Sermon Notes

Title: Where is God when it Hurts

Text: Job 19:23-25

Topic: Over-coming Suffering

Teacher: Dr. Barry D. Lovett

Time: 11/14&21/2010      
File Under: Christian Living

 

 

JOB IDENTIFIES  ____________________ OF SUFFERING

 

 

The biggest reason for fights among people is that they are  _________________________ for the hurts in their lives. 

 

 

12 Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world. Ephesians 6:12 (NCV)

 

  “In all of this Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.”  (Job 1:22) 

 

 

God  ___________ certain things but He doesn’t  __________ them. 

 

 

____________________ is the source of our pain.

 

 

When God said OK to Satan’s plan to test Job, God ________________ Job to stand firm and hold up in his hour of suffering.

 

 

JOB _________________________ HIS SUFFERING.

 

There are five categories of suffering,

  1. ___________________
  2. ___________________
  3. ___________________
  4. ___________________
  5. _____________________

 

The message of Job is that there is _____________________ on the other side of suffering and a _______________________ in the midst of it.

 

           

AFFIRMING __________________ IN THE MIDST OF HIS SUFFERING.

 

 

Job’s triumph was the ____________________ in the midst of his suffering. 

 

        

Where is God when it hurts?  ________________________ .    Matthew 1:23

 

 

Let’s not spend our time tying to avoid the troubles of life, but rather let us be the kind of people who dare to ____________ life’s agony and stresses and say,  _____________________________ .

 

 

The thing that makes our God different from every other deity that mankind has imagined, is the fact that __________________ . 

 

 

Life is not easy. Job___________. Job __________. Job _______________, but he ______________________ and we can too. 

 

 

 

 

Digging Deeper:  If Job were deemed “blameless and upright” before his time of suffering (Job 1:1), in what ways has he become a changed person after?  What “wonderful things” (Job 42:3) does he understand now that he didn’t before?

For Further Reflection:  (Read Job 19:23) If you were poised over your own tombstone with chisel in hand, what words would you inscribe to summarize your life?  How would you want people to remember you?