1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Study Headquarters 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: dot com. You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter two 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the New Living Translation. One day, 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: the members of the Heavenly Court came again to present 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: themselves before the Lord, and the accuser, Satan, came with them. 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: Where have you come from, the Lord asked Satan. Satan 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,839 Speaker 1: answered the Lord, I have been patrolling the earth, watching 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: everything that's going on. Then the Lord asked, Satan, have 11 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: you noticed my servant Job. He is the finest man 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: in all the earth. He is blameless, a man of 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil, 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: and he has maintained his integrity even though you urged 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: me to harm him without cause. Satan replied to the Lord. 16 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: Skin for skin, a man will give up everything he 17 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: has to save his life, but reach out and take 18 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: away his health, and he will surely curse you to 19 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: your face. All right, do with him as you please, 20 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: the Lord said to Satan, but spare his life. So 21 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: Satan left the Lord's presence and he struck Job with 22 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 1: terrible boils from head to foot. Job scraped his skin 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: with a piece of broken pottery. As he sat among 24 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: the ashes, his wife said to him, are you still 25 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die? But 26 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: Job replied, you talk like a foolish woman. Should we 27 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: accept only good things from the hand of God and 28 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,559 Speaker 1: never anything bad? So in all this Job said nothing wrong. 29 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he 30 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: to comfort and console him. Their names were Elephaz the Temanite, 32 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: Bill Dad the shoe Height, and so Far the Namathite. 33 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. 34 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into 35 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: the air over their heads to show their grief. Then 36 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: they sat on the ground with him for seven days 37 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: and nights. No one said a word to Job, for 38 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: they saw that his suffering was too great for words. 39 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for your word, and 40 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: we thank you for the privilege of being able to 41 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: look at it today. And Lord, as we read through 42 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: this book, you allow us to walk through this trial 43 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: that you allowed job to go through. And we can 44 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: see here in this portion of scripture that his sorrow 45 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,239 Speaker 1: is so deep, it's so great. He's now being physically 46 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: afflicted on top of everything else. But he accepts it. 47 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: He believes in you, he believes in your sovereignty, and 48 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to look at his life and despair 49 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: the fact that you have allowed these things to come 50 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: his way. He certainly grieves, but at the same time, 51 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: he accepts what you allow. And Lord, by your grace, 52 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: we pray that that would be a mindset that we 53 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: would cultivate as well. But we know that that could 54 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: only be something that we accept if we have the 55 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: mind of Christ, if we think like your son Jesus Christ. 56 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: But even as he gave us an example of prayer, 57 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: prayed not his will, but your will be done. Lord. 58 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 1: That's extremely difficult for us to wrestle with. We idolize 59 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: our own will. But Lord, your sovereign, and you know 60 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: what's best, and we're grateful that we can trust that 61 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: whatever you decide is for your glory and for our good. 62 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord, for the fact that you have revealed 63 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: to us our need for salvation. Through faith in Jesus, 64 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: and so that in the midst of anything we go 65 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: through this side of heaven, we recognize Lord, that you 66 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: are present with us and in us, and that it's 67 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: all going to work out on the other end. Thank you, 68 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 1: Lord for making that known to us. And we pray 69 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: that in the midst of our trials that you would 70 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: comfort us and remind us of these things, but you 71 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: would fill us with joy as well, so that our 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: sense of peace and satisfaction in this world is something 73 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: that's never dependent on our changing circumstances. We love you, Lord, 74 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: and we thank you for all of these things, and 75 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.