June 15th, 2025 - Learning From Two Church Fathers

Scripture Passages:  Job 6:21 & 12:12 and John 21:18

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Jesus to Peter:

You will lose your strength and agency

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Job
1) Has lost his strength, agency, family, legacy, health
2) Finds his friends "miserable comforters"

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Lessons from Job:
1) Humans sometimes react badly to suffering

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Reacting Badly: 

Criticizing, instructing, explaining, theologizing,

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Lessons from Job:
2) Rather than explain,
God showed up.

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Lessons from Job:
3) God doesn't need defending

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Lessons from Job:
4) Humans struggle with balancing the wisdom of experience and the power of the strong

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Lessons from Job:
5) God uses even our suffering to teach us

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A Lesson from Peter and Job:                                                                  

We can glorify God in any death.
We can glorify God in any life.
(God helping us. :)  )