Boiled but Not Cooked

The life of Job Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Job means:
Hebrew - The persecuted one
Arabic - Repentant one
Book of job:
Written by Moses
Believe to be the earliest book of the bible

Verse 1 in the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was
blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
UZ is adjacent to the land of midian where Moses lived for some 40 years.

How is Job described?

o Blameless and Upright
o Fear God and shunned evil
o In God's sight Job was perfect.

Verse 2 he had seven sons and three daughters.


PROPERTIES

Verse 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five
hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of
servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

Estimated Jobs Properties

ANIMAL QTY PRICE COST



Sheep

7,000 180 $

1,260,000.00
Camel 3,000 800


2,400,000.00
Oxen

500 500


250,000.00
Donkey

500 200


100,000.00



TOTAL

$

4,010,000.00





RATE

40





PESO


160,400,000.00


Time value of money
He was the greatest of the east.
His fame was known all over the land.

CUSTOM

Verse 5 early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of
them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their
hearts." This was Job's regular custom.
Job was praying.
o Do we have family worship?
o Do we have personal meditation?
Job was growing into the image of God.
o Are we growing into the image of Jesus?
o Job's dedication delighted God.

CONVERSATION

Verses 7-12 where have you come from? Satan answered the Lord, "From
roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
The devil is constantly observing and watching everything that's
going on.
Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? And the devil
said that he had, and that God had always protected Job. God had put a hedge
about him. "I can't touch him. If you would remove your hedge, he would curse
you to your face."
And God said, "Well, you have my permission to do whatever you want,
physically with his stuff, with his things.
"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.
CRISIS

One day Job is resting in his hammock under a shade tree and in the distance he
sees a runner coming fast.
Verses 14-19
Runner 1 comes up breathlessly and says, "Job, it's terrible! All of your oxen are
dead! Your donkeys are all gone! They're gone. Hundreds of your servants are
dead!
Terrible attack!
Runner 2 comes up. "Lightning just struck over here this way, and all of your
sheep are destroyed! All of your servants are dead!
Lightning struck!
Runner 3 comes from this direction. And he says, "In enemy soldiers have
vandalized your camels. All your barns are gone. All of your servants are killed."
Brigands attack!
Runner 4 He said, Its horrible, Job. Youre not going to believe this. A monster
tornado struck. It struck the building where all of your children were, and they are
all dead.
Tornado struck!
Job had a crisis. All he owned was swept away. It was all gone. And now faces the
greatest challenge of his entire life.
Job lost his

o Properties and servants
o His sons and daughters
o Job was boiled but not cooked!
REACTION

Verses 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
wrongdoing.
Worshiped God!
Praise the name of the Lord.

o Job continues to believe that God loves him.
Job 2:6, the devil is given permission to touch his physical life. Because the devil
said, "Well, You know I took all of his things away but he's still faithful to you. If
you allow me to cause a little pain in his own body I know that he would desert
you." So God said, "Well, don't take his life. Go ahead."
He afflicted Job with painful sores
Verse 9 "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"
She said, curse God and die
Verse 10 He replied, "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.
Job continued his loyalty to God.
He worshiped God!
I believe the secret to Job's success is that he did not regard anything he owned
as his.
Was Job right? Yes, he was. God owns everything.
In Psalm 50:10 God says: ..."for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle
on a thousand hills."
REWARD

Job 42:10 after Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord made him prosperous
again and gave him twice as much as he had before.
160,400,000 x 2 = 320,800,000

By continuing to trust in God

By being faithful to God

By maintaining his allegiance with God

o Job was rewarded twice as much as he had.

o But there is an eternal reward that all of us must look up to.

Revelation 2:10 "Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the
crown of life."
Brethren let us be faithful to Jesus.

This world is the testing time, not the reward.

JESUS IS COMING SOON, LET US THEN BE READY.



BY: Gethsemane Boyles Mahinay