Academy of Faith 001: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering

Presented by: Dr. Bruce Bickel

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The Book of Job

Blessings through Pressure and Pain

Lesson #1

· Character of Job and Criticism of Satan

· Job – His piety (1:1-5)

1. Blameless -

2. Upright –

3. Feared God –

4. Turned away from sin (shunned evil) –

· Job – His prosperity

1. Wealth –

2. Family-

· Satan – his lie and accusation (1:6-12)

1. Sons of God (angels) -

a. Fallen Angels –

b. Faithful Angels-

c. Different Ranks of Angels -

d. Different Kinds of Angels –

e. Angels appear at different points in history

f. Angels are agents in the conflict between good and evil

· Job – his piety in adversity (1:13-22)

1. Did not sin

2. Did not charge God with wrongdoing

· Satan – his lie and accusation (2:1-6)

· Job – his piety in extremity (2:7-13)

1. Patience - (James 5:11)

2. Integrity –

· Did not sin in what he said -

· Applications and Uses

· Regarding Satan –

1. Satan is accountable to God

2. Satan’s mind is known to God

3. Satan is behind the evils that curse the earth

4. Satan is neither omnipresent nor omniscient

5. Satan can do nothing without Divine permission

6. Every permission has a definite limitation

7. God’s eyes are on His own especially in times of trial

· Regarding affliction

1. The need for perseverance affirms that the world is not our home

2. Perseverance is a recognition that everything we have belongs to God and not to us.

3. Perseverance is a determination to worship God regardless of what happens

4. Worship involves submission to God’s sovereignty