Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG002937
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00:09 It's been 2,000 years since the glorious light of the Cross
00:12 illuminated the world veiled and darkness and confusion 00:15 about the character of God. 00:17 And still today the greatest need of mankind 00:19 as a revelation of God's love 00:21 has revealed in the life of Christ. 00:24 Amazing Facts presents the Everlasting Gospel 00:27 with Pastor Doug Batchelor coming to you each week 00:29 from Sacramento Central Church in sunny California. 00:33 Discover hidden treasures and God's word today. 00:38 If you are visiting here at Central Church 00:40 you haven't been here lately in the last few weeks 00:44 with the few exceptions while I've been gone 00:46 I've been doing a series about Christ in all the Bible 00:50 or Jesus throughout the Bible. 00:54 And today we'll represent 00:56 the fourth installment in this series. 00:59 I don't know how long the series will last 01:00 but it could go on a long time 01:02 'cause there's a lot of information. 01:04 So I'm sure I'll start before I cover everything. 01:07 But it's just one of my favorite studies 01:09 as looking at the examples of Jesus 01:11 you see everywhere in the Bible. 01:14 You know, Christ is called the Word, 01:18 the Bible is called the Word, 01:20 Christ is called the bread of life, 01:22 the Bible has called the bread of life. 01:24 Christ is called the rock, the Bible is called the rock. 01:28 Christ is called good and wonderful, 01:30 the Word is called good and wonderful. 01:32 As you go through the different definition 01:34 and words used to describe the Bible in the Bible 01:38 you find there are almost always also used to describe Jesus. 01:42 So it shouldn't surprise you that all through the Bible 01:45 you find Jesus. 01:47 Now in previous studies we have talked about 01:53 how Moses is a type of Christ as the great law giver. 01:58 Joseph shows the forgiveness of Jesus. 02:02 We looked at the life of Joseph. 02:04 David the king shows the faith and the majesty of Jesus. 02:10 Today we're going to look at the Book of Job 02:13 and we'll understand something about the sufferings of Christ. 02:17 We're really going to be on holy ground today. 02:21 Now I don't know if you've ever heard about the classic 02:24 called "Paradise Lost" written by John Milton. 02:28 Considered by some to be the greatest of-- 02:31 one of the greatest English authors and poets, a genius. 02:38 And in this epic poem I just wonder 02:41 is there anyone here that has read all of Paradise Lost. 02:46 Were you asked to do it in school? 02:50 Not too many people do it on their own. 02:52 It's usually required reading because when I pick it up 02:55 and I read it-- you can read it online for free by the way. 02:58 And if you want to have your mouth fall open take a page. 03:02 Even the first page of Milton's, Paradise Lost 03:05 and you read and the thoughts are so deep 03:06 and so profound. 03:07 It's written in very deep English. 03:14 He spoke Latin, and he German fluently, 03:17 and he spoke English 03:18 and parts of several other languages, brilliant guy. 03:21 The poem is 186 pages, 03:25 thousands of lines in the poem, it is an epic poem. 03:32 When you read the Book of Job you are reading something 03:35 that surpasses Milton's, Paradise Lost. 03:40 Job is probably some of the greatest of not-- 03:43 one of the greatest books of poetry in the Bible. 03:46 For one thing little history on the Book of Job, 03:52 it's probably the oldest book in the Bible. 03:57 Now how do we know that? 03:58 Probably written by Moses 04:00 while he was in the wilderness of Median. 04:03 In the Book of Job for one thing 04:04 the characters in the Book of Job is telling you, 04:07 Job lives over 200 years, 04:09 God adds another 140 years through his life 04:12 after his great trial that he went to. 04:15 The only other time in history when you find 04:17 they were live in about that range the father of Abraham, 04:21 the people who lived around the tower of Babel 04:23 were living in that span of time. 04:25 Terah lived 205 years and his contemporaries. 04:29 In the Book of Job it talks a lot about speech and words, 04:34 it never makes any reference in those 42 chapters 04:37 to writing of any kind because that was back 04:41 before men needed to codify truth. 04:46 They lived so long and their minds were so profound 04:49 and their memories everything was passed on verbally 04:53 but people who had virtually photographic memories. 04:57 And Job lived during the time of the great, 05:00 the patriots who lived back shortly after the flood. 05:03 So it's one of the oldest books written by people 05:06 who knew Noah if you can imagine that 05:11 incredibly profound in its words. 05:14 It mirrors the teachings of Jesus in many ways. 05:19 All through the Book of Job you can find 05:21 allegories and references to Jesus. 05:24 Not only the Book of Job but the whole Old Testament 05:27 really mirrors the life of Christ. 05:30 Its different facets of the life of Jesus 05:32 like a diamond you turn it to the light 05:34 you see different facets and cuts 05:36 in the diamond glimmering. 05:38 As you look through the Old Testament 05:39 you see Jesus everywhere 05:41 and the Book of Job is no exception. 05:44 Now I don't have time in this one presentation 05:47 to cover the 42 chapters in this poem. 05:52 But we're going to sort of fly over 05:53 and look at some high points that deal specifically 05:56 where the life principally the sufferings of Christ. 05:59 Because the Book of Job like the gospels 06:02 in the Book of Acts it's divided up 06:03 into four debates and a summary. 06:09 The gospels are divided up into Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 06:11 and then the history in the Book of Acts. 06:13 So even the Book of Job is divided 06:15 like the history of Jesus very much. 06:18 And you are gonna see I think a lot of parallels here 06:21 and so just wanted to give a background a little bit on this. 06:25 Job is not a fictitious character. 06:27 Some people when they reads about the lifespan of Job 06:30 and the battle between good and evil transpires they say 06:33 oh, this is just it's an allegory. 06:35 Well, if you believe the Bible Ezekiel says 06:38 the Job was a real character. 06:40 Ezekiel 14:14 "Though these three men, 06:45 Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in the land, 06:47 they will deliver but their own souls 06:49 by their righteousness, says the Lord." 06:51 Ezekiel lumps Job in there with Noah and Daniel. 06:55 So if you believe they are real 06:56 you need to believe Job was a real person. 06:58 James 5:11 he says 07:01 "Behold, we count them happy which endure. 07:05 And you heard of the patience of Job, 07:07 and have seen the end of the Lord, 07:09 that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." 07:12 New and Old Testament referred to Job as a real character 07:16 and probably for one thing the reason 07:20 that I believe that Job was real is because his life models 07:24 and reflects the life of Jesus so much principally 07:27 the sufferings of Christ and the sacrifice that Jesus made. 07:31 Even in the sense that like Melchizedek 07:34 you don't know where he comes from 07:36 Job suddenly appears out of history 07:37 and then you never read about the ancestors 07:39 and then he disappears without beginning or end 07:42 like Jesus from Alpha to Omega no beginning, no end. 07:47 He is eternal, so even in that sense Job is a type of Christ. 07:50 One very easy thing to discern how Job is like Jesus 07:54 is in the first chapter the first line 07:58 There was, Job was perfect in upright it says 08:02 "There was a man in the land of Uz, 08:04 whose name was Job, 08:06 and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God, 08:10 and he hated evil." 08:12 In the very beginning the Bible extols 08:15 almost the sinlessness of Job. 08:18 Now I'm not saying Job was sinless 08:19 'cause he was man and the Bible says all have sinned. 08:22 But he was a righteous man and a godly man. 08:25 Christ was sinless. 08:27 1 Peter 2:22, that's easy to remember 1 Peter 2:22. 08:33 It says "Christ who committed no sin, 08:36 no was deceit found in his mouth." 08:39 Again in the Book of Job 1:22 very must like 1 Peter. 08:44 "In all this Job did not sin, nor charged God would wrong." 08:50 Job 23:11, 12 Jobs says of himself. 08:55 "My foot has held fast to His steps, 08:57 I have kept His way and not turned aside. 09:00 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips." 09:03 By the way Jesus said, I have kept my Father's commandments. 09:06 So He said something almost identical to Job there. 09:09 Listen still in Job 23:12 09:12 "I have treasured the words of His mouth 09:14 more than my necessary food." 09:18 Doesn't Jesus say "Man will not live by bread alone, 09:22 but by every word that proceeds 09:23 from the mouth of God." 09:25 You can hear echoes. 09:26 Now you realize that with the type 09:29 and with an anti-type that the anti-type 09:34 is usually it's a shadow it's not an exact replica 09:37 but there is a great similarities there. 09:40 And this is where as you read through the Book of Job 09:42 you keep seeing the shadows 09:45 in the types of Christ that are there. 09:48 Job was called a servant of God. 09:51 Jesus is identified as a servant. 09:53 Job 2:3 "The Lord said to Satan, 09:56 'Have you considered My servant Job, 09:58 there is none like him on the earth, 10:00 a blameless and upright man.'" 10:02 Speaking of Christ Isaiah prophecies. 10:05 Isaiah 42:1 "Behold! 10:08 My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One 10:10 in whom My soul delights! 10:12 I have put My Spirit upon Him, 10:14 He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles." 10:19 Matthew 20:28 Jesus said, 10:22 "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, 10:26 but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." 10:28 Christ was the servant, Job was a servant of God. 10:32 And even in the very life of Job 10:36 he has a lot of God like characteristics. 10:40 For instance, if you read in Job 1:3 10:44 "Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, 10:47 three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, 10:50 five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, 10:53 so this man was the greatest of all the people of the East." 10:59 He was a king by the standards of the day. 11:02 Christ is our king, He was very wealthy, 11:05 Christ owns the entire universe. 11:08 It speaks of Him as the greatest of the people of the east. 11:10 Jesus is gonna come from what direction? 11:13 And if you know the prophecies of Daniel to make way 11:16 or Revelation make way for the kings of the east 11:18 it speaks about the little cloud arising up out of the east. 11:21 Christ has spoken of that way as that light 11:24 that will arise with healing and his wings. 11:27 Job 29:7-17, "When I went out to the gate of the city, 11:33 when I took my seat in the open square, 11:35 the young men saw me and hid," 11:37 speaks about just the awesomeness of Job 11:40 and the God like qualities. 11:43 "The aged arose and stood, the princes refrained 11:46 from talking, and they put their hand on their mouth," 11:49 It's such a tremendous respect for Him. 11:51 "The voice of nobles was hushed, 11:53 and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. 11:55 When the ear heard, then it blessed me, 11:57 and the eye saw, then it approved me, 12:00 because I delivered the poor who cried out, 12:02 the fatherless and the one who had no helper." 12:05 This is what Jesus did. 12:07 "The blessing of a perishing man came upon me, 12:09 and I caused the widow's heart to sing. 12:12 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me." 12:15 Christ wore a robe of righteousness. 12:16 "My justice was like a robe and a turban." 12:19 The justice of Christ. 12:21 "I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. 12:23 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case 12:27 that I did not know." 12:29 He was a judge. 12:31 "I broke the fangs of the wicked." 12:33 It's like a serpent. 12:35 "And plucked the victim from his teeth." 12:37 Like David did the lamb from the lion and the bear. 12:40 And so all these qualities and Job is describing himself 12:43 before his trial and his sufferings they all mirror. 12:48 Don't they sound like Jesus? 12:49 Couldn't you have inserted Jesus name 12:51 and that sounds like His character. 12:54 Now when you get to the first chapter of Job 12:56 you notice the great controversy is played out 12:58 in the entire Book of Job. 13:00 'Cause in the beginning of the Book of Job 13:02 it talks about a day when the sons of God 13:04 came to present themselves in some heavenly meeting 13:07 before the Lord and Satan comes also 13:11 and he comes to represent this world. 13:14 And God says to Lucifer Satan 13:17 have you considered My servant Job 13:18 there is none like him in the earth? 13:20 And Satan it's all the only reason he serves you 13:22 as you hedge him and protected and blessed him. 13:25 That's a very important truth. 13:27 Can God hedge and protect and bless His people? 13:30 Matter of fact, if it wasn't for the hedge of angels 13:32 the God has around each one of you 13:34 we'd perish very quickly from the devil. 13:37 It's all because of the hedge of the Lord that protects us, 13:41 His guardian angels that were preserved and we are blessed. 13:45 And so the devil then accuses Job before the Lord. 13:49 What is the devil call, the accuser of the brethren? 13:53 And then God does something He withdraws His protection 13:58 from the Job in to order to save others. 14:04 Job goes through his trials to save others. 14:08 You might say, save who? 14:09 What he is saying, Job is a sacrifice for sin? No. 14:12 I'm saying God allowed Job to go through his sufferings. 14:16 And I'm assuming you've all read some of the book as I preach. 14:20 God allows Job to go through his suffering 14:22 because Job them becomes a testimony 14:25 to all these hundreds of generations after 14:28 of the faithfulness of the Lord and the love of the God 14:30 and how you can survive trials. 14:33 Now in the message today I'm not just trying 14:35 to peak your interest by showing you-- 14:36 aren't these interesting bits of trivia of how Job 14:41 and Jesus have these similarities. 14:42 Isn't that interesting? 14:44 Now I tell you what, I really want to say, 14:45 that's there and that should inspire you 14:48 with the inspiration of the Bible. 14:52 But in the examples of Job and Jesus 14:54 and their sufferings they are not the only ones that suffer. 14:59 How many of you have gone through trials and you suffered. 15:03 In the Book of Job God pulls aside the veil 15:06 and you can see the devils in the background 15:09 going around like a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour. 15:11 The whole great controversy between good and evil 15:14 is played out in the Book of Job. 15:16 Just like God is in heaven and the devil is there accusing 15:19 and God is defending and then they are looking at 15:21 what happening with God servant on earth 15:25 and the battle between Christ and Lucifer 15:26 is been fought in the life of Job, and the friends of Job. 15:30 The great controversy is also been fought 15:32 in your life, in your heart. 15:35 When you get the victory because of your trust 15:37 and your faithfulness God says have you considered 15:39 My servant Doug or whoever you put your name in there. 15:43 When we fall the devil points his finger and accuses, 15:46 they don't really love you. 15:49 They will curse your face 15:50 as soon as they don't get their way. 15:51 You take away their money, you take away their health, 15:53 they will shake their fist at you. 15:56 And so the experience of Job is acted out millions of times 16:00 in the lives of his professed servants except 16:03 we want to have the victory that Job had. Amen. 16:06 So it's an illustration of the great controversy. 16:09 In the same way that the devil basically concentrated 16:14 all of the forces of hell to get Job, 16:18 to give up his faith, 'cause basically the devil 16:22 was challenged by God or should say the devil challenged God 16:25 and God took His challenge. 16:26 Says, you remove your protection, 16:28 take away his wealth and then during round two, 16:30 he says take away his health, so he losses wealth and his health. 16:34 Says he'll curse you to your face. 16:37 Then you see that in the story of Job the physical sufferings 16:42 that Job experiences are very much like those of Jesus. 16:47 Job 2:7, 8 "So Satan goes out from the presence of the Lord." 16:52 And this is during round two. 16:53 "And he strikes" First he takes all of his money, 16:56 second "He struck Job with painful boils." 17:02 Not just boils, painful boils. 17:05 "From the sole of his foot." You ever have a blister. 17:10 "To the crown of his head." I want to pause here. 17:14 Quick story probably told you before, 17:16 there is nothing new under the sun. 17:18 I went to summer camp down in the Florida Keys 17:21 my dad used to send us off to summer camp. 17:25 And I don't know what happened I got an infection. 17:27 Doctor says, I got bite by a spider. 17:28 I don't know what happened but the back of my leg 17:32 is actually this leg swell up with the boil 17:36 that was so bad one boil. 17:38 I just laid there in my bed and I rolled back and forth 17:40 and all I could repeat over and over again is the pain, 17:42 the pain, the pain. 17:44 Maybe you've seen somebody that's dying 17:47 from some form of painful cancers, 17:49 some may go quietly some it's not so quiet. 17:53 And to see a person riving in pain Job was covered 17:55 with painful boils loathsome, they smell, he is oozing. 18:02 It's--flies are buzzing around them. 18:05 He then goes and he sits there-- 18:06 I know it's a gross picture 18:07 but it pains the sufferings of Christ, talks about sin. 18:11 He then sits down in the city of dump 18:12 where all the broken pottery is 18:15 and he takes a broken piece of pottery to scrape himself, 18:19 surrounded by flies that are in his eyes 18:22 and his wounds and it's just an awful picture. 18:25 Now I know that's pretty graphic 18:26 but the Bible is pretty graphic here too. 18:29 And the by the way, I don't want to rush pass the point. 18:32 He sits down in the dump. 18:34 Are the dumps in the city or outside? 18:36 Typically outside. 18:37 Where did Christ suffer for us? 18:39 Hebrews 13:12 "Therefore Jesus also, 18:42 that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, 18:45 suffered outside the gate." 18:47 They took Him out where the dumps were so to speak. 18:52 And then it describes in the next chapters, 18:55 37 chapters it follow the sufferings of Job. 19:00 And there is a lot of places where 19:01 it nears the sufferings of Christ. 19:05 For instance, he's forsaken by his friends. 19:09 His friends come from far 19:11 at first they are coming to support him. 19:14 But ultimately as the stories goes on they turn on him. 19:19 They say, what you're getting what you deserve. 19:22 Was Jesus forsaken by His friends? 19:25 Matthew 26:56 "But all this was done that the Scriptures 19:29 and the prophets might be fulfilled. 19:31 All the disciples forsook Him and fled." 19:34 Jobs says, Chapter 19 verse 14 19:38 "My relatives have failed, 19:40 my close friends have forgotten me." 19:42 By the way after Job suffering 19:45 and he is out there in the dump his wife comes along 19:47 and says why don't you just curse God and die. 19:50 All of his family dies except his wife 19:52 the devil saved her so she could come and say 19:54 why don't you just die. 19:56 Sometimes the devil will even use those closes to us 19:59 to discourage us. 20:00 It doesn't mean they are bad 20:01 but you know that even the devil use Peter on Jesus. 20:05 Peter came to Jesus one time and said 20:07 you don't really want to die and cross is not God's plan 20:10 for you and Jesus snapped around and said, 20:11 get, could be behind me by Satan. 20:13 So that the Peter, that doesn't mean Peter was the devil. 20:17 And it doesn't mean your spouse is the devil 20:18 but sometimes the devil will use those closes to us 20:22 to get us when we're already down. 20:24 Now I'm telling you that so you'll be patient 20:26 with your relatives will do this, I'm also telling you 20:28 so you don't be one of those people, right. 20:34 He is forsaken by his friends. 20:36 Mark 14:33 Jesus takes Peter, James, and John with Him, 20:43 In the Garden of Gethsemane. 20:45 Then He began to be troubled and deeply grieved. 20:47 He is anguished, He is weeping, 20:50 and praying, and sweating blood. 20:52 And He says the Peter, James, and John pray with me. 20:54 His three friends and what are they do? 20:57 They started snoring, they go to sleep. 21:00 They ultimately turn on Him and leave and then deny Him. 21:03 How many friends came to Job? Three friends. 21:07 Jesus had His principle three Peter, James, and John 21:10 He took with Him. 21:11 Jobs 6:27 "You would even cast lots for the orphans 21:16 and barter over your friend." 21:17 Well, by the way I need to tell you if I hear you turning 21:20 new Bibles I'm glad you're doing it, 21:21 I'm reading from the Hebrew translation 21:23 this is a transliteration you are probably 21:26 not gonna see this in King James and typical translations. 21:29 But in the Hebrew the word there it says, 21:31 you even cast lots over an orphans 21:34 and barter or trade away your friend. 21:38 Do they cast lots around Jesus? 21:41 Did Judah sell Him or barter Him for 30 pieces of silver? 21:45 In the original that's how it's worded in the Hebrew there. 21:50 His falsely accused of evil. 21:52 Job was the perfect and upright man 21:54 but what did they say about him. 21:56 Job 22:5 His friend said 21:58 "Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquity without end?" 22:02 well, that was opposite the testimony of God 22:06 where is Jesus falsely accused of evil? 22:10 Mathew 26:59 "Now the chief priests, and the elders, 22:15 and all the council sought false testimony against Him" 22:18 false testimony "to put Jesus to death, but found none. 22:23 Even though many false witnesses came forward, 22:25 they found none. 22:26 At last two false witnesses came forward and said, 22:29 'This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple 22:32 and to build it in three days.'" 22:34 And they said when He was hanging on the cross 22:35 the reason you are suffering is because of your wickedness. 22:37 God's abandoned you. 22:42 Job as he sat there in the dump 22:45 we don't know how long he suffered it may have been weeks. 22:48 It's hard to imagine going through that 22:50 for that period of time but as the people came 22:53 and went from the city He who is so highly respected 22:56 they stood up from Him when he walk by, 22:59 now they said, well, God's forsaken you 23:00 and they spit on him. 23:02 And maybe the kids went over and they hit Him with sticks 23:04 and they struck him. 23:06 Listen to what it says here. 23:07 He experienced striking and spitting, but he has made-- 23:11 oh, by the way Job 17:6 "He has made me a byword 23:16 of the people, I have become one in whose face men spit." 23:22 Job 30:10 similar passage. 23:24 "They abhor me, they keep far from me, 23:28 They do not hesitate to spit in My face." 23:30 You ever have anybody spit in your face? 23:33 That happen to me once, you know, I never forget it. 23:37 No not since I've been a preacher. 23:39 That was when I was a kid. 23:42 Now I got to tell you what happened, you will wonder. 23:47 You ever see the movie "The Hiding Place." 23:51 The actress Julie Harris her son Peter was a friend of mine. 23:56 I went over to play with him and I knocked on his door 23:58 in New York and they had one those mail slots. 24:01 And I said, Peter come on out and play. 24:03 And I don't know maybe he didn't want to play that day 24:05 and I kept knocking, come on out. 24:07 And he opened up the mail slot and I looked in 24:10 and he spit in my face. 24:15 See you don't forget something like that, do you? 24:19 And I'm sure they didn't forget it when it happened 24:24 to Job and Jesus either. 24:26 Psalms 22 a messianic prophecy about Jesus. 24:30 "They gape at Me with their mouths." 24:35 This is what they just said about Job. 24:36 They gape at me. 24:37 "They strike me reproachfully on the cheek." 24:40 Oh, by the way that's Job 16:10. 24:42 "They gape at me with their mouth, 24:43 they strike me reproachfully on the cheek. 24:46 Psalms 22 says to Jesus "They gape at Me with their mouths." 24:49 Matthew 26 "Then they spat in His face and beat Him, 24:53 they struck Him with the palms of their hands." 24:58 So Job and Jesus again the sufferings very similar. 25:03 He was apparently outwardly abandoned by God. 25:08 Job 13:24 "Why do You hide Your face, 25:11 and regard me as Your enemy?" 25:14 Job 30:20 "I cry out to You, but You do not hear me, 25:18 I stand up, but You regard me not." 25:21 What did Jesus say hanging on the cross? 25:23 Mark 15:34 "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" 25:29 Have you ever felt abandoned by God? 25:32 Remember as we look at the sufferings of Christ and Job 25:35 Christians also suffer when you fall off Jesus. 25:37 We also experience persecution. 25:39 There will be dark days where you will be tested, 25:42 God will with draw that hedge 25:44 and you will wonder what have I done? 25:47 Why is this happening to me? 25:49 I've gone to visit people in the hospital. 25:51 I remember word for word that's what they said. 25:53 Doug, why is God doing this to me? 25:55 They feel like they are abandoned. 25:58 That doesn't mean Jesus doesn't love you, 26:00 He still loved Job. 26:02 The Father still loves His own son and they suffered. 26:07 John 19:16 It says the Christ was delivered to the council. 26:12 He was handed over to the mob. 26:15 Matthew 26:56, 57 "All the disciples forsook Him and fled. 26:20 And the mob laid hold of Him they led Him away." 26:23 Job said in 16:11, Job 16:11 26:27 "God has delivered me to the ungodly, 26:29 And turned me over to the hands of the wicked." 26:32 Was Christ turned over to the hands of the wicked? 26:35 This mob just demon possessed mob 26:39 good part of His suffering happened 26:40 before He ever got to the cross. 26:42 Jesus did not begin suffering 26:43 for you right there on the cross, 26:45 the suffering began when the mob got hold of Him. 26:49 And Job said why does he turn me over to the wicked? 26:54 Was Jesus physically disfigured? Yes. 26:59 Isaiah 52 this prophecy about Christ 27:02 Isaiah 52 and 53 is a messianic prophecy. 27:05 "Just as many were astonished at you, 27:08 so His visage" his form "was marred more than any man, 27:13 and His form more than the sons of men." 27:15 Christ was so mercilessly beaten that he was barely 27:20 recognizable being scourge and beaten, 27:23 the crown of thorns and the soldiers. 27:26 Job when his friends first came to mourn with him 27:31 when they saw him it says. 27:33 And this is Job 2:12 "They raised their eyes from afar, 27:36 and did not recognize him." 27:41 Yeah, I went to the hospital to visit a church member 27:43 I've known for years. 27:46 And he was suffering with shingles. 27:49 And I haven't seen him in several weeks. 27:51 And this was his final illness. 27:53 He was actually over 100 years of age. 27:56 But I had seen him recently at his home. 27:58 When I went to the hospital I saw this man shriveled up 28:01 in the bed in agony. 28:05 I went back out and I said I'm looking for so and so 28:07 and they say that's his room. 28:10 I went back in and I looked at him 28:11 and I didn't even recognize him. 28:15 And I thought the poor fellow and I remember holding 28:17 his hand as he was suffering 28:20 and he was saying the same thing 28:22 why won't the Lord let me die. 28:23 100 years old in terrible pain. And just a godly man. 28:30 And it doesn't mean God doesn't love us, 28:32 it means there is a devil out there that hates us. 28:35 And sometimes God allows us to suffer 28:37 and you read the book of First and Second Peter, 28:39 I should say books of First and Second Peter 28:42 he talks about why God allow suffering. 28:44 He is purifying us through these things. 28:47 But it doesn't mean He doesn't love us. 28:51 You know in the in the story of Job it talks about 28:55 baring the cross. 28:57 Job 31:36 at least this is the way I see it. 29:02 "Surely I would carry it on my shoulder, 29:05 and bind it on me like a crown." 29:06 He is talking about the sufferings 29:08 that he'll weary-- wear as a badge 29:10 as a crown on his shoulder. 29:13 Christ said, "He that does not take up his cross 29:15 and follow after Me is not worthy of Me." 29:19 Typically they carry the cross on their shoulder, right. 29:22 Matthew 10:38, I was just reading. 29:26 There is more I won't get it all, friends, 29:29 there is a lot here in these 42 chapters of Job 29:32 the parallels of Christ suffering. 29:35 He is pierced by iron. 29:38 Now that's an interesting statement 29:39 because iron was still according to the archeologist 29:42 relatively new back in the time of Job 29:44 very rare, matter of fact, they sort of credit 29:47 the Philistines with making iron more common and it's use. 29:50 The Romans were known as the iron kingdom 29:52 and they did use iron swords, and iron tools, 29:55 and iron mallets, and iron nails. 30:00 Then Jobs says in 20:24, 25 30:04 "He will flee from the iron weapon, 30:06 and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 30:09 It is drawn, it will come out of the body, yes, 30:13 the glittering sword comes out of his gall." 30:15 We even got the word gall there speaking 30:17 of what they gave Christ on the cross. 30:20 "Terrors are upon him." 30:21 Jesus side was pierced by an iron Roman spear tip. 30:27 Mark of course 15:25. 30:30 Now it was a third hour and they crucified Him. 30:33 His feet were also confined when they were crucified. 30:37 Job says this. 30:38 Job 13:27 "You put my feet in the stocks, 30:43 and watch closely all my paths. 30:45 You limit for the soles-- 30:47 you set a limit for the soles of my feet." 30:48 He couldn't move his feet neither could Jesus 30:51 when He was on the cross. 30:53 And this is prophecy Psalm 22:16 30:56 "For dogs have surrounded Me, The congregation of the wicked 30:59 has enclosed Me. 31:01 They pierced My hands and My feet." 31:04 Job is stripped of his clothing. 31:09 Matter of fact, after his suffering he tore his robes, 31:12 he went out to the city dump took off his cloths 31:14 so he could scrape his boils and he prayed and he said, 31:18 "Naked I came from my mother's womb, 31:21 and naked shall I return there. 31:23 The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away, 31:26 Blessed be the name of the Lord." 31:29 You know, we all come into this world naked. 31:32 Most of us, any of you come in this world wearing anything? 31:34 Just wondering. 31:36 Some always dress very carefully. 31:39 But we all come in this world naked, 31:42 and you know, we go out naked in the sense 31:43 that you can't take anything with you. 31:46 Someone once said, "You never see a U-Haul behind a hearse." 31:55 Pharaohs tried to bury themselves with the treasure 31:57 but you better make other plans for you treasure, 32:01 friends, because you can't take it with you. 32:03 Put it in God's work. 32:07 Matthew 27:28 "Christ was stripped 32:10 and they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him." 32:15 John 19:24 "They said therefore among themselves, 32:20 'Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, 32:22 to see whose it shall be,' that the Scripture might be 32:24 fulfilled it said, 'They divided my garments among them 32:28 and for my clothing they cast lots.'" 32:30 They took everything away from Jesus. 32:31 Now you know the paintings typically having 32:33 with the linen cloth and He may have had that. 32:36 The Hebrews considered themselves naked 32:37 if all you had was yours linen speedo or whatever they wore. 32:41 It talks about when Peter didn't have his fishers coat on 32:45 and end of the gospel of John and he was naked. 32:48 But he did have his swimsuit on. 32:49 He dove in the water and swam to Jesus. 32:51 So you know, the paintings typically picture 32:54 Jesus of having at least that 32:55 and of course we'd like to prefer that. 32:57 But it was humiliating none the less. 33:01 He was mocked. 33:03 Job 16:20 "My friends scorn me" mock me, 33:07 "my eyes pour out tears to God." 33:10 Job 30:9 "And now I am their taunting song, 33:15 yes, I am their byword." 33:17 Talking about the ridicule. 33:19 Again in Psalm 22 this prophecy about Christ. 33:22 "All those who see Me ridicule Me, 33:25 they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, 33:27 they say, He trusted in the Lord, 33:29 let Him rescue Him, let Him deliver Him, 33:31 since He delights in Him!" 33:33 There's angel if you're so righteous 33:34 how come God doesn't help you? 33:37 You know, it's really tough. 33:38 When you are a Christian and you go through some trial. 33:40 Sometimes we feel embarrassed because you've got this idea 33:44 that if we're doing everything right 33:47 God's going to prosper us financially, 33:49 He is going to take care of us physically 33:51 for following the health message 33:52 and yet even Christian will lose their wealth 33:56 and lose their health. 33:57 And we feel that because see we think Lord 34:00 the lost out there are going to see me 34:02 suffering they are going to think 34:03 what kind of witness am I, 34:04 how can I tell people how wonderful it is 34:06 to be a Christian when I've lost my wealth 34:07 and I've lost my health. 34:10 And sometimes you even struggle that way? 34:12 You think why is this happening to me? 34:14 How can I be a witness for you? 34:15 People aren't gonna want to be like me when they see me suffer. 34:19 But, you know, in reality 34:21 we are the best witnesses through trial. 34:25 God's church typically is the best witness 34:29 when we go through suffering. 34:32 It is through trial that we bare our brightest witness. 34:36 Where is Christ the greatest witness, isn't at the cross? 34:42 And if you can suffer patiently that really says something. 34:46 I've come out of the hospital room visiting saints 34:48 before and it strengthens my faith. 34:50 I don't come out and say, Lord, 34:52 if they are faithful then why are they suffering like this? 34:55 You go in there and you'll see these saints 34:56 and you'll say, you know, I just love the Lord, I trust the Lord, 34:58 and God knows why this is happening and I trust Him. 35:01 And I go out and wow, they got a lot of faith. 35:04 So when you are going through trials don't be embarrassed 35:06 and say God's abandoned you. 35:07 Say, Lord, how can I be a witness for You 35:10 through this trial? 35:11 Was Joseph a witness through his trials? 35:15 He was faithful whatever he did, servant, prisoner, 35:17 he said I'm going to witness for God. 35:20 Noah was not saved from the storm 35:22 he was saved through the storm 35:24 and it is through tribulation we enter the kingdom of God. 35:28 So don't despair if God allows you to go through trial. 35:31 He is usually saving you through it or others through it. 35:37 Every trial you go through as a Christian just remember that 35:40 God is either using it to refine you 35:43 or to reach others through your experience, 35:48 sometimes both. 35:51 Okay, back to our some of the parallels between Job and Jesus. 35:54 I'm making pretty good time here actually. 35:58 He was identified with the wicked. 36:01 Job 34:7, 8 they said, "What man is this like Job, 36:07 who drinks scorn like water, who goes in company 36:11 with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?" 36:15 Job is with the wicked, he is identified with the wicked. 36:17 What about Jesus? 36:18 Isaiah 53 "And He made His grave with the wicked." 36:23 Matthew 27, you know this verse 38 36:27 "Then two robbers were crucified with Him, 36:29 one on the right and another on the left." 36:31 His crucified right in the middle of two thieves, 36:33 rebels, and robbers. 36:37 Also says they were guilty of murder at least Barabbas was. 36:43 He surrendered his glory and his crown. 36:46 Job surrendered his glory and his crown. 36:49 Job 19:9 "He has stripped me of my glory, 36:53 and taken the crown from my head." 36:55 Did Jesus lay aside His glory and His crown 36:58 when He came to this earth like Job? 37:01 Hebrews 2:9 "But we see Jesus, 37:04 who was made a little lower than the angels, 37:07 for the suffering of death crowned with glory 37:09 and honor, that He, by the grace of God, 37:12 might taste death for everyone." 37:14 Christ, you read there in Philippians, 37:16 made Himself of no account suffered as a man, 37:21 humbled Himself to the point of cross. 37:27 There is darkness in the story of Job 37:31 and there is darkness in the story of Jesus. 37:33 Job 10:21, 22 "Before I go to the place 37:38 from which I shall not return, to the land of darkness 37:41 and the shadow of death, 37:43 A land as dark as darkness itself, 37:46 and the shadow of death, without any order, 37:48 where even the light is like darkness." 37:50 Notice there three times darkness, darkness, darkness. 37:53 When Christ is in the Garden of Gethsemane it was dark. 37:56 Even the next day when the sun should have been shining 37:59 when Christ is on the cross, what does it say? 38:02 Matthew 27:45 "Now from the sixth hour until 38:06 the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land." 38:10 The supernatural darkness not just like 38:13 when clouds obscure the sun 38:14 but something like the darkness 38:16 that went on Egypt during that plague. 38:19 An eerie, unnatural darkness came over the land 38:22 as the creation was rebelling against 38:25 the crucifixion of its Creator. 38:28 Christ was forsaken by His brothers so were Job. 38:31 Job 19:13 "He has removed my brothers far from me, 38:36 and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me." 38:39 Remember we already told you about Job's family, 38:41 his wife we know he lost his son, 38:43 his brethren in the town that he lived in and the land of Uz 38:48 is probably near Mesopotamia somewhere. 38:52 Evidently stop coming to visit them out there 38:54 at the dump they turned from him. 38:56 John 17:5 says "Even His brothers" 38:59 speaking of Jesus "Even His brothers did not believing Him." 39:05 Luke 23:49. 39:07 Speaking of Christ by Job "All His acquaintances, 39:11 and the women who followed Him from Galilee, 39:13 they stood at a distance, watching these things." 39:16 When He went through is suffering 39:17 instead of being right there-- 39:18 while the end of day you got Mary 39:20 and three Mary's at the foot of the cross 39:22 but it says the disciples stood far off Him 39:25 most of the seven or six hours Christ was on the cross. 39:31 Now one thing I want you to think about 39:33 before I run pass this. 39:36 The sufferings of Job and Jesus 39:38 are something you need to consider 39:42 because the Bible tells us that it is through tribulation 39:45 we enter the kingdom of God. 39:48 Now there are tribulations the church is gone through. 39:52 But there is a great tribulation the Bible speaks of. 39:56 There is the time of Jacob's trouble, 39:58 is that behind us or before us? 40:01 If you read in Daniel Chapter 12 it tells us 40:04 that when Michael stands up there will be a time of trouble 40:07 such as there never has been since 40:09 the there was a nation even under that same time. 40:11 Christ says speaking of the time of trouble. 40:17 He that endures unto the end shall be saved. 40:19 As you read the story of Job God has inviting us 40:23 to have that kind of faith because I believe 40:26 that everybody is going to experience 40:30 the isolation that Jesus and Job experienced. 40:34 What I'm saying is at some point we're all going to have 40:37 every earthly support removed 40:40 so all that we've got to lean on is Christ. 40:43 You'll not be hanging on to a little bit here, 40:46 and a little bit here, and a little bit here. 40:48 The only thing you're gonna be able to rest on is Jesus. 40:53 His friends, His family, His people, 40:57 His money everything was gone and all He had was His God. 41:03 And so we may have that happen to us. 41:07 2 Timothy 3:12. 41:09 This is relevant for us to study because the Bible says 41:11 "Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus 41:16 will suffer persecution." 41:17 We'll all be abandoned at some point. 41:20 We'll all be prosecuted. 41:23 Now as you consider the story of Job 41:25 when you get near the end of the book 41:27 the tide begins to turn. 41:30 And this is great discourse it happens between Job and God. 41:34 God speaks audibly to Job. 41:37 Did God speak audibly to Jesus? 41:41 Yeah, that's something to consider. 41:44 Then God says that Job was innocent, 41:46 his friends were wrong. 41:49 And Job forgives his friends for a bit-- 41:54 I mean, you know, sometimes in your hour of need 41:56 when your friends leave you hanging 41:58 or when they turn your back on you 41:59 when you need them the most sometimes 42:01 they stop being your friends forever. 42:04 Let's face it, that's the way some of us react 42:07 if our friends let us down when we really need them. 42:08 We'll say, I really needed you, 42:09 I don't need you as friend anymore, forgot about you. 42:13 That's not what Job did. 42:15 He not only forgives his friends, 42:16 he intercedes with God for his friends. 42:20 Jesus intercedes with God for us 42:24 who are responsible for His death. 42:28 He becomes our intercedes well, 42:29 not only that Job was a mediator, he is a priest. 42:33 In the very beginning of the book it says 42:34 he is offering sacrifice for his sons, right, for his family. 42:38 The end of the book he is offering 42:39 sacrifice for his friends. 42:41 He is a great mediator. 42:43 You can read about that in Job 1: 4, 5. 42:46 His boys would go and celebrate each others birthday 42:49 and they would have a feast and Job would offer sacrifice 42:51 in case they got carried away 42:52 and they curse God in their hearts. 42:55 Job 42. Listen to this verse 8. 42:58 "Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls 43:01 and seven rams." 43:03 By the way the sacred numbers are three and seven 43:06 appear a lot in the Book of Jobs as they do in the life of Jesus. 43:10 His friends sit down for seven days, 43:12 Job's got seven sons, three daughter. 43:14 You gonna find that number appearing a lot. 43:16 Those was sacred number. 43:17 Three friends. 43:19 "Take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams 43:24 and go to My servant Job, and offer for yourselves 43:27 a burnt offering, and My servant Job shall pray for you." 43:31 Jesus is our intercedes where He prays for us. 43:33 "For I will accept him." 43:35 They are saying, God is saying to the friends of Job, 43:37 you make a sacrifice and because of Job I will forgive you. 43:42 Now isn't that like Christ? 43:45 I mean, it's--we pray to God but we do it in Christ name. 43:48 It's through the merits of Christ that we get forgiven 43:50 and it's through the name of Job his friends are forgiven. 43:53 So he becomes a great intercedes for them. 43:56 "Because you have not spoken of me 43:58 what is right as my servant Job had." 44:00 Don't miss that. 44:02 In the whole Book of Job God says Job's word was right. 44:07 What do we know about Jesus? 44:09 Are His words true? He is the Word. 44:12 Romans 8:34 "Who is he who condemns? 44:16 It is Christ who died, furthermore He is risen, 44:19 He is even at the right hand of God, 44:20 who makes intercession for us." 44:22 Jesus is our intercessor and our mediator. 44:25 And you know, what else I love about the comparison 44:28 between Job and Jesus is as you near the end of the book 44:33 there are times when Job's faith is vacillating 44:37 and you can say he is in why, why, why and Jesus why. 44:40 Why have You forsaken Me? 44:42 But it triumphs then you read those versus where he says, 44:46 "Though he slay me yet will I trust him." 44:50 So no matter what happens Christ on the cross at the end 44:54 He triumphs, He ends up saying 44:56 Father into Your hands I commend My spirit, it is finished. 45:00 He knew that His mission was complete. 45:03 It was great triumph there. 45:06 By the way that's a Job 13:15, Luke 23:46. 45:10 Now something that's really fascinating 45:13 at the end of the Book of Job, 45:16 the beginning of the Book of Job, 45:17 Job doesn't know what's going on. 45:18 And all the sudden he gets blindsided 45:20 by all these plagues and losing his family, 45:23 and losing his wealth, and his health. 45:26 And he said, why is God done this to me? 45:28 By the end of the book God is showing Him 45:30 now who is really behind it. 45:33 He talks about creation and the birds and the beast 45:35 but then all of the sudden in Job Chapter 41 45:40 God dedicates an entire chapter 45:42 to some sea monster called the Leviathan. 45:46 Why is God talking all the sudden about this monster 45:51 in the second last chapter of the book, whole chapter? 45:57 Let's find out who is this leviathan. 45:59 But by the way you can read here in Job 41:19, 20 46:04 "Out of his mouth go burning lights, 46:06 sparks of fire shoot out. 46:07 Smoke goes out of his nostrils, 46:10 as from a boiling pot and burning rushes." 46:14 Job 41:34 "He beholds every high thing, 46:18 He is king over all the children of pride." 46:22 Who do you think the leviathan represents? 46:24 Who is the king over the children of pride? 46:27 Satan, the devil. 46:29 Now listen here's the key Isaiah 27:1 46:34 "In that day the Lord with His sore and great 46:37 and strong sword" that's the word of God 46:40 "shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, 46:46 even leviathan that crooked serpent, 46:48 and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." 46:51 Oh, ah-ha, you ought to have an epiphany right about now. 46:57 Does that sound familiar to you? 46:58 Revelation Chapter 12 speaking of that dragon. 47:02 "Another sign appeared in heaven, a great fiery dragon." 47:05 Says in Chapter 13:1 "This beast with seven heads 47:08 and seven horns comes up out of the sea." 47:11 And it says that "Dragon that serpent of all 47:14 called the devil and Satan." 47:16 Dragon, serpent, leviathan out of the sea. 47:20 Who were we talking about? 47:22 So in the end of the book what is God saying? 47:25 Now there may have been some sea creature, it's now extinct. 47:29 Scholars don't agree, some say it's a crocodile, 47:31 but they say couldn't been a crocodiles in the ocean 47:33 well, there are salt water crocodiles 47:36 but they weren't that big. 47:38 And they think it maybe some left over 47:40 of a prehistoric creature 47:42 that they had backed then and it's now extinct. 47:44 Nobody really knows. 47:47 But it talks about this enormous monster 47:49 that no fisherman could ever catch, 47:51 that no one could ever tamed 47:53 this monster sea creature that was out there. 47:56 And believe me sailors have plenty of stories 47:57 and theories about what that is. 48:01 But he is basically saying 48:03 you can't defeat the leviathan without me. 48:06 He is the one who is behind your sufferings, 48:09 he is the one who brought fire down from the heaven 48:10 and burnt up your crops, 48:12 who is able to send this sickness, 48:14 who destroyed your family with a tornado. 48:17 You can't defeat the devil, but God says I can. 48:22 And so on the end of the Book of Job God is saying 48:25 that I'm the one who can destroy the leviathan, 48:28 the king of pride. 48:30 And Job is going, it's not you God who is been against me. 48:34 It's the leviathan, the devil, the dragon, 48:36 the serpent who is been after me. 48:39 And you simply let his leash get a little longer 48:42 so that I could learn something, learn to trust you. 48:46 You know, what's also beautiful about the Book of Job 48:51 is that it teaches us lessons of hanging on in patience. 48:58 In the end Job is blessed. 49:02 He is doubly blessed in the end. 49:06 Matter of fact, Job kind of goes through a resurrection, 49:08 don't you think? 49:09 He goes from being in the dump cover with boils dying, 49:13 it looks terminal, all of the sudden 49:16 God heals him miraculously. 49:18 He is interceding for his friends, 49:20 he restores all of his wealth, he has got twice as much wealth. 49:23 You look at what he has, add up 49:25 what he has got in the beginning 49:26 then you add up what he has at the end it's doubled. 49:29 And he lives another 140 beyond that experience. 49:33 We don't know how old he was, you can just speculate he was 49:35 at least for him to be have those kids that he had 49:38 and have the wealth he had based on that time in what he lived, 49:41 he lived over 200 years. 49:44 And so it was like a type of resurrection 49:46 he went through just like Jesus. 49:48 And his glory returned to him 49:49 as Christ when he ascended to heaven. 49:51 His health returned to him, his friends returned to him, 49:54 everything came back. 49:56 And you may go through trials but, you know, 49:58 the Book of Job ends with the happy note. 50:00 That's what James says remember the patience of Job 50:03 don't get discourage of your going through 50:04 the trial, friends. 50:06 God still loves you, there is a devil out there 50:09 and he is gonna try and cause problems. 50:11 But when you look at the sculpt of Job's life 200 years. 50:16 And then the 42 chapters 50:18 how long that it last out of that 200 years? 50:21 A few weeks, a few weeks of suffering for the 200 years. 50:27 So the suffering that we experience in this life 50:30 and the episodes of suffering in this life compare to eternity 50:33 what is, is it worthy to be compared? 50:36 Its small compared to the glory, and the joy, 50:39 and the happiness, and the blessing, 50:40 and the riches that God is gonna give us for eternity. 50:44 So the Book of Job is not a sad book. 50:46 Oh, there's a lot of heavy things in there but, you know, 50:48 it starts out talking about a perfect man 50:50 and it ends up talking about a happy blessed man. 50:54 And then it says that in between 50:56 you've got God's blessing the protection 50:58 that devil makes an attack. 51:00 Job does not give up his faith 51:02 and then in the end he is blessed forever. 51:06 You and I are going to get attacked. 51:07 You might be going through an attack right now. 51:10 Don't give up your faith. 51:11 Remember where I started out with that quote from James. 51:14 "Behold, we count them happy which endure." 51:16 Jesus said, blessed are those who endure to the end. 51:21 They will be saved. 51:22 "He then endures to the end shall be saved." 51:24 You've heard the patience of Job 51:25 and you've seen the end of the Lord 51:28 that the Lord is pitiful and tender mercy. 51:31 In the end, friends, we win, not the leviathan or not the dragon. 51:36 Can you see Jesus in the Book of Job? 51:40 You know, it's really is holy grounded 51:41 tells you something about how much Jesus 51:43 must love you 'cause of the sufferings 51:45 He went through and Job did not suffer like Jesus. 51:49 He suffered and you may suffer, 51:52 you might be suffering now 51:55 and I haven't suffered like Jesus suffered. 51:57 He took the weight of the sins of the world on his shoulder 52:00 for you and me because He loves us so much, 52:02 'cause He doesn't want us to suffer like that. 52:05 And I think you could trust the God like that 52:07 don't you, friends? 52:08 Why does God allow us to go through these trials? 52:12 It's through constant irritation 52:16 that annoys your produces pearl. 52:19 It's through pressure and heat 52:23 that a lump of coal turns into a diamond. 52:26 It is through fiery trials that God purifies His church. 52:30 It's the hot iron and the hot water that cut the wrinkles 52:32 out of the garment, the wedding dress or God's bride. 52:39 And I notice something when the weather is nice 52:42 and warming you got a lot of flies and mosquitoes. 52:46 With the winter blast that's kind of tough when the cold 52:49 winter freezing weather comes but now the nice thing 52:52 is you open the window there is no more files and mosquitoes. 52:55 Sometime the God sends that winter storm into your life 52:57 'cause He is killing all the bugs. Amen. 53:00 There is a blessing and all those things so you maybe 53:02 going through some trials He is purifying the gold 53:04 and getting all the draws out. 53:06 Don't be discourage, hang on like Job 53:10 and you'll come forth on the other side 53:12 God will speak to you face to face 53:13 like He talked to Job face to face. 53:16 Your character will be purified and you will be like Christ. 53:18 Amen. Let's pray. 53:22 Lord, we are inspired and encouraged. 53:25 As we see not only the forgiveness 53:27 and the loving and the majesty of Jesus reflected in the life 53:32 that He --but we seen today, 53:34 Lord, your suffering reflected in the life of Job, 53:38 and You did that all for us. 53:41 Lord, I know that we just can't even comprehend how much 53:44 You must love us and that You would go through all of that 53:47 and take the punishment and the penalty of our sins. 53:50 Also, Lord, we could see through the story today 53:54 of how we may all go through trials 53:57 and sometimes it may appear that You abandoned us 53:59 and we've been forsaken and lost every earthly support. 54:03 But we know that You are still there beyond 54:05 the clouds that You are still looking 54:07 down on us with the love. 54:09 I pray, Lord, in a special way that You'll give us a faith 54:12 that will endure to the end in these last days. 54:15 All of us will be tried. 54:17 Help us also not to be a like Job's friends 54:21 but that we can be loyal dependable friends 54:24 to those around us and especially right now 54:27 we ask that You will be near to those 54:29 who responded to the invitation 54:31 whatever the trials might be some who maybe listening 54:33 or watching now are going through 54:35 their own time of trial and suffering. 54:39 I pray that You'll be a comfort to them 54:41 and help them to find courage. 54:42 May their faith rise and can they say 54:46 yes though He slay me yet will I trust Him. 54:49 And even though this body worms may destroy 54:53 yet in my flesh I know I will see God, 54:56 my own eyes will see Him not another. 54:59 I pray that we can have that faith 55:00 when we'll even look beyond the grave. 55:02 Bless us as we go from this place 55:04 knowing that in the end Job was blessed 55:07 that we will be doubly blessed in Your kingdom. 55:09 And I thank you, Lord, for the promise 55:11 that we can be overcomers 55:13 'cause we pray these things in Jesus name. 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