>> THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF 00:00:00.80\00:00:03.26 THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:03.26\00:00:06.46 >> ALL THE BIBLE IS ABOUT JESUS. 00:00:12.00\00:00:14.06 HOW COULD GOD HAVE SUCH COMPLETE CONTROL OF HISTORY SO THAT 00:00:14.06\00:00:17.56 THE LIVES OF THESE GREAT BIBLE CHARACTERS THAT REALLY DID LIVE 00:00:17.56\00:00:21.40 COULD BE REPLICATED IN THE LIFE OF JESUS? 00:00:21.40\00:00:28.10 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:00:29.26\00:00:31.83 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:31.83\00:00:35.00 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:00:35.00\00:00:38.33 BROADCASTS. 00:00:38.33\00:00:39.93 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:39.93\00:00:42.80 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:42.80\00:00:47.46 >> IN OUR SERIES ON JESUS THROUGH THE BIBLE, WE'RE DOING A 00:00:50.20\00:00:54.06 FLYOVER, AND WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS 00:00:54.06\00:00:58.53 'CAUSE I WANT YOU TO REALIZE HOW MUCH OF JESUS IS REALLY IN THE 00:00:58.53\00:01:03.30 BIBLE AND WHAT A SACRED DOCUMENT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS WITH 00:01:03.30\00:01:09.50 THE BIBLE. 00:01:09.50\00:01:10.70 IT IS A SUPERNATURAL BOOK THAT PROVES THE REALITY OF GOD AND 00:01:10.70\00:01:16.56 ONE WAY WE KNOW THAT IS BECAUSE CHRIST WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF 00:01:16.56\00:01:20.56 ALL OF THESE HISTORICAL CHARACTERS. 00:01:20.56\00:01:24.96 AND THIS SERIES ON JESUS THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTURE, WHEN 00:01:24.96\00:01:28.70 WE LOOK AT THESE CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE, IT HELPS US TO 00:01:28.70\00:01:31.53 RECOGNIZE, "WOW, HOW DID GOD KNOW? 00:01:31.53\00:01:35.16 HOW COULD GOD HAVE SUCH COMPLETE CONTROL OF HISTORY SO THAT 00:01:35.16\00:01:38.60 THE LIVES OF THESE GREAT BIBLE CHARACTERS THAT REALLY DID LIVE 00:01:38.60\00:01:42.40 COULD BE REPLICATED IN THE LIFE OF JESUS?" 00:01:42.40\00:01:46.80 NOW, THIS IS DOUBLY IMPORTANT TODAY BECAUSE OF ALL THE 00:01:46.80\00:01:52.93 CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN THE HOLY WRITINGS, YOU FIND THIS NAME 00:01:52.93\00:01:58.00 MENTIONED MORE THAN ANY NAME. 00:01:58.00\00:02:01.20 DAVID IS MENTIONED MORE THAN OUR LORD JESUS. 00:02:01.20\00:02:05.73 DAVID IS MENTIONED MORE THAN MOSES, MORE THAN ELIJAH, 00:02:05.73\00:02:10.00 MORE THAN JOSEPH. 00:02:10.00\00:02:11.46 THERE'S MORE THAN ONE JOHN IN THE BIBLE. 00:02:11.46\00:02:15.16 THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE THAN ONE MOSES. 00:02:15.16\00:02:17.80 THERE'S MORE THAN ONE JESUS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE. 00:02:17.80\00:02:22.70 BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE INDIVIDUAL IN THE WHOLE BIBLE CALLED BY 00:02:22.70\00:02:25.80 THE NAME DAVID. 00:02:25.80\00:02:27.66 DAVID IS FOUND 1,066 TIMES IN THE BIBLE. 00:02:27.66\00:02:32.16 THERE'S MORE SAID ABOUT HIM THAN ANY OTHER BIBLE CHARACTER. 00:02:32.16\00:02:35.20 IN MANY WAYS, THIS BOOK COULD BE THE STORY OF DAVID. 00:02:35.20\00:02:38.10 JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID. 00:02:38.10\00:02:40.53 DID YOU KNOW THAT THE LAST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 00:02:40.53\00:02:43.13 DAVID? 00:02:43.13\00:02:45.16 YOU CAN READ THERE IN REVELATION WHERE CHRIST IS THE ROOT 00:02:45.16\00:02:48.63 AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID IN REVELATION CHAPTER 22. 00:02:48.63\00:02:53.33 SO LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE PARALLELS THAT WE'RE GOING TO 00:02:53.33\00:02:56.30 FIND IN THE BIBLE ABOUT DAVID. 00:02:56.30\00:02:59.76 DAVID MEANS BELOVED. 00:02:59.76\00:03:04.86 JESUS IS THE BELOVED SON OF THE FATHER, CALLED SOMETIMES 00:03:04.86\00:03:09.96 THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. 00:03:09.96\00:03:12.10 YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, "THIS IS MY BELOVED 00:03:12.10\00:03:14.73 SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED." 00:03:14.73\00:03:18.76 THEY WERE BOTH ANOINTED, BOTH DAVID AND JESUS WERE ANOINTED. 00:03:18.76\00:03:24.60 THE WORD "CHRIST," CHRISTOS, MEANS ANOINTED IN GREEK. 00:03:24.60\00:03:29.43 MESSIAH MEANS ANOINTED IN HEBREW. 00:03:29.43\00:03:32.40 DAVID WAS ANOINTED, THAT'S WHEN HE FIRST APPEARS HE'S 00:03:32.40\00:03:35.20 ANOINTED BY SAMUEL. 00:03:35.20\00:03:38.00 AND HE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE BRETHREN THAT WERE ANOINTED. 00:03:38.00\00:03:43.30 SAMUEL WAS HESITANT AT FIRST. 00:03:43.30\00:03:46.46 YOU REMEMBER JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHEN HE BAPTIZED JESUS HE SAID, 00:03:46.46\00:03:48.96 "NO, YOU NEED TO BAPTIZE ME." 00:03:48.96\00:03:51.10 BUT HE SAID, "LET IT BE SO FOR NOW." 00:03:51.10\00:03:55.53 1 SAMUEL 16:13, "SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN OF OIL AND ANOINTED HIM IN 00:03:55.53\00:03:59.70 THE MIDST OF HIS BROTHERS; AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON 00:03:59.70\00:04:03.30 DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD." 00:04:03.30\00:04:05.23 DAVID BEGINS HIS MINISTRY AFTER HIS ANOINTING. 00:04:05.23\00:04:08.83 WHEN DOES CHRIST BEGIN HIS MINISTRY? 00:04:08.83\00:04:11.20 AT HIS BAPTISM, THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES DOWN UPON HIM AND THEN HE 00:04:11.20\00:04:14.56 BEGINS TO TEACH AND TO PREACH. 00:04:14.56\00:04:17.00 AND THEN, OF COURSE, THERE'S THAT GREAT STORY OF DAVID, AND I 00:04:17.00\00:04:20.26 WISH I COULD SPEND MORE TIME ON THIS, WHERE DAVID SEES GOLIATH 00:04:20.26\00:04:24.66 DOWN THERE WHO FOR 40 DAYS COMES OUT IN THE WILDERNESS AND DEFIES 00:04:24.66\00:04:29.86 THE ARMIES OF GOD. 00:04:29.86\00:04:31.76 AFTER THE ANOINTING OF JESUS, DOES HE GO OUT INTO THE 00:04:31.76\00:04:35.56 WILDERNESS FOR 40 DAYS? 00:04:35.56\00:04:38.33 DOES HE HAVE A BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL, BIGGEST GIANT OF ALL, THE 00:04:38.33\00:04:42.76 GIANT OF EVIL? 00:04:42.76\00:04:45.13 AND WHAT IS IT THAT JESUS USES TO BRING DOWN THE GIANT? 00:04:45.13\00:04:49.60 A STONE. 00:04:49.60\00:04:52.66 THE WORD OF GOD IS THE ROCK. 00:04:52.66\00:04:54.63 THAT'S THE ROCK THAT BRINGS DOWN THAT IMAGE IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2. 00:04:54.63\00:04:59.30 CHRIST IS THE WORD, ARE WE RIGHT? 00:04:59.30\00:05:01.76 ARE WE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE? 00:05:01.76\00:05:03.46 THE WORD IS A ROCK. 00:05:03.46\00:05:05.86 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE WRITTEN ON STONE. 00:05:05.86\00:05:09.10 AND THAT'S WHAT'S USED TO BRING DOWN THE GIANT. 00:05:09.10\00:05:12.33 AND SO HE HAS THIS BATTLE WITH THE GIANT. 00:05:12.33\00:05:16.60 JESUS MEETS EVERY TEMPTATION AND HE SAYS, "AWAY WITH YOU, SATAN. 00:05:16.60\00:05:20.46 FOR IT IS WRITTEN YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD GOD AND HIM 00:05:20.46\00:05:23.63 ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE." 00:05:23.63\00:05:25.93 1 SAMUEL 17:50, "SO DAVID PREVAILED OVER THE PHILISTINE 00:05:25.93\00:05:31.03 WITH A SLING AND A STONE, AND STRUCK THE PHILISTINE 00:05:31.03\00:05:35.23 AND KILLED HIM. 00:05:35.23\00:05:36.46 BUT THERE WAS NO SWORD IN THE HAND OF DAVID. 00:05:36.46\00:05:38.96 THEREFORE DAVID RAN AND STOOD OVER THE PHILISTINE, AND TOOK 00:05:38.96\00:05:42.20 HIS SWORD AND DREW IT OUT OF ITS SHEATH AND KILLED HIM, AND CUT 00:05:42.20\00:05:46.20 OFF HIS HEAD." 00:05:46.20\00:05:47.23 SO HE WAS INITIALLY KNOCKED OUT WITH A ROCK. 00:05:47.23\00:05:49.23 HE'S UNCONSCIOUS, BUT HE DISPATCHES HIM PERMANENTLY WITH 00:05:49.23\00:05:53.06 HIS OWN SWORD. 00:05:53.06\00:05:54.73 WHAT IS THE SWORD BIBLICALLY? 00:05:54.73\00:05:58.43 THE WORD OF GOD, HEBREWS CHAPTER 4, 00:05:58.43\00:06:01.20 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6 IS QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN 00:06:01.20\00:06:04.80 ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD. 00:06:04.80\00:06:07.20 SO STONE IS THE WORD OF GOD, A SWORD IS THE WORD OF GOD. 00:06:07.20\00:06:10.66 DAVID DEFEATS THE GIANT WITH THE WORD OF GOD. 00:06:10.66\00:06:12.93 HOW DO WE DEFEAT THE GIANT, THE DEVIL? 00:06:12.93\00:06:15.70 "A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD," YOU'VE SUNG THAT SONG. 00:06:15.70\00:06:18.80 ONE LITTLE WORD WILL FELL HIM. 00:06:18.80\00:06:21.20 THE WORD OF GOD BRINGS HIM DOWN. 00:06:21.20\00:06:23.66 ISN'T IT INTERESTING, HE TAKES GOLIATH'S OWN SWORD TO 00:06:23.66\00:06:27.46 DESTROY HIM? 00:06:27.46\00:06:30.06 THE CROSS THAT THE DEVIL USED TO KILL JESUS IS THE WEAPON THAT 00:06:30.06\00:06:34.73 DESTROYS THE DEVIL. 00:06:34.73\00:06:37.46 HOW DO YOU AND I ENJOY THE VICTORY OF CHRIST OVER 00:06:37.46\00:06:39.70 THE DEVIL? 00:06:39.70\00:06:41.50 WHEN WE SEE, JUST LIKE THE ISRAELITES SAW, THAT JESUS DID 00:06:41.50\00:06:45.40 WIN, HE DEFEATED THE DEVIL, CHRIST ROSE. 00:06:45.40\00:06:49.73 HE SAID, "IT IS FINISHED." 00:06:49.73\00:06:50.93 HE SAID, "ALL HAIL." 00:06:50.93\00:06:52.50 HE'S WON. 00:06:52.50\00:06:54.46 THE DEVIL'S DOOM IS SEALED. 00:06:54.46\00:06:56.30 BUT EVEN THOUGH GOLIATH WAS DEAD, WERE THE SOLDIERS, THE 00:06:56.30\00:06:59.13 PHILISTINES, STILL ON THE HILL? 00:06:59.13\00:07:01.36 WE CLAIM THAT VICTORY AND THEN WE NEED TO TAKE UP THE BATTLE 00:07:01.36\00:07:04.80 WITH DAVID. 00:07:04.80\00:07:06.46 DAVID THEN LED THEM AGAINST THE PHILISTINES. 00:07:06.46\00:07:09.90 AND SO WE JOIN HIM IN THAT BATTLE. 00:07:09.90\00:07:12.00 SO THIS IS A WONDERFUL ANALOGY WHERE CHRIST IS A TYPE OF DAVID 00:07:12.00\00:07:14.66 OR DAVID IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 00:07:14.66\00:07:16.26 AND YOU SAY, "THE VICTORY OF DAVID BECAME THE VICTORY OF 00:07:16.26\00:07:19.36 THE ISRAELITES. 00:07:19.36\00:07:20.30 THE VICTORY OF CHRIST BECOMES OUR VICTORY." 00:07:20.30\00:07:23.10 AND WE CAN SAY, "PRAISE THE LORD. 00:07:23.10\00:07:25.23 WE WON." 00:07:25.23\00:07:27.70 AND THEN YOU FOLLOW YOUR CAPTAIN INTO BATTLE. 00:07:27.70\00:07:30.16 YOU DON'T JUST STAND THERE. 00:07:30.16\00:07:31.73 WHEN JESUS OVERCAME, WE BECOME OVERCOMERS. 00:07:31.73\00:07:36.56 DAVID STRIPPED THE ENEMY OF HIS ARMOR. 00:07:36.56\00:07:40.96 1 SAMUEL 17, VERSE 54, "DAVID TOOK THE HEAD OF THE PHILISTINE 00:07:40.96\00:07:45.33 AND BROUGHT IT TO JERUSALEM, BUT HE PUT HIS ARMOR IN HIS TENT." 00:07:45.33\00:07:49.53 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT JESUS STRIPPED THE ARMOR FROM 00:07:49.53\00:07:53.00 THE DEVIL. 00:07:53.00\00:07:54.86 LUKE 11, VERSE 20, "BUT IF I CAST OUT DEMONS WITH THE FINGER 00:07:54.86\00:07:59.23 OF GOD, SURELY THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME UPON YOU. 00:07:59.23\00:08:02.83 WHEN A STRONG MAN, FULLY ARMED, GUARDS HIS OWN PALACE AND HIS 00:08:02.83\00:08:07.33 GOODS, THEY'RE AT PEACE. 00:08:07.33\00:08:09.46 BUT WHEN A STRONGER THAN HE COMES UPON HIM AND OVERCOMES 00:08:09.46\00:08:13.00 HIM, HE TAKES FROM HIM ALL HIS ARMOR IN WHICH HE TRUSTED, 00:08:13.00\00:08:17.23 AND DIVIDES HIS SPOILS." 00:08:17.23\00:08:19.16 THIS IS WHAT DAVID DID WITH GOLIATH. 00:08:19.16\00:08:21.60 THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID WITH THE DEVIL. 00:08:21.60\00:08:23.66 YOU AND I, WE'RE CAPTIVES OF THE DEVIL. 00:08:23.66\00:08:25.66 HE LIBERATES US. 00:08:25.66\00:08:26.76 HE TAKES AWAY THE DEVIL'S ARMOR. 00:08:26.76\00:08:28.23 BEFORE CHRIST CAME, MAN HAS NO POWER TO RESIST THE DEVIL. 00:08:28.23\00:08:33.60 BUT THERE'S A CRACK IN THE DEVIL'S ARMOR BECAUSE OF CHRIST. 00:08:33.60\00:08:38.40 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE ARROW FOUND THE CRACK IN AHAB'S ARMOR? 00:08:38.40\00:08:42.76 IT WAS THE PROPHECY OF MICAIAH, THE WORD OF GOD. 00:08:42.76\00:08:47.13 THAT'S WHAT FOUND THE CRACK IN THE ARMOR. 00:08:47.13\00:08:49.43 JESUS TAKES AWAY THE DEVIL'S ARMOR. 00:08:49.43\00:08:51.50 HE IS DEFENSELESS. 00:08:51.50\00:08:52.43 YOU AND I CAN HAVE A VICTORY OVER HIM. 00:08:52.43\00:08:55.80 1 KINGS 14:8. 00:08:55.80\00:08:57.93 DID DAVID SIN? 00:08:57.93\00:09:01.56 DID DAVID--I MEAN YOU KNOW IT TELLS ABOUT DAVID AND BATHSHEBA, 00:09:01.56\00:09:04.56 TELLS ABOUT DAVID BRINGING THE ARK UP INAPPROPRIATELY AND 00:09:04.56\00:09:07.53 SOMEONE DIED BECAUSE OF THAT. 00:09:07.53\00:09:08.86 IT TELLS ABOUT DAVID NUMBERING ISRAEL. 00:09:08.86\00:09:10.86 DAVID MADE MISTAKES, PROBABLY SEVERAL. 00:09:10.86\00:09:13.00 HE LIED AND PRETENDED HE WAS CRAZY. 00:09:13.00\00:09:14.90 HE'S DROOLING ON HIS BEARD AND FOAMING AT THE MOUTH AND ACTING 00:09:14.90\00:09:17.10 CRAZY. 00:09:17.10\00:09:18.06 HE WASN'T CRAZY, CRAZY LIKE A FOX, AS THEY SAY. 00:09:18.06\00:09:20.93 AND SO DAVID HAD HIS PROBLEMS, BUT LISTEN HOW GOD LOOKS AT 00:09:20.93\00:09:24.40 DAVID. 00:09:24.40\00:09:25.63 1 KINGS 14:8, "AND YET YOU HAVE NOT BEEN AS MY SERVANT DAVID, 00:09:25.63\00:09:30.56 WHO KEPT MY COMMANDMENTS, WHO FOLLOWED ME WITH ALL HIS HEART, 00:09:30.56\00:09:34.86 TO DO ONLY WHAT WAS RIGHT IN MY EYES." 00:09:34.86\00:09:38.80 HAD GOD FORGIVEN ALL OF DAVID'S SINS BECAUSE OF HIS 00:09:38.80\00:09:42.66 SACRIFICE? 00:09:42.66\00:09:45.23 AND HE LOOKED UPON DAVID, HE SAYS, "I ONLY SEE THAT DAVID 00:09:45.23\00:09:49.03 DID GOOD." 00:09:49.03\00:09:50.83 BECAUSE DAVID ENDED WELL. 00:09:50.83\00:09:53.23 YOU MAY FALL ALONG THE WAY IN THE RACE AND YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A 00:09:53.23\00:09:56.76 BAD START, BUT YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD FINISH. 00:09:56.76\00:10:00.56 AND SO GOD LOOKED UPON DAVID AND THE RECORD THAT GOD GIVES ABOUT 00:10:00.56\00:10:03.73 DAVID, HE SAYS, "HE FOLLOWED ME WITH ALL HIS HEART." 00:10:03.73\00:10:06.76 THE REASON THAT GOD COULD SAY DAVID WAS A KING AFTER MY HEART 00:10:06.76\00:10:09.40 IS 'CAUSE DAVID HAD A SACRIFICIAL LOVE. 00:10:09.40\00:10:13.33 DAVID IS A WONDERFUL TYPE OF JESUS IN THE BIBLE. 00:10:13.33\00:10:15.83 HOW OFTEN DO YOU FIND SOMEBODY WITH SUCH A COMPLEX CHARACTER 00:10:15.83\00:10:18.63 WHO IN ONE VIGNETTE YOU SEE DAVID. 00:10:18.63\00:10:22.10 HE'S ON A HILL THERE WITH HIS SHEEP, HE'S STRUMMING HIS HARP 00:10:22.10\00:10:24.60 AND HE'S BEING POETIC AND MELANCHOLY. 00:10:24.60\00:10:27.20 AND NEXT YOU SEE HIM, HE'S ON THE BATTLEFIELD, HE'S GOT THIS 00:10:27.20\00:10:29.76 OVERSIZED SWORD AND HE'S HACKING OFF A GIANT'S HEAD. 00:10:29.76\00:10:32.66 THOSE PICTURES DON'T USUALLY GO TOGETHER IN OUR MINDS ABOUT THE 00:10:32.66\00:10:34.90 SAME PERSON DOING THOSE THINGS, RIGHT? 00:10:34.90\00:10:37.63 DAVID IS A VERY COMPLEX CHARACTER IN THAT HE WAS A POET, 00:10:37.63\00:10:40.83 HE WAS A SHEPHERD, HE'S A KING, HE'S A JUDGE, HE'S A BUILDER, 00:10:40.83\00:10:43.80 HE'S AN ADMINISTRATOR. 00:10:43.80\00:10:45.13 HE'S A DREAMER. 00:10:45.13\00:10:46.80 HE WAS A ROMANTIC. 00:10:46.80\00:10:50.26 AND THEN ALL--THAT DAVID VERY COMPLEX, BUT THEY'RE ALL GIVING 00:10:50.26\00:10:53.56 DIFFERENT SIDES OF OUR JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID. 00:10:53.56\00:10:58.66 YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS BEAUTIFUL THAT HE WAS WILLING TO 00:10:58.66\00:11:02.16 DIE FOR HIS CHILDREN. 00:11:02.16\00:11:04.10 NOW, HERE'S THE PART THAT I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS. 00:11:04.10\00:11:07.10 DAVID LEFT JERUSALEM BECAUSE THERE WAS A REBELLION. 00:11:07.10\00:11:12.63 AND WHEN THIS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS FOUGHT, SO TO 00:11:12.63\00:11:16.16 SPEAK, DAVID THEN COMES BACK AS KING. 00:11:16.16\00:11:21.10 HE WAS A KING THAT WAS BASICALLY REJECTED, BUT A KING THAT COMES 00:11:21.10\00:11:24.30 BACK. 00:11:24.30\00:11:26.13 IS OUR KING DAVID COMING BACK? 00:11:26.13\00:11:27.43 OUR KING JESUS COMING BACK? 00:11:27.43\00:11:30.60 THE SON OF DAVID? 00:11:30.60\00:11:32.50 AND WHEN HE CAME BACK, HE REWARDED THOSE WHO HAD SUPPORTED 00:11:32.50\00:11:35.43 HIM WHEN HE WAS REJECTED. 00:11:35.43\00:11:38.03 THERE'S SOME WHO STAYED BEHIND IN JERUSALEM AND DAVID FLED 00:11:38.03\00:11:41.63 BECAUSE HE WAS REJECTED. 00:11:41.63\00:11:43.23 WHEN THE NATION WAS KIDNAPPED, SOME STAYED BEHIND THAT REMAINED 00:11:43.23\00:11:46.56 LOYAL TO HIM. 00:11:46.56\00:11:47.90 THEY WERE THE MINORITY. 00:11:47.90\00:11:49.76 AND SOME WHO TURNED ON HIM, WHEN IT WAS CONVENIENT, WHEN HE CAME 00:11:49.76\00:11:54.26 BACK, HE REWARDED THOSE WHO WERE LOYAL. 00:11:54.26\00:11:59.03 HE JUDGED THOSE WHO HAD BEEN UNFAITHFUL. 00:11:59.03\00:12:02.20 OUR SON OF DAVID IS COMING BACK AND HE'S GOING TO BRING THE NEW 00:12:02.20\00:12:05.83 JERUSALEM WHEN HE COMES. 00:12:05.83\00:12:08.23 YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, AS I GO THROUGH THESE STORIES, I KEEP 00:12:08.23\00:12:11.13 THINKING ABOUT THAT VERSE IN HEBREWS 32. 00:12:11.13\00:12:13.73 AS WE LOOK AT THE TYPES OF JESUS THROUGH ALL THE BIBLE, I KEEP 00:12:13.73\00:12:16.16 WANTING TO SAY, AND WHAT SHALL I MORE SAY? 00:12:16.16\00:12:20.06 FOR TIME WOULD FAIL ME TO TELL OF GIDEON AND BARAK AND SAMSON 00:12:20.06\00:12:23.96 AND JEPHTHAH AND DAVID AND SAMUEL AND ALL THE PROPHETS. 00:12:23.96\00:12:28.43 THESE ARE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLE. 00:12:28.43\00:12:31.96 YOU KNOW, YOU GET ALL THESE DIFFERENT PICTURES OF WHAT 00:12:31.96\00:12:34.76 CHRIST IS LIKE BECAUSE HE'S REFLECTED. 00:12:34.76\00:12:38.16 I CAN SEE WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE DIRECTLY OR I CAN LOOK AT A 00:12:38.16\00:12:40.80 MIRROR AND SEE WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE, AND YOU ARE SEEING MIRRORS 00:12:40.80\00:12:43.93 OF JESUS ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. 00:12:43.93\00:12:46.53 AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE SPENDING TIME ON THIS THEME, SO WE MIGHT 00:12:46.53\00:12:49.30 KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW HIM BETTER, YOU'LL LOVE 00:12:49.30\00:12:52.13 HIM BETTER. 00:12:52.13\00:12:53.16 IF YOU LOVE HIM BETTER, YOU'LL SERVE HIM BETTER. 00:12:53.16\00:12:55.06 AMEN? 00:12:55.06\00:12:56.20 CHRIST IS ALL AND ALL IN THE BIBLE. 00:12:56.20\00:12:58.43 >> STAY TUNED, THERE'S MORE "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS" 00:12:58.43\00:13:00.93 RIGHT AFTER THIS. 00:13:00.93\00:13:03.96 >> DEEP WITHIN THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE, STORIES OF GREAT HEROES, 00:13:04.73\00:13:10.23 HEROES OF GREAT DEEDS, GREAT LOVE 00:13:10.23\00:13:14.93 AND GREAT SACRIFICE. 00:13:14.93\00:13:18.53 BUT BEHIND THEM IS ANOTHER HERO, HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT AMID 00:13:18.53\00:13:23.53 THE SHADOWS. 00:13:23.53\00:13:26.23 HE WAS THERE FROM THE BEGINNING AND HE'LL BE THERE 00:13:26.23\00:13:31.06 UNTIL THE END. 00:13:31.06\00:13:33.70 DISCOVER THE GOLDEN THREAD OF A SAVIOR WOVEN THROUGHOUT 00:13:33.70\00:13:37.10 THE ENTIRE BIBLE TAPESTRY. 00:13:37.10\00:13:41.53 "SHADOWS OF LIGHT, SEEING JESUS IN ALL THE BIBLE," A NEW BOOK BY 00:13:41.53\00:13:47.40 DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:13:47.40\00:13:49.90 FOR A DONATION OF $20 OR MORE, YOU CAN RECEIVE THIS 00:13:49.90\00:13:53.10 EXCITING NEW BOOK BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:13:53.10\00:13:56.16 CALL US TODAY AT 1-800-891-7171 OR GO TO SHADOWSOFLIGHT.ORG. 00:13:56.16\00:14:03.96 >> CHRIST IS CALLED THE WORD, THE BIBLE'S CALLED THE WORD. 00:14:04.80\00:14:09.70 CHRIST IS CALLED THE BREAD OF LIFE, THE BIBLE'S CALLED 00:14:09.70\00:14:12.06 THE BREAD OF LIFE. 00:14:12.06\00:14:13.30 CHRIST IS CALLED THE ROCK, THE BIBLE IS CALLED THE ROCK. 00:14:13.30\00:14:17.30 CHRIST IS CALLED GOOD AND WONDERFUL, THE WORD IS CALLED 00:14:17.30\00:14:20.20 GOOD AND WONDERFUL. 00:14:20.20\00:14:21.56 AS YOU GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS AND WORDS USED TO 00:14:21.56\00:14:24.83 DESCRIBE THE BIBLE IN THE BIBLE, YOU FIND THEY'RE ALMOST ALWAYS 00:14:24.83\00:14:28.96 ALSO USED TO DESCRIBE JESUS. 00:14:28.96\00:14:32.00 SO IT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU THAT ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, 00:14:32.00\00:14:34.70 YOU FIND JESUS. 00:14:34.70\00:14:36.06 TODAY WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE BOOK OF JOB AND WE'LL UNDERSTAND 00:14:36.06\00:14:40.70 SOMETHING ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST. 00:14:40.70\00:14:43.76 WE'RE REALLY GOING TO BE ON HOLY GROUND TODAY. 00:14:43.76\00:14:46.80 ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB, YOU CAN FIND ALLEGORIES AND 00:14:46.80\00:14:49.96 REFERENCES TO JESUS, NOT ONLY THE BOOK OF JOB, BUT THE WHOLE 00:14:49.96\00:14:54.96 OLD TESTAMENT REALLY MIRRORS THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 00:14:54.96\00:14:57.93 IT'S DIFFERENT FACETS OF THE LIFE OF JESUS. 00:14:57.93\00:15:00.96 LIKE A DIAMOND, YOU TURN IT TO THE LIGHT AND YOU SEE DIFFERENT 00:15:00.96\00:15:03.86 FACETS AND CUTS IN THE DIAMOND GLIMMERING. 00:15:03.86\00:15:06.40 AS YOU LOOK THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT, YOU SEE 00:15:06.40\00:15:08.76 JESUS EVERYWHERE AND THE BOOK OF JOB IS NO EXCEPTION. 00:15:08.76\00:15:11.83 ONE VERY EASY THING TO DISCERN, HOW JOB IS LIKE JESUS, IS IN THE 00:15:11.83\00:15:16.26 FIRST CHAPTER, THE FIRST LINE. 00:15:16.26\00:15:19.23 THERE WAS--"JOB WAS PERFECT AND UPRIGHT," IT SAYS. 00:15:19.23\00:15:23.46 "THERE WAS A MAN IN THE LAND OF UZ WHOSE NAME WAS JOB AND THAT 00:15:23.46\00:15:27.73 MAN WAS BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT, ONE WHO FEARED GOD AND HE 00:15:27.73\00:15:32.03 HATED EVIL. 00:15:32.03\00:15:33.73 IN THE VERY BEGINNING, THE BIBLE EXTOLS ALMOST THE SINLESSNESS 00:15:33.73\00:15:38.40 OF JOB. 00:15:38.40\00:15:39.73 NOW, I'M NOT SAYING B WAS SINLESS 'CAUSE HE WAS A MAN AND 00:15:39.73\00:15:41.83 THE BIBLE SAYS ALL HAVE SINNED, BUT HE WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN 00:15:41.83\00:15:45.16 AND A GODLY MAN. 00:15:45.16\00:15:47.23 CHRIST WAS SINLESS. 00:15:47.23\00:15:49.10 1 PETER 2:22, THAT'S EASY TO REMEMBER, 1 PETER, 2-2-2. 00:15:49.10\00:15:54.06 IT SAYS, "CHRIST WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS DECEIT FOUND IN 00:15:54.06\00:15:59.86 HIS MOUTH." 00:15:59.86\00:16:00.93 AGAIN IN THE BOOK OF JOB CHAPTER 1, VERSE 22, 00:16:00.93\00:16:03.93 VERY MUCH LIKE 1 PETER. 00:16:03.93\00:16:05.63 "IN ALL THIS JOB DID NOT SIN NOR CHARGE GOD WITH WRONG." 00:16:05.63\00:16:11.03 JOB IS CALLED A SERVANT OF GOD. 00:16:11.03\00:16:14.00 JESUS IS IDENTIFIED AS THE SERVANT. 00:16:14.00\00:16:16.66 JOB 2, VERSE 3, "THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED 00:16:16.66\00:16:19.80 MY SERVANT JOB, THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM ON THE EARTH, A 00:16:19.80\00:16:23.10 BLAMELESS AND AN UPRIGHT MAN." 00:16:23.10\00:16:24.83 SPEAKING OF CHRIST, ISAIAH PROPHECIES, ISAIAH 42, VERSE 1, 00:16:24.83\00:16:30.10 "BEHOLD! 00:16:30.10\00:16:31.33 MY SERVANT WHOM I UPHOLD, MY ELECT ONE IN WHOM MY SOUL 00:16:31.33\00:16:34.36 DELIGHTS! 00:16:34.36\00:16:35.63 I HAVE PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM; HE WILL BRING FORTH JUSTICE TO 00:16:35.63\00:16:39.20 THE GENTILES." 00:16:39.20\00:16:40.86 NOW YOU REALIZE THAT WITH A TYPE AND WITH AN ANTITYPE, THAT 00:16:40.86\00:16:45.80 THE ANTITYPE IS USUALLY IT'S A SHADOW. 00:16:45.80\00:16:50.83 IT'S NOT AN EXACT REPLICA, BUT THERE'S GREAT SIMILARITIES 00:16:50.83\00:16:54.03 THERE. 00:16:54.03\00:16:55.13 AND THIS IS WHERE IF YOU READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB, YOU 00:16:55.13\00:16:57.90 KEEP SEEING THE SHADOWS IN THE TYPES OF CHRIST THAT ARE THERE. 00:16:57.90\00:17:02.93 FOR INSTANCE, HE'S FORSAKEN BY HIS FRIENDS. 00:17:02.93\00:17:07.86 HIS FRIENDS COME FROM FAR. 00:17:07.86\00:17:08.96 AT FIRST THEY'RE COMING TO SUPPORT HIM, BUT ULTIMATELY AS 00:17:08.96\00:17:13.10 THE STORY GOES ON, THEY TURN ON HIM. 00:17:13.10\00:17:17.80 THEY SAY, "WELL, YOU'RE GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE." 00:17:17.80\00:17:19.90 WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FRIENDS? 00:17:19.90\00:17:22.70 MATTHEW 26:56, "BUT ALL THIS WAS DONE THAT THE SCRIPTURES AND THE 00:17:22.70\00:17:27.96 PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED. 00:17:27.96\00:17:29.63 ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM AND FLED." 00:17:29.63\00:17:33.20 JOB SAYS, CHAPTER 19, VERSE 14, "MY RELATIVES HAVE FAILED, MY 00:17:33.20\00:17:38.60 CLOSE FRIENDS HAVE FORGOTTEN ME." 00:17:38.60\00:17:41.10 BY THE WAY, AFTER JOB'S SUFFERING AND HE'S OUT THERE IN 00:17:41.10\00:17:44.30 THE DUMP, HIS WIFE COMES ALONG AND SAYS, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST 00:17:44.30\00:17:46.90 CURSE GOD AND DIE?" 00:17:46.90\00:17:48.63 ALL OF HIS FAMILY DIES EXCEPT HIS WIFE. 00:17:48.63\00:17:51.30 THE DEVIL SAVED HER SO SHE COULD COME AND SAY, "WHY DON'T YOU 00:17:51.30\00:17:53.63 JUST DIE?" 00:17:53.63\00:17:55.03 SOMETIMES THE DEVIL WILL EVEN USE THOSE CLOSEST TO US TO 00:17:55.03\00:17:57.86 DISCOURAGE US. 00:17:57.86\00:17:59.10 IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE BAD, BUT YOU KNOW EVEN THE DEVIL USED 00:17:59.10\00:18:01.83 PETER ON JESUS. 00:18:01.83\00:18:03.90 HE'S FALSELY ACCUSED OF EVIL, JOB IS. 00:18:03.90\00:18:07.66 JOB WAS A PERFECT AND UPRIGHT MAN, BUT WHAT DID THEY SAY ABOUT 00:18:07.66\00:18:10.30 HIM? 00:18:10.30\00:18:11.03 JOB 22, VERSE 5 HIS FRIENDS SAID, "IS NOT YOUR WICKEDNESS 00:18:11.03\00:18:14.63 GREAT, AND YOUR INIQUITY WITHOUT END?" 00:18:14.63\00:18:17.60 WELL, THAT WAS OPPOSITE THE TESTIMONY OF GOD. 00:18:17.60\00:18:21.16 WAS JESUS FALSELY ACCUSED OF EVIL? 00:18:21.16\00:18:25.16 MATTHEW 26, VERSE 59, "NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND THE ELDERS, 00:18:25.16\00:18:29.83 AND ALL THE COUNCIL SOUGHT FALSE TESTIMONY AGAINST HIM," FALSE 00:18:29.83\00:18:33.50 TESTIMONY, "TO PUT JESUS TO DEATH, BUT FOUND NONE. 00:18:33.50\00:18:38.13 EVEN THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES CAME FORWARD, THEY FOUND NONE. 00:18:38.13\00:18:41.20 AT LAST TWO FALSE WITNESSES CAME FORWARD AND SAID, 'THIS FELLOW 00:18:41.20\00:18:44.73 SAID, I AM ABLE TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE AND TO BUILD IT 00:18:44.73\00:18:47.36 IN THREE DAYS.'" AND THEY SAID WHEN HE 00:18:47.36\00:18:49.83 WAS HANGING ON THE CROSS, "THE REASON YOU'RE SUFFERING IS 00:18:49.83\00:18:51.90 'CAUSE OF YOUR WICKEDNESS. 00:18:51.90\00:18:53.00 GOD'S ABANDONED YOU." 00:18:53.00\00:18:54.86 REMEMBER AS WE LOOK AT THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST IN JOB, 00:18:54.86\00:18:58.00 CHRISTIANS ALSO SUFFER WHEN YOU FOLLOW JESUS. 00:18:58.00\00:19:01.23 WE ALSO EXPERIENCE PERSECUTION. 00:19:01.23\00:19:02.96 THERE WILL BE DARK DAYS WHERE YOU'LL BE TESTED. 00:19:02.96\00:19:06.00 GOD WILL WITHDRAW THAT HEDGE AND YOU'LL WONDER, 00:19:06.00\00:19:08.33 "WHAT HAVE I DONE? 00:19:08.33\00:19:10.03 WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?" 00:19:10.03\00:19:12.06 I'VE GONE TO VISIT PEOPLE IN THE HOSPITAL AND I REMEMBER WORD FOR 00:19:12.06\00:19:15.26 WORD THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID, "DOUG, WHY IS GOD DOING THIS 00:19:15.26\00:19:17.56 TO ME?" 00:19:17.56\00:19:19.03 THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ABANDONED. 00:19:19.03\00:19:21.06 THAT DOESN'T MEAN JESUS DOESN'T LOVE YOU. 00:19:21.06\00:19:23.50 HE STILL LOVED JOB. 00:19:23.50\00:19:25.16 THE FATHER STILL LOVED HIS OWN SON AND THEY SUFFERED. 00:19:25.16\00:19:28.93 AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I LOVE ABOUT THE COMPARISON BETWEEN JOB 00:19:28.93\00:19:31.83 AND JESUS IS AS YOU NEAR THE END OF THE BOOK, THERE ARE TIMES 00:19:31.83\00:19:37.20 WHEN JOB'S FATE--FAITH IS VACILLATING AND YOU CAN SEE HE'S 00:19:37.20\00:19:41.73 SAYING, "WHY, WHY, WHY?" 00:19:41.73\00:19:43.23 AND JESUS SAID, "WHY? 00:19:43.23\00:19:44.26 WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 00:19:44.26\00:19:46.00 BUT IT TRIUMPHS. 00:19:46.00\00:19:47.90 THEN YOU READ THOSE VERSES WHERE HE SAYS, "THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET 00:19:47.90\00:19:51.30 WILL I TRUST HIM." 00:19:51.30\00:19:53.63 SO NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, CHRIST ON THE CROSS AT THE END, 00:19:53.63\00:19:57.26 HE TRIUMPHS. 00:19:57.26\00:19:58.96 HE ENDS UP SAYING, "FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT. 00:19:58.96\00:20:02.30 IT IS FINISHED." 00:20:02.30\00:20:04.03 HE KNEW THAT HIS MISSION WAS COMPLETE. 00:20:04.03\00:20:06.56 THERE WAS A GREAT TRIUMPH THERE. 00:20:06.56\00:20:08.30 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK OF JOB, JOB DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S 00:20:08.30\00:20:11.63 GOING ON. 00:20:11.63\00:20:12.56 ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE GETS BLINDSIDED BY ALL THESE PLAGUES 00:20:12.56\00:20:14.70 AND LOSING HIS FAMILY AND LOSING HIS WEALTH AND HIS HEALTH. 00:20:14.70\00:20:18.46 AND HE'S SAYING, "WHY HAS GOD DONE THIS TO ME?" 00:20:18.46\00:20:21.53 BY THE END OF THE BOOK, GOD IS SHOWING HIM NOW WHO'S REALLY 00:20:21.53\00:20:24.56 BEHIND IT. 00:20:24.56\00:20:26.73 IN JOB CHAPTER 41, GOD DEDICATES AN ENTIRE CHAPTER TO SOME SEA 00:20:26.73\00:20:32.30 MONSTER CALLED LEVIATHAN. 00:20:32.30\00:20:35.53 NOW LISTEN, HERE'S THE KEY, ISAIAH 27 VERSE 1, "IN THAT DAY 00:20:35.53\00:20:40.56 THE LORD WITH HIS SORE AND GREAT AND STRONG SWORD," THAT'S THE 00:20:40.56\00:20:45.00 WORD OF GOD, "SHALL PUNISH LEVIATHAN THAT PIERCING SERPENT, 00:20:45.00\00:20:51.06 EVEN LEVIATHAN THAT CROOKED SERPENT; AND HE SHALL SLAY THE 00:20:51.06\00:20:55.13 DRAGON THAT IS IN THE SEA." 00:20:55.13\00:20:57.23 OH, AH-HA. 00:20:57.23\00:21:00.63 YOU OUGHT TO HAVE HAD AN EPIPHANY RIGHT ABOUT NOW. 00:21:00.63\00:21:02.56 DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR TO YOU? 00:21:02.56\00:21:04.13 REVELATION CHAPTER 12, SPEAKING OF THAT DRAGON, "ANOTHER SIGN 00:21:04.13\00:21:08.10 APPEARED IN HEAVEN, A GREAT FIERY DRAGON." 00:21:08.10\00:21:10.86 IT SAYS IN CHAPTER 13, VERSE 1, "THIS BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND 00:21:10.86\00:21:14.20 SEVEN HORNS COMES UP OUT OF THE SEA." 00:21:14.20\00:21:17.13 AND IT SAYS, "THAT DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD CALLED THE DEVIL 00:21:17.13\00:21:20.60 AND SATAN." 00:21:20.60\00:21:21.73 DRAGON, SERPENT, LEVIATHAN, OUT OF THE SEA. 00:21:21.73\00:21:26.20 WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 00:21:26.20\00:21:28.10 SO IN THE END OF THE BOOK, WHAT IS GOD SAYING? 00:21:28.10\00:21:30.80 NOW THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME SEA CREATURE THAT'S NOW EXTINCT. 00:21:30.80\00:21:34.90 SCHOLARS DON'T AGREE. 00:21:34.90\00:21:36.16 SOME SAY IT'S A CROCODILE, BUT THEY SAY COULDN'T HAVE BEEN 00:21:36.16\00:21:38.43 A CROCODILE, IT'S IN THE OCEAN. 00:21:38.43\00:21:39.43 WELL, THERE ARE--THERE ARE SALTWATER CROCODILES, BUT THEY 00:21:39.43\00:21:41.90 WEREN'T THAT BIG. 00:21:41.90\00:21:43.33 AND BELIEVE ME, SAILORS HAVE PLENTY OF STORIES AND THEORIES 00:21:43.33\00:21:45.53 ABOUT WHAT THAT IS. 00:21:45.53\00:21:47.03 BUT HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, "YOU CAN'T DEFEAT THE LEVIATHAN 00:21:47.03\00:21:53.03 WITHOUT ME. 00:21:53.03\00:21:54.23 HE'S THE ONE WHO'S BEHIND YOUR SUFFERINGS. 00:21:54.23\00:21:56.43 HE'S THE ONE WHO BROUGHT FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND BURNT UP 00:21:56.43\00:21:58.70 YOUR CROPS, WHO'S ABLE TO SEND THIS SICKNESS, WHO DESTROYED 00:21:58.70\00:22:01.83 YOUR FAMILY WITH A TORNADO. 00:22:01.83\00:22:03.63 YOU CAN'T DEFEAT THE DEVIL." 00:22:03.63\00:22:06.33 BUT GOD SAYS, "I CAN." 00:22:06.33\00:22:09.93 AND SO IN THE END OF THE BOOK OF JOB, GOD IS SAYING THAT "I AM 00:22:09.93\00:22:12.93 THE ONE WHO CAN DESTROY THE LEVIATHAN, THE KING OF PRIDE." 00:22:12.93\00:22:17.00 AND JOB IS GOING, HE'S--"IT'S NOT YOU, GOD, WHO'S BEEN 00:22:17.00\00:22:20.66 AGAINST ME. 00:22:20.66\00:22:21.86 IT'S THE LEVIATHAN, THE DEVIL, THE DRAGON, THE SERPENT, WHO'S 00:22:21.86\00:22:24.63 BEEN AFTER ME. 00:22:24.63\00:22:26.43 AND YOU SIMPLY LET HIS LEASH GET A LITTLE LONGER SO THAT I COULD 00:22:26.43\00:22:30.30 LEARN SOMETHING, LEARN TO TRUST YOU." 00:22:30.30\00:22:33.73 YOU KNOW WHAT'S ALSO BEAUTIFUL ABOUT THE BOOK OF JOB? 00:22:33.73\00:22:36.76 IS THAT IT TEACHES US LESSONS OF HANGING ON AND PATIENCE. 00:22:36.76\00:22:45.76 IN THE END JOB IS BLESSED. 00:22:45.76\00:22:49.43 HE'S DOUBLY BLESSED IN THE END. 00:22:49.43\00:22:53.33 MATTER OF FACT, JOB KIND OF GOES THROUGH A RESURRECTION, 00:22:53.33\00:22:55.96 DON'T YOU THINK? 00:22:55.96\00:22:57.10 HE GOES FROM BEING IN THE DUMP COVERED WITH BOILS DYING--IT 00:22:57.10\00:23:01.40 LOOKS TERMINAL. 00:23:01.40\00:23:02.80 ALL OF A SUDDEN, GOD HEALS HIM MIRACULOUSLY. 00:23:02.80\00:23:05.83 HE'S INTERCEDING FOR HIS FRIENDS. 00:23:05.83\00:23:07.90 HE RESTORES ALL OF HIS WEALTH. 00:23:07.90\00:23:09.16 HE'S GOT TWICE AS MUCH WEALTH. 00:23:09.16\00:23:11.23 YOU LOOK AT WHAT HE HAS, ADD UP WHAT HE'S GOT IN THE BEGINNING, 00:23:11.23\00:23:13.73 THEN YOU ADD UP WHAT HE HAS AT THE END. 00:23:13.73\00:23:15.56 IT'S DOUBLED. 00:23:15.56\00:23:16.90 AND HE LIVES ANOTHER 140 YEARS BEYOND THAT EXPERIENCE. 00:23:16.90\00:23:21.00 WE DON'T KNOW HOW OLD HE WAS. 00:23:21.00\00:23:22.16 YOU CAN JUST SPECULATE HE WAS AT LEAST, FOR HIM TO HAVE THOSE 00:23:22.16\00:23:25.16 KIDS THAT HE HAD AND HAVE THE WEALTH HE HAD BASED ON THAT TIME 00:23:25.16\00:23:27.93 IN WHICH HE LIVED, HE LIVED OVER 200 YEARS. 00:23:27.93\00:23:31.43 AND SO IT WAS LIKE A TYPE OF RESURRECTION HE WENT THROUGH, 00:23:31.43\00:23:34.53 JUST LIKE JESUS. 00:23:34.53\00:23:35.73 AND HIS GLORY RETURNED TO HIM AS CHRIST WHEN HE ASCENDED TO 00:23:35.73\00:23:38.13 HEAVEN. 00:23:38.13\00:23:39.10 HIS HEALTH RETURNED TO HIM. 00:23:39.10\00:23:40.60 HIS FRIENDS RETURNED TO HIM. 00:23:40.60\00:23:41.96 EVERYTHING CAME BACK. 00:23:41.96\00:23:43.43 AND YOU MAY GO THROUGH TRIALS, BUT YOU KNOW THE BOOK OF JOB 00:23:43.43\00:23:45.93 ENDS WITH A HAPPY NOTE. 00:23:45.93\00:23:48.20 THAT'S WHY JAMES SAYS, "REMEMBER THE PATIENCE OF JOB." 00:23:48.20\00:23:50.86 DON'T GET DISCOURAGED IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A TRIAL, FRIENDS. 00:23:50.86\00:23:53.70 GOD STILL LOVES YOU. 00:23:53.70\00:23:54.73 THERE'S A DEVIL OUT THERE AND HE'S GONNA TRY AND CAUSE 00:23:54.73\00:23:57.60 PROBLEMS. 00:23:57.60\00:23:58.53 BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SCOPE OF JOB'S LIFE, 200 YEARS. 00:23:58.53\00:24:03.16 AND THEN THE 42 CHAPTERS, HOW LONG DID IT LAST OUT OF 00:24:03.16\00:24:06.73 THAT 200 YEARS? 00:24:06.73\00:24:08.33 A FEW WEEKS, A FEW WEEKS OF SUFFERING FOR THE 200 YEARS. 00:24:08.33\00:24:14.83 SO THE SUFFERING THAT WE EXPERIENCE IN THIS LIFE AND THE 00:24:14.83\00:24:17.66 EPISODES OF SUFFERING IN THIS LIFE, COMPARED TO ETERNITY, IS 00:24:17.66\00:24:20.73 IT WORTHY TO BE COMPARED? 00:24:20.73\00:24:23.46 IT'S SMALL COMPARED TO THE GLORY AND THE JOY AND THE HAPPINESS 00:24:23.46\00:24:27.16 AND THE BLESSING AND THE RICHES THAT GOD IS GOING TO GIVE US 00:24:27.16\00:24:30.53 FOR ETERNITY. 00:24:30.53\00:24:31.86 SO THE BOOK OF JOB IS NOT A SAD BOOK. 00:24:31.86\00:24:34.06 OH, THERE'S A LOT OF HEAVY THINGS IN THERE, BUT YOU KNOW IT 00:24:34.06\00:24:35.83 STARTS OUT TALKING ABOUT A PERFECT MAN AND IT ENDS UP 00:24:35.83\00:24:38.30 TALKING ABOUT A HAPPY, BLESSED MAN. 00:24:38.30\00:24:40.93 AND THEN IT SAYS THAT IN BETWEEN YOU'VE GOT GOD'S BLESSING 00:24:40.93\00:24:45.10 AND PROTECTION, THE DEVIL MAKES AN ATTACK. 00:24:45.10\00:24:47.83 JOB DOES NOT GIVE UP HIS FAITH AND THEN IN THE END HE'S BLESSED 00:24:47.83\00:24:51.23 FOREVER. 00:24:51.23\00:24:52.86 YOU AND I ARE GONNA GET ATTACKED. 00:24:52.86\00:24:55.03 YOU MIGHT BE GOING THROUGH AN ATTACK RIGHT NOW. 00:24:55.03\00:24:57.30 DON'T GIVE UP YOUR FAITH. 00:24:57.30\00:24:58.86 REMEMBER WHERE I STARTED OUT WITH THAT QUOTE FROM JAMES? 00:24:58.86\00:25:01.76 "BEHOLD, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE." 00:25:01.76\00:25:04.33 JESUS SAID, "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ENDURE TO THE END, 00:25:04.33\00:25:08.83 THEY WILL BE SAVED. 00:25:08.83\00:25:09.86 HE THAT ENDURES TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED. 00:25:09.86\00:25:11.66 YOU'VE HEARD OF THE PATIENCE OF JOB AND HAVE SEEN THE END OF THE 00:25:11.66\00:25:14.30 LORD, THOUGH THE LORD IS PITIFUL AND OF TENDER MERCY." 00:25:14.30\00:25:17.96 IN THE END, FRIENDS, WE WIN, NOT THE LEVIATHAN OR THE DRAGON. 00:25:17.96\00:25:23.03 CAN YOU SEE JESUS IN THE BOOK OF JOB? 00:25:23.03\00:25:26.60 YOU KNOW, IT REALLY IS HOLY GROUND. 00:25:26.60\00:25:29.13 IT TELLS YOU SOMETHING ABOUT HOW MUCH JESUS MUST LOVE YOU 'CAUSE 00:25:29.13\00:25:32.20 OF THE SUFFERINGS HE WENT THROUGH. 00:25:32.20\00:25:34.16 AND JOB DID NOT SUFFER LIKE JESUS, BUT HE SUFFERED. 00:25:34.16\00:25:38.23 AND YOU MAY SUFFER. 00:25:38.23\00:25:40.20 YOU MIGHT BE SUFFERING NOW. 00:25:40.20\00:25:42.06 BUT YOU AND I HAVEN'T SUFFERED LIKE JESUS SUFFERED. 00:25:42.06\00:25:44.70 HE TOOK THE WEIGHT OF THE SINS OF THE WORLD ON HIS SHOULDERS 00:25:44.70\00:25:48.33 FOR YOU AND ME BECAUSE HE LOVES US SO MUCH BECAUSE HE DOESN'T 00:25:48.33\00:25:50.50 WANT US TO SUFFER LIKE THAT. 00:25:50.50\00:25:52.16 AND I THINK YOU COULD TRUST A GOD LIKE THAT, 00:25:52.16\00:25:54.80 DON'T YOU FRIENDS? 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