1. We live in a fallen world.
Romans 8:22-We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
2. Because of our own Sin.
3. Satan.
1 Peter 5:8b-Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
4. God Allows us to suffer.
-Because we are stubborn.
-Helps others
-Test our faith
Example
Job 1:8-12-The the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." "does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. "Have you not put a hedge around him and his house hold and everything he has? you have blessed the work of his hangs, so that his flocks and herds are spread thought the land. But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has and he will surely curse you to Your face." The Lord said to Satan, "very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job 1:20-22- At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised." In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrong doing.
-Why do we believe? Why do we serve him?
-God will not be insulted by our feelings. God cares about us.
Job 2:8-Then job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
-Fake it to make it
Job 2:10-You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble? In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
-Curse God and die
-don't answer the questions why? Doesn't do any good can take way the pain. but stand by them.
-Jobs friends were wrong.
-Job Questions God (330 Questions); God not control, God doesn't care!
-God Silent
Luke 13:4-5-...Do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you No!
Job 38:4-5- Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me. if you understand. who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Job 38:8-Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb...
Job 38:12-Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place...
Job 39:1-2-Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn? Do you count the months till they bear? DO you know the time they give birth?
Romans 8:38-9-For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Job 42:6-Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
-God 70 Questions for Job
-Do you know what I'm in control of?
-God will be with you through it all!!
-God never answers Questions why but fills him with Holy Spirit!
Life is but a vapor. Life is brief. Eternity is eternal.
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