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Permission to Fall Apart

September 20, 2026 39:12 Cross Church Surprise
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· But if we're honest, sometimes we're not good, and in churches all across America,

· in lobbies all across our nation, we have a bunch of people coming to church saying,

· I'm good, when on the inside, they're just a mess.

· But today we're continuing on our series in the book of Job, so if you have a Bible,

· grab that or have your phone, and we're going to get Job chapter three. Job chapter three.

· And as you're flipping there, I want to kind of put on your heart, put in your head,

· ask you a question a little bit. Do you know what the most common two words that are said

· inside a church lobby? Any guesses out there? Good morning. That's a good one. All right.

· Some people are like, don't talk to me. Don't make eye contact. But here's what I

· hear all over, all the time, all the time. All right. These two words, I'm good. Sometimes

· it's like this. Hey, you want to serve in a nursery? I'm good. All right. Hey,

· can you help me move this? I'm good. Then they're just walking the other way.

· But also it happens this way. It's like, hey, how are you doing? It's like, I'm good.

· And you say, I'm good. And actually the words come out of your mouth before your brain ever

· gets to think about it. Because you say, I'm good, but inside your brains are like,

· am I good? Like, I don't think I'm good. Like, my kids have been sick. My life's a

· wreck. I went to strangle my boss this past week. I screamed at my kids in there. I almost

· followed someone into the Catholic church parking lot on the way to church, right?

· When they cut you off right before bell. It's like, we say, I'm good. But if we're

· honest, sometimes we're not good. And in churches all across America, in lobbies all

· across our nation, we have a bunch of people coming to church saying, I'm good. When on the

· inside, they're just a mess. And today, as we come to the book of Job, I love this chapter

· because this chapter gives us permission. It gives us permission to fall apart a little bit.

· Some of you are like, hey, I didn't need permission. I've been falling apart for a

· while, right? But today, as we come to the word of God, sometimes we want to put on

· everything is okay. But in Job chapter three, we get the permission to not be okay.

· And we started this series through the book of Job last week in Job one and two.

· And I just love how this book opens up. It opens up with this ideal world, this man Job,

· who is rich, who has a perfect family, who is a faithful follower of God. He's got

· everything going for him. But all of a sudden, when he's in this ideal world,

· there's this invisible war happening in heaven that God and Satan are up in heaven in the

· throne room having a wager over his life. And as they're having this discussion,

· this discussion, Job knows nothing about all the sudden stuff starts falling into place.

· And Satan starts attacking Job. He takes his money. He takes his kids, 10 kids that died

· that he had to dig graves for. And then he takes his own health. And in the middle of

· that, there's this impossible worship that comes out that as Job is grieving, as he is broken,

· he says in there, the Lord gives, the Lord takes away, but blessed be the name of the Lord.

· But as it continues, we see Job starting to sit with that grief. And in Job chapter two,

· we covered through the first 10 verses last week, but in verses 12, we get to see kind

· of this precursor to chapter three. And it says this, his friends see him. And it says,

· when they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud and each

· man tore his robe and threw dust into the air. And on his head, this was an outward sign

· of grief as they see their friend Job in misery. Then they sat on the ground with him

· seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering

· was very intense. As the world around Job sees him, as his friends see him, they're like,

· this guy is not okay. And as they come and they see him, they come and they sit with him.

· And I love this because here's what you're going to see as we continue on in the coming

· weeks, is this was the best thing his friends ever did is sit in silence for seven days.

· Because once they start opening their mouth and giving advice, it's a whole hot mess

· of like, he's like, why are you talking right now? This is not helping my situation.

· But as they sit there, they just sit in the ash heap with Job. And today we're going to

· talk a little bit about what is our ash heap? How are we hurting? And do we have people

· that will sit with us in it? And as Job is surrounded by his friends for three days or

· for seven days, all of a sudden he begins to talk. And in chapter three, verse one,

· it says this, after this, Job began to speak and he cursed the day that he was born.

· You see the same mouth that said in chapter one and chapter two, that blessed is the name

· of the Lord. It now curses. The man who worshiped in the wound is about to say some of the

· darkest, rawest things in the entire Bible. When you leave church today and people are like,

· what did you do at church? Say, I studied one of the most depressing chapters in the entire

· Bible. All right. And I hope you're ready for that. It's going to get depressing today.

· I know you're excited about that. I'll give you some lighthearted moments. You're already

· depressed and it's not even to the depressing part. All right. But here's what you need to know

· that before we even read a single verse that God kept this chapter in the Bible for a reason,

· that the Holy Spirit looked at the darkest day of Job's soul and he said,

· my people need to hear this. Why? Because I think what we see from Job here is when life

· is hopeless, you start to ask honest questions. And today we're going to see a hopeless Job,

· a Job that looks at his life and sees no positive spin to make it great. But he starts asking

· questions and he's going to ask three honest questions that we pick out from this text today.

· And we're going to see how they just expose his soul and expose ours this morning. And

· the first question we see is why was I born? Why was I born? Let's pick up again in verse

· one of chapter three. It says this, after this Job began to speak and he cursed the day he was

· born. He said, may the day I was born perish. And the night that said a boy is conceived.

· If only that day had turned to darkness, may God above not care about it or light shine

· on it. May darkness and doom reclaim it in a cloud to settle over it. May what darkens the

· day terrify it. If only darkness had taken that night away. May it not appear among the days of

· the year or be listed in the calendar. He's talking about the day he was born.

· Verse seven, yes, may that night be barren. May no joyful shout be heard in it.

· Let those who curse days condemn it. Those who are ready to rouse Leviathan. May its

· morning stars grow dark. May it wait for daylight but have none of it. May at nights not see the

· breaking of dawn. For that night did not shut the doors of my mother's womb and hide sorrow

· from my eyes. As Job opens this chapter, he really asks this question, why was I born

· in the first place? Now, here's what's important is catch what Job is doing here.

· He curses the day he was born. But this is important as he cursed the day he did not curse

· God. If you're with us in chapter one, Satan made this wager and said, they will curse you. Job

· will curse you, God, to your face and say like, curse God and want to die. And Job throughout

· all that time, he never curses God. And actually in that first chapter is the writers

· won't even write curse God. They would write bless God. They would use a euphemism like,

· bless your heart when you're talking about someone who's actually dumb, right? And they

· would say it kindly and expect you to understand the context. And throughout this, Satan's like,

· Job's gonna curse him. Job's gonna curse him. And Job never curses God. But then chapter three

· opens up and Job actually curses. Literally, they write a curse word in Hebrew here for how

· he feels about something. But he's cursing the day he was born. But here as he does this,

· here's what he means by it. What he does to that day is he says he wishes he could go back.

· He could reach back in time and delete it. Rip the page out. Verse six says it like this,

· may it not be listed on the calendar. Job wants his own birthday erased. I told you this is

· gonna be a depressing chapter and I really hope you're ready for this. But let me give

· you some lighthearted moments to pass the way before we get into the deepness of it.

· I was reading this and this kind of thought came into my head, and just bear with me for a little

· bit, is that our world is a little weird. Can we all agree on that? Like, has our world lost its

· mind? Just scroll social media and be like, I'm surrounded by morons, all right? You're not

· as bright as you think you are either. But there are dumber people out there than you.

· All right, but here's where I'm going with this, all right? Our world is really confused on

· certain questions. Like, one of those questions is what is a man? What is a woman?

· Recently, the WNBA put together a task force to define what a woman is. It was made up of all

· women. They met together and they came out of that and said we don't have a definition to

· give. Madness, all right? Now, here's where this is on the page of Job, I promise,

· is if we didn't need more evidence, I think we see that Job is definitely a man and not a woman

· because he wanted to erase his birthday. Yeah, all right? No woman wants to erase their birthday.

· Maybe how old they are, all right? They could be like 30 for 70 years after that, but no

· woman says like, no, my birthday, we're not celebrating it this year. Like, I don't know

· the day off. I'm like, for what? It's your birthday, but it's a Tuesday and I gotta go to

· work, right? But my wife, she loves her birthdays and it's like, it's a big deal. And every lady

· I've met, it's a big deal about your birthdays. You celebrate it. You guys need to lighten up.

· You're already depressed and it's gonna get so much worse, all right? But here Job,

· he sees the day he was born. He says, I wish it never existed. I wish it was gone.

· Look at verse three again. He said, the night that said a boy is conceived. Now this is huge

· because in Job's world, when a boy was born to a family, they were overjoyed. It was like,

· our legacy is going to continue. Our name will live on. This was a joyous time. And he said,

· silence that night. Unshout the joy. Strike it from the record. And listen to the language

· that piles up through these verses. In verses four through nine, he talks about darkness.

· He talks about gloom and clouds. Morning stars are growing dark. He says, may the day

· never see the break of dawn, see light again. What Job is doing is he is telling the Genesis

· story in reverse. In Genesis one and two, God said, let there be light. And there was light

· and there was life and there was creation. And Job's saying, I want the opposite to happen.

· Let there be darkness and let there be undoing of his creation.

· Grief will do that. Grief doesn't just make you sad. It makes you want to

· unmake things in your life. Let me give you another little ray of sunshine before the

· depression comes. We started the book of Job last week, but we also started

· football season. All right. Three of us are happy. That's awesome. But my phone got blown

· up because I said the Cardinals will be awful. I'm the biggest Cardinal fan in the room.

· I'm a hopeless romantic for all my sports teams. And I was like, when you lower your

· expectations in life, you're excited when expectations are exceeded. So I'm on the

· couch beaming with joy as my team won. It looked great. We're going to be 2-0 as we

· see chickens today with a backup quarterback. All my Seahawks fans were in first service,

· so they were not happy. But as the sports get into the room and I have high hopes for the

· Cardinals, the Dimeback season's over, and it's going to be great and all of this,

· but here's what happens in sports is as teams start losing, people start getting upset

· on those teams. And as stars start getting upset and they want more money or they want

· to be on a better team, it's kind of funny. There's this new trend of grown men playing

· professional sports, getting paid millions of dollars, acting like children online. And

· this is what they do when they're unhappy, is they scrub their social medias. So all of a

· sudden it says, hey, they play for the Cardinals, but they're mad because they want

· more money. All of a sudden they delete every single post that showed them in a

· Cardinals uniform. They take out of their bio that they played for that team and they're

· acting like a teenage girl, right, on social media and they scrub it all like none of it

· existed. And Job here, as he's wallowing in his grief, as he's mad and he's down and

· depressed, he's like, I wish none of this happened. And here's what's important is Job

· does not say, I want to die, but he's saying, I wish I never existed at all.

· He says, I wish there was no me to hurt this much, to experience this much pain.

· And that is where the most righteous man on earth is sitting in this chapter. And

· here's what's so important about this, is as you read these first 10 verses,

· God does not strike him down. God does not condemn him for his depression, condemn him

· his grief, condemn him for his hurt. Instead, Job says the unsayable, and heaven does not

· fall down on him. But here's his second honest question that flows out of this. He doesn't

· just say, why was I born? But he continues down and he doubles down on this. He says,

· why did I live? See how this is nuanced differently in here. Picking up at verse 11,

· he says, why was I not stillborn? Why didn't I die as I came from the womb? Why did the knees

· receive me and why were the breasts there for me to nurse? Now I would certainly be lying down

· in peace. I would be asleep. Then I would be at rest. He's saying he would be at rest

· with the kings and counselor of the earth who rebuilt the cities for themselves.

· I'd be at rest with the princes who had gold, who had filled their houses with silvers.

· I'd be at rest with, why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like the infants who never

· see the daylight? There the wicked cease to make trouble and there the weary find rest.

· The captives are completely at rest. They do not hear a taskmaster's voice. Both small

· and great are there, and the slave is set free from his master. Why is light given to one

· burdened with grief into life to those who existence is bitter?

· Job asked this question, why did I live? And here's why he's asking that because in Job's

· world is a little different context. For when you talk about infant mortality, only about one

· in four babies would live to see their first birthday in Job's days. You extrapolate that

· a little bit longer and only about half the people would live to see adulthood. So in a room

· like this, half of us would be gone and wouldn't even make it to 18 years old because of just

· the perils of that world, the things they dealt with, the sicknesses and without certain

· modern healthcare and stuff we have now and take for granted is mortality happens

· at a much higher rate. So when Job asked this question is why was I not a stillborn? He's

· not being dramatic. He's asking is why was the most ordinary tragedy in his world, in his world

· at that time, why did it skip him? If it couldn't be unborn, Job says, why couldn't I have just

· died at birth? Why did the knees receive me? Why did the arms come to hold me? And then he

· said, he does something that sounds strange to us is he starts describing death, but he

· describes death in a weird way. He describes it almost like a vacation. He said, I'm going to

· rest there. Look at verses 13 through 19. He said, if I had died then, he said, I'd be lying down in

· peace. I would be asleep. I'd be resting with kings and counselors. The wicked stop making

· trouble there. The weary find rest. The captive doesn't hear the taskmaster's voice. The slave

· is free from his master and notice who's in Job's picture of the grave. He's very inclusive

· in this is there are kings and counselors and right next to them are the captive, the slave

· in the weary. Verse 19, he summarizes both small and great are there in the grave.

· You see death in Job's imagination is the great equalizer. The man like himself who had

· everything in lost everything. He looks at the grave and he sees the only place, the only address

· where nobody can take anything from him because nobody has anything to begin with.

· But do you hear what Job is actually asking for? He's not asking for death and he's not wanting

· death because he loves death. He's asking for some sort of death because it's the only room

· that he can imagine where the pain stops. Look at his words again. He uses these words like

· peace and asleep and then he says it three times is being at rest, rest and rest. Now you

· flip to the very last line of chapter or verse 26 and chapter three, he says this, I have no rest.

· You see that's the equation of Job three that the one thing he's starving for

· is the one thing his suffering cannot give him.

· Church hear me on this. This is why just reading the dark words of a broken man are

· important is because the truth about almost everyone in this room is you have either sat

· in darkness. You have known someone who has sat in darkness or one day you will sit in some

· sort of darkness. And when people sit in the darkness of their grief and their depression,

· in their anxiety, they do not want to die. Even if they say that, but they want the hurting

· to end. And when you cannot imagine the hurting ending, the mind starts wondering and the mind

· starts doing terrible math exactly like what we see in Job's life. The great preacher known

· as the prince of preachers, Charles Spurgeon, he was the most famous pastor of the 1800s,

· one of the greatest preachers in history. Thousands were saved under his ministry in his

· life and millions have been impacted since. But Spurgeon openly talked about this and shared if he

· battled crushing depression most of his adult life. He told his own students that there were

· seasons he could weep by the hour like a child and not tell you why. This was a man

· who preached the gospel to thousands of people at a time who talked about the hope of

· Jesus Christ and he had this depression lingering in him that he couldn't explain.

· And he said this, the strong are not always strong. And here's the deal, if it can happen

· to Spurgeon, if it can happen to Job, it can happen to every one of us in this room and

· every one of us watching online. And that means that as we hear these words, we need to let

· them really reach our hearts. Because some of you, maybe you didn't come in here today

· wondering if anyone else has ever felt like Job 3. Instead, you came in knowing you felt that way

· and actually carrying the baggage and the grief he has here. And if that darkness in you has

· moved past the honest grief, if it has started whispering in your ears the same lies that it

· was whispering in the ears of Job that the world would be better off without you. You

· need to hear this over everything else. That voice is a liar. It was the same liar,

· the same adversary that whispered in Job's ear and Job throughout this whole book.

· And what we need to see is we are not meant to carry this alone.

· And I want to encourage you if you are in that place and we're going to have a space for this,

· but tell somebody, tell me, tell our staff, tell your Bible group. We're going to have

· leaders to pray with at the end of our service, but you are not meant to sit in

· the ashes alone. Job was sitting in the ashes with three friends at this time.

· But this brings us to his third question as he is pondering

· the darkness and the grief and the hurt of his soul. And finally, on this one, as he continues

· to ask outward and just kind of ask around him, this one he aims directly at God and he

· asks the question is, why am I here? Pick up in verse 20, he says this is why is light given

· to one burdened with grief in life to those whose existence is bitter who wait for death,

· but it does not come and search for it more than a hidden treasure

· who are filled with much joy and are glad when they reach the grave.

· Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden whom God has hedged in

· and Job in his lowest says, I sigh when food is put before me and my groans pour out like water.

· Job in this chapter asked, why was I born? Why did I live? Why am I still even here?

· I told you this was a depressing chapter, so I hope you were ready for it.

· But check out verse 23 on this because I think this might be one of the most important

· verses in this chapter. And he says, why is a life given to a man whose path is hidden whom

· God has hedged in? This is actually hedged in. This is an important little phrase there. And

· if you're an underliner, you can highlight that or mark that in there because we've heard

· this word before in the book of Job, Satan uses that word in chapter one. And when Satan

· is talking to God, he's like, I would make Job suffer, but you placed a hedge of protection

· around him. And then Job saying as he's crying out, he says, why am I hedged in?

· The hedge that was God's protection around Job in his grief now feels like a prison.

· And what's so huge about this is this is what pain does is pain doesn't just hurt your body.

· It bends your vision. It takes things, the very things that God built to protect you,

· and it repaints them as a prison. One commentator said Job is looking through

· the wrong end of the binoculars. God hasn't shrunk. Job's pain just is distorting it.

· It's funny. I actually read this commentary, wrote this in. And then last night, my two year

· old daughter is walking around with backwards binoculars. And I'm like, you gotta flip those

· around. All right. It's supposed to make us bigger, not smaller. And too often our pain,

· we're looking through this lens backwards where God seems so small, but the size of God

· never changed. And that's why we can't let our circumstances become the measuring stick

· for God's characters is our circumstance that it will swing widely. And one afternoon,

· Job went from being one of the richest men in the world, one of the most successful men

· in the world. And in one day, everything was taken from him. And he is sitting in an ash

· or a heap of ashes with nothing. But despite that, God did not change one degree between

· chapter one and chapter three. He's the same God with the same hedge of protection,

· with the same love for his people. Your feelings are real, but your feelings are not

· the referee in the vision that we look at our God through. Let me give you more,

· one more break before the depression continues a little bit more. All right.

· One of you guys know that I love to preach in certain shoes. I preach in

· Booker shoes. All right. My book chapter ones primarily. All right. And I have a few

· different, I only get them on clearance, but I have about too many different colors.

· Don't ask my wife. But there's one that I want so bad is these black ones. They

· only made 1900 of them. And I've looked online and they're like $500. And I know

· if I tried to buy those, my wife would stab me. So I'm like, I get them on clearance

· for when they're less than a hundred, but this one I'll never be able to get.

· But my brother-in-law is a pilot and he flies to Taiwan and all these far places. So he goes

· to where you can get the good knockoff stuff that you don't know is knocked off, right?

· Get the Lululemon bags, get the fake sunglasses. They're exactly the same.

· We just didn't go through the designer or customs and whatever. You just stick it in

· the bag and pretend it didn't exist. So I sent him a picture of these shoes. I'm like,

· can they make these? Give me some Asian knockoff ones that it'll be like a game.

· If I ever get them, like which one's the real, which one's the knockoff,

· you won't even be able to tell. And I'm like, can they make me these shoes?

· And we're in process. All right. And that is happening. And I can't wait

· for when my brother-in-law finally crosses ponds, I don't know, like oceans, whatever.

· I don't know where Asia is somewhere that way in the world. But when he goes there and

· he gets me my shoes and I just think about, and as I was reading this week and reading

· about pilots in their vision, all of a sudden this whole story came into my head

· and thinking about what my brother-in-law does as a pilot and so many pilots do as they're

· flying these big airplanes around our world. You see, he, when a pilot flies into a thing

· called a cloud bank, which I understand as a bank of clouds, if you reverse that, right?

· But something happens within seconds of flying through a cloud bank is all of a sudden

· their inner ear says that they are climbing when you're level. And it says you're banking

· when you're flying straight. Pilots have a term for this. They call it spatial

· disorientation. And actually I talked to a pilot after church and he said this is right on.

· Even though I'm talking in my ignorance, he's like, you're a pro. You know what you're

· saying. All right. ChatGBT does amazing things. But this spatial disorientation,

· it has taken down experienced flyers before. So there's flight instructors and they drill

· one rule into those who are learning. They say when you lose sight of the horizon,

· trust your instruments, not your feelings. Because the horizon didn't move. You just

· can't see it. And you see that's exactly what verse 23 is talking about with Job.

· He's saying my path is hidden for me. He's like, I feel disoriented. I feel like I

· don't know what's going on. I just want this life to end because it makes no sense. I

· feel like God is keeping me in a prison and God's secretly behind the scenes. Just be like,

· Job, I haven't changed. Job, that hedge is a protection. Job, I still love you. Job,

· I still have a plan for you. Job, I still have a path for you. Just because you can't see it in

· the middle of the storm, just because he can't see past the clouds of his suffering, doesn't

· mean that our God has changed. And you see suffering puts every single one of us in the

· cockpit of our life. Your feelings will tell you that God has moved, that God doesn't

· love you, that God isn't big enough to see you through this, that God shrank, that God left,

· that God fill in the blank with whatever lie. But we just keep pressing through knowing the

· same God that we serve. And we use the instruments like the Bible we have in front of

· us to know that we can trust the God of the universe to keep guiding us through.

· But as we close out this chapter, I want you to notice something about these questions.

· And Job asks, why, why, why? He just says it over and over and over again. Why does this happen?

· Why does that happen? And the crazy thing is he never gets an answer here.

· If you read ahead through the rest of the book, he's not going to get an answer there

· either. God will finally speak later on in the chapters. And when God speaks for four

· chapters, God just says, this is who I am. He doesn't say why these happen. He says who he is.

· Three whys that he has in this chapter, but he gets zero answers. So the question I have for us,

· is that it? Is that where the chapter ends? Is that where the sermon ends? That we have

· permission to fall apart? That we say we're good even though we're dying inside? That we

· are hurting and we just put on a face and keep going and act like we can be all right?

· And when we ask these questions and heaven stays silent and we don't get closure on it,

· do we just suck it up and go forward? I believe the answer is no, because verse 25

· tells us what was underneath these questions all along. Check this out in Job chapter 3,

· verse 25. It says this, for the thing, oh, so honest and so good, for the thing I feared,

· underlined that fear, has overtaken me. The thing I feared has overtaken me.

· And what I dreaded has happened to me. I cannot relax or be calm. I have no rest,

· for turmoil has come. You see, this is where it is. Underneath the whys of his questions,

· underneath the why of what's driving all this, what is truly there in Job's life and in our life

· is fear. He said the thing I feared, it's overtaken me. Even back in the good years

· in chapter 1, when the barns were full, when Job's bank accounts were maxed out,

· when his family was healthy, even then Job carried this quiet dread. He was thinking

· back of mind, what if I lose it all? What if death comes for my house? What if all of a sudden

· this thing falls apart? What if I screw up? What if I mess up? And we have those thoughts

· late at night when you're lying in bed and you're like, man, what if I screw up? What if

· I do this? What if my whole life comes crashing down? And Job had this quiet dread

· in his life. He was offering sacrifices for kids just in case they sinned.

· And you see, the fear was already living in his life. In church, this is us today.

· Our why questions are real and our God is not offended by them. But underneath, why did this

· happen? Why am I still here? Why does this keep going on? There's something older and

· deeper underneath all of it, and it is fear. And we all have that fear, the fear of loss,

· the fear of the darkness, the fear of death itself. Think about your own whys for a second.

· The whys that you have deep in your heart. Why did this diagnosis come back this way?

· Why is my marriage falling apart when we tried so hard? Why are my kids walking away from the

· faith when they know better, when we raise them differently? Why is my career struggling

· when I've done everything right? You peel back any of those and you find the same thing that Job

· found in verse 25, a dread, a fear that was there before the disaster ever hit.

· Every locked door, every insurance policy, every 2 a.m. spiral, it's the same ancient

· fear that is just wearing different clothes for us in 2026. And here's where this chapter

· with all its unanswered question points us to an answer that is bigger than our questions.

· Here is the hope we have today when we hear this and we read one of the most depressing

· chapters in all the Bible. I'm telling you that because we'll get a little more hopeful as

· we go, all right? Still gonna be depressing, but a little more. But as we read this and we

· take this, here is the truth that pushes us forward, that endures, that keeps going,

· that gives us the hope that we cling to. Some questions in our lives never get an answer.

· There are whys that you will ask that you won't get clarity on. You won't get a big old

· sign that says you did this stupid thing, this is why this is happening. Or someone else

· hurts you, so this is why it's happening. There are some whys in your life that you

· will never get an answer to, but the fear that is underneath those whys, guys, it already got

· a savior. The why will still be there, but the who is even louder. When we ask why did this

· happen, the Bible tells us over and over again, but hey, there is a who that is greater than

· it all. And I love this because we see this truth in Hebrews chapter two, verse 14. These

· verses are so powerful and so encouraging and give us the hope that we see in here.

· It says now since the children have flesh and blood in common, since we're in a broken world

· that is filled with sin, that is filled with why questions, that is filled with hurt and

· anxiety and everything else, he's saying Jesus also shared in these. Jesus came down, fully

· God, fully man, to share in our brokenness, our hurt and our sufferings and suffered more

· than any of us can ever imagine. But he said, why did he do this? So that through his death,

· his death on the cross, he might destroy the one holding the power of death. That is the

· devil. The adversary we see in Job chapter one, the adversary we see that is wreaking havoc

· in Job's life, the adversary that Job does not understand is happening but is destroying

· everything through his evil and his sin that Jesus has defeated him, destroyed him.

· And here's the result of that in verse 15. He did this to free those who were held in

· slavery all their lives by the fear of death. Church, we have a fear, just as Job had a fear,

· that we fear whether we'll mess up. We fear whether our family will be safe. We fear

· the unknown that's around us. Ultimately, we fear that what if death comes

· and I don't know what's next. But we have a savior, the one who didn't just suffer

· and complain and just hope things got better. But we have a savior in Jesus Christ.

· Who instead of cursing the day he was born like Job, he chose the day he was born and said,

· I'm going to come down into that broken place. And as I come into that broken place,

· I'm going to live among all these broken people. They're going to do stupid things.

· They're going to say stupid things. They're going to make mistakes and that's going to

· continue on throughout history. But I love them. I will suffer amongst them. And why?

· So he could take our place to die on a cross, to raise again.

· So as Hebrew tells us that the fear that is underneath the questions of Job's why,

· the fear that is underneath the questions of our why can be defeated

· because our savior has changed our life. By his grace, he has redeemed our sins

· and he has so much, something so much greater for us.

· So here's the question for us today is what do we do with this?

· How do we take Job chapter three and begin to put it into practice?

· There's two things I want to leave you with today is first, is God's not as scared of your

· why. You might have some dark why questions in your life that you're scared to say out loud.

· You're scared to pray to God. Your prayer's to God. You're like, I'm good. And God's like,

· I know you, I'm God. You're not good. God isn't scared of our why.

· God isn't scared of the darkness that comes into our soul. When we say it out loud,

· we take away the power of it and we proclaim the power that is in here is God is not afraid

· of your questions. He is not afraid of your why. And the second thing is he has put a

· community around you that when you ask those dark questions, that you have people that will

· sit in the ash heap with you, that will be there for you, that will grieve with you.

· And in just a minute, I'm going to ask that you spend some time with you and God, or if you need

· with you and someone up front, one of our Bible group leaders that are going to come down in

· just a few minutes. And I just want to give you an opportunity that you can ask your questions

· to our God. And you can sit in the ash heaps with a community around you who loves you

· and who wants to see the best for you.

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