By faith tonight, we are going to do five chapters. That's five chapters, right?

14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Okay. Now I know that I said that two weeks in a row that we were going to cover all these chapters and we didn't.

So I want you to know that I am committed tonight to get through chapters 14 through chapter 18. So why

don't we begin with a word of prayer if you would join with me and we'll ask God to

bless our time together in His Word.

Loving Heavenly Father, we are so grateful to you for your word and this portion that we have

before us tonight here in the Book of Job. But Lord, we're also keenly aware that unless

you by the Holy Spirit give us eyes of understanding, our time together

tonight is in effect going to be a waste of time and I don't think any of us want for that to be

the case. So that's why we're here tonight, Lord. We're here because we want to hear that still small voice of the Holy Spirit as you speak into our lives in and through your words.

Your word, we want to take with us tonight something very personal, very practical that we can begin to apply to our lives from this portion that we have here in your

word. So Lord, will you bless our time together? We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, let's jump in

verse 1, chapter 14. Job is still now speaking. I'll just give you a quick backstory and we'll get

going here but his friends, his so-called friends, as I'm going to refer to them, all three of them

are and have been just a miserable, you know, a source of accusation and rebuke and everything in between.

They have heaped insult to injury as Job is here sitting on an ash heap of burnt rubbish and scraping

with sharp objects his boils which cover him from head to toe. That's just the physical

suffering. He's also suffered emotionally the loss of all 10 of his children,

seven sons and three daughters. He has just experienced the unthinkable. He has lost all of

his wealth. He has lost all of his children. He has essentially lost everything and his wife who can't bear to see him

as hideous as he would have been in saying to him just curse God and get this over with.

And if you curse God, he'll kill you and put you out of your misery.

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