Hey, well, good morning.
I want to invite you to turn with me, if you would please, to Job chapter 3.
! We're continuing our study in this book, Job chapter 3.
If you're using the Pew Bible, it's on page 418.
Now, the challenge over the next six weeks is that we're going to cover 34 chapters in six weeks' time,
which means that we have a lot of ground to cover, and it means that we're not going to be able to go as deep as we would,
but we're going to cover these major themes that we see throughout this book
and try to address them as those who are also sufferers
and observe the things that were true about Job's life, the reason why his suffering was difficult for him,
and how we, as sufferers, can learn from his example and follow in the steps of God.
Now, those of you who used to sing old hymns may be familiar with the hymn by William Cowper that goes this way.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
and sinners plunge beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.
A powerful song about the saving work of Christ,
and something that William Cowper, through this song, will testify,
happened for him, that the death of Christ, his giving of his body and his blood,
his death and resurrection that claimed for him or purchased for William Cowper,
and anyone who would come and confess their sins and believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior,
the same kind of hope of salvation and relief and freedom from the bondage of sin
and a future eternal life with God.
But in spite of those strong words of God's saving grace in William Cowper's life,
he was a man who experienced a turmoil of highs and lows of emotions.
He was born in 1731.
He died in 1800.
His father was the rector of a village church,
one of the pastors of a village church,
and his mother died when he was only six years old.
Just that crushing weight of loss as a youngster.
And as a result, his father sent him to boarding school,
which was a very negative time and season in William Cowper's life.
He was relentlessly bullied by the older students,
older boys in his boarding school.
When he finally left the boarding school and he embarked on his occupation at age 32,
he was about to be made the clerk of journals in the parliament.
This would have been an amazing career advancement for him,
but the pressure struck fear into William Cowper,
and as a result of it, he had a complete mental breakdown.
And he was committed to an insane asylum.
Years would go by, and six months into that stay,
Cowper would find a Bible.
A Bible that was lying on a bench that he read about the story of Jesus.
The story of Jesus, who you remember comes to the tomb of Lazarus,
and there is Mary and Martha,
and Jesus says to them,
I'm the resurrection and the life.
And as a result of the story of what Jesus had done in raising Lazarus to life,
there was hope in William Cowper's heart that there could be freedom from this,
this pressure and this bondage,
and really this emotional death that he faced himself,
and he could experience and enjoy this resurrection power as well.
As a result, he says in his journal,
he received strength to believe.
He saw God's sufficiency,
his shed blood in the fullness of his salvation,
what Jesus offered through his son Jesus.
Two years after Cowper would leave this institution,
one of the most important friendships that he would have would be formed.
A friendship with John Newton.
Newton was a pastor of a church that William Cowper would attend,
and Newton had lost his mother when he was six as well.
So this formed an immediate connection,
kindred hearts, as it were,
who experienced a lot of the same pressures.
And Newton, if you remember,
was the man who wrote the song,
Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound,
That Saved a Wretch Like Me.
He realized this, Newton did,
through his experience of growing up with his father
and being on a slave ship with his father
in this business of trading slaves.
When God rescued his heart
and liberated him from that occupation
and turned himself free to speak the word
and to preach to others.
Well, Cowper would go through highs and lows
through his life and experience
several more bouts of depression
where there would be times in his life
where he wanted to take his life.
And Cowper entered his fourth deep depression in 1786
and again tried unsuccessfully to take his life.
He becomes an example for us of a man
who while had experienced the saving work of Christ in his life,
he did also go through periods of deep emotion.
And maybe you can identify,
maybe you've been there.
We're going to look this morning
at the life of a godly man.
Matter of fact, not just the life of a godly man,
but in God's own commendation of Job,
we find there in the second chapter
that there was no one who was like Job.
There was no one on the face of the earth like him,
blameless and upright it says,
who feared God and turned away from evil.
And yet, and yet through all of the tragedy
that Job would experience,
we find the beginnings in Job chapter 3,
a heart that begins to express itself in raw emotion.
This suffocating sorrow and darkness
begin to cloud his heart.
In Job's case, this was a test of integrity,
a test of loyalty to God,
a test of devotion and worship.
Would Job remain true?
Of course, as we've looked at the life of Job,
I just want to remind you in chapter 1 and chapter 2,
up to this point at least,
Job has remained faithful,
his integrity intact.
Even after losing his property,
7,000 sheep and 3,000 camels,
and then 500 yoke of oxen and donkeys,
and then the massive tidal wave
of losing his family,
seven sons and three daughters.
This devastating blow
and the sorrow upon sorrow
that comes on Job's life.
And yet, at the end of Job chapter 1,
we find integrity intact.
Verse 21 says this,
Naked I came from my mother's womb.
Naked shall I return.
The Lord gave,
and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
And then this commentary,
In all this, Job did not sin
or charge God with wrong.
So in chapter 2,
we turn the page,
and Satan is unsatisfied.
He thinks that God is still holding out on him,
and that there's one more test
that Job needs to experience
before he will truly lose his integrity
and curse God and die.
Give me his flesh.
Let me inflict emotional and physical pain on him,
and then it will be over,
Satan thinks.
And so Satan does.
He's given permission by God.
He goes out and inflicts
this amazing disease on Job
with oozing sores,
infested with worms,
blackened skin,
swollen face,
emaciated figure,
unrecognizable to his friends.
And yet,
in Job chapter 2,
verse 10,
we find integrity intact.
Shall we receive
good from God
and not evil,
he says?
In all this,
Job did not sin
with his lips.
Which also,
by the way,
means that Job did not sin
with his heart.
Because out of the heart,
the mouth speaks.
And so Job,
his integrity is intact.
But now,
in chapter 3,
we're beginning to see
kind of the cracks
beginning to form.
Job,
who on an appointed day,
his friends come
for a visit.
And this
prolonged struggle
and suffering
that he's experiencing.
And we're not given
the number of days
or weeks or months,
but we get some clues
as we look at
the rest of the book.
Job chapter 7,
verse 3,
says this,
So I am allotted
months of emptiness.
Nights of misery
are appointed to me.
In chapter 29,
verses 2 to 6,
he says,
Oh,
that I were as
in the months of old,
as in the days
when God watched over me,
when his lamp
shone upon my head,
and by his light
I walked through darkness
as I was in my prime,
when the friendship of God
was upon my tent,
when the Almighty
was yet with me
and my children
were all around me,
when my steps
were washed with butter
and the rock poured out
for me streams of oil.
This was not
a short suffering.
This was a prolonged suffering.
And you can better believe
that God will get us
to our breaking point.
That's what he does
in order for us
to grow in our faith
and dependence upon God.
He gets us to the point
of breaking.
And for Job,
there was no man
like him on the earth.
You can imagine
that that prolonged suffering
would have taken some time.
Although we don't know
the duration of time
that we're talking about.
But we do recognize
that in especially
the first couple of chapters,
time has elapsed
very quickly.
So that even in one verse
we find that an entire week
has gone by.
And what's going to follow
is 34 chapters
and 740 verses
of this discourse
that's taking place
between Job and his friends.
And I want us to just
be reminded of the fact
that it's not like
we can just read through
the book of Job
and that would be the time
that it would take
for these discourses
to happen.
That there's some time
that's taking place here.
It's clear that the timeline
of Job is much slower
than just the course
of interchange
of counsel
back and forth,
the discussion that's happening.
And Job here
was near the Lord.
So the intensity
of his suffering
and the duration
of his suffering
would have corresponded
with his faith
and his integrity.
That's where we find
ourselves this morning.
We find ourselves
in Job chapter 3.
And so we shouldn't
be surprised
that now Job
at his breaking point,
now this raw emotion
is going to burst through.
And it's going to begin
here in Job chapter 3.
It's going to follow
its way until we get
to Job chapter 37
where God finally shows up
in chapter 38
and begins to help
inform this emotion
that has been so raw
and so real
and so out there
where now God
will come
in the midst
of his silence
and will help Job
begin to see
a better view
of himself.
So this morning
we're going to look
at Job's honest cry.
Job's honest cry.
And I want to begin
to, I want to try
to answer this question
for us this morning.
Is it okay to cry?
And we're going to see
through the course
of our time together
as we look at Job
chapter 3 in particular
that it is right.
It is good.
It is even godly
for us to cry
if we're crying
in the right way.
Let me read for us
the first 10 verses
as we jump into our study.
It says,
After this Job
opened his mouth
and cursed
the day of his birth.
And Job said,
Let the day perish
on which I was born
and the night
that said
a man is conceived.
Let that day
be darkness.
May God above
not seek it
nor light shine
upon it.
Let gloom
and deep darkness
claim it.
Let clouds dwell
upon it.
Let the blackness
of the day
terrify it.
That night
let thick darkness
seize it.
Let it not rejoice
among the days
of the year.
Let it not come
into the number
of the months.
Behold,
let that night
be barren.
Let no joyful cry
enter it.
Let those curse
it who curse the day
who are ready
to rouse up Leviathan.
Let the stars
of its dawn
be dark.
Let it hope
for the light
but not have any.
Nor see the eyelids
of the morning
because it did not
shut the doors
of my mother's womb
nor hide
trouble from my eyes.
This cry of anguish,
this cry of torment,
this raw emotion
that we see
as Job is crying
in front of his friends.
We're going to find
and look at two
specific ways
in which he complains.
First,
his first complaint
in verses 1 to 10
is,
I wish I was never born.
Now,
depending upon
your generation,
you might see this
response of Job
here in chapter 3
in one of two ways.
Either you will see
this as a healthy expression
of one's real
emotional struggles.
We're coached
in our culture today
to let it all out,
to be true to yourself,
to make sure
you don't hold back
because we are
our emotions
and so we need
to let our emotions,
our true self,
be known.
That's what we hear
in our culture today.
Or,
maybe you're
coming from
a different perspective
and you see
this outburst
of emotion
as entirely
out of bounds.
Maybe a departure
from faith.
Maybe the emergence
of the cracks
in Job's integrity
or perhaps
even that Job
is expressing
opposition
to God's
clear purposes
in his life.
Now,
I want you to recognize
that bad emotion,
the opposite
of bad emotion
isn't no emotion.
Rather,
that God has designed us
and we're going to see
this in just a little bit
that emotion
is good.
Emotion
is godly
if it's
directing
our hearts
in a way
that helped
us strengthen
our faith
in God.
In these verses
we encounter
some strong emotion,
wouldn't you say?
Job lets it all
hang out.
He is speaking
as a man
who is under
incredible anguish.
Verse 1,
Cursed be the day
of my birth.
Verse 3,
Let that day perish.
Verse 7,
Behold,
let that night
be barren.
This word curse,
by the way,
is not the same word
for curse
that we've seen
in the previous
two chapters
but it's a different word
that draws attention
to light
and not the color light
but that to take
something to be light.
That it has no value.
That it's worthless.
It's the opposite
of glory
or worthiness.
It's that which
is worthless.
Let that day
be worthless.
It may not ever
be counted
or considered.
Of course,
this is easy
for us to understand.
Simply,
I wish
I was never
born.
And then he actually
backs up
at the end
of that verse,
verse 1
and he says,
actually,
let me take that back.
I wish
I was never
conceived.
I wish
I was never
even
existed
in any way.
Job
wants it
to be over.
It's clear.
So much
though
that he wishes
his life
never began
in the first place.
And it's clear
that he's
in utter anguish
and he describes
that anguish
now in terms
that we can see
where he talks
about light
and dark.
And from verses
4 to 6
he will use
darkness,
the word darkness
five times
and different
words for darkness.
Five different
terms for darkness
we see
to describe
the gravity
of the situation
that he's feeling.
In verse 4
he said
he longed
for the day
to be turned
to darkness.
Let that day
be darkness.
And then a different
word
in verse 4
or verse 5
it talks about
deep shadows.
Let gloom
and deep
darkness
claim it.
And then a different
word at the end
of verse 5
this word
for blackness.
Let the blackness
of day
terrify it.
And then in verse 6
thick darkness
that it would
seize the night.
Let thick darkness
seize it.
You know
it's significant
that Job
will use
and paint
this picture
between light
and dark
because
if you remember
going all the way
back to the
beginning of
Genesis
that by the way
wasn't written
yet for him
but this word
of God
let there be light.
And so Job
in saying
let that day
be turned
to night
essentially
is Lord
reverse
all of the
creative order
on that day
so that I don't
exist anymore.
Just undo it
entirely.
Let it be
forgotten.
Let it not even
be considered.
May light
my light
the light
of my life
be turned
to darkness.
This of course
is the way
that suffering
is often described
right?
We talk about
we can't see
the light of day
or we talk about
the glimmer
of hope
that's gone
or we talk
the darkness
that presses in
or we talk
about the dark
clouds of depression
that have kind of
taken over
taken hold
of us.
Here Job
expresses
what's on his heart.
and I want
us to understand
that while
he expresses
emotion
that is raw
and seemingly
unfiltered
and for those
of us
of the older
generation
might begin
to think
well Job
is just
kind of
losing it
right now
and he is
sinning
against God
but I want
you to recognize
that he has
not yet
accused God
of wrongdoing.
He's not
accused God
of wrongdoing.
He's not
blasphemed God
in any way
and we know
that especially
because of
the accounting
of Job's
life at the
end of the
book
by God
himself.
This raw
emotion
this deep
anguish
and it raises
some questions
right?
It raises
some questions
for us
is it
appropriate
to express
our emotion
in this way?
Did Job's
integrity
just take
a hit
because of
this raw
emotion
this outburst
of feeling
that comes
now out
into the
open?
And I want
to just
briefly pull
away from
Job chapter
3 to try
to answer
that question
what does
the Bible
say about
emotion?
What does
the Bible
say about
our emotion?
There's several
things I want
to work through
briefly this
morning but
we can't
cover it all
and I want
to just
commend to
you this
book I'm
going to put
a picture of
this book
on the screen
it's called
Untangling
Emotion
it's by
Alistair Groves
and Winston
Smith
we have a few
more copies
in the
resource center
I would
commend it
to you
it provides
a much
fuller
discourse
of this
subject
that we
can cover
this morning
but in
there
in this
book
we find
the clues
that we
find in
scripture
that help
inform us
in our
emotion
first
God made
us
as emotional
creatures
God made
you
and God
made me
as emotional
creatures
and
it teaches
that we
are the
indispensable
part
of our
human
nature
is that
our
relationship
with God
must be
built on
some kind
of emotion
we get to
the first
in great
commandment
right
we're gonna
get there
in just a
little bit
to love
the Lord
your God
with all
your heart
with all
your soul
with all
your mind
with all
your strength
your emotion
is a critical
feature
of your
relationship
with God
and that
should not
be a surprise
to us
because we're
made in
God's image
and so he
built in us
and wove
in us
this emotional
part
that is
meant
not to
take us
away
from him
but is
meant to
lead us
towards him
and not
just that
it's meant
to be
a comfort
and encouragement
to the people
around us
as we're
expressing
the kind
of right
godly
emotion
that reflects
the image
of God
to them
like we
rejoice
with those
who rejoice
we weep
with those
who weep
why do we
do that
because we
have a
weeping
God
we have
a God
who is
the God
of all
comfort
we have
a God
who cares
he was
moved with
compassion
we saw
that through
Christ's
ministry
and so
emotions are
an essential
way that we
bear out the
image of
God to
to this
world
now
I want
you all
to understand
that you
are an
emotional
person
and you
might
say
wait a
second
I'm
pretty
steady
I'm
kind
of
stable
I'm
not
an
emotional
person
except
when you're
behind
somebody
who cut
you off
who's
going
too slow
who's
not
making
the turn
who's
on
their
phone
they are
distracted
or they
went
through
the light
because
they're
not
paying
attention
and all
of a
sudden
emotion
comes
through
right
what
are
they
doing
now
it's
not
the
same
kind
of
emotion
perhaps
that
you
would
think
it's
not
the
weeping
or the
crying
or the
compassion
but it's
emotion
nonetheless
that frustration
that anger
that flash
of emotion
that you
might feel
fear
and anger
and frustration
and sadness
are emotions
too
along with
joy
and happiness
and gratitude
and love
and so
you are
an emotional
person
because
God
made you
that way
and so
it's not
to tamp
down
that emotion
but to
point that
emotion
in the
right way
and to
steer it
so that
God is
glorified
through
our emotional
responses
second
our emotion
needs to
be
evaluated
our emotion
needs to
be evaluated
you see
not all
negative
emotion
is bad
and not
all
positive
emotion
is good
for example
I just
quoted this
already
rejoice
with those
who rejoice
weep
with those
who weep
we might
consider
that weeping
is kind
of a negative
emotion
and we
don't really
want to
weep
we want to
kind of
pass over
that
but you
understand
that the
command
is in
place
so that
we can
not just
express
the heart
of God
towards people
who are
struggling
but so
that we
can
so that
we can
grow
in our
own
compassion
and
unify
the body
as you
are
sympathizing
with their
circumstances
it's a way
to unify
it's a way
to strengthen
the connection
that God
has made
among us
because of
the work
of Christ
you see
not all
negative
emotions
are bad
but they
can be
a signpost
to us
of
something
deeper
inside
and
just
the same
way
all
positive
emotions
aren't
good
that
sometimes
the fact
that we're
happy
about the
good things
that are
happening
in our
life
actually
distract
us
we think
about the
happy
things
the gifts
that God
has given
to us
rather
than thinking
about the
giver
of those
gifts
we can
celebrate
those good
things
those
great
promises
those
great
blessings
that we
enjoy
and they
can
completely
derail
us
from
thinking
about
the
giver
of
those
gifts
so
happiness
can
be
negative
as well
third
we need
to understand
that emotion
reveals
our
worship
emotion
reveals
what we
worship
emotion
really is
like
lights
on a
dashboard
those
of you
who
are
interested
in that
it's
meant
to
indicate
what's
happening
beneath
the
surface
and
that
emotion
whether
it's
good
or
bad
tells
you
what's
happening
deep
down
inside
it
is
that
indicator
that
helps
you
know
what
you
worship
what
you
enjoy
what
makes
you
afraid
what
you
value
and
so
every
emotion
that
you've
ever
felt
reflects
what
you
love
it
reflects
what
you
worship
and
that's
why
we
need
to
steer
our
desires
that's
why
James
talks
about
in
James
chapter
4
it
talks
about
where
does
war
and
conflict
come
from
you
it
comes
from
the
desires
that
are
in
you
that
rage
against
yourself
and
so
those
desires
those
emotions
those
expectations
that
we
have
reflect
what's
truly
important
to
us
and
so
we
need
to
steer
that
emotion
that's
why
Deuteronomy
6
verses
4
and 5
hear
O
Israel
the
Lord
our
God
the
Lord
is
one
you
shall
love
the
Lord
your
God
with
all
your
heart
with
all
your
soul
and
with
all
your
might
and
so
as
we
steer
our
emotion
we
steer
our
loves
we
steer
our
affections
we
steer
our
desires
in
the
way
of
God
then
we
point
ourselves
to
the
kind
of
worship
that
exalts
him
that's
appropriate
that's
pure
that's
right
we
are to
the
mentality
of
our
being
which
includes
our
emotions
fourth
emotion
is meant
to lead
us to
God
emotion
is meant
to lead
us to
God
it's
meant
to
strengthen
your
faith
to
help
you
wrestle
with
your
feelings
and
put
them
in
alignment
with
the
truth
that
we
find
from
scripture
and
by
the
way
God
is
big
enough
to
handle
your
emotions
God
is
he
knows
what
they
are
anyway
!
And so
when we
express
our
emotions
to
God
he
is
big
enough
to
hear
them
and
to
respond
and
he
responds
of
course
through
his
word
right
so
even
those
strong
raw
and
unfiltered
emotions
that we
might
have
he
doesn't
expect
us
to
try
to
refine
them
he
doesn't
want
us
to
fix
ourselves
and
then
come
to
him
no
emotions
are
meant
to
lead
us
to
God
so
that
he
can
fix
our
emotions
he
can
help
direct
and
inform
our
emotions
it
is
God's
design
that
great
suffering
brings
great
sorrow
and
in
our
sorrow
in
our
suffering
that
emotion
is
meant
to
lead
us
to
the
only
one
who's
able
to
help
us
in
the
midst
of
sorrow
and
suffering
the
longer
the
suffering
the
harder
the
struggle
will
be
and
so
we
have
this
story
of
Job
and
finally
in
Job
chapter
3
Job
is
at
his
breaking
point
and
by
the
way
that
is
really
good
news
for
us
it's
bad
for
Job
it's
good
for
us
because
if
the
story
had
stopped
at
Job
then
the
rest
of
us
who
have
real
unfiltered
emotions
and
we
don't
experience
nearly
the
pain
that
Job
experienced
was
like
well
there's
no
hope
for
me
but
now
we
get
this
breakthrough
this
glimpse
of
what
really
truly
godly
people
will
do
at
times
and
Job
here
responds
in
this
first
ten
verses
I
wish
I
had
never
been
born
and
now
moving
into
verses
11
to
19
he
changes
it
a bit
but
it
has
the
same
outcome
I
wish
I
was
dead
I
wish
I
let me
read this
for us
it
says
why
did
I
not
die
at
birth
come
out
from
the
womb
and
expire
why
did
the
knees
receive
me
or
why
the
breast
that
I
should
nurse
for
then
I
would
have
lain
down
and
been
quiet
I
would
have
slept
then
I
would
have
been
at
rest
I
would
have
with
the
kings
and
with
counselors
of
the
earth
who
rebuilt
the
ruins
for
themselves
or
why
was
I
not
hidden
as
a
stillborn
child
as
infants
who
never
see
the
light
there
the
wicked
cease
from
troubling
and
there
the
weary
are
at
rest
there
the
prisoners
are
at
ease
together
they
hear
not
the
voice
of
the
task
master
the
small
and
the
great
are
there
and
the
slave
is
free
from
his
master
Job
continues
this
raw
emotion
and
he
sees
that
death
is
the
answer
in
his
mind
he
believes
that
if
he
were
not
to
be
alive
anymore
he
would
finally
be
at
rest
but
there's
a
problem
of
course
with
Job's
thinking
the
problem
is
that
he
lacked
information
he
lacked
special
revelation
he
lacked
the
truth
he
didn't
have
God's
word
he
didn't
have
the
scripture
he
didn't
have
any
knowledge
of
life
after
death
you
see
God
had
been
silent
up to
this
point
God
had
not
spoken
in
a
way
or
written
truth
down
in
a
way
that
could
be
passed
on
to
others
but
all
the
truth
that
they
would
have
would
be
truth
that
was
observable
truths
that
were
established
from
the
beginning
things
that
they
would
see
like
in
creation
or
the
fall
or
the
flood
or
the
tower
of
babel
these
are
the
observable
truths
that
they
would
know
about
the
almighty
the
creator
of
all
is
used
so
extensively
throughout
the
book
of
Job
that
God
punishes
sin
they
would
have
known
that
from
the
story
of
Noah
but
also
that
he
rescues
his
people
that
God
delights
in
proper
sacrifices
they
would
have
known
that
through
the
story
of
Abel
and
the
story
of
Noah
that
God
will
not
tolerate
improper
worship
but
there
was
no
testimony
or
observable
evidence
of
life
after
death
in
their
estimation
when
somebody
died
that
was
the
end
they
didn't
return
it
was
over
for
them
and
that's
what
comes
through
in
these
words
Job's
main
problem
here
is
a
faulty
inaccurate
view
of
life
after
death
in
his
mind
it's
a
place
of
rest
notice
for
then
I
would
have
lain
down
and
been
quiet
I
would
have
slept
I
would
have
been
at
rest
there
in
verse
13
he
also
sees
the
grave
as
the
great
equalizer
notice
in
verse
14
he'll
take
his
place
with
kings
and
counselors
in
verse
15
he'll
take
his
place
with
the
wealthy
princes
in
verse
17
he
also
takes
his
place
with
the
wicked
who
are
experiencing
the
consequences
of their
actions
but
they're
at
rest
and
then
in
verse
18
he'll
take
his
place
with
prisoners
who
are
finally
there's
no
more
burden
there's
just
freedom
and rest
in
Job's
mind
and
Job's
thinking
to be
dead
is to
end
suffering
for
everyone
regardless
of your
lot in
life
regardless
of your
posture
towards
God
and
so
Job's
faulty
theology
influenced
his
emotion
influenced
his
emotion
by the
way
it's
the
same
way
with
Job's
wife
what does
she
say
curse
God
and
die
curse
as if
cursing
God
had no
consequences
after the
grave
right
or
Job's
friends
there's
three
examples
that I'll
give
to you
but
there's
an
abundance
of
examples
as you
read
through
the
book
chapter
4
verse
20
Eliphaz
says
this
between
morning
and
evening
they
are
beaten
to
pieces
speaking
of
wicked
people
they
perish
forever
without
anyone
regarding
it
Bill
dead
in
chapter 8
verse 22
says
those who
hate you
will be clothed
with shame
and the tent
of the wicked
will be no more
in chapter 11
verse 20
Zophar says
the eyes of the wicked
will fail
all
way of escape
will be lost
to them
and their hope
is to breathe
their last
as if the wicked
have no consequences
after the grave
that was the
the going knowledge
that was
that was the wisdom
of the day
but of course
knowledge
informs
emotion
knowledge
informs
emotion
I was just
remembering
and I think
I may have
shared this
story before
many many
many years
ago
when I was
in college
and we
were down
in Cincinnati
we were
sharing the
gospel
and somebody
came up
behind me
and they
choked me
out
and then
they held
something
sharp
against the
back of
my ribs
and they
said
give me
all your
money
and
I
didn't
respond
I was just
kind of like
why is this
guy doing
this
and the
reason
I was
unresponsive
is because
I was looking
at the face
of a friend
who was
observing
the situation
there was
no panic
on their
face
I was
informed
about the
situation
as if I
were looking
in a mirror
so I knew
I didn't
have anything
to worry
about
I was just
kind of
wondering
why in
the world
is this
person
behind me
being so
rough
emotion
is the
same
way
and as
we
look
at the
face
of
God
and we
see that
God
and know
that God
is in
control
and we
recognize
that he
is good
and we
know
that he
is just
and we
know
that vengeance
is the
Lord
that he
will
repay
and we
look at
his face
and we
say
he knows
what's
best
we look
at his
face
and that
will
help
condition
our
emotions
to respond
in our
situation
in a way
that expresses
faith in
him
so
I want
to just
spend the
last few
moments
very quickly
how can
my emotion
lead me
to God
how can
my emotion
lead me
to God
and
we could
cover a
number of
verses
throughout
the book
of Job
where we
see Job's
emotion
coming out
in Job
chapter 9
verse 21
he says
I hate
my life
and in
Job
chapter 10
verse 1
he starts
with
I hate
my life
in Job
chapter 10
verse 18
he says
why did
you bring
me out
from the
womb
this
continuing
narrative
of Job
and the
burden
on his
heart
but we
also need
to understand
that
of all
the people
in the
Old
Testament
Job
is one
of three
that God
commends
Ezekiel
14
says this
even if
these
three
men
Noah
Daniel
and Job
were in
it
they would
deliver
but their
own lives
by their
righteousness
declares
the Lord
God
and I
set that
right here
at the
forefront
so we
can understand
that what
we're seeing
and reading
about Job
this raw
emotion
and expression
is coming
from man
that God
commends
as one
of the
three
most
righteous
men
in all
the Old
Testament
okay
he stands
in good
company
so when we
think about
emotions
and how
we engage
emotions
we need
to understand
this
and I
put these
two quotes
in your
outline
they're
important
enough
for you
to see
for yourself
it says
engaging
emotions
without
engaging
God
is a
recipe
for disaster
our
emotions
are
fundamentally
designed
to force
us
to engage
God
and the
lie
is
that we
can and
should
deal
with
our
emotions
apart
from
bringing
them
to
the
Lord
that's
a lie
that's
a lie
from the pit
of hell
it will
lead
to ruin
and disaster
for you
if you're
going to
deal
with your
emotions
rightly
you need
to deal
with them
by taking
them
to God
the next
our hope
is not
in a
system
or
strategies
it's
not
in all
those
self
help
kind
of
how
to
kind
of
fix
it
process
our
hope
is
in
God
it's
not
in
the
strategies
we
can
enact
sorry
let me
back up
our hope
is not
in a
system
of
strategies
that
we
can
enact
but
in
a
savior
!
in
shepherd!
in
ever
present
help
in
time
of
need
who
sees
us
knows
us
loves
us
and
actually
has
the
power
right
here
and
right
now
to
help
us
with
the
turmoil
of
our
hearts
so
what do
we do
how do
we
engage
our
emotions
first
and
this
should
be
easy
read
your
Bible
engage
your
emotions
by
engaging
God
and
you
engage
God
through
the
word
of
God
and
of
course
you
engage
God
through
prayer
our
hearts
are
shaped
by
God's
word
and
Jesus
as
the
word
of
God
made
flesh
the
living
word
himself
so
when
we
engage
the
word
of
God
we
inform
our
heart
on
the
truths
of
God
it
helps
to
steer
and
align
our
emotions
appropriately
and
when
we
come
to
God
with
our
emotions
we
encounter
God
himself
in
his
word
we
come
to
know
who
he
is
we
come
to
recognize
that
he
that
he
is
over
all
of
the
hard
things
of
our
life
and
we
can
trust
him
second
cultivate
good
negative
emotions
cultivate
good
negative
emotions
time out
wait a
second
good and
negative
they don't
fit
together
what
is
going
on
here
and
I
want
us
to
understand
just
briefly
that
there
are
a lot
of
negative
emotions
and
because
God
is
over
our
emotions
he
can
take
our
doubt
he
can
take
our
anger
can
take
our
fears
he
can
take
our
anxieties
he
can
take
all
of
those
negative
emotions
that
we
feel
and
when
we
entrust
those
negative
emotions
to
him
it
informs
us
some
!
God
and
the
psalmists
do
this
all
the
time
by
the
way
it's
called
lament
and
I
know
our
students
went
through
a
whole
study
on
lament
not
long
ago
but
lament
is
an
honest
impassioned
expression
of
sorrow
frustration
or
confusion
lament
makes
or
names
a
loss
or
injustice
and
the
impact
it
has
had
but
it
also
embraces
the
truth
about
God
that
steadies
the
heart
in
the
midst
of
those
really
negative
emotions
so
when you
feel
like
you've
been
treated
unfairly
and
you
feel
that
sense
of
anger
and
frustration
that
you've
not
been
treated
well
you
take
that
emotion
to
God
and
God
is
like
hey
listen
remember
that
vengeance
is
mine
that
I
will
repay
says
the
Lord
and
so
you
take
that
negative
emotion
to
God
and
your
heart
is
informed
about
who
God
really
is
and
you
say
okay
I
can
trust
you
I
can
trust
you
that
you
are
a
God
who
is
just
that
you
are
a
God
who
is
pure
that
you
are
a
God
who
is
present
and
I
can
trust
you
to
deal
with
this
injustice
better
than
God
or
you
take
your
hurt
to
God
and
you
remind
of the
fact
that
God
is
the
God
of
all
comfort
that
he
is
the
God
of
all
grace
that
God
is
love
and
those
who
abide
in
love
abide
in
God
and
so
you
are
like
yeah
right
I
don't
have
to
be
grieving
I
don't
have
to
be
sorrowful
I
don't
have
to
feel
hopeless
because
God
is
present
in
the
midst
of
the
pain
that
I
am
experiencing
and
it
is
meant
to
draw
me
closer
to
him
take
or
cultivate
good
negative
emotions
take
those
negative
emotions
give
them
to
God
and
let
God
turn
those
emotions
into
faith
third
cling
to
corporate
worship
cling
to
corporate
worship
you
see
if
our
emotions
tell
us
what
we
worship
what
we
value
then
when
you're
feeling
weak
!
about
your
emotions
and
they
want
to
drive
you
away
from
God
himself
and
you
need
to
cling
to
corporate
worship
where
strong
believers
mature
believers
who are
experiencing
the benefits
of God's
kindness
you can
be
strengthened
by
their
faith
and
you
can
be
informed
to
worship
God
like
they're
worshiping
God
I love
1 Thessalonians
5 14
it says
and we
urge you
brothers
admonish
the
idle
encourage
the
faint
hearted
help
the
weak
be
patient
with
them
all
and so
your heart
of worship
is being
informed
by the
people
of worship
around
you
and you're
also being
encouraged
and strengthened
through
God's
people
as well
fourth
and finally
watch
for God
on the
move
because
God is
active
God is
moving
and so
when God
is working
and moving
through the
lives of
others
and they're
celebrating
God's
victories
in their
lives
you can
see it
may not
be happening
for you
but you're
seeing it
in others
and you're
reminded
of the
fact
that God
is in
control
that God
is victorious
that God
is able
to do
what is
impossible
and so
you stake
your claim
in the
work of
God
even through
others
to encourage
your heart
when things
are hard
and of
course
we need
to be
reminded
of the
fact
and I
don't
have
this
in your
notes
but
we need
to be
reminded
of the
fact
that
Jesus
was a
man
of
emotion
Jesus
was a
man
of
emotion
we
get
the
perfect
glimpse
the
perfect
image
the
perfect
model
an
example
of
God
who
is
showing
emotion
through
Jesus
Christ
we see
Jesus
who
is
moved
with
compassion
his
heart
is
carried
and
led
by
this
love
for
others
and it
moves
him
to
activity
we see
Jesus
who
was moved
with pity
or even
moved
with sorrow
as he's
riding
into
Jerusalem
this
triumphal
entry
and
Jesus
there he
is
where he
should have
been
celebrating
but he's
riding into
Jerusalem
where the
only thing
on his
mind
is what's
happening
at the
end of
the week
and the
rejection
of the
people
towards him
and he's
weeping
in the
midst of
celebration
his emotion
over the
things that
were right
not caught
up in
the moment
but driven
by right
and godly
emotion
for those
people
right there
who were
celebrating
his entry
and of
course
Jesus
was
moved
with
emotion
and zeal
to
cleanse
the
temple
but
Jesus
and we're
going to
celebrate
this
remembrance
this
morning
but
Jesus
is
moved
with
emotion
this
sorrow
on the
night
before
he was
crucified
in
Matthew
chapter
26
verse
38
it says
this
then
he
said
to
them
speaking
of
Jesus
to
his
disciples
my
soul
is
very
sorrowful
even
to
death
sorrowful
even
to
death
does
that
sound
a little
like
Job
he
says
remain
here
and
watch
with
me
in
prayer
Jesus
his
heart
his
emotion
comes
out
on
that
evening
but
he
was
carried
by
emotion
he
could
have
been
undone
by
the
emotion
of
that
moment
that
sorrow
but
Jesus
was
carried
by
emotion
because
the
joy
that
was
set
before
him
he
endured
the
cross
it
was
emotion
and
obedience
and
love
for
God
the
father
not
my
will
but
yours
be
done
that
emotion
carried
him
through
the
hardest
circumstances
emotion
is
good
if
that
motion
is
aligned
to
the
truth
of
God's
word
I
trust
that
God
will
help
us
grow
in
our
emotion
if
you
are
normally
steady
and
align
your
emotion
to
God
through
the
informed
truth
of
scripture
for
those
of
you
who
find
your
emotions
all
over
the
place
but
this
morning
we
remember
our
emotional
savior
who
died
for
us
and
as
I
pray
I'm
going to
ask
the
men
if
they
come
forward
we're
going to
observe
communion
together
Lord
we
praise
you
for
your
son
Jesus
Christ
who
was
the
perfect
picture
of
right
and
godly
emotion
it
was
raw
at
times
it
was
extremely
extreme
at
times
it
was
sorrowful
it
was
delighted
it
was
full
of
joy
and
yet
it
was
all
trained
and
aligned
to
the
truth
of
the
word
of
God
and
in
harmony
with
the
father's
will
and
god
I
pray
that
you
would
help
us
as
those
who
are
emotional
creatures
to
live
the
same
way
we
pray
in
Jesus
name
amen