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Job’s LamentJob 8:1–10Job 7:17–18Psalm 44:23–24 IntroductionIn this session, we meet Job’s honest and anguished voice. Job questions God’s governance over human life, asking: “Do You have eyes like a human? Can You see life as we see it?” His complaint is not rebellion for its own sake, but a desperate attempt to make sense of…
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Healing WordEphesians 2:1–2Ephesians 3:14–16John 5:1–9 IntroductionThe word “Sembuh!”—“Be healed!”—rings with both simplicity and power. Paul wrote to the Ephesians that once we were dead, not in the grave, but in trespasses and sins, bound to rulers of the air who command rebellion against God. This “death” is not lifelessness but living alienated from the true…
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Sheep or GoatsMatthew 25:40 – “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”Matthew 25:45 – “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you…
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Radical CompassionLuke 10:33–34 – “But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.”Galatians 6:2 – “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”John 13:34 – “A new commandment…
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Righteous SubstituteJob 25:4 – “How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he who is born of woman be pure?”2 Corinthians 5:21 – “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”1 Peter 2:24 – “He Himself…
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Crushing WordsJob 16:2 – “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.”Job 19:2 – “How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?”Proverbs 18:21 – “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” IntroductionIf Job’s losses were not enough, the sting of his friends’ accusations pressed…
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Heavy BurdenJob 1:18–19 – “Your sons and daughters were feasting… when suddenly a mighty wind swept in… and they are dead.”Job 1:14–15 – “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding… and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them.”Job 2:7 – “So Satan went out… and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles…
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Guiding CompanionsGalatians 6:2 – “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”Ephesians 2:1 – “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins.”Ephesians 3:13 – “So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.” IntroductionIn life’s climb, few journeys can be endured…
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Final Appeal Luke 15:32 – “It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.”Philippians 2:8–9 – “And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has…
