![]() Have any of you ever had a day like that, when one bad thing after another continued to happen? All of Job's material things are gone. Messenger after messenger came to him with terrible news. It's an understatement to say that Job had a bad day. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" So in all this, Job said nothing wrong. His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die." But Job replied, "You talk like a godless woman. Then Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes. I am the only one who escaped to tell you."Īlso, we'll read Job 2:7-10: struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot. The house collapsed, and all your children are dead. Suddenly, a powerful wind swept in from the wilderness and hit the house on all sides. I am the only one who escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: "Your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother's home. I am the only one who escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, a third messenger arrived with this news: "Three bands of Chaldean raiders have stolen your camels and killed your servants. I am the only one who escaped to tell you." While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news: "The fire of God has fallen from heaven and burned up your sheep and all the shepherds. ![]() They stole all the animals and killed all the farmhands. Listen to Job 1:13-19: One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting at the oldest brother's house, a messenger arrived at Job's home with this news: "Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them, when the Sabeans raided us. The book of Job is one of the most pronounced biblical accounts that helps us to understand this reality. However, we need to realize that this world does have two realms, and that both realms interact with one another and influence one another on a daily basis. Unfortunately, most of western culture denies this reality. But our world also has an invisible, spiritual realm. There is the natural realm, with which we are very familiar-our five senses help us navigate this natural realm. To begin, let's discuss the concept of "one world, two realms." The world that we live in has two realms. We're going to talk about the practical way in which spiritual transactions take place. When we align ourselves with God's truth and make declaration to that truth, a spiritual transaction takes place. The second principle about living free that we talked about was spiritual transactions. Was God going to do it before Moses extended his staff over the Red Sea? No, God did what only God could do when Moses did what he was responsible to do. What's in your hand? Take your staff and hold it out over the sea." So Moses held his staff out over the sea, the wind parted the waters, and the Israelites crossed through the Red Sea on dry ground.Ĭould Moses part the waters by himself, with his own power? No, only God could do that. ![]() I already told you what you're supposed to be doing. He said to God, "Did you bring us out here just to kill us?" And God basically said, "Don't whine, Moses. The Israelites started complaining to Moses: "Did you bring us out here to die?" Moses said no, but also started to lose hope. To the right was a treacherous mountain range, on the left was the Red Sea, and behind them was Pharaoh's army. They saw nothing in front of them but desert. As Israel continued their journey, they were quickly trapped with no way forward. When Israel fled Egypt under God's promise, they were chased by Pharaoh's armies because Pharaoh realized that he didn't want to lose his slaves. Numerous biblical examples reinforce the point, but we'll only look at one. If we want to live free, we can't be passive. What does it mean? We described it like this: God does what only God can do when humans do what they are responsible to do. ![]() The first one: God works through a human-divine cooperation. We also identified two fundamental principles of Christian living. Transformation is made possible by the cross, by Jesus Christ's death and resurrection. How did God design us to live? How does he want us to operate? What is the world supposed to look like? In our second session, we talked about the fundamentals of transformative living. In our first session, we identified God's original design for humanity, and we looked at what was lost because of the Fall.
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