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*Biography – Job - *Trusting God Despite Suffering!
*Did your wife become bitter or was she misunderstood?*
*The Gift Shop *
Do you like your name?
Some do and some don’t for various reasons.
We know certain people by their names, but it’s not their birth or given name.
Here’s an example.
Who is *Caryn Johnson*[i]*?*
You know her as Whoopi Goldberg.
How about *Robert Zimmerman?*
That would be Bob Dylan.
*Let’s play a game.
I’ll give you a name you tell me who this person is.*
Who is *Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere?*[ii]**
You know her at Cher? Who is Eileen Regina Edwards? [iii] That would be Shania Twain.
How about *Thomas Mapother IV? His middle name might help – Cruise*.
Tom Cruise!
Sometimes you wonder why people change their name, but not with this lady.
Who is *Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg*?
Need another clue?
She was the lead role in the TV show, /Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman.
/You know her as Jane Seymour!
I totally get why she changed her name but then there’s *Chad Johnson* who changed his name to Chad Ochocinco and *Ron Artest* to Metta World Peace.
But my all time favorite has to be *Mark Duper*.
Mark Duper played Wide Receiver for the Miami Dolphins for 10 years.
He legally changed his name to Mark Super Duper.
Mr.
Super Duper said and I quote my name change */“matches everything I do and everything I strive for.”*[iv]*
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*I want you to meet a woman and we don’t even know her name and most consider her anything but super.*
*Turn to Job chapter 2! Do you need a Bible today?
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Last week we left Job completely sick.
/He’s suffered emotionally in chapter 1. His children are gone.
He’s suffering physically in chapter 2/. *Look at what Satan did in verse 7? (Read 7 & 8)* *Have you ever smashed your finger before?*
Usually it’s some type of door.
Most times a car door!
I’ve done that a couple times.
One time was real bad.
Blood started pooling inside the nail.
It hurt and throbbed so bad.
I begged my Dad to help me.
One of my Dad’s many skills was being a mechanic.
He had a tiny hand drill.
He had me place my hand on a table holding my finger very still.
He took that tiny drill and bore down ever so slightly and when he did he popped a hole in my nail and instantly my finger stopped throbbing.
*Job’s sores are infected*.
When he scrapes them he gets an instant, temporary relief.
Life is not often a 30 minute sitcom where everything instantly gets better.
His life did not get instantly better.
Job 7:3 tells us he suffered for months.
In light of that type of suffering, here comes Mrs. Job.
Talk about a cameo appearance!
She’s limited to one verse.
*Listen to* *what she says – find verse 9.*
If we could interview Job I’d love to ask him, /“Did your wife become bitter or was she misunderstood?”/
I imagine his answer would be – /“a little of both!”/ Truth is, I’d rather we go straight to the horse’s mouth.
I wish we could just interview her!
I bet she would shed more light on what she was saying.
How can we judge her when we don’t know her? Plus, we are discounting what she has been through.
She too lost all financial security.
She also buried seven sons and three daughters.
And now she watches helplessly as her husband suffers.
Which again is harder – you suffer or someone you love suffers?
*Based on verse 9 let’s answer a question!*
What is Job’s wife saying?
Is it possible that Mrs. Job is saying, /“I can’t take this anymore?
I can’t take watching you hurt.
Job, just let go.
If you die your hurting will stop!”/
When my Dad was in the last stages of cancer.
I begged God that he would take him.
I begged God that he would die so his suffering would stop.
Nancy Braughton is coming down to her last days on this earth.
I asked John, her husband, can I pray she goes to heaven soon.
And he resoundly said yes. John said that’s his prayer too.
*Now don’t get me wrong.
We pray for people to get well physically*.
Many do.
Many are healed miraculously.
Some right in this church.
Others around the world.
But sometimes God takes people to heaven.
*Now here’s what I hope Mrs. Job is NOT saying!* Commit spiritual suicide.
She gets blasted because of her choice of words.
*Go back to verse 5? Who does she sound like in verse 9?* Augustine labeled her “the devil’s accomplice”[v] and here’s why.
She uses the word bârak~//baw-rak'/ which means “to kneel or to bless.”/
*[vi]*/ But sometimes people used this word to mean the opposite of what they said.
The opposite of bless is to curse.
We do this all the time in English.
Do you remember the movie "The Incredibles"?
*At the very end of the movie a little boy says this, (Video clip) “that was totally wicked!”
But that’s not what he meant.
He didn’t mean *wicked as evil or very wrong or very bad.
He meant the opposite of wicked.
He meant really good!
It appears Mrs. Job is tempting her husband to call it quits on God.
Just deny Him and he’ll zap you and your misery will end!
It’s like pulling a gun on a cop.
You may really not want to pull the trigger.
But they will pull their trigger.
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