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Sunday Service: Overcoming the Overwhelming

(08-08-2021) Bro. Allan Barabat

=Overcoming the Overwhelming=

*John 16:33
"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."

*Job 1:1
"1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil."

blameless: integrity

*Job 2:3
"3 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.""

Integrity: "integro" --> whole, without hypocrisy, without duplicity

How to Handle Life's Overwhelming:
1. Overwhelming Wealth
*Job 1:2,4-5
"2 He had seven sons and three daughters,
4 His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.

*John 1:3
"3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.

*Job 31:24,28
"24 "If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security,'
28 then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.

2. Overwhelming Negativities
*Job 2:11-13
"11 When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.
13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

*Job 42:10
"10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before."

3. Overwhelming Problems
*Job 1:6-13
"6 One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
7 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."
9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied.
10 "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.
11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."
12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
13 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,

*1 Peter 5:8
"8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

*Job 1:13-19
"13 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,
14 a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house,
19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"

Overcoming the Overwhelming:
1. Release your grief to God.
*Job 1:20a
"20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head.

2. Responded to the greatness of God.
*Job 1:20b
"Then he fell to the ground in worship"

3. Reflected on the goodness of God.
*Job 1:21
"21 and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."

4. Refused to assign guilt to God.
*Job 1:22
"22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing."

5. Remain guiltless to God.
*Job 1:22
"22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing."

*Job 2:10
"10 He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Overcomers 3 Overwhelming Faith Statement:
1. Job 13:15
"15 Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him;"

2. Job 18:25-27
"25 I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
27 I myself will see him with my own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

3. Job 23:10
"10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold."

*Job 42:16-17
"16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
17 And so he died, old and full of years.