And with that, by faith tonight, we are going to do five chapters. That's five chapters, right?

14, 15, 16, 17, 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. We want

to 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 back story

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

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