The second part of a four part series on the Book of Job - When Things go Wrong

1. When Things Go Wrong
A Study from the Book of Job

2. When things go wrong ..
 Worship Him
 Look to God
 Reach out to hurting people
 Wait for God’s help

3. Look to God
Things will go wrong in life
Many will offer advice
Prayer should be your first reaction

4. Focus
What’s the big idea?
 Everyone goes through hard times
Why does it matter?
 Look to God otherwise you will despair
How do I live it?
 Trust God no matter how hard

5. The Book of Job
Oldest Book in Bible
Author: Unknown
Job: Lived during or before Abraham

6. Memory Work and Drills!

7. Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not be dismayed, for I am your
God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous
right hand.

8. Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots and some in
horses,
But we trust in the name of the Lord
our God.

9. Psalms 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the
house, the builders labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the
city, the guards stand watch in
vain.

10. Numbers 6:24-26
The Lord bless you and keep you
The Lord make His face shine upon
you and be gracious to you
The Lord turn His face toward you and
give you peace.

11. Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have
for you,” declares the Lord,
“plans to prosper you and
not to harm you, plans to
give you hope and a
future.”

12. Memory Work and Drills!
Isaiah 41:10
Psalms 20:7
Psalms 127:1
Numbers 6:24-26Jer 29:11
Psalms 23

13. Genesis
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Revelation
To churches
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14. Look to God
Things will go wrong in life
Many will offer advice
Prayer should be your first reaction

15. In life things will go
wrong
5 minutes
Telling a story

16. Job 14:1-2
“Mortals, born of woman, are of
few days and full of trouble.
They spring up like flowers and
wither away; like fleeting
shadows, they do not endure”

17. John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so
that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome
the world.”
Jesus said there WILL be trouble, but He has overcome!

18. Look to God
Things will go wrong in life
Many will offer advice
Prayer should be your first reaction

19. Whose’s Advice?
Quotes
1) Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply
2) Truly You are a God who hides Himself
3) Live every day as if it were your last
4) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which
he cannot lose
5) There are many who preach Christ, but not so many who live
Christ. My great aim will be to live Christ
6) If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him,
He will reject you forever."
7) They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own
vineyard have I not kept
8) God help those who helped themselves
Which of these advices are truly from God’s Word?

20. WHOSE’S ADVICE?
Quotes Source
Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply A. W. Tozer
Truly You are a God who hides Himself Isaiah 45:15
Live every day as if it were your last Marcus Aurelius
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain
that which he cannot lose
Jim Elliot
There are many who preach Christ, but not so many
who live Christ.
C. Chapman
If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you
forsake Him, He will reject you forever."
1 Chronicles 28:9
They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my
own vineyard have I not kept
Song of Solomon
1:6
God help those who helped themselves unknown

21. Some Friends you
have!
Read what each of these friends advised and
counter them from God’s word.
• Job 4: 7-9 Eliphaz
• Job 8: 3-4 Bildad & Zophar
• Job 11:13-15 Bildad & Zophar
• Job 35:12-16 Elihu

22. EVERYONE HAS AN
OPINION
• Job 4: 7-9 Only Sinful people have problems
• Job 8: 3-4 Bad things happen because you’re
sinning
• Job 11:13-15 Your problems will end if you stop
sinning
• Job 35:12-16 Why should God listen to you,
anyway?

23. EVERYONE HAS AN
OPINION
• Job 4: 7-9 Only Sinful people have problems
Rom 8: 28 In all things God works for the good of
those who love him
• Job 8: 3-4 Bad things happen because you’re
sinning
Rom 8: 38 For I am convinced that neither death
nor life …nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God that is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

24. EVERYONE HAS AN
OPINION
• Job 11:13-15 Your problems will end if you stop
sinning
1 John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from
all unrighteousness
• Job 35:12-16 Why should God listen to you,
anyway?
Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the Lord are on the
righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry

25. Look to God
Things will go wrong in life
Many will offer advice
Prayer should be your first reaction

26. Heb 4:16
Let us then approach God’s
throne of grace with confidence,
so that we may receive mercy
and find grace to help us in our
time of need

27. Look to God
If you are looking for God
when you are in trouble, you
are already too late!

28. Enter into God’s
Presence
5 minutes