Five Rivers Church
Hope in Suffering pt. 2
Who Am I? Is a question that is critical to living in Kingdom Hope. The answer is often confused by suffering. Join us as we explore how to answer this question.
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Five Rivers Church
1450 E Dorothy Ln, Dayton, OH 45429, USA
Sunday 11:00 AM
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https://fiverivers.church/messagesSummary of the Book of Job
the Bible Project provides an excellent summary of the Book of Job. We hope you will watch this short video and get a clearer picture of its message.
https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/job/The Story of Job: What Happened and What Does It Mean?
This Bible Project video will help you get a better idea of Job's story and the meaning behind it.
https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/wisdom-job/Suffering Confuses Identity
The Book of Job shares three mistakes we often make in the midst of suffering:
#1 - We suffer because we are reaping what we have sown.
#2 - We suffer because God is building our character.
#3 - We suffer because God is somehow bad.
In the Book of Job, God said that Job had spoken right when he said that his suffering was not because of his sin. He also corrected Job's friends and told them to make a sacrifice and ask Job to pray for them.
Although God never answered the why question of suffering, He confirmed His goodness and justness and invited Job and us to trust in His infinite wisdom.
The Book of Job shares three mistakes we often make in the midst of suffering:
#1 - We suffer because we are reaping what we have sown.
#2 - We suffer because God is building our character.
#3 - We suffer because God is somehow bad.
In the Book of Job, God said that Job had spoken right when he said that his suffering was not because of his sin. He also corrected Job's friends and told them to make a sacrifice and ask Job to pray for them.
Although God never answered the why question of suffering, He confirmed His goodness and justness and invited Job and us to trust in His infinite wisdom.
Here is a prayer over us from Romans 8:18-27, 37-39…
“Father, we consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for Your children to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by Your will, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of Your children. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God…’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Jesus who loved us. For we are convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from Your love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” AMEN
“Father, we consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for Your children to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by Your will, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of Your children. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God…’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Jesus who loved us. For we are convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from Your love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” AMEN