Calvary Baptist Sunday School

Lesson 20 Job:8-10

2006-08-05T19:18:00.000-04:00

I. Introduction.
A. We are now looking into Bildad's address to Job.
B. We saw that Bildad accused Job of believing God to be unjust.
C. We saw that Bildad offered two proofs that his allegations were correct.
1. The death of his children.
2. That mercy is available.
D. Starting in verse eight, Bildad brings up Job's problems in light of the past.
E. Notice the reference to the former age.
F. Notice also the reference to the search of the fathers.
II. The intellectual poverty of life. {vs.9}
A. Two unquestionable truths emerge from this verse.
1. The transitoriness of life.
2. The intellectual poverty of our moral life.
B. We know nothing.
1. Our ignorance arises from the brevity of life.
2. We have very little time to acquire knowledge.
3. We know nothing compared with what is to be known.
4. Each advancement in science has shown us the comparative nothingness of all human knowledge.
5. We know nothing compared with what we shall know in the future.
C. The imperfection of our knowledge is plainly owing to:
1. The narrowness of our facilities.
2. The lateness of our existence.
3. The disadvantage of our situation for observing nature.
4. The disadvantage of our situation for acquiring knowledge.
D. If we are thus so necessarily ignorant, it does not become us to criticize the ways of God.
E. The profoundest modesty should characterize us in the maintenance of our theological views.
1. It is the duty of man to get convictions of divine truth for himself.
2. It is the duty of man to hold theological convictions with firmness.
3. It is the duty of man to promote his theological views with earnestness.
4. All this must be done with the conscientiousness of his own fallibility.
5. All this must be done with the conscientiousness of regard or respect to the judgment of others.
6. True wisdom is ever modest.
III. Our days upon earth are a shadow.
A. The text here reminds us of life.
B. Bildad compares our existence to a shadow.
C. The meaning of the use of the word shadow.
1. A shadow is dark.
a. The word is always associated with that which is gloomy.
b. Man, that is born of woman has but a short time to live, and is full of misery.
2. A shadow is not possible without light.
a. We may be assured that our troubles are accompanied by the Sun of Righteousness.
3. To console us in all trials we have the light of God's presence.
4. To console us in all trials we have the purpose of God.
a. The storms of trouble develop holiness.
b. The storms of trouble develop virtue.
5. A shadow agrees with its substance.
a. It agrees in shape.
b. It agrees in size.
c. Life is a shadow.
d. God is the sun.
e. eternity is the substance.
6. A shadow is soon gone.

Lesson 19 Job 8:1-7

2006-08-05T19:16:00.000-04:00

I. Introduction
A. We are now finished with Job's response to Eliphaz's first address.
B. Starting in chapter eight Bildad offers his views concerning Job's plight.
C. In our study, we saw that Eliphaz was a religious dogmatist.
a. Eliphaz saw Job's suffering as a direct result of sin.
D. We will see, as we study Bildad's speech, that his dogmatism was based on human tradition.
E. Bildad's speech may be divided into five parts.
1. Bildad's reproach of Job. {vs.1-2}
2. Is God unjust? {vs.3-7}
3. The light of the past. {vs.8-10}
4. The way of the wicked. {vs.11-19}
5. Divine recompense for the righteous. {vs.20-22}
II. Bildad's reproach of Job. {vs.1-2}
A. With all of his ignorance of Divine principles, Bildad is jealous of the honor of God, and cannot allow Him to be accused.
B. Job's words that he spoke concerning Eliphaz's address are like a blast of bitter complaint and charge against God as far as Bildad was concerned.
C. In his disgust for the words of Job, Bildad wants to know how long he is going to keep up with such an attitude.
1. It must be noted here that Bildad's rebuke, though harsh, is a just correction of the extreme rashness of Job's words.
III. Is God unjust? {vs.3-7}
A. The justice of God.
1. The justice of God is that aspect of His holiness which is seen in His treatment of
His creatures.
a. God has instituted a moral government.
b. God has imposed just laws upon His creatures.
c. God executes His laws through a bestowal system of reward and punishment.
d. Reward {remunerative justice} is based on Divine love.
e. Punishment {punitive justice} is the penalty for violating the law.
f. Justice demands punishment.
g. The vicarious atonement of Christ satisfied the demand for punishment for the believer.
B. Bildad's question insinuates that Job has called God unjust.
1. Bildad felt that Job did not consider himself a sinner and therefore deemed God unjust.
C. Bildad offers two proofs of God's justice.
1. The death of Job's children. vs.4
a. Bildad assumed that Job's children reaped the due reward of their wickedness.
2. He tells Job that there is restoring mercy for him. vs.5
D. In Bildad's two statements we see that he feels sure that he has the answer to misery and happiness.
1. Bildad believes that untimely death, sickness, adversity in every form, are alike signs of God's
anger.
2. Bildad applies his beliefs on Job.
E. Bildad errs in that he equates all suffering is, in each and every case, the consequence of ill-doing.
F. Bildad urges Job to seek God betimes. vs.5
1. At face value, this is sound advice for all believers.
2. We must seek God for four reasons.
a. Because we have nothing of ourselves.
b. Because none is so present as He.
c. Because none is able to help as He.
d. Because there is none so willing to help us as He.
3. We seek God through prayer.
G. Though thy beginning was small. vs.7
1. Bildad here suggests that if Job were right with God he would continue to grow in prosperity.
2. Small beginnings in certain cases are productive of great ends.

Lesson 18 Job 7:20-21

2006-08-05T19:07:00.000-04:00

I. Introduction.
A. We have inspected six points of Job's response to Eliphaz's first address.
B. We are now going to examine the last point of that address.
C. The last point Job declares pertains to an appeal in view of sin.
II. I have sinned; what shall I do unto Thee, O Thou Preserver of men. { vs.20 }
A. The sinner's surrender to his Preserver.
1. First we see a confession.
a. The confession was brief, but yet full.
b. It was more full in its generality than if he had sinned.
c. We may use this statement as a summary of our life.
2. The confession was personal.
a. "I" have sinned.
3. The confession was to the Lord.
4. It was a confession wrought by the Holy Spirit.
a. Verses 17-18 show the leading of the Holy Spirit in Job's confession.
5. The confession was sincere.
6. A soul truly sensible of sin is ready to submit to any terms that God shall put upon him.
B. An inquiry. { What shall I do unto thee?}
1. In this question we see:
a. Job's willingness to do anything whatsoever the Lord demanded of him.
b. Job's bewilderment:
1] Job could not tell what to offer.
2] Job could not tell where to turn.
3] Yet, Job felt that he must do something.
c. Job's surrender.
1] Job makes no conditions.
2] Job only desires to know God's terms.
C. A title." O Thou Preserver of men."
1. Observer of men.
a. Therefore very aware of Job's case.
b. Therefore very aware of Job's misery.
c. therefore very aware of Job's confession.
d. Therefore very aware of Job's desire for pardon.
e. Therefore very aware of Job's utter helplessness.
2. Preserver of men.
a. By His infinite long-suffering.
b. By His most precious plan of salvation.
c. By His daily grace.

Lesson 17 Job 7:12-19

2006-07-03T01:49:00.000-04:00

Lesson 17
Job 7: 12-19
I. Introduction.
A. We are continuing our study of Job's response to Eliphaz's first address.
B. So far we have examined:
1. The reality of his sufferings.
2. Longing for death at God's hand.
3. Friends manifested as useless.
4. Let them truly test him.
5. The brevity of life.
C. Now, in the second to last division of Job's address, we will examine Job's view of God as his enemy.
II. Am I a sea, or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me? { vs.12 }
A. These words are part of that first great cry { notice that Thou is capitalized} to heaven that broke from
the stricken soul of Job.
B. Job seems to cry out against God for treating him so harshly.
C. Job saw himself being treated as the sea; as savage and as dangerous as a monster of the deep.
D. The argument Job brings against the Lord's dealing with him is not good.
1. To argue from our insignificance is poor pleading.
2. A man's heart is as changeable and deceitful as the sea.
3. By our evil nature we have become like the sea.
a. The sea is restless and so is our nature.
b. The sea can be furious and terrible, and so can ungodly men.
c. The swallows up stretches of land but is never satisfied.
d. Human nature is like the sea for mischief.
III. I would not live alway. { vs.16 }
A. The preference of death to life is the utterance of a despairing spirit.
B. With such a load of misery pressing upon him. and with no earthly comfort to relieve his anguish, it is
not surprising that Job should give vent to his sorrows.
C. A restless longing for death must always have the nature of sin in it.
D. Some healthy reasons for not wanting to live always.
1. Because it is the will of God that man should not live always.
2. From love of Christ the saint is willing to depart.
3. The evils of this world would be prolonged.
IV. What is man that Thou shouldst magnify him? { vs.17 }
A. What is man as a creature?
1. A piece of modified dust enlivened by the breath of God. { Gen.2:7 }
2. An earthen vessel. { IICor. 4:7}
3. He is grass. { Isa. 40:6,8 }
B. What is man as a fallen creature?

1. An ignorant creature. { Isa.1:3 }
2. A guilty creature. Rom. 3:23 }
3. A condemned creature. { Jn 3:18-19 }
4. A polluted creature. { Isa. 1:16}
5. A diseased creature. { Isa. 1:6 }
6. A rebellious creature. { Isa. 1:2 }
C. In what respects it may be said that the Lord magnified man?
1. By the care He shows man in the course of His providence.
2. By assuming human nature.
3. By giving us great and precious promises.
D. The dignity of man.
1. We are dignified because God magnified us.
2. We are dignified because God loves us.
E. Why it may be said that to magnify man.
1. Man is magnified by the gift of an intellectual nature.
2. Man is magnified by the possession of moral nature.
3. Man is magnified by being the object of Divine redemption.

Lesson 16 Job 7:1-11

2006-07-03T01:47:00.000-04:00

Lesson 16
Job 7:1-11

I. Introduction.
A. We are continuing our discussion of Job's dissertation of the brevity of life.
B. We examined the nature of an appointed time to man.
C. We examined the Divine appointment ruling all human life.
1. As to its term.
2. As to its warfare.
3. As to its service.
D. Now, in part two of our discussion, we will continue the examination of Job's dissertation.
II. As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow. {vs.2-3}
A. The natural instinct of man is to desire to live.
B. Yet, there is a settled mood or habit of the soul in which there is a longing for death.
C. Reasons for longing for sunset.
1. Painful and exhausting sickness.
2. When the infirmities of old age creep on.
3. Those under a mighty sorrow from God.
4. The christian experience yearns for a full communion with heaven.
D. When inspired by a clear realization of the celestial glories, longing for sunset is healthy and desirable.
E. Every form of longing for sunset that arises from disgust with this present life is unhealthy and
undesirable.
III. I am made to possess months of vanity. {vs.3-5}
A. Months of vanity suggest a protracted time of uselessness.
B. The experience of months of vanity.
1. Job's experience was the result of disastrous circumstances.
2. Sickness was a major contributing factor.
3 Job also suffered from the injustice he received from his friends.
C. The Divine meaning of these months of vanity.
1. They revealed the character of Job's endurance.
2. They manifested the victory of Job's faith.
3. They enlarged Job's thoughts of God.
D. Months of vanity are to be considered as appointed by God.
1. God intends to restrain and bring His people into submission.
2. God intends to strengthen the graces of His people.
a. Especially humility.
b. Especially patience.
c. Especially meekness.
d. Especially contentment.
3. To promote the good and advantage of others.
4. To confirm our hopes and excite our desires for heaven.
IV. My days are swifter than a weavers shuttle. {vs.6}
A. These words fitly describe the quickness with which the days of our lives glide away.
B. The weaver throws the shuttle from side to side, and every throw leaves a thread behind it, which is
woven into the piece of cloth being made.
C. Job compares life to the shuttles motions.
1. The speed of the shuttle reminds Job of the speed of our lives.
2. Each day of our life adds another thread to the web of life.
a. Our life consists of a collection of days.
b. Every day adds something to the color and complexion of the whole life.{ for good, or evil}
c. Each day is a representation {or manifestation} life as a whole.
d. Thus each day is of great importance to the fabric of life.
D. What we weave now we will wear in eternity.
E. Let us ask these questions of ourselves.
1. On what are we resting our hope of salvation?
2. Is it our sincere desire to be conformed to the image of Christ?
3. Do we live in the spirit of prayer?
4. What have we done for God's glory today?

Lesson 15 Job 7:1

2006-07-03T01:46:00.000-04:00

Lesson 15
Job 7:1

I. Introduction.
A. We are continuing our discussion of Job's response to Eliphaz's first address.
B. So far in our discussion, we have examined:
1. The reality of Job's sufferings.
2. Job's longing for death at the hand of God.
3. Job's frustration at the uselessness of his friends.
4. Job's challenge to his friends.
C. Now, starting in chapter 7, we will examine part one of Job's dissertation of the brevity of life.

II. The nature of the fact of an appointed time to man.
A. That the existence of man will be terminated by death.
1. It is interesting to note that this furthers the teaching on death found in chapter 5, and verse 26.
a. This indicates that the christian death is always timely. { in full age}
b. Man is of full age when the whole circle of christian excellence is present in his life.
3}Christian maturity is the fullness of spiritual experience.
B The existence of man is confined to a small period of time.
a. Psalm 90: 10a, The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
C. The existence of man is, as to its precise duration, uncertain and unknown.
D. This life is but the threshold of eternity; we are placed here as probationers for eternity.
E. The feelings that arise from the contemplation of the brevity of life.
1. We ought to be motivated to moderate our attachment to this world.
2. We should be motivated to seek an interest in that redeeming system by which we may depart in
peace with the prospect of eternal happiness.
3. We should be motivated to pursue those great employments which the Gospel has proposed.
III. There is a Divine appointment ruling all human life.
A. God rules mortal life.
1. As to its term. {an appointed time}
1} God's determination governs the time of human life.
2} The continuance of life is equally determined by God.
3} The termination of life is also fixed by God.
2. As to its warfare.
a. God has appointed life to be a warfare
b. Every person will find himself a soldier under some captain or another.
c. No christian is free to follow his own devices.{we are all under the law of Christ}
d. A soldier surrenders his own will to that of his commander.
e. Thus, the christian life is one of surrender to, and subjection to, to will of God.
3. As to its service. {are not his days as the days of an hireling?}
a. All men are servants to one master or another .
b. This life is a set time of labor and apprenticeship.
c. We are bound by solemn indentures to God until our term of life is over.
d. A servant who has let himself out for a term of years has not a moment that he can call his own.
4. God does not employ hirelings without proper compensation.
B. The inferences to be drawn from having an appointed time.
1. Job's inference was that as there was only an appointed time, and he was like a servant employed by
the year, he might be allowed to wish for life's speedy close.
2. The devil's is that if our time, warfare, and service are appointed, there is no need of care, for we
shall surely work out our destiny.
3. The sick man's inference is that his suffering is measured out with Divine love.
a. The sick man should therefore patiently await the end of his indenture.
4. The sinners inference is that he has waged a warfare against God, and have served the devil ,and will
reap the reward of the lost impenitent sinner.

Lesson 6 Job 2:9-12 (Should be the last missing one.)

2006-07-03T01:43:00.000-04:00

Lesson 6
Job 2:9-12

I. Introduction
A. In our last lesson we looked at temptation.
1. We looked at the three parts of temptation.
a. External conditions.
b. The state of the heart.
c. The special thought of the heart to do the deed.
B. We saw Satan's proverb; all that a man hath will he give for his life.
C. We saw how the will to live is instinctively in us.
D. In our present lesson we will explore Job's statement; "What? shall we receive good at the hand of
God, and shall we not receive evil?"

II. The word evil.
A. The first problem in this verse is to define, properly, the word evil.
B. James 1:13 states that God does not tempt man with evil.
C. Job states in his question that God brings evil upon man.
D. What does this mean?
1. The Hebrew word used to translate the word evil is ra'.
2. This word means evil, misery, distress, injury.
E. Therefore, knowing the truth that God does not tempt man with evil, Job is referring to the calamities
in his situation.

III. Job believed in the sovereignty of God.
A. Job believed that everything is ordained by God.
1. Job realized that there was but one ruler in the universe.
2. Job means to say that the happiness and the sufferings of man proceed from the same source.
3. Job knew that natural and moral laws operate under the direction of God.
4. God should be acknowledged in all His dispensations.
B. Job considered it an unavoidable consequence that the life of man should be checkered with good and
evil.
1. God is a moral governor; He judges the actions of man and deals with them accordingly.
2. The fragility of man's nature makes him unfit for uninterrupted prosperity or adversity.
3. Some acquaintance with sorrow is absolutely necessary to modify the corrupting effect of too
uniform happiness.
C. Job received each state of existence with an equal mind.
D. Job sees, in all tragedy, something permitted by God for His own supreme and blessed ends.

IV. What the evils of life teach us.
A. The evils of life open our eyes and make us sensible of real wants.
B. That this life is intended for a state of probation and trial.
C. Teaches the instability of all human affairs and uncertainty of all earthly possessions.
D. Trials form a test of character.

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

2006-07-03T01:41:00.000-04:00

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.

Lesson 14 Job 6:24-25

2006-06-12T20:53:00.000-04:00

I. Introduction.
A. We are continuing in our examination of Job's response to Eliphaz's first address.
B. So far we have looked at:
1. Job's response to the charge of hypocrisy.
2. Jobs defense concerning his desire for death.
3. Job's charge of concerning the worth of his friends.
C. Starting in chapter 6 verse 24, and running through verse 30, Job challenges his friends to test him.
1. Job had spoken of his observation and experience.
2. Job now asks his friends that true tests be applied to his case.
3. Let the friends prove him according to their rigid rules of punishment for sin.

II. Teach me, and I will hold my tongue. {vs.24}
A. This is the passionate outcry of a soul in trouble.
1. Misfortune and loss have fallen heavily upon Job.
2. The presence of Eliphaz and his many words of advice bring neither comfort or hope.
3. In almost angry defiance of the advice of Eliphaz, Job bursts out with the words, "Teach me and I
will hold my tongue.
4. Angrily and hopelessly Job describes himself as one that is desperate.
5. Job's eager demand is to know whether the trials and calamities that have come upon him are in
reality due to exceeding wickedness and special sinfulness on his part.
B. Let us examine this statement under scrutiny as one of an earnest desire for the believer.
1. The word teach.
a. The impartation of knowledge with the highest possible development of the pupil as its goal.
b. The word may also mean to demonstrate.
c. God's will is the special objective of scripture.
d. The Old Testament relates teaching to the totality of the person.
2. Therefore, Job is challenging his friends to demonstrate from scripture their allegations of
his sinfulness
3. The tongue.
a. Notice that the tongue is a little member of the body. {vs.4}
1} See what this member is capable of doing.
b. Words are the expression of thoughts.
c. Words, as incarnate thoughts, are revelations of character.
d. The morality of a man is stamped in his words.
1} Conversation touching impurity photographs an impure heart.
2} Ecstatic language denotes shallowness of thought.
3} Repeated quotations of others opinions is proof of having no substantial opinions of self.
4} Willingness to speak freely about others business is proof that we are not attending to our own
affairs.
e. The power of speech involves a very great responsibility.
f. Man must govern his tongue.

III. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
A. Man is subject to error.
1. To err in speech.
2. To err in practice.
3. To err in judgment.
B. Man is in a fair way to truth, when he acknowledges he may err.
C. An erring brother must be made to understand his error.

IV. How forcible are right words. {vs.25}
A. Job suffered, struggled, and sorrowed, and therefore he learned something of the human heart.
B. Irritating to Job were the words of his friends.
1. Those words were as nothing.
2. Those words reproved nothing.
3. Those words appealed to nothing.
C. Righteous words would have been precious to Job.
D. We must realize that words possess a righteous or an unrighteous character.
E. The power of speech is a Divine gift.
F. The Divine gift of words is intended to be a righteous power.
1. By perversion of words sin was introduced into the world.
2. By the righteousness of words error and evil shall be destroyed.
G. The power of words for good or evil is in proportion to their righteousness or unrighteousness.
1. Righteous words reprove.
a. The words of God are instruments of righteousness.
b. The words of man are only righteous as they harmonize with the words of God.
2. In the war of words , righteous words will prevail.
3. Divine power operates through the words of good.

Lesson 13 Job 6:14-23

2006-06-12T20:52:00.000-04:00

I. Introduction.
A. We have been discussing, in our last two lessons, the response of Job to Eliphaz's first address.
B. In the first lesson, we saw Job's response to the allegations of hypocrisy.
C. In the second lesson Job defends his position of preferring death rather than suffer from the onslaught
of his illness.
1. In verses 9-10 Job thought death would be a comfort to him.
2. In his argument he stated that he did not hide the word of the Holy One.
3. In verse 11 Job puts forward his dispair,and utters his weariness of life.
4. In verse 12 Job makes a pitiful plea pertaining to his weakness and helplessness.
D. Now, in our next section, Job declares his friends useless.

II. To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend. {vs. 14}
A. Most forcefully does Job strike out against his friends.
1. The hard principles that Eliphaz was applying to Job contained no mercy.
2. The hard principles that Eliphaz was applying to Job contained no sympathy.
B. It is a fundamental principle that pity should be shown to a sufferer by his friends.
C. There are times in life when the need of friendship is deeply felt.
1. Man was made for friendship.
a. Deep and constant is man's craving for the love of others.
b. Without friendship man's nature could no more develop than an acorn can develop without
sunlight.
2. Man requires friendship.
a. Without friendship, man would die in infancy
b. Friendship is required for nourishment.
c. Friendship is requires for succoring.
d. Friendship is required for training.
3. Affliction intensifies the need for friendship.
III. Disappointment.
A. Verses 15-18.
1.The analogy of these verses may be viewed as the friends being like a summer stream, swollen by
melting snow and ice in winter, which gives promise of perennial supply for the thirsty, but when the
troops of travelers come, they find only dry stones to mock them.
B. Verses 19-20, combined with verses 15-18, paint a picture of disappointment.
1. The forms in which disappointments occur.
a. It must be noted, here, that disappointments are as numerous as our hopes.
b. We may have disappointments which relate to the acquisition of property.
c. We may have disappointments concerning our aims at honor and office.
d. We may have disappointments concerning our children.
2. The reasons why disappointments occur.
a. Because our expectations are beyond any reason.
b. Because our expectations are improperly placed on things we should not cherish.
c. Because disappointments may be beneficial to us.
3. Lessons that disappointments teach us.
a. All our plans in life should be formed with the possibility of failure in mind.
b. We should form such plans and cherish such hopes as will not be subject to disappointment.

Lesson 12: Job 6:8-

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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.

Lesson 11 Job 6

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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.

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

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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.

Lesson 10: Job Chapter 5

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I. Introduction.
A. In chapter four, Eliphaz starts the first of his three homilies.
B. We see, first, that Eliphaz accuses Job of hypocrisy.
C. Eliphaz sees Job's suffering as a result of reaping and sowing.
D. Eliphaz declared his superiority over Job in spiritual matters because of his great spiritual vision.
E. Elihphaz has accused Job of equality with God.
F. Chapter five continues Eliphaz's homily.

II. Experience of God's ways.{ 5:1-5}
A. Eliphaz, as befits a man of his age and observation, gives the results of his experience among men .
B. In verse one Eliphaz is stating that Job's conduct is such that not one of the holy will notice him.
C. For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. vs.2
1. Wrath, as seen here, may betoken an ungoverned disposition.
a. Wrath may reveal a hasty, thoughtless character.
b. Wrath may indicate an impetuous, unbalanced character.
c. Wrath kills the silly person by destroying the best of feelings.
d. Wrath kills the silly one by stifling all sense of justice, right, caution, and honor.
2. Eliphaz insults Job and would have him believe that he was a malicious man whose vice had
caused him to be afflicted.
3. Envy is a regret of mind, or inward trouble at the prosperity of another.
a. The singular principle here is that this vice exhibits itself in a repining, a gnawing, a trouble in
the mind, that any man should prosper.
4. A silly person is one whose understanding is prejudiced, whose judgment is not free.
5. A silly person is governed by his passions. {emotions}
D. I have seen the foolish taking root. vs. 3
1. Wicked men may flourish in great outward prosperity.
2. They may actually take root.
a. They may withstand terrible storms.
3. Outward things {temporal possessions} are not good in and of themselves.
4. There is a great difference between the flourishing of a wise man and of a fool.
5. The enjoyment of outward good things is no evidence that a man is good.

III.Exhortation to seek God. vs. 6-11
A. Affliction cometh not forth of the dust. vs.6-7
1. The words of Eliphaz imply that a general state of man in this world is a state of trouble and affliction.
2. Suffering cannot be wholly evil.
a. A life without trouble would be one of the worst things for man.
b. The innocent often suffer.
c. It must be remembered that Jesus condescended to endure suffering.
3. It must be remembered that our present state is probationary in nature.{moral trial}
4. To a probationary state suffering is necessary, and indispensable.
5. God intends four things in affliction.
a. To teach us humility and a just sense of our own unworthiness.
b. To lead us to repentance for our past errors.
c. To wean us from over-fond love of this present world.
d. To try, improve, and perfect our virtues.
6. It is a very wrong and unjust conclusion to imagine that whoever is much afflicted must have been
very wicked.
B.. I would seek unto God. vs. 8-9.
1. Eliphaz viewed God as trustworthy.
2. Four things demonstrate the trustworthiness of God.
a. His love.
b. His truthfulness.
c. His ability to realize what we need.
d. His constancy.
3. Eliphaz regarded God as a wonder-working God.
a. God's works are great things. vs. 9.
b. God's works are unsearchable. vs. 9
c. God's works are marvelous. vs. 9
d. God's works are innumerable. vs. 9

IV. God's triumph over evil. vs. 12-16
A. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. vs.12
1. The crafty here are those who are wickedly cunning.
2. However much art and subtility the wicked may lay in their plots, there is a God who both can and
frequently does disappoint and baffle them.
B. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. vs. 13
1. The wisdom of natural man is nothing but craft or wit to do wickedly.
2. Satan makes use of subtle crafty men, and uses them for his own purposes.
3. The crafty are full of hopes that their devices will succeed.
4. The crafty are troubled because their devices will not succeed.
5. Crafty men may devise strongly, but they do not have enough strength to accomplish their ends.
C. So the poor have hope. vs.16
1. Eliphaz takes the position of one who has special insight into Divine truth.
2. The chief fact before Eliphaz is that suffering is real.
3. To Eliphaz's way of thinking, suffering comes from God. { God is not responsible for everything He
permits.}
4. Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.
5. Divine chastisement is conducive to happiness.
6 When is this chastisement conducuive to happiness?
a. When it induces thoughtfulness.
b. When it reminds us of our fraility.
c. When it induces more earnest prayer.
d. When it endears us to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lesson 9: Job Chapter 4

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I. Introduction
A. In our last lesson we examined the lament of Job. {ch. 3}
B. We saw Job cursing his day.
C. We saw Job wailing and desiring to die.
D. Job is indeed a very sick man.
1. He was suffering physically.
2. He was suffering mentally.
3. He was suffering spiritually.
E. We observed how powerful the effects of illness can be.
F. Now, in chapter four, we will examine the first of three speeches from Eliphaz.
G. It must be remembered that although Job's three friends approached the problem from different
angles, their principle was the same: all suffering is of a punitive rather than of an instructive nature.
1. It is based on God's justice rather than on His love.
2. This principle stipulated that Job's sufferings were for sin {undetected} and that his only hope for
relief was in a confession of his sin in order to obtain mercy.
I. Eliphaz's address falls into seven portions.
1. Reproach for Job's despair.{ch. 4:1-5}
2. God's favor to the righteous. {vs.6-11}
3. Vision of God's greatness and holiness. {vs.12-21}
4. Experience of God's ways. {ch.5:1-5}
5. Exhortation to Job to seek God. {vs. 6-11}
6. God's triumph over evil. {vs. 12-16}
7. The uses of affliction. {vs. 17-27}

II. Reproach for Job's despair. {ch.4:1-5}
A. Eliphaz is accusing Job of being a hypocrite.
B . Notice verse 4.
1. Job taught and instructed others in the way of righteousness.
2. Job's words upheld those who were falling.
3. Job's words strengthened those who were weak.
4. We need to see the true principles of responsibility that the believer shoulders.
a. The believer needs to communicate the knowledge of God to others.
b. The believer needs to comfort others.
C. In verse five the accusation of hypocrisy emerges.
1. The word faintest signifies an extraordinary fainting.
2. In other words, Job could talk the walk, but could not walk the talk.

III. God's favor to the righteous. {vs. 6-11}
A. verse 6.
1. Paraphrased, the verse could read, will not thy fear be thy confidence, and the righteousness of thy
ways thy hope?
2. Eliphaz is saying to Job, you have pretended much holiness and religion, fear and uprightness; why
are you so disquieted now that the hand of God is upon you?
B. Verse 7.
1. This verse speaks of a just and sure retribution at the hand of God.
2. In and of itself, this verse voices a universal truth.
3. The inference of secret hypocrisy, or of some outward transgression was unwarranted.
4. The big thing to see here is how Satan works around the periphery of truth.
C. Verses 8-9.
1. Eli speaks of himself as an observer of God's providence.
2. His statement of plowing and sowing is one result of his observations.
3. The statement given by Eliphaz is better known to us as the universal law of sowing and reaping.
4. Again, we see truth misapplied.
5. Eliphaz wrongly applied this truth to Job, concluding that his severe sufferings were the consequence
of his own individual sins.
6. It must be remembered that the basis of Eliphaz's argument stemmed from his belief that all
suffering is of a punitive nature.
7. Eliphaz maintained that the statute of requital is enforced in all cases rigorously and exactly.
a. The world is governed on the principle of minute recompense .
b. Sin is always followed by its equivalent of suffering in this present life.
D Verses 8-11 expound on Eliphaz's exposition of plowing and sowing.

IV. Vision of God's greatness and holiness {vs. 12-21}
A. Verses 12-16
1. Eliphaz now describes his vision of the greatness and holiness of God.
2. Bible scholars are divided as to whether or not the vision that Eliphaz had was of God.
3. Eliphaz's point in describing the vision was to question Job as to whether or not he ever had a spirit
pass before him.
4. Eliphaz wanted to know if Job's hair had ever stood on end as a result of the experience.
5. Since Job had never had such an experience, Eliphaz felt he was superior to Job in spiritual matters.
6. Therefore Job needs to humble himself and allow Eliphaz to declare the reasons for his misfortunes.
B. Verses 17
1. Eliphaz poses the question, "Shall a man be more pure than God?"
2. The assumption in this verse is that no man can be more pure and just than God.
a. God is most righteous, pure, and holy within Himself and in His administration.
b. God can do no wrong and no one ought to challenge Him.
c. The righteousness and holiness of God is so infinitely transcendent, that the holiness of the best of
men cannot compare with it.
d. Eliphaz disparages all human attainments and excellency before God in order to vindicate the ways
of God to man.
1) Eliphaz is attempting to prove that all God's laws are holy, just, and good.
2) Eliphaz is trying to repress pride and inculcate humility.
e. An impatient complainer under affliction, in effect, challenges the righteousness and holiness of
God.
3. From this vision, Eliphaz is insinuating that the virtue, or integrity of Job's life might not justify the
seeming impatience he displayed.
C. verse 18.
1. God only possesses in Himself all excellence.
2. Angels derive their being , and all its excellencies from God.
3. The holiness of an angel will appear as little better than a frailty if compared with the uncreated
holiness of God.
4. The subject teaches the folly of covetousness and ambition.
5. The subject teaches us to avoid pride or glory in man.
6. The angels were created in a possibility of everlasting blessedness, but not in actual possession of it.
a. This is evidenced by the actual fall of some of the angels.
D. Verse 19-21.
1. Notice here the description of the frailty of man.
2. If the frailty of man is so great what folly it is to be totally engrossed in the pursuits and pleasures of
this present life.
3. The frailty of man teaches the importance of being always prepared for a world where death and
sorrow are unknown.

Lesson 8 Job Chapter 3

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I. Introduction.
A. Job is now a very ill person.
B. Job's three friends have arrived to give comfort.
C. For seven days no one says a word.
D. Starting in chapter three, Job begins to speak (known as Job's lament).
E. It be noted that Job's words reveal a change in mood or attitude.
1. Note chapter 1:21 and chapter 2:10 with the beginning of chapter 3:1-2.
F. In light of his subsequent attitude, it seems that Job's thoughts of God had much to do this change.
1. Previously, Job had viewed God as the beneficent ruler and disposer of events.
2. It appears as we go on through the discourse that allowed suspicions of God's justice and goodness to
intrude in his thoughts.
3. Job sees himself as in the hands of arbitrary power, suffering for what he had not done.
4. Job sees no way of escape, and therefore wishes for death.
G. The lament of Job falls into three strophes (stanzas).
1. Verses 1-10
2. Verses 11-19
3. verses 20-26

II. Strophe 1.
A. Job curses his day.
B. For a child of God to wish he had never been born indicates a complete eclipse of faith.
C. The peril of impulsive speech.
1. Good men sometimes give utterance to sentiments which are a departure from the spirit of religion.
2. Sometimes the the effect of heavy affliction on the mind can seem overwhelming.
D. Job's sufferings urged him to pry into the reasons of a miserable life.
1. Great suffering is often useful to the sufferer.
a. Sufferings help to purify the heart.
b. Suffering teaches man the evil of sin.
c. Suffering develops the virtues (patience, forbearance, etc.).
d. Suffering tests the character.
E. Suffering is often useful to the spectator.
1. It tends to awaken compassion.
2. It tends to stimulate benevolence.
3. It tends to excite gratitude.
F. Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane is our perfect example./
1. The intensity of His sufferings furnished the occasion for His total obedience to the will and
purpose of the Father.

III. Strophe 2.
A. Job exchanges cursing for wailing.
B. Job now declares his wish that he had died as soon as he was born, or that he had been left without
care or food.
C. Death is here described as a rest in which all have an equal share.
1. Job places all the dead in the condition of unconscious sleep.
D. There are numerous references in the Old Testament to show man in a conscious state after death.
E. In blurring the future, Job shows how far his soul has drifted from the truth of God.
F. Job's statement in chapter 19:25 {I know that my redeemer liveth} refutes his statements on death.

IV. Strophe 3.
A. The last portion of Job's address is rife with inquiries.
B. Job is longing for death because of his misery.
C. Reasons for living.
1. The sufferings may be the very means which are needful to develop the true state of the saint.
2. The sufferings may be the proper punishment of sin in the heart in which the individual is unaware.
3. Sufferings are needful to teach submission
D. In verses 24-26 Job turns from his longing after death to the reasons which make him desire it.
1. His anguish takes precedence over his hunger.
E. Job has lost the sense God's favor.
F. Job fears that God has forsaken him.
G. Job could not withstand the torturing doubt that God had given him over to hopeless misery.

Job lesson 7

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I've been having trouble getting my old dinosaur of a computer on line to upload my lessons, and the old dinosaur has an old 5" floppy drive instead of a 3 1/2" so I haven't been able to copy the lessons to Mrs. Cranky's machine to upload them from there. This is the current lesson. The missing back lessons are going to have to be retyped into the new computer we just bought for me, so I'll upload them as I get them retyped. The class at Calvary is growing; anybody in the Jacksonville/Middleburg, FL area is invited to join us any Sunday at 9:45 am.

Lesson 7
Text: Job 2:11-13

I. Introduction
A. In our last lesson, we examined the phrase "shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
B. We saw that evil meant misery, distress, or injury.
C. Job has successfully endured the initial onslaught.
D. Now Job has lost his health.
E. Job's symptoms:
1. 2:7, boils
2. 2:8, severe itching
3. 2:4, insomnia
4. 2:5, running sores and scabs
5. 2:13-14, nightmares
6. 19:17, bad breath
7. 21:6, chills and fever
8. 30:27, diarrhea
9. 30:30, blackened skin
F. In verse 11, three friends of Job show up.
1. Eliphaz the Temanite
2. Bildad the Shuhite
3. Zophar the Naamathite
II. Job's Friends
A. Eliphaz
1. His name means refined gold or God is fine gold.
2. Both meanings suggest at least the greatness and preeminence of God.
3. He was a descendent of Teman, son of Eliphaz, from whom part of Arabia took its name.
4. He was a religious dogmatist.
a. He was full of self-glory
b. He was full of self-opinion.
c. He based all his opinions upon a solitary experience he had.
d. His folly was that he tried to press Job into the mold of his own experience.
B. Bildad
1. His name means son of contention.
2.He implied that all extraordinary misfortunes were certain proof of hidden and exceptional crimes.
3. His dogmatism was based upon human tradition.
4. With philosophy, wisdom, and tadition gathered from the fathers, he sought to convince job of his wrongs.
C. Zophar
1. His name means to twitter.
2. He dealt with profound things in a more light-hearted, flippant way than his two companions.
3. His dogmatism involved resorting to rigorous legal and religious methods.
4. His dogmatism rested on what he thought he knew.
5. He declared that suffering is judgement warning the sinner to repent and escape heavier judgement.
D. Job's friends represent three ways of solving the mysterious problems of divine judgement in the affairs of men.
1. Eliphaz is the symbol of human experience in history.
2. Bildad is the symbol of human tradition or philosophy.
3. Zophar is the symbol of human merit or moral law.
E. Even though Job's friends were off base, it must be stated that they had good intentions and goodness of heart.
F. Their friendship was deepened by adversity.
1. The effects of Job's adversity were overwhelming.
2. Adversity is one of the best tests of friendship.
G. Their friendship displayed self-denial.
III. Some insight into the friendship of Job's companions.
A. They had good intentions.
B. They were prompted by the adversity of Job.
C. They purposed to be a relieving force.
1. This entailed self-denial.
D. V.13 Silence is sometimes the best service a friend can offer.
1. Silence is the strongest evidence of the depth of one's sympathy.
a. The comforting power of a friend lies in his sympathy toward a sffering friend.
b.. Silence is a better expression of deep sympathy than speech.
E. Silence is consistent with our own ignorance of Divine Providence.

Job 1:6-12 Continued

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Satan’s accusation

Text: Job 1:6-12
I. Introduction
A. In lesson one we learned about Job.
1. He was a patriarch.
2. He was wealthy
3. He had a big family.
4. He had a terrific reputation.
B. In our second lesson we saw the heavenly scene.
1. We were introduced to God’s enemy
2. We saw the enemies’ intent. (usurpation of God’s throne)
3. We saw Job’s responsibility. (to maintain his reputation)
C. In this lesson we will delve into the depths of Satan’s accusation.
D. Starting in verse six, and running through chapter nineteen we see the second division of the book of Job. (the affliction of Job)
1. This affliction starts with Satan’s accusation.

II. The devil’s sneer.
A. Doth Job fear God for nought?
B. Satan claimed that Job’s reputation was purchased.
1. Job obtained his wealth and status through the operation of his character.
2. He did what he did in order to obtain everything he had.
C. Satan’s contention, then, was that Job was self-serving. (selfish)
D. Job was religious because he could make a good thing of religion.
1. This gives us insight that Satan has a belief in the philosophy of selfishness.
2. This also gives insight as to the methods his minions employ.

III. The influence of the devil’s sneer.
A. Satan’s accusation had an effect on God.
1. The scope of the accusation had an air about it that made the idea plausible.
2. The scope of the accusation allowed Satan to test his theory out on Job.
B. God allows these trials to come into our lives in order to vindicate His people, and manifest His own power and glory through us.

IV. The sneer attacks the very throne of God.
A. The arrow launched at Job is really pointing at God Himself.B. If Satan is correct, then there is no such thing as disinterested goodness.
C. If Satan is correct. Then God cannot retain reverential affection apart from purchasing it.
D. If Satan is correct, then all God can aspire toward is mercenary love.
E. You see, then the how vital the question which the challenge stirs.

V. The fundamental reasons for Job’s suffering.
A. To silence the blasphemous accusations of Satan
B. To learn spiritual lessons.

2005-12-16T02:15:00.000-05:00

Chapter 1:6-12, 2:1-6
I. Introduction
A. We looked at who Job is in the first lesson.
1. We saw that Job was a Patriarch.
2. We saw that Job was very wealthy.
3. We saw that Job had 7 sons and 3 daughters.
Job was afraid evil would befall his family and prayed and offered
sacrifices for them.
4. We saw Job’s reputation.
a. His relationship with men.
b. His relationship with God.
c. His relationship with self.
B. In our text for today we are privileged to see a scene in Heaven.
C. It is important to realize that Job had no idea of the heavenly event.
D. Like Job, it is important to properly understand our enemy, Satan.

II. Our enemy, Satan.

A. Satan’s original downfall. (Isaiah 14:12-14)
1. Pride: the operative words “I will.”
a. The first “I will” is the demand that Satan’s rule be lifted from just that of the earth to include the heavens also.
b. The second “I will” shows Satan’s desire to exalt his throne above all the angelic host.
c. In the third “I will” Satan claims the position of government over angelic hosts that were administering Heaven.
d. The fourth “I will” is Satan’s desire to rise above the very throne of God.
e. The fifth “I will” expresses Satan’s goal to be possessor of Heaven and Earth.
2. Satan’s rebellion started in Heaven and manifested itself in the Garden of Eden.
3. Satan’s rebellion is a present abiding condition.

B. The nature of the battle.
1. We have, in our text, a contrast: God vs. Satan.
a. God is absolute good.
b. Satan is absolute evil.
2. Both beings are eternal. (They cannot die.)
3. For Satan to reach his objective, he must prove to the entire universe that God is not who and what He says He is. (Impugn God’s veracity.)
God, on the other hand, proves to the entire universe that He is who and what He says He is and thereby exposes Satan for who and what he is. (A malevolent, malign being.)

II. Job’s part in this battle.
A. Job is a servant of God.
1. Deut. 10:12 “And now Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.”
2. The call to Israel is the same call to Job and to every believer, past, present, and future.
3. We are all called to be servants. This means that God has the right to use us as He sees fit.
B. Job’s assignment is to stay true to his name.
1. In this way he demonstrates that he worships God for who and what God is.
2. In this way Job brings honor and glory to the throne of God.
C. Therefore people who suffer from illness have a peculiar privilege.
1. We are thought highly enough of by God to prove his veracity.
2. We are privileged to bring honor and glory to His throne.
D. Therefore we should embrace our suffering with happiness and joy.

Studies in Job: Lesson One

2005-12-08T09:19:00.000-05:00

STUDIES IN JOB

Lesson 1

I. Introduction.

A. It is believed by Bible scholars that the book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible.

B. Scholars also tell us that, historically, the account takes place before
the giving of the law.
1.The fact that Job offered a burnt offering (Job 1:5) indicates that Job
lived before the law was given.

C. Job’s longevity suggests that he lived before the law. (Job 42:16)

D. Job was a patriarch.

E. Job was extremely wealthy. (Job 1:3)`

F. To properly understand the book of Job, one needs to see the character
of Job.

1. Job was perfect and upright. (Job 1:1)
a. Perfect means that Job was mature.
b. Upright refers to the ideals of Job’s mind.
c. Job pursued the straight and narrow road.
d. Here we have Job’s relationship manward.

2. Job feared God. (Job 1:1)
a. This is Job’s Godward relationship.
b. This fear must be seen as a loving reverence of God.
c. This fear means to respect who God is.
d. This fear means to respect what God says.
e. This fear means to respect what God does.
f. This indicates that Job was a reborn soul.
g. That Job was reborn is of utmost importance if one is to view the
exercises he passed through with meaning.

3. Job eschewed evil. (Job 1:1)
a. This is Job’s selfward relationship
b. Job’s outward walk corresponded with the state of his heart.
c. Job departed from evil.

4. The aspects of Job that the Lord describes are, in essence, his reputation.

5. His reputation is his name. It is what people think of when his name is mentioned.

II. Our reputation.

1. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, (Prov. 22:1a)

2. A good name is better than precious ointment; (Eccl. 7:1)
3. Both scriptures speak of the importance of obtaining and maintaining a good name.
4. It should be observed that a good name consists of three parts.
a. Man’s relationship with man. ( perfect and upright)
b. Man’s relationship with God. ( feared God)
c. Man’ relationship with himself. (eschewed evil)
5. Examples of a good name.
a. I Sam.18:30 Speaks of David’s relationship with man.
Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass. after they went forth, That David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

b. Acts 6:3
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of The Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom ye may appoint over this business.
1) Honest speaks of man’s relationship to man
2) Full of the Holy Ghost speaks of man’s relationship
with God.
3) Wisdom speaks of man’ relationship with man.
c. Acts 10:22
And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one
that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation
of the Jews-----
1) A just man speaks of Cornelius’ relationship with man.
2) Feareth God speaks of Cornelius’ relationship with god.
3) Genesis 39: 7-12 This is an example of man’s relationship with self.

Note: After teaching this lesson, Brian's COPD got worse and he was hospitalized. Lesson posted for him by Cranky Yankee.

Coming Attraction

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