Job 2



Yesterday Pastor Greg Laurie preached in his first part of this sermon series on why God allows suffering. Today we took the next step up and talked about how react when some one is suffering. I recommend you to listen to his sermon and/on read his outlines on his website or on the radio. He goes so into detail about what he talks about and I just try to sum out what I got out of his messages. 
After listening to his sermon today, I just wanted to continue reading through Job and focus on chapter 2. He goes a little more within though. 

In chapter two Satan was determined to get Job to curse God. He tempt God by saying if you give me Job's health I'm sure that he will curse you. God's reply was:
"There he is—within your power; only preserve his life." Job 2:6
Why was God so willing to give Job over to Satan? It's obvious that Job didn't think twice about cursing God when he took away his children. God allows this to grab our attention. He wants to make sure we are on the right path that we need to be, spiritually. 

Once Satan got God's say to attack Job again this is what happened:
The Adversary departed from the Lord ’s presence and struck Job with severe sores from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself and sat down on a mound of ashes. Job 2:7, 8 
Satan gave Job boils and sores from head to foot. As Job sat with his health decreasing, his wife comes to him and says, "Why are you clinging to your adversity? Curse God and die." (9)
Why did his own wife try to get Job to curse God? I'm sure that can relate to anyone's life. Have you ever had some one try to influence you in the negative way? Which might have ruined your life for the worse.

Job didn't sin and said, "Will we receive good from God but not also bad?"(10)
When God allows the bad in our life, it's a way of seeing if we will still trust in God and will love Him and praise Him.

Pastor Greg Laurie was focusing on the way Job's friends responded to Job when he came to them. How would you response if you had a friend come to you, who was dealing with something so hard in their life? Pastor Greg wanted to show us how it is better to just be silent, when the suffering is too much. We don't have the words to make some one feel better. We would probably just make it worse. 

They sat with Job on the ground seven days and seven nights, not speaking a word to him, for they saw that he was in excruciating pain. Job 2:13

His friends sat with him for 7 days and allowed him to grieve and they didn't say a word for those seven days. 

Pastor Greg Laurie goes on to talk more within the book of Job and how your words could be a negative response. If you click here it will bring you to his outlines that will show you what more he had to say about this sermon. 

Next time you have a friend or family member going through something tough, make sure you stop and think of the right way to response. Maybe just your presence of you being with them might be just what they need.


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