Tried As Gold

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Tried As Gold

• Job 2310

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Who Was Job?

• Job was a real man, a family man, a wealthy man,
  an honorable man, a marked man, a married man
  (Job 1-2)
• Job was a righteous man (Ezek 1419-20)
• Job a patient man (Jas. 510-11)
• Job was a tried and tested man (Job 2310 Rev.
  318)

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How Was Job Tried?

• Job was deprived of his possessions (113-17)
• Job was deprived of his children (118-19)
• Job was deprived of his health (27-8 73-5
  1616 1920 3017,30)
• Job was deprived of his wife (29)
• Job was deprived of his inner well-being (213
  324-26 713-16 3017)
• Job was deprived of his friends (134 161
  1919)

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How Was Job Tried?

• Job was deprived of his social standing (29-30)
• Job was deprived of his proper understanding of
  God
• God is shooting at me (64)
• God is harassing me (711-12)
• God is unjustly inflicting me (917)
• God is killing me (1324)
• God is hiding from me (1324)
• God is hurting me (167-14 198ff)

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How Did Job Come Forth As Gold?

• Job had built his life on God before the testing
  and trials came (11,5,20-22 210)
• Job was a man of moral character (311ff)
• Job looked beyond this life to the next a
  resurrection day (1414 1925-29)
• Job was willing to listen to God (38-41)
• Job had a dogged determination to trust in God
  and do what he said (421-17)

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Tried As Gold

• Faithful Israelites were tried (Dan. 1135 Zech.
  139 Mal. 33)
• The Lords church is tried (1 Pet. 16-7)
• How will you be found after being tried and
  tested? As gold? (Jas. 12-4,12)