Lesson 5 Job 2:1-8 (Another missing one)

Lesson 5
Job 2:1-8

I. Introduction
A. In our last lesson we saw the trial and victory of Job.
B. We saw that Job had four principles that allowed him to gain victory.
1. Job observed the brevity of life.
2. Job realized he came into the world naked and would leave the world the same way.
3. Job realized everything he had was a gift from the Lord.
4. Job gave God the glory for all that happened.
C. In our text we are privileged, once again, to view a heavenly scene.
D. The Lord has graciously allowed us to see this scene in order to strengthen our faith and loving trust in
Him.
E. What we see in this glimpse of heaven is a scene that continually goes on day after day.
F. Satan is from time to time allowed to move the Lord to afflict even His most faithful people in various
ways.
G. The Lord gives Satan only a limited power over His own people.
H. Satan is often the Lord's agent in the affliction of disease and other trials.

II. The character of temptation.
A. God is not the author of it. { James chapter one}
B. There are three parts to temptation. {Satan is the author}
1. The external conditions which tend to bring it about.
2. The state of the heart which makes temptation tempting to us.
3. The special thoughts in the mind to do the deed.
C. God allows us to be tempted for our own good.
D. Temptation is never necessarily successful.
E. The trial of Job suggests three truths.
1. Satan is a personal being.
2. God permits Satan to tempt believers.
3. God sets a limit to the powers of Satan.

III. Satan's proverb {all that a man hath will he give for his life}
A. Again, we see the insinuation that Job only serves God for selfish reasons.
B. Satan believes that all possessions will be abandoned to keep oneself alive.
C. The sore test of disease is more trying than the loss of wealth.
D. Life has always been considered the most valuable treasure.
E. Human life has an intimate, unavoidable, inseparable connection with another world.
F. The importance of human life is seen in the deploration of the destruction of it.
G. The importance of human life is seen in how we pamper it and work to keep it from injury.
H. To love life is a christian duty.
1. Our attachment to life is the marred and mutilated relic of immortality.
2. The love of life survives all that can make life desirable.
3. The love of life is the simplest and strongest principle of nature.
I. Reasons for attachment to life.
1. The preservation of life.
2. The promotion of industry and labor.
3. The protection of life from violence.
J. Why has God made life so sacred?
1. To accomplish His purpose, the lives of all men must be in His hands.
2. Without the instinct of life man would not have the impulse to work.

IV. Satan's low estimate of human nature.
A. His language implies that even a good man's love of goodness in not supreme and invincible.
1. Goodness is not so dear to man as life.
2. That great personal suffering will turn even a good man against God.
B. Satan's great master plan is to turn Job against God.
C. There are three things worthy of comment in Job's ability to frustrate the purpose of Satan.
1. Job reproves his wife. { Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh}
2. Job vindicates God. { What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive
evil?}
3. Job is commended by inspiration. {in all this did not Job sin with his lips.
V. Job's wife
A. She only comes on the scene to heighten, for one moment, the intensity of her husband's desolation and
misery.
B. There can be no doubt that she appears as the temptress of her husband.
C. Job's wife is typical of a class of people that always existed in the world.
1. These people lose sight of all that is bright in life. {generates dispair}
D. Reasons for dispair.
1. A false view of God.
2. False ideas concerning the human race.
3. Denial of the existence of God.
F. The folly of dispair.
1. It shuts out of view the possibility of change for the better.
2. It is rebellion against God.
3. It injures the soul.