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.