It's been 2,000 years since
the glorious light of the Cross
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illuminated the world veiled
and darkness and confusion
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about the character of God.
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And still today the
greatest need of mankind
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as a revelation of God's love
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has revealed in
the life of Christ.
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Amazing Facts
presents the Everlasting Gospel
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with Pastor Doug Batchelor
coming to you each week
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from Sacramento Central
Church in sunny California.
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Discover hidden
treasures and God's word today.
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If you are visiting
here at Central Church
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you haven't been here
lately in the last few weeks
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with the few
exceptions while I've been gone
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I've been doing a series
about Christ in all the Bible
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or Jesus throughout the Bible.
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And today we'll represent
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the fourth
installment in this series.
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I don't know how
long the series will last
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but it could go on a long time
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'cause there's a
lot of information.
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So I'm sure I'll start
before I cover everything.
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But it's just one
of my favorite studies
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as looking at
the examples of Jesus
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you see everywhere in the Bible.
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You know, Christ
is called the Word,
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the Bible is called the Word,
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Christ is called
the bread of life,
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the Bible has
called the bread of life.
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Christ is called the rock,
the Bible is called the rock.
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Christ is called
good and wonderful,
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the Word is called
good and wonderful.
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As you go through
the different definition
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and words used to
describe the Bible in the Bible
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you find there are almost always
also used to describe Jesus.
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So it shouldn't surprise
you that all through the Bible
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you find Jesus.
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Now in previous
studies we have talked about
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how Moses is a type of
Christ as the great law giver.
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Joseph shows the
forgiveness of Jesus.
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We looked at the life of Joseph.
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David the king shows the
faith and the majesty of Jesus.
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Today we're going to
look at the Book of Job
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and we'll understand something
about the sufferings of Christ.
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We're really going to
be on holy ground today.
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Now I don't know if you've
ever heard about the classic
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called "Paradise Lost"
written by John Milton.
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Considered by some
to be the greatest of--
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one of the greatest English
authors and poets, a genius.
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And in this epic
poem I just wonder
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is there anyone here that
has read all of Paradise Lost.
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Were you asked
to do it in school?
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Not too many
people do it on their own.
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It's usually required reading
because when I pick it up
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and I read it-- you can read
it online for free by the way.
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And if you want to have your
mouth fall open take a page.
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Even the first page of
Milton's, Paradise Lost
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and you read and
the thoughts are so deep
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and so profound.
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It's written in
very deep English.
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He spoke Latin,
and he German fluently,
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and he spoke English
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and parts of several
other languages, brilliant guy.
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The poem is 186 pages,
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thousands of lines in
the poem, it is an epic poem.
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When you read the Book of
Job you are reading something
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that surpasses
Milton's, Paradise Lost.
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Job is probably some
of the greatest of not--
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one of the greatest
books of poetry in the Bible.
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For one thing little
history on the Book of Job,
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it's probably the
oldest book in the Bible.
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Now how do we know that?
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Probably written by Moses
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while he was in the
wilderness of Median.
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In the Book of Job for one thing
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the characters in the
Book of Job is telling you,
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Job lives over 200 years,
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God adds another 140
years through his life
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after his great
trial that he went to.
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The only other time
in history when you find
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they were live in about that
range the father of Abraham,
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the people who lived
around the tower of Babel
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were living in
that span of time.
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Terah lived 205 years
and his contemporaries.
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In the Book of Job it talks
a lot about speech and words,
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it never makes any
reference in those 42 chapters
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to writing of any
kind because that was back
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before men
needed to codify truth.
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They lived so long and
their minds were so profound
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and their memories everything
was passed on verbally
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but people who had
virtually photographic memories.
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And Job lived during
the time of the great,
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the patriots who lived
back shortly after the flood.
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So it's one of the
oldest books written by people
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who knew Noah if
you can imagine that
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incredibly
profound in its words.
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It mirrors the
teachings of Jesus in many ways.
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All through the
Book of Job you can find
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allegories and
references to Jesus.
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Not only the Book of Job
but the whole Old Testament
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really mirrors
the life of Christ.
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Its different
facets of the life of Jesus
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like a diamond you
turn it to the light
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you see
different facets and cuts
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in the diamond glimmering.
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As you look
through the Old Testament
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you see Jesus everywhere
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and the Book of
Job is no exception.
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Now I don't have time
in this one presentation
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to cover the 42
chapters in this poem.
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But we're going
to sort of fly over
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and look at some high
points that deal specifically
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where the life principally
the sufferings of Christ.
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Because the Book of
Job like the gospels
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in the Book of
Acts it's divided up
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into four debates and a summary.
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The gospels are divided up into
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
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and then the
history in the Book of Acts.
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So even the Book
of Job is divided
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like the history
of Jesus very much.
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And you are gonna see I
think a lot of parallels here
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and so just wanted to give a
background a little bit on this.
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Job is not a
fictitious character.
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Some people when they
reads about the lifespan of Job
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and the battle between good
and evil transpires they say
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oh, this is just
it's an allegory.
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Well, if you believe
the Bible Ezekiel says
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the Job was a real character.
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Ezekiel 14:14
"Though these three men,
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Noah, Daniel, and
Job, were in the land,
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they will deliver
but their own souls
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by their
righteousness, says the Lord."
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Ezekiel lumps Job in
there with Noah and Daniel.
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So if you believe they are real
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you need to believe
Job was a real person.
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James 5:11 he says
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"Behold, we count
them happy which endure.
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And you heard of
the patience of Job,
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and have seen
the end of the Lord,
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that the Lord is very
pitiful, and of tender mercy."
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New and Old Testament referred
to Job as a real character
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and probably for
one thing the reason
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that I believe that Job was
real is because his life models
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and reflects the life of
Jesus so much principally
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the sufferings of Christ and
the sacrifice that Jesus made.
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Even in the sense
that like Melchizedek
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you don't know
where he comes from
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Job suddenly
appears out of history
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and then you never
read about the ancestors
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and then he disappears
without beginning or end
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like Jesus from Alpha to
Omega no beginning, no end.
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He is eternal, so even in that
sense Job is a type of Christ.
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One very easy thing to
discern how Job is like Jesus
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is in the first
chapter the first line
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There was, Job was
perfect in upright it says
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"There was a man
in the land of Uz,
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whose name was Job,
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and that man was blameless
and upright, one who feared God,
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and he hated evil."
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In the very
beginning the Bible extols
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almost the sinlessness of Job.
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Now I'm not
saying Job was sinless
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'cause he was man and the
Bible says all have sinned.
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But he was a
righteous man and a godly man.
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Christ was sinless.
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1 Peter 2:22, that's
easy to remember 1 Peter 2:22.
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It says "Christ
who committed no sin,
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no was deceit
found in his mouth."
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Again in the Book of Job
1:22 very must like 1 Peter.
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"In all this Job did not sin,
nor charged God would wrong."
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Job 23:11, 12
Jobs says of himself.
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"My foot has held
fast to His steps,
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I have kept His way
and not turned aside.
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I have not departed from
the commandment of His lips."
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By the way Jesus said, I have
kept my Father's commandments.
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So He said something
almost identical to Job there.
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Listen still in Job 23:12
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"I have treasured
the words of His mouth
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more than my necessary food."
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Doesn't Jesus say "Man
will not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
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from the mouth of God."
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You can hear echoes.
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Now you realize
that with the type
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and with an
anti-type that the anti-type
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is usually it's a shadow
it's not an exact replica
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but there is a
great similarities there.
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And this is where as you
read through the Book of Job
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you keep seeing the shadows
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in the types of
Christ that are there.
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Job was called a servant of God.
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Jesus is
identified as a servant.
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Job 2:3 "The Lord said to Satan,
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'Have you
considered My servant Job,
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there is none
like him on the earth,
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a blameless and upright man.'"
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Speaking of
Christ Isaiah prophecies.
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Isaiah 42:1 "Behold!
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My Servant whom I
uphold, My Elect One
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in whom My soul delights!
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I have put My Spirit upon Him,
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He will bring forth
justice to the Gentiles."
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Matthew 20:28 Jesus said,
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"Just as the Son of Man
did not come to be served,
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but to serve, and to give
His life a ransom for many."
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Christ was the servant,
Job was a servant of God.
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And even in the very life of Job
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he has a lot of God
like characteristics.
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For instance, if
you read in Job 1:3
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"Also, his possessions
were seven thousand sheep,
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three thousand camels,
five hundred yoke of oxen,
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five hundred female donkeys,
and a very large household,
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so this man was the greatest
of all the people of the East."
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He was a king by the
standards of the day.
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Christ is our king,
He was very wealthy,
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Christ owns the entire universe.
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It speaks of Him as the greatest
of the people of the east.
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Jesus is gonna come
from what direction?
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And if you know the
prophecies of Daniel to make way
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or Revelation make way
for the kings of the east
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it speaks about the little cloud
arising up out of the east.
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Christ has spoken of
that way as that light
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that will arise with
healing and his wings.
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Job 29:7-17, "When I went
out to the gate of the city,
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when I took my
seat in the open square,
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the young men saw me and hid,"
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speaks about just
the awesomeness of Job
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and the God like qualities.
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"The aged arose and
stood, the princes refrained
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from talking, and they put
their hand on their mouth,"
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It's such a
tremendous respect for Him.
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"The voice of nobles was hushed,
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and their tongue stuck
to the roof of their mouth.
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When the ear
heard, then it blessed me,
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and the eye saw,
then it approved me,
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because I delivered
the poor who cried out,
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the fatherless and the
one who had no helper."
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This is what Jesus did.
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"The blessing of a
perishing man came upon me,
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and I caused the
widow's heart to sing.
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I put on righteousness,
and it clothed me."
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Christ wore a
robe of righteousness.
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"My justice was like
a robe and a turban."
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The justice of Christ.
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"I was eyes to the blind,
and I was feet to the lame.
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I was a father to the poor,
and I searched out the case
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that I did not know."
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He was a judge.
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"I broke the
fangs of the wicked."
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It's like a serpent.
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"And plucked the
victim from his teeth."
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Like David did the lamb
from the lion and the bear.
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And so all these qualities
and Job is describing himself
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before his trial and his
sufferings they all mirror.
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Don't they sound like Jesus?
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Couldn't you have
inserted Jesus name
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and that sounds
like His character.
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Now when you get to
the first chapter of Job
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you notice the great
controversy is played out
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in the entire Book of Job.
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'Cause in the
beginning of the Book of Job
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it talks about a
day when the sons of God
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came to present themselves
in some heavenly meeting
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before the Lord
and Satan comes also
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and he comes to
represent this world.
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And God says to Lucifer Satan
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have you
considered My servant Job
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there is none
like him in the earth?
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And Satan it's all the
only reason he serves you
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as you hedge him and
protected and blessed him.
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That's a very important truth.
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Can God hedge and
protect and bless His people?
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Matter of fact, if it
wasn't for the hedge of angels
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the God has
around each one of you
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we'd perish very
quickly from the devil.
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It's all because of the hedge
of the Lord that protects us,
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His guardian angels that were
preserved and we are blessed.
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And so the devil then
accuses Job before the Lord.
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What is the devil call,
the accuser of the brethren?
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And then God does something
He withdraws His protection
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from the Job in to
order to save others.
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Job goes through his
trials to save others.
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You might say, save who?
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What he is saying, Job
is a sacrifice for sin? No.
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I'm saying God allowed Job
to go through his sufferings.
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And I'm assuming you've all read
some of the book as I preach.
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God allows Job to go
through his suffering
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because Job them
becomes a testimony
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to all these
hundreds of generations after
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of the faithfulness of the
Lord and the love of the God
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and how you can survive trials.
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Now in the message
today I'm not just trying
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to peak your
interest by showing you--
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aren't these interesting
bits of trivia of how Job
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and Jesus have
these similarities.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Now I tell you what,
I really want to say,
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that's there and
that should inspire you
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with the
inspiration of the Bible.
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But in the
examples of Job and Jesus
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and their sufferings they are
not the only ones that suffer.
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How many of you have gone
through trials and you suffered.
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In the Book of Job
God pulls aside the veil
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and you can see the
devils in the background
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going around like a roaring lion
seeking whom he might devour.
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The whole great controversy
between good and evil
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is played out
in the Book of Job.
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Just like God is in heaven
and the devil is there accusing
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and God is defending
and then they are looking at
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what happening with
God servant on earth
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and the battle
between Christ and Lucifer
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is been fought in the life
of Job, and the friends of Job.
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The great
controversy is also been fought
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in your life, in your heart.
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When you get the
victory because of your trust
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and your faithfulness
God says have you considered
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My servant Doug or whoever
you put your name in there.
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When we fall the devil
points his finger and accuses,
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they don't really love you.
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They will curse your face
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as soon as they
don't get their way.
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You take away their money,
you take away their health,
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they will shake
their fist at you.
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And so the experience of Job
is acted out millions of times
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in the lives of his
professed servants except
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we want to have the
victory that Job had. Amen.
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So it's an illustration
of the great controversy.
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In the same way that the
devil basically concentrated
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all of the forces
of hell to get Job,
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to give up his faith,
'cause basically the devil
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was challenged by God or should
say the devil challenged God
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and God took His challenge.
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Says, you
remove your protection,
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take away his wealth
and then during round two,
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he says take away his health, so
he losses wealth and his health.
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Says he'll curse
you to your face.
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Then you see that in the story
of Job the physical sufferings
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that Job experiences are
very much like those of Jesus.
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Job 2:7, 8 "So Satan goes out
from the presence of the Lord."
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And this is during round two.
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"And he strikes" First
he takes all of his money,
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second "He struck
Job with painful boils."
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Not just boils, painful boils.
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"From the sole of his
foot." You ever have a blister.
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"To the crown of his
head." I want to pause here.
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Quick story
probably told you before,
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there is nothing
new under the sun.
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I went to summer camp
down in the Florida Keys
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my dad used to send
us off to summer camp.
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And I don't know what
happened I got an infection.
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Doctor says, I
got bite by a spider.
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I don't know what
happened but the back of my leg
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is actually this leg
swell up with the boil
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that was so bad one boil.
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I just laid there in my
bed and I rolled back and forth
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and all I could repeat
over and over again is the pain,
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the pain, the pain.
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Maybe you've seen
somebody that's dying
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from some form
of painful cancers,
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some may go quietly
some it's not so quiet.
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And to see a person
riving in pain Job was covered
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with painful boils loathsome,
they smell, he is oozing.
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It's--flies are
buzzing around them.
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He then goes and he sits there--
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I know it's a gross picture
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but it pains the sufferings
of Christ, talks about sin.
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He then sits down
in the city of dump
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where all the broken pottery is
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and he takes a broken piece
of pottery to scrape himself,
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surrounded by flies
that are in his eyes
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and his wounds and
it's just an awful picture.
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Now I know that's pretty graphic
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but the Bible is
pretty graphic here too.
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And the by the way, I don't
want to rush pass the point.
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He sits down in the dump.
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Are the dumps in
the city or outside?
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Typically outside.
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Where did Christ suffer for us?
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Hebrews 13:12
"Therefore Jesus also,
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that He might sanctify
the people with His own blood,
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suffered outside the gate."
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They took Him out where
the dumps were so to speak.
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And then it
describes in the next chapters,
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37 chapters it follow
the sufferings of Job.
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And there is a
lot of places where
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it nears the
sufferings of Christ.
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For instance, he's
forsaken by his friends.
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His friends come from far
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at first they are
coming to support him.
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But ultimately as the stories
goes on they turn on him.
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They say, what you're
getting what you deserve.
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Was Jesus
forsaken by His friends?
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Matthew 26:56 "But all this
was done that the Scriptures
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and the prophets
might be fulfilled.
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All the disciples
forsook Him and fled."
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Jobs says, Chapter 19 verse 14
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"My relatives have failed,
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my close friends
have forgotten me."
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By the way after Job suffering
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and he is out there in
the dump his wife comes along
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and says why don't you
just curse God and die.
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All of his family
dies except his wife
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the devil saved her
so she could come and say
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why don't you just die.
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Sometimes the devil will
even use those closes to us
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to discourage us.
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It doesn't mean they are bad
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but you know that even
the devil use Peter on Jesus.
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Peter came to
Jesus one time and said
00:20:05.73\00:20:07.78
you don't really want to
die and cross is not God's plan
00:20:07.81\00:20:10.13
for you and Jesus
snapped around and said,
00:20:10.16\00:20:11.75
get, could be
behind me by Satan.
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So that the Peter, that doesn't
mean Peter was the devil.
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And it doesn't mean
your spouse is the devil
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but sometimes the devil
will use those closes to us
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to get us when
we're already down.
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Now I'm telling you
that so you'll be patient
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with your relatives will
do this, I'm also telling you
00:20:26.63\00:20:28.66
so you don't be one
of those people, right.
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He is forsaken by his friends.
00:20:34.57\00:20:36.65
Mark 14:33 Jesus takes
Peter, James, and John with Him,
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In the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Then He began to be
troubled and deeply grieved.
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He is anguished, He is weeping,
00:20:47.79\00:20:50.06
and praying, and sweating blood.
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And He says the Peter,
James, and John pray with me.
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His three friends
and what are they do?
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They started
snoring, they go to sleep.
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They ultimately turn on Him
and leave and then deny Him.
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How many friends came
to Job? Three friends.
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Jesus had His principle
three Peter, James, and John
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He took with Him.
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Jobs 6:27 "You would
even cast lots for the orphans
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and barter over your friend."
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Well, by the way I need to
tell you if I hear you turning
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new Bibles I'm
glad you're doing it,
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I'm reading from
the Hebrew translation
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this is a
transliteration you are probably
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not gonna see this in King
James and typical translations.
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But in the Hebrew
the word there it says,
00:21:29.64\00:21:31.53
you even cast
lots over an orphans
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and barter or
trade away your friend.
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Do they cast lots around Jesus?
00:21:38.31\00:21:41.20
Did Judah sell Him or barter
Him for 30 pieces of silver?
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In the original that's how
it's worded in the Hebrew there.
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His falsely accused of evil.
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Job was the
perfect and upright man
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but what did they say about him.
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Job 22:5 His friend said
00:21:56.14\00:21:58.91
"Is not your wickedness great,
and your iniquity without end?"
00:21:58.94\00:22:02.82
well, that was
opposite the testimony of God
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where is Jesus
falsely accused of evil?
00:22:06.60\00:22:10.49
Mathew 26:59 "Now the
chief priests, and the elders,
00:22:10.52\00:22:15.06
and all the council sought
false testimony against Him"
00:22:15.09\00:22:18.94
false testimony "to put
Jesus to death, but found none.
00:22:18.97\00:22:23.60
Even though many false
witnesses came forward,
00:22:23.63\00:22:25.76
they found none.
00:22:25.79\00:22:26.82
At last two false
witnesses came forward and said,
00:22:26.85\00:22:29.63
'This fellow said, I am
able to destroy the temple
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and to build it in three days.'"
00:22:32.34\00:22:34.22
And they said when He
was hanging on the cross
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the reason you are suffering
is because of your wickedness.
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God's abandoned you.
00:22:37.68\00:22:38.80
Job as he sat there in the dump
00:22:42.72\00:22:45.65
we don't know how long he
suffered it may have been weeks.
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It's hard to
imagine going through that
00:22:48.87\00:22:50.96
for that period of
time but as the people came
00:22:50.99\00:22:53.25
and went from the city He
who is so highly respected
00:22:53.28\00:22:56.74
they stood up from
Him when he walk by,
00:22:56.77\00:22:59.00
now they said,
well, God's forsaken you
00:22:59.03\00:23:00.45
and they spit on him.
00:23:00.48\00:23:02.66
And maybe the kids went over
and they hit Him with sticks
00:23:02.69\00:23:04.81
and they struck him.
00:23:04.84\00:23:06.67
Listen to what it says here.
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He experienced striking
and spitting, but he has made--
00:23:07.91\00:23:11.92
oh, by the way Job 17:6
"He has made me a byword
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of the people, I have become
one in whose face men spit."
00:23:16.02\00:23:22.16
Job 30:10 similar passage.
00:23:22.19\00:23:24.93
"They abhor me,
they keep far from me,
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They do not
hesitate to spit in My face."
00:23:28.00\00:23:30.89
You ever have
anybody spit in your face?
00:23:30.92\00:23:33.38
That happen to me once,
you know, I never forget it.
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No not since
I've been a preacher.
00:23:37.11\00:23:39.83
That was when I was a kid.
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Now I got to tell you
what happened, you will wonder.
00:23:42.83\00:23:47.22
You ever see the
movie "The Hiding Place."
00:23:47.25\00:23:51.24
The actress Julie Harris her
son Peter was a friend of mine.
00:23:51.27\00:23:56.85
I went over to play with
him and I knocked on his door
00:23:56.88\00:23:58.87
in New York and they
had one those mail slots.
00:23:58.90\00:24:01.91
And I said, Peter
come on out and play.
00:24:01.94\00:24:03.76
And I don't know maybe he
didn't want to play that day
00:24:03.79\00:24:05.29
and I kept
knocking, come on out.
00:24:05.32\00:24:07.70
And he opened up the
mail slot and I looked in
00:24:07.73\00:24:10.66
and he spit in my face.
00:24:10.69\00:24:15.70
See you don't forget
something like that, do you?
00:24:15.73\00:24:19.33
And I'm sure they didn't
forget it when it happened
00:24:19.36\00:24:24.43
to Job and Jesus either.
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Psalms 22 a
messianic prophecy about Jesus.
00:24:26.71\00:24:30.59
"They gape at Me
with their mouths."
00:24:30.62\00:24:35.20
This is what they
just said about Job.
00:24:35.23\00:24:36.57
They gape at me.
00:24:36.60\00:24:37.90
"They strike me
reproachfully on the cheek."
00:24:37.93\00:24:40.72
Oh, by the way that's Job 16:10.
00:24:40.75\00:24:42.59
"They gape at me
with their mouth,
00:24:42.62\00:24:43.85
they strike me
reproachfully on the cheek.
00:24:43.88\00:24:46.95
Psalms 22 says to Jesus "They
gape at Me with their mouths."
00:24:46.98\00:24:49.91
Matthew 26 "Then they
spat in His face and beat Him,
00:24:49.94\00:24:53.80
they struck Him with
the palms of their hands."
00:24:53.83\00:24:58.63
So Job and Jesus again
the sufferings very similar.
00:24:58.66\00:25:03.35
He was apparently
outwardly abandoned by God.
00:25:03.38\00:25:08.70
Job 13:24 "Why do
You hide Your face,
00:25:08.73\00:25:11.95
and regard me as Your enemy?"
00:25:11.98\00:25:14.27
Job 30:20 "I cry out to
You, but You do not hear me,
00:25:14.30\00:25:18.07
I stand up, but
You regard me not."
00:25:18.10\00:25:21.33
What did Jesus say
hanging on the cross?
00:25:21.36\00:25:23.88
Mark 15:34 "My God, My
God, why have You forsaken Me?"
00:25:23.91\00:25:29.29
Have you ever
felt abandoned by God?
00:25:29.32\00:25:32.07
Remember as we look at the
sufferings of Christ and Job
00:25:32.10\00:25:35.12
Christians also suffer
when you fall off Jesus.
00:25:35.15\00:25:37.81
We also experience persecution.
00:25:37.84\00:25:39.74
There will be dark days
where you will be tested,
00:25:39.77\00:25:42.58
God will with draw that hedge
00:25:42.61\00:25:44.18
and you will
wonder what have I done?
00:25:44.21\00:25:47.18
Why is this happening to me?
00:25:47.21\00:25:49.79
I've gone to visit
people in the hospital.
00:25:49.82\00:25:51.33
I remember word for
word that's what they said.
00:25:51.36\00:25:53.08
Doug, why is God
doing this to me?
00:25:53.11\00:25:55.83
They feel like
they are abandoned.
00:25:55.86\00:25:58.07
That doesn't mean
Jesus doesn't love you,
00:25:58.10\00:26:00.20
He still loved Job.
00:26:00.23\00:26:02.53
The Father still loves
His own son and they suffered.
00:26:02.56\00:26:07.19
John 19:16 It says the Christ
was delivered to the council.
00:26:07.22\00:26:12.18
He was handed over to the mob.
00:26:12.21\00:26:15.11
Matthew 26:56, 57 "All the
disciples forsook Him and fled.
00:26:15.14\00:26:20.69
And the mob laid hold
of Him they led Him away."
00:26:20.72\00:26:23.60
Job said in 16:11, Job 16:11
00:26:23.63\00:26:27.02
"God has
delivered me to the ungodly,
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And turned me over to
the hands of the wicked."
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Was Christ turned over
to the hands of the wicked?
00:26:32.13\00:26:35.14
This mob just
demon possessed mob
00:26:35.17\00:26:38.98
good part of His
suffering happened
00:26:39.01\00:26:40.19
before He ever got to the cross.
00:26:40.22\00:26:42.02
Jesus did not begin suffering
00:26:42.05\00:26:43.71
for you right
there on the cross,
00:26:43.74\00:26:45.59
the suffering began
when the mob got hold of Him.
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And Job said why does he
turn me over to the wicked?
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Was Jesus
physically disfigured? Yes.
00:26:54.05\00:26:59.83
Isaiah 52 this
prophecy about Christ
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Isaiah 52 and 53 is
a messianic prophecy.
00:27:02.61\00:27:05.74
"Just as many
were astonished at you,
00:27:05.77\00:27:08.74
so His visage" his form
"was marred more than any man,
00:27:08.77\00:27:13.38
and His form more
than the sons of men."
00:27:13.41\00:27:15.74
Christ was so mercilessly
beaten that he was barely
00:27:15.77\00:27:20.94
recognizable being
scourge and beaten,
00:27:20.97\00:27:23.51
the crown of
thorns and the soldiers.
00:27:23.54\00:27:26.50
Job when his friends
first came to mourn with him
00:27:26.53\00:27:31.14
when they saw him it says.
00:27:31.17\00:27:33.01
And this is Job 2:12 "They
raised their eyes from afar,
00:27:33.04\00:27:36.68
and did not recognize him."
00:27:36.71\00:27:41.83
Yeah, I went to the hospital
to visit a church member
00:27:41.86\00:27:43.56
I've known for years.
00:27:43.59\00:27:46.21
And he was
suffering with shingles.
00:27:46.24\00:27:49.05
And I haven't seen
him in several weeks.
00:27:49.08\00:27:51.95
And this was his final illness.
00:27:51.98\00:27:53.47
He was actually
over 100 years of age.
00:27:53.50\00:27:56.55
But I had seen him
recently at his home.
00:27:56.58\00:27:58.62
When I went to the hospital
I saw this man shriveled up
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in the bed in agony.
00:28:01.42\00:28:05.56
I went back out and I
said I'm looking for so and so
00:28:05.59\00:28:07.90
and they say that's his room.
00:28:07.93\00:28:10.06
I went back in
and I looked at him
00:28:10.09\00:28:11.66
and I didn't even recognize him.
00:28:11.69\00:28:15.51
And I thought the poor
fellow and I remember holding
00:28:15.54\00:28:17.55
his hand as he was suffering
00:28:17.58\00:28:20.64
and he was saying the same thing
00:28:20.67\00:28:22.19
why won't the Lord let me die.
00:28:22.22\00:28:23.92
100 years old in terrible
pain. And just a godly man.
00:28:23.95\00:28:30.65
And it doesn't mean
God doesn't love us,
00:28:30.68\00:28:32.13
it means there is a
devil out there that hates us.
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And sometimes God
allows us to suffer
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and you read the book
of First and Second Peter,
00:28:37.20\00:28:39.29
I should say books of
First and Second Peter
00:28:39.32\00:28:42.15
he talks about why
God allow suffering.
00:28:42.18\00:28:44.53
He is purifying us
through these things.
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But it doesn't
mean He doesn't love us.
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You know in the in the
story of Job it talks about
00:28:51.25\00:28:54.98
baring the cross.
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Job 31:36 at least
this is the way I see it.
00:28:57.74\00:29:02.30
"Surely I would
carry it on my shoulder,
00:29:02.33\00:29:05.19
and bind it on me like a crown."
00:29:05.22\00:29:06.94
He is talking
about the sufferings
00:29:06.97\00:29:08.22
that he'll
weary-- wear as a badge
00:29:08.25\00:29:10.77
as a crown on his shoulder.
00:29:10.80\00:29:13.40
Christ said, "He that
does not take up his cross
00:29:13.43\00:29:15.84
and follow after Me
is not worthy of Me."
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Typically they carry the
cross on their shoulder, right.
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Matthew 10:38, I
was just reading.
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There is more I
won't get it all, friends,
00:29:26.64\00:29:29.26
there is a lot here in
these 42 chapters of Job
00:29:29.29\00:29:32.40
the parallels of
Christ suffering.
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He is pierced by iron.
00:29:35.76\00:29:38.36
Now that's an
interesting statement
00:29:38.39\00:29:39.55
because iron was still
according to the archeologist
00:29:39.58\00:29:42.92
relatively new
back in the time of Job
00:29:42.95\00:29:44.92
very rare, matter of
fact, they sort of credit
00:29:44.95\00:29:47.35
the Philistines with making
iron more common and it's use.
00:29:47.38\00:29:50.91
The Romans were
known as the iron kingdom
00:29:50.94\00:29:52.62
and they did use iron
swords, and iron tools,
00:29:52.65\00:29:55.35
and iron
mallets, and iron nails.
00:29:55.38\00:30:00.96
Then Jobs says in 20:24, 25
00:30:00.99\00:30:04.46
"He will flee
from the iron weapon,
00:30:04.49\00:30:06.77
and the bow of steel
shall strike him through.
00:30:06.80\00:30:09.91
It is drawn, it will
come out of the body, yes,
00:30:09.94\00:30:13.09
the glittering sword
comes out of his gall."
00:30:13.12\00:30:15.81
We even got the
word gall there speaking
00:30:15.84\00:30:17.39
of what they gave
Christ on the cross.
00:30:17.42\00:30:20.23
"Terrors are upon him."
00:30:20.26\00:30:21.76
Jesus side was pierced
by an iron Roman spear tip.
00:30:21.79\00:30:27.18
Mark of course 15:25.
00:30:27.21\00:30:30.32
Now it was a third
hour and they crucified Him.
00:30:30.35\00:30:33.63
His feet were also confined
when they were crucified.
00:30:33.66\00:30:37.20
Job says this.
00:30:37.23\00:30:38.77
Job 13:27 "You put
my feet in the stocks,
00:30:38.80\00:30:43.02
and watch closely all my paths.
00:30:43.05\00:30:45.26
You limit for the soles--
00:30:45.29\00:30:47.06
you set a limit for
the soles of my feet."
00:30:47.09\00:30:48.58
He couldn't move his
feet neither could Jesus
00:30:48.61\00:30:51.87
when He was on the cross.
00:30:51.90\00:30:53.27
And this is prophecy Psalm 22:16
00:30:53.30\00:30:56.32
"For dogs have surrounded Me,
The congregation of the wicked
00:30:56.35\00:30:59.50
has enclosed Me.
00:30:59.53\00:31:01.10
They pierced My
hands and My feet."
00:31:01.13\00:31:04.87
Job is stripped of his clothing.
00:31:04.90\00:31:09.16
Matter of fact, after his
suffering he tore his robes,
00:31:09.19\00:31:12.17
he went out to the city
dump took off his cloths
00:31:12.20\00:31:14.73
so he could scrape his
boils and he prayed and he said,
00:31:14.76\00:31:18.62
"Naked I came
from my mother's womb,
00:31:18.65\00:31:21.02
and naked shall I return there.
00:31:21.05\00:31:23.30
The Lord gave, and
the Lord has taken away,
00:31:23.33\00:31:26.67
Blessed be the
name of the Lord."
00:31:26.70\00:31:29.21
You know, we all come
into this world naked.
00:31:29.24\00:31:32.53
Most of us, any of you come
in this world wearing anything?
00:31:32.56\00:31:34.75
Just wondering.
00:31:34.78\00:31:36.63
Some always
dress very carefully.
00:31:36.66\00:31:39.55
But we all come
in this world naked,
00:31:39.58\00:31:42.02
and you know, we go
out naked in the sense
00:31:42.05\00:31:43.96
that you can't
take anything with you.
00:31:43.99\00:31:46.55
Someone once said, "You never
see a U-Haul behind a hearse."
00:31:46.58\00:31:51.55
Pharaohs tried to bury
themselves with the treasure
00:31:55.63\00:31:57.84
but you better make
other plans for you treasure,
00:31:57.87\00:32:01.53
friends, because you
can't take it with you.
00:32:01.56\00:32:03.65
Put it in God's work.
00:32:03.68\00:32:07.54
Matthew 27:28
"Christ was stripped
00:32:07.57\00:32:10.83
and they stripped Him and
put a scarlet robe on Him."
00:32:10.86\00:32:15.56
John 19:24 "They said
therefore among themselves,
00:32:15.59\00:32:20.47
'Let us not tear it,
but cast lots for it,
00:32:20.50\00:32:22.25
to see whose it shall be,'
that the Scripture might be
00:32:22.28\00:32:24.86
fulfilled it said, 'They
divided my garments among them
00:32:24.89\00:32:28.00
and for my
clothing they cast lots.'"
00:32:28.03\00:32:30.48
They took
everything away from Jesus.
00:32:30.51\00:32:31.95
Now you know the
paintings typically having
00:32:31.98\00:32:33.59
with the linen cloth
and He may have had that.
00:32:33.62\00:32:36.00
The Hebrews
considered themselves naked
00:32:36.03\00:32:37.83
if all you had was yours linen
speedo or whatever they wore.
00:32:37.86\00:32:41.69
It talks about when Peter
didn't have his fishers coat on
00:32:41.72\00:32:45.32
and end of the gospel
of John and he was naked.
00:32:45.35\00:32:48.16
But he did have his swimsuit on.
00:32:48.19\00:32:49.69
He dove in the
water and swam to Jesus.
00:32:49.72\00:32:51.80
So you know, the
paintings typically picture
00:32:51.83\00:32:54.49
Jesus of having at least that
00:32:54.52\00:32:55.86
and of course we'd
like to prefer that.
00:32:55.89\00:32:57.78
But it was
humiliating none the less.
00:32:57.81\00:33:01.21
He was mocked.
00:33:01.24\00:33:03.32
Job 16:20 "My
friends scorn me" mock me,
00:33:03.35\00:33:07.93
"my eyes pour out tears to God."
00:33:07.96\00:33:10.81
Job 30:9 "And now I
am their taunting song,
00:33:10.84\00:33:15.38
yes, I am their byword."
00:33:15.41\00:33:17.78
Talking about the ridicule.
00:33:17.81\00:33:19.42
Again in Psalm 22
this prophecy about Christ.
00:33:19.45\00:33:22.64
"All those who
see Me ridicule Me,
00:33:22.67\00:33:25.20
they shoot out the
lip, they shake the head,
00:33:25.23\00:33:27.83
they say, He
trusted in the Lord,
00:33:27.86\00:33:29.39
let Him rescue Him,
let Him deliver Him,
00:33:29.42\00:33:31.85
since He delights in Him!"
00:33:31.88\00:33:33.30
There's angel if
you're so righteous
00:33:33.33\00:33:34.54
how come God doesn't help you?
00:33:34.57\00:33:37.05
You know, it's really tough.
00:33:37.08\00:33:38.32
When you are a Christian
and you go through some trial.
00:33:38.35\00:33:40.35
Sometimes we feel embarrassed
because you've got this idea
00:33:40.38\00:33:44.64
that if we're
doing everything right
00:33:44.67\00:33:47.73
God's going to
prosper us financially,
00:33:47.76\00:33:49.52
He is going to take
care of us physically
00:33:49.55\00:33:51.68
for following the health message
00:33:51.71\00:33:52.79
and yet even
Christian will lose their wealth
00:33:52.82\00:33:56.56
and lose their health.
00:33:56.59\00:33:57.94
And we feel that
because see we think Lord
00:33:57.97\00:34:00.90
the lost out there
are going to see me
00:34:00.93\00:34:02.08
suffering they
are going to think
00:34:02.11\00:34:03.14
what kind of witness am I,
00:34:03.17\00:34:04.32
how can I tell
people how wonderful it is
00:34:04.35\00:34:06.17
to be a Christian
when I've lost my wealth
00:34:06.20\00:34:07.90
and I've lost my health.
00:34:07.93\00:34:10.16
And sometimes you
even struggle that way?
00:34:10.19\00:34:12.52
You think why is
this happening to me?
00:34:12.55\00:34:14.19
How can I be a witness for you?
00:34:14.22\00:34:15.69
People aren't gonna want to be
like me when they see me suffer.
00:34:15.72\00:34:19.19
But, you know, in reality
00:34:19.22\00:34:21.74
we are the best
witnesses through trial.
00:34:21.77\00:34:25.32
God's church
typically is the best witness
00:34:25.35\00:34:29.43
when we go through suffering.
00:34:29.46\00:34:32.44
It is through trial that
we bare our brightest witness.
00:34:32.47\00:34:36.48
Where is Christ the greatest
witness, isn't at the cross?
00:34:36.51\00:34:38.89
And if you can suffer patiently
that really says something.
00:34:42.37\00:34:46.60
I've come out of the
hospital room visiting saints
00:34:46.63\00:34:48.78
before and it
strengthens my faith.
00:34:48.81\00:34:50.50
I don't come out and say, Lord,
00:34:50.53\00:34:52.69
if they are faithful then why
are they suffering like this?
00:34:52.72\00:34:55.23
You go in there and
you'll see these saints
00:34:55.26\00:34:56.77
and you'll say, you know, I just
love the Lord, I trust the Lord,
00:34:56.80\00:34:58.95
and God knows why this is
happening and I trust Him.
00:34:58.98\00:35:01.05
And I go out and wow,
they got a lot of faith.
00:35:01.08\00:35:04.09
So when you are going through
trials don't be embarrassed
00:35:04.12\00:35:06.84
and say God's abandoned you.
00:35:06.87\00:35:07.96
Say, Lord, how can
I be a witness for You
00:35:07.99\00:35:10.09
through this trial?
00:35:10.12\00:35:11.51
Was Joseph a
witness through his trials?
00:35:11.54\00:35:15.30
He was faithful whatever
he did, servant, prisoner,
00:35:15.33\00:35:17.53
he said I'm going
to witness for God.
00:35:17.56\00:35:20.50
Noah was not
saved from the storm
00:35:20.53\00:35:22.10
he was saved through the storm
00:35:22.13\00:35:24.53
and it is through tribulation
we enter the kingdom of God.
00:35:24.56\00:35:28.81
So don't despair if God
allows you to go through trial.
00:35:28.84\00:35:31.93
He is usually saving you
through it or others through it.
00:35:31.96\00:35:37.24
Every trial you go through as
a Christian just remember that
00:35:37.27\00:35:40.16
God is either
using it to refine you
00:35:40.19\00:35:43.08
or to reach others
through your experience,
00:35:43.11\00:35:48.09
sometimes both.
00:35:48.12\00:35:51.21
Okay, back to our some of the
parallels between Job and Jesus.
00:35:51.24\00:35:54.55
I'm making pretty
good time here actually.
00:35:54.58\00:35:58.30
He was
identified with the wicked.
00:35:58.33\00:36:01.85
Job 34:7, 8 they said,
"What man is this like Job,
00:36:01.88\00:36:07.85
who drinks scorn like
water, who goes in company
00:36:07.88\00:36:11.28
with the workers of iniquity,
and walks with wicked men?"
00:36:11.31\00:36:15.64
Job is with the wicked, he
is identified with the wicked.
00:36:15.67\00:36:17.88
What about Jesus?
00:36:17.91\00:36:18.94
Isaiah 53 "And He made
His grave with the wicked."
00:36:18.97\00:36:23.88
Matthew 27, you
know this verse 38
00:36:23.91\00:36:27.41
"Then two robbers
were crucified with Him,
00:36:27.44\00:36:29.43
one on the right and
another on the left."
00:36:29.46\00:36:31.58
His crucified right in
the middle of two thieves,
00:36:31.61\00:36:33.70
rebels, and robbers.
00:36:33.73\00:36:37.22
Also says they were guilty
of murder at least Barabbas was.
00:36:37.25\00:36:39.82
He surrendered his
glory and his crown.
00:36:43.11\00:36:46.18
Job surrendered his
glory and his crown.
00:36:46.21\00:36:49.15
Job 19:9 "He has
stripped me of my glory,
00:36:49.18\00:36:53.19
and taken the
crown from my head."
00:36:53.22\00:36:55.68
Did Jesus lay aside
His glory and His crown
00:36:55.71\00:36:58.47
when He came to
this earth like Job?
00:36:58.50\00:37:01.50
Hebrews 2:9 "But we see Jesus,
00:37:01.53\00:37:04.60
who was made a little
lower than the angels,
00:37:04.63\00:37:07.01
for the suffering of
death crowned with glory
00:37:07.04\00:37:09.58
and honor, that He,
by the grace of God,
00:37:09.61\00:37:12.17
might taste death for everyone."
00:37:12.20\00:37:14.32
Christ, you read
there in Philippians,
00:37:14.35\00:37:16.81
made Himself of no
account suffered as a man,
00:37:16.84\00:37:21.38
humbled Himself to
the point of cross.
00:37:21.41\00:37:23.49
There is darkness
in the story of Job
00:37:27.77\00:37:31.03
and there is darkness
in the story of Jesus.
00:37:31.06\00:37:33.21
Job 10:21, 22
"Before I go to the place
00:37:33.24\00:37:38.07
from which I shall not
return, to the land of darkness
00:37:38.10\00:37:41.72
and the shadow of death,
00:37:41.75\00:37:43.66
A land as dark
as darkness itself,
00:37:43.69\00:37:45.99
and the shadow of
death, without any order,
00:37:46.02\00:37:48.45
where even the
light is like darkness."
00:37:48.48\00:37:50.14
Notice there three times
darkness, darkness, darkness.
00:37:50.17\00:37:53.20
When Christ is in the Garden
of Gethsemane it was dark.
00:37:53.23\00:37:56.84
Even the next day when the
sun should have been shining
00:37:56.87\00:37:59.75
when Christ is on the
cross, what does it say?
00:37:59.78\00:38:02.79
Matthew 27:45 "Now
from the sixth hour until
00:38:02.82\00:38:06.76
the ninth hour there was
darkness over all the land."
00:38:06.79\00:38:10.65
The supernatural
darkness not just like
00:38:10.68\00:38:13.29
when clouds obscure the sun
00:38:13.32\00:38:14.83
but something like the darkness
00:38:14.86\00:38:16.18
that went on Egypt
during that plague.
00:38:16.21\00:38:19.38
An eerie, unnatural
darkness came over the land
00:38:19.41\00:38:22.29
as the creation
was rebelling against
00:38:22.32\00:38:25.07
the crucifixion of its Creator.
00:38:25.10\00:38:28.25
Christ was forsaken by
His brothers so were Job.
00:38:28.28\00:38:31.42
Job 19:13 "He has
removed my brothers far from me,
00:38:31.45\00:38:36.02
and my acquaintances are
completely estranged from me."
00:38:36.05\00:38:39.53
Remember we already
told you about Job's family,
00:38:39.56\00:38:41.54
his wife we
know he lost his son,
00:38:41.57\00:38:43.81
his brethren in the town that
he lived in and the land of Uz
00:38:43.84\00:38:48.21
is probably near
Mesopotamia somewhere.
00:38:48.24\00:38:52.17
Evidently stop coming
to visit them out there
00:38:52.20\00:38:54.38
at the dump
they turned from him.
00:38:54.41\00:38:56.65
John 17:5 says
"Even His brothers"
00:38:56.68\00:38:59.78
speaking of Jesus "Even His
brothers did not believing Him."
00:38:59.81\00:39:05.07
Luke 23:49.
00:39:05.10\00:39:07.64
Speaking of Christ by
Job "All His acquaintances,
00:39:07.67\00:39:11.47
and the women who
followed Him from Galilee,
00:39:11.50\00:39:13.62
they stood at a distance,
watching these things."
00:39:13.65\00:39:16.32
When He went
through is suffering
00:39:16.35\00:39:17.53
instead of being right there--
00:39:17.56\00:39:18.59
while the end
of day you got Mary
00:39:18.62\00:39:20.09
and three Mary's at
the foot of the cross
00:39:20.12\00:39:22.87
but it says the
disciples stood far off Him
00:39:22.90\00:39:25.76
most of the seven or six
hours Christ was on the cross.
00:39:25.79\00:39:31.23
Now one thing I
want you to think about
00:39:31.26\00:39:33.21
before I run pass this.
00:39:33.24\00:39:36.03
The sufferings of Job and Jesus
00:39:36.06\00:39:38.79
are something
you need to consider
00:39:38.82\00:39:42.31
because the Bible tells us
that it is through tribulation
00:39:42.34\00:39:45.62
we enter the kingdom of God.
00:39:45.65\00:39:48.03
Now there are tribulations
the church is gone through.
00:39:48.06\00:39:52.40
But there is a great
tribulation the Bible speaks of.
00:39:52.43\00:39:56.53
There is the time
of Jacob's trouble,
00:39:56.56\00:39:58.85
is that behind us or before us?
00:39:58.88\00:40:01.90
If you read in Daniel
Chapter 12 it tells us
00:40:01.93\00:40:04.19
that when Michael stands up
there will be a time of trouble
00:40:04.22\00:40:07.35
such as there
never has been since
00:40:07.38\00:40:08.98
the there was a nation
even under that same time.
00:40:09.01\00:40:11.23
Christ says speaking
of the time of trouble.
00:40:11.26\00:40:17.09
He that endures unto
the end shall be saved.
00:40:17.12\00:40:19.96
As you read the story
of Job God has inviting us
00:40:19.99\00:40:23.10
to have that kind of
faith because I believe
00:40:23.13\00:40:26.76
that everybody is
going to experience
00:40:26.79\00:40:30.11
the isolation that
Jesus and Job experienced.
00:40:30.14\00:40:34.00
What I'm saying is at some
point we're all going to have
00:40:34.03\00:40:37.91
every earthly support removed
00:40:37.94\00:40:40.10
so all that we've
got to lean on is Christ.
00:40:40.13\00:40:43.80
You'll not be hanging
on to a little bit here,
00:40:43.83\00:40:46.11
and a little bit
here, and a little bit here.
00:40:46.14\00:40:48.86
The only thing you're gonna
be able to rest on is Jesus.
00:40:48.89\00:40:53.87
His friends, His
family, His people,
00:40:53.90\00:40:57.93
His money everything was
gone and all He had was His God.
00:40:57.96\00:41:03.71
And so we may
have that happen to us.
00:41:03.74\00:41:07.53
2 Timothy 3:12.
00:41:07.56\00:41:09.67
This is relevant for us to
study because the Bible says
00:41:09.70\00:41:11.85
"Yes, and all who desire
to live godly in Christ Jesus
00:41:11.88\00:41:16.07
will suffer persecution."
00:41:16.10\00:41:17.55
We'll all be
abandoned at some point.
00:41:17.58\00:41:20.34
We'll all be prosecuted.
00:41:20.37\00:41:23.01
Now as you
consider the story of Job
00:41:23.04\00:41:25.35
when you get near
the end of the book
00:41:25.38\00:41:27.71
the tide begins to turn.
00:41:27.74\00:41:30.05
And this is great discourse
it happens between Job and God.
00:41:30.08\00:41:34.43
God speaks audibly to Job.
00:41:34.46\00:41:37.28
Did God speak audibly to Jesus?
00:41:37.31\00:41:41.12
Yeah, that's
something to consider.
00:41:41.15\00:41:44.07
Then God says
that Job was innocent,
00:41:44.10\00:41:46.61
his friends were wrong.
00:41:46.64\00:41:49.88
And Job forgives
his friends for a bit--
00:41:49.91\00:41:54.90
I mean, you know,
sometimes in your hour of need
00:41:54.93\00:41:56.66
when your
friends leave you hanging
00:41:56.69\00:41:58.32
or when they
turn your back on you
00:41:58.35\00:41:59.76
when you need
them the most sometimes
00:41:59.79\00:42:01.54
they stop being
your friends forever.
00:42:01.57\00:42:04.49
Let's face it, that's
the way some of us react
00:42:04.52\00:42:07.09
if our friends let us
down when we really need them.
00:42:07.12\00:42:08.72
We'll say, I really needed you,
00:42:08.75\00:42:09.78
I don't need you as friend
anymore, forgot about you.
00:42:09.81\00:42:13.47
That's not what Job did.
00:42:13.50\00:42:15.31
He not only
forgives his friends,
00:42:15.34\00:42:16.65
he intercedes with
God for his friends.
00:42:16.68\00:42:20.54
Jesus intercedes with God for us
00:42:20.57\00:42:24.40
who are
responsible for His death.
00:42:24.43\00:42:28.37
He becomes our intercedes well,
00:42:28.40\00:42:29.58
not only that Job was a
mediator, he is a priest.
00:42:29.61\00:42:33.30
In the very
beginning of the book it says
00:42:33.33\00:42:34.67
he is offering sacrifice for
his sons, right, for his family.
00:42:34.70\00:42:38.18
The end of the
book he is offering
00:42:38.21\00:42:39.24
sacrifice for his friends.
00:42:39.27\00:42:41.36
He is a great mediator.
00:42:41.39\00:42:43.42
You can read about
that in Job 1: 4, 5.
00:42:43.45\00:42:46.53
His boys would go and
celebrate each others birthday
00:42:46.56\00:42:49.47
and they would have a feast
and Job would offer sacrifice
00:42:49.50\00:42:51.43
in case they got carried away
00:42:51.46\00:42:52.73
and they curse
God in their hearts.
00:42:52.76\00:42:55.10
Job 42. Listen to this verse 8.
00:42:55.13\00:42:58.82
"Now therefore, take
for yourselves seven bulls
00:42:58.85\00:43:01.42
and seven rams."
00:43:01.45\00:43:03.26
By the way the sacred
numbers are three and seven
00:43:03.29\00:43:06.10
appear a lot in the Book of Jobs
as they do in the life of Jesus.
00:43:06.13\00:43:10.64
His friends sit
down for seven days,
00:43:10.67\00:43:12.60
Job's got seven
sons, three daughter.
00:43:12.63\00:43:14.67
You gonna find that
number appearing a lot.
00:43:14.70\00:43:16.18
Those was sacred number.
00:43:16.21\00:43:17.44
Three friends.
00:43:17.47\00:43:19.90
"Take for yourselves
seven bulls and seven rams
00:43:19.93\00:43:24.54
and go to My servant
Job, and offer for yourselves
00:43:24.57\00:43:27.30
a burnt offering, and My
servant Job shall pray for you."
00:43:27.33\00:43:31.00
Jesus is our intercedes
where He prays for us.
00:43:31.03\00:43:33.50
"For I will accept him."
00:43:33.53\00:43:35.64
They are saying, God is
saying to the friends of Job,
00:43:35.67\00:43:37.39
you make a sacrifice and because
of Job I will forgive you.
00:43:37.42\00:43:42.45
Now isn't that like Christ?
00:43:42.48\00:43:45.09
I mean, it's--we pray to
God but we do it in Christ name.
00:43:45.12\00:43:48.18
It's through the merits of
Christ that we get forgiven
00:43:48.21\00:43:50.53
and it's through the name of
Job his friends are forgiven.
00:43:50.56\00:43:53.42
So he becomes a
great intercedes for them.
00:43:53.45\00:43:56.87
"Because you
have not spoken of me
00:43:56.90\00:43:58.59
what is right as
my servant Job had."
00:43:58.62\00:44:00.86
Don't miss that.
00:44:00.89\00:44:02.50
In the whole Book of Job
God says Job's word was right.
00:44:02.53\00:44:07.93
What do we know about Jesus?
00:44:07.96\00:44:09.14
Are His words
true? He is the Word.
00:44:09.17\00:44:12.74
Romans 8:34 "Who
is he who condemns?
00:44:12.77\00:44:15.97
It is Christ who died,
furthermore He is risen,
00:44:16.00\00:44:19.38
He is even at the
right hand of God,
00:44:19.41\00:44:20.88
who makes intercession for us."
00:44:20.91\00:44:22.37
Jesus is our
intercessor and our mediator.
00:44:22.40\00:44:25.68
And you know, what else
I love about the comparison
00:44:25.71\00:44:28.07
between Job and Jesus is as
you near the end of the book
00:44:28.10\00:44:33.35
there are times when
Job's faith is vacillating
00:44:33.38\00:44:37.89
and you can say he is in
why, why, why and Jesus why.
00:44:37.92\00:44:40.70
Why have You forsaken Me?
00:44:40.73\00:44:42.87
But it triumphs then you
read those versus where he says,
00:44:42.90\00:44:46.75
"Though he slay me
yet will I trust him."
00:44:46.78\00:44:50.69
So no matter what happens
Christ on the cross at the end
00:44:50.72\00:44:54.04
He triumphs, He ends up saying
00:44:54.07\00:44:56.70
Father into Your hands I commend
My spirit, it is finished.
00:44:56.73\00:45:00.95
He knew that His
mission was complete.
00:45:00.98\00:45:03.15
It was great triumph there.
00:45:03.18\00:45:06.29
By the way that's a
Job 13:15, Luke 23:46.
00:45:06.32\00:45:10.80
Now something
that's really fascinating
00:45:10.83\00:45:13.66
at the end of the Book of Job,
00:45:13.69\00:45:16.10
the beginning
of the Book of Job,
00:45:16.13\00:45:17.42
Job doesn't
know what's going on.
00:45:17.45\00:45:18.79
And all the
sudden he gets blindsided
00:45:18.82\00:45:20.62
by all these plagues
and losing his family,
00:45:20.65\00:45:22.99
and losing his
wealth, and his health.
00:45:23.02\00:45:26.42
And he said, why is
God done this to me?
00:45:26.45\00:45:28.22
By the end of the
book God is showing Him
00:45:28.25\00:45:30.18
now who is really behind it.
00:45:30.21\00:45:33.24
He talks about creation
and the birds and the beast
00:45:33.27\00:45:35.38
but then all of the
sudden in Job Chapter 41
00:45:35.41\00:45:40.27
God dedicates an entire chapter
00:45:40.30\00:45:42.29
to some sea monster
called the Leviathan.
00:45:42.32\00:45:46.92
Why is God talking all
the sudden about this monster
00:45:46.95\00:45:51.17
in the second last chapter
of the book, whole chapter?
00:45:51.20\00:45:57.20
Let's find out
who is this leviathan.
00:45:57.23\00:45:59.31
But by the way you can
read here in Job 41:19, 20
00:45:59.34\00:46:04.02
"Out of his mouth
go burning lights,
00:46:04.05\00:46:06.02
sparks of fire shoot out.
00:46:06.05\00:46:07.91
Smoke goes out of his nostrils,
00:46:07.94\00:46:10.01
as from a boiling
pot and burning rushes."
00:46:10.04\00:46:14.22
Job 41:34 "He
beholds every high thing,
00:46:14.25\00:46:18.78
He is king over all
the children of pride."
00:46:18.81\00:46:22.03
Who do you think the
leviathan represents?
00:46:22.06\00:46:24.19
Who is the king over
the children of pride?
00:46:24.22\00:46:27.92
Satan, the devil.
00:46:27.95\00:46:29.72
Now listen here's
the key Isaiah 27:1
00:46:29.75\00:46:34.53
"In that day the Lord
with His sore and great
00:46:34.56\00:46:37.95
and strong sword"
that's the word of God
00:46:37.98\00:46:40.94
"shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent,
00:46:40.97\00:46:46.24
even leviathan
that crooked serpent,
00:46:46.27\00:46:48.92
and He shall slay the
dragon that is in the sea."
00:46:48.95\00:46:51.79
Oh, ah-ha, you ought to have
an epiphany right about now.
00:46:51.82\00:46:57.15
Does that sound familiar to you?
00:46:57.18\00:46:58.76
Revelation Chapter 12
speaking of that dragon.
00:46:58.79\00:47:02.20
"Another sign appeared in
heaven, a great fiery dragon."
00:47:02.23\00:47:05.26
Says in Chapter 13:1
"This beast with seven heads
00:47:05.29\00:47:08.67
and seven horns
comes up out of the sea."
00:47:08.70\00:47:11.74
And it says that
"Dragon that serpent of all
00:47:11.77\00:47:14.52
called the devil and Satan."
00:47:14.55\00:47:16.73
Dragon, serpent,
leviathan out of the sea.
00:47:16.76\00:47:20.63
Who were we talking about?
00:47:20.66\00:47:22.40
So in the end of the
book what is God saying?
00:47:22.43\00:47:25.47
Now there may have been some
sea creature, it's now extinct.
00:47:25.50\00:47:29.44
Scholars don't agree,
some say it's a crocodile,
00:47:29.47\00:47:31.69
but they say couldn't
been a crocodiles in the ocean
00:47:31.72\00:47:33.47
well, there are
salt water crocodiles
00:47:33.50\00:47:36.31
but they weren't that big.
00:47:36.34\00:47:38.28
And they think it
maybe some left over
00:47:38.31\00:47:40.95
of a prehistoric creature
00:47:40.98\00:47:42.69
that they had backed
then and it's now extinct.
00:47:42.72\00:47:44.53
Nobody really knows.
00:47:44.56\00:47:47.40
But it talks about
this enormous monster
00:47:47.43\00:47:49.64
that no
fisherman could ever catch,
00:47:49.67\00:47:51.89
that no one could ever tamed
00:47:51.92\00:47:53.03
this monster sea
creature that was out there.
00:47:53.06\00:47:56.10
And believe me
sailors have plenty of stories
00:47:56.13\00:47:57.68
and theories about what that is.
00:47:57.71\00:48:01.33
But he is basically saying
00:48:01.36\00:48:03.52
you can't defeat the
leviathan without me.
00:48:03.55\00:48:06.86
He is the one who is
behind your sufferings,
00:48:06.89\00:48:09.02
he is the one who brought
fire down from the heaven
00:48:09.05\00:48:10.91
and burnt up your crops,
00:48:10.94\00:48:12.92
who is able to
send this sickness,
00:48:12.95\00:48:14.31
who destroyed your
family with a tornado.
00:48:14.34\00:48:17.51
You can't defeat the
devil, but God says I can.
00:48:17.54\00:48:22.58
And so on the end of the
Book of Job God is saying
00:48:22.61\00:48:25.08
that I'm the one who
can destroy the leviathan,
00:48:25.11\00:48:28.07
the king of pride.
00:48:28.10\00:48:30.29
And Job is going, it's not
you God who is been against me.
00:48:30.32\00:48:34.56
It's the leviathan,
the devil, the dragon,
00:48:34.59\00:48:36.53
the serpent who
is been after me.
00:48:36.56\00:48:39.03
And you simply let his
leash get a little longer
00:48:39.06\00:48:42.56
so that I could learn
something, learn to trust you.
00:48:42.59\00:48:46.86
You know, what's also
beautiful about the Book of Job
00:48:46.89\00:48:51.89
is that it teaches us lessons
of hanging on in patience.
00:48:51.92\00:48:58.68
In the end Job is blessed.
00:48:58.71\00:49:02.87
He is doubly blessed in the end.
00:49:02.90\00:49:06.01
Matter of fact, Job kind of
goes through a resurrection,
00:49:06.04\00:49:08.55
don't you think?
00:49:08.58\00:49:09.73
He goes from being in the
dump cover with boils dying,
00:49:09.76\00:49:13.91
it looks
terminal, all of the sudden
00:49:13.94\00:49:16.04
God heals him miraculously.
00:49:16.07\00:49:18.55
He is
interceding for his friends,
00:49:18.58\00:49:20.29
he restores all of his wealth,
he has got twice as much wealth.
00:49:20.32\00:49:23.83
You look at what he has, add up
00:49:23.86\00:49:25.12
what he has got in the beginning
00:49:25.15\00:49:26.30
then you add up what he
has at the end it's doubled.
00:49:26.33\00:49:29.91
And he lives another
140 beyond that experience.
00:49:29.94\00:49:33.54
We don't know how old he was,
you can just speculate he was
00:49:33.57\00:49:35.75
at least for him to be
have those kids that he had
00:49:35.78\00:49:38.83
and have the wealth he had based
on that time in what he lived,
00:49:38.86\00:49:41.33
he lived over 200 years.
00:49:41.36\00:49:44.71
And so it was like
a type of resurrection
00:49:44.74\00:49:46.37
he went through just like Jesus.
00:49:46.40\00:49:48.33
And his glory returned to him
00:49:48.36\00:49:49.81
as Christ when he
ascended to heaven.
00:49:49.84\00:49:51.78
His health returned to him,
his friends returned to him,
00:49:51.81\00:49:54.59
everything came back.
00:49:54.62\00:49:56.60
And you may go
through trials but, you know,
00:49:56.63\00:49:58.22
the Book of Job
ends with the happy note.
00:49:58.25\00:50:00.75
That's what James says
remember the patience of Job
00:50:00.78\00:50:03.45
don't get discourage
of your going through
00:50:03.48\00:50:04.92
the trial, friends.
00:50:04.95\00:50:06.49
God still loves you,
there is a devil out there
00:50:06.52\00:50:09.34
and he is gonna
try and cause problems.
00:50:09.37\00:50:11.16
But when you look at the
sculpt of Job's life 200 years.
00:50:11.19\00:50:16.70
And then the 42 chapters
00:50:16.73\00:50:18.14
how long that it last
out of that 200 years?
00:50:18.17\00:50:21.78
A few weeks, a few weeks of
suffering for the 200 years.
00:50:21.81\00:50:27.68
So the suffering that
we experience in this life
00:50:27.71\00:50:30.25
and the episodes of suffering
in this life compare to eternity
00:50:30.28\00:50:33.14
what is, is it
worthy to be compared?
00:50:33.17\00:50:36.24
Its small compared to
the glory, and the joy,
00:50:36.27\00:50:39.49
and the
happiness, and the blessing,
00:50:39.52\00:50:40.87
and the riches that God is
gonna give us for eternity.
00:50:40.90\00:50:44.40
So the Book of
Job is not a sad book.
00:50:44.43\00:50:46.26
Oh, there's a lot of heavy
things in there but, you know,
00:50:46.29\00:50:48.06
it starts out
talking about a perfect man
00:50:48.09\00:50:50.68
and it ends up talking
about a happy blessed man.
00:50:50.71\00:50:53.97
And then it says that in between
00:50:54.00\00:50:56.30
you've got God's
blessing the protection
00:50:56.33\00:50:58.33
that devil makes an attack.
00:50:58.36\00:51:00.60
Job does not give up his faith
00:51:00.63\00:51:02.87
and then in the end
he is blessed forever.
00:51:02.90\00:51:05.98
You and I are
going to get attacked.
00:51:06.01\00:51:07.89
You might be going
through an attack right now.
00:51:07.92\00:51:10.23
Don't give up your faith.
00:51:10.26\00:51:11.58
Remember where I started
out with that quote from James.
00:51:11.61\00:51:14.52
"Behold, we count
them happy which endure."
00:51:14.55\00:51:16.71
Jesus said, blessed are
those who endure to the end.
00:51:16.74\00:51:21.40
They will be saved.
00:51:21.43\00:51:22.46
"He then endures to
the end shall be saved."
00:51:22.49\00:51:24.07
You've heard the patience of Job
00:51:24.10\00:51:25.72
and you've seen
the end of the Lord
00:51:25.75\00:51:28.47
that the Lord is
pitiful and tender mercy.
00:51:28.50\00:51:31.04
In the end, friends, we win, not
the leviathan or not the dragon.
00:51:31.07\00:51:36.55
Can you see Jesus
in the Book of Job?
00:51:36.58\00:51:40.02
You know, it's
really is holy grounded
00:51:40.05\00:51:41.65
tells you something
about how much Jesus
00:51:41.68\00:51:43.32
must love you
'cause of the sufferings
00:51:43.35\00:51:45.65
He went through and Job
did not suffer like Jesus.
00:51:45.68\00:51:49.66
He suffered and you may suffer,
00:51:49.69\00:51:52.91
you might be suffering now
00:51:52.94\00:51:54.98
and I haven't
suffered like Jesus suffered.
00:51:55.01\00:51:57.36
He took the weight of the sins
of the world on his shoulder
00:51:57.39\00:52:00.28
for you and me
because He loves us so much,
00:52:00.31\00:52:02.42
'cause He doesn't want
us to suffer like that.
00:52:02.45\00:52:05.07
And I think you could
trust the God like that
00:52:05.10\00:52:07.50
don't you, friends?
00:52:07.53\00:52:08.93
Why does God allow us
to go through these trials?
00:52:08.96\00:52:12.94
It's through constant irritation
00:52:12.97\00:52:15.98
that annoys your produces pearl.
00:52:16.01\00:52:19.22
It's through pressure and heat
00:52:19.25\00:52:23.00
that a lump of coal
turns into a diamond.
00:52:23.03\00:52:26.47
It is through fiery trials
that God purifies His church.
00:52:26.50\00:52:30.04
It's the hot iron and the
hot water that cut the wrinkles
00:52:30.07\00:52:32.78
out of the garment, the
wedding dress or God's bride.
00:52:32.81\00:52:39.66
And I notice something
when the weather is nice
00:52:39.69\00:52:42.60
and warming you got a
lot of flies and mosquitoes.
00:52:42.63\00:52:46.02
With the winter blast that's
kind of tough when the cold
00:52:46.05\00:52:49.26
winter freezing weather
comes but now the nice thing
00:52:49.29\00:52:52.22
is you open the window there
is no more files and mosquitoes.
00:52:52.25\00:52:55.01
Sometime the God sends
that winter storm into your life
00:52:55.04\00:52:57.51
'cause He is
killing all the bugs. Amen.
00:52:57.54\00:53:00.36
There is a blessing and
all those things so you maybe
00:53:00.39\00:53:02.34
going through some
trials He is purifying the gold
00:53:02.37\00:53:04.56
and getting all the draws out.
00:53:04.59\00:53:06.78
Don't be
discourage, hang on like Job
00:53:06.81\00:53:10.46
and you'll come
forth on the other side
00:53:10.49\00:53:12.08
God will speak
to you face to face
00:53:12.11\00:53:13.42
like He talked
to Job face to face.
00:53:13.45\00:53:16.18
Your character will be purified
and you will be like Christ.
00:53:16.21\00:53:18.55
Amen. Let's pray.
00:53:18.58\00:53:22.11
Lord, we are
inspired and encouraged.
00:53:22.14\00:53:25.17
As we see not
only the forgiveness
00:53:25.20\00:53:27.56
and the loving and the majesty
of Jesus reflected in the life
00:53:27.59\00:53:31.97
that He --but we seen today,
00:53:32.00\00:53:34.38
Lord, your suffering
reflected in the life of Job,
00:53:34.41\00:53:38.41
and You did that all for us.
00:53:38.44\00:53:41.39
Lord, I know that we just
can't even comprehend how much
00:53:41.42\00:53:44.32
You must love us and that
You would go through all of that
00:53:44.35\00:53:47.05
and take the punishment
and the penalty of our sins.
00:53:47.08\00:53:50.62
Also, Lord, we could
see through the story today
00:53:50.65\00:53:54.39
of how we may
all go through trials
00:53:54.42\00:53:57.00
and sometimes it may
appear that You abandoned us
00:53:57.03\00:53:59.63
and we've been forsaken
and lost every earthly support.
00:53:59.66\00:54:03.76
But we know that You
are still there beyond
00:54:03.79\00:54:05.49
the clouds that
You are still looking
00:54:05.52\00:54:07.31
down on us with the love.
00:54:07.34\00:54:09.36
I pray, Lord, in a special
way that You'll give us a faith
00:54:09.39\00:54:12.57
that will endure to
the end in these last days.
00:54:12.60\00:54:15.51
All of us will be tried.
00:54:15.54\00:54:17.65
Help us also not to
be a like Job's friends
00:54:17.68\00:54:21.04
but that we can be
loyal dependable friends
00:54:21.07\00:54:24.20
to those around us
and especially right now
00:54:24.23\00:54:27.19
we ask that You
will be near to those
00:54:27.22\00:54:29.04
who responded to the invitation
00:54:29.07\00:54:31.14
whatever the trials might
be some who maybe listening
00:54:31.17\00:54:33.78
or watching now
are going through
00:54:33.81\00:54:35.65
their own time of
trial and suffering.
00:54:35.68\00:54:39.95
I pray that You'll
be a comfort to them
00:54:39.98\00:54:41.51
and help them to find courage.
00:54:41.54\00:54:42.94
May their faith
rise and can they say
00:54:42.97\00:54:46.20
yes though He slay
me yet will I trust Him.
00:54:46.23\00:54:49.37
And even though this
body worms may destroy
00:54:49.40\00:54:53.11
yet in my flesh I
know I will see God,
00:54:53.14\00:54:56.24
my own eyes will
see Him not another.
00:54:56.27\00:54:59.01
I pray that we
can have that faith
00:54:59.04\00:55:00.50
when we'll even
look beyond the grave.
00:55:00.53\00:55:02.52
Bless us as we
go from this place
00:55:02.55\00:55:04.32
knowing that in
the end Job was blessed
00:55:04.35\00:55:07.12
that we will be doubly
blessed in Your kingdom.
00:55:07.15\00:55:09.72
And I thank you,
Lord, for the promise
00:55:09.75\00:55:11.55
that we can be overcomers
00:55:11.58\00:55:13.26
'cause we pray these
things in Jesus name. Amen.
00:55:13.29\00:55:16.07
Virtually everyone on the
earth regardless of religion
00:55:21.50\00:55:24.52
and nationality recognize that
there is some form of battle
00:55:24.55\00:55:28.87
raging in the world around us
00:55:28.90\00:55:30.69
between the
forces of good and evil.
00:55:30.72\00:55:33.87
A colossal struggle
between light and darkness,
00:55:33.90\00:55:37.05
truth and error, oppression
and freedom, right and wrong,
00:55:37.08\00:55:41.44
and ultimately life and death.
00:55:41.47\00:55:43.89
Journey back through time
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00:55:50.47\00:55:55.33
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00:55:55.36\00:55:58.34
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00:55:58.37\00:56:01.70
The birth of evil,
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00:56:01.73\00:56:06.11
A mutiny that moved to earth.
00:56:06.14\00:56:09.81
Behold, the creation
of a beautiful new planet
00:56:09.84\00:56:13.24
and the first humans.
00:56:13.27\00:56:15.26
Witness the temptation of evil.
00:56:15.29\00:56:18.36
Discover god's amazing
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00:56:18.39\00:56:22.64
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