With God, We Can Overcome: Lessons from Job

(From a sermon by Jeremy Hulsey - Haleyville, AL)

With God, Job was able to overcome . . .

  1. Financial Setbacks: Job 1:3, 13-17
  2. Family Loss: Job 1:2, 18-19
  3. Failing Health: Job 2:1-8
  4. Forsaking of Family and Friends:
    1. Job's wife: 2:9 -- Job's answer 2:10
    2. Job's friends
      1. Eliphaz - 4:7-9 -- Job answers 6:24-27
      2. Bildad - 8:2-6
      3. Zophar - 11:2-6
      4. Job answers again - 13:4-8


With God, we can overcome the same . . .

  1. Financial Setbacks: Keep a proper attitude toward your possesions:
    1. Luke 12:15
    2. Matthew 19:23-24 (cf Mark 10:23-25)
    3. 1 Timothy 6:6-10
    4. 1 Timothy 6:17-19
  2. Family Loss:
    1. 2 Samuel 12:22-23 - David
    2. John 11:17-27 - Mary & Martha
    3. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
  3. Failing Health or Disabilities:
    1. Judges 16 - Samson
    2. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 - Paul
    3. 2 Timothy 4:6-8
  4. Forsaking of Family and Friends:
    1. 2 Timothy 4:10
    2. 2 Timothy 4:16-18
  5. Temptation - 1 Corinthians 10:13
  6. All Things:
    1. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, 9-10
    2. Romans 8:31-39
    3. Galatians 6:14
    4. 1 John 5:1-4