1. Old Testament Sunday School
This Week
Lesson 32:
“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
Next Week: Old Testament
Lesson 33:
“Sharing the Gospel with the World”
Daniel Burgess
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2. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
If we could look into each
other’s hearts and understand
the unique challenges each of us
faces, I think we would treat
each other much more gently,
with more love, patience,
tolerance, and care.
“The Tongue Can Be a Sharp Sword” Marvin J.
Ashton
3. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
Patience is not indifference. Actually, it
means caring very much but being
willing, nevertheless, to submit to the
Lord and to what the scriptures call the
"process of time."
4. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
Patience is tied very closely to faith in our
Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are
unduly impatient we are suggesting that
we know what is best—better than does
God. Or, at least, we are asserting that
our timetable is better than His.
5. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
Either way we are questioning the reality
of God's omniscience as if, as some seem
to believe, God were on some sort of
postdoctoral fellowship and were not
quite in charge of everything.
…it is required of us, not only that we
endure, but also that we endure well, that
we exhibit “grace under pressure.”
6.
7. Who is Job?
“I shall not trouble my readers with the
arguments which have been used by
learned men, pro and con….My own
opinion on those points they may
naturally wish to know…I believe Job
to have been a real person, and his
history to be a statement of facts.”
Adam Clark
British Methodist
theologian and biblical
scholar
8. Who is Job?
“Although some scholars have felt that
the book is not a true story about a real
man, I think the majority of the scholars
do. … Ezekiel and James, for example,
regarded him as historical and referred to
Job among the great individuals known
for their faith and prayer power (Ezekiel
14:14, 20; James 5:11). This is significant.
Keith H. Meservy
9. Who is Job?
There are other reasons for regarding
Job as an historical person but, to me,
the most decisive criterion in this
regard, is the fact that when Joseph
Smith and his people were in great
distress, and Joseph Smith went to the
Lord and said, ‘Oh God, where art
thou? Where is the pavilion that
covereth thy hiding place.’
10. Who is Job?
The Lord responded to his appeal for
help by saying, ‘my son, peace be to thy
soul; thine adversity and thine
afflictions shall be but a small
moment; and then if thou endure it
well, God shall exalt thee on high …
Thou art not yet as Job; thy friends do
not contend against thee, neither
charge thee with transgressions, as
they did Job’
11. Who is Job?
I personally think of the book as mixing
both fact and fable. Some elements seem
fabulous to me (e.g., the wager between
God and Satan, the neatly symmetrical
doubling of Job’s wealth at the end). But
elements of fable do not prove that the
entire text is fictional, any more than the
existence of an actual king named
Macbeth is disproved by the fabulous
features of Shakespeare’s play.
John Sears Tanner
General Sunday
School Presidency
12. Who is Job?
Conceding all these reasons to be
cautious about Job’s historicity, we still
ought not dismiss him out of hand as
fictional. For we recall that Job is
referred to three times in other
scriptures: first in the Old Testament
(see Ezekiel 14:14), then in the New
Testament (see James 5:11), and last in
the Doctrine and Covenants (see D&C
121:10).
John Sears Tanner
General Sunday
School Presidency
13. Who is Job?
a. Feared God and shunned evil (Job 1:1).
b. Humble and Wealthy (Job 1:3, 21).
c. He had integrity (Job 2:3).
d. He strengthened the weak (Job 4:3–4).
e. He Followed the Lord (Job 23:10–12).
f. A Compassionate Man (Job 29:12–16).
g. Forgiving of his enemies (Job 31:29–30).
14. Who is Job?
a. Loss of servants, property, and income (Job 1:13–17).
b. Loss of children (Job 1:18–19).
c. Physical illness and pain (Job 2:7; 7:5; 16:16).
d. Restless sleep filled with nightmares (Job 7:4, 13–14).
e. Cruel accusations, Betrayal of friends & Family
(Job 2:9; 4:1, 7–8; 11:1–6; 19:13–22).
f. Confusion about these trials (Job 10:15).
g. Mockery/delighted in his downfall (Job 16:10–11; 30:1, 8–10).
h. The feeling that God had forgotten him.
15. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged
God foolishly.
16. “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”
25 For I know that my redeemer
liveth, and that he shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall
I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and
mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed
within me.
17. “always doing what is right and good,
regardless of the immediate
consequences. It means being righteous
from the very depth of our soul, not only
in our actions but, more important, in
our thoughts and in our hearts. Personal
integrity implies such trustworthiness
and incorruptibility that we are incapable
of being false to a trust or covenant”
(in Conference Report, Apr. 1990, 38; or Ensign, May 1990, 30).
