Text: Job 1:1 and 1:8

Introduction.

• There are two positions related to Satan's attack

• Satan likes these two positions and laughs at people who have it.
• Ephesus 6:11-12. I Peter 5:8. John 4:4.
• Tree texts that help us to find a balance.
• Job 1:12 . By knowing His servant, God allows Satan to attack him.

• Job 1:14-16. He lost cows, donkeys, sheeps, camels and servants.
• Job 1:3 shows Job's tax payments.
• Job 1:3b. The richest man in the Orient.

• Job 1:18-19. He lost his children.
• Job 1:2 says he had 10 children.
• To loose one child is difficult, imagine to loose 10, all of them.
• Job 1:9. The wife's word.
• Illustration: A very sick business man talking to his wife.
• "Curse God and die" He didn't need to have enemies.

• Job 2:5-8
• Job calls his wife's attention. What was her name? Foolish.
• "In all this, Job did not sin in what he said."

• Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, Job's friends.
• The symbol of these friends is their tongs and not their ears.
• We have two ears and one mouth. It's for us to hear at least the double we speak.
• Job’s friends nicknames: "Death messengers"
• People who live to give bad news. Satan uses them.

Conclusion.

• What is Job's attitude before Satan's attacks? .IPU 1 Job 13:15 "Though he slay me"
• Job 19:25 "I know that my Redeemer lives"
• Illustration. Genesis 21:8
• "Hagar got a skin of water from Abraham and a fountain of water from God.
• Job 38: 12 - God gives orders to the morning.
• Job 42:1-2 - "I know that you can do all things"
• Two texts that synthetizes Job's faith.
• Job 42:10. The value of a spiritual man. He can pray.
• Job was firmed on God. Not on money, family, health or relationships.
• For what Jesus did on the cross "the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."
• Jesus was more attacked then Job and He won.
• What area of your life does Satan have been attacking?