to us.
But God knew what He wasdoing and why He was doing it.
So the Bible says that the Lord letsSatan have power over Job's belongings.
Notice in verse 11 that the devil saidto God, “Stretch out your hand and
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touch all that he has,” that is, allhis possessions. But God said to Satan
in verse 12, “Behold, all that he hasis in your power.” The remainder of
Job chapter one shows that God is notonly including his possessions like his
livestock, but God is also includingjob's children, because they were his.
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God says all that he has is in your power.
Job's, livestock, his servants and evenhis children are now in Satan's hands, and
we know that it's not going to be good.
Satan told God that if you tookaway everything that Job had, he
would be so angry he would curseyou, and now the devil is going to
take away everything that Job has.
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But God said there's a limit.
You can touch what hehas, but don't touch Job.
At this point.
God would not let the devil hurtjob personally, just what he had.
Now, this has always been true andalways will be, that God allows
the devil only to go so far.
He places limits.
He doesn't give him total controleven in the physical realm.
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That's a very important lesson to learnand to remember when we face sufferings
in this life and we ask God, “Why? Lord?”
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Join us in a study of the inspiredWord to strengthen your faith and to
share what you've learned with others.
I know you want to learn more aboutthe problem of sin and suffering in
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life, and especially in your life.
And in order for us to understandmore about this problem, we
need to read the Book of Job.
This is like a textbook on thissubject to say the very least.
It's much better than any bookthat any man has ever written.
Now you can search for books and you canfind some that are good and some that are
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bad on this topic, but you will never finda book written by a mere human being that
can equal this Old Testament book of Job.
It has many great lessons for us.
You will learn much if you'lljust read the Book of Job.
It has a lot of deep and profoundtruths on this subject, and
one of these is that bad thingssometimes happen to good people.
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Actually, in Job's case, itshows us that the worst things
can happen to the best people.
And we know that Job was one of the trulygreat men in the Bible because of verses
like Ezekiel, chapter 14, verse 14.
Ezekiel the prophet wanted to tellthe people about great men in the
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Bible and use them as an exampleof the point that he was making.
And in order to make that point, hementioned three of the greatest men
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Noah, Daniel, and Job.
God Himself says in this book severaltimes that there was “none like him on the
earth.” The New Testament says in Jameschapter five, verse 11, “You have heard of
the patience of Job.” So let's read aboutthis great man Job in Job] chapter one.
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I'm going to begin reading in verseone, and I'll read through verse five.
“There was a man in the land of Uzwhose name was Job, and that man
was blameless and upright, and onewho feared God and shunned evil.
Seven sons and three daughterswere born to him also.
His possessions were 7,000 sheep,3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500
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female donkeys, and a very largehousehold, so that this man was the
greatest of all the people of the east.
And his sons would go and feast in theirhouses, each one on his appointed day,
and would send and invite their threesisters to eat and drink with them.
So it was when the days of their feastinghad run their course, that Job would send
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and sanctify them, and he would rise earlyin the morning and offer burnt offerings
according to the number of them all.
For Job said, ‘It may be that my sonshave sinned and cursed God in their
hearts.’ Thus did job regularly.”The King James says continually.
Now, let's go back to verse one andconsider what God has said about
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this great man in the first place.
He said that he was blameless.
The King James uses the word perfect.
The New King James usesthe word blameless.
Sometimes people misunderstand the word“perfect” in the King James Version when
it applies to men because they thinkof the word perfect as being sinless.
They think of sinless perfection,and that is not what the word means.
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And that may be why the New KingJames Version avoided that word
and just gave the word blameless.
But even then, you have to qualify that.
Now, the idea here of perfection orblamelessness is that he was complete.
When you see the word blameless in theNew King James, or the word perfect in
the King James Version, think of complete.
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Think of someone who iswhole in his moral life.
He didn't deliberately leaveout an area in his moral life.
He didn't hide a part that was wrong.
He was one who tried to dogood in every area of his life.
Now, it doesn't mean that he wassinless at all because in Job
chapter 13 verse 26, Job doesmention the iniquities of his youth.
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So we're talking about a man whowas well-rounded in his moral life.
Let's look at the contrasthere just to make the point.
There are some people who pick out someparts of their life and say, “I want
to do what's right in those areas,” butthey leave out other parts of their life.
Well, they're not whole.
They're not complete.
For instance, some people are good givers.
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They give generously, but theyuse bad language in their life.
Or they're good atparticipating at church.
They'll take a part in churchservices, but they get home and
they treat their mate wrong.
They are not whole, they are notcomplete, they're not blameless or
perfect like Job was in that sense.
Now the second thing that God saysabout him was that he was upright.
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That's verse one.
That means that he was straightforward.
He was just, he was upright.
He was an honest man.
He was a man whose yeswas yes and his no was no.
There's no deception in Job.
There's no show in Job's life.
There's no hypocrisy in him.
He's not a perfectly sinlessperson, but he is a good man.
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He's a person who's the same.
He is consistent.
He has the same values and thesame morals regardless of who
he's with or who he's around.
He's one who has dignity.
He has self-respect, and he doesn'tbring shame on himself or on his family.
He's one that you can depend onfor integrity and for honesty.
Now that's the idea ofa man being upright.
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He's a man also—and this is very importanthere—the Bible says that he feared God.
Yes, the Bible does talk about fearingGod, and it puts an emphasis on that.
Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10,verse 28, “Fear not them which kill
the body, but are not able to killthe soul; but rather fear Him, who
is able to destroy both soul and bodyin hell.” A man must acknowledge God.
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He must love and respect God.
Yes, he must be humble before God,but he must learn to fear God.
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 12,verse 13, “Let us hear the conclusion
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Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is
the whole” or “the whole duty of man.”If a man fears God, he will look at
others and he will look at everythingin life the way that he should.
Now, if he doesn't fear God, then justabout anything in his life will go.
In Romans three, verse 18, the Bible sadlysays of people in Paul's day something
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that we could say about many in our time.
Romans 3:18 says, “There is no fearof God before their eyes.” But Job, on
the other hand, was a God-fearing man.
He worshiped God.
He remembered God in all that hedid, and he respected God's law
and he respected the Lord himself.
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Now, that's important to remember becauseJob says some things in this book a little
later that were disrespectful of God.
Yes, he did.
He said some things to God andabout God that crossed the line.
Now, we'll talk about that later, butI'm simply laying the foundation here to
show that Job was not a deliberate man inthat he didn't intentionally go into this
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situation thinking that he was going tosay something that was sarcastic to God,
something that was disrespectful to God.
As a matter of fact, he didn'tknow any of this was coming.
All of this that happened to Job hithim, as we would say, out of nowhere.
And so Job is having to dealwith this just like we do.
Sometimes we don't go into a situationthinking that we're going to say
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or do things that we sometimesend up doing and regret later,
but trials press us to our limits.
And you're going to see in this book thatthis man was pressed to the very limits
of his physical being, his intellect,his emotions, and his spiritual values.
So here's a man who did notdisrespect God as a whole in his life.
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He is a God-fearing man, and yethe's going to be tested here.
The next thing that is said about himis that he's a man who shunned evil.
That means he turned away from evil.
He didn't go along with, hedidn't laugh at, he didn't
condone or participate in evil.
As a matter of fact, later in chapter31, when Job is defending himself before
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all these accusations of his friends,he said that he turned his eyes and his
ears and even his thoughts away from sin.
So he is a God-fearing man who hates evil.
He avoids it.
He doesn't get close to it.
He stays away from placesand people that encourage it.
So Job turned away from evil, and thatis a Christian trait that we ought to
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have in our lives every single day.
He is also a family man.
The Bible talks about hiswife and his children.
It first talks about his children.
We'll read about his wife later on.
And he has, by today'sstandards, a large family.
He has seven sons and threedaughters, and they're grown up.
They're on their own because theBible in verse four talks about them
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being in their houses and also talksabout their houses in verse 13.
So they were doing well for themselves.
They had their own places.
They had plenty to eat.
They enjoyed being together.
They got along with each other,and that's quite an accomplishment.
The very fact that these children,these siblings, like to get together
and eat often in verse 4 and inverse 13 was a blessing to Job.
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Many families even in the Biblethat didn't have that kind of peace.
And job is also a very wealthy man.
It talks about his livestock now.
It doesn't really go into tellingus how much land that he had, how
many houses that he built, how muchsilver or gold that he had, because he
probably had a lot of all those as well.
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But it does talk about his livestock,and we need to remember as we read
about this that that livestockrepresented a vast amount of money.
So the Bible says that he had 7,000 sheep.
That is a lot of wool that he could sell.
That's a lot of money.
He had 3000 camels.
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Well, people used camels back inthose days for personal travel,
for hauling goods for business.
That's like having 3000trucks to haul things.
He had 500 yolk, thatis, 500 pair of oxen.
Now that's like having500 tractors for plowing.
That's a lot of money for a lot of land,a lot of crops, and a lot of sales.
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He had 500 female donkeys to carry loads.
That would be like havingwagons and trailers.
So the Bible says also that Job had a verygreat, that is a very large, household.
Now remember that his seven sonsand three daughters are grown.
They're out on their own.
They have their own placesor their own houses.
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So this very large householdthat the Bible says Job still
had refers to his servants.
This refers to men and women, tomales and females who worked for Job.
In Bible times, it was common forpeople to have servants in their family.
Now, sometimes they could only affordone, but if a man was very wealthy,
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he might have dozens or even hundreds.
For instance, you read aboutAbraham in Genesis chapter 14,
arming 318 of his servants.
Those were males that wentwith him to battle so that they
could rescue Lot his nephew.
So that means that Abrahamhad a vast amount of land.
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He had all kinds of responsibilitiesand he had hundreds of workers
to take care of those duties.
Now, the Bible doesn't give us anexact number of all the servants that
Job had, but with all this livestockand all these responsibilities,
he must have had a lot of workers.
So this is a very wealthy man.
The Bible says that he is thegreatest of all the men of the East.
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He's the wealthiest.
He's evidently the most powerfulor influential man in that area.
Job had wide influence.
He was well respected.
People listened to him.
He was a fair and a generous man.
And so here we have anotherexample of a man who was very
rich, and yet he was very good.
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Now that might be theexception to the rule.
You say it might be hard for aman to have a lot of money and
yet still be a good, honest man.
And yet you find two of the greatest menin the Bible were very wealthy people
who were also rich in their faith.
And those two that I'm talkingabout are Abraham and Job.
The Bible says in Genesis 13 versetwo that Abraham was very rich.
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And here the Bible talksabout all the wealth of Job.
So as we look at this passage sofar, it looks like Job has it all.
He has character.
He has honor.
He has a peaceful family.
He has wealth, he has security, buthis virtues go even further because you
find something out about his spiritualand his moral life that is impressive.
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In verse five, the Bible shows thatJob was a very conscientious man.
He was a very sincere man abouthis religion and about his morals.
Remember that verse four saysthat his sons and daughters would
get together and have a meal.
They enjoyed one another's company.
And the Bible says in verse five, aftertheir days of feasting, after their get
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togethers, that Job would send for them.
He would tell them to come togetherfor a serious purpose this time
and he would sanctify them.
He got them ready for worship.
Whatever that involved,Job got them ready.
And the Bible says that heoffered burnt offerings according
to the number of them all.
Now in the law of Moses, only thepriest could do that, and they
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could only do that at the temple.
But Job is offering for his children.
He is offering for his family,and that's what ordinarily took
place during the patriarchal age.
That's why we call itthe Age of Patriarchy.
That's the time of father rule.
So it looks like because of thatthat the book of Job happened
sometime during the patriarchal age.
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So this is a very old book if that's true.
Now, why did Job do this?
Because he said, “It may be that mysons have sinned and cursed God in
their hearts.” Now, he didn't say thatmy sons have sinned and so I'm going to
offer burnt offerings for all of them.
He said maybe they have.
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Just in case if they have sinnedand cursed God in their hearts,
I want to offer a sin offering.
He didn't wait until theyhad sinned and then offer.
The Bible says that he wantedto do that just in case.
It's not that they havesinned, but in case they have.
Now that's being conscientious.
And look at what else this showsabout Job and his attitude and
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his feelings toward his children.
Job was more concerned about their souls.
He was not satisfied that they hadgood homes, that they got along with
each other and that they were happy.
Now, a lot of parents would stopthere and say that everything was
just great with their children.
And it's good that you havethose kinds of blessings.
I'm certainly not trying tocriticize that or downplay that.
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In other words, if children have theirown homes, if they've worked and they've
got their homes, if they get alongwith each other, and if they're happy
being around each other, that's great.
But Job said there's more to it thanthat, and that is you have a relationship
to God and we have to treat God right.
It's one thing to get along witheach other, even in the family, but
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there's something higher, and thatis those children who are getting
along with each other must love God.
And Job was more concerned aboutthat than he was those earthly ties.
Here's something else to think about.
Job was not too proud to admit thathis children might have done wrong.
Sometimes parents can seeno wrong in their children.
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They don't even entertain the idea orthe possibility that their children
might have done something wrong.
Not Job.
He wasn't blind.
He was more honest than that.
He knew his own children.
He knew his sons and his daughters.
He loved them, but heknew that they were human.
He knew that they were capable of sin.
And notice that verse five tells usthat Job did this for all his children.
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He was concerned about all of them.
Notice also that although he is a busyman with all kinds of responsibilities, he
rose up early in the morning to do this,and that was not just once in a while.
He did this continually.
He didn't just do it two or threetimes in his lifetime or once a
year or once every six months.
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He did this continually.
Now, if a man like Job withall his responsibilities could
do this, then why can't we?
Sometimes we get up in the morningand we talk about and we think about
all that we've got to do today.
Sometimes we complain about it, weget in a rush, and what do we do?
We don't even pray.
We don't even read our Bible.
We don't even really seriously thinkabout our souls and about spiritual truth.
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We're thinking about the things that we'vegot to get done for this physical life.
The Bible says that Job didthis on a continual basis and
he rose up early in the morning.
He didn't get up early so thathe could check on his livestock
or catch up with his workers tosee if they were doing their job.
He didn't get out early in the morningso that he could survey his land.
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He got up early in the morning so that hecould set his mind on something much more
important than all of his possessions,and he had much more than we have.
This man got up early in the morningto make sure that his spiritual
life was right, to make sure thathis spiritual house was in order.
And this is a great lesson for us.
If we don't learn anything else fromJob chapter one verses one through five,
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it ought to be that we need to be on acontinual basis people who are sincere
and people who are conscientious, notjust in a church building but at home.
So that is the characterof this man named Job.
He was a good moral man, andeven God himself said there
is none like him on the earth.
Now that's very important to rememberbecause you're going to read in this
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book about all the troubles that Job had.
And the more you see him makinghis case for himself and his three
friends accusing him, the easier itis for you to forget what you've read
here in Job chapters one and two.
That's very hard to do becausethe argument becomes so
intense that you forget someof these very basic facts here.
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So don't forget that Job is a good moralman and that he does not deserve this
suffering that is brought upon him.
The second thing to remember isthat Job and his three friends never
entertained the possibility that we'reabout to see, and that is that God
himself was not the one that causedthis suffering, but it was Satan.
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So let's go now to one who didn'thave anything good to say about Job.
You notice in verses one throughsix that God is talking and God has
nothing but good to say about Job.
But when the devil steps intothe situation beginning in
verse six, all that changes.
The Bible says in Jobchapter one, verse six.
“Now there was a day when the sons ofGod came to present themselves before
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the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
And the Lord said to Satan,‘From where do you come?’”
Now, this scene is one of, as theBible says, the sons of God coming to
present themselves before the Lord.
These are evidently angels.
You'll read over in Job chapter38 verses six and seven that these
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angels are evidently the onesthat are being talked about here.
They're called the sonsof God in some verses.
Now, that doesn't mean that every timethat you see the expression sons of God
in the Bible that that refers to angels.
But here and in Job 38 verses six andseven, it evidently refers to those
angels, and that evidently showsalso that Satan was a fallen angel,
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that he was an angel that sinned.
The Bible talks about them, of course,and we've talked about that in several
lessons in Second Peter, chapter two,verse four, and in Jude verse six.
So these sons of God or theseangels evidently come to present
themselves before God becausethey're accountable to God.
A similar scene is First Kingschapter 22, 19 through 22, where the
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Bible talks about the host of heavenappearing before God, and the Scriptures
say Satan came also among them.
Now the Bible doesn't answer questionsthat we might raise about this.
The Bible doesn't answer the question,“Well, why is he there? Or how often
does this happen? Or how symbolicis this?” Satan is the adversary.
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Satan is the enemy who acts like he'syour friend, but he's out for no good.
And that's what we're about to see here.
So God said to Satan, “Where did youcome from?” Now that doesn't mean that
God didn't know where he came from.
Sometimes in the Bible, God asked aquestion not to get an answer so that
he could get information, but to makea point, to make an impression on that
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person, sometimes to rebuke an individual.
In Genesis chapter three, verse nine, theLord asked Adam, “Where are you, Adam?”
God already knew. In Genesis chapterfour, verse nine, God asked Cain, “Where
is your brother?” So the Bible saysthat the devil answered in this way.
In verse seven, he answered the Lord andsaid, “From going to and fro on the earth
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and from walking back and forth on it.
“ The devil works in this world.
He is real.
He is at work.
You can't see him because he'sa spirit, but you can see his
work or his results everywhere.
The devil is always looking for peopleto get them to sin, to rebel against
God, to despise God, to despise his law.
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In First Peter, chapter five, verseeight, the Bible says, “Be sober,
be vigilant, because your adversarythe devil walks about as a roaring
lion seeking whom he may devour.”
In Luke chapter 22, verse 31 and 32,Jesus said, “Simon, Simon, Satan has
desired to have you, that he may siftyou as wheat. But I've prayed for you
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that your faith fail not. And when youare converted, strengthen your brethren.”
This is what he has always done.
The devil is always trying tocause confusion, to stir hate,
to incite selfishness, pride,rebellion, and disrespect.
Then God issued a challenge to the devil.
He said in verse eight, “Have youconsidered my servant Job, that
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there is none like him on the earth,a blameless and upright man, one
who fears God and shuns evil?”Now we enter into the controversy.
Now we enter into thedebate stage in this book.
As a matter of fact, G. CampbellMorgan years ago said that this is a
controversy between heaven and hell,and that's a pretty good way to put it.
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The Bible says in verse nine,“Satan answered the Lord and said,
‘Does Job fear God for nothing?
Have you not made a hedge aroundhim, around his household and around
all that he has on every side?
You have blessed the work ofhis hands and his possessions
have increased in the land.
But now stretch out your hand andtouch all that he has and he will
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surely curse you to your face.
And the Lord said to Satan, ‘Beholdall that he has is in your power.’
Only do not lay a hand on hisperson.” So the debate is simply this.
God said there is none like Jobin the earth, and Satan said no
he's not really a good man at all.
You're wrong about that.
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The devil said in verse nine, “Doesjob fear God for nothing?” You
remember verse one says Job feared God.
And then God said inverse eight he fears God.
The devil says he may fear God, buthe's not doing that for nothing.
He's got a motive.
He's not sincere about that.
He's not being good for nothing.
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He's only acting like heloves you and fears you.
He's not sincere.
He's got an ulterior motive.
And the ulterior motive is this.
He is only acting good becauseGod, you give him all these things.
Job was rich.
God had blessed him.
He had been protected;he had been preserved.
The devil said well you'vemade a hedge around him.
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You've not only given him allthese things, but you've been
protecting him all these years.
That's the idea of the hedge.
You fenced him in; you've shielded him.
So the first thing that thedevil does is to accuse.
That is what he always does.
The word devil comes from a wordin Greek in the New Testament
which means a slanderer.
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In Genesis chapter three, theBible shows that he is talking to
mankind and he is slandering God.
Here in Job chapter one, he's talkingto God and he's slandering a good man.
He always misrepresents.
So we need to ask ourselves aswe look at the devil dealing with
God here, why do I serve God?
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Why do I go to church?
Why do I worship?
Why do I give?
Is it mere habit?
Is it family tradition?
Is it because it's an enjoyableplace to go and be with people?
Is it the attention that I get?
We need to examine our ownhearts and ask ourselves, why
do I live the Christian life?
Are we sincere?
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Now, time tells and trials reveal.
We will be put to the test.
Now, that test may not be as severe asthe test that Job is about to have here,
but our faith will always be tested.
So the devil is brazen enough to challengeGod and to deny what God has said.
God plainly said he is a good man.
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The devil said no he is not.
He is only being religiousand moral because in a sense
you have paid him off, God.
You have given him all thesethings and he is just serving you
to see what he can get out of it.
And if you take away all the physicalblessings that you've given him,
then he will curse you to your face.
That's what he says in verse 11.
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He says in verse 11—now remember, thisis the devil talking to God—"But now
stretch out your hand and touch all thathe has.” And by “touch” he means to harm.
He means destroy.
Touch all that he, that is, that Job has.
The Bible has already talkedabout all the possessions of Job.
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Verse three says his possessions wereall these sheep and camels and oxen
and donkeys and a very large household.
And the devil says if you take allthat away from him, you will see
what kind of man he is and see thatJob is not really a good man at all.
He is just serving you because of allthe good things that you give him.
This is what started this whole situationthat we read about in the Book of Job.
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God and the devil have this disagreement.
The devil says a man will not serveGod just because he loves him.
A man serves God only because ofwhat he can get out of God, only
because of what God gives him.
But God said that's not true.
God said not only is it possible for aman to serve Me simply because he loves
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Me without any reference to Me givinghim anything, but Job is an actual case.
Job is a man who will serve Me whetherhe has a lot or little or nothing.
It doesn't matter becausehe truly fears me.
He is sincere.
The devil is saying nobody is sincere.
He's saying that nobody isunselfish in serving God.
He is actually blaspheming God here.
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He's not just criticizing Joband mankind, but he's actually
looking at God and criticizing God.
He's telling God that he doesn't deserveto be served in that unselfish fashion.
So the devil is disagreeing with andhating everybody here like he always does.
Now God accepted his challenge.
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The Bible tells us in verse 12, “And theLord said to Satan, behold all that he
has is in your power. Only do not laya hand on his person. So Satan went out
from the presence of the Lord.” So Godaccepted his challenge, and this is not
like some childish game of I dare you,or a couple of men betting on something.
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God had reasons for allowing thisto happen, reasons He was not and
is not obligated to explain to us.
But God knew what He wasdoing and why He was doing it.
So the Bible says that the Lord letsSatan have power over Job's belongings.
Notice in verse 11 that the devil saidto God, “Stretch out your hand and
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touch all that he has,” that is, allhis possessions. But God said to Satan
in verse 12, “Behold, all that he hasis in your power.” The remainder of
Job chapter one shows that God is notonly including his possessions like his
livestock, but God is also includingjob's children, because they were his.
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God says all that he has is in your power.
Job's, livestock, his servants and evenhis children are now in Satan's hands, and
we know that it's not going to be good.
Satan told God that if you tookaway everything that Job had, he
would be so angry he would curseyou, and now the devil is going to
take away everything that Job has.
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But God said there's a limit.
You can touch what hehas, but don't touch Job.
At this point.
God would not let the devil hurtjob personally, just what he had.
Now, this has always been true andalways will be, that God allows
the devil only to go so far.
He places limits.
He doesn't give him total controleven in the physical realm.
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That's a very important lesson to learnand to remember when we face sufferings
in this life and we ask God, “Why? Lord?”
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