A New Beginning
December 15, 2024

Scripture Reading: Job 42:7-17
After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, an old man and full of years.


A New Beginning

Job 42:7-17
December 15, 2024
Pastor Mark Fuller


Job doesn’t have to know why. All he needs to know is who.


A NEW BEGINNING (Job 42:7-17)
God restores…
• friends
• fortune
• family
• future


GOD RESTORED HIS FRIENDS

Job 42:7
After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.


Job 42:8
So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”


Ephesians 4:32
“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you”.


Taking this home: Is there someone you need to forgive? Are you harboring a grudge? Forgive that person and move on.


Job 42:9
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.


Isaiah 1:18, ESV
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD,
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”


GOD RESTORED HIS FORTUNE

Job 42:10
After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
These gifts at the end are gestures of grace, not rewards of virtue.


Job 42:11
All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him…


Job 42:11-12
…and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. 12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.


GOD RESTORED HIS FAMILY

Job 42:13-15
13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.


GOD RESTORED HIS FUTURE

Job 42:16-17
After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, an old man and full of years.


LOOK UP AND TRUST HIM IN THE QUESTIONS

• Wouldn’t it be great if we could be in Job’s position at the end of the book without going through what he did through the book?
• But what about when I suffer and DON’T have things restored?
• But God never told Job why he was suffering!


Taking this home: Our hope is in the Savior, Jesus Christ!