Job – Revesby Presbyterian Church

I Know My Redeemer Lives (Job 19:25-27)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Times of prosperity and of suffering are likely to be spiritually dangerous – Prov.30:8-9. Job feels pursued by both God and man – 19:21-22. There is a hint of resurrection (14:14-15). Job is struggling but utters one of the most remarkable expressions of faith found in Scripture – 19:25-27.…

Inadequate Answers (Job 4-5)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

There are three cycles of speeches by Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, with replies by Job. Eliphaz speaks in 4-5, 15, and 22; Job replies in 6-7, 16-17, and 23-24; Bildad speaks in 8, 18, and 25; Job replies in 9-10, 19, and 26-27; Zophar speaks in 11 and 20; …

Job Loses It (Job 3:1-26)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

John Hartley calls Job 3 ‘a curse-lament’. Note the oft-repeated ‘Why?’ (3:11, 12, 16, 20, 23). (a) Job never loses his faith. (b) Job’s words were nevertheless rash – 38:2; 40:1-4.

Job curses the day of his birth.
- Job did not curse God, but he did curse the day

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Ministering to Those Who Are Suffering (Job 2:11-13)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Nancy Guthrie’s What Grieving People Wish You Knew, written after two of her children died, is very helpful.

– at the end we find that it is rather mixed, but Job is more right than wrong, and his three friends more wrong than right.

Make contact.
- they travel

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Job is Put Through the Wringer Again (Job 2:1-10)

Rev Dr Peter Barnes — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Job is an extreme book, but suffering can come in waves. Recall again that Job knows nothing of the role of Satan in all this.

The closer the suffering, the greater the hurt.
- 2:1-8. The issue in 1:10-11 extended in 2:4. ‘What hurts more – the war in Ukraine

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