The Book of Job
Book of Job, 5
Patient Job, and the Baffled Enemy
Job 1:22
Pastor’s Opening
THAT is to say, in all this trial, and under all this temptation, Job kept right with God. During all the losses of his estate, and the deaths of his children, he did not speak in an unworthy manner. The text speaks admiringly of “all this”; and a great “all” it was. Some of you are in troubles many; but what are they compared with those of Job? Your afflictions are mole-hills contrasted with the Alps of the patriarch’s grief.
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Job 1:22
“In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.”
Main Theme(s)
I. Our first head shall be, IN ALL OUR AFFAIRS THE MAIN THING IS, NOT TO SIN.
II. And, now, a second thought arises out of the text. IN ALL TIME OF TRIAL THERE IS SPECIAL FEAR OF OUR SINNING.
III. Notice, thirdly, that IN ACTS OF MOURNING WE NEED NOT SIN.
IV. But, fourthly, IN CHARGING GOD FOOLISHLY WE SIN GREATLY.
V. Lastly— as I must close in haste— TO COME THROUGH GREAT TRIAL WITHOUT SIN is THE HONOUR OF THE SAINTS.
