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How do we maintain a relationship with a God we don't currently understand?

Ben Putt walks us through the "butting heads" phase of the Book of Job, contrasting the rigid, simplistic theology of Job’s friends with Job’s own desperate, spiraling search for truth. This session highlights a turning point in the book: Job 28’s poetic search for wisdom.

Key topics covered:

• Innocent Suffering: Debunking the idea that suffering is always a direct punishment for sin.

• The Intercessor: Examining Job’s prophetic cry for an advocate to stand between mortal man and a Holy God (Job 16 & 19).

• The Value of Wisdom: Why wisdom is more precious than the gold of Ophir, yet impossible to find on our own.

• The Fear of the Lord: Reclaiming the biblical definition of wisdom as trusting God's character when His plan is hidden.

Title Ideas: Out of the Storm: The Search for Wisdom | Ben Putt

Description:"I know that my Redeemer lives."

In Day 3 of our "Out of the Storm" series, Ben Putt explores how Job keeps going when his friends turn on him and God feels distant. It’s a session about the "slow burn" of faith—how Job moves from a simple worldview to a profound, gut-wrenching trust in a God who must eventually come to earth to vindicate His people.

If you’re wrestling with the specific "Why?" of your own pain, join us as we look at why the answer isn't a theological framework, but a Person.

Highlights:

• Why Job’s friends were "miserable comforters."

• The incredible prophecy of Job 19:25.

• Mining for wisdom in Job 28.

• Why "The Fear of the Lord" is the beginning of the end of our restlessness.

• The Friends’ Worldview: Job 4:7–8, 8:1–6, 11:1–6

• Job’s Pushback: Job 21:7–15

• The Need for a Mediator: Job 9:32–33, 16:18–21

• The Redeemer Prophecy: Job 19:23–27

• The Poem of Wisdom: Job 28:1–28

• The Foundation of Wisdom: Proverbs 1:7, Deuteronomy 29:29