IT IS WELL | WEEK 4 | CHRISTIAN LAKE
AARON’S BLESSING
22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying,
Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,
24 The LORD bless you and keep you;
25 The LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
27 “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
SHALOM
• Peace / Prosperity / Welfare
• Wholeness / Complete / Secure
• Gen 29:6
CHAOS IN GENESIS
GENESIS 1:2
The earth was without form and void, and darkness
was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
was hovering over the face of the waters.
GENESIS 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast
of the field that the Lord God had made.
GENESIS 7:11
In the second month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, on that day all the fountains of the great
deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens
were opened.
—JOHN H. WALTON, HOW TO READ JOB
The first challenge suggests that God’s policy of blessing righteous people is flawed because it seems to buy people’s loyalty and righteousness. The second piece of the challenge falls into place when Job begins to suffer. As he makes his speeches and launches his demands to God for a hearing, we learn that Job also has a problem with God’s policies: he considers it bad policy that God allows righteous people to suffer. In short, he thinks that God is unjust.
CHAOS IN JOB
JOB 3:8
Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
JOB 26:12
By his power he stilled the sea;
by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
JOB 38:8
Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,
CHAOS IN JONAH
2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,
2 saying,
“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
and you heard my voice.
3 For you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
all your breakers and your waves
passed over me.
4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
yet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5 The waters closed in over me to take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6 to the roots of the mountains. I went down
to the land whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.”
CHAOS IN THE GOSPELS
MATTHEW 8:23–27
23 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.
24 And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
25 And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.”
26 And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
27 And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”
CHAOS IN THE GOSPELS
26 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear.
27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”
28 And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”
29 He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”
31 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.
33 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
MATTHEW 14:26–33
CHAOS IN REVELATION
Revelation 12:15
The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
Revelation 20:2
And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
