In the context of the Great Controversy and a celestial business meeting, Job is bragged about by God. There is an intimacy and a confidence that can only come from the closest of relationships.

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Campion Seventh Day Adventist Church

Consider Job’s God

Micheal Goetz

Consider: God of Intimacy

Consider: God of Pain

Consider: God of Glory

We're jumping into a sermon series, 4 parts, on the story of Job and his God.

Well, Melanie and I are jumping on a plane tomorrow night.

And Melanie grew up going to Romania as a missionary with her family and so she's gonna go with me.

So Pastor Leandro's gonna preach next week, but it's still the sermon series, still consider Job's God.

So you be here and then go to the prayer retreat afterwards.

Opening school year, we are just lingering in your presence.

We don't have to invite you, you've invited us.

And so we've come, and so Lord Jesus, we pray this humble prayer, only that we would hear what you have to say and that it would change us from the inside out do a miracle of miracles through the third person of the Godhead we pray in the name of Jesus amen all right I am so you know high school students, I am always thinking, what story or illustration can I share that would connect with these guys that weren't born when 9-11 happened or when when most of everything happened What do I do with these these young whippersnappers running around our campus well I want to open with a little story here, pointing you back to the 1922?

I know you don't get it and I don't get it, so I feel like we're at least in the same boat not getting it, but back in 1922, you had TV, you just didn't have sound.

They called it black and white but it's really just different shades of gray.

It was a short comedy film series chronicling a group of poor ragamuffins and neighborhood children and their adventures entitled The Gang or Our Gang rather.

We got to know them as the Little Rascals.

The Little Rascals produced by the same producers Laurel and Hardy Films, our gang.

It was produced from 1922 to 1944 spanning the silent film and early sound film periods of America's cinema.

Well I've got to introduce this guy to you.

Now I'm not, I'm not, I am not condoning the club, but every boy his age has at least thought about forming the club.

His club was entitled the He-Man Woman Hater Club.

And they had meetings, and they had processes and procedures.

It was a neighborhood boys club founded by Spanky comprising nearly of all the boys in the club.

Spanky found this exclusive club as a defense against girls and Valentine's Day.

He didn't want nothing to do with either 1 of them.

There was 1 neighborhood boy, 1 neighborhood boy who just, he was part of the club, the He-Man-Woman-Haters club, but he just, he lived a divided life.

Little Alfalfa had fallen for Darla and he just couldn't help himself living a double life.

He lived his life trying to avoid coming in contact with that he-man-woman-haters club that would see him out with Darla Little hair thing would pop up in the back And he would sing a song to Darla.

I've never sang a song up front and I'm not sure that you want to be part of my first.

You're everything I hoped for and everything I need.

Young gentlemen over across the street, learn the lyrics.

Hey, 1 of the oldest stories, in fact the oldest story in the Old Testament, 1 of the oldest stories in ancient literature is a man who unlike Alfalfa did not live a double life.

He lived, yes, with everything but for 1 cause.

He sang that song but He was honest in his heart.

Grab your Bibles, come on, you got your Bibles?

No, you forgot your Bibles on the first Sabbath of the school year?

We've got Bibles that were generously donated in the pew back in front of you.

This ancient book, early book in Old Testament writing.

It was passed down as an oral story years after years after centuries and finally was written by who we believe was Moses.

It's in the context of the Great Controversy.

I'll tell you I've never read the Book of Job like I read it this summer and poured over and over and over and over.

It's written in the context of the great controversy.

There are 2 sides fighting There's a celestial business meeting that launches the book It begins with an eternal scene and it ends with an eternal scene that God rewards his faithful servants we've always read it in the here and the now, but this book is prophetic, speaking of eternal meetings, of meetings rather in in the universe, planning for eternity with the people on this planet.

The book opens, Job chapter 1 and verse 1.

I'll put it on the screen for you, but read along in your Bibles.

You're gonna have to mark some stuff here.

In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job.

Job, he's living in the land, he's living over there in Uz, just just minding his own business in Uz.

Known to be faithful to God, have a family, and be rather wealthy.

It's this definition, blameless and upright, he feared God and shunned evil, that becomes the point of contention and will always be the point of contention.

That definition of a loyalty, a radical loyalty, of service, of faithfulness to God will bring a point of contention, beloved.

Job, faithful, living out in us, unknown to Job.

He's doing his business with his thousands of camels and his hundreds of donkeys and his children offering sacrifices but behind the scenes behind the curtain of what is visible and invisible as it were still today his ears should have been burning because he was being talked about Far beyond the blue came a conversation in heaven.

1 day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord.

This apparently was a routine activity of planning, strategizing.

You can say meetings aren't, but heaven called meetings.

1 day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan and there's a definite article in the Hebrew thus Satan mean the accuser specifically Satan himself came and he came in with them however however that happened he came in with him the Lord Then turned to Satan sitting in 1 of the seats around this committee, and he says hey where who are you representing?

Because each 1 of these angels were representing as delegates sound familiar delegates from around the universe God says to Satan hey, who do you represent Who elected you to be here?

Well Satan didn't have much of an answer except I've been coming roaming, I've been going back and forth through the earth.

Satan is trying to make a point here, But God is going to use Satan's attempt to stake this earth as his and he's going to make a point a counterpoint and so he says to Satan the accuser have you Considered my have you thought about It literally means have you taken to heart.

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Consider: God of Intimacy

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