Job: Responding to Multiple Trials

 Pastor’s Pen,

This Sunday: Job: Responding to Multiple Trials                                                                         Job 1:1-22

Whenever we hear of someone going through multiple trials and difficulties-- and there are many people, including some of us here, experiencing adversity these days—our minds frequently go to the person so often associated with trials in the Bible,. Job was a Godly and wealthy man labeled “the greatest man of the East” in Scripture. Yet through a series of disasters he essentially lost everything—possessions, children, even his personal health. His wife suggested he curse God and die. His three friends insisted he confess some alleged hidden sin in his life.  Like us when enduring trials, Job likely asked why.

Yet the book of Job doesn't answer the ‘why’ question. Instead the focus is on lessons Job learned through the multiple adversities he suffered, and how we can apply those lessons during hard times today.

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We appreciate those who help sanitize our facilities for services each Saturday morning in in in in in in in in in in in preparation for Sunday worship as well as those who make it possible for us to ‘live-stream’ on Facebook at 10:45 each Sunday morning, and to post each Sunday’s message on our website (www.fccwylie.org) on Sunday afternoons. 


When you enter the sanctuary Sunday, after you are given a bulletin, stop by the communion table where the offering plates are located in the rear of the worship center and pick up your disposable communion cup. Then following the service, please dispose of it in the trash can. (Mark 10:45) 


We continue to hold our Sunday services with all safety protocols and pre-service sanitizing in place. No Sunday school yet, and the nursery is not available.  We are now following the latest CDC guidelines which allow fully vaccinated individuals to go without masks. We use bulletins printed untouched by human hands, with songs, etc. printed therein, and pre-packaged communion elements. Offering plates are located at the rear, or giving can be done online at www.fccwylie.org.


If you still feel uncomfortable attending, feel free to join our live stream on Facebook, at 10:45 AM, which includes communion and the worship hymns. Or the message is available each Sunday afternoon on our website. (www.fccwylie.org)


Job: Responding to Multiple Trials                                                                                                         Job 1:1-22                                                        

  • The disasters Job experienced 
    • What they weren’t—punishment for sin
    • What they were-assaults from Satan
    • What they were-tests from a loving God
  • The dialog Job encountered
    • With his wife: God is unfair!
    • With his three friends: All suffering is punishment for your sin!
    • Job’s response: 

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    • With his young friend Elihu: God uses adversity to purify and enlighten
  • The Divine perspective Job gained
    • God is in control, so I’ll trust Him
    • God’s intelligence is vastly beyond ours, so I’ll learn from Him
    • God’s Person is knowable, so I’ll repent and cultivate a personal relationship with Him

Concluding observations:

God is sovereign                                                                                                                                         God is Omniscient                                                                                                                                         God is with us!                                                                                         

                                                                                            


     

                                                                                                                                      

PRAYER ITEMS: Please check the Prayer list on the Bulletin!

Believers and Americans/supporters in Afghanistan; those affected by Hurricane Ida

Bruce Moilan—surgery scheduled for October 14

John Royal’s father: parents relocated to Texas

Missionary Hal Thompson’s family; Janet McCarley’s family

Rbeda’s brother-in-law—spiritual 

Darla and other healthcare workers; Educators, students

Kim’s son and mother 

Shirley’s cousin Maggie

Jo’s brother Phil

William Martin-colon cancer

Darla and other healthcare workers; Educators, students

Kim’s son and mother 

Shirley’s cousin Maggie

Jo’s brother Phil

William Martin-colon cancer


RADIO THIS WEEKEND:   

The open enrollment period for Medicare is just around the corner, and advertising is already flooding the airwaves.  Medicare authority Toni King of tonisays.com joins host Don Hawkins with practical answers to Medicare questions, this weekend on Encouragement Live.

Encouragement Live can be heard Saturday at 7:05 PM central time on American Family Radio (www.afr.net) and on theworshipchannel.org.  Re-broadcast Sunday 9 pm on The Worship Channel. 

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