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Sr. Pastor-Teacher: Rev. Mark A. Cain
LESSON: A CLEAR
VIEW FROM THE VALLEY
TEXT: Job 2:1-10
Memory
Verse—“...Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept
adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” Job 2:
10
(NASB)
FACTORS THAT GIVE FOCUS TO YOUR FAITH
1. Jesus Christ controls history.
If Jesus Christ controls history, is all-knowing,
all-powerful, and ever present, there are no crises in life that catch Him by surprise or out of his sovereign control
(Rom. 8:28; Eph. 1:11; Col. 1:17; Rev. 22:12-13).
2.
Every person has an allotment of time and trouble. God has allotted a
certain amount of suffering, adversity and crisis in time. But He has also provided deliverance in each and every one of our problems (Ex. 4; Job 5:7; Ps. 34:19; 37).
3. Crisis always involves controlled testing. Satan may be permitted to
get through the barriers or hedges God puts around us, but he never gets beyond the divine limitation promised by God (Gen.
22:1-19; Job 1-2; Isa. 26:3; 1 Cor. 10:13).
4. Every
Crisis forces us to make decisions. One of the reasons that God allows
pressure and crisis in our lives is to show us what we are inside. Crisis force us to make decisions and face the options of
choosing good or evil (John 16:33; Heb. 5:14; Js. 1:2-5).
5. Every
future decision involves elements of past decisions. Every good choice we
make opens the door in the future for greater choices; every wrong choice hinders and limits future options (1 Sam.
23, 2 Sam. 2, 4, 11-18; 2 Cor. 1:1-12, 4:8-15; 6, 11).
6. There are two wills that affect every crisis. The sovereign will of
God and the free will of man are at work in every crisis (Deut. 8:1-20, 11:26-28; Jer. 18:5-12; Eze. 18:20-29).
7. We are the product of our decisions.
Ultimately, we are not the product of our environment and other people, unless
we choose to be. Decisions are what make people. Those decisions form a
pattern, from which develops a trend in life (Prv. 23:7).
 "Could
you talk to my niece, Job? She's going crazy because she has
freckles."
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