Do We Deserve Our Suffering? Job's Challenge to Retributive Justice

In this message, we will examine a principle from Scripture that is challenged by the book of Job. The idea of “reaping what you sow” is mentioned and even affirmed in several places in the Bible. However, the idea of grace is getting something we do not deserve: God’s favor. Neither accounts for what happens to Job, though. As we will learn, there is something deeper happening. How do you handle bad things happening to you? Do you struggle to understand what God is doing through it all? Are you saved?