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Wednesday Evening Message: Job Answers the Assault and Abuse · CCC West Covina

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Job chapter 19. Job chapter 19.
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And as you are turning, I want to read to you.
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Something that was Anonymous, but is apropos for our time
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together in the book of jokes night.
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It's called the Builder. I saw them tearing it, building
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down a group of men in a busy town with a hefty.
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Blow in a Lusty. Yell, they swung with zest and a
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side wall fell asked the foreman are.
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These skilled are these men skilled.
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The kind, you would hire if you had to build, he looked at me
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and laughed. No indeed.
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Unskilled. Labor is all I need.
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Why they can wreck in a day or two when it has taken Builders
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years to do? I asked myself, as I went my
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way, which of these roles have, I tried to play, it might
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Builder with Rule and square measuring and constructing with
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skill and care. Or am I a wrecker who walks the
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town content with the business of tearing down?
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Jobs friends were content with the business of tearing down.
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They were a wrecking crew. They were not a building crew.
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And they were actually very good at what they did.
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I'm not so sure. They they said around thinking
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about how to wreck job's life, I'm not sure that was their
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intention. But in doing so in their
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conversation they were assaulting him and abusing him.
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And so when you think about the Book of Job, you're always drawn
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to things that our Lord has said in the New Testament when James
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says he's worked in James 126. If anyone thinks himself to be
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religious and yet does not Bridle his tongue.
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But to seize his own heart. This man's religion.
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Is worthless. James is a great book, James
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about. You say, you have faith.
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Show me. Demonstrated.
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And so he says, very clearly one of the evidences of True
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Religion. Genuine faith.
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Is the ability to Bridal one's tongue. because if you can't
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control your tongue and you say, you love the Lord, then your
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religion is is worthless. He goes on in the third chapter,
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in expounds on this. He says 4 verse 2 of chapter 3.
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For we, all stumble in many ways.
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If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect
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man or a mature, man able to Bridle the whole body as well.
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Now, if we put the bits into horse's mouth, so that they will
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obey us, we direct their entire bodies.
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Well, look at the ships also though, they are so great, and
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are driven by strong. Winds are still directed by a
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very small Rudder, whoever the inclination of the pilot
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desires. So also the tongue is a small
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part of the body and yet it boasts of great things.
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See how great a forced is set aflame by such.
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Such a small fire. And the tongue is a fire, the
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very world of iniquity. The tongue is said, among our
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members as that, which two files the entire body and sets on fire
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the course of our life and it's set on fire by hell for every
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species of beasts and birds of reptiles and creatures of the
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sea is teamed and has been Tamed.
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But human race that no one contained the tongue.
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It is a Restless evil and full of deadly poison with it.
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We bless our Lord and our father and with it, we curse men who
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have been made in the likeness of God from the same mouth.
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Come both blessing and cursing my brethren.
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These things ought not to be this way.
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There's a fountain send out for the same opening both fresh and
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bitter. Water going to fit tree my
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brethren produce olives or a Vine Bruce fakes, nor can salt
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water. Produce fresh.
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The tongue is that which defiles?
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the tongue is that which destroys the tongue is that
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which derails people's lives? Jobs friends were in the process
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of trying to derail job. Trying to get him to to think
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differently about himself, then what really was in his heart.
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It was true about him. It's interesting that the Bible
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says that no man can tame the tongue but you can take that
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beast of the sea. Think about that.
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My kids were younger, we used to take a yearly journey to
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SeaWorld that was way back. When when people could actually
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ride Shamu in the water, they can't do that anymore.
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But back in those days, you could And think about it, you
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could team Shamu so much so that you could ride on his back.
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You can go down into the water, have them throw you up out of
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the water and then pick you up. Again, this is amazing scene to
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be able to watch Shamu there at SeaWorld and realize that they
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were able to train this huge whale to do things.
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That are virtually incredible. But the tongue just a really
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small sliver of a thing. That cannot be tamed.
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It's like a fire that sets, a blaze of forest.
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It could be so destructive. So the tongue is that which
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defiles and the tongue is that which defies ever being Tamed
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But the tongue also displays the reality.
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Of our intermediate. Who we really are.
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And so, as you think about what James says, about the tongue, in
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the things that Solomon has even said in the Book of Proverbs
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chapter 12, verse number 18, there is one who speaks for
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rashly like the thrust of a sword.
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But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
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That tells you that the men surrounding job were not wise
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men because they weren't bringing healing to the life of
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Job. Someone would say in chapter 15
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verse number, for a soothing tongue is a tree of life, but
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perversion in it crushes. The spirit.
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Instead of being like a tree of life, with words that bring
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healing to job. Those words were crushing, job,
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vexing him smashing his life on top of all the other problems
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that he faced. David, very similarly said in,
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in psalm 57 verse number for these words, my soul is among
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Lions. I must lie among those who
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breathe forth, fire even the sons of men whose teeth are
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Spears and arrows and their tongue, a sharp sword.
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David would know about how people's words would would crush
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him. In Psalm 64 verse.
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Number one hear my voice. Oh God, in my complaint,
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preserve my life from The Dread of the enemy hiding me from the
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secret Council of evildoers, from the tumult of those who do
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iniquity, have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
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They ain't bitter speech as their Arrow to shoot from
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concealment at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and
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they do not fear David's life. He faced much criticism Much
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verbal abuse. Job faced even greater abuse
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because he faced it every single day from the people that were
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his friends, David had lots of enemies. and jobs friends were
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not as enemies per se, but they acted as if they were his
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enemies. And so, as bildad last week,
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assaulted job and abused job job, now is going to respond in
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the way. He responds is quite remarkable
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and the way he responds is the way that we can learn how to
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respond because what you're going to learn about jobs
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response is what helps him, keep the proper perspective and the
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perspective that job has on his God.
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Is that which blows the mind of the believer today?
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And you're going to see that. We're going to begin.
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By looking at how job is, is crushed by their speeches.
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How he is consumed Point number two with his suffering, but how
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job is confident in his savior? Three very simple points, but
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three points that will bring home to us the reality of what
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we need to know. When it comes to handling a
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perspective that keeps us energized in the service of the
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king, So we'll begin job, 19 verse number 1, then job
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responded. How long will you torment me and
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crush me with words they were questioned.
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They were using their words to, to corrupt his life and to ride
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his life. These ten times you have
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insulted me, you are not ashamed to wrong.
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Neither, there's no shame in your words.
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You don't even blush when you speak.
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These ten times is not a literal 10 times.
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How do we know that we know that?
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Because 10 is a number of phonus?
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We know that when we read Genesis 31 verse number 7, where
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Jacob spoke of Laban changes in wages ten times over numbers
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14:22, God said of Israel that they tend to him ten times in
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the wilderness in Daniel 11 verse number 20, Daniel and his
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friends found to be 10 times better than the wise man in
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Babylon. It wasn't that they were
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actually 10 times better or that.
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There are actually 10 times at Laban increases wages.
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It's a number of fullness you have 10 fingers, right?
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10 fingers on your hands, your hands are full.
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You have 10 toes on your feet. So 10 is the number of fullness.
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And so when you speak of that, you understand that Israel fully
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tempted, God in the wilderness during their time when they left
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Egypt and they wandered, they continue.
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To tempt. God, it was a continual fullness
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of their tempting and coming against God.
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Job says, you have insulted me these ten times.
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In other words, he has been filled with their Temptations.
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He's been filled with their insults.
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It's a never-ending continually continual insult against his
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life, This is the first number for, even if I have truly aired,
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my error, lodges with me. The other words, if I have
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intent, unintentionally sinned, and maybe I have and none of us
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knows, actually all of our sins. But he says, if I have erred, if
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I have sinned unintentionally, God knows this.
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And God will judge me for it because God knows everything.
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He says, in verse number 5, indeed you vote yourselves
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against me, improve my disgrace to me.
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In other words, you're set on one purpose, that's the ACT
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arrogantly against me says down in verse number 21.
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Pity Me, Pity Me. Oh, you my friends, you show, no
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compassion verse 22. Why do you persecute me as as
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God does? And then he says in verse number
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28, if you say how shall we persecute him and what pretext
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for a case against him, can we find Verse 29, then be afraid of
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the sword for yourselves for wrath.
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Brings the punishment of the sword so that you may know.
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There is Judgment job knows that by your words.
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You shall be judged by your words.
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You shall be condemned. Those were the words of Christ.
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He knows that that their words are going to bring forth
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judgment upon them. So be careful how you say what
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you're saying. Be careful what you say and when
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you say it, So he expresses how they have vexed him, how they
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have crushed him with their speeches, but then he begins to
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say these words as he is consumed with his suffering, he
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makes two main points, one, he's afflicted by God, excuse me, a
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number two, he's abandoned by his friends.
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Look at verse number 6, know, then that God has wronged me and
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it's closed his net. Around me, he's trapped me now.
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It's not a job. He's been running from God and
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got trapped him and threw a net around him and ensnared him.
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That's not the point because he's not running from guys like
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Jonah, who who ran from God, because he didn't want to go to
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the ninevites and he ran the opposite direction and God has
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stared him in the belly of a fish.
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That's not the case. Joe's not running from God at
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all. And yet, he understands that God
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in his sovereignty is somehow behind all this.
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He just doesn't understand it. He can't grasp it, he's looking
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for answers. Look down at verse number. 21
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for the hand of God has struck me.
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Think about that statement. The hand of God has struck me
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now. Is it true?
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Yes. Is it false?
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Yes. Okay, both are true.
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How do we know go back to chapter 1, go back to chapter 1.
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in chapter 1, Satan says These words put forth your hand now
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and touch all that he has verse 11, he will surely curse you to
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your face. Then the Lord said to Satan
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behold all that he has is in your hand.
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Only do not put forth your hand on him.
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So Satan says if you touch him with your hand and God says no,
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you put forth your hand and your butt, your hand cannot kill him.
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And then over in chapter 2, Chapter 2.
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Job says our God says again. Our or Satan says answers.
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The Lord and said, verse number 4 skin for skin.
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Yes. All that a man has he will give
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for his life. However put forth your hand now
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and touch his bone and his flesh, he will curse you to your
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face. So the Lord said to Satan
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behold, he is in your hand only spare his life.
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So is it God's hand is touching him?
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Or is it Satan's hand that's touching him?
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See what job is doing? Is recognizing that God is
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behind everything. All things Romans 11 must pass
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through him back to him again because he oversees everything
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he's control of everything. Yeah, he didn't have chapter one
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to look at to understand what's happening.
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That Satan is actually involved in the flicking his life and
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taking these things from him but God is allowing Satan to do
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that. So God said to Satan, you put
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forth your hand, you want to touch my servant touch him, but
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you can't do this, you can't, you can touch it whatever he
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has, but you can't touch him, then you can touch him, but you
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can't kill him. So God gave restraints to Satan.
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So in job says, it's God who has struck me.
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He is speaking of God, in a sovereign control, over
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everything. Somehow God is behind this.
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He just can't articulate it. You just can't explain it and he
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certainly doesn't understand why or how a lot like you and me.
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We go through times and we just don't get it.
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We don't understand why the conflict.
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Why the conflict last so long? Why the hardship is?
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As severe as it is. When will it ever let up?
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We do. Oh no.
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And Joe goes on a since this. Look at this, he says, behold I
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cry violence but I get no answer.
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I shout for help but there is no justice in other words who's
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going to vindicate me, I cried to the Lord.
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But this is where God wants them.
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You see, we forget this. That God wants us to come to
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him, and God wants us to cry out to him and Luke 11.
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And Luke 18, talk about persistence and prayer and
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patience and prayer and how how important it is for us to
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persistently. But beseech, the throne of
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grace. That's why God says, keep on
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asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, don't stop.
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Because God wants us to continually come to him and so
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God allows things to go as long as they do.
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Why? Well, Luke 18 tells us.
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Will he find this kind of faith upon the Earth?
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What kind the kind of Faith that's persistent and patient?
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That does not quit beseeching God and asking God to step in
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and do what he's going to do. So Joe says, in verse number 8,
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he has walled up my way so that I cannot pass.
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He has put Darkness on my path. He has, he has no way of knowing
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where he's going or what's going to happen next.
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Because everything in front of, in front of him is dark, there
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was a time. When everything in front of him
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was bright is his kids were happy.
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Yeah, he was healthy. Things are going along really
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well. He could see the future, with
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his kids, his grandkids great-grandkids, how things were
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going to grow. He could see the future, but not
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now, it's completely dark. It's completely Bleak because
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everything's been rolled in around him, he cannot see, but
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God has him right? Where he wants him.
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They may learn to trust The true and living God.
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It says verse 9. He is stripped my honor from me
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and remove the crown from my head.
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He breaks me down on every side and I am I'm gone he is uprooted
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My Hope like a tree. He is also kindled his anger
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against me and considered me as his enemy.
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His troops come together and build up their way against me
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and Camp around my tent is question, simply is I don't
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understand. I don't get it.
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I am hemmed in. I am caught.
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I am trapped. I am walled in.
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Everything around me is completely dark.
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I cannot see where to go. I don't know what to do.
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We can understand that. We get to those places.
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With a lot less suffering, the jobs going through.
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And he's just crying out to God because he feels like he's been
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attacked by God. And then abandoned by his
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friends, he's consumed with the stuff.
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We look at this verse 13. He has removed my brother's far
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from me and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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Hey, listen, next time. You think you're lonely.
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Read this passage of scripture. All right, it'll open your eyes.
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Look what. He says, my relatives have
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failed in my intimate friends have forgotten me.
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Those who live in my house and my mates.
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Consider me a stranger. I'm a foreigner in there.
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I called to my servant and he does not answer.
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I have to implore him with my mouth.
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My breath is offencive to my wife.
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That could be applied to most of you men and I am loathsome to my
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own brother's. Even young children despise me
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and rise up and they speak against me all my associates, a
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poor me and those I love have turned against me on top of all
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that verse 20, my bone clings to my skin and my flesh and I have
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escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
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Not only have my friends, abandoned me, not only have my
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family, abandoned me not only have my servants abandon me.
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Me and those who are intimate friends with me but also
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children who are my acquaintances, abandoned me in
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even my own health has abandoned me.
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Talk about lonely. Talk about isolation, talk about
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having, no one that's job. The next time you think you have
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nobody cares and no one's interested in what's going on
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your life and your family. Abandons you and your friends
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have been in. You had no more friends, just
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read job. Because Joe had nobody and the
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three guys that ride around them, but they were as far from
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him as the East is from the West.
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And so after he expresses how consumed he is the suffering,
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now you're going to see his confidence in his savior.
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And what he says is absolutely astonishing.
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Verse 23. Oh, that my words were written.
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Oh, that they were inscribed in a book.
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That was an iron stylus and Lead, they were engraved in the
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rock. Forever.
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I just wish that someone would write this down little, do you
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know, it would be written to write.
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If someone could just record my suffering, if someone could just
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record my statements, oh, that it would always be there for
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someone to read to understand. In no idea.
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That they were going to be written down.
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None. But they were.
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In the living and abiding word of God. those who were there at
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the time, those who Who saw him they've all died and gone off
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the scene. The exact location of this.
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We have no idea. but the words that were spoken, To him and the
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words that he spoke to others. They have been recorded.
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And God did that out of his grace and mercy and kindness.
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So one day you would pick up the book begin to read the book and
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to realize that what you're going through is not nearly as
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intense as what job is going through.
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But more than that, he wants you to have a confident perspective
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in God. Because Joe did. so, listen to
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what job says, Verse 25, as for me, I know that my redeemer
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lives at the last. He will take his stand on the
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earth. Even after my skin is destroyed
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yet from my flesh. I shall see God whom I myself
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Shall Behold. And who my eyes will see, and
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not another my heart faints Within Me.
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What a statement? Job has already made one great
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confession. This is his second great
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confession. His first one is when chapter 9
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verse number 10, where he says, who does great things and
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fathomable and wondrous Works without number.
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And we told you at that time in chapter 9 verse number 10 that
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though that that verse unlocks for job the mystery of God and
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unfolds for job, the meaning of God This one in job, 19, unveils
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to us the ministry of God and unleashes us unleashes for us,
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the message. From God, this is a Monumental
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statement that expresses everything we need to know about
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God, to get us through whatever trial were on or in.
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So I'm going to give you seven words, this was going to be my
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Resurrection Sunday sermon. But I decided to give it to you
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early and save it for another year because I've already
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written this year's Resurrection Sunday sermon.
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Okay, but this one day will come back again but with greater
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detail, but what job says is Monumental because number one
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that expresses it expresses Jobs intensity. expresses his
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intensity free says, for I know, let's say, I guess, I think if
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my memory serves me correct, you know, I know.
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That my redeemer lives. There is no question about that.
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This is a statement of confidence.
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It's a statement of intensity. Why?
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Because there's passion behind it then say, well, you know, I
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think I know My Savior Lives. No, I know my redeemer lives,
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there's intensity behind the statement.
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There's passion behind the statement, their strength,
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behind the statement. There's no question behind it.
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There's no wondering behind it. There's no thinking behind it.
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It's I know that my redeemer lives.
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The question is, do you because it's so important.
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Which begs the question? How does he know?
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How can he possibly know that his Redeemer Lives?
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How would job ever understand this?
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Is that God somehow is going to unveil to him?
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Something that he has not unveiled to his three friends.
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Maybe. What is it about job?
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That he knows something that his friends do not know.
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That will allow him to speak with great intensity.
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Great Passion. Great certainty great
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confidence. I know that my redeemer lives,
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what a statement. Faith is always rooted.
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In what God has already said. so if it's a statement of
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conviction, which is a statement of assurance, which it is, I
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know that my redeemer lives, he has to know something about his
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Redeemer. He's have, he would have had to
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have heard something from someone about his Redeemer, he
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couldn't go down to the library, pick up some books, and read
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some theology treaty on the God and His Redemptive purposes.
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There was no book of the Bible to read Because jobs the first
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book written in the Bible. So there's nothing for him to
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read about the Bible. But he knows.
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He knows more than we know about Our Redeemer.
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And he doesn't have the 66 books that you have in your hand.
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How did he know? Stay with me.
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This is so incredibly good. I told you early on that job was
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a contemporary of Abraham. He lived After the flood, okay?
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Little patriarchal times that's why he was performing Priestly
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duties with his children, in chapter 1, offering of
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sacrifices for them right on their behalf.
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So is before the levitical priesthood, so is during the
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patriarchal time so he lived during the time of Abraham,
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Isaac, and Jacob. And so what happened with
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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had to have been passed down to them as
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well. So we know that what was passed
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down from the very beginning was a promise.
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In Genesis chapter 3 verse number feet, 15 of a seed of a
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woman that would crush the Serpent's head.
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This would be all passed down verbally for Generation to
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generation. And as it was being passed down,
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we know that able because we studied Hebrews chapter 11 and
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if you're with his way back in the year 2000, you were with us.
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When we studied the Book of Genesis And you know, that Abel
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offered an acceptable sacrifice in the God.
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How did Abel know how to do that?
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Because his parents taught him how to offer an acceptable
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sacrifice. And Cain sacrifice was not
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accepted by God. Because Abel's was a blood
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sacrifice. In Cannes was not a blood
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sacrifice, see new about that. They knew about atonement for
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sin and forgiveness of sins. But Abraham if he was
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contemporary of Abraham, he would know.
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He would know something about Mount Moriah he would know
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something about substitutionary atonement.
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He would know something about a sacrifice that he went up on
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Mount Moriah to offer in this would be being passed down from
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generation to generation because Abraham, the father of the
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Jewish, faith would be one, who would teach others concerning
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substitutionary sacrifice. Now, the angel of the Lord would
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stop him from killing his own son.
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Sun and we provide a substitute on the mountain called for seen
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by God. All that would be given to pass
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down. So he would know something about
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atonement, something about forgiveness, because he would
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act as he preached for his children, in chapter, 1 to offer
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sacrifices for them. So he learned well, he listened,
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well, he obtained the knowledge. Well, We knew he was God fearing
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we know he's up, right? And we know that Abraham was
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justified by faith. He was declared righteous.
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Right. Abraham was Book of Genesis 15
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chapter. So, if Abraham was declared
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righteous and Joe was an upright, man, that his
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righteousness was given to him by God as Abraham's was, he knew
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about Grace because Noah was graced by God, Genesis chapter
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6, he survived the flood. And Noah's Three Sons Shem, ham
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and japheth would pass down the fact that they have been graced
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by God. So you're certain of the grace
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of God. So he says, I know.
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That My Redeemer Lives. It's an expression of intensity,
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but note, this is an expression of intimacy.
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I know that my redeemer lives, you don't see.
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I know that your Redeemer Lives he didn't say, I know there is a
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redeemer he didn't say, I think there's a redeemer He says, I
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know that my redeemer lives. In other words, it's an
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expression of intimacy on job sparked, not just intensity, but
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intimacy, he's my redeemer. How do you know that?
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How do you know that God was his personal?
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Redeemer. He is mine.
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All of his friends had abandoned him.
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All at turned. Against him.
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Paul would say I know whom I have believed and am persuaded.
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A statement just like Joe would make.
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I know that my redeemer lives. I have no question about that.
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This is the only thing that gets him through his difficult times.
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He has a redeemer. It's his own personal Redeemer.
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There's ownership there. And my redeemer.
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Lives. So important, but not this.
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These verses no Express. His intensity.
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His intimacy. But his identity.
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The identity of the Redeemer. And the Very fact.
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That he is, who he is because of his Redeemer.
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In other words, the word Redeemer go L Kinsman.
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I know that my redeemer my Kinsmen my Champion.
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My Advocate lives. So, he knows he has an advocate.
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And so he talks about a Kinsman a redeemer.
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Now, listen carefully job knows. The plans and purposes of God.
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More so than most people know. Job knows about the Redemptive
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purposes of God way before the book of Exodus during the time
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of Moses. When God tells Moses, I'm coming
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down and Moses says, who shall I say sent me?
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You tell him. I am that.
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I am sent you. Which was next is 3, his
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memorial name, right? I'm going to be remembered from
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generation to generation based on my name, my Memorial name
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because I am a rescuer, I am a deliverer, I am a savior, I am a
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redeemer. So job knew more about God or
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knew more about God in an earlier time than Moses ever
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knew about God. because you see, Job understood the purposes of
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God. The redeeming purposes of God
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that he would be a Kinsman. He would be a next of kin who
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would, who would fight his battles for him and be his
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ultimate Champion. His ultimate deliver his
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ultimate rescuer way before God ever gave his memorial name.
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Those three Hebrew confidence that make up the tetragrammaton
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that talk to us about God being llave.
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That's that's his name, that's his memorial name.
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But way before that, Joe begins to understand the identity of
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his God, he is the Redeemer. He's a deliverer.
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He's a savior. She says, I know that my
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redeemer. Lives.
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I know that my redeemer lives, this statement, expresses not
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just his intensity, his intimacy, his identity.
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But it expresses the immortality of his Redeemer.
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He didn't say I know that my redeemer will live.
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I know that my redeemer has lived.
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He said, no, I know that my redeemer lives.
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He is a living Redeemer. He's not a dead Redeemer.
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remember in Revelation chapter 11, when the Lord God comes
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before, John on the Isle of Patmos and says, I In the first
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and the last, the Alpha, and the Omega, the living one.
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Behold. I was dead but I Am Alive
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forevermore. speaking of the immortality of the son of God,
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Peter would say Matthew, 16 verse number 16, Thou Art the
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Christ, the son of the Living God in Psalm 42, verse number 2.
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It says my soul thirsts for the Living.
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God Psalm 84 verse number to my heart and my flesh Sing For Joy
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to the Living God, in John 14:19 Christ had because I live, you
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too, shall live. Other words, job knew that his
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Redeemer Lives Job, believe that a resurrection.
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How could Joe believe in a resurrection?
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When he never seen a resurrection?
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He was 11. Abraham.
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Abraham believed God took his cell up on Mount Moriah and he
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was 11 tells us that he believed that God would raise him from
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the dead. Abraham believed that a
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resurrection if I have to kill the promised son, my only
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begotten son and this is the promise of the seed.
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That's going to come. Then God must have a plan to
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raise him from the dead and the resurrection of the Messiah was
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always the plan. So, how does job know that his
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Redeemer Lives unless he believes in a resurrection of
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his Redeemer? Speaking of the immortality of
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his Redeemer. Now listen. we're just getting
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started because now, I'm going to absolutely blow your mind.
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Listen to this. He says this.
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As for me, I know that my redeemer lives.
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And at the last, he will take a stand on.
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The Earth. This expresses, the
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invincibility. Of his Redeemer.
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I know. That not only does my redeemer
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live. But at the last at the end, he
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will stand on the earth. That's not the Incarnation.
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That is the second coming of the Messiah.
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And you can say, well how do you know that that's very easy to
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understand when you think about it?
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The invincibility of the Messiah.
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Then the last days he will stand, let me show you what it
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says in the book of Zechariah. Zechariah 14, verse number four
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in that day. His feet the museum, see the
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Messiah will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of
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Jerusalem on the east. and the Mount of Olives which will be
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split in its middle from east to west by a very large Valley
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said, half of the mountain will move toward the North and the
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other half toward The South. Other words, when the Lord God
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returns at the end, he will eventually stand on the Mount of
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Olives and split the mount. There he will stand.
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Why? Every conqueror of Jerusalem,
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stood, on the Mount of Olives, raise their soar, to the heavens
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as the ultimate conqueror of the city.
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Sigh. I'll do the same because he's
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the ultimate Victor. He's Invincible.
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The Bible. Also says these words in the
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Book of Micah In the Book of Micah.
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The first chapter. It says in verses 2 to 4 these
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words hero people, all of you listen to Earth and all it
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contains and let the Lord God be witness against you.
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The Lord, from his holy Temple, for behold the Lord is coming
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forth from his place. He will come down and tread on
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the high places of the Earth, the mountains will melt under
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him in The Valleys will be split like Wax before the fire.
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Like water. Pour down a steep place.
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In other words God will stand upon the Earth Josie's I know
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that my redeemer liveth Lives. And at the last, he will take
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his stand on the earth. Listen to Book of Ezekiel
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Ezekiel chapter 43 Verse number. Five.
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In the spirit, lifted me up and brought me into the inner court
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and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
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Then I heard one speaking to me from the house while the man was
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standing beside me. He said to me, son of man, this
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is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my
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feet where I would dwell among the sons of Israel forever.
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In other words, The Souls of my feet will stand on this place on
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Mount Zion in the temple and I will rule over my people forever
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job knows that how does Joe know that?
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Did God some out? Reveal it to him in a dream?
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Nope, that's it about that. The guy can then speak to jump
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about this? No, this ain't her.
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How does job know that? Before the Flood, there was one
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profit. Just one.
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And that Prophet prophesied. Not about the first coming.
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But the second coming of the Messiah.
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He's recorded in Genesis chapter 5.
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The book of Jude tells us what He prophesied.
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It was also about these men that is apostates that Enoch in the
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Seventh Generation from Adam prophesied.
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So there's one Prophet Before the Flood.
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His name is Enoch. And the prophecy that he gave
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was not about the first coming, it was about the second coming.
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Let's see what he says. Behold the Lord came with many
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thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment upon all and to
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convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly Deeds which they
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have done in an ungodly way and of all the harsh things which
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ungodly Sinners have spoken against him.
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So why the Book of Genesis is not record the prophecy of
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judgment Jude to the inspiration of the spirit of God records for
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us to prophesy of Enochs judgment.
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And Enoch prophesied in such a way that Methuselah in the year
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that he dies, it shall happen. There will be judgment upon the
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Earth and there was judgment. There was a flood that came and
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there was judgment but it was a precursor to the ultimate
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judgment. That would come when Messiah
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comes back with all of his holy ones.
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That's recorded in Revelation 19.
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That's according to Matthew chapter 25, when our Lord
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returns again, the second time with all of his Saints, with all
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of his angels, with all of us, holy ones.
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To establish his kingdom on the earth.
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Listen job. Was the pre melilla analysts?
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Okay, he was premillennial before the term was ever
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existed. He believed the second coming of
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Messiah and he would Rule, and Reign on the earth.
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In the last days, his feet will be on this Earth.
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He will rule the invincibility of his Redeemer, his Redeemer
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Lives, he doesn't die. He lives.
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Not that he died. Yes, the Lord said.
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I am the living one behold. I was dead.
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But I'm Alive forevermore. Well, God can't die.
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God, the spirit. So God becomes, man.
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So man can die. He's God right?
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The perfect sinless. Sacrifice.
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And raises himself from the dead.
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In Joe begins to understand Resurrection.
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He begins understand the Incarnation.
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He begins to understand Redemption.
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He begins to understand the revelation of Messiah at the
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end. All this And this is what keeps
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him going from time to time. He has learned.
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All this has been passed down. Listen, very carefully so
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important why? Because Enoch would prophesy and
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the flood would come, who was the preacher of righteousness
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Before the Flood. No, all right.
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Peter tells us in second Peter, chapter 2, that that Noah was a
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preacher of righteousness. He preached for 120 years but
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everybody dies except no one is family.
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He has three sons Shem, ham and japheth and the Blessed sun is
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Shem. The blessing will come through
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the line of Shem. Shems name means the name.
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The blessing comes to the line of the name.
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Abraham is a descendant of Shem. Why?
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Because in Genesis chapter 12, just 11 tells us that Abraham is
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this tentative of Shem but it's just as if the 12 The blessing
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is given Abraham that in you in your seed?
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All the nations of the world will be blessed, why?
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Because the blessing comes to the line of the name.
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The line of Shem, not japheth not ham, but Shen that's how God
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designed it. Abraham's a descendant of Shem.
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Abraham's given the promise from God about how he will make his
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name. Great not just Abraham's name
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but the name of the Messiah that comes to the line of the name
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for know, that the name of Jesus every knee will bow.
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Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the
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glory of God the father, right? We know Philippians 2 tells us
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that every knee will bow and confess.
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Christ is Lord glaciers three, six and nine talks about the
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blessing that God gave to Abraham.
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Why? Because Abraham is in the line
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of the blessing of the name. So, Job. who was a contemporary
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of Abraham, but at the learn all this Through Abraham his son,
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Isaac, his son, Jacob. It will be passed down to him.
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So he could actually say I know that my redeemer lives and I
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know that one day, one day in the latter days at the very end,
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he will stand upon the Earth. He knows that Nina Adam and Eve
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able Noah Shem in the list, goes on and on and all this being
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passed down verbally By Word of Mouth.
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Does he know everything? No.
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Does he even know what he's saying to all the degree in
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which it's meant to be? Probably not.
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But he does know you as the Redeemer, he is a Kinsman.
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It's called a go l. And Advocate a champion.
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He knows that the Redeemer Lives and that one day, he will stand
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upon the Earth. He will rule and reign.
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They says this. He says.
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Even after my skin is destroyed yet from my flesh, I shall see.
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God. That expresses his in dispute
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ability. It's indisputable.
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I know that when I'm dead. Guess who I'm going to see?
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I'm going to see my redeemer. I'm going to see my God.
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I'm going to see him face to face.
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Over in, in psalm. Sawmill 11.
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No, I'm sorry. Yes I'm 11.
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Verse number 7. It says these words for the Lord
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is righteous. He loves righteousness.
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The upright will behold His face and that was written long after
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job, job chapter 17 verse number 15.
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And as for me, I should behold your face and righteousness.
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I will be satisfied with your likeness.
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When I awake, there is something than jobs mind, that was
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absolutely indisputable. When my flesh is gone when I
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have died. I know one thing absent from the
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body. I'm going to see his face.
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Ace present with the Lord. Abraham had I mean Joe had this
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tremendous faith in this God that was indisputable because he
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knew his God was invincible. He understood the identity of
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his Redeemer which made him to be so intense with his passion
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and conviction that he could speak with Assurance.
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I know that my redeemer lives In the latter days, he will stand
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upon the earth when I'm dead. I'm going to see his face.
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This is his hope. There's nobody else.
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There's nothing else to Hope in. There's no one else to trust in
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everybody else is gone. You already read earlier in job,
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jet 19, his friends are gone, his family's gone, his wife
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loves his breath. So she will be speaking to him.
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So he has no friends. He has no family, is nothing is
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no servants, no one obeys him, no one listens to him, even the
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kids despise them. He's got no one but he has a
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redeemer lives. My Redeemer in the midst of your
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loneliness. In the midst of your pain.
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You have a redeemer. You have an advocate, you have a
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champion. You have a warrior, he's got
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himself. Who lives and Reigns.
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He's not a dead. God, he's a, he's a living God.
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Who knows everything about you. And job says this.
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Verse 27. Who am I?
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Myself Shall Behold who my eyes will see?
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And not another My heart faints. Within Me.
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A statement that expresses not just his intensity, not just his
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intimacy, not just as identity, not just as immortality.
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His invincibility is in dispute ability, but his individuality
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When I die, I myself. Am going to see him. job knows
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more about heaven than, you know, We'll see when we die.
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We think we're going to see our friends.
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Joe Gibson. I can see my family.
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Don't see my kids again, so that's not on his mind.
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Why? He's an upright God-fearing
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righteous, man. That's why all he cares about
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seen him. God.
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Thought matters. See, he knows what heaven is
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going to be like, I'm going to see his face.
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I'm going to see my redeemer. I'm going to see my God, he
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lives and because he lives and will stand upon the Earth.
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I'm going to see him when I'm dead.
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Jim knows that. In this is Job's motive for
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living through all this pain and isolation when no one else cares
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about his life, his Redeemer. He's intense about that.
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He's intimate with that Redeemer.
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He's mine. I know who he is.
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I don't question that. He's absolutely invincible.
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Because he lives and reigns forever.
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And one thing that's indisputable is that one day,
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I'm going to see his face. When I see his face, there's
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only one thing I'm concerned about.
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And that's only seeing his face and no one else's.
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This, which gets them through his tough time.
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This is his second great confession.
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Which, as I said earlier. Unveils the ministry of God as a
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redeemer. And unleashes the message that
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God wants to be known by. These Redeemer, who lives.
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And lives. In such a way.
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That he will never be defeated. The resurrection is that witch?
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Predicates are salvation. If I confess with your mouth,
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Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart, that God raised him from
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the dead. You'll be saved.
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Joe believe in the resurrection of Jesus was Redeemer.
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Somehow his Redeemer would come somehow, his Redeemer.
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Would live somehow his Redeemer would die, somehow redeem?
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We'll come again. Does he understand all this
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stuff? Know, they have a book on
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eschatology know. But he's pre mail.
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First, Premier guy in the Bible book a joke.
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That's why I'm free Mill job is by the way.
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So is Jesus. So we're in good company Joven.
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Jesus. On top of that, in the truck,
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the great chapter in the resurrection of First
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Corinthians 15:58 it. Close with these words. that be
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steadfast immovable, always abounding in the work of the
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Lord knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord, What is
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it that keeps you in service? The resurrection.
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The fact, I know that when I die, I'm going to see him face
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to face. That this life is not all there
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is this life's that drop in the bucket compared to Eternity.
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Job know that. Jobe gnosis.
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So even though he goes through all this pain, all the suffering
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and yes, he talks about God's Afflicted, me and my friends
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have abandoned me and this is the way things are.
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And I'm consumed with my suffering because it's
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absolutely envelops me so much so that I'm completely sitting
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here among my friends, but they're miles away and no one
56:13
else was here. I am completely isolated.
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I have no one Best part of all that, I do know this.
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My Redeemer Lives. And one day, I'm going to see
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his face. How about you?
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Do you know about your Redeemer? Your next of kin your Kinsmen.
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He became our Kinsman when he came to Earth in the Incarnation
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of took on flesh and blood. So, you could die for your sins
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in mind. How about you do you believe in
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that? You understand that?
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Do you know that if you do your service, never Lacks.
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It doesn't, you can be steadfast, you can be immovable,
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always abounding in the work of the Lord job, the best, he could
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would abound in the work of the Lord.
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Even though he didn't know the verse, he knew the principle
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behind the verse The resurrection power of His
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Redeemer. Is what got him through each day
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every day. Time After Time After Time, miss
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all the assault and all the abuse he would receive.
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Didn't quit. Never lost, hope.
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He believed his Redeemer. I pray.
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Father, thank you for today. You are a great God.
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So much we could have said. That would speak to the truth of
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these verses. Time does not permit this.
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On this night. But we are grateful.
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Lord, for the things, you've taught job How will he listen to
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how we learned over the years? How do we try to pass those
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things down to his children and live an exemplary life, a
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blameless life and upright, life, a God-fearing life.
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It's no wonder he was the greatest man in the east.
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When your words, the greatest man on the planet.
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He believed in you. His faith.
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Never wavered. Was he hurt?
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Yes. Was he bewilder times
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absolutely? Was he filled with mystery as to
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why? Yep.
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All that and much more. And yet, there's something he
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knew that we need to know. And what he knew.
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And we know is that Lord, you are Our Redeemer.
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The Lord one day, we're going to see your face.
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What a glorious day that will be the pass from this life.
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Into your presence. Open her eyes and behold the
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greatness and Splendor of your glory.
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That will be a great day. Help us to live in the light of
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that in Jesus name. Amen.