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Job 34 - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: January 28, 2016

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Job 34:37)

The ancient people watched the stars for signs from the beginning of time. It was only through patiently watching the stars for a long time, recording where they were, when they were, that one day after many, many, many years they saw a star that was different...that star led them to Bethlehem.

Life Lesson (Job 34:37)

Keep doing good. Keep using your gifts. Keep blessing people and being blessed. Don't get rattled.

Life Lesson (Job 34:37)

The true measure of a person is not how they do when all things are going well. The true measure of a person is how they do when tough times happen.

Life Lesson (Job 34:37)

It hurts to find out someone is not loyal. Jesus knows and understands this.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Ps 19:1 NKJV

The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.

Gen 1:14 NKJV

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

Job 34:5 NLT

For Job also said, 'I am innocent,
but God has taken away my rights.

Job 34:8 NLT

He chooses evil people as companions.
He spends his time with wicked men.

Job 34:9 NLT

He has even said, 'Why waste time
trying to please God?'

2 Cor 5:6-8 NKJV

6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Heb 9:27-28a [partial] NKJV

27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.

Job 9:8-10 NKJV

8 He alone spreads out the heavens,
And treads on the waves of the sea;
9 He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
And the chambers of the south;
10 He does great things past finding out,
Yes, wonders without number.

Job 38:31-32 NKJV

31 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
Or loose the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out Mazzaroth in its season?
Or can you guide the Great Bear with its cubs?

Amos 5:8 NKJV

He made the Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
And makes the day dark as night;
He calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the face of the earth;
The Lord is His name.

Job 7:20 NKJV

Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, O watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?

Ps 147:1-4 NKJV

1 Praise the Lord!
For it is good to sing praises to our God;
For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars;
He calls them all by name.

Ps 147:3-4 NASB

3 He heals the brokenhearted
And binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars;
He gives names to all of them.

2 Peter 3:3-4 NKJV

3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation."

2 Peter 3:3-4 NLT

3 Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. 4 They will say, "What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created."

Prov 17:17 NKJV

A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

Prov 17:17 NLT

A friend is always loyal,
and a brother is born to help in time of need.

Gal 6:9-10 NKJV

9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Gal 6:9-10 NLT

9 So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. 10 Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.

2 Thess 3:13 NKJV

But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.

2 Thess 3:11-13 NLT

11 Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people's business. 12 We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work to earn their own living. 13 As for the rest of you, dear brothers and sisters, never get tired of doing good.

Eph 4:26-27 NKJV

"Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil.

Jude 11 NKJV

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 Sam 15:23a [partial] NKJV

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

Eph 3:20-21 NKJV

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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