How to Handle Tough Times: Lessons to Learn from Job

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How to Handle Tough TimesLessons to Learn from
Job

• 4th of a Series
• 1 John 53-5
• July 17 - AM

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How to Handle Tough Times

• Job suffered much loss
• He never sinned or abandoned God
• There are some important lessons we can learn
  from the powerful example of Job
• Here are 8 lessons we should remember

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1 Faith is the Victory

• 1 John 54b - And this is the victory that has
  overcome the worldour faith.
• Job 1925-27 25 For I know that my Redeemer
  lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth
  26 And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
  That in my flesh I shall see God, 27 Whom I shall
  see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not
  another. How my heart yearns within me!

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1 Faith is the Victory

• Hebrews 136 - So we may boldly say The Lord is
  my helper I will not fear. What can man do to
  me?
• We walk by faith 2 Corinthians 57
• We are saved by faith Ephesians 28

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2 Faith Comes by Hearing

• Job 425a - I have heard of You by the hearing of
  the ear,
• Romans 1017 - So then faith comes by hearing,
  and hearing by the word of God.

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2 Faith Comes by Hearing

• John 2030-31 - 30And truly Jesus did many other
  signs in the presence of His disciples, which are
  not written in this book 31but these are written
  that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ,
  the Son of God, and that believing you may have
  life in His name.

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2 Faith Comes by Hearing

• Psalm 11911 - Your word I have hidden in my
  heart, That I might not sin against You.
• We must learn to hear (listen) to God
• Without hearing there is no victory

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3 Never Accuse God of Wrong

• Job 408 - Would you indeed annul My judgment?
  Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
• Deuteronomy 324 - He is the Rock, His work is
  perfect For all His ways are justice, A God of
  truth and without injustice Righteous and
  upright is He.

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3 Never Accuse God of Wrong

• Psalm 14517 - The LORD is righteous in all His
  ways, Gracious in all His works.
• We have no right to accuse the potter of how he
  chooses to shape the clay

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4 God is in Control

• God talks with Job about his suffering
• Nothing about I love you
• God does not explain why this happened
• Gods focus in on power and control
• Who CREATED all these things?
• Do you KNOW the secrets of the universe?
• Not Job! Only God knows!

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4 God is in Control

• When we are suffering we ask Why?
• It is OK to ask
• Dont expect a clear, logical answer
• When people are suffering, remind them that God
  is in control.

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5 All Suffering is not Punitive

• Job did not suffer because he was bad, did
  immoral things, and was being punished
• John 91-2 - 1Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a
  man who was blind from birth. 2And His disciples
  asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man
  or his parents, that he was born blind?

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5 All Suffering is not Punitive

• John 93 - Jesus answered, Neither this man nor
  his parents sinned, but that the works of God
  should be revealed in him.
• Some suffering might serve to punish
• Some suffering is the result of the sin of others
  the innocent suffer from it
• Not all suffering is a form of punishment

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6 We Dont Know it All

• Deuteronomy 2929 - The secret things belong to
  the LORD our God, but those things which are
  revealed belong to us and to our children
  forever, that we may do all the words of this
  law.
• We dont know the mind of God
• We cant explain our universe

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7 Problems Will Come

• 2 Timothy 312 - Yes, and all who desire to live
  godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
• Acts 1422 - strengthening the souls of the
  disciples, exhorting them to continue in the
  faith, and saying, We must through many
  tribulations enter the kingdom of God.

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7 Problems Will Come

• John 1520 -Remember the word that I said to you,
  A servant is not greater than his master. If
  they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.
  If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
• 1 Peter 412 - Beloved, do not think it strange
  concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,
  as though some strange thing happened to you

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8 Never Give Up!

• James 112 - Blessed is the man who endures
  temptation for when he has been approved, he
  will receive the crown of life which the Lord has
  promised to those who love Him.
• Galatians 69 - And let us not grow weary while
  doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we
  do not lose heart.

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8 Never Give Up!

• 1 Corinthians 152b - if you hold fast that word
  which I preached to youunless you believed in
  vain.
• Revelation 210b - Be faithful until death, and I
  will give you the crown of life.
• Luke 2119 - By your patience possess your souls.

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8 Never Give Up!

• 2 Timothy 212 - If we endure, We shall also
  reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny
  us.
• Job is an example of patience (James 511)
• We must wait on the Lord.
• Never, Never, Never Give Up!

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Learn from Job

• We have discussed 8 lessons that we must learn
  from the example of Job.
• Suffering the Tough Times is a part of living in
  this world.
• Is your faith ready for the trial?