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Calvary Baptist Sunday School

Weekly lesson outlines from the Sunday School class at Calvary Baptist Church, Middleburg, FL, taught by Brian McPherson. This class is designed for those with chronic illnesses, to encourage them, and to teach them to walk with the Lord in His strength.

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Lesson 12: Job 6:8-

Lesson 12
Job Ch6:8-

I. Introduction.
A. We are now studying the response of Job to Eliphaz's first address.
B. We saw that Job's response was in seven distinct parts
C In our last lesson we covered the first (The reality of Job's suffering) part of Job's response.
1. We saw the responsibility of the believer to thoroughly weigh the grief of another.
2. We discussed the arrows of the Lord.
a. Job was depressed.
b. Job felt as if the Lord was against him.
c. Job was afraid that he would not receive mercy.
3. We saw Job's reasons for complaining.
D. We will now move on and analyze more of Job's response.

II. Job's longing for death at God's hand. (ch.6:8-13)
A. Job has but one thing to ask God: that He would take his life. (vs.8-9)
B. I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. (vs.10)
1. The counsels of God, His truths, must be revealed.
2. The study of a godly man is to make the Word of God visible.
3. It is a dangerous thing for any man to conceal the Word of God, either in opinion or practice.
C. The Holy One.
1. All holiness is in God.
2. The Divine nature is the root and the spring of all holiness and purity.
3. God is called the Holy One in three respects.
a. Because God is holy in Himself.
1) God is holy in His very nature.
2) God's essence is purity.
3) God is holy in His Word.
4) God is holy in His works
b. Because we receive all holiness from Him.
1) The holiness of man consists in his conformity to the holiness of god.
2) There is a twofold conformity.
a) A conformity to the nature of God.
b) A conformity to the will of God.
c. Therefore we are to serve Him in holiness and righteousness.
4. How do we conceal the words of the Holy One?
a. When we conceal the word from ourselves.
1) We do this when we refuse to allow the word to search our hearts.
2) We do this when we deny the gospel and seek some other way of salvation.
b. When we conceal the word from others.
1) By not confessing the truth.
2) By clouding the truth with error.
3) By living an inconsistent life.
5. The man who conceals the Word is out of order with God.
6. By concealing God's Word we are being disloyal to God.
7. There are two ways in which we can avoid the sin of concealment.
a. By taking care that we make open profession of our faith and unite with the people of God.
b. By keeping ourselves clear of sinful silence by speaking to others of the things of God.

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Lesson 11 Job 6

There was so much material in Lesson 10 that it took 3 weeks for the class to work through it all.
Here, finally is Lesson 11.
Lesson 11
Job Ch.6
I. Introduction
A. In our last lesson we finished up on the address of Eliphaz.
B. We saw that Eliphaz had a solemn view of God. {ch.5:9-11}
C. We saw that Eliphaz had a working knowledge of the law.
D. What is missing in the address of Eliphaz is sympathy and consolation.
E. We broke down Eliphaz's address into seven distinct parts.
F. It is not surprising, then, that Job's reply has seven parts.
1. The reality of his sufferings. {ch.6:1-7}
2. Longing for death at the hand of God. {ch.6:8-13}
3. Friends manifested as useless. {ch.6:14-23}
4. Let them truly test him. {ch.6:243-30}
5. The brevity of life. {ch.7:1-11}
6. God his enemy. {ch.7:12-19}
7. The appeal in view of sin. {ch.7:20-21}
There are two things indicated in scripture that relate to Job's
suffering.
1. They were unutterable. { My words are swallowed up. vs.3}
a. Job's whole humanity was in torture.
b. Job suffered in body.
c. Job suffered in mind.
2. They were irrepressible. { Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his
fodder? vs.5}
a. The idea here is, I cannot but cry; my cries spring from my agonies.


II. The reality of Job's suffering. {ch.6:1-7}
A. Eliphaz had reproached Job for succumbing to despair.
B. Job's great suffering was unappreciated.
1.Eliphaz had no idea of the depth of Job's suffering.
a. It was keenly distressing to Job's feelings.
b. It was strongly influential on his emotions.
C. Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed. vs.2
1. It is a duty to weigh the saddest estate and affliction of our brethren thoroughly.
a. It must be weighed to see what it is which a man suffers in every circumstance and aggravation of
it. { consideration of circumstances}
2. He that would weigh an affliction thoroughly must make another's grief his own. { sympathy for the
pain}
3. It is an addition to man's affliction when others are not sensible of his affliction.
4. We can never rightly judge till we thoroughly weigh the condition of an afflicted brother.
D. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. vs.4
1. The arrows appear as boils as well as all the other outward health problems that Job suffered from.
2. This also implied his inward temptations, and the sense that God's wrath flowing therefrom.
E. It must be seen here that Job's mood was that of one who was sad, mornful and depressed.
1. Chief reasons for melancholy.
a. Indisposition {illness} or distemper {disorder, or disease} of body.
b. An apprehension of exclusion from mercy by some positive decree from God.
c. The fear of having committed sin against the Holy Spirit.
d. The conscience of past sins, and of present remaining infirminities.
F. Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? vs.5
1. Job introduces this illustration to prove to his friends that his complaining were not in vain.
2. This verse teaches that one who is satisfied does not complain.
G. Job's suffering was misunderstood by his friends. { can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt?
vs.6}
1. This language seems to suggest that Job is pointing to the contents of Eliphaz's address.
a. Job felt that the address of Eliphaz was without any pleasing qualities.
b. Eliphaz's address, as far as Job was concerned, was pointless, dull, and tasteless.
c. Job was considered the address of Eliphaz as nothing more than unsavory meat.
2. Lessons learned from the text.
a. The want of savour is a very great want in anything that is meant for food.
b. That which is unsavory from lack of salt must not be eaten.
H. Verse seven suggests that Job's sufferings were like food to him.
1. Job intimates that with what loathsome food is set before him, how can it be expected
that he partake of it without complaining.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Lesson 4; Job 1:11-22 (One of the missing ones)

Assault and Victory
Job 1:11-22
I. Introduction
A. In our last lesson we learned about Satan’s accusation.
B. Satan claimed that Job was selfish.
1. Job’s motivation for worship was simply for what he could get out of God.
2. God could only get people to worship Him by buying their loyalty.
C. Satan claimed that He protected Job with a hedge built around him. Vs.10
1. The word hedge denotes that which protects or guards.
a. God seeks to protect all of our lives.
2. A hedge not only protects, but also helps to keep us from wandering.
D. In our present lesson we will see the assault of Satan on Job, and Job’s victory.
E. It must be remembered here, that the trial Job is to go through was not only to give glory to
the throne of God, but also for the purpose of teaching some needed life lessons.
1. To try the genuiness of faith
2. To uncover latent corruption in the heart.
3. To purify the soul. (Remove the dross)
4. To call into exercise the graces of the Spirit.
5. To awaken one to the sense of one’s responsibilities.

II. The assault on Job. ( vs.12-19)
A. In verse 12 we see that the Lord gives permission for Satan to start his assault on Job.
B. Note the agents that Satan uses in his assault.
1. People.
a. The Sabeans vs. 15
b. The Chaldeans vs. 17
2. Acts of nature.
a. Lightning vs. 16
b. Tornado vs. 19
C. It is important to see the agents that Satan uses in his warfare with God.
D. Ephesians 2:1-2; And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
1. Notice that Satan is the prince of the power of the air.
2. Notice that Satan has influence over lost people.
3. Apply this verse to our lives.
a. In our adversity whom do we blame?
b. We must, like Job, turn to God and realize that adversity in our lives could be the result of
trial.
III. Job’s victory (vs. 22)
A. Looking at verse 21 we can see four statements that Job made which directly attributes to
his victory.
B. The first statement: naked came I out of my mother’s womb and naked shall I return
thither.
1. Job observes the extreme brevity of life.
2. This is the true view of life.
a. I Peter 1:24, for all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The
grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
b. Psalm 90 5-6, Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning
they are like grass which groweth up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and
withereth.
1) Verse three shows that these verses are about man.
c. Psalm 103: 15-16, As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he
flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
3. Job seems to be saying to himself that life is so short why should I worry about what is lost.
4. Job seems to dwell upon the thought, I shall return to the earth.
a. Having lost all, it was not difficult for Job to see the benefits of departing this life for
eternity.
C. The second statement: Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return
thither.
1. Job is saying that he is no poorer know (after the loss of all) than I was when I was born.
2. When we think of it, we were really worse when we were born because we were helpless.
3. However poor I am now is not as poor as I will be when I die for I can take nothing with me.
4. The principle here is that the both ends of life are nakedness.
D. The third statement: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.
1. Job recognized the hand of God everywhere giving.
2. Job realized that everything he had was given to him by God and he did not earn it.
3. Man cannot have any property apart from God.
4. Everything includes wife or husband, children, and friends, as well as money.
5. Job also saw equally the hand of God in the taking away of the gifts.
E. The fourth statement: Blessed be the name of the Lord.
1. The Lord is to be blessed for taking as well as giving.