The document discusses Job's encounter with God and how we should respond to God. It analyzes chapters from the Book of Job where Job acknowledges God's omnipotence, confesses his lack of understanding, and repents of speaking foolishly. We should respond to God by acknowledging His power, being humble about what we don't know, and repenting of vain words.

1. Encounters with God
How Do You Respond to God?
August 17, 2014

2. Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)
1 Then Job answered the Lord and said:
2 “I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be
thwarted.

3. Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without
knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not
understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I did not
know.

4. Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you
make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now
my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and
ashes.”

5. Book of Job
I. The Tests (chapters 1-2)
II. The Talks (chapters 3-31)
III. The New Perspective (chapters 32-37)
IV. The Encounter (chapters 38-41)
V. The Restoration (chapter 42)

6. Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)
1 Then Job answered the Lord and said:
2 “I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be
thwarted.

7. Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without
knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not
understand,
things too wonderful for me, which I did not
know.

8. Job 42:1-6 (Job's Confession and Repentance)
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you
make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now
my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and
ashes.”

9. Response 1
Acknowledge that
God is omnipotent and
that His purposes will
not fail.

10. Response 2
Be humble and
confess what we do
not understand.

11. Response 3
Repent of our foolish
babble.

12. 3 Responses
1. Acknowledge that God is omnipotent
and that His purposes will not fail.
2. Be humble and confess what we do not
understand.
3. Repent of our foolish babble.

13. Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do far more
abundantly than all that we ask or think,
according to the power at work within us,
to him be glory in the church and in Christ
Jesus throughout all generations, forever
and ever. Amen.