<p>Sabbath School Lesson: The Book of Job</p>

The Ambassador Group

The Book of Job

01. The Book of Job: The End

00. Introduction to the Book of Job: The Perennial Question

02. The Book of Job: The Great Controversy

03. The Book of Job: Doth Job Fear God for Nought?

04. The Book of Job: God and Human Suffering

05. The Book of Job: Curse the Day

06. The Book of Job: The Curse Causeless

07. The Book of Job: Retributive Punishment

08. The Book of Job: Innocent Blood

09. The Book of Job: Intimations of Hope

10. The Book of Job: The Wrath of Elihu

11. The Book of Job: Out of the Whirlwind

12. The Book of Job: Job’s Redeemer

13. The Book of Job: The Character of Job

14. The Book of Job: Some Lessons From Job


Welcome to 14 adult Bible study guides exploring the book of Job. Edited for audio and produced by the Ambassador Group. Narrated by Byron Phillips and Lynette Newhart. The Perennial Question Despite all the popular propaganda to the contrary, Christians have very logical and rational reasons to believe in God. Though assured by some of the best and brightest that the evolutionary concepts of natural selection and random mutation can explain the complexity, wonder, and beauty of life, many people don't buy it, and logically so.

And despite the latest scientific pronouncements that the universe arose from nothing, most people find the idea of an eternally existing God as opposed to nothing the more logically satisfying explanation for creation. And yet, even with logic and reason firmly on our side, there's still the ever-present problem of evil, and thus the perennial question, if God exists and is so good, so loving, and so powerful, why so much suffering? Hence these explorations. The Book of Job. How fascinating that Job, which deals with the perennial question, was 1 of the first books of the Bible written.

God gave us early on some answers to the most difficult of all issues. Some answers, but not all. Probably no 1 book of the Bible could answer them all. Even the Bible as a whole doesn't. Nevertheless, Joel pulls back a veil and reveals to the reader the existence of a reality beyond what our senses, even those aided by scientific devices, could show us.

It takes us to a realm that, while far removed from us in 1 sense, is incredibly close in another. The book of Job shows us what so much of the rest of the Bible does too. The natural and supernatural are inseparably linked. Job is a portrayed drama of the principle and warning that Paul expressed ages later. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12, the New King James Version. Though mostly about 1 man, the Book of Job is the story of us all, in that we all suffer in ways that often seem to make no sense. And even the story of the 4 men who came to him reflects our situation too. For who among us hasn't tried to come to grips with the suffering of others? Yet we'd miss a crucial point about the Book of Job if we'd limited it only to suffering humanity's attempts to understand suffering humanity.

The story appears in a context that of the great controversy between Christ and Satan which is portrayed here in the most literal of terms. And that's because it's the most literal of battles, 1 that began in heaven and is being played out here in the hearts, minds, and bodies of every human being. These 14 explorations look at the story of Job both close up in the immediate drama of the narrative and from a distance in that we know not only how the book ends, but also the bigger background in which it unfolds. As explorers then, with the knowledge not only of the book of Job, but of the whole Bible, 1 crucial issue for us is to try and pull it all together. We try to understand as much as possible not only why we live in a world of evil, but more important how we are to live in such a world.

Of course, even after we explore Job, even in the context of the rest of the Bible, the perennial question remains. We are assured though of the perennial answer found in Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7, Jesus Christ, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the 1 through whom All answers come. AmbassadorGroup.org This media was brought to you by AudioVerse, a website dedicated to spreading God's Word through free sermon audio and much more. If you would like to know more about Audioverse or if you would like to listen to more sermons, please visit www.audioverse.org

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The Book of Job

00. Introduction to the Book of Job: The Perennial Question

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01. The Book of Job: The End

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