2nd Quarter - Lesson 2 - Story of Job.pptx

Values Education Class

1. NEVER GIVE UP The Story of Job Values Education – Lesson 2 – 2024-2025

2. Job was a good and upright man who feared God and turned away from evil.

3. He had a large household with seven sons, three daughters and many servants.

4. Job was the richest man in the whole land, and he owned much livestock -

5. - Seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred oxen, and five hundred donkeys.

6. Thinking his children may have sinned and cursed God…

7. … Job rose early and made an offering to the Lord, for each family member.

8. One day, the angels and Satan presented themselves before the Lord.

9. The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

10. Satan replied, “From roaming around on the earth.”

11. Then the Lord said to Satan, “Job is a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil.”

12. Satan answered, “Does Job fear God for nothing? You have protected him and blessed the work of his hands.”

13. “But stretched out your hand against everything that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face”

14. The Lord replied, “everything Job has, you can have, but do not lay a finger on him.”

15. So Satan left to put his plan into action.

16. A messenger came to Job with bad news saying, “Attackers have killed your servants and stolen your donkeys and oxen. I alone have escaped to tell you”

17. Then a second messenger came to Job saying, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned the sheep and servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

18. Then a third messenger came to Job saying, “Attackers stole your camels, killed your servants and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

19. As Job was reeling from all this bad news, a fourth messenger arrived, “A tornado struck the four corners of the house, and it killed all of your sons and daughters, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

20. Job reacted by worshipping God saying, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.”

21. Satan said to God, “Skin for skin, a man will give all that he has to save his own life, stretch out your hand, and strike his flesh and bone, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

22. God replied, “Very well, Job is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

23. So Satan left the presence of God with a plan to make Job curse God.

24. Satan afflicted Job with painful sores, from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

25. In great distress, Job cut his hair and took some broken pottery to scratch his sores.

26. Job’s wife said to him, “Curse God and die.”

27. Job replied, “You speak like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, but not trouble?”

28. Job’s friends came to comfort him and all three cried when they saw his distress.

29. They sat down with him for seven days and nights and no one said a word because they saw how great his suffering was.

30. Job’s friends said that the reason Job was suffering is because he and his family sinned against God and that he deserved to be punished.

31. Job said, “Though He slay me, I will still trust Him. I will carry on my ways before Him. He is my salvation, for no godless man could stand before Him.”

32. “You are all such miserable comforters. Surely even now my witness is in heaven.”

33. “I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will take His stand on the earth. When I die, I shall see God. I will see Him with my own eyes.”

34. Then God spoke to Job in a whirlwind. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world? Who determined its measurements?”

35. “Who gives food to the raven when its young cry out to God?”

36. Have you given the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a flowing mane?”

37. “Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and spread his wings towards the south in winter? Does the eagle soar at your command, and make its nest in an unreachable place?”

38. Then Job acknowledged that God can do everything, and no plan of His can be withheld.

39. After Job had prayed, the Lord restored his prosperity, giving him twice as much as he had before.

40. So the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his early days. He once again became the wealthiest man in the land. Job lived for one hundred and forty years, and then died.