Job 2

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In Job 2 and verse, this is what God says about Job in Job 2:3, right?

Right.

He says, "Then the Lord said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job?'" Now, notice this, "'That there is none like him on the earth, a blameless, upright man who fears God and shuns evil, and still he holds fast to his integrity.'"

You see, the seemingly appropriate response is what Job's wife tells him in the book of Job, the best case study for suffering in Scripture.

Job 2, verse 9, Job's wife, the love of his life, says to him, Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die.

What kind of vows are those? Curse God and die.

It's equivalent to, why are you still a Christian? Why do you still believe? Like our brother Ron said today in Team Huddle, when bad things happen to us, family members, friends, enemies, critics ask, why are you still a Christian? Why don't you just walk away from your faith? How could a loving God let this happen? These are words you encounter daily and you will encounter from others and even yourself as you continue to walk as a Christian.

But that got me thinking.

And one of the texts that I frequently use in memorial services is from Job, Job chapter 19.

And that's where I want to go today and do a full message today.

on this passage because it's one of my favorite Old Testament passages.

So Job chapter 19 is where we'll go.

and we're going to look together at what is one of the oldest confessions of faith recorded anywhere in Scripture, Job 19.

This passage has always intrigued and encouraged me because it reveals that the faith of Job was doctrinally robust.

It wasn't just an ethereal faith.

We can better appreciate divine wisdom and love by considering how patient Job, struck by Satan with a grievous ulcer, foreshadowed Jesus' humiliation at his public scourging.

See Job 2, verses 1-8.

Satan's envy leads him to attack Job directly.

He inspires the Jewish leaders to pursue our Lord with even more satanic malice.

I want to actually apply that right here.

What is the clearest reading that we have of the Hebrew phrase beneha Elohim? In the context that it's used, the clearest reading is Job 1 and Job 2.

In both Job 1 and Job 2, the Hebrew phrase beneha Elohim is used in reference to the sons of God who present themselves in the divine council of Yahweh where the Hasatan shows up.

In both passages, chapter 1 and chapter 2, in the opening scene, you have their presence.

But the real kingpin is Job 38.

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I'm going to read out of Job 23.

We're talking about negative emotions and circumstances and maintaining our integrity and maintaining our calling and not letting Satan take us away because of emotions that came in because of the fall.

So here we are in Job 23.

Job has been, his children are gone, his Family was wiped out.

His assets are gone.

His servants in his household are gone.

It's his wife and his three friends.

So he's in uranus.

So where's he at? He's in the heavens of the heavens, right? And we know, as an example, in Job 1, verse 6, and Job 2, where Satan and the other sons of God go and appear before God.

And so it's kind of like a meeting.

So he obviously had access to to that point.

In times of persecution, I think about this verse to humble myself.

I, I meditate on this verse, Job 2:10, "But he said to her, 'You speak as one of the spiritually foolish woman...'" This is, he's speaking to his wife, who wants him to curse God.

But he s- but he said to her, "You speak as one of the spiritually foolish woman speaks ignorant and oblivious to God's will.

Shall we indeed accept only good from God and not also accept adversity and disaster? In spite of all this, Job did not sin with words from his lips." Now, that's humility.