Like Job, We Get Through the Day of Evil: Ephesians 6:10-13 and Job 1&2

Job’s Evil Day and How He Got Through: Job 1 & 2

1st Who is Job? 1
2nd How God Blessed Him: 2-3
3rd Job’s Sacrifices for His Children: 4-5
4th Satan’s Appearing 6-8

A Few Words about Satan

Where is He From? Ezekiel 28:11-19 Isaiah 14:3-12 Who He is, What His Schemes are and The Evil Day:

¬ The Adversary the Devourer: 1 Peter 5:8 Be of sober {spirit,} be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
¬ The Thief Who Steals, Kills and Destroys: John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have {it} abundantly.
¬ The Deceiver Who Disputes the Truth: Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
¬ The Tempter Who Comes To Entice You: Matthew 4:3 And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
¬ The Accuser Who Brings Guilt: Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

How Job Got Through: 9-19

¬ He Stood Firm and Worshipped: 20

Romans 12:1-2
Paul and Silas: Acts 16:22

¬ He Blessed the Name of the Lord: 21

¬ He Stood Firm and Did not Sin! He Persevered: 22

¬ He did not Blame the Lord: 22
He did not ascribe unseemliness to God

The Evil Day Turns into a Season of Evil Days: 2:1-9

What God Says About Job: 2:1-3
What Satan Says About Job: 2:5-6
What Job’s Wife Says and What Job says to His Wife: 9-10
What Job’s Friends Say:

¬ Job Knew God, His Character and His Sovereign Work:
¬ Job Knew God is Still Worthy of Worship: And that He is Ever Present.

¬ He Did Not Curse God, He Did Not Die

¬ In all this Job did not Sin with his Lips

¬ Job Trusted:

Job 13:15 Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

Job Knew:

Job 19:23 Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were in scribed in a book. 24 That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! 25 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last He will take His stand on the earth. 26 Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I will see God! 27 Whom I myself shall behold and whom my eyes ill see and not another.

Job Knew His Redeemer Lives! Job Knew His Great God! Sovereign King, Always In Control, Whose ways are higher than His. In the midst of it, He knows God is present! He knows Him as Redeemer and that God was not finished with Him yet!

Job Knew His Future!

Job 23:10 But He knows the way I take. When He has tried me, I shall come forth as Gold!

Paraphrased: God knows me, I know Him, I will come through the crucible as pure gold. God has blessed my beginning and He will bless my ending!

Job Found the Blessing of God Again: Job 42:10-17

Job Endured, He did Not Collapse, He Got Through:

James 5:11 We Count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.