All right, let's get into our study.

On Thursday nights now, we're in the book of Job.

We started last week in chapter one.

And tonight we are going to take and tackle two more very interesting chapters, chapters two and three.

From chapter four on to, I want to say about chapter 30-ish, heavy on the ish.

We kind of turn a very disturbing corner.

Tonight we're going to be introduced to Job's friends, so-called.

They start off well, to their credit, as we'll talk about. But last

week we saw, I want to call it round one. Tonight we're going to see round two, but round one in chapter

one consisted of Satan who has access to the throne,

was before the throne with his fallen angels.

And God asks him if he noticed his servant Job.

Well, of course he did.

That's why he's there.

He did notice Job and Job's righteousness.

And we're told that Job feared God and shunned evil, and God's sort of

bragging on him. And so Satan then comes in with this master accusation, for lack of a better

way of describing it, and accuses God of blessing Job,

which is the only reason that Job worships God. So he challenges God, God Almighty, who if you think about it, and this is really interesting, created Satan,

it's important to understand that the devil is a created being. We've talked about

this and it's so important to understand this that Satan is not the opposite of God. Satan is not God's equal in that sense.

He is not all powerful, only God is. He's not all knowing, only God is, and he's not all present,

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