Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021625A
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00:15 >>THERE ARE A NUMBER OF EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF 00:19 CHARACTERS THAT REFLECT JESUS. AND OUR SERMON TODAY IS PART 5 - 00:24 IT'S HOW JOB IS A REFLECTION OF CHRIST. 00:29 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE, I THINK, A NUMBER OF WAYS - AND I DON'T 00:32 HAVE TIME TO COVER IT ALL, BUT FOR ME THIS IS SO EXCITING 00:35 BECAUSE IT PROVES THE BIBLE IS A SUPERNATURAL BOOK. 00:39 THIS COULD NEVER BE CONCOCTED OR FABRICATED SO THAT YOU WOULD SEE 00:43 ALL THESE TYPES AND SHADOWS OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN THEIR LIVES AND 00:47 THE SIMILARITIES. NOT ONLY IS JOB A TYPE OF 00:50 CHRIST, BUT JOSEPH - SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS FOR THE PRICE OF A 00:55 SLAVE - AS JESUS WAS SOLD - HE FORGIVES THEM. 00:58 JOB TELLS US ABOUT THE FORGIVENESS OF JESUS. 01:02 YOU CAN LOOK AT THE STORY OF MOSES. 01:04 MOSES TELLS US ABOUT THE LAW OF JESUS. 01:07 DAVID TELLS US ABOUT THE MAJESTY OF JESUS. 01:10 THESE ARE SOME OF THE GREAT CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE 01:12 AND THEY ARE ALL TYPES OF CHRIST. 01:14 NOW YOU CAN READ THAT WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT IN OUR 01:20 BACKGROUND ABOUT HOW JOB WAS THIS GREAT MAN AND HE SUFFERED A 01:24 TERRIBLE TRIAL BECAUSE OF THE TAUNTING - A CHALLENGE - a 01:29 GAUNTLET THE DEVIL THREW DOWN FOR GOD AND JOB'S LIFE REALLY 01:33 BECOMES A DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL IN HUMANITY. 01:38 IT'S AN EXAMPLE FOR EACH ONE OF US. 01:40 JOB IS - ANOTHER WAY HE'S SORT OF LIKE CHRIST - YOU REMEMBER 01:44 WHERE PAUL COMPARES MELCHIZADEK TO BEING LIKE CHRIST BECAUSE HE 01:48 SAID HE'S WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END OF DAYS? 01:51 MEANING YOU DON'T KNOW HIS GENEALOGY ABOUT WHERE HE COMES 01:54 FROM AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE HE GOES. 01:57 IT TELLS ABOUT THE FRIENDS OF JOB. 02:01 WE KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THE TIME OF JOB, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE 02:04 JOB CAME FROM AND IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT HIS ANCESTORS. 02:07 HE APPEARS AND HE DISAPPEARS. HE'S WITHOUT BEGINNING 02:09 OR WITHOUT END. JESUS IS THE ALPHA 02:11 AND THE OMEGA. SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH WITH 02:13 YOU NOW AND I WANT TO BE CAREFUL WHEN I PREACH TO JUST 02:18 HELP YOU SEE HOW AWESOME THIS IS, BECAUSE WHENEVER YOU GO 02:21 THROUGH A LIST, AND I'M GOING TO BE READING A LOT OF VERSES. 02:25 THERE'S ALWAYS THE RISK THAT IN THE ALMANAC OF THESE CHRONICLES 02:34 THAT I'LL LOSE YOU. YOU KNOW THE KING OF PERSIA, 02:36 WHEN HE WANTED TO GO TO SLEEP, HE GOT THE SCRIBE TO JUST READ 02:39 THE CHRONICLES AND HE STARTED TO DOZE OFF UNTIL HE READ ABOUT 02:44 THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. SO I WANT YOU TO JUST STAY WITH 02:48 ME BECAUSE THIS, TO ME, IS AMAZING. 02:50 24 - THERE'S A LOT MORE THAN THIS, BUT I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU 02:53 24 WAYS WHERE JOB IS SHOWN TO BE A TYPE OF JESUS. 02:59 FIRST OF ALL, THE BIBLE SAYS, IN THE FIRST VERSE, JOB WAS A 03:05 PERFECT MAN. WAS JESUS PERFECT? >>YES. 03:10 >>NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN JOB IS SINLESS, BUT EVERYTHING YOU READ 03:12 ABOUT JOB IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS FOR ANY HUMAN. 03:16 "THERE WAS A MAN IN THE LAND OF UZ, WHOSE NAME WAS JOB; AND THAT 03:20 MAN WAS BLAMELESS" - SOME VERSIONS SAY 'PERFECT' - 03:23 "UPRIGHT, AND ONE WHO FEARED GOD AND SHUNNED" - OR HATED OR 03:27 ESCHEWED - "EVIL." WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT JESUS? WAS HE SINLESS? 03:33 1 PETER 2:22 - JESUS "WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS DECEIT 03:38 FOUND IN HIS MOUTH." GOING BACK TO JOB IT SAYS, "IN 03:41 ALL THIS JOB DID NOT SIN NOR CHARGE GOD WITH WRONG." 03:46 JOB SAYS, IN CHAPTER 23:11 AND 12, "MY FOOT HAS HELD FAST TO 03:51 HIS STEPS;" - HE'S WALKED IN THE STEPS OF GOD - "I HAVE KEPT 03:54 HIS WAY AND NOT TURNED ASIDE." - JESUS FOLLOWED IN THE STEPS 03:57 OF THE FATHER - "I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM THE COMMANDMENT OF 04:01 HIS LIPS; I HAVE TREASURED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH MORE 04:04 THAN MY NECESSARY FOOD." HE LOVED THE WORD 04:08 MORE THAN FOOD. WHAT DOES JESUS SAY? 04:10 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT 04:14 PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' SO JOB LOVED THE WORD OF GOD AND 04:17 HE LIVED THE WORD OF GOD AND IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO HIM THAN 04:20 EVEN HIS OWN NECESSARY FOOD. WOULD GOD THAT WE ALL FELT 04:25 THAT WAY ABOUT HIS WORD. AMEN? >>AMEN. 04:28 >>JOB WAS A PERFECT MAN - JESUS, A PERFECT MAN. 04:32 IT DOESN'T MEAN JOB WAS SINLESS, BUT HE WAS PERFECT AS ANY MAN 04:35 THAT BIBLE HISTORY TELLS US ABOUT. 04:38 HE WAS THE RICHEST MAN. ANOTHER WAY THAT JOB WAS LIKE JESUS. 04:42 JOB 1:3, "ALSO HIS POSSESSIONS WERE SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEP," - 04:46 NOTICE THE NUMBERS 7 AND 3 - HOW OFTEN THEY APPEAR. 04:50 THESE ARE VERY IMPORTANT NUMBERS THAT DENOTE GOD AND THEY DENOTE 04:55 PERFECTION OR COMPLETENESS. HE'S GOT - "THREE THOUSAND 05:00 CAMELS, [SEVEN THOUSAND SHEEPÑ FIVE HUNDRED YOKE OF OXEN, FIVE 05:03 HUNDRED FEMALE DONKEYS, AND A VERY LARGE HOUSEHOLD, SO THAT 05:07 THIS MAN WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST." 05:12 AND YOUR WEALTH WAS NOT DETERMINED BY MONEY IN THE BANK 05:15 BACK THEN, BUT CATTLE IN THE STALL WAS MONEY IN THE BANK. 05:19 AND IT SAYS, 'OF THE EAST'. IT TALKS ABOUT THE KINGS OF THE 05:23 EAST AS A SIGN OF GOD IN THE BIBLE AND A SMALL CLOUD 05:28 SHALL ARISE FROM THE EAST. JESUS LAID ASIDE HIS RICHES TO 05:33 GO THROUGH THE TRIALS IN THIS WORLD. 05:36 WAS THERE ANYONE RICHER THAN THE ONE WHO MADE ALL THE RICHES? 05:39 >>NO. >>CAN YOU BE RICHER THAN THE ONE 05:43 WHO CREATES ALL RICHES? 2 CORINTHIANS 8:9 05:48 "FOR YOU KNOW THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST THAT THOUGH HE 05:51 WAS RICH YET FOR YOUR SAKES HE BECAME POOR THAT YOU, THROUGH 05:57 HIS POVERTY MIGHT BE RICH" - HE'S OFFERING TO TRADE PLACES 06:00 WITH US. JOB LOST EVERYTHING. WHY? 06:05 AS AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU AND ME. HE DID IT TO TEACH OTHERS. 06:10 JOB DIDN'T KNOW AT THE TIME WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 06:12 YOU AND I ARE GLAD JOB WENT THROUGH HIS EXPERIENCES BECAUSE 06:14 WE LEARN FROM THAT. RICH, LIKE CHRIST. 06:20 LUKE 9:58 - JESUS - IT SAYS HE TOLD THEM "FOXES HAVE A HOLE TO 06:24 SLEEP IN AND BIRDS HAVE THE NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HAS 06:29 NOWHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD." JESUS LAID ASIDE EVERYTHING. 06:32 CAN YOU IMAGINE GOING FROM, YOU KNOW, JUST THE GLORY OF BEING 06:37 SURROUNDED BY HOLY ANGELS AND ALL THE RICHES OF THE CENTER OF 06:41 THE UNIVERSE. I MEAN, THIS IS CALLED, YOU 06:43 KNOW, HEADQUARTERS IN HEAVEN AND BEING THE KING OF KINGS AND 06:49 GOING FROM THAT DOWN TO THIS WORLD AND HAVING TO SLEEP 06:53 ON THE GROUND IN A GARDEN. I MEAN, JESUS LAID ASIDE HIS 06:56 RICHES - JOB WAS THE RICHEST BUT HE LOST IT ALL. 07:00 IT SAYS THAT JOB WAS A SERVANT OF GOD. 07:04 YOU CAN READ IN JOB 2, VERSE 3, "AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 07:08 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?'" 07:12 I HOPE GOD CAN SAY THAT ABOUT ME AND ABOUT YOU. 07:15 >>AMEN. >>"THAT THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM 07:17 IN THE EARTH; A BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT MAN WHO FEARS GOD AND 07:21 HATES EVIL." WHAT IS THE - ONE OF THE TITLES FOR JESUS? 07:25 ONE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT TITLES FOR THE MESSIAH WAS - HE'S 07:28 CALLED 'THE SERVANT'. LOOK IN ISAIAH 42:1, "BEHOLD! 07:32 MY SERVANT WHOM I UPHOLD, MY ELECT ONE IN WHOM MY SOUL 07:37 DELIGHTS! I HAVE PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM; 07:40 HE WILL BRING FORTH JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES. 07:43 AND JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 20:28 - JUST AS THE SON OF MAN DID NOT 07:48 COME TO BE SERVED, BUT TO SERVE, AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE A RANSOM 07:53 FOR MANY." SO JOB IS A SERVANT - WAS JESUS A SERVANT? 07:58 JESUS AND JOB - A LOT IN COMMON. 08:01 JOB IS IDENTIFIED AS AN AWESOME CHARACTER. 08:04 LISTEN HOW, IN JOB 29, WHEN HE DESCRIBES HIS ESTEEM THAT HE HAD 08:10 IN HIS TOWN BEFORE ALL THESE PLAGUES CAME UPON HIM. 08:14 JOB 29:7, "WHEN I WENT OUT TO THE GATE BY THE CITY, WHEN I 08:19 TOOK MY SEAT IN THE OPEN SQUARE, THE YOUNG MEN SAW ME AND HID, 08:22 AND THE AGED AROSE AND STOOD; THE PRINCES REFRAINED FROM 08:26 TALKING, AND PUT THEIR HAND ON THEIR MOUTH;" - THAT'S A MAN 08:29 WITH A LOT OF CLOUT - "THE VOICE OF THE NOBLES WAS HUSHED, AND 08:35 THEIR TONGUE STUCK TO THE ROOF OF THEIR MOUTH. 08:40 WHEN THE EAR HEARD, THEN IT BLESSED ME, AND WHEN THE EYE 08:42 SAW, THEN IT APPROVED ME; BECAUSE I DELIVERED THE POOR 08:45 WHO CRIED OUT, THE FATHERLESS AND THE ONE WHO HAD NO HELPER. 08:49 THE BLESSING OF A PERISHING MAN CAME UPON ME AND I CAUSED THE 08:52 WIDOW'S HEART TO SING FOR JOY. I PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IT 08:55 CLOTHED ME; MY JUSTICE WAS LIKE A ROBE AND A TURBAN. 08:59 I WAS EYES TO THE BLIND, AND I WAS FEET TO THE LAME. 09:02 I WAS A FATHER TO THE POOR, AND I SEARCHED OUT THE CASE THAT I 09:06 DID NOT KNOW. I BROKE THE FANGS OF THE WICKED, 09:09 AND PLUCKED THE VICTIM FROM HIS TEETH." - LIKE DAVID WHEN HE 09:12 DELIVERS THE LAMB FROM THE LION AND THE BEAR - 09:15 JOB IS THIS GREAT DELIVERER. HE'S THIS AWESOME 09:19 RESPECTED CHARACTER. IT'S ALMOST LIKE DIVINE 09:23 QUALITIES WHEN HE WENT THROUGH TOWN - THE WAY THEY REVERED HIM. 09:28 IT'S LIKE JESUS - JOB'S LIKE JESUS - DO YOU SEE IT? 09:33 FIFTH POINT: THE BOOK OF JOB TELLS US ABOUT THE GREAT 09:37 CONTROVERSY. IT'S GREAT THAT THIS OLDEST 09:40 BOOK IN THE BIBLE, RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING, TELLS US THE REASON 09:44 FOR ALL THE SUFFERING IN THE WORLD IS BECAUSE THERE'S A 09:46 BATTLE BETWEEN THE MOST POWERFUL ANGEL THAT WAS MADE - THE MOST 09:50 POWERFUL CREATED INTELLIGENCE WAS LUCIFER, WHO REBELLED 09:55 AGAINST HIS CREATOR AND YOU AND I ARE LIVING ON THE 09:58 BATTLEGROUND OF THAT REBELLION. AND WHAT'S AT STAKE IS THE DEVIL 10:03 IS SAYING 'GOD IS NOT FAIR. GOD IS NOT GOOD. 10:06 AND IF I WAS IN CHARGE - MY GOVERNMENT - I WOULD BE A BETTER 10:09 GOD THAN GOD IS.' THE DEVIL WANTS GOD'S POSITION AND GOD, 10:12 BASICALLY, BECAUSE MAN, HERE ON THIS WORLD, CHOSE TO LISTEN TO 10:16 THE DEVIL INSTEAD OF GOD, THE DEVIL SET UP HIS HEADQUARTERS 10:20 DOWN HERE AND WE ARE ALL SUFFERING THE FALLOUT OF THAT 10:24 WAR. JOB SUFFERS BECAUSE OF 10:27 A BATTLE IN HEAVEN. SO THE WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY 10:30 PLAYS OUT IN THE BOOK OF JOB. DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 10:34 JOB 1:6, "NOW THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO 10:38 PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN ALSO CAME AMONG 10:41 THEM." - JOB IS BEING TEMPTED BECAUSE OF 10:45 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HEAVEN. 10:47 THE DEVIL COMES TO JESUS - LUKE 4:3, "AND THE DEVIL SAID TO HIM, 10:51 'IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THIS STONE TO BECOME 10:53 BREAD.'" AND THEN THE DEVIL UNLEASHES ALL OF THE POWER OF 10:58 HADES ON JESUS, JUST LIKE THE DEVIL DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO 11:01 TORMENT JOB, BUT HE HAD TO STOP SHORT OF KILLING HIM. 11:05 I MEAN, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THE DEVIL LEFT OUT THAT HE COULD 11:08 DO TO JOB SHORT OF TAKING HIS LAST BREATH? 11:12 HE WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING. THE DEVIL HEAPED ALL OF THE FURY 11:15 OF HELL ON JESUS TO TRY TO GET JESUS TO SIN SO HE COULD SAY, 11:19 'SEE, YOUR LAW IS NOT FAIR. MAN CANNOT OBEY YOU.' 11:23 SO THE WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY IS IN THE BOOK OF JOB. 11:26 POINT #6 - "FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS" - WAS JOB FORSAKEN BY HIS 11:33 FRIENDS? WAS JESUS FORSAKEN 11:35 BY HIS FRIENDS? MATTHEW 26:56, "BUT ALL THIS 11:40 WAS DONE THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF THE PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED. 11:43 THEN ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM AND FLED." JOB SAYS, 'MY 11:49 RELATIVES HAVE FAILED AND MY CLOSE FRIENDS HAVE FORGOTTEN 11:53 ME.' NOW DID JESUS HAVE THREE CLOSE, CLOSE FRIENDS? 11:58 WHO WERE THE INNER CIRCLE OF CHRIST? 12:01 >>PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. >>PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN. 12:03 YOU - IT JUST SORT OF ROLLS OFF OUR TONGUES LIKE 'THE BUTCHER, 12:05 THE BAKER, AND THE CANDLESTICK MAKER' WE ALL KNOW PETER, JAMES, 12:08 AND JOHN, RIGHT? AND DID THEY FORSAKE HIM? 12:12 HE TURNED TO THEM FOR PRAYER AND THEY WENT TO SLEEP. 12:15 AND JOB HAD SOME FRIENDS, HE WENT TO THEM FOR COMFORT AND 12:20 THEY DIDN'T COMFORT HIM. JOB 6:27 'AND YOU WOULD EVEN 12:28 CAST LOTS OVER AN ORPHAN AND BARTER AWAY YOUR FRIEND.' JOB 12:32 SAID SOMETHING ABOUT CASTING LOTS AND SELLING HIM OFF. 12:37 WAS JESUS SOLD BY A FRIEND FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER? 12:40 DID THEY CAST LOTS FOR HIS CLOTHING AND GAMBLE FOR HIS 12:45 VESTURE? THAT WAS ALSO FORETOLD. THAT COMES UP AGAIN LATER. 12:49 NOT ONLY FORSAKEN BY FRIENDS, BUT FORSAKEN BY HIS BROTHERS. 12:53 AND AGAIN, I'M NOT EVEN MENTIONING EVERYTHING. 12:55 I'M JUST SHOWING YOU SOME OF THE PARALLELS FROM THE BOOK OF JOB 12:57 AND THE LIFE OF JESUS. JOB 19:13, "HE HAS REMOVED MY 13:03 BROTHERS FAR FROM ME, AND MY ACQUAINTANCES ARE COMPLETELY 13:06 ESTRANGED FROM ME." ALRIGHT, NOW LET'S GO TO THE LIFE 13:09 OF JESUS: JOHN 7:5 "'IF YOU DO THESE THINGS,'" - HIS BROTHERS 13:15 SAID - "'SHOW YOURSELF TO THE WORLD.' FOR EVEN HIS BROTHERS 13:18 DID NOT BELIEVE HIM." NOW THEY CAME AROUND LATER. 13:23 JOB'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAME AROUND LATER ALSO, BUT THERE WAS 13:26 A TIME WHEN HIS FRIENDS AND HIS FAMILY AND HIS BRETHREN, THEY 13:30 FORSOOK HIM. AND YOU CAN EVEN READ - IT SAYS 13:35 - NOT ONLY WAS IT HIS FRIENDS AND HIS BROTHERS - JOB'S WIFE - 13:42 SHE SAYS TO HIM, 'CURSE GOD AND DIE.' AND, YOU KNOW, 13:44 I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, YOU CAN'T HARDLY BLAME HER. 13:46 LOOK AT WHAT SHE HAD BEEN THROUGH. SHE WAS, NO DOUBT, 13:49 TERRIBLY DISTRAUGHT. BUT WHAT DOES A WIFE SYMBOLIZE? 13:52 WHAT DOES A WOMAN SYMBOLIZE? >>A CHURCH. 13:54 >>WHAT IS A CHURCH SOMETIMES CALLED? 13:56 'HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES AS CHRIST LOVE THE CHURCH.' WHO WAS 14:01 IT THAT TURNED JESUS OVER TO THE ROMANS TO BE CRUCIFIED? 14:05 HIS OWN PEOPLE. HIS OWN CHURCH. 14:10 AND SO, IN THE SAME WAY, JOB WAS TOLD 'GO AHEAD AND DIE' BY 14:14 HIS WIFE, THE CHURCH HANDS JESUS OVER TO THE ROMANS AND THEY SAY, 14:21 'WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO?' THEY SAID, 'CRUCIFY HIM. 14:23 LET HIM DIE.' FORSAKEN BY HIS OWN FAMILY. 14:28 YOU KNOW, ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE YOU CAN SEE EXAMPLES OF FRIENDLY 14:30 FIRE AND JESUS SAID, 'DON'T BE SURPRISED IN THE LAST DAYS, IF 14:35 YOU'RE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD - IF YOU PUT JESUS FIRST - YOU MIGHT 14:39 FIND THAT SOME OF YOUR FOES WILL BE PEOPLE FROM YOUR OWN 14:42 HOUSEHOLD. HE WAS FALSELY ACCUSED. 14:49 HIS FRIENDS SAID, 'FOR YOUR INIQUITY TEACHES YOUR MOUTH AND 14:52 YOU CHOOSE THE TONGUE OF THE CRAFTY' - YOU'RE SUFFERING 14:55 BECAUSE OF YOUR SIN - 'WHAT'D YOU DO WRONG JOB? 14:56 'FESS UP.' JOB 22:5 - ELIPHAZ SAYS, "IS NOT YOUR WICKEDNESS 15:02 GREAT, AND YOUR INIQUITY WITHOUT END?" 15:05 WAS HE INNOCENT? JOB WAS INNOCENT. 15:08 WAS HE BEING ACCUSED OF GUILT? YES, HE WAS BEING ACCUSED 15:11 OF INIQUITY AND WICKEDNESS. WHAT ABOUT JESUS? 15:14 MATTHEW 26 - AT HIS TRIAL - BUT FIRST OF ALL, WHEN JESUS WAS 15:18 CASTING OUT DEVILS THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE CASTING OUT DEVILS 15:20 THROUGH THE POWER OF THE PRINCE OF DEVILS. 15:23 YOU'RE NOT FULL OF THE SPIRIT, YOU'RE FULL OF THE DEVIL' - 15:25 TALKING ABOUT GETTING IT WRONG. AND DID THEY GET 15:28 IT WRONG WITH JOB? THEY TOTALLY WERE WRONG 15:31 ABOUT WHY HE WAS SUFFERING. MATTHEW 26:59, "NOW THE CHIEF 15:37 PRIESTS, THE ELDERS, AND ALL THE COUNCIL SOUGHT FALSE TESTIMONY 15:41 AGAINST JESUS TO PUT HIM TO DEATH, BUT FOUND NONE. EVEN 15:45 THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES CAME FORWARD, THEY FOUND NONE." 15:49 THEY CAME AND ACCUSED HIM OF EVERYTHING UNDER THE BOOK, AND 15:51 WHEN JESUS WAS BEING TRIED THERE WAS A LONG PERIOD OF SILENCE AND 15:57 PILATE MARVELED. HE SAID NOTHING TO HEROD. 16:00 HE DID FINALLY TALK TO PILATE, BUT PILATE MARVELED. 16:02 HE SAID, 'DO YOU NOT HEAR HOW MANY THINGS THEY WITNESS AGAINST 16:06 YOU? DO YOU SAY NOTHING? 16:07 DON'T YOU KNOW I'VE GOT THE POWER TO DELIVER YOU?' 16:10 FINALLY JESUS SPOKE. HE WAS QUIET FOR A LONG PERIOD. 16:15 WHAT ABOUT JOB, WAS THERE A LONG PERIOD OF SILENCE? 16:17 YOU REMEMBER THE SEVEN DAYS IN THE BEGINNING WHEN JOB IS 16:20 SUFFERING, HE SAYS NOTHING. HIS FRIENDS SAY NOTHING. 16:24 FALSELY ACCUSED. HOW ABOUT JOB - DID HE GO THROUGH STRIKING AND 16:30 SPITTING? JOB 17:6, "BUT HE HAS MADE ME A BYWORD OF THE PEOPLE, 16:38 AND I HAVE BECOME ONE IN WHOSE FACE MEN SPIT." 16:43 I TELL YOU, SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ME I'LL NEVER FORGET. 16:46 THERE'S A LITTLE TRIVIA IN HERE YOU MIGHT FIND INTERESTING. 16:48 ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD OF AN ACTRESS NAMED JULIE HARRIS? 16:52 YOU EVER SEE THE MOVING THE HIDING PLACE? 16:55 SHE'S A FAMOUS ACTRESS - THIS WAS MANY YEARS AGO - SHE WAS 16:57 FRIENDS WITH MY MOTHER. SHE HAD A SON. 16:59 I WON'T TELL YOU HIS NAME, THOUGH I'M TEMPTED. 17:01 WE USED TO PLAY TOGETHER AND WE'D GO TO THEIR FARM AND SHE 17:06 USED TO MAKE WILD STRAWBERRY PIE AND - SO I REMEMBER WE'D SHOOT 17:09 BOWS AND ARROWS. BUT THEY ALSO HAD A HOUSE IN THE 17:12 CITY AND SO I WENT TO SEE HER SON AND TO PLAY WITH HIM AND, IN 17:18 NEW YORK, IN SOME OF THE HOUSES THEY HAD A BRONZE MAIL SLOT AND 17:21 THERE'S A LITTLE THING YOU'D FLIP UP AND YOU'D DROP THE MAIL 17:24 IN IT'D FALL ON THE FLOOR. YOU'VE SEEN THESE BEFORE, RIGHT? 17:29 SO I'M KNOCKING ON THE DOOR AND I HEAR THAT HE'S IN THE HOUSE 17:31 AND I SAY, 'COME ON OUT AND PLAY.' AND I CALLED HIS NAME AND 17:34 I OPENED UP THE MAIL SLOT AND HE COMES UP AND HE SPITS IN MY 17:37 FACE. NOW, I WAS PROBABLY A PRETTY 17:41 OBNOXIOUS KID TOO AND, I MEAN, I'M NOT MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I 17:44 WAS A SAINT, BUT I'VE NEVER HAD ANYBODY - AND, YOU KNOW, I'M 17:48 ALREADY A LITTLE OCD ABOUT BEING CLEAN AND STUFF - FOR 17:50 SOMEONE TO SPIT ON ME. THAT - YOU EVER HAVE SOMEONE SPIT IN 17:57 YOUR FACE? AND THEY DID THIS TO JESUS. AND, EVIDENTLY, SOME OF 18:03 THE TIME - HE STOPPED BEING MY FRIEND AFTER THAT. 18:05 (LAUGHTER) EVIDENTLY, SOME OF THE TIME THAT JOB WAS SUFFERING 18:13 - WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THE TIME WENT BY - WHILE HE WAS 18:16 SITTING ON THE CITY DUMP, PEOPLE CAME BY AND THEY SAID, 18:19 'YOU'RE CURSED OF GOD.' AND THEY SPIT ON HIM. 18:23 AND OTHERS STRUCK HIM AND TAUNTED HIM. 18:27 AND GOING FROM BEING REVERED AND IN TOWN TO THIS SITTING ON 18:34 THE DUMP AND EVERYBODY CURSING YOU AND BEING THE BYWORD - I 18:38 MEAN, THAT WOULD BE LIKE JESUS GOING FROM THE ANGELS' SONGS TO 18:42 THE CROSS. YOU LOOK AT WHAT CHRIST WENT 18:45 THROUGH AND THE MOCKING CROWD - STRIKING AND SPITTING. 18:50 YOU CAN ALSO READ HERE IN JOB 30:10, "THEY ABHOR ME, THEY KEEP 18:54 FAR FROM ME; THEY DO NOT HESITATE TO SPIT IN MY FACE." 18:58 SO WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT JOB WENT THROUGH, BUT 19:01 IT MUST HAVE BEEN AWFUL. READ IN JOB 16:10, "THEY GAPE AT ME WITH 19:06 THEIR MOUTH," - NOTICE THE WORD 'GAPE' THERE - "THEY STRIKE ME 19:09 REPROACHFULLY ON THE CHEEK, THEY GATHER TOGETHER AGAINST ME." 19:15 NOW WHAT ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS? DO YOU FIND THE SAME 19:17 WORDS? YOU DO. PSALM 22 - MESSIANIC PSALM - 19:22 "THEY GAPE AT ME WITH THEIR MOUTHS," - HE QUOTES THE VERY 19:25 SAME THING THAT JOB SAYS. MATTHEW 26, "THEN THEY SPAT 19:29 IN HIS FACE AND BEAT HIM;" - THEY BEAT HIM - "AND 19:32 OTHERS STRUCK HIM WITH THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS" - SO THE VERY 19:36 THINGS THAT JOB IS GOING THROUGH ARE TYPES OF THE SUFFERING OF 19:40 JESUS. ARE YOU BEGINNING TO SEE THIS? AM I JUST - YOU KNOW, 19:43 SOMETIMES YOU'LL HEAR PEOPLE MANUFACTURE REALLY STRANGE 19:48 COMPARISONS. YOU SAY, 'BOY, THEY'RE JUST TORTURING THE 19:50 TRUTH.' I DON'T WANT TO TORTURE THE EVIDENCE FOR YOU. 19:52 I WANT YOU TO KNOW, IS IT THERE? I MEAN, IS IT THERE? 19:56 I THINK YOU'RE SEEING, ALL THROUGH THE STORY OF JOB, IN HIS 19:59 SUFFERINGS, YOU HAVE A SYMBOL OF WHAT JESUS WAS GOING TO GO 20:03 THROUGH FOR YOU AND ME - WRITTEN RIGHT THERE IN THE FIRST BOOK OF 20:06 THE BIBLE - I SHOULD SAY THE OLDEST BOOK IN THE BIBLE. 20:10 SEPARATED FROM GOD - JOB WAS SEPARATED - HE FELT THAT WAY. 20:16 JOB 13:24, "WHY DO YOU HIDE YOUR FACE, AND REGARD ME AS YOUR 20:20 ENEMY?" JOB 23:8, "LOOK, I GO FORWARD, 20:25 BUT HE IS NOT THERE, AND BACKWARD, BUT I CANNOT PERCEIVE 20:28 HIM; WHEN HE WORKS ON THE LEFT HAND, I CANNOT BEHOLD HIM; WHEN 20:32 HE TURNS TO THE RIGHT HAND, I CANNOT SEE HIM." 20:35 JOB 30:20, "I CRY OUT TO YOU, BUT YOU DO NOT ANSWER ME; I 20:38 STAND UP, AND YOU REGARD ME." 20:40 HE FELT TOTALLY CUT OFF AND ISOLATED BY GOD. 20:43 HE DIDN'T KNOW WHY THIS WAS HAPPENING. 20:45 YOU READ ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF JESUS, HANGING ON THE CROSS AND 20:48 THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, 'AT THE NINTH HOUR, CHRIST CRIED OUT 20:52 WITH A LOUD VOICE SAYING, 'ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? 20:57 WHICH IS TRANSLATED, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?'" 21:02 DID JESUS EXPERIENCE THE ABANDONMENT OF GOD? 21:07 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE LOST, AND I HEAR 21:10 THIS MORE AMONG EVANGELICAL PREACHERS, THEY TALK ABOUT 21:12 ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD BECAUSE BEING SAVED IN HEAVEN, 21:18 GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM. ADAM AND EVE SINNED - THEY RAN 21:22 FROM GOD - THERE WAS A SEPARATION FROM GOD. 21:26 SIN SEPARATES. SIN SEPARATES YOU FROM GOD. 21:29 IT SEPARATES US FROM EACH OTHER. AND SIN SEPARATES YOU FROM YOU. 21:34 YOU WON'T EVEN LIKE YOURSELF. NOW GOD, IN HIS SPIRIT, HE 21:37 BRINGS IN UNITY WITH HIM, WITH EACH OTHER, AND WITH YOURSELF. 21:43 AND JOB FELT TOTALLY ISOLATED FROM EVERYBODY AND FROM GOD. 21:48 JESUS EXPERIENCED THAT ON THE CROSS AND IN THE GARDEN OF 21:52 GETHSEMANE. POINT # - OH YEAH, LET ME SEE 21:55 HERE - YEAH, POINT #11, SOME OF - JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE 21:58 PHYSICAL SUFFERING - JUST THE PLAIN OLD PRIMAL PHYSICAL 22:01 SUFFERING THAT JOB WENT THROUGH. SO, JOB 2, VERSE 7, "SO SATAN 22:06 WENT OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND STRUCK JOB WITH 22:09 PAINFUL BOILS FROM THE SOLE OF HIS FOOT TO THE CROWN OF HIS 22:14 HEAD. AND HE TOOK FOR HIMSELF A POTSHERD WITH WHICH TO SCRAPE 22:18 HIMSELF WHILE HE SAT IN THE MIDST OF THE ASHES." 22:21 HE WAS JUST IN AGONY. 22:22 I THINK I TOLD YOU BEFORE, I HAD A - I STARTED THIS SERIES SO 22:26 LONG AGO, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT I SAID, BUT I WAS AT A SUMMER 22:30 CAMP IN THE FLORIDA KEYS AND I GOT BIT BY A SPIDER THAT - WE 22:34 DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS - OR SOMETHING - THAT'S WHAT THE 22:36 DOCTOR WAS SPECULATING AND IT CAUSED TWO BOILS, ONE FAIRLY 22:40 SMALL, BUT ONE BIG ONE - YEAH, I THINK I TOLD YOU THIS - ON MY 22:43 LEG - AND ALL I COULD THINK - I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT - I JUST 22:47 ROLLED BACK AND FORTH IN MY BUNK - THIS METAL BUNK - AND I KEPT 22:51 SAYING, 'THE PAIN! THE PAIN!' MY FRIENDS MADE IT EVEN WORSE, 22:54 THE OTHER CAMPERS GOT TIRED OF ME AND THEY WERE SAYING, 22:57 'THE PAIN! THE PAIN!' AND HERE I'M SUFFERING. 23:00 I MEAN, I WAS NEVER IN SO MUCH PAIN IN MY LIFE - THERE'S THIS 23:03 BOIL ON MY LEG - FINALLY THEY GOT ME TO SEE THE DOCTOR AND HE 23:07 LANCED IT AND I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU, BUT I WILL, BOILS - 23:11 IT'S NOT PRETTY WHAT COMES OUT - AND JOB IS COVERED WITH 23:15 LOATHSOME PAINFUL BOILS. WHAT'S ONE OF THE PLAGUES THAT'S 23:18 GOING TO COME ON THE WICKED IN THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES? 23:21 >>SORES. >>BOILS - SIGN OF THAT. 23:25 PHYSICAL SUFFERING HE WENT THROUGH. 23:29 HEBREWS 13:12, "THEREFORE JESUS ALSO, THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY THE 23:35 PEOPLE WITH HIS OWN BLOOD, SUFFERED OUTSIDE THE GATE." 23:40 WHERE DID JOB SUFFER? HE WENT OUT TO THE CITY DUMP. 23:44 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE DUMP INSIDE THE CITY. 23:46 THEY HAD A PILE OF BROKEN RUBBLE AT THE DUMP OUTSIDE THE CITY. 23:50 JOB WAS OUTSIDE THE CITY GATE SUFFERING. 23:52 JESUS SUFFERED OUTSIDE THE GATE. HE WAS PHYSICALLY DISFIGURED 23:57 BY HIS SUFFERINGS. JOB 2, VERSE 12, "AND WHEN THEY 24:02 RAISED THEIR EYES FROM AFAR., AND DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM, THEY 24:06 LIFTED THEIR VOICES AND WEPT;" - HIS SUFFERINGS, FIRST OF ALL - 24:10 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PERSON GO THROUGH A TERRIBLE TRIAL? 24:13 AND EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NOTHING PHYSICAL, JUST THE 24:15 EMOTIONAL TRIAL THEY WENT THROUGH VISIBLY CHANGED THEIR 24:18 APPEARANCE. DO ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 24:22 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE THAT JUST WENT THROUGH SOMETHING, YOU CAN LOOK 24:24 AT THEM AND SAY, 'WOW, WHAT HAPPENED? THEY WEREN'T 24:26 PHYSICALLY SICK, BUT THEY JUST WENT THROUGH SO MUCH IT STRAINED 24:30 THEM. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT ABOUT JESUS - ISAIAH 52, VERSE 14, 24:35 "JUST AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT YOU," - AND ISAIAH 52 IS A 24:39 PROPHECY ABOUT THE MESSIAH - YOU ALL KNOW THAT - "JUST AS MANY 24:42 WERE ASTONISHED AT YOU, SO HIS VISAGE WAS MARRED MORE THAN ANY 24:46 MAN, AND HIS FORM MORE THAN THE SONS OF MEN;" 24:50 AND THEN YOU'LL FIND, IN A COUPLE DIFFERENT PLACES, A 24:53 REFERENCE TO A CROSS AND A CROWN. 24:56 DO YOU FIND A CROSS AND A CROWN MENTIONED IN THE LIFE OF JESUS? 25:00 YOU KNOW, IT'S ALSO IN THE BOOK OF JOB - JOB 31:36, "SURELY I 25:06 WOULD CARRY IT ON MY SHOULDER," - HE'S GOT SOMETHING ON HIS 25:09 SHOULDER - JESUS HAD A CROSS - "AND BIND IT ON ME LIKE A 25:12 CROWN;" - CHRIST WAS WEARING A CROWN OF THORNS AND HAD A CROSS 25:16 ON HIS SHOULDER. MATTHEW 10:38, "AND HE WHO DOES 25:19 NOT TAKE HIS CROSS AND FOLLOW AFTER ME IS NOT WORTHY OF ME." 25:23 MATTHEW 27:29, "WHEN THEY HAD TWISTED A CROWN OF THORNS, THEY 25:28 PUT IT ON HIS HEAD, AND A REED IN HIS RIGHT HAND." 25:30 AND THEN THEY TAKE THE REED FROM JESUS AND THEY BEAT HIM ON THE 25:33 HEAD, DRIVING THE THORNS IN. JOB WAS EXPERIENCING A CROWN OF 25:39 SUFFERING AND A BURDEN ON HIS SHOULDER. 25:42 PIERCED BY IRON - WAS JESUS PIERCED BY IRON? 25:47 LISTEN ABOUT JOB - JOB 20, VERSE 24, "HE WILL FLEE FROM THE IRON 25:52 WEAPON; A BRONZE BOW WILL PIERCE HIM THROUGH. 25:56 IT IS DRAWN, AND COMES OUT OF THE BODY; YES, THE GLITTERING 25:59 POINT COMES OUT OF HIS GALL. TERRORS COME UPON HIM;" MARK 26:04 15:25, "NOW IT WAS THE THIRD HOUR, AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM." 26:09 OF COURSE, THEY PIERCED HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET, AND IT SAYS 26:13 ONE OF THE SOLDIERS - JOHN 19:34 - "PIERCED HIS SIDE WITH A 26:17 SPEAR," - ROMANS TRADITIONALLY HAD IRON SWORDS, SPEARS, 26:21 AND THE NAILS WOULD HAVE BEEN IRON AS WELL - PIERCED BY IRON - 26:26 HIS FEET CONFINED. JOB 13:27, "YOU PUT MY FEET IN 26:32 THE STOCKS, AND WATCH CLOSELY ALL MY PATHS. 26:36 YOU SET A LIMIT FOR THE SOLES OF MY FEET." 26:38 HE CAN'T MOVE HIS FEET IS WHAT THAT MEANS. 26:41 DID JESUS EXPERIENCE THAT WHEN HE WAS CRUCIFIED? 26:44 PSALM 22, "FOR DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME; THE CONGREGATION 26:48 OF THE WICKED HAS ENCLOSED ME. 26:50 THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET." 26:53 CHRIST WAS PIERCED. JOB WAS PIERCED. 26:56 HIS FEET WERE CONFINED - YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT BEING IN 26:59 PRISON, YOU CAN'T BE MORE IMPRISONED THAN BEING CRUCIFIED. 27:04 POINT #16 - STRIPPED OF CLOTHING - JOB 21 - I'M SORRY, JOB 1:21 - 27:11 AND HE SAID, "NAKED I CAME FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB, AND NAKED I 27:15 SHALL RETURN THERE. THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HAS 27:18 TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD." 27:21 JESUS WAS STRIPPED. MATTHEW 27:28, "WHEN THEY 27:26 STRIPPED HIM AND PUT A SCARLET ROBE ON HIM." 27:29 YOU KNOW, JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING, WHAT COLOR WAS THE 27:32 ROBE THAT JESUS WAS GIVEN WHEN HE WAS MOCKED? 27:38 >>PURPLE. >>PURPLE? I JUST READ SCARLET. 27:41 HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED IN THE BIBLE, ONE PLACE SAYS SCARLET, 27:43 ONE PLACE SAYS PURPLE? PROBABLY BECAUSE IT WAS BOTH. 27:47 SOMETIMES - JUST - I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT BECAUSE YOU 27:50 MIGHT BE BE TESTED ON THAT SOMEDAY. 27:52 SOMEONE'LL SAY, 'THE BIBLE'S INCONSISTENT.' HE WAS WEARING - 27:54 YOU READ IN LUKE IT SAYS THEY PUT A 'SPLENDID' ROBE ON HIM. 27:58 THE ROYALTY, LIKE KING HEROD AND THOSE PEOPLE, THEY HAD ROBES 28:01 THAT HAD PURPLE AND SCARLET IN THEM, AND SO, IT PROBABLY HAD 28:05 BOTH. SOME OF THE BIBLE WRITERS SAID, 28:07 'OH, IT WAS A SCARLET ROBE' - WELL IT WAS. 28:09 MAYBE IT HAD A PURPLE BORDER - WHO KNOWS? 28:12 ANYWAY, PROBABLY BOTH, BUT IT WAS THE ROYAL ROBES THAT THEY 28:14 PUT ON HIM TO MOCK HIM AS A KING. SO THEY STRIPPED HIM OF 28:19 HIS CLOTHES AND PUT A SCARLET ROBE ON HIM. 28:22 JOHN 19:24, "THEY SAID THEREFORE AMONG THEMSELVES, 'LET US NOT 28:27 TEAR IT, BUT CAST LOTS FOR IT, WHOSE IT SHALL BE,' THAT THE 28:31 SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH SAYS: 'THEY DIVIDED MY 28:34 GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS.' 28:37 THEREFORE THE SOLDIERS DID THESE THINGS." 28:40 THEY TOOK AWAY HIS CLOTHING FROM HIM. 28:43 HE WAS MOCKED BY THE MULTITUDE - THIS IS POINT #17 - JOB 30, 28:48 VERSE 9, "AND NOW I AM THEIR TAUNTING SONG; YES, I AM THEIR 28:52 BYWORD." THIS, TO ME, IS SO AMAZING. 28:55 I'M READING THE OLDEST BOOK OF SCRIPTURE AND IT IS PERFECTLY 28:59 DESCRIBING THE PARTICULARS OF WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD GO 29:03 THROUGH TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER. 29:05 I KEEP WAITING TO HEAR GASPS FROM THE AUDIENCE. 29:08 >>AMEN. >>THIS IS SO AMAZING TO ME 29:11 BECAUSE HOW COULD YOU EVER FABRICATE THAT? 29:13 WE KNOW THE BOOK OF JOB WAS WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, 29:17 FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, AND YET IT PERFECTLY DESCRIBES THOSE 29:21 THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS - THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE OF JOB WHEN 29:25 HE WENT THROUGH THAT SUFFERING. HE WENT THROUGH THAT CRUCIBLE 29:28 OF PAIN FOR YOU AND ME. YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION 29:31 BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO COME UP IN THE STORY BEFORE I'M DONE. 29:35 YOU KNOW, IF EVER I WANT SOMEONE TO READ A BOOK I'VE WRITTEN, I 29:38 GIVE IT TO THEM AND I SAY, 'I THINK YOU'RE MENTIONED IN THERE 29:39 SOMEWHERE.' (LAUGHTER) AND THEN THEY READ THE BOOK. 29:42 (LAUGHTER) IT'S LIKE IF I SHOW YOU A PHOTOGRAPH AND SAY, 'I 29:44 THINK YOU'RE IN THE PICTURE SOMEWHERE.' YOU WILL SCAN THAT 29:46 PHOTOGRAPH. 'I AM THEIR TAUNTING SONG' - 29:53 THAT'S JOB 30, VERSE 9 - "YES, I AM THEIR BYWORD." 29:56 DID THEY MOCK JESUS? >>YES. 29:58 >>LUKE 22:63, "NOW THE MEN WHO HELD JESUS MOCKED HIM AND BEAT 30:03 HIM." PSALM 22 - PROPHECY ABOUT THE MESSIAH - "ALL THOSE WHO SEE 30:08 ME RIDICULE ME; THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, THEY SHAKE THE HEAD 30:12 SAYING, 'HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD, LET HIM RESCUE HIM; LET HIM 30:15 DELIVER HIM, SIN HE DELIGHTS IN HIM!'" 30:17 THEY SAID, 'JOB, IF GOD IS WITH YOU THE WHY ARE YOU SUFFERING?' 30:21 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID TO JESUS. 30:24 POINT #18: HE'S IDENTIFIED WITH THE WICKED. 30:29 THEY SAID, 'YOU MUST BE WICKED.' JOB 34:7 AND 8, "WHAT MAN IS 30:34 LIKE JOB, WHO DRINKS SCORN LIKE WATER, WHO GOES IN COMPANY WITH 30:38 THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY, AND WALKS WITH WICKED MEN?" 30:43 SPEAKING OF JESUS AND HIS DEATH: HE MADE HIS GRAVE WITH THE 30:46 WICKED - HE'S CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO THIEVES. 30:49 MATTHEW 27 - TWO ROBBERS WERE CRUCIFIED - ONE ON THE RIGHT AND 30:53 THE OTHER ON THE LEFT AND HIM IN THE MIDDLE - HANGING OUT WITH 30:56 THE WICKED. THEY ALSO ACCUSED JESUS DURING 30:59 HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY OF HANGING OUT WITH THE WICKED. 31:02 I'M GLAD HE DID - THERE'D BE NO HOPE FOR YOU AND ME. 31:04 MATTHEW 9:10 AND 11, "NOW IT HAPPENED, AS JESUS SAT AT THE 31:07 TABLE IN THE HOUSE, THAT BEHOLD, MANY TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS 31:11 CAME AND SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND HIS DISCIPLES." 31:14 AND THE PHARISEES SAW AND THEY SAID TO THE DISCIPLES - THEY 31:17 WERE OUTRAGED - 'WHY DOES YOUR TEACHER EAT WITH TAX COLLECTORS 31:20 AND SINNERS? HE'S HANGING OUT WITH THE WICKED.' 31:23 WELL, THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT JOB. 31:27 HE SURRENDERED HIS CROWN AND GLORY - JOB 19:9 - "HE HAS 31:32 STRIPPED ME OF MY GLORY AND TAKEN MY CROWN FROM MY HEAD." 31:36 DID JESUS LAY ASIDE HIS CROWN? 31:39 WAS JESUS STRIPPED FROM HIS GLORY SO THAT HE COULD SAVE YOU 31:42 AND ME? CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH? 31:45 NOTICE, HEBREWS 2, VERSE 9, "BUT WE SEE JESUS, WHO WAS MADE A 31:49 LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, FOR THE SUFFERING OF DEATH 31:52 CROWNED WITH GLORY AND HONOR, THAT HE, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, 31:56 MIGHT TASTE DEATH FOR EVERYONE." JESUS WAS STRIPPED OF HIS CROWN. 32:02 HE EXPERIENCED DARKNESS. JOB 10, VERSE 21, "BEFORE I GO 32:10 TO THE PLACE FROM WHICH I SHALL NOT RETURN, TO THE LAND OF 32:13 DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH, A LAND AS DARK AS 32:16 DARKNESS ITSELF, AS THE SHADOW OF DEATH, WITHOUT ANY ORDER, 32:20 WHERE EVEN THE LIGHT IS LIKE DARKNESS." 32:23 JOB, IN HIS SUFFERING WAS FACING THE SECOND DEATH, FROM WHICH 32:28 THERE IS NO RESURRECTION. NOW YOU SEE THAT ALL THROUGH THE 32:32 STORY OF JOB, HIS FAITH IS BEING TESTED AND HE KIND OF WAVERS. 32:35 LATER HE COMES OUT TRIUMPHANT AND SAYS, 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME YET 32:38 WILL I TRUST HIM.' BUT THERE WERE PERIODS DURING THOSE WEEKS 32:41 HE SAYS, 'I AM FACING WHAT LOOKS LIKE A DEATH FROM WHICH THERE IS 32:44 NO RETURN. JUST ETERNAL DARKNESS. 32:48 JESUS FACED THAT IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE AND ON THE CROSS. 32:53 MATTHEW 27:45, "NOW FROM THE SIXTH HOUR TO THE NINTH HOUR 32:57 THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER ALL THE LAND." 33:00 AND JESUS, WHEN HE HUNG UPON THE CROSS, AT FIRST, AND EVEN IN THE 33:05 GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE WAS BEARING THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 33:10 HE WAS EXPERIENCING THE PENALTY FOR PERFECT WICKEDNESS - IT'S 33:14 LIKE JOB WAS BEING TREATED LIKE A PERFECT SINNER - THE JUDGMENTS 33:17 THAT FELL ON JOB ARE WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO FALL ON A PERSON 33:20 WHO WAS A TERRIBLE SINNER. EVEN HIS FRIENDS THOUGHT THAT. 33:23 THAT'S WHY A LOT OF WHAT HIS FRIENDS SAY ARE BASICALLY TRUE - 33:27 THAT GOD BLESSES OBEDIENCE, AND THERE'S CURSES THAT FALL ON THE 33:32 WICKED, AND JOB LOOKED LIKE HE WAS CURSED - BUT THEY WERE 33:36 WRONG. IT WAS A TEST. NOW YOU MAY GO THROUGH A TEST 33:41 BEFORE IT'S OVER AND WONDER, 'WHAT DID I DO?' 33:43 AND YOU MAY FEEL LIKE THERE'S NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. 33:46 YOU EVER FELT TOTAL DARKNESS, LIKE WHEN YOU PRAY - GOD DOESN'T 33:49 HEAR YOUR PRAYERS AND YOU JUST FEEL LIKE THERE'S NO PURPOSE AND 33:55 YOU JUST CAN'T REMEMBER ANY GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD AND - 33:58 IF YOU'VE EVER STRUGGLED WITH DEPRESSION WHERE YOU JUST - JUST 34:02 CAN'T SEE YOUR WAY OUT - SOME PEOPLE GET IT SO BAD THEY TAKE 34:05 THEIR LIVES. JOB WAS AT THAT POINT 34:08 WISHING FOR DEATH. YOU REMEMBER READING CHAPTER 3 34:10 EARLIER - WITH JOB PRAYING AND CURSING THE DAY HE WAS BORN - 34:13 PRAYING FOR DEATH SAYING IT WOULD BE A RELIEF? 34:16 THE DARKNESS THAT HE EXPERIENCED, THAT'S WHAT JESUS 34:19 EXPERIENCED FOR YOU - HE DID IT WILLINGLY, TO SAVE YOU AND ME. 34:23 >>AMEN. >>AND WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS 34:25 THERE WAS A SUPERNATURAL DARKNESS. 34:28 THEN YOU NOTICE, JOB IS AN INTERCESSOR - JOB 1:4 AND 5 - 34:36 THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK OF JOB HE IS PRAYING AND SACRIFICING 34:41 AND INTERCEDING IN BEHALF OF HIS FAMILY. 34:45 JOB IS A PRIEST. HE'S A MEDIATOR. 34:49 HE'S AN INTERCESSOR AND IT SAYS "HIS SONS WOULD GO AND FEAST IN 34:53 THEIR HOUSES, EACH ONE ON HIS APPOINTED DAY, AND THEY'D SEND 34:56 AND INVITE THEIR THREE SISTERS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THEM. 34:58 SO IT WAS, WHEN THE DAYS OF FEASTING HAD RUN THEIR COURSE, 35:01 THAT JOB WOULD SEND AND SANCTIFY THEM, AND HE WOULD RISE EARLY IN 35:04 THE MORNING AND OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS ACCORDING TO THE 35:07 NUMBER OF THEM ALL. FOR JOB SAID, 'IT MAY BE THAT MY 35:10 SONS HAVE SINNED AND CURSED GOD IN THEIR HEARTS.'" 35:12 HE IS PRAYING FOR THEM ALL. HE IS THE PRIEST OF THE FAMILY. 35:16 "THUS JOB DID REGULARLY." HOW OFTEN DOES HE DO IT? 35:20 HE'S CONSTANTLY INTERCEDING AND PRAYING. 35:23 GO TO THE END OF THE BOOK OF JOB. 35:26 "NOW THEREFORE, TAKE FOR YOURSELF SEVEN BULLS AND SEVEN 35:28 RAMS AND GO TO MY SERVANT JOB AND OFFER UP FOR YOURSELVES 35:32 BURNT OFFERINGS AND MY SERVANT JOB WILL PRAY FOR YOU AND I WILL 35:36 ACCEPT HIM." 'I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT FOR YOUR 35:38 SAKE, BUT FOR HIS SAKE I WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYER.' 35:41 IN WHOSE NAME DO WE PRAY? >>JESUS. 35:44 >>WE COME IN THE NAME OF JESUS. THE LORD TOLD JOB'S FRIENDS, 35:48 'I AM ONLY GOING TO ANSWER YOUR PRAY IF JOB INTERCEDES FOR YOU.' 35:53 YOU KNOW, THAT'S GOOD NEWS, REALLY, FOR YOU AND ME. 35:54 BECAUSE JESUS HAS MORE CLOUT WITH GOD THAN JOB DOES AND WE 35:59 CAN GO TO CHRIST - I'M SORRY - WE CAN GO TO THE FATHER IN 36:02 CHRIST'S NAME AND HE WILL FORGIVE, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. 36:06 JUST AS, THE BIBLE SAYS, JOB INTERCEDED FOR HIS FRIENDS. 36:09 THAT'S GOOD NEWS. OH, BY THE WAY, LET ME GIVE YOU 36:12 A NEW TESTAMENT VERSE: ROMANS 8:34, "WHO IS HE WHO CONDEMNS? 36:18 IT IS CHRIST WHO DIED, AND FURTHERMORE IS ALSO RISEN, WHO 36:22 IS EVEN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHO ALSO MAKES INTERCESSION 36:27 FOR US." IT SAYS HE EVER LIVES TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US. 36:32 JOB DID THIS REGULARLY AND JESUS IS OUR PRIEST, HE IS OUR 36:35 MEDIATOR, AND HE IS OUR INTERCESSOR. 36:37 AMEN? DO YOU SEE THE CONNECTION? 36:39 NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE DETOUR. 36:42 SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENS IN THE BOOK OF JOB AND I'M TAKING A 36:44 DETOUR BECAUSE JOB TOOK A DETOUR. 36:47 YOU'RE READING ALONG IN THE BOOK OF JOB - GO WITH ME TO THE BOOK 36:49 OF JOB CHAPTER 41 AND - I'VE JUST BEEN READING OUT OF MY 36:56 NOTES HERE, BUT I'M GOING TO GO, ACTUALLY, TO THE PAGE. 36:59 AND GOD IS TALKING - GOD IS TALKING ABOUT EVIDENCE OF HIS 37:04 POWER - AND JUST BEFORE JOB SPEAKS AGAIN, THE LAST THING JOB 37:10 DOES IS HE - THE LAST THING THE LORD SAYS - HE DEDICATES - GOD'S 37:14 SPEAKING - HE DEDICATES AN ENTIRE CHAPTER TO THIS STRANGE 37:19 CREATURE CALLED LEVIATHAN: "CAN YOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN WITH A 37:26 HOOK, OR SNARE HIS TONGUE WITH A LINE" - LIKE YOU'RE FISHING - 37:30 "WHICH YOU LOWER? CAN YOU PUT A REED THROUGH HIS 37:32 NOSE OR PIERCE HIS JAW WITH A HOOK? WILL HE MAKE SUPPLICATIONS 37:36 FOR YOU?" - GOD IS DESCRIBING SOME KIND OF A MONSTER, AND YOU 37:40 READ THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT JOB - IT 37:43 TALKS ABOUT HIS TERRIBLE TEETH. IT TALKS ABOUT THAT HE'S 37:45 FIRE-BREATHING - SPARKS FLY OUT OF HIS NOSE. 37:50 AND THEN YOU DO A LITTLE RESEARCH IN HISTORY AND YOU'LL 37:53 SEE THAT IN MANY ANCIENT CULTURES, THEY HAD THIS CREATURE 37:58 THAT WAS A SYMBOL OF THE DEVIL THAT WAS A DRAGON OR, IN SOME 38:03 SEMITIC CULTURES, CALLED 'LEVIATHAN'. 38:07 THE LORD, HERE, IS SHOWING NOW, IN THIS LAST SECTION BEFORE JOB 38:11 SPEAKS AND BEFORE GOD TURNS THINGS AROUND, GOD PULLS ASIDE 38:15 THE VEIL AND HE SAID, 'YOU ARE NOT SUFFERING BECAUSE OF ME.' 38:20 EVERYONE SAYS, 'WHY DID GOD DO THIS TO ME?' 38:22 IN THE STORY OF JOB WAS IT GOD THAT DID IT OR THE DEVIL? 38:25 IT'S THIS DRAGON. IT'S THE DEVIL. 38:28 AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHO HE IS, LOOK AT THE LAST WORDS IN 38:33 CHAPTER 41, "HE BEHOLDS EVERY HIGH THING; HE IS KING OVER ALL 38:41 THE CHILDREN OF PRIDE." AND IT TALKS - IT'S 38:45 TALKING ABOUT THE DEVIL. IT'S TALKING ABOUT THAT 38:47 SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON AND IT'S SAYING HOW THAT JOB CAN'T DEFEAT 38:54 THE LEVIATHAN, BUT GOD CAN. GOD SAYS, 'I AM OVER ALL OF 38:58 CREATION AND YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE ON LEVIATHAN, BUT I CAN. 39:04 AND SO IT'S REALLY - THIS IS A GREAT, GREAT STUDY BECAUSE IT'S 39:09 LIKE JOB'S A MYSTERY BOOK AND THE ANSWER TO THE MYSTERY IS 39:13 BEING GIVEN NOW AT THE END - OF WHY. 39:16 YOU AND I START OUT - WE KNOW WHY JOB'S SUFFERING - FIRST 39:19 CHAPTERS IT TELLS US THERE'S A BATTLE IN HEAVEN. 39:21 JOB DOESN'T KNOW. HIS FRIENDS DON'T KNOW. 39:24 BUT YOU GET TO THE END OF THE BOOK AND GOD PULLS ASIDE THE 39:26 VEIL AND SAYS, 'THIS IS WHY JOB'S SUFFERING: IT'S THE 39:29 LEVIATHAN.' A FEW YEARS AGO OUR FAMILY - KAREN IS BACK HELPING 39:37 HER BROTHER RIGHT NOW, MANAGE TWINS. 39:42 SHE'S HAVING A GOOD TIME. SHE'S DEALING WITH EMPTY NEST, I 39:48 GUESS, BUT SHE'S HAVING A GOOD TIME. 39:51 BUT WE WENT WITH THE BOYS - NATHAN'S HERE TODAY, HE 39:53 REMEMBERS - WE WENT TO BELIZE AND WE WENT DIVING AND THE 39:55 HIGHLIGHT OF OUR DIVING TRIP WAS WE WERE GOING TO GO SEE THE 40:00 LARGEST FISH IN THE WORLD IN ITS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. 40:04 AND YOU NEVER KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO SHOW UP OR NOT - 40:06 THEY'RE CALLED WHALE SHARKS - AND YOU DIVE DOWN 80 FEET AND 40:10 YOU WAIT AND THEY ONLY COME DURING THE FULL MOON. 40:13 AND IT'S PRETTY SPOOKY BECAUSE YOU'RE OUT IN THE OPEN OCEAN. 40:17 YOU KNOW, NORMALLY, WHEN YOU'RE SCUBA DIVING AND YOU'RE 40:19 SNORKELING, YOU'RE ON A REEF - YOU'RE FOLLOWING - 40:20 THERE'S SOME TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW? 40:23 BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE OPEN OCEAN AND YOU DROP DOWN IN THE 40:25 ABYSS AND EVERYTHING IS JUST - IT GOES ON THROUGH ETERNITY AND 40:29 YOU LOOK DOWN AND ITS BLACKNESS BELOW YOU AND THEN YOU HEAR 40:32 SOMEONE BANGING ON THEIR TANK AND IN YOUR EARS YOU HEAR 40:35 'CLONK, CLONK, CLONK, CLONK' AND YOU CAN HEAR SOMEONE - BUBBLES - 40:37 AND THEY'RE SHOUTING AND THEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR GUIDE AND HE'S 40:40 POINTING DOWN AND UP FROM THE ABYSS WE SAW WHAT LOOKED LIKE A 40:44 RUSSIAN NUCLEAR SUB COMING UP AND IT WAS ONE OF THESE WHALE 40:49 SHARKS AND IT IS AWESOME. AND YOU SEE THEM COME IN CLOSE 40:53 TO YOU - AND WE SAW SEVERAL THAT DAY. 40:54 SOME PEOPLE GO OUT AND THEY PAY FOR THE TOUR AND THEY DON'T SEE 40:57 ANY. WE WERE SO THANKFUL TO SEE THEM. 40:58 BUT YOU GET OUT IN THE WATER LIKE THAT AND IT'S TERRIFYING. 41:02 YOU FEEL VERY VULNERABLE. AND THEN I SAW A SHARK COME - 41:06 A REAL SHARK, SHARK - SWIMMING TOWARDS US AND I WENT AND 41:09 TAPPED ON NATHAN'S - I'M NOT EXAGGERATING - SIX FEET AWAY WAS 41:13 THIS BIG - I THINK IT WAS A BULL SHARK. 41:15 I SAID, 'NATHAN, LOOK.' IT'S PRETTY EXCITING, BUT THERE'S 41:20 THIS SEA MONSTER THAT HE REVEALS IS THE ONE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE 41:25 FOR ALL THAT. LOOK AT VERSE 19, "OUT OF HIS 41:28 MOUTH GO BURNING LIGHTS; SPARKS OF FIRE SHOOT OUT. 41:32 SMOKE GOES OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS, AS FROM A BOILING POT AND 41:35 BURNING RUSHES." NOW, I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'LL TELL 41:42 YOU ONE INTERESTING THEORY. AND DON'T TAKE THIS - THIS IS 41:44 JUST - TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, BUT IT'S INTERESTING. 41:47 THEY'VE GOT - SOME HAVE WONDERED - YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT BONES OF 41:52 REPTILES THAT USED TO FLY. AND - BY - UNDER A 41:56 VARIETY OF NAMES. THERE WAS ONE REPTILE - 42:00 PTEROSAURUS? - CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE IT WAS, BUT HE HAD A 42:03 WINGSPAN ABOUT AS BIG AS A SMALL CESSNA. 42:06 I MEAN, THESE THINGS WERE MASSIVE AND - AND THEN YOU'VE 42:11 GOT THESE CREATURES IN GOD'S KINGDOM CALLED 'BOMBARDIER 42:14 BEETLES' AND WHAT THESE BOMBARDIER BEETLES DO IS THEY'VE 42:17 GOT TWO CHAMBERS AND WHEN THEY'RE ATTACKED, THEY COMBINE 42:20 CHEMICALS AND IT CREATES THIS BURNING LIQUID - IT ACTUALLY 42:24 SMOKES - AND IT'LL BURN SOMETHING. 42:27 AND SOME HAVE THEORIZED THAT SOME OF THESE EXTINCT FLYING 42:31 REPTILES ACTUALLY HAD THE ABILITY - THEY HAD CHAMBERS IN 42:34 THEIR HEADS, LIKE BOMBARDIER BEETLES, TO BLOW CHEMICALS 42:38 TOGETHER AS A DEFENSE AND SO THEY COME UP WITH FIRE-BREATHING 42:41 DRAGONS. WHETHER THAT'S TRUE OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW. 42:43 IT'S AN INTERESTING THEORY AND I KNOW THERE ARE SOME 10-YEAR-OLDS 42:46 OUT THERE RIGHT NOW THAT ARE GOING, 'OOH, NEAT, PASTOR DOUG. 42:48 THERE REALLY WERE FIRE-BREATHING DRAGONS.' WELL, I DON'T KNOW 42:51 THAT, BUT I KNOW THE BIBLE DOES TALK ABOUT IT. 42:54 NOT ONLY HERE, BUT ISAIAH TALKS ABOUT FLYING FIERY SERPENTS. 42:59 AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS WHAT WAS GOING ON BACK THEN AND IT 43:03 COULD BE BACK IN THE DAYS OF JOB - THEY LIVED A LONG TIME AGO - 43:06 SOME MEN LIVED CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH SOME CREATURES THAT ARE NOW 43:09 EXTINCT - BACK THEN, AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN THAT THEY USED 43:16 THIS AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THAT GREAT SERPENT. 43:20 SO, WE KNOW THAT THE DRAGON HAS COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH AND 43:25 HE WANTS TO DESTROY GOD'S PEOPLE. 43:27 NOW, WHY IS THE STORY OF JOB SO IMPORTANT TO US TODAY? 43:32 DOES JOB SURVIVE HIS TRIALS? >>YES. 43:36 >>BUT HE WENT THROUGH A TRIAL THAT - WOULD ANY OF YOU LIKE TO 43:39 GO THROUGH WHAT JOB WENT THROUGH? 43:40 >>NO. >>DOES ANYONE HERE WANT TO GO 43:42 THROUGH WHAT JESUS WENT THROUGH? >>NO. 43:44 >>YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO DO THE FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS OF 43:46 FASTING, LET ALONE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE AND 43:49 ON THE CROSS, RIGHT? BUT MAYBE IT'S GOOD FOR US TO 43:53 READ THE BOOK OF JOB BECAUSE ARE GOD'S PEOPLE GOING TO GO THROUGH 43:56 A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN? 44:00 HAVE YOU READ MATTHEW 24? >>AMEN. 44:03 >>HAVE YOU READ DANIEL CHAPTER 12, WHEN IT SAYS, 'MICHAEL 44:05 STANDS UP AND THERE'S A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS 44:08 BEEN, EVEN TO THAT TIME, NOR WILL THERE EVER BE"? 44:12 AND THE BIBLE SPEAKS ABOUT A GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE. 44:15 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE. 44:18 YOU READ IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 30 AND WE'RE TOLD IN THE SPIRIT OF 44:22 PROPHECY THAT GOD'S PEOPLE WILL EXPERIENCE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO 44:25 THIS. JEREMIAH CHAPTER 30, VERSE 7, "ALAS! 44:29 FOR THAT DAY IS GREAT, SO THAT NONE IS LIKE IT; AND IT IS THE 44:32 TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE, BUT HE SHALL BE SAVED OUT OF IT." 44:35 JACOB WAS WRESTLING WITH GOD. JOB WAS WRESTLING THROUGH 44:40 HIS SUFFERINGS WITH GOD. 'WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?' 44:43 WE'LL BE WONDERING, 'HAVE WE GRIEVED THE HOLY SPIRIT? 44:46 IS THERE HOPE FOR US?' OUR FAITH IS GOING TO BE 44:48 CHALLENGED TO THE NTH DEGREE. NOT ONLY THAT, JOB EXPERIENCED 44:53 TOTAL ABANDONMENT FROM HEAVEN AND EARTH. 44:57 HE LOST ALL HIS THINGS, HE LOST ALL HIS FRIENDS, HE LOST ALL HIS 45:00 FAMILY, AND HE FELT CUT OFF FROM GOD. 45:03 AS YOU AND I FACE THE LAST DAYS, YOU CAN READ IN DESIRE OF AGES 45:06 PAGE 121 AND 122, "IN THE LAST GREAT CONFLICT IN THE GREAT 45:11 CONTROVERSY WITH SATAN, THOSE WHO ARE LOYAL TO GOD WILL SEE 45:16 EVERY EARTHLY SUPPORT CUT OFF BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO BREAK 45:20 GOD'S LAW IN OBEDIENCE TO EARTHLY POWERS, THEY WILL BE 45:24 FORBIDDEN TO BUY OR SELL. THERE'LL BE A TIME WHEN WE'RE 45:27 GOING TO EXPERIENCE A REAL TRIAL. JOB SURVIVED BY FAITH. 45:32 JESUS HAS WARNED US - JOHN 16:33 - "IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE 45:36 TRIBULATION; BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE OVERCOME THE 45:39 WORLD." DON'T LOSE FAITH. PAUL SAID - ACTS 14:22, "WE MUST 45:45 THROUGH MANY TRIBULATIONS ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD." 45:49 WE MUST GO THROUGH TRIBULATION. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? 45:53 A LOT OF CHRISTIANS OUT THERE IN THE EVANGELICAL WORLD ARE 45:57 BELIEVING IN SOMETHING CALLED THE SECRET RAPTURE - THAT BEFORE 46:00 THE GREAT TRIBULATIONS IN THE LAST DAYS - THE CHURCH IS JUST 46:03 GOING TO GET CAUGHT UP AND WE WON'T HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THE 46:07 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES OR ANY TRIALS. 46:09 WE DO BELIEVE THERE'S A GREAT TRIBULATION, BUT WE'RE OF THE 46:13 GROUP THAT BELIEVES THAT WE'RE CAUGHT UP AFTER THE TRIALS AND 46:18 TRIBULATION. BY THE WAY, WHAT WE BELIEVE IS 46:21 WHAT THE CHURCH BELIEVED FOR 1900 YEARS. 46:24 THE IDEA OF THE SECRET RAPTURE IS A NEW TEACHING. 46:27 YOU DON'T FIND ANY OF THE REFORMERS TALKING ABOUT THAT. 46:30 I CHALLENGE YOU TO FIND MARTIN LUTHER OR WESLEY OR WHITFIELD OR 46:36 ANY OF THOSE GUYS TALKING ABOUT THE CHURCH BEING SAVED FROM 46:38 TRIBULATION. PAUL SAID, 'IT IS THROUGH 46:40 TRIBULATION WE ARE SAVED.' >>AMEN. 46:43 >>AND SO, STUDYING THE TRIALS THAT JOB GOES THROUGH AND WHAT 46:47 JESUS WENT THROUGH, JESUS SAID, 'IF THEY'VE DONE THIS TO ME, 46:50 YOUR LORD AND MASTER, DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO BE SPARED 46:52 FROM ANY TRIALS OR ANY SUFFERING? 46:56 THERE'S TROUBLE IN LIFE. NOW, I'M ENCOURAGED THOUGH, BECAUSE, 47:01 IN THE END, JOB TRIUMPHED. >>AMEN. 47:06 >>YOU READ IN CHAPTER 13, VERSE 15 - JOB, HIS FAITH SHOWN 47:10 THROUGH - AND HE SAYS, "THOUGH HE SLAY ME YET WILL I TRUST 47:14 HIM." AND AS JESUS HUNG UPON THE CROSS, EVEN AFTER HE HAD CRIED, 47:19 'WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?', HIS FINAL CRY WAS 'FATHER, INTO YOUR 47:23 HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.' HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.' 'NOT MY 47:28 WILL, THY WILL BE DONE.' IT WAS A CRY OF TRUST AND TRIUMPH. 47:32 AND YOU AND I MIGHT BE TRIED, BUT WE CAN ALSO TRIUMPH. 47:36 AMEN? >>AMEN. 47:37 >>NOW HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS - AND THIS IS MY LAST POINT - ALMOST. 47:43 IN THE END, JOB IS GREATLY BLESSED. HE IS GREATLY HONORED. 47:50 THE LATTER END OF JOB IS BLESSED MORE THAN THE BEGINNING. 47:56 CHRIST IS GOING TO BE HIGHLY EXALTED. HE WHO WENT THE LOWEST 48:00 TO SAVE US IS GOING TO BE EXALTED THE HIGHEST. 48:03 AND THE DEVIL, WHO WANTED THE HIGHEST, IS GOING TO BE PUT IN 48:06 THE PIT AND HE'S GOING TO GO TO THE LOWEST. 48:08 THE STORY OF JOB IS THE STORY OF ULTIMATE VICTORY. 48:12 YOU KNOW, IT'S GOT ALL THE ELEMENTS OF A GREAT STORY 48:14 BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT CONFLICT, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT CHARACTER 48:16 MISUNDERSTOOD AND HE LYING - AND IN THE END HE'S THE HERO. 48:19 >>AMEN. >>GOD TELLS HIS FRIENDS, 'YOU 48:21 WANT TO LIVE, YOU NEED TO HAVE JOB PRAY FOR YOU - THE ONE YOU 48:23 THOUGHT WAS SO WICKED - HE'S GOT TO PRAY FOR YOU.' 48:25 >>AMEN. >>AND THEY ALL GAVE HIM SOME 48:28 TRIBUTE AND JOB ENDS UP HAVING TWICE AS MUCH IN THE END. 48:33 YOU SAY, 'WELL, WHAT ABOUT HIS FAMILY?' 48:34 HE ENDS UP WITH TWICE AS MANY TOO BECAUSE HE HAS ANOTHER SEVEN 48:36 SONS - THREE DAUGHTERS - AND THE FIRST ONES WE TRUST HE 48:40 INTERCEDED FOR THEM - THEY'LL BE SAVED - SO HE'LL HAVE 20 IN 48:43 HEAVEN. SO EVERYTHING'S BLESSED, RIGHT? 48:47 HE GETS TWICE AS MUCH. HIS FAITH TRIUMPHS. 48:51 JOB 19:26 - HE SAYS, "AFTER MY SKIN IS DESTROYED, THIS I KNOW, 48:57 THAT IN MY FLESH I SHALL SEE GOD, WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR 49:00 MYSELF, AND MY EYES SHALL BEHOLD, AND NOT ANOTHER. 49:03 HOW MY HEART YEARNS WITHIN ME!" 49:05 NEW TESTAMENT - JAMES SAYS, 'BEHOLD, WE COUNT THEM HAPPY 49:09 THAT ENDURE.' YOU HAVE TO ENDURE WHAT? 49:11 'ENDURE TO THE END' JESUS SAID - ENDURE SUFFERING - 'YOU HAVE 49:14 HEARD OF THE PATIENCE OF JOB AND YOU HAVE SEEN THAT THE END OF 49:18 THE LORD - THAT THE LORD IS PITIFUL AND OF TENDER MERCY.' 49:22 THE STORY ENDS WELL. GOD IS GOOD IN THE END. 49:26 NOW FRIENDS, WHAT YOU'VE SEEN US LOOK AT TODAY WITH JOB IS TRUE 49:30 IN MANY WAYS, IN THE BIBLE. THE BIBLE IS AN AMAZING 49:34 MIRACULOUS SUPERNATURAL MESSAGE FROM GOD TO EARTH. 49:37 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT STORIES CHRIST SAID, 'IN THE VOLUME OF 49:42 THE BOOK IT'S WRITTEN OF ME, HE SAID, 'O FOOLS AND SLOW OF HEART 49:46 TO BELIEVE, ALL THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN, BEGINNING AT MOSES 49:51 AND ALL THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM IN ALL THE 49:54 SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF.' 49:56 ALL THE SCRIPTURES TALK ABOUT JESUS. THE STORY OF JOB - 50:00 CAN YOU SEE IT TODAY? WHAT WE'VE BEEN STUDYING NOW 50:02 FOR FIVE WEEKS, IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS. 50:05 WHAT JOB WENT THROUGH IS TELLING US HOW MUCH JESUS LOVES US IN 50:08 THE SUFFERINGS THAT JESUS WENT THROUGH AT THE HANDS OF THE 50:11 DEVIL. JOB WAS A TYPE OF THAT. 50:14 YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO READ - THIS IS A PASSAGE - IT'S A - 50:18 ACTUALLY AN EXCERPT FROM A DEVOTIONAL WRITTEN BY SPURGEON. 50:22 I SHARE THIS WITH ALL OUR AFCOE CLASSES BECAUSE THIS, I THINK, 50:27 IS JUST OUTSTANDING AND IT ALWAYS GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS WHEN 50:33 I READ IT. IT'S CALLED THESE ARE THEY WHICH 50:36 TESTIFY OF ME AND HE'S QUOTING JOHN 5:39, "SEARCH THE 50:40 SCRIPTURES FOR IN THEM YE THINK YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. 50:43 THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME." 50:45 IT DOESN'T START WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT - THE WHOLE BIBLE'S 50:47 ABOUT JESUS. YOU CAN SEE HIM EVERYWHERE. 50:50 JESUS CHRIST IS THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF THE BIBLE. 50:53 HE IS THE CONSTANT THEME OF IT'S SACRED PAGES. 50:57 FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST THEY TESTIFY OF HIM. 51:00 AT THE CREATION, WE AT ONCE DISCERN HIM AS THE SACRED 51:03 TRINITY. WE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF HIM IN THE 51:06 PROMISE OF THE WOMAN'S SEED. WE SEE HIM TYPIFIED 51:09 IN THE ARK OF NOAH. WE WALK WITH ABRAHAM AS 51:12 HE SEES MESSIAH'S DAY. WE DWELL IN THE TENTS OF ISAAC 51:15 AND JACOB, FEEDING UPON THE GRACIOUS PROMISE. 51:18 WE HEAR VENERABLE ISRAEL TALKING OF SHILOH AND IN INNUMEROUS 51:23 TYPES OF THE LAW, WE FIND THE REDEEMER ABUNDANTLY 51:26 FORESHADOWED. PROPHETS AND KINGS, PRIESTS AND 51:29 PREACHERS, ALL LOOK ONE WAY. THEY ALL STAND AS THE CHERUBS 51:33 DID, OVER THE ARK, DESIRING TO LOOK WITHIN AND TO READ THE 51:36 MYSTERY OF GOD'S PROPITIATION. STILL, MORE MANIFESTLY IN THE 51:40 NEW TESTAMENT, WE FIND OUR LORD THE ONE PERVADING SUBJECT. 51:44 IT'S NOT AN INGOT OF GOLD HERE OR THERE, OR DUST OF GOLD THINLY 51:48 SCATTERED, BUT HERE YOU STAND UPON A SOLID FLOOR OF GOLD, FOR 51:53 THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS JESUS CRUCIFIED. 51:57 EVEN ITS CLOSING SENTENCE IS BEJEWELED WITH THE REDEEMER'S 52:01 NAME" - WHERE IT SAYS, 'EVEN SO, COME LORD JESUS - "WE SHOULD 52:05 ALWAYS READ SCRIPTURE IN THIS LIGHT. 52:08 WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE WORD TO BE A MIRROR INTO WHICH CHRIST 52:12 LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND THEN WE, LOOKING INTO IT, SEE HIS 52:15 FACE REFLECTED. AS IN A GLASS, DARKLY, IT IS 52:18 TRUE, BUT STILL, IN SUCH A WAY AS TO BE A BLESSED PREPARATION 52:22 FOR SEEING HIM AS WE WILL SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. THIS VOLUME, 52:26 THE BIBLE, CONTAINS JESUS CHRIST'S LETTERS TO US, PERFUMED 52:30 BY HIS LOVE. THESE PAGES ARE THE GARMENTS OF OUR KING. 52:33 THEY ALL SMELL OF MYRRH AND ALOES AND CASSIA. 52:36 SCRIPTURE IS THE ROYAL CHARIOT IN WHICH JESUS RIDES. 52:40 IT IS PAVED WITH LOVE FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. 52:43 THE SCRIPTURES ARE THE SWADDLING BANDS OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS. 52:47 UNROLL THEM AND YOU FIND YOUR SAVIOR. 52:50 THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRIST. 52:54 >>AMEN. >>I LIKE EVEN USING THE 52:56 WORD 'QUINTESSENCE'. THIS IS ALL ABOUT JESUS, AMEN. 53:01 AND YOU SEE JESUS IN THE STORY OF JOB, FRIENDS? 53:04 >>AMEN. >>IT TELLS US ABOUT 53:05 HIS SUFFERINGS. IT SHOULD BE TELLING YOU ABOUT GOD'S LOVE FOR 53:08 YOU IN THAT JESUS SUFFERED LIKE THAT. AND IT SHOULD TELL US THAT 53:12 EVEN THOUGH WE SUFFER IT DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE FORSAKEN AND JOB WAS 53:16 WONDERING, BUT HE WAS NOT FORSAKEN. 53:19 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 53:22 WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, 53:26 VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 53:31 AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS 53:36 WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 53:41 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 53:44 VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. (MUSIC) 54:00 >>FRIENDS, ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS? 54:02 IF SO, YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK AWAY RIGHT NOW. 54:04 ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ATTRACTIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO 54:07 BAY AREA IS THE ICONIC GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. 54:11 WHILE THIS WORLD-FAMOUS BRIDGE WAS NAMED AS ONE OF THE SEVEN 54:14 WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD, FEW PEOPLE KNOW THE STORY OF THE 54:17 BRAVE MEN WHO WERE INVOLVED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION AND - ALSO 54:20 KNOWN AS THE HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB . 54:23 DESIGNED BY A GROUP OF VISIONARY ENGINEERS AT 4200 FEET END TO 54:27 END, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE WAS, AT ONE TIME, THE LONGEST 54:31 SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. DURING ITS CONSTRUCTION, FROM 54:34 1933 TO 1937, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HAD ONE OF THE BEST 54:39 SAFETY CONSTRUCTION RECORDS OF ANY PROJECT DURING THAT TIME. 54:42 KEEP IN MIND, THEY WOULD FACTOR IN AND CALCULATE THAT ONE MAN 54:46 WOULD DIE FOR EVERY MILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SPENT, SO WITH 54:49 A BUDGET OF 35 MILLION DOLLARS, THEY KNEW THAT LOSS OF LIFE 54:53 WOULD BE UNACCEPTABLE. THIS IS WHY THE CHIEF ENGINEER, JOSEPH 54:56 P. STRAUSS, WAS ABSOLUTELY ADAMANT ABOUT USING THE MOST 54:59 RIGOROUS SAFETY PRECAUTIONS THAT HAD EVER BEEN USED IN BRIDGE 55:03 BUILDING. HE HAD A LOCAL MANUFACTURER OF 55:05 SAFETY EQUIPMENT DESIGN SPECIAL HEADGEAR THAT HE INSISTED 55:08 BE WORN ON EVERY JOB. THIS BECAME THE PROTOTYPE FOR 55:11 THE MODERN HARD HAT, WORN FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. 55:14 BUT THE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WENT EVEN FARTHER. 55:17 STRAUSS PROVIDED A SPECIAL HAND AND FACE CREAM TO PROTECT THEIR 55:20 SKIN FROM THE COLD, BITING WIND, AND GLARE-FREE GOGGLES TO 55:24 PROTECT THEIR EYES. 55:26 IN ADDITION, THEY ALSO ATE A SPECIAL DIET TO HELP WARD OFF 55:29 DIZZINESS WHEN THEY WERE WORKING AT THOSE EPIC HEIGHTS. 55:32 BUT THE MOST CONSPICUOUS SAFETY PRECAUTION WAS A GIGANTIC NET 55:36 THAT WAS SUSPENDED FROM END TO END UNDER THE ENTIRE 55:39 CONSTRUCTION AREA OF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. 55:42 IN FACT, DURING CONSTRUCTION, THIS NET SAVED THE LIVES OF 19 55:47 MEN, WHO LATER BECAME KNOWN AS THE HALFWAY TO HELL CLUB . 55:51 NOW, YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND, THESE WERE SOME OF THE MOST 55:53 DANGEROUS CONSTRUCTION CONDITIONS YOU CAN IMAGINE. 55:56 THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING. THEY WERE WALKING AROUND ON IRON 56:01 THAT SOMETIMES HAD ICE FROM THE FREEZING FOG. 56:04 IN PLACES, THEY WERE OVER 700 FEET ABOVE THE ICY WATERS. 56:09 YET THE MEN, COMING FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, WERE WILLING TO 56:12 TAKE THESE RISKS BECAUSE IT WAS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND 56:15 THEY WOULD GET PAID UP TO ELEVEN DOLLARS A DAY, WHICH WAS A 56:18 FORTUNE BACK THEN. ONE OF THE OTHER BENEFITS OF THE 56:22 NET WAS THEY DISCOVERED THAT THE MEN WERE MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS - 56:26 EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE WALKING HIGH ON THOSE SLIPPERY SURFACES, 56:29 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE WAS A MECHANISM TO PROTECT 56:31 THEM IF THEY SHOULD FALL. THIS GAVE THEM THE CONFIDENCE 56:34 AND THE COURAGE TO PRESS ON AND GET THE BRIDGE BUILT IN RECORD 56:37 TIME. YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, AS CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A GREAT WORK 56:40 TO DO. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WE GET 56:42 TO PARTICIPATE WITH JESUS IN BUILDING A BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS 56:46 HEAVEN AND EARTH AND THERE ARE DANGERS ALONG THE WAY. 56:50 THE DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO PARALYZE US WITH FEAR THAT WE MIGHT FALL 56:53 OR MAKE A MISTAKE, BUT WE KNOW THAT JESUS HAS PROVIDED A SAFETY 56:56 NET FOR US AND WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. 56:59 WE CAN PRESS ON WITH CONFIDENCE BECAUSE IT PROMISES, IN THE BOOK 57:02 OF JUDE, VERSE 24, 'HE IS ABLE TO KEEP US FROM FALLING.' 57:06 BUT SOMETIMES WE MAKE MISTAKES. 57:08 STILL, DON'T BE DISCOURAGED, FRIENDS, IF YOU READ IN 1 JOHN 57:11 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'IF WE FALL...IF WE SIN WE 57:15 HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST.' SO LET'S 57:19 PRESS ON TOGETHER AND BUILD THAT BRIDGE WITH CHRIST. 57:31 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:34 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:38 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:41 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:44 REVELATION, 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM' IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:48 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. 57:51 ENHANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO 57:54 GOD'S WORD. GO DEEPER. VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. 58:00 (MUSIC) |
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