Today, we will look at God's purpose in these difficulties. From these two chapters and from the entire book, there are at least THREE purposes. God's purpose (1:8; 2:3, "Have you considered my servant Job…" — same words twice). 1. God's Purpose: to try/test his servant. Let us not forget how Job became the subject of conversation between God and Satan. God brought him up as the topic. God permitted this trial. He would overrule all this to have his servant Job tried. It was to prove his character and the only way that true character that God rendered on Job was to have this trial. God brought the subject up knowing all too well where Satan would go with it. 2. God's Purpose: to thwart and defeat Satan. 3. God's Purpose: to teach Job about God /Himself (ch. 38ff.). ONE, God is always good and right TWO, God is Inscrutable and Incomprehensible THREE, A true sight of God is all we need
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Dr. Mark Herzer has been the pastor of Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church (P.C.A.) in Warminster, PA since 1997. Before this, he was ordained to labor as an Assistant Pastor of Korean United Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1992-1995). He received his M.A.R. and Ph. D....
