1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:05,100 Job chapter 19. Job chapter 19. 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,800 And as you are turning, I want to read to you. 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:18,100 Something that was Anonymous, but is apropos for our time 4 00:00:18,100 --> 00:00:21,000 together in the book of jokes night. 5 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:28,900 It's called the Builder. I saw them tearing it, building 6 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:33,400 down a group of men in a busy town with a hefty. 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,400 Blow in a Lusty. Yell, they swung with zest and a 8 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,300 side wall fell asked the foreman are. 9 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:44,200 These skilled are these men skilled. 10 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:48,500 The kind, you would hire if you had to build, he looked at me 11 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,200 and laughed. No indeed. 12 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,600 Unskilled. Labor is all I need. 13 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:58,500 Why they can wreck in a day or two when it has taken Builders 14 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:02,800 years to do? I asked myself, as I went my 15 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,900 way, which of these roles have, I tried to play, it might 16 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:12,000 Builder with Rule and square measuring and constructing with 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,800 skill and care. Or am I a wrecker who walks the 18 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,900 town content with the business of tearing down? 19 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,700 Jobs friends were content with the business of tearing down. 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,300 They were a wrecking crew. They were not a building crew. 21 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:32,700 And they were actually very good at what they did. 22 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:36,200 I'm not so sure. They they said around thinking 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,800 about how to wreck job's life, I'm not sure that was their 24 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:42,500 intention. But in doing so in their 25 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:47,400 conversation they were assaulting him and abusing him. 26 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,300 And so when you think about the Book of Job, you're always drawn 27 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:57,100 to things that our Lord has said in the New Testament when James 28 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:00,400 says he's worked in James 126. If anyone thinks himself to be 29 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,900 religious and yet does not Bridle his tongue. 30 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,300 But to seize his own heart. This man's religion. 31 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,600 Is worthless. James is a great book, James 32 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,800 about. You say, you have faith. 33 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,400 Show me. Demonstrated. 34 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,300 And so he says, very clearly one of the evidences of True 35 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:29,000 Religion. Genuine faith. 36 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:34,600 Is the ability to Bridal one's tongue. because if you can't 37 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:41,000 control your tongue and you say, you love the Lord, then your 38 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,700 religion is is worthless. He goes on in the third chapter, 39 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:51,300 in expounds on this. He says 4 verse 2 of chapter 3. 40 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:53,000 For we, all stumble in many ways. 41 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,900 If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect 42 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,100 man or a mature, man able to Bridle the whole body as well. 43 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:04,600 Now, if we put the bits into horse's mouth, so that they will 44 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,800 obey us, we direct their entire bodies. 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,200 Well, look at the ships also though, they are so great, and 46 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,300 are driven by strong. Winds are still directed by a 47 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:18,000 very small Rudder, whoever the inclination of the pilot 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,800 desires. So also the tongue is a small 49 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,400 part of the body and yet it boasts of great things. 50 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:30,900 See how great a forced is set aflame by such. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,100 Such a small fire. And the tongue is a fire, the 52 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:39,200 very world of iniquity. The tongue is said, among our 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:43,400 members as that, which two files the entire body and sets on fire 54 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,800 the course of our life and it's set on fire by hell for every 55 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,600 species of beasts and birds of reptiles and creatures of the 56 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,400 sea is teamed and has been Tamed. 57 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,800 But human race that no one contained the tongue. 58 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,000 It is a Restless evil and full of deadly poison with it. 59 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,100 We bless our Lord and our father and with it, we curse men who 60 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:11,200 have been made in the likeness of God from the same mouth. 61 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,300 Come both blessing and cursing my brethren. 62 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:15,500 These things ought not to be this way. 63 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,300 There's a fountain send out for the same opening both fresh and 64 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:22,400 bitter. Water going to fit tree my 65 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:27,400 brethren produce olives or a Vine Bruce fakes, nor can salt 66 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,100 water. Produce fresh. 67 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:34,500 The tongue is that which defiles? 68 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:40,000 the tongue is that which destroys the tongue is that 69 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:46,300 which derails people's lives? Jobs friends were in the process 70 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:52,700 of trying to derail job. Trying to get him to to think 71 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,700 differently about himself, then what really was in his heart. 72 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,200 It was true about him. It's interesting that the Bible 73 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,000 says that no man can tame the tongue but you can take that 74 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,500 beast of the sea. Think about that. 75 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:11,700 My kids were younger, we used to take a yearly journey to 76 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:15,400 SeaWorld that was way back. When when people could actually 77 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:18,100 ride Shamu in the water, they can't do that anymore. 78 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:22,400 But back in those days, you could And think about it, you 79 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:27,000 could team Shamu so much so that you could ride on his back. 80 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 You can go down into the water, have them throw you up out of 81 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,900 the water and then pick you up. Again, this is amazing scene to 82 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:38,200 be able to watch Shamu there at SeaWorld and realize that they 83 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,300 were able to train this huge whale to do things. 84 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:48,600 That are virtually incredible. But the tongue just a really 85 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,800 small sliver of a thing. That cannot be tamed. 86 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,500 It's like a fire that sets, a blaze of forest. 87 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:04,200 It could be so destructive. So the tongue is that which 88 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:11,200 defiles and the tongue is that which defies ever being Tamed 89 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,200 But the tongue also displays the reality. 90 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:22,300 Of our intermediate. Who we really are. 91 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:29,300 And so, as you think about what James says, about the tongue, in 92 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:33,700 the things that Solomon has even said in the Book of Proverbs 93 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:36,700 chapter 12, verse number 18, there is one who speaks for 94 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:39,000 rashly like the thrust of a sword. 95 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,000 But the tongue of the wise brings healing. 96 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,400 That tells you that the men surrounding job were not wise 97 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,600 men because they weren't bringing healing to the life of 98 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,600 Job. Someone would say in chapter 15 99 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:59,000 verse number, for a soothing tongue is a tree of life, but 100 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,100 perversion in it crushes. The spirit. 101 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,600 Instead of being like a tree of life, with words that bring 102 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,700 healing to job. Those words were crushing, job, 103 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:17,400 vexing him smashing his life on top of all the other problems 104 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:22,800 that he faced. David, very similarly said in, 105 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:30,300 in psalm 57 verse number for these words, my soul is among 106 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:33,600 Lions. I must lie among those who 107 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:39,300 breathe forth, fire even the sons of men whose teeth are 108 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:44,800 Spears and arrows and their tongue, a sharp sword. 109 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:50,200 David would know about how people's words would would crush 110 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,800 him. In Psalm 64 verse. 111 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,300 Number one hear my voice. Oh God, in my complaint, 112 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,000 preserve my life from The Dread of the enemy hiding me from the 113 00:07:59,008 --> 00:08:03,200 secret Council of evildoers, from the tumult of those who do 114 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,500 iniquity, have sharpened their tongue like a sword. 115 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,100 They ain't bitter speech as their Arrow to shoot from 116 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:14,300 concealment at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and 117 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:19,700 they do not fear David's life. He faced much criticism Much 118 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:25,600 verbal abuse. Job faced even greater abuse 119 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,300 because he faced it every single day from the people that were 120 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:36,200 his friends, David had lots of enemies. and jobs friends were 121 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,700 not as enemies per se, but they acted as if they were his 122 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,700 enemies. And so, as bildad last week, 123 00:08:44,700 --> 00:08:49,500 assaulted job and abused job job, now is going to respond in 124 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,100 the way. He responds is quite remarkable 125 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:57,200 and the way he responds is the way that we can learn how to 126 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,400 respond because what you're going to learn about jobs 127 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:04,600 response is what helps him, keep the proper perspective and the 128 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,200 perspective that job has on his God. 129 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,000 Is that which blows the mind of the believer today? 130 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,100 And you're going to see that. We're going to begin. 131 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:24,200 By looking at how job is, is crushed by their speeches. 132 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:29,500 How he is consumed Point number two with his suffering, but how 133 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:35,800 job is confident in his savior? Three very simple points, but 134 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,000 three points that will bring home to us the reality of what 135 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,500 we need to know. When it comes to handling a 136 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:47,200 perspective that keeps us energized in the service of the 137 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:52,700 king, So we'll begin job, 19 verse number 1, then job 138 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:55,300 responded. How long will you torment me and 139 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:59,800 crush me with words they were questioned. 140 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:04,600 They were using their words to, to corrupt his life and to ride 141 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,000 his life. These ten times you have 142 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,300 insulted me, you are not ashamed to wrong. 143 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:12,600 Neither, there's no shame in your words. 144 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,900 You don't even blush when you speak. 145 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,300 These ten times is not a literal 10 times. 146 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:20,200 How do we know that we know that? 147 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,400 Because 10 is a number of phonus? 148 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:26,300 We know that when we read Genesis 31 verse number 7, where 149 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:31,900 Jacob spoke of Laban changes in wages ten times over numbers 150 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:36,700 14:22, God said of Israel that they tend to him ten times in 151 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:40,000 the wilderness in Daniel 11 verse number 20, Daniel and his 152 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,800 friends found to be 10 times better than the wise man in 153 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,300 Babylon. It wasn't that they were 154 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:49,300 actually 10 times better or that. 155 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:53,100 There are actually 10 times at Laban increases wages. 156 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,000 It's a number of fullness you have 10 fingers, right? 157 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:58,800 10 fingers on your hands, your hands are full. 158 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,400 You have 10 toes on your feet. So 10 is the number of fullness. 159 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,500 And so when you speak of that, you understand that Israel fully 160 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,800 tempted, God in the wilderness during their time when they left 161 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,100 Egypt and they wandered, they continue. 162 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:20,100 To tempt. God, it was a continual fullness 163 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:23,000 of their tempting and coming against God. 164 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,300 Job says, you have insulted me these ten times. 165 00:11:26,500 --> 00:11:29,600 In other words, he has been filled with their Temptations. 166 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,000 He's been filled with their insults. 167 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:38,000 It's a never-ending continually continual insult against his 168 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,800 life, This is the first number for, even if I have truly aired, 169 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:47,200 my error, lodges with me. The other words, if I have 170 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,100 intent, unintentionally sinned, and maybe I have and none of us 171 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:54,300 knows, actually all of our sins. But he says, if I have erred, if 172 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:57,100 I have sinned unintentionally, God knows this. 173 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,900 And God will judge me for it because God knows everything. 174 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,400 He says, in verse number 5, indeed you vote yourselves 175 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,900 against me, improve my disgrace to me. 176 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,900 In other words, you're set on one purpose, that's the ACT 177 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:13,300 arrogantly against me says down in verse number 21. 178 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:18,000 Pity Me, Pity Me. Oh, you my friends, you show, no 179 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,100 compassion verse 22. Why do you persecute me as as 180 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:24,700 God does? And then he says in verse number 181 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:29,400 28, if you say how shall we persecute him and what pretext 182 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,600 for a case against him, can we find Verse 29, then be afraid of 183 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,400 the sword for yourselves for wrath. 184 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,300 Brings the punishment of the sword so that you may know. 185 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:46,600 There is Judgment job knows that by your words. 186 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:47,700 You shall be judged by your words. 187 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:49,900 You shall be condemned. Those were the words of Christ. 188 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:52,700 He knows that that their words are going to bring forth 189 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:55,500 judgment upon them. So be careful how you say what 190 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:57,700 you're saying. Be careful what you say and when 191 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:02,800 you say it, So he expresses how they have vexed him, how they 192 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,200 have crushed him with their speeches, but then he begins to 193 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:12,600 say these words as he is consumed with his suffering, he 194 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:17,300 makes two main points, one, he's afflicted by God, excuse me, a 195 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:20,700 number two, he's abandoned by his friends. 196 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:29,700 Look at verse number 6, know, then that God has wronged me and 197 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:35,900 it's closed his net. Around me, he's trapped me now. 198 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:38,100 It's not a job. He's been running from God and 199 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:41,100 got trapped him and threw a net around him and ensnared him. 200 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:43,800 That's not the point because he's not running from guys like 201 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,400 Jonah, who who ran from God, because he didn't want to go to 202 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,000 the ninevites and he ran the opposite direction and God has 203 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,500 stared him in the belly of a fish. 204 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:54,800 That's not the case. Joe's not running from God at 205 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,700 all. And yet, he understands that God 206 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:02,400 in his sovereignty is somehow behind all this. 207 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:08,600 He just doesn't understand it. He can't grasp it, he's looking 208 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,100 for answers. Look down at verse number. 21 209 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:14,900 for the hand of God has struck me. 210 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,400 Think about that statement. The hand of God has struck me 211 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:21,700 now. Is it true? 212 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,200 Yes. Is it false? 213 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:27,300 Yes. Okay, both are true. 214 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:31,300 How do we know go back to chapter 1, go back to chapter 1. 215 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:40,400 in chapter 1, Satan says These words put forth your hand now 216 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,500 and touch all that he has verse 11, he will surely curse you to 217 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:46,500 your face. Then the Lord said to Satan 218 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:49,700 behold all that he has is in your hand. 219 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,400 Only do not put forth your hand on him. 220 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:57,800 So Satan says if you touch him with your hand and God says no, 221 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:03,700 you put forth your hand and your butt, your hand cannot kill him. 222 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:09,500 And then over in chapter 2, Chapter 2. 223 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,400 Job says our God says again. Our or Satan says answers. 224 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,300 The Lord and said, verse number 4 skin for skin. 225 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:21,200 Yes. All that a man has he will give 226 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,600 for his life. However put forth your hand now 227 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,400 and touch his bone and his flesh, he will curse you to your 228 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,100 face. So the Lord said to Satan 229 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:34,200 behold, he is in your hand only spare his life. 230 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,900 So is it God's hand is touching him? 231 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,100 Or is it Satan's hand that's touching him? 232 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,700 See what job is doing? Is recognizing that God is 233 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:47,200 behind everything. All things Romans 11 must pass 234 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:52,200 through him back to him again because he oversees everything 235 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,800 he's control of everything. Yeah, he didn't have chapter one 236 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,600 to look at to understand what's happening. 237 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,800 That Satan is actually involved in the flicking his life and 238 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,100 taking these things from him but God is allowing Satan to do 239 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:07,100 that. So God said to Satan, you put 240 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,400 forth your hand, you want to touch my servant touch him, but 241 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,300 you can't do this, you can't, you can touch it whatever he 242 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:16,300 has, but you can't touch him, then you can touch him, but you 243 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:21,200 can't kill him. So God gave restraints to Satan. 244 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:24,800 So in job says, it's God who has struck me. 245 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:29,100 He is speaking of God, in a sovereign control, over 246 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:31,000 everything. Somehow God is behind this. 247 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:34,500 He just can't articulate it. You just can't explain it and he 248 00:16:34,508 --> 00:16:37,900 certainly doesn't understand why or how a lot like you and me. 249 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:39,900 We go through times and we just don't get it. 250 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,100 We don't understand why the conflict. 251 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:44,600 Why the conflict last so long? Why the hardship is? 252 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,600 As severe as it is. When will it ever let up? 253 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:48,400 We do. Oh no. 254 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:52,700 And Joe goes on a since this. Look at this, he says, behold I 255 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:54,900 cry violence but I get no answer. 256 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,200 I shout for help but there is no justice in other words who's 257 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,600 going to vindicate me, I cried to the Lord. 258 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:05,099 But this is where God wants them. 259 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:09,800 You see, we forget this. That God wants us to come to 260 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,900 him, and God wants us to cry out to him and Luke 11. 261 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:15,599 And Luke 18, talk about persistence and prayer and 262 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:20,599 patience and prayer and how how important it is for us to 263 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:23,500 persistently. But beseech, the throne of 264 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:25,300 grace. That's why God says, keep on 265 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:29,600 asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, don't stop. 266 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:35,400 Because God wants us to continually come to him and so 267 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,700 God allows things to go as long as they do. 268 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:42,200 Why? Well, Luke 18 tells us. 269 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,400 Will he find this kind of faith upon the Earth? 270 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,700 What kind the kind of Faith that's persistent and patient? 271 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,100 That does not quit beseeching God and asking God to step in 272 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:57,700 and do what he's going to do. So Joe says, in verse number 8, 273 00:17:57,900 --> 00:18:01,300 he has walled up my way so that I cannot pass. 274 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:05,700 He has put Darkness on my path. He has, he has no way of knowing 275 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,300 where he's going or what's going to happen next. 276 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:11,600 Because everything in front of, in front of him is dark, there 277 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:12,900 was a time. When everything in front of him 278 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:15,700 was bright is his kids were happy. 279 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,200 Yeah, he was healthy. Things are going along really 280 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:19,600 well. He could see the future, with 281 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,200 his kids, his grandkids great-grandkids, how things were 282 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,900 going to grow. He could see the future, but not 283 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:27,400 now, it's completely dark. It's completely Bleak because 284 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,700 everything's been rolled in around him, he cannot see, but 285 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:33,000 God has him right? Where he wants him. 286 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:37,700 They may learn to trust The true and living God. 287 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:42,200 It says verse 9. He is stripped my honor from me 288 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,300 and remove the crown from my head. 289 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:48,700 He breaks me down on every side and I am I'm gone he is uprooted 290 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:51,300 My Hope like a tree. He is also kindled his anger 291 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:53,600 against me and considered me as his enemy. 292 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,900 His troops come together and build up their way against me 293 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,600 and Camp around my tent is question, simply is I don't 294 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,200 understand. I don't get it. 295 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:08,200 I am hemmed in. I am caught. 296 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,800 I am trapped. I am walled in. 297 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,400 Everything around me is completely dark. 298 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,700 I cannot see where to go. I don't know what to do. 299 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:22,600 We can understand that. We get to those places. 300 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:26,100 With a lot less suffering, the jobs going through. 301 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:30,600 And he's just crying out to God because he feels like he's been 302 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:34,100 attacked by God. And then abandoned by his 303 00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:35,700 friends, he's consumed with the stuff. 304 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,100 We look at this verse 13. He has removed my brother's far 305 00:19:39,100 --> 00:19:42,800 from me and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. 306 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:44,800 Hey, listen, next time. You think you're lonely. 307 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:47,900 Read this passage of scripture. All right, it'll open your eyes. 308 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:49,700 Look what. He says, my relatives have 309 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:53,000 failed in my intimate friends have forgotten me. 310 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:55,400 Those who live in my house and my mates. 311 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,700 Consider me a stranger. I'm a foreigner in there. 312 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,000 I called to my servant and he does not answer. 313 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,400 I have to implore him with my mouth. 314 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,600 My breath is offencive to my wife. 315 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:13,000 That could be applied to most of you men and I am loathsome to my 316 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,600 own brother's. Even young children despise me 317 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,800 and rise up and they speak against me all my associates, a 318 00:20:18,808 --> 00:20:24,000 poor me and those I love have turned against me on top of all 319 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,200 that verse 20, my bone clings to my skin and my flesh and I have 320 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,400 escaped only by the skin of my teeth. 321 00:20:30,700 --> 00:20:34,000 Not only have my friends, abandoned me, not only have my 322 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,600 family, abandoned me not only have my servants abandon me. 323 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:42,300 Me and those who are intimate friends with me but also 324 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,700 children who are my acquaintances, abandoned me in 325 00:20:46,700 --> 00:20:49,600 even my own health has abandoned me. 326 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,900 Talk about lonely. Talk about isolation, talk about 327 00:20:55,900 --> 00:21:01,200 having, no one that's job. The next time you think you have 328 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:04,600 nobody cares and no one's interested in what's going on 329 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,300 your life and your family. Abandons you and your friends 330 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,400 have been in. You had no more friends, just 331 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:14,300 read job. Because Joe had nobody and the 332 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:17,500 three guys that ride around them, but they were as far from 333 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,100 him as the East is from the West. 334 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:27,400 And so after he expresses how consumed he is the suffering, 335 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,500 now you're going to see his confidence in his savior. 336 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,700 And what he says is absolutely astonishing. 337 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,400 Verse 23. Oh, that my words were written. 338 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:49,200 Oh, that they were inscribed in a book. 339 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:55,500 That was an iron stylus and Lead, they were engraved in the 340 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:57,900 rock. Forever. 341 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,600 I just wish that someone would write this down little, do you 342 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,300 know, it would be written to write. 343 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,700 If someone could just record my suffering, if someone could just 344 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:12,600 record my statements, oh, that it would always be there for 345 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,000 someone to read to understand. In no idea. 346 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:21,400 That they were going to be written down. 347 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:25,900 None. But they were. 348 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:33,500 In the living and abiding word of God. those who were there at 349 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:39,100 the time, those who Who saw him they've all died and gone off 350 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:43,200 the scene. The exact location of this. 351 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:50,800 We have no idea. but the words that were spoken, To him and the 352 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:55,400 words that he spoke to others. They have been recorded. 353 00:22:56,900 --> 00:23:03,100 And God did that out of his grace and mercy and kindness. 354 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,100 So one day you would pick up the book begin to read the book and 355 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:11,400 to realize that what you're going through is not nearly as 356 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,500 intense as what job is going through. 357 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:19,800 But more than that, he wants you to have a confident perspective 358 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:26,000 in God. Because Joe did. so, listen to 359 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:32,400 what job says, Verse 25, as for me, I know that my redeemer 360 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,900 lives at the last. He will take his stand on the 361 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:38,900 earth. Even after my skin is destroyed 362 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:42,900 yet from my flesh. I shall see God whom I myself 363 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,200 Shall Behold. And who my eyes will see, and 364 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,700 not another my heart faints Within Me. 365 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:56,600 What a statement? Job has already made one great 366 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,900 confession. This is his second great 367 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,100 confession. His first one is when chapter 9 368 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,200 verse number 10, where he says, who does great things and 369 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,900 fathomable and wondrous Works without number. 370 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,400 And we told you at that time in chapter 9 verse number 10 that 371 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:23,200 though that that verse unlocks for job the mystery of God and 372 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:33,700 unfolds for job, the meaning of God This one in job, 19, unveils 373 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:39,500 to us the ministry of God and unleashes us unleashes for us, 374 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:47,000 the message. From God, this is a Monumental 375 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:52,700 statement that expresses everything we need to know about 376 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:57,000 God, to get us through whatever trial were on or in. 377 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,100 So I'm going to give you seven words, this was going to be my 378 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:07,500 Resurrection Sunday sermon. But I decided to give it to you 379 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:11,300 early and save it for another year because I've already 380 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,700 written this year's Resurrection Sunday sermon. 381 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:18,400 Okay, but this one day will come back again but with greater 382 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:24,100 detail, but what job says is Monumental because number one 383 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:35,800 that expresses it expresses Jobs intensity. expresses his 384 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:50,600 intensity free says, for I know, let's say, I guess, I think if 385 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,900 my memory serves me correct, you know, I know. 386 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:03,200 That my redeemer lives. There is no question about that. 387 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,200 This is a statement of confidence. 388 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,300 It's a statement of intensity. Why? 389 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,200 Because there's passion behind it then say, well, you know, I 390 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,900 think I know My Savior Lives. No, I know my redeemer lives, 391 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,000 there's intensity behind the statement. 392 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,300 There's passion behind the statement, their strength, 393 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:27,800 behind the statement. There's no question behind it. 394 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,500 There's no wondering behind it. There's no thinking behind it. 395 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,300 It's I know that my redeemer lives. 396 00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:42,100 The question is, do you because it's so important. 397 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,800 Which begs the question? How does he know? 398 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:50,600 How can he possibly know that his Redeemer Lives? 399 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,000 How would job ever understand this? 400 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,400 Is that God somehow is going to unveil to him? 401 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,600 Something that he has not unveiled to his three friends. 402 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:07,000 Maybe. What is it about job? 403 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:10,600 That he knows something that his friends do not know. 404 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,400 That will allow him to speak with great intensity. 405 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:18,600 Great Passion. Great certainty great 406 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,400 confidence. I know that my redeemer lives, 407 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:31,600 what a statement. Faith is always rooted. 408 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:38,200 In what God has already said. so if it's a statement of 409 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:45,000 conviction, which is a statement of assurance, which it is, I 410 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,200 know that my redeemer lives, he has to know something about his 411 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,100 Redeemer. He's have, he would have had to 412 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:57,800 have heard something from someone about his Redeemer, he 413 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,300 couldn't go down to the library, pick up some books, and read 414 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:04,400 some theology treaty on the God and His Redemptive purposes. 415 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,500 There was no book of the Bible to read Because jobs the first 416 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:12,400 book written in the Bible. So there's nothing for him to 417 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,000 read about the Bible. But he knows. 418 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,500 He knows more than we know about Our Redeemer. 419 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,500 And he doesn't have the 66 books that you have in your hand. 420 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:33,100 How did he know? Stay with me. 421 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:40,000 This is so incredibly good. I told you early on that job was 422 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:46,400 a contemporary of Abraham. He lived After the flood, okay? 423 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,600 Little patriarchal times that's why he was performing Priestly 424 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,600 duties with his children, in chapter 1, offering of 425 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,300 sacrifices for them right on their behalf. 426 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,300 So is before the levitical priesthood, so is during the 427 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:08,400 patriarchal time so he lived during the time of Abraham, 428 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:14,200 Isaac, and Jacob. And so what happened with 429 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,900 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had to have been passed down to them as 430 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:22,900 well. So we know that what was passed 431 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:24,900 down from the very beginning was a promise. 432 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:30,900 In Genesis chapter 3 verse number feet, 15 of a seed of a 433 00:29:30,908 --> 00:29:32,600 woman that would crush the Serpent's head. 434 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:38,600 This would be all passed down verbally for Generation to 435 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,400 generation. And as it was being passed down, 436 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,100 we know that able because we studied Hebrews chapter 11 and 437 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:48,500 if you're with his way back in the year 2000, you were with us. 438 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:52,800 When we studied the Book of Genesis And you know, that Abel 439 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,000 offered an acceptable sacrifice in the God. 440 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,400 How did Abel know how to do that? 441 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,300 Because his parents taught him how to offer an acceptable 442 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:03,600 sacrifice. And Cain sacrifice was not 443 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,600 accepted by God. Because Abel's was a blood 444 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,700 sacrifice. In Cannes was not a blood 445 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:16,700 sacrifice, see new about that. They knew about atonement for 446 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:22,200 sin and forgiveness of sins. But Abraham if he was 447 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,200 contemporary of Abraham, he would know. 448 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,400 He would know something about Mount Moriah he would know 449 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,500 something about substitutionary atonement. 450 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:33,200 He would know something about a sacrifice that he went up on 451 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,200 Mount Moriah to offer in this would be being passed down from 452 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,900 generation to generation because Abraham, the father of the 453 00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:44,300 Jewish, faith would be one, who would teach others concerning 454 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,400 substitutionary sacrifice. Now, the angel of the Lord would 455 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,700 stop him from killing his own son. 456 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,300 Sun and we provide a substitute on the mountain called for seen 457 00:30:55,300 --> 00:31:00,100 by God. All that would be given to pass 458 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:04,900 down. So he would know something about 459 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,200 atonement, something about forgiveness, because he would 460 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,600 act as he preached for his children, in chapter, 1 to offer 461 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,500 sacrifices for them. So he learned well, he listened, 462 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:25,300 well, he obtained the knowledge. Well, We knew he was God fearing 463 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,600 we know he's up, right? And we know that Abraham was 464 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,100 justified by faith. He was declared righteous. 465 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:36,100 Right. Abraham was Book of Genesis 15 466 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:38,800 chapter. So, if Abraham was declared 467 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,500 righteous and Joe was an upright, man, that his 468 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:45,300 righteousness was given to him by God as Abraham's was, he knew 469 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:49,400 about Grace because Noah was graced by God, Genesis chapter 470 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:56,300 6, he survived the flood. And Noah's Three Sons Shem, ham 471 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,400 and japheth would pass down the fact that they have been graced 472 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,400 by God. So you're certain of the grace 473 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,200 of God. So he says, I know. 474 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,200 That My Redeemer Lives. It's an expression of intensity, 475 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,900 but note, this is an expression of intimacy. 476 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000 I know that my redeemer lives, you don't see. 477 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,900 I know that your Redeemer Lives he didn't say, I know there is a 478 00:32:27,908 --> 00:32:34,500 redeemer he didn't say, I think there's a redeemer He says, I 479 00:32:34,508 --> 00:32:38,800 know that my redeemer lives. In other words, it's an 480 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,500 expression of intimacy on job sparked, not just intensity, but 481 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:50,500 intimacy, he's my redeemer. How do you know that? 482 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,200 How do you know that God was his personal? 483 00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:00,400 Redeemer. He is mine. 484 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,500 All of his friends had abandoned him. 485 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:09,700 All at turned. Against him. 486 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:17,600 Paul would say I know whom I have believed and am persuaded. 487 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:20,800 A statement just like Joe would make. 488 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:26,000 I know that my redeemer lives. I have no question about that. 489 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,100 This is the only thing that gets him through his difficult times. 490 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,400 He has a redeemer. It's his own personal Redeemer. 491 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,200 There's ownership there. And my redeemer. 492 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:50,100 Lives. So important, but not this. 493 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,500 These verses no Express. His intensity. 494 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,000 His intimacy. But his identity. 495 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:10,000 The identity of the Redeemer. And the Very fact. 496 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:13,600 That he is, who he is because of his Redeemer. 497 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:19,900 In other words, the word Redeemer go L Kinsman. 498 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:26,000 I know that my redeemer my Kinsmen my Champion. 499 00:34:26,100 --> 00:34:31,699 My Advocate lives. So, he knows he has an advocate. 500 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:37,900 And so he talks about a Kinsman a redeemer. 501 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:44,600 Now, listen carefully job knows. The plans and purposes of God. 502 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,400 More so than most people know. Job knows about the Redemptive 503 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:57,100 purposes of God way before the book of Exodus during the time 504 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:01,500 of Moses. When God tells Moses, I'm coming 505 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:06,200 down and Moses says, who shall I say sent me? 506 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,100 You tell him. I am that. 507 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:14,600 I am sent you. Which was next is 3, his 508 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,400 memorial name, right? I'm going to be remembered from 509 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,800 generation to generation based on my name, my Memorial name 510 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,900 because I am a rescuer, I am a deliverer, I am a savior, I am a 511 00:35:26,900 --> 00:35:32,700 redeemer. So job knew more about God or 512 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:36,200 knew more about God in an earlier time than Moses ever 513 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:43,400 knew about God. because you see, Job understood the purposes of 514 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,300 God. The redeeming purposes of God 515 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:49,300 that he would be a Kinsman. He would be a next of kin who 516 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:52,700 would, who would fight his battles for him and be his 517 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:55,100 ultimate Champion. His ultimate deliver his 518 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:59,700 ultimate rescuer way before God ever gave his memorial name. 519 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,400 Those three Hebrew confidence that make up the tetragrammaton 520 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,600 that talk to us about God being llave. 521 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,300 That's that's his name, that's his memorial name. 522 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:16,000 But way before that, Joe begins to understand the identity of 523 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,300 his God, he is the Redeemer. He's a deliverer. 524 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:26,200 He's a savior. She says, I know that my 525 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,100 redeemer. Lives. 526 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,600 I know that my redeemer lives, this statement, expresses not 527 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,500 just his intensity, his intimacy, his identity. 528 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,200 But it expresses the immortality of his Redeemer. 529 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:49,300 He didn't say I know that my redeemer will live. 530 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:55,700 I know that my redeemer has lived. 531 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,500 He said, no, I know that my redeemer lives. 532 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:05,600 He is a living Redeemer. He's not a dead Redeemer. 533 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,400 remember in Revelation chapter 11, when the Lord God comes 534 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:18,700 before, John on the Isle of Patmos and says, I In the first 535 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:22,900 and the last, the Alpha, and the Omega, the living one. 536 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:28,700 Behold. I was dead but I Am Alive 537 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:34,400 forevermore. speaking of the immortality of the son of God, 538 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:38,400 Peter would say Matthew, 16 verse number 16, Thou Art the 539 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:43,700 Christ, the son of the Living God in Psalm 42, verse number 2. 540 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:47,100 It says my soul thirsts for the Living. 541 00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:51,100 God Psalm 84 verse number to my heart and my flesh Sing For Joy 542 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:56,400 to the Living God, in John 14:19 Christ had because I live, you 543 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,900 too, shall live. Other words, job knew that his 544 00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:04,500 Redeemer Lives Job, believe that a resurrection. 545 00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,200 How could Joe believe in a resurrection? 546 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,900 When he never seen a resurrection? 547 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:13,200 He was 11. Abraham. 548 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:18,700 Abraham believed God took his cell up on Mount Moriah and he 549 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:22,500 was 11 tells us that he believed that God would raise him from 550 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,600 the dead. Abraham believed that a 551 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,200 resurrection if I have to kill the promised son, my only 552 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,800 begotten son and this is the promise of the seed. 553 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,100 That's going to come. Then God must have a plan to 554 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:38,900 raise him from the dead and the resurrection of the Messiah was 555 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:44,600 always the plan. So, how does job know that his 556 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:51,400 Redeemer Lives unless he believes in a resurrection of 557 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,100 his Redeemer? Speaking of the immortality of 558 00:38:55,100 --> 00:39:00,500 his Redeemer. Now listen. we're just getting 559 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:07,900 started because now, I'm going to absolutely blow your mind. 560 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:11,500 Listen to this. He says this. 561 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,400 As for me, I know that my redeemer lives. 562 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:26,000 And at the last, he will take a stand on. 563 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:33,700 The Earth. This expresses, the 564 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,800 invincibility. Of his Redeemer. 565 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:43,800 I know. That not only does my redeemer 566 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:50,600 live. But at the last at the end, he 567 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:56,300 will stand on the earth. That's not the Incarnation. 568 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:01,000 That is the second coming of the Messiah. 569 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:06,500 And you can say, well how do you know that that's very easy to 570 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:09,100 understand when you think about it? 571 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,600 The invincibility of the Messiah. 572 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,100 Then the last days he will stand, let me show you what it 573 00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:21,100 says in the book of Zechariah. Zechariah 14, verse number four 574 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:23,500 in that day. His feet the museum, see the 575 00:40:23,508 --> 00:40:27,700 Messiah will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of 576 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:31,400 Jerusalem on the east. and the Mount of Olives which will be 577 00:40:31,408 --> 00:40:36,000 split in its middle from east to west by a very large Valley 578 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,600 said, half of the mountain will move toward the North and the 579 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:44,400 other half toward The South. Other words, when the Lord God 580 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,800 returns at the end, he will eventually stand on the Mount of 581 00:40:47,808 --> 00:40:51,200 Olives and split the mount. There he will stand. 582 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,600 Why? Every conqueror of Jerusalem, 583 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,000 stood, on the Mount of Olives, raise their soar, to the heavens 584 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,300 as the ultimate conqueror of the city. 585 00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:04,100 Sigh. I'll do the same because he's 586 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:06,500 the ultimate Victor. He's Invincible. 587 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,400 The Bible. Also says these words in the 588 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,300 Book of Micah In the Book of Micah. 589 00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:21,600 The first chapter. It says in verses 2 to 4 these 590 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,400 words hero people, all of you listen to Earth and all it 591 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,500 contains and let the Lord God be witness against you. 592 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:31,600 The Lord, from his holy Temple, for behold the Lord is coming 593 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,000 forth from his place. He will come down and tread on 594 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,800 the high places of the Earth, the mountains will melt under 595 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,800 him in The Valleys will be split like Wax before the fire. 596 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:45,800 Like water. Pour down a steep place. 597 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,000 In other words God will stand upon the Earth Josie's I know 598 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,200 that my redeemer liveth Lives. And at the last, he will take 599 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,100 his stand on the earth. Listen to Book of Ezekiel 600 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:01,200 Ezekiel chapter 43 Verse number. Five. 601 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,500 In the spirit, lifted me up and brought me into the inner court 602 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:05,600 and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house. 603 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,000 Then I heard one speaking to me from the house while the man was 604 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,300 standing beside me. He said to me, son of man, this 605 00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:14,300 is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my 606 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:18,300 feet where I would dwell among the sons of Israel forever. 607 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,900 In other words, The Souls of my feet will stand on this place on 608 00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:25,300 Mount Zion in the temple and I will rule over my people forever 609 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:28,000 job knows that how does Joe know that? 610 00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:32,000 Did God some out? Reveal it to him in a dream? 611 00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:37,100 Nope, that's it about that. The guy can then speak to jump 612 00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:38,900 about this? No, this ain't her. 613 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:46,000 How does job know that? Before the Flood, there was one 614 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,900 profit. Just one. 615 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,200 And that Prophet prophesied. Not about the first coming. 616 00:42:56,700 --> 00:42:59,600 But the second coming of the Messiah. 617 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:04,100 He's recorded in Genesis chapter 5. 618 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:10,800 The book of Jude tells us what He prophesied. 619 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:19,200 It was also about these men that is apostates that Enoch in the 620 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,500 Seventh Generation from Adam prophesied. 621 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:24,600 So there's one Prophet Before the Flood. 622 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,800 His name is Enoch. And the prophecy that he gave 623 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,800 was not about the first coming, it was about the second coming. 624 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,100 Let's see what he says. Behold the Lord came with many 625 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:39,400 thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment upon all and to 626 00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:42,300 convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly Deeds which they 627 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:46,600 have done in an ungodly way and of all the harsh things which 628 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,900 ungodly Sinners have spoken against him. 629 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,200 So why the Book of Genesis is not record the prophecy of 630 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:59,700 judgment Jude to the inspiration of the spirit of God records for 631 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:02,700 us to prophesy of Enochs judgment. 632 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:08,300 And Enoch prophesied in such a way that Methuselah in the year 633 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:11,300 that he dies, it shall happen. There will be judgment upon the 634 00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:14,700 Earth and there was judgment. There was a flood that came and 635 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:17,600 there was judgment but it was a precursor to the ultimate 636 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,300 judgment. That would come when Messiah 637 00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:22,300 comes back with all of his holy ones. 638 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,100 That's recorded in Revelation 19. 639 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,400 That's according to Matthew chapter 25, when our Lord 640 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,500 returns again, the second time with all of his Saints, with all 641 00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:31,200 of his angels, with all of us, holy ones. 642 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,800 To establish his kingdom on the earth. 643 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:39,700 Listen job. Was the pre melilla analysts? 644 00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:44,900 Okay, he was premillennial before the term was ever 645 00:44:44,900 --> 00:44:48,200 existed. He believed the second coming of 646 00:44:48,207 --> 00:44:50,900 Messiah and he would Rule, and Reign on the earth. 647 00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:57,600 In the last days, his feet will be on this Earth. 648 00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:03,100 He will rule the invincibility of his Redeemer, his Redeemer 649 00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:05,600 Lives, he doesn't die. He lives. 650 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,000 Not that he died. Yes, the Lord said. 651 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,500 I am the living one behold. I was dead. 652 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,900 But I'm Alive forevermore. Well, God can't die. 653 00:45:14,900 --> 00:45:18,100 God, the spirit. So God becomes, man. 654 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:22,000 So man can die. He's God right? 655 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,000 The perfect sinless. Sacrifice. 656 00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:26,700 And raises himself from the dead. 657 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,500 In Joe begins to understand Resurrection. 658 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,300 He begins understand the Incarnation. 659 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:35,800 He begins to understand Redemption. 660 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,800 He begins to understand the revelation of Messiah at the 661 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,800 end. All this And this is what keeps 662 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,000 him going from time to time. He has learned. 663 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,700 All this has been passed down. Listen, very carefully so 664 00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:52,900 important why? Because Enoch would prophesy and 665 00:45:52,900 --> 00:45:56,000 the flood would come, who was the preacher of righteousness 666 00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,400 Before the Flood. No, all right. 667 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:04,100 Peter tells us in second Peter, chapter 2, that that Noah was a 668 00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:07,400 preacher of righteousness. He preached for 120 years but 669 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,500 everybody dies except no one is family. 670 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:18,900 He has three sons Shem, ham and japheth and the Blessed sun is 671 00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:22,300 Shem. The blessing will come through 672 00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:28,100 the line of Shem. Shems name means the name. 673 00:46:29,900 --> 00:46:33,000 The blessing comes to the line of the name. 674 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:41,200 Abraham is a descendant of Shem. Why? 675 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:45,700 Because in Genesis chapter 12, just 11 tells us that Abraham is 676 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:50,700 this tentative of Shem but it's just as if the 12 The blessing 677 00:46:50,700 --> 00:46:54,400 is given Abraham that in you in your seed? 678 00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:58,300 All the nations of the world will be blessed, why? 679 00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:01,600 Because the blessing comes to the line of the name. 680 00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:06,900 The line of Shem, not japheth not ham, but Shen that's how God 681 00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:11,400 designed it. Abraham's a descendant of Shem. 682 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:17,900 Abraham's given the promise from God about how he will make his 683 00:47:17,900 --> 00:47:20,600 name. Great not just Abraham's name 684 00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:24,200 but the name of the Messiah that comes to the line of the name 685 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,800 for know, that the name of Jesus every knee will bow. 686 00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:30,700 Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the 687 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:34,600 glory of God the father, right? We know Philippians 2 tells us 688 00:47:34,700 --> 00:47:37,700 that every knee will bow and confess. 689 00:47:37,700 --> 00:47:40,900 Christ is Lord glaciers three, six and nine talks about the 690 00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:43,300 blessing that God gave to Abraham. 691 00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:45,300 Why? Because Abraham is in the line 692 00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:57,000 of the blessing of the name. So, Job. who was a contemporary 693 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:03,400 of Abraham, but at the learn all this Through Abraham his son, 694 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:08,300 Isaac, his son, Jacob. It will be passed down to him. 695 00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:11,900 So he could actually say I know that my redeemer lives and I 696 00:48:11,900 --> 00:48:15,700 know that one day, one day in the latter days at the very end, 697 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:21,800 he will stand upon the Earth. He knows that Nina Adam and Eve 698 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:29,900 able Noah Shem in the list, goes on and on and all this being 699 00:48:29,900 --> 00:48:33,700 passed down verbally By Word of Mouth. 700 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:35,900 Does he know everything? No. 701 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,700 Does he even know what he's saying to all the degree in 702 00:48:39,700 --> 00:48:42,600 which it's meant to be? Probably not. 703 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,100 But he does know you as the Redeemer, he is a Kinsman. 704 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,700 It's called a go l. And Advocate a champion. 705 00:48:53,100 --> 00:48:57,300 He knows that the Redeemer Lives and that one day, he will stand 706 00:48:57,300 --> 00:49:00,600 upon the Earth. He will rule and reign. 707 00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,500 They says this. He says. 708 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:15,200 Even after my skin is destroyed yet from my flesh, I shall see. 709 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:23,400 God. That expresses his in dispute 710 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,700 ability. It's indisputable. 711 00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:30,900 I know that when I'm dead. Guess who I'm going to see? 712 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:36,100 I'm going to see my redeemer. I'm going to see my God. 713 00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,300 I'm going to see him face to face. 714 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:47,100 Over in, in psalm. Sawmill 11. 715 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,100 No, I'm sorry. Yes I'm 11. 716 00:49:51,100 --> 00:49:54,500 Verse number 7. It says these words for the Lord 717 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:56,700 is righteous. He loves righteousness. 718 00:49:56,900 --> 00:50:04,000 The upright will behold His face and that was written long after 719 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,700 job, job chapter 17 verse number 15. 720 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,400 And as for me, I should behold your face and righteousness. 721 00:50:11,700 --> 00:50:13,700 I will be satisfied with your likeness. 722 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:18,900 When I awake, there is something than jobs mind, that was 723 00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:24,600 absolutely indisputable. When my flesh is gone when I 724 00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:28,200 have died. I know one thing absent from the 725 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:29,800 body. I'm going to see his face. 726 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,900 Ace present with the Lord. Abraham had I mean Joe had this 727 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:40,200 tremendous faith in this God that was indisputable because he 728 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:44,900 knew his God was invincible. He understood the identity of 729 00:50:44,908 --> 00:50:48,400 his Redeemer which made him to be so intense with his passion 730 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,300 and conviction that he could speak with Assurance. 731 00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:58,400 I know that my redeemer lives In the latter days, he will stand 732 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:03,300 upon the earth when I'm dead. I'm going to see his face. 733 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,900 This is his hope. There's nobody else. 734 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,000 There's nothing else to Hope in. There's no one else to trust in 735 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,400 everybody else is gone. You already read earlier in job, 736 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:17,300 jet 19, his friends are gone, his family's gone, his wife 737 00:51:17,300 --> 00:51:20,000 loves his breath. So she will be speaking to him. 738 00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:24,500 So he has no friends. He has no family, is nothing is 739 00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:27,500 no servants, no one obeys him, no one listens to him, even the 740 00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:30,200 kids despise them. He's got no one but he has a 741 00:51:30,207 --> 00:51:34,400 redeemer lives. My Redeemer in the midst of your 742 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:35,700 loneliness. In the midst of your pain. 743 00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:38,600 You have a redeemer. You have an advocate, you have a 744 00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,500 champion. You have a warrior, he's got 745 00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:45,000 himself. Who lives and Reigns. 746 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,800 He's not a dead. God, he's a, he's a living God. 747 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,400 Who knows everything about you. And job says this. 748 00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,300 Verse 27. Who am I? 749 00:51:57,300 --> 00:52:01,500 Myself Shall Behold who my eyes will see? 750 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:07,100 And not another My heart faints. Within Me. 751 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:14,300 A statement that expresses not just his intensity, not just his 752 00:52:14,300 --> 00:52:18,300 intimacy, not just as identity, not just as immortality. 753 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:23,200 His invincibility is in dispute ability, but his individuality 754 00:52:24,500 --> 00:52:31,900 When I die, I myself. Am going to see him. job knows 755 00:52:31,900 --> 00:52:35,100 more about heaven than, you know, We'll see when we die. 756 00:52:35,100 --> 00:52:36,400 We think we're going to see our friends. 757 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,600 Joe Gibson. I can see my family. 758 00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:44,700 Don't see my kids again, so that's not on his mind. 759 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,700 Why? He's an upright God-fearing 760 00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:49,300 righteous, man. That's why all he cares about 761 00:52:49,300 --> 00:52:51,400 seen him. God. 762 00:52:52,500 --> 00:52:55,900 Thought matters. See, he knows what heaven is 763 00:52:55,900 --> 00:52:57,700 going to be like, I'm going to see his face. 764 00:52:57,700 --> 00:53:00,100 I'm going to see my redeemer. I'm going to see my God, he 765 00:53:00,100 --> 00:53:02,600 lives and because he lives and will stand upon the Earth. 766 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,100 I'm going to see him when I'm dead. 767 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:11,500 Jim knows that. In this is Job's motive for 768 00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:15,400 living through all this pain and isolation when no one else cares 769 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:21,200 about his life, his Redeemer. He's intense about that. 770 00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:24,300 He's intimate with that Redeemer. 771 00:53:24,300 --> 00:53:27,400 He's mine. I know who he is. 772 00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:34,100 I don't question that. He's absolutely invincible. 773 00:53:35,500 --> 00:53:37,200 Because he lives and reigns forever. 774 00:53:38,900 --> 00:53:41,600 And one thing that's indisputable is that one day, 775 00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:46,800 I'm going to see his face. When I see his face, there's 776 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:48,600 only one thing I'm concerned about. 777 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,400 And that's only seeing his face and no one else's. 778 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,600 This, which gets them through his tough time. 779 00:53:59,100 --> 00:54:01,900 This is his second great confession. 780 00:54:03,300 --> 00:54:09,700 Which, as I said earlier. Unveils the ministry of God as a 781 00:54:09,707 --> 00:54:14,400 redeemer. And unleashes the message that 782 00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,900 God wants to be known by. These Redeemer, who lives. 783 00:54:20,900 --> 00:54:24,000 And lives. In such a way. 784 00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:31,500 That he will never be defeated. The resurrection is that witch? 785 00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:38,700 Predicates are salvation. If I confess with your mouth, 786 00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:41,400 Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart, that God raised him from 787 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,800 the dead. You'll be saved. 788 00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:47,900 Joe believe in the resurrection of Jesus was Redeemer. 789 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,100 Somehow his Redeemer would come somehow, his Redeemer. 790 00:54:52,100 --> 00:54:55,000 Would live somehow his Redeemer would die, somehow redeem? 791 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,000 We'll come again. Does he understand all this 792 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:57,300 stuff? Know, they have a book on 793 00:54:57,300 --> 00:55:02,100 eschatology know. But he's pre mail. 794 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,300 First, Premier guy in the Bible book a joke. 795 00:55:07,500 --> 00:55:10,900 That's why I'm free Mill job is by the way. 796 00:55:10,900 --> 00:55:13,400 So is Jesus. So we're in good company Joven. 797 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:19,700 Jesus. On top of that, in the truck, 798 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,100 the great chapter in the resurrection of First 799 00:55:21,100 --> 00:55:28,900 Corinthians 15:58 it. Close with these words. that be 800 00:55:28,900 --> 00:55:32,100 steadfast immovable, always abounding in the work of the 801 00:55:32,100 --> 00:55:37,100 Lord knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord, What is 802 00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:40,400 it that keeps you in service? The resurrection. 803 00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:44,700 The fact, I know that when I die, I'm going to see him face 804 00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:47,500 to face. That this life is not all there 805 00:55:47,500 --> 00:55:50,400 is this life's that drop in the bucket compared to Eternity. 806 00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,700 Job know that. Jobe gnosis. 807 00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,800 So even though he goes through all this pain, all the suffering 808 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,500 and yes, he talks about God's Afflicted, me and my friends 809 00:56:02,500 --> 00:56:04,400 have abandoned me and this is the way things are. 810 00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:06,500 And I'm consumed with my suffering because it's 811 00:56:06,500 --> 00:56:10,700 absolutely envelops me so much so that I'm completely sitting 812 00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:13,800 here among my friends, but they're miles away and no one 813 00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,200 else was here. I am completely isolated. 814 00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:22,100 I have no one Best part of all that, I do know this. 815 00:56:23,700 --> 00:56:26,700 My Redeemer Lives. And one day, I'm going to see 816 00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:30,000 his face. How about you? 817 00:56:31,700 --> 00:56:37,000 Do you know about your Redeemer? Your next of kin your Kinsmen. 818 00:56:38,300 --> 00:56:41,100 He became our Kinsman when he came to Earth in the Incarnation 819 00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:44,700 of took on flesh and blood. So, you could die for your sins 820 00:56:44,700 --> 00:56:47,300 in mind. How about you do you believe in 821 00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:48,600 that? You understand that? 822 00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,700 Do you know that if you do your service, never Lacks. 823 00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:58,600 It doesn't, you can be steadfast, you can be immovable, 824 00:56:58,700 --> 00:57:03,100 always abounding in the work of the Lord job, the best, he could 825 00:57:03,100 --> 00:57:04,200 would abound in the work of the Lord. 826 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,800 Even though he didn't know the verse, he knew the principle 827 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,200 behind the verse The resurrection power of His 828 00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:14,300 Redeemer. Is what got him through each day 829 00:57:14,900 --> 00:57:18,400 every day. Time After Time After Time, miss 830 00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,100 all the assault and all the abuse he would receive. 831 00:57:23,100 --> 00:57:26,000 Didn't quit. Never lost, hope. 832 00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:30,900 He believed his Redeemer. I pray. 833 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,800 Father, thank you for today. You are a great God. 834 00:57:36,300 --> 00:57:42,100 So much we could have said. That would speak to the truth of 835 00:57:42,107 --> 00:57:45,400 these verses. Time does not permit this. 836 00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:47,800 On this night. But we are grateful. 837 00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:51,600 Lord, for the things, you've taught job How will he listen to 838 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:55,300 how we learned over the years? How do we try to pass those 839 00:57:55,300 --> 00:57:59,800 things down to his children and live an exemplary life, a 840 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,400 blameless life and upright, life, a God-fearing life. 841 00:58:03,900 --> 00:58:05,800 It's no wonder he was the greatest man in the east. 842 00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:09,000 When your words, the greatest man on the planet. 843 00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,200 He believed in you. His faith. 844 00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:17,100 Never wavered. Was he hurt? 845 00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:20,400 Yes. Was he bewilder times 846 00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:25,100 absolutely? Was he filled with mystery as to 847 00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:26,200 why? Yep. 848 00:58:26,700 --> 00:58:31,100 All that and much more. And yet, there's something he 849 00:58:31,100 --> 00:58:35,900 knew that we need to know. And what he knew. 850 00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:41,200 And we know is that Lord, you are Our Redeemer. 851 00:58:42,900 --> 00:58:45,300 The Lord one day, we're going to see your face. 852 00:58:46,700 --> 00:58:50,300 What a glorious day that will be the pass from this life. 853 00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:57,200 Into your presence. Open her eyes and behold the 854 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,100 greatness and Splendor of your glory. 855 00:59:02,100 --> 00:59:05,500 That will be a great day. Help us to live in the light of 856 00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:07,600 that in Jesus name. Amen.