Thoughts by Bob Sorge from the book of Job #1

The book of Job serves as a pattern to show us how God uses painful circumstances in the lives of His chosen ones - who have qualified for spiritual advancement because of their obedience and blamelessness - in order to bring them to a higher dimension of spiritual reality.  (See Hebrews 12:23)

Psalms 34:19 says that many are the afflictions of the but the Lord delivers them from them all.

Job had the hand of God on him, the hand of Satan on him and the hand of man on him and he couldn't distinguish between the two. Job is in the battle of his life, warring with God's sovereign purposes, Satan's evil enticements, peoples carnal approaches, and the imperfect realities of this world.

Job thought God was treating him like an enemy (19:11), but in fact God was counting Job as one of His friends. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend." (Proverbs 27:6)

The Book of Job

Bob Sorge's Hermeneutical lens on the book of Job.

1. Job is a godly and blameless man.
2. His inexplicable calamity is the result of God's pleasure in his life.
3. The book is a primer on spiritual warfare, charting the perplexing territory between God's sovereign purposes, Satan's harassements, and people's opinions.
4. The purpose of the calamity is to glorify God by changing Job and bringing him to a higher spiritual inheritence.
5. The suffering of Job parallel Christ's cross in many ways.
6. Job's journey lays a pattern for God's dealings in our lives.
7. The book is a prophecy foretelling the nature of God's dealings in preparing the church for the end time harvest.