Eliphaz “Comforts” Job

Job
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Job 4-5
May 4, 2025

Sermon Outline

1. How to think about hard Bible passages

  • Every Christian should work to understand the Bible as best they can

  • There’s a reason God gave the church pastors and teachers

  • What to do when you feel lost

2. Review of past three chapters

  • The blameless man

  • The adversarial wager

  • The terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad days

  • The three friends

3. Eliphaz’s speech

  • The Temanite

  • The tone

  • The doctrine

  • The vision

  • The advice

4. What Eliphaz got right

5. What Eliphaz got wrong

  • His manner

  • His content

Benediction

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood... to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen. — paraphrased from Revelation 1:5-6

Steve Estes

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