Sermon in Job series. Is death preferable to suffering? Job 3:20-26
“BETTER OFF DEAD?”
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Job 3:20-26
I. Is it a Wonderful Life?
A. Classic Capra movie with Jimmy Stewart.
B. Imagine if someone special to you had never been born.
C. Job faces this abyss.
II. Losing it all.
A. First trial – loss of wealth and family. 1:21
B. Second trial – personal disease. 2:7-8
C. Wife’s rebuke: “Curse God and die.” 2:9
D. Friends and ash heaps. 2:11
III. Job’s cry from the heart.
A. Dramatic change in spiritual tone.
B. Removing a birthday. Jeremiah 20:14-18
C. Death seen as an escape. Revelation 14:13
IV. Hedged in by God. 3:23
A. Hedge: protection or trap?
B. God as our enemy.
C. Don’t be trapped in a limited point of view.
V. Finding peace and quietness. 3:26