Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021651A
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00:35 GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:39 FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND, LITERALLY, 00:42 AROUND THE WORLD. ALSO, A WARM WELCOME TO THE 00:45 MEMBERS AND THE VISITORS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY 00:48 ADVENTIST CHURCH. AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING 00:50 THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT 00:53 OF THE BOOK OF JOB. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN 00:55 LESSON #12 ENTITLED JOB'S REDEEMER - REACHING THE END OF 01:00 OUR TIME STUDYING TOGETHER IN THIS BOOK OF JOB. 01:03 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY. 01:07 IT IS A BOOK WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS ENTITLED CHRIST'S HUMAN 01:10 NATURE AND THIS IS FREE TO ANYBODY (IN NORTH AMERICA) WHO 01:13 CALLS AND ASKS. THE NUMBER TO CALL IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN 01:19 ASK FOR OFFER #703. THAT NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966. 01:27 ASK FOR OFFER #703 - A BOOK ENTITLED CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE 01:31 AND I BELIEVE THIS BOOK IS ALSO AVAILABLE, FOR THOSE OUTSIDE OF 01:34 NORTH AMERICA. JUST GO TO THE WEBSITE, JUST 01:37 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS BOOK 01:41 AND YOU CAN READ IT FOR FREE. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF 01:44 TODAY'S LESSON, WHICH IS LESSON #12 IN OUR STUDY OF THE BOOK 01:48 OF JOB, YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON AT THE 01:51 AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 01:56 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, AS USUAL, WE LIKE 01:59 TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN PRAISE AND SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG 02:03 LEADERS TO JOIN ME ONSTAGE. (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) 02:06 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. IT IS THAT SEASON WHEN WE GO THE 02:11 ONE HUNDREDS - THE BEGINNING ONE HUNDREDS - OF OUR HYMNALS AND 02:14 WE ARE SINGING CHRISTMAS SONGS. IT'S BY NO ACCIDENT TODAY THAT 02:17 WE HAPPEN TO BE SINGING MY FAVORITE AND DEBBIE'S FAVORITE. 02:20 SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH O, COME ALL YE FAITHFUL - #132 - 02:24 THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE. WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE 02:27 VERSES SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AT HOME. 02:29 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AND SING ALONG AS WE SING ABOUT 02:34 CHRIST'S BIRTH AND HIS REDEMPTION AND HIS POWER IN OUR 02:37 LIVES. (PIANO MUSIC) 05:20 >>YOU KNOW, IT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING, AS 05:21 CHRISTIANS, THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO JUST THINK ABOUT THIS 05:25 CHRISTMAS THEME ONLY AT CHRISTMAS TIME. EVERY DAY HE 05:29 SHOULD BE LIVING IN OUR HEARTS, HE SHOULD BE FILLING US, 05:32 CHANGING US, AND WE SHOULD ALWAYS, ALWAYS IN THE TOP OF OUR 05:37 HEADS AND IN THE TOP OF OUR MINDS, KNOW THAT HE IS COMING 05:41 SOON AND JUST BE READY EVERY DAY FOR HIM TO BREAK THROUGH THOSE 05:45 CLOUDS. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY. 05:47 HE CAME AS A LAMB AND HE'S COMING AS A KING AND I'M LOOKING 05:51 FORWARD TO THAT DAY. SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT - HYMN 05:55 #143 - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL FOUR VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 10:08 >>AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER. 10:12 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) >>AMEN. 10:21 WELL, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR A WORD OF PRAYER BEFORE WE GET TO 10:24 OUR STUDY. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A 10:26 PRIVILEGE IT IS FOR US, ONCE AGAIN, TO GATHER TOGETHER ON 10:29 THIS, YOUR SABBATH DAY, AND OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER. 10:32 AND LORD, WE INVITE THE HOLY SPIRIT ONCE AGAIN TO COME AND 10:35 GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AND LEAD US INTO A CLEARER AND 10:38 FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT TRUTH THAT JESUS IS NOT 10:42 ONLY JOB'S REDEEMER, BUT HE'S OUR REDEEMER. 10:45 BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 10:49 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 10:56 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND THANK YOU TO OUR MUSICIANS. 11:01 IT'S FUN TO HAVE ALL THE EXTRA INSTRUMENTS HERE - THE SINGERS, 11:05 KIND OF A LITTLE MINI CHOIR, AND THE ORCHESTRA AND WE APPRECIATE 11:08 THAT. WELCOME TO OUR SABBATH SCHOOL 11:11 CLASS, FRIENDS, AND I THINK PASTOR ROSS MENTIONED 11:14 WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER. IT'S CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE - 11:17 GOOD BOOK, AND - ABOUT OUR REDEEMER. 11:20 ASK FOR OFFER #703 WHEN YOU REQUEST THAT AND IT'S 11:23 866-STUDY-MORE. OUR LESSON IS #12 - WE'RE 11:28 CONTINUING IN THE STUDY OF JOB. NOW, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'VE BEEN 11:32 IN JOB A LONG TIME, BUT WE'RE REALLY NOT EVEN COVERING A 11:36 FRACTION OF THE MEATY MATERIAL IN THE 42 CHAPTERS OF JOB. 11:42 IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST BOOKS IN THE BIBLE. 11:44 AND SO, IT JUST - IT'S FASCINATING. 11:49 NOW TODAY IS, QUITE HONESTLY, GOING TO BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE 11:53 STUDIES IN OUR LESSON DEALING WITH JOB'S REDEEMER. 11:57 NOT JUST BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT JESUS, BUT BECAUSE IT GIVES ME A 12:01 CHANCE - AN OPPORTUNITY - TO DWELL ON MY HOBBY HORSE IN THE 12:06 BIBLE. MY SPECIAL LOVE, WHEN STUDYING 12:11 THE BIBLE, ESPECIALLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IS TO LOOK 12:14 FOR THE TYPES OF CHRIST. SOME OF YOU KNOW I WROTE A 12:17 BOOK - AND IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M PLUGGING MY BOOK - MAYBE I AM. 12:21 IT'S CALLED SHADOWS OF LIGHT: CHRIST IN ALL THE BIBLE . 12:24 I JUST KIND OF WENT THROUGH MOST OF THE OLD TESTAMENT HEROES AND 12:27 I SAY, 'HOW ARE THEY TYPES OF CHRIST?' 12:29 AND I'VE JUST BEEN CHOMPING AT THE BIT FOR A CHANCE TO NOW LOOK 12:31 AT THE STORY OF JOB AND SAY, 'WHERE DO WE SEE TYPES OF JESUS 12:37 IN THE STORY OF JOB?' AND SO WE'RE GOING TO 12:39 DO SOME OF THAT TODAY. BUT FIRST OUR MEMORY VERSE - 12:41 AND YOU CAN SAY THIS WITH ME - MEMORY VERSE FOR OUR STUDY 12:44 TODAY, ISAIAH 53, VERSE 4 - ISAIAH 53, VERSE 4. 12:49 YOU READY? YOU WANT TO SAY THAT WITH ME? 12:51 "SURELY HE HAS BORNE OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS; YET WE 12:57 ESTEEMED HIM STRICKEN, SMITTEN BY GOD, AND AFFLICTED." 13:02 NOW, OF COURSE, THAT IS THAT GREAT CHAPTER WE'LL TALK ABOUT 13:05 LATER, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE SUFFERING SAVIOR IN THE OLD 13:09 TESTAMENT. ALRIGHT, SO GETTING INTO THE 13:12 LESSON JOB'S REDEEMER AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS SPRINGING FROM 13:16 THAT VERSE YOU FIND IN JOB 19, VERSES 25 THROUGH VERSE 27 WHERE 13:23 HE SAYS, "FOR I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES, AND HE SHALL 13:27 STAND AT LAST ON THE EARTH; AND AFTER MY SKIN IS DESTROYED, THIS 13:32 I KNOW," - YOU SEE, UNTIL HE'S GOT FAITH - "THAT IN MY FLESH I 13:37 SHALL SEE GOD, WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF, AND MY EYES SHALL 13:41 BEHOLD, AND NOT ANOTHER. HOW MY HEART YEARNS WITHIN ME!" 13:45 YOU CAN TELL THAT JOB BELIEVED THAT EVEN AFTER OUR BODIES ARE 13:50 LAID IN A GRAVE, YET IN A RESURRECTED BODY - "IN MY FLESH 13:53 I SHALL SEE GOD" - SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. 13:56 NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, 13:58 REVELATION 22:4. BEFORE WE GET THERE, I'M ALSO 14:02 GOING TO GO TO ISAIAH 48:17. JOB IS TALKING 14:05 ABOUT THE REDEEMER. A COMING REDEEMER IS EVEN 14:08 AN OLD TESTAMENT THEME. AND IT SAYS HERE IN ISAIAH 14:12 48:17, "THUS SAYS THE LORD, YOUR REDEEMER," - GOD - IF YOUR CHILD 14:19 IS KIDNAPPED, IF THE KIDNAPPER IS DOING IT RIGHT, HE'S 14:25 SUPPOSED TO SEND YOU A NOTE AND SAY 'THERE'S A RANSOM. 14:28 AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO REDEEM, THIS IS THE PRICE.' 14:35 MAYBE YOU'VE TAKEN SOMETHING BEFORE - 14:38 YOU NEEDED SOME MONEY, YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY, BUT YOU 14:40 HAD SOMETHING OF VALUE AND SO YOU PAWNED IT. 14:42 AND THE PAWN SHOP WILL MAYBE GIVE YOU TWENTY PERCENT OF ITS 14:45 VALUE, IF YOU'RE LUCKY AND AFTER YOU GOT THE MONEY BACK, YOU 14:50 WANTED THAT SAXOPHONE, OR WHATEVER IT WAS, YOU WANTED IT 14:53 BACK BECAUSE YOU KNEW IT WAS WORTH A LOT MORE THAN $20.00. 14:57 I HAD TO GET SOME MONEY ONCE AND I HAD A SAXOPHONE - I PAWNED IT 15:00 FOR $20.00 - I'M SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE. 15:03 IT WAS WORTH A LOT MORE THAN THAT. 15:05 THEY'LL ONLY HOLD IT FOR YOU FOR A FEW WEEKS AND IF YOU WANT TO 15:07 REDEEM IT, YOU'VE GOT TO COME BACK AND YOU'VE GOT TO GIVE THEM 15:10 $30.00 SO THEY MAKE A PROFIT ON IT TO GET IT BACK. 15:14 IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE MONEY. AND SO IT'S THE 15:18 PRICE OF REDEMPTION. IN THE BIBLE, IF YOU LOST YOUR 15:23 PROPERTY, YOU COULD HAVE A KINSMAN THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO 15:28 REDEEM YOUR PROPERTY AND THEY WERE CALLED THE KINSMAN 15:31 REDEEMER, BECAUSE THEY WERE FROM THE RIGHT FAMILY LINE - FROM 15:34 YOUR FAMILY LINE - AND THAT'S THE STORY OF RUTH. 15:38 NAOMI LOST HER PROPERTY DURING A TIME OF FAMINE. 15:41 THEY NEEDED SOMEBODY TO BE A REDEEMER. 15:43 BOAZ WAS THE KINSMAN REDEEMER. WELL, THE HUMAN RACE HAS BEEN 15:46 KIDNAPPED AND CHRIST PAID THE RANSOM. 15:50 WE'RE ALL GUILTY OF SIN - THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 15:53 JESUS PAID FOR THE PENALTY WITH HIS BLOOD - HIS DEATH - AND HE 15:58 IS OUR REDEEMER. SO JOB KNEW THAT THERE 16:01 WOULD BE A REDEEMER. AND, ALSO IN THAT VERSE, FROM 16:04 JOB 19, TALKS ABOUT 'WHO I WILL SEE FOR MYSELF. 16:08 RIGHT NOW I KNOW ABOUT HIM BUT I DON'T SEE HIM, BUT SOMEDAY I 16:10 WILL SEE HIM. OF COURSE, WHEN YOU GET TO 16:13 CHAPTER 42, JOB DOES SEE HIM - OR HE AT LEAST SEES 16:16 WHAT MOSES SAW. AND IT SAYS IN REVELATION 1:7, 16:20 "BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH CLOUDS, AND EVERY 16:22 EYE WILL SEE HIM." READ, FOR US THEN, JOB - I'M 16:26 SORRY, REVELATION 22:4 PLEASE. >>"THEY SHALL SEE HIS FACE, 16:30 AND HIS NAME SHALL BE ON THEIR FOREHEADS." 16:34 >>YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS WE'RE GOING TO SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. 16:37 ANY OF YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG BEFORE? 16:38 IT'S IN OUR HYMN BOOKS. I LOVE THAT: FACE TO FACE WITH 16:41 MY REDEEMER - AND SO, JOB IS TALKING ABOUT THESE THEMES. 16:44 WE HAVE A REDEEMER THAT WE SOMEDAY WILL SEE FACE TO FACE; 16:47 MAYBE NOT IN THIS BODY, WHICH WILL BE DESTROYED AND EATEN BY 16:50 WORMS, BUT YET IN MY FLESH, A GLORIFIED RESURRECTED BODY WE 16:54 WILL SEE HIM FOR OURSELVES. SO WE'RE GOING TO SPEND THE NEXT 16:58 FEW MINUTES LOOKING AT NOT ALL, BUT SOME OF THE WAYS THAT 17:01 JOB IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. FOR ONE THING, HAVE YOU EVER 17:05 NOTICED, THERE'S A LOT OF GENEALOGIES IN THE BIBLE WHERE 17:10 IT TALKS ABOUT THIS PERSON - MATTER OF FACT, IN MY PERSONAL 17:12 BIBLE READING, I'M GOING THROUGH CHRONICLES RIGHT NOW. 17:16 AND YOU SEE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS, BUT I'M 17:18 READING THROUGH CHRONICLES AND THERE TIMES WHEN CHRONICLES MAY 17:21 SEEM TEDIOUS. I'M COMMITTED - EVERY DAY EXCEPT 17:25 SABBATH, I'M READING THROUGH THE BIBLE. 17:27 EVERY DAY - EVERY DAY - FOR YEARS - I'M ALWAYS SOMEWHERE 17:30 READING THROUGH THE BIBLE. I JUST HAPPEN TO BE IN 17:32 CHRONICLES NOW BUT, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN READING THE BIBLE SO 17:36 LONG THAT IT'S MENTIONING THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND I RECOGNIZE 17:40 THEM AND IT - YOU JUST - EVERY TIME YOU GO THROUGH IT YOU LEARN 17:45 SOME INTERESTING THINGS, BUT THERE'S NO CHRONICLE OF JOB 17:50 UNLESS JOB IS THIS KING OF EDOM NAMED JOBAB. 17:57 IT TALKS ABOUT A KING OF EDEN NAMED JOBAB. 17:59 AND SOME HAVE WONDERED WAS THAT HIM? 18:01 AND THE TIMING IS RIGHT SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN. 18:03 BUT JOB SORT OF APPEARS. IT SAYS HE HAS ALL THESE 18:05 CHILDREN, BUT IT - AND IT NAMES HIS DAUGHTERS, WHICH IS VERY 18:07 UNUSUAL; USUALLY IT NAMES THE SONS. 18:09 WE DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF ANY OF JOB'S SONS, BUT WE KNOW THE 18:12 NAMES OF HIS DAUGHTERS. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 18:16 AND - BUT IT DOESN'T TELL WHERE HIS GENEALOGY GOES. 18:19 SO, LIKE MELCHIZEDEK, WHO IS A TYPE OF CHRIST WHO SUDDENLY 18:22 APPEARS ON THE SCENE, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TRIBE HE'S FROM. 18:25 WE DON'T KNOW WHO HIS ANCESTORS ARE FROM. 18:27 WE DON'T KNOW WHO HIS PEOPLE ARE - HE APPEARS, HE DISAPPEARS, WE 18:30 DON'T KNOW WHO HIS DESCENDANTS ARE. CHRIST IS EVERLASTING TO 18:33 EVERLASTING - THE GREAT I AM, ETERNALLY EXISTENT. 18:37 AND SO, JOB IS A TYPE OF CHRIST IN THAT RESPECT. 18:39 HE APPEARS - WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TRIBE HE COMES FROM. 18:42 HE DISAPPEARS - WE DON'T KNOW WHO HIS POSTERITY IS. 18:47 AND IT TELLS US THAT JOB WAS LIKE JESUS - OBEDIENT. 18:52 YOU READ IN JOB 23, VERSES 11 AND 12 AND IT SAYS, "MY FOOT HAS 18:56 HELD FAST TO HIS STEPS; I HAVE KEPT HIS WAY AND NOT TURNED 19:00 ASIDE. I HAVE NOT DEPARTED FROM THE 19:02 COMMANDMENT OF HIS LIPS;" NOW, IS JOB SAYING HE WAS SINLESS? 19:06 NO, BUT HE WAS SAYING HE WAS OBEDIENT TO HIS FATHER'S 19:10 COMMANDMENTS. WAS THAT LIKE JESUS? 19:13 IF YOU READ IN MATTHEW - I'M SORRY - JOHN 15:10, "IF YOU KEEP 19:19 MY COMMANDMENTS, YOU WILL ABIDE IN MY LOVE, JUST AS I HAVE KEPT 19:22 MY FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDE IN HIS LOVE." 19:24 SO JOB'S A TYPE OF CHRIST IN HIS OBEDIENCE. 19:27 DID HE VIEW THE WORD OF GOD AS FOOD? 19:31 JOB SAYS, IN JOB 23:12, "I HAVE TREASURED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH 19:36 MORE THAN MY NECESSARY FOOD." DOES JESUS SAY 19:38 SOMETHING LIKE THAT? YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS? 19:42 "MAN" - MATTHEW 4:4 - "MAN WILL NOT" - GO AHEAD, YOU SAY IT. 19:46 >>"BY BREAD ALONE." >>"BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT 19:49 PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD." COMPARING THE WORD 19:51 OF GOD TO BREAD. NOW, ONE OF THE TYPES OF CHRIST 19:56 - JESUS IS CALLED 'THE SERVANT' - A PROPHECY ABOUT JESUS. 20:01 FOR INSTANCE, YOU LOOK IN ISAIAH 42:1, "BEHOLD MY SERVANT WHOM I 20:06 UPHOLD, MY ELECT ONE IN WHOM MY SOUL DELIGHTS! 20:09 I HAVE PUT MY SPIRIT UPON HIM. HE WILL BRING FORTH 20:12 JUSTICE TO THE GENTILES." ISN'T THAT A 20:15 PROPHECY ABOUT JESUS? IN THE OLD TESTAMENT HE'S CALLED 20:18 'THE SERVANT' - THE SUFFERING SERVANT. 20:21 IS JOB REFERRED TO AS 'THE SERVANT'? 20:23 LOOK IN THE FIRST FEW CHAPTERS AND IT SAYS, IN JOB 2, FOR 20:26 INSTANCE, IN VERSE 3, "THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 'HAVE YOU 20:29 CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB...?' AND JESUS, OF COURSE, SAID - 20:34 MATTHEW 20:28, "JUST AS THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE 20:38 SERVED, BUT TO SERVE, AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE A 20:42 RANSOM FOR MANY." SO JESUS AND JOB BOTH 20:45 IDENTIFIED AS SERVANTS. WAS JESUS RICH? 20:51 IT SAYS, BY THE WAY, JOB 1 THROUGH - THIS MAN WAS THE 20:53 RICHEST OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE EAST. WHAT ABOUT CHRIST? 20:58 HE OWNS THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS - JOB HAD A LOT OF CATTLE, 21:02 DIDN'T HE? DOES JESUS HAVE A LOT OF CATTLE? 21:05 IF YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAY. 21:07 IT SAYS HE OWNS THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS; THE EARTH IS THE 21:10 LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THEREOF. ANOTHER WAY JOB IS A TYPE OF 21:13 CHRIST, HE WAS HIGHLY REVERED BY THE PEOPLE. 21:18 AND JOB, SPEAKING OF HIS DAYS BEFORE HIS SUFFERINGS, IT SAYS 21:23 IN JOB 29, VERSE 7, "WHEN I WENT OUT TO THE GATE BY THE CITY, 21:29 WHEN I TOOK MY SEAT IN THE OPEN SQUARE," - HE'D SIT THERE ON HIS 21:31 THRONE - "THE YOUNG MEN SAW ME AND HID, AND THE AGED 21:35 AROSE...THE PRINCES REFRAINED FROM TALKING," - THAT'S ANOTHER 21:40 REASON I THINK THAT JOB WAS A KING - IF PRINCES REFRAINED FROM 21:43 TALKING AND THE AGED ARISE - "AND PUT THEIR HAND ON THEIR 21:47 MOUTH;" - THERE'S GREAT REVERENCE FOR JOB. 21:51 YOU READ IN JOB 29, VERSE 11, "WHEN THE EAR HEARD, THEN IT 21:58 BLESSED ME, AND WHEN THE EYE SAW, THEN IT APPROVED ME; 22:01 BECAUSE I DELIVERED THE POOR WHO CRIED OUT, THE FATHERLESS AND 22:04 THE ONE WHO HAD NO HELPER." ISN'T JESUS IDENTIFIED AS THE 22:07 ONE WHO CARES FOR THE FATHERLESS AND THE WIDOW? 22:10 JOB WAS ALSO CHRIST-LIKE IN HIS MINISTRY, YOU READ IN JOB 29, 22:16 VERSE 13, "THE BLESSING OF THE PERISHING MAN CAME UPON ME," - 22:21 HE SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE DIDN'T WANT US TO PERISH - AND HE 22:26 CAUSED THE WIDOW'S HEART TO SING FOR JOY." 22:29 - JESUS HEALED MANY WIDOWS - I PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IT 22:33 CLOTHED ME;" - THIS IS JOB SPEAKING, BUT DOESN'T IT SOUND 22:36 LIKE CHRIST? YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 22:38 JESUS, OF COURSE, WAS CLOTHED WITH THE ROBE OF GOD'S 22:41 RIGHTEOUSNESS - "MY JUSTICE WAS LIKE A ROBE AND A TURBAN." 22:46 - THE HIGH PRIEST WORE THOSE GARMENTS. 22:48 CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST. THE MINISTRY OF JOB SOUNDS LIKE 22:52 THE WORK OF JESUS WHILE ON EARTH. THIS IS HOW JOB LIVED AND 22:55 MINISTERED - IT SAYS IN JOB 29, VERSE 15, "I WAS EYES TO THE 23:01 BLIND, AND I WAS FEET TO THE LAME. 23:04 I WAS A FATHER TO THE POOR," - HAVE YOU READ IN ISAIAH WHERE IT 23:06 TALKS ABOUT - IN ISAIAH 61 - THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST? 23:10 OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND AND TO HEAL THE LAME AND HE GOES ON 23:17 TO SAY HE CARES FOR THE POOR AND THE FATHERLESS - "AND I SEARCHED 23:21 OUT THE CASE THAT I DID NOT KNOW." JOB 29:17, "I BROKE THE 23:26 FANGS OF THE WICKED AND PLUCKED THE VICTIM FROM HIS TEETH." 23:30 LIKE DAVID RESCUED THE LAMB FROM THE FANGS OF THE LION AND THE 23:35 BEAR, JOB SAYS HE RESCUED THE INNOCENT FROM THE WICKED. 23:42 AND YOU GO ON TO THE NEXT SECTION - THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON 23:44 UNDER THE SECTION UNDER THE SON OF MAN . 23:46 SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR ME HEBREWS 4:15. 23:50 JUST A MOMENT; I'M GOING TO READ JOB 10, VERSES 4 AND 5, 23:54 DESCRIBING THE SON OF MAN. "DO YOU HAVE EYES OF FLESH? 23:58 OR DO YOU SEE AS MAN SEES? ARE YOUR DAYS LIKE THE 24:02 DAYS OF A MORTAL MAN? ARE YOUR YEARS LIKE THE DAYS 24:05 OF A MIGHTY MAN" - ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, PLEASE, READ THAT FOR US. 24:09 >>"FOR WE DO NOT HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHO CANNOT SYMPATHIZE 24:11 WITH OUR WEAKNESSES, BUT WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED AS WE ARE, 24:16 YET WITHOUT SIN." >>ALRIGHT, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU 24:18 CAUGHT THE CONNECTION HERE, MATTER OF FACT, IT TIES IN WELL 24:21 WITH OUR OFFER ABOUT CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE - 24:24 GOD BECAME A HUMAN. THAT'S WHY JOB IS SAYING HERE, 24:28 IN CHAPTER 10, VERSES 4 AND 5, 'GOD, DO YOU HAVE EYES OF FLESH? 24:32 DO YOU SEE LIKE THROUGH A MAN'S EYES? 24:34 DO YOU SEE AS A MAN SEES? ARE YOUR DAYS LIKE THE 24:37 DAYS OF A MORTAL MAN? ARE YOUR YEARS LIKE THE 24:40 DAYS OF A MIGHTY MAN? DID - HAVE YOU EVER HEARD 24:43 SOMEONE SAY, 'WELL, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW I REALLY FEEL. 24:46 YOU'VE NOT WALKED IN MY MOCCASINS BEFORE.' DID GOD COME 24:49 DOWN AND BECOME A MAN? SO JOB IS REFERRING TO THAT AND 24:52 IT SAYS THERE IN HEBREWS, 'WHO BECAME A MAN'. 24:56 WE HAVE A FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST BECAUSE HE WAS TEMPTED IN ALL 24:59 POINTS AS WE ARE. HE SUFFERED AS WE DO. 25:02 HE - NOW THIS - NOW I'M GOING TO GET A LITTLE DEEP HERE FOR JUST 25:06 A SECOND, BUT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD? 25:11 I'LL START OUT: GOD IS OMNIPOTENT. 25:13 WHAT ARE THE OTHER TWO? >>OMNISCIENT. 25:15 >>OMNISCIENT - HE'S ALL-KNOWING. AND - 25:17 >>OMNIPRESENT. >>OMNIPRESENT. 25:19 WHEN JESUS BECAME A MAN, COULD HE BE OMNIPRESENT? 25:28 THAT'S WHY HE SAID 'IT'S EXPEDIENT THAT I GO AWAY. 25:32 I COULD BE WITH ONE OF YOU AT A TIME, BUT IF I GO AWAY, I'LL 25:36 SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT - GOD, THE SPIRIT IS OMNIPRESENT AND HE CAN 25:38 BE WITH ALL OF YOU AT ONCE AND I WILL BE WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO 25:41 THROUGH THE SPIRIT. AFTER THE RESURRECTION, DOES 25:44 JESUS EVER APPEAR AT MORE THAN ONE PLACE AT A TIME? 25:50 THERE'S NO RECORD OF IT, ANYWAY. HAS CHRIST FOREVER SACRIFICED 25:56 A DIMENSION OF HIS DIVINITY TO BECOME A HUMAN IN THAT HE IS 26:01 NOT OMNIPRESENT RIGHT NOW? THAT'S A QUESTION. 26:07 IT'S A PRETTY HEAVY QUESTION WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 26:09 NOW, HE'S ALL-KNOWING - HE'S WITH US NOW THROUGH THE SPIRIT - 26:12 HE KNOWS EVERYTHING - HE'S ALL-POWERFUL, BUT IS HE STILL 26:15 HUMAN? WHEN HE ROSE, DID HE 26:18 STILL HAVE A HUMAN BODY? IT'S KIND OF INTERESTING BECAUSE 26:20 GOD MADE MAN IN HIS IMAGE AND THEN GOD RE-MADE HIMSELF 26:24 IN THE IMAGE OF MAN. YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT? 26:30 SO CHRIST SACRIFICED A DIMENSION OF HIS DIVINITY, AT LEAST 26:34 TEMPORARILY, WHILE HE WAS ON EARTH. 26:36 HOW THAT HAPPENS NOW I'M NOT SURE. 26:39 YOU KNOW, HE'S OMNIPRESENT THROUGH THE SPIRIT, BUT WE HAVE 26:42 A PRIEST THAT HAS FOREVER CONNECTED HIMSELF WITH THE HUMAN 26:46 RACE. WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WAYS THAT 26:48 YOU FIND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN JESUS AND JOB? 26:52 WELL, FOR ONE THING, JUST THE WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY THAT - 26:57 IT SEEMS LIKE ALL OF THE FORCES OF THE DEVIL ARE BENT ON TRYING 27:02 TO GET THIS MAN TO SIN. WHAT WAS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE 27:07 DEVIL WHEN CHRIST BEGAN TO SUFFER? 27:11 WHY WAS JESUS - WHY WAS THE DEVIL TRYING TO MAKE JESUS 27:14 SUFFER? JUST RETALIATION? 27:16 JUST FOR SINISTER JOY TO SEE PAIN? 27:18 OR WAS THE DEVIL TRYING TO GET JESUS TO SIN? 27:23 HE WAS BENDING ALL OF THE ENERGIES OF ALL THE OF DEMONS TO 27:26 TRY TO GET JESUS - THE DEVIL WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY HAPPY IF 27:30 CHRIST HAD FINALLY RETALIATED AGAINST THE ROMAN SOLDIERS OR 27:33 CURSED AND LOST FAITH, OR SOMETHING. 27:36 BUT CHRIST SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED.' HE NEVER SINNED. 27:40 SATAN WAS DEFEATED. WHAT WAS THE OBJECTIVE 27:42 OF THE DEVIL WITH JOB? GOD SAID, 'HAVE YOU BEHELD 27:45 THIS RIGHTEOUS MAN?' AND THE DEVIL SAID, 'LET'S SEE. 27:48 HE'S NOT REALLY GOING TO STAY RIGHTEOUS. 27:50 WATCH WHAT I CAN DO.' AND THE DEVIL DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN. 27:54 BUT WHAT IS THE RECORD IN THE BIBLE? 27:55 IN ALL THIS, JOB DID NOT SIN OR CHARGE GOD FOOLISHLY - DID NOT 28:01 SIN WITH HIS LIPS OR CHARGE GOD FOOLISHLY. 28:03 SO THE DEVIL FAILED TO GET JOB TO SIN. 28:08 MATTER OF FACT, AT THE END, YOU FIND THAT - AND I'M GETTING 28:11 AHEAD OF MYSELF - HE MEDIATES. ANOTHER PARALLEL: WHEN JOB IS 28:18 GOING THROUGH HIS SUFFERINGS, HE MAY NOT HAVE HAD ANY IDEA THAT 28:26 WHAT HE WENT THROUGH WAS GOING TO END UP BEING A BLESSING FOR 28:29 ALL HUMANITY FOR AGES TO COME. THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS HAVE 28:34 BLESSED ALL OF HUMANITY - WHAT HE WENT THROUGH, RIGHT? 28:38 BUT HASN'T THE WHOLE WORLD - WHENEVER YOU GO THROUGH TRIALS 28:40 AND YOU THINK ABOUT WHY - LET ME TELL YOU I, YOU KNOW, I'VE 28:43 SUFFERED TERRIBLE FINANCIAL LOSS, I'VE LOST MY HEALTH, I'VE 28:46 LOST MY FAMILY - ALMOST NOBODY YOU'VE MET CAN MEASURE UP TO 28:51 WHAT JOB WENT THROUGH. SO JOB BECOMES A HERO FOR 28:55 ANYBODY WHO'S GOING THROUGH TRIALS BECAUSE YOU THINK, IF JOB 28:58 MADE IT AND HE'S HUMAN, BY THE GOD OF GRACE, JOB MADE IT - BY 29:03 THE GRACE OF GOD, I CAN MAKE IT. I SAID THAT FUNNY, DIDN'T I? 29:07 I SAID BY THE GOD OF GRACE - BY THE GRACE OF GOD. 29:09 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PREACH AND YOU'RE KIND OF 29:11 DYSLEXIC, YOU TURN YOUR WORDS AROUND LIKE THAT. 29:14 ALRIGHT, CARRYING ON, WITH SOME OF THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN 29:18 JESUS AND JOB. WAS JESUS PHYSICALLY DISFIGURED 29:23 THROUGH HIS SUFFERINGS? YOU READ IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 52, 29:27 VERSE 14, IT SAYS, "JUST AS MANY WERE ASTONISHED AT YOU, SO HIS 29:31 VISAGE WAS MARRED" - DISFIGURED - "MORE THAN ANY MAN, AND HIS 29:36 FORM MORE THAN THE SONS OF MEN;" THEY BEAT JESUS, THEY 29:40 WHIPPED JESUS, HIS FACE WAS SWOLLEN, AND WHEN JOB'S FRIENDS 29:44 CAME TO SEE HIM AFTER HE HAD SUFFERED, WAS IT HARD FOR THEM 29:48 TO RECOGNIZE HIM? JOB 2:12, "AND WHEN THEY RAISED 29:51 THEIR EYES FROM AFAR, AND DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM, THEY LIFTED 29:54 THEIR VOICES AND WEPT;" IT SAYS 'FROM AFAR'. 29:58 WHERE DID THE DISCIPLES BEHOLD JESUS ON THE CROSS? 30:01 DO YOU KNOW, IT SAYS 'THEY STOOD AFAR OFF AND THEY WEPT AS THEY 30:04 BEHELD THESE THINGS' - SIMILAR TO JOB'S FRIENDS. 30:08 BUT THEN IT SAYS HE'S FORSAKEN BY HIS FRIENDS AND HIS FAMILY - 30:12 JOB 19:13, "HE HAS REMOVED MY BROTHERS FAR FROM ME, AND MY 30:19 ACQUAINTANCES ARE COMPLETELY ESTRANGED FROM ME. MY RELATIVES 30:22 HAVE FAILED, AND MY CLOSE FRIENDS HAVE FORGOTTEN ME." 30:26 SO IT WASN'T JUST JOB'S FRIENDS, IT WAS JOB'S FAMILY. 30:30 WE ALREADY KNOW HE LOST A LOT OF HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY. 30:33 HIS WIFE SAID, 'CURSE GOD AND DIE.' HE PROBABLY HAD COUSINS 30:36 AND OTHER RELATIVES IN THE AREA. THEY EVIDENTLY SAID, 'OH, 30:39 HE'S PROBABLY GETTING WHAT HE DESERVES.' AND WHAT ABOUT JESUS? 30:43 DID HE HAVE A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE? IT SAYS IN JOHN 7:5, 30:47 "FOR EVEN HIS BROTHERS DID NOT BELIEVE IN HIM." 30:50 AND YOU CAN READ IN MATTHEW 26:56, "...THEN ALL THE 30:54 DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM AND FLED." JOB SAID TO HIS FRIENDS - ARE 31:00 YOU SEEING SOME OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN JOB AND JESUS HERE? 31:04 AND YOU CAN READ IN JOB 6:27 - 'YOU WOULD EVEN CAST LOTS FOR 31:11 THE ORPHANS AND BARTER OVER YOUR FRIEND.' SO SPEAKING ABOUT HIS 31:16 SUFFERINGS HE SAYS YOU'RE CASTING LOTS AND BARTERING - 31:19 YOU'RE WEIGHING A PRICE TO SELL OUT ON YOUR FRIEND IS WHAT HE'S 31:23 SAYING - YOU'D BARTER OVER YOUR FRIEND. 31:26 DID THEY CAST LOTS AROUND JESUS AND DID THEY BARTER HIM? 31:30 DID JUDAS TRADE HIM FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER? 31:33 NOW, I'M JUST SKIMMING THE SURFACE. 31:35 YOU GO THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB AND, IF YOU PUT ON YOUR JESUS 31:38 GLASSES AS YOU READ THE BOOK OF JOB, AND YOU START LOOKING AT 31:45 THE SUFFERINGS OF JOB AND YOU START SEEING THERE'S LIKE ECHOES 31:49 OF JESUS ALL THROUGH THE BOOK. WHERE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE 31:53 GREAT THINGS ABOUT CHRIST'S MISSION IS THE CROSS. 31:57 THE CROSS TELLS US ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST. 32:00 PAUL SAYS, 'I'M CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST AND WE'RE TOLD TO TAKE UP 32:05 OUR CROSS. ALL OF THAT IS TALKING ABOUT THE 32:07 SUFFERINGS THAT HE WENT THROUGH. AND, YOU KNOW, COMPARED TO 32:12 JESUS' LIFE, HIS 24-HOURS OF SUFFERING WAS COMPARATIVELY 32:18 SHORT BUT IT WAS THE HIGH POINT OF HIS LIFE - IS THE CROSS. 32:24 JOB LIVED, EVIDENTLY, OVER 200 YEARS. 32:27 WE CAN ONLY ESTIMATE BECAUSE HE'S REFERRED TO AS A PERSON OF 32:32 AGE AT THE TIME HE'S SUFFERING AND YET, FROM THAT POINT, HE HAS 32:36 ANOTHER GROUP OF SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS - NAMES THE 32:41 THREE DAUGHTERS - AND THEN HE SEES HIS GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. 32:45 SO YOU DO THE MATH AND JOB LIVED TO ABOUT 200. 32:48 NOW THAT WASN'T THAT UNUSUAL FOR - LIKE ABRAHAM'S FATHER WAS OVER 32:51 200 YEARS OF AGE, BUT IT WAS UNUSUAL BY THE TIME THAT JOB 32:55 LIVED, DURING THE TIME OF ESAU - THEY WERE ONLY LIVING TO 140. 32:58 SO HE HAD AN EXCEPTIONALLY LONG LIFE. 33:01 BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW WHO THE LAST REALLY OLD PERSON WAS IN 33:04 THE BIBLE? IT'S NOT A TRICK QUESTION. 33:09 IT'S NOT A JOKE. HOW LONG DID MOSES LIVE? 120 YEARS. WHO LIVED 33:18 LONGER, MOSES OR AARON? >>AARON. 33:22 >>AARON, I THINK, LIVED 123. WHO LIVED THE LONGEST - WHO 33:28 LIVED LONGER THAN MOSES AND AARON AFTER MOSES AND AARON? 33:35 THE HIGH PRIEST - DID I HEAR SOMEONE SAY IT? 33:38 THE HIGH PRIEST, DURING THE TIME OF JOASH, WAS JEHOSHEBA - OH, 33:46 WAIT A SECOND, AM I SAYING THAT RIGHT? 33:48 JEHOIADA - SORRY, JEHOIADA - JEHOIADA LIVED 130 YEARS, WHICH 33:53 WAS VERY UNUSUAL BECAUSE HE LIVES YEARS AFTER KING DAVID 33:57 WHERE HE SAID 'THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS ARE THREE-SCORE AND TEN' - 34:00 SEVENTY - AND IF BY REASON OF STRENGTH YOU MAKE IT TO 80, 34:02 THERE'S ACHES AND PAINS.' THAT'S A ROUGH TRANSLATION. 34:05 BUT EVERY NOW AND THEN THERE'S ONE LONG-LIVER THAT SHOWS UP AND 34:10 JOB LIVED AN UNUSUALLY LONG TIME FOR HIS AGE THAT HE WAS IN. 34:14 NOW, JEHOIADA - 130 YEARS - WOULD HAVE BEEN REALLY SAD IF HE 34:17 LIVED DURING THE TIME JUST AFTER THE FLOOD. 34:19 THEY WOULD HAVE THOUGHT, 'OH, SO SAD. 34:21 130 AND HE DIED SO YOUNG.' RIGHT? 34:24 BUT BY THE TIME HE LIVED 130 IT WAS VERY UNUSUAL. 34:28 I'VE HEARD - THEY SAY THAT THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD TODAY 34:31 IS 116 AND WE HAD A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH - KAREN AND I WENT TO 34:37 VISIT - THAT WAS 111 AND IN NAPA, BUT NOW I'M GETTING 34:43 DISTRACTED. OKAY, BACK TO JOB. 34:46 SO THERE'S JUST A FEW LITTLE AMAZING FACTS I THROW IN THERE. 34:48 SO THERE'S ALL THE TYPES OF CHRIST - FORSAKEN BY HIS FAMILY, 34:51 AND THEN IT SAYS HE'S HANDED OVER TO THE UNGODLY - JOB 16:11 34:58 - "GOD HAS DELIVERED ME TO THE UNGODLY, AND TURNED ME OVER TO 35:01 THE HANDS OF THE WICKED." WAS CHRIST HANDED 35:03 OVER TO THE GENTILES? THE UNBELIEVERS? 35:07 YEAH, YOU CAN READ THERE IN JOHN 19:16, IT SAYS, "THEN [HE] 35:14 PILATE DELIVERED HIM TO THEM TO BE CRUCIFIED. 35:17 SO THEY TOOK JESUS AND LED HIM AWAY." 35:21 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT SPITTING IN HIS FACE - JOB 30:10, "THEY 35:27 ABHOR ME, THEY KEEP FAR FROM ME; THEY DO NOT HESITATE TO SPIT IN 35:31 MY FACE." NOW, YOU MIGHT WONDER, WHEN DID 35:33 THAT HAPPEN IN THE STORY OF JOB? YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A PERIOD 35:36 OF TIME WHEN, AFTER HE LOST EVERYTHING AND HE LOST HIS 35:40 FAMILY, AND HE WAS STRUCK WITH THIS DISEASE AND HE WAS SITTING 35:44 OUT THERE AND HIS WIFE SAID 'CURSE GOD AND DIE!' 35:46 AND BEFORE HIS FRIENDS GOT THERE IT SAYS HIS FRIENDS HEARD ABOUT 35:49 WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM AND THEY CAME AND THEY MET TOGETHER 35:53 AND THEY CAME TOGETHER. AND SO, IN THAT INTERVAL, MAYBE 35:56 SOME OTHER PEOPLE IN TOWN - AFTER HIS WIFE SAID 'CURSE GOD 35:59 AND DIE' THEY MY HAVE COME BY AND SAID, 'YOU'RE 36:02 CURSED OF GOD!' AND SPIT ON HIM. WHAT A TERRIBLE THING TO HAVE. 36:06 CAN YOU THINK OF ANYONE ELSE WHO HAD THAT EXPERIENCE? 36:09 JESUS DID. NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR US MATTHEW 26:67. 36:15 AND I DON'T THINK I GAVE THE CAMERA A CHANCE TO GET AHOLD OF 36:20 YOU. GO AHEAD, I THINK THEY'RE READY. 36:22 >>"THEN THEY SPAT IN HIS FACE AND BEAT HIM; AND OTHERS STRUCK 36:26 HIM WITH THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS," - MATTHEW 26:67. 36:31 >>YEAH, IT SAYS THEY SPIT ON HIM. 36:34 NOT ONLY DOES IT SAY IT THERE IN MATTHEW, BUT IF YOU READ IN 36:38 ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, IT TALKS ABOUT THAT AS WELL. 36:42 AND, NOT ONLY THAT, HE WAS STRUCK - YOU JUST READ THAT - IT 36:46 SAYS THEY HIT HIM WITH THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS. 36:48 WHAT ABOUT JOB? WAS JOB STRUCK? WE HEARD ABOUT 36:51 JOB BEING SPIT ON. READ IN JOB 16:10, "THEY GAPE AT 36:55 ME WITH THEIR MOUTH" - NOW SOME OF YOU MAY WANT THESE NOTES. 36:59 USUALLY, ABOUT A WEEK AFTER THE PROGRAM YOU MIGHT SAY, 'I WANT 37:03 THOSE REFERENCES - IT'D BE A GOOD STUDY FOR A CLASS.' WE 37:06 UPLOAD THESE TO THE GRANITE BAY WEBSITE, SO - AND I THINK, ALSO, 37:10 AMAZING FACTS' WEBSITE, SO THEY'LL BE AVAILABLE. 37:12 "THEY GAPE AT ME" - JOB 16:10 - "WITH THEIR MOUTH, THEY STRIKE 37:16 ME REPROACHFULLY ON THE CHEEK," - THEY SPIT ON JESUS; THEY SPIT 37:21 ON JOB. STRUCK JESUS; STRUCK JOB. 37:24 THE SUFFERINGS OF JOB ARE A TYPE OF CHRIST. 37:26 HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS HOLY MAN - THIS GREAT MAN, WHO THE DEVIL IS 37:30 TRYING TO BRING DOWN - THAT GOD IS LOOKING DOWN ON, AND YOU SEE 37:34 THE WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY BEING ACTED OUT HERE. 37:39 FURTHERMORE, IT'S - AND THAT'S LUKE 22:64 - THEY BLINDFOLDED 37:43 HIM AND THEY STRUCK HIM ON THE FACE. 37:45 THAT'S WHEN THEY SAID, 'PROPHESY, WHO IS IT THAT STRUCK 37:48 YOU?' CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HORRIFIC IT 37:51 WILL BE IN THE JUDGMENT FOR ONE OF THOSE ROMAN SOLDIERS THAT 37:54 ACTUALLY DID THAT TO JESUS? 'OH, YOU'RE A PROPHET? 37:57 PROPHESY.' YOU SEE THE KING OF KINGS COMING AND REALIZE 'I 38:03 STRUCK HIM WHEN HE WAS A MAN.' MARK 15 - I'M SORRY, JOB 30, 38:10 VERSE 20, "I CRY OUT TO YOU, BUT YOU DO NOT ANSWER ME;" - CAN YOU 38:14 THINK OF A TIME WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS AND IT SEEMS LIKE 38:17 HE CRIED OUT AND THERE WAS NO ANSWER? 38:21 MARK 15:34, "...MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 38:26 WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS. NOW, DID JESUS SAY THAT 38:29 STATEMENT BECAUSE HE LOST FAITH? 'MY GOD, MY GOD' - WHO KNOWS 38:33 WHAT VERSE THAT COMES FROM? CHRIST WAS QUOTING THE 38:36 OLD TESTAMENT, RIGHT? >>PSALM 22. 38:38 >>PSALM 22 - GO THERE REAL QUICK - GO TO PSALM 22 - I WANT TO 38:41 SHOW YOU SOMETHING, BECAUSE I'VE MET PEOPLE BEFORE THAT THOUGHT, 38:44 'WELL, YOU KNOW, JESUS GOT DISCOURAGED AND HE GAVE UP AND 38:46 CRIED OUT IN HIS DESPAIR.' I DON'T THINK JESUS WAS CRYING OUT 38:51 IN DESPAIR. I DON'T THINK JESUS GOT DISCOURAGED. 38:55 ONE OF THE PROPHECIES SAID, 'HE WILL NOT BE DISCOURAGED.' WHEN 38:59 JESUS - IT WAS TRADITIONAL FOR THE HIGH PRIEST TO QUOTE FROM 39:06 THE PSALMS DURING THE PASSOVER AND WHEN JESUS READ THE FIRST 39:10 VERSE IN THIS PSALM, HE, AS OUR SACRIFICE AND OUR HIGH PRIEST, 39:14 WAS QUOTING FROM THIS PSALM. WHY DID JESUS QUOTE 39:16 FROM THIS PSALM? LOOK AT THE FIRST VERSE - PSALM 39:18 22:1, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME? 39:23 WHY ARE YOU SO FAR FROM HELPING ME, AND FROM THE WORDS OF MY 39:26 GROANING? O MY GOD, I CRY IN THE DAYTIME, 39:29 BUT YOU DO NOT HEAR; AND IN THE NIGHT SEASON, AND 39:32 AM NOT SILENT." THERE WAS A DAY AND A NIGHT WHEN 39:34 CHRIST WAS SUFFERING FOR OUR SINS THERE, CRYING OUT. 39:37 WHY DID GOD - WHY WAS GOD SILENT? 39:42 AFTER JESUS PRAYED THE THIRD TIME, 'NOT MY WILL, BUT THY WILL 39:45 BE DONE', THE LORD WITHDREW FROM CHRIST AS HE DOES FROM THE LOST. 39:49 HE WAS SEPARATED FROM JESUS AS SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD. 39:53 IT'S A RHETORICAL QUESTION. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY 39:56 RHETORICAL QUESTION? IT MEANS A QUESTION WHERE YOU 39:59 KNOW THE ANSWER BUT YOU'RE JUST GETTING SOMEONE TO THINK. 40:02 SO WHEN HE SAYS, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' 40:05 HE'S ASKING US WHY WAS HE FORSAKEN. 40:07 YOU READ ON IN THAT PSALM AND YOU LOOK HERE, IT SAYS - GO TO 40:12 VERSE 12, FOR INSTANCE, "MANY BULLS HAVE SURROUNDED ME; STRONG 40:16 BULLS OF BASHAN HAVE ENCIRCLED ME. 40:18 THEY GAPE AT ME" - IT'S TALKING ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE ON THE 40:20 CROSS - "THEY GAPE AT ME WITH THEIR MOUTHS," - VERSE 14 - "I 40:24 AM POURED OUT LIKE WATER, AND ALL MY BONES ARE OUT OF JOINT;" 40:27 - HE WAS STRETCHED ON THE CROSS - "MY HEART IS LIKE WAX; IT HAS 40:31 MELTED WITHIN ME. MY STRENGTH IS DRIED UP LIKE A 40:33 POTSHERD, AND MY TONGUE" - DID JOB SIT IN THE BROKEN POTTERY? 40:39 - "MY TONGUE CLINGS TO MY JAWS;" - JOB REFERS TO THAT TOO - "YOU 40:43 HAVE BROUGHT ME TO THE DUST [OF DEATH]." 40:45 HE PUT DUST ON HIS HEAD WHEN HE WAS IN THE DUMP. 40:49 "FOR DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME; THE CONGREGATION OF THE WICKED 40:53 HAS ENCLOSED ME. THEY PIERCED MY 40:56 HANDS AND MY FEET." - NOW, IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR? 41:00 - "I CAN COUNT ALL MY BONES" - NONE OF HIS BONES WERE BROKEN - 41:03 "THEY [LOOK AND] STARE AT ME. THEY DIVIDE MY GARMENTS AMONG 41:05 THEM," - SO, NOW THIS IS SPECULATION. 41:08 I DON'T KNOW - JESUS IS HANGING ON THE CROSS AND THERE'S A THIEF 41:11 ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT. AND THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT - 41:14 I'M SPECULATING AGAIN - I DON'T KNOW. 41:16 ONE WAS A GOOD - ONE'S A SAVED THIEF, ONE'S A LOST THIEF - I 41:18 DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SAVED THIEF WAS, BUT SINCE THE SHEEP ARE ON 41:21 THE RIGHT HAND AND THE GOATS ARE ON THE LEFT, I'M PUTTING HIM ON 41:22 THE RIGHT HAND. AND SINCE YOU CAN'T PROVE 41:25 ME WRONG, I CAN DO THAT. SO, THEN THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT, 41:30 HE HEARS JESUS SAY, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' 41:34 AND HE LOOKS AT THE SIGN ABOVE THE HEAD OF CHRIST AND IT SAID, 41:37 'THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS' AND THIS IS A JEWISH BOY WHO 41:40 TURNED INTO A THIEF - HE'S THE PRODIGAL - AND HE REMEMBERS THE 41:44 REST OF THAT PSALM - THE REST OF PSALM 22 - 41:47 'THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. 41:49 THEY GAMBLE FOR MY CLOTHING' - AND HE JUST SEES THEM PIERCE HIS 41:52 HANDS AND HIS FEET AND GAMBLE FOR HIS CLOTHING. 41:54 I THINK THE HOLY SPIRIT QUICKENED HIS MIND BECAUSE, AT 41:56 THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY WHEN THEY WERE BOTH CRUCIFIED, IT 41:59 SAYS BOTH THE THIEVES STARTED OUT MOCKING HIM. 42:03 BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, JESUS HUNG ON THE CROSS FOR SIX HOURS - 42:05 ALIVE - ONE HOUR DEAD - A TOTAL OF SEVEN HOURS. 42:10 AND DURING THAT SIX HOURS - A LONG TIME - THOSE THINGS 42:13 HAPPENED - HIS MIND WAS QUICKENED AND HE REALIZED, BY 42:17 JESUS QUOTING PSALM 22, THIS WAS THE MESSIAH. AND HE SAID, 42:21 'LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' 42:24 BUT JESUS REPEATED WHAT I JUST READ THERE IN PSALM 22 - SOME OF 42:27 THE SAME THINGS YOU FIND IN THE BOOK OF JOB - THE POTSHERD, THE 42:30 DUST, AND SO FORTH - THE PEOPLE STARING. ALL RIGHT, BACK TO OUR 42:36 STUDY OF JOB AND JESUS HERE. WHAT ABOUT JOB AND JESUS? 42:42 WERE THEIR CLOTHING STRIPPED FROM THEM? 42:45 JOB SAYS, "NAKED I CAME FROM MY MOTHER'S WOMB," - JOB 1:21 - 42:49 "AND NAKED SHALL I RETURN THITHER: THE LORD GAVE, AND THE 42:52 LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD." 42:56 AND YOU READ IN MATTHEW 27:28 THEY STRIPPED HIM. 43:00 WAS THERE MOCKING AND TAUNTING OF JESUS AND JOB? 43:06 LOOK IN JOB 16:20, "MY FRIENDS SCORN ME: BUT MINE EYE POURETH 43:11 OUT TEARS UNTO GOD." AND READ IN JOB 30, VERSE 9, "I 43:15 AM THEIR TAUNTING SONG; YES, I AM THEIR BYWORD." 43:19 AND WE ALREADY READ PSALM 22, BUT I DIDN'T READ 7 AND 8, "ALL 43:24 THOSE WHO SEE ME RIDICULE ME; THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, THEY 43:27 SHAKE THE HEAD, SAYING, 'HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD, LET HIM 43:30 RESCUE HIM; LET HIM DELIVER HIM, SINCE HE DELIGHTS IN HIM!" 43:34 - ISN'T THAT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AROUND THE CROSS THAT DAY? 43:38 WERE THEY MOCKING JESUS SAYING, 'IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD COME 43:40 DOWN'? JOB SAID, IN JOB 19:9, "HE HAS 43:46 STRIPPED ME OF MY GLORY, AND TAKEN THE CROWN FROM MY HEAD." 43:49 AND YOU CAN READ - AND, OF COURSE, ON THE CROSS THEY SHOT 43:51 OUT THE LIP, THEY MOCKED HIM - THEY SAID, 'IF YOU'RE THE SON OF 43:54 GOD, COME DOWN AND THEN WE'LL BELIEVE.' AND 'YOU WHO DESTROY 43:58 THE TEMPLE AND REBUILD IT IN THREE DAYS' - A LOT OF MOCKING 44:00 HAPPENING DURING THOSE HOURS HE WAS ON THE CROSS. 44:04 AND THEN JOB 10:21, "BEFORE I GO TO THE PLACE FROM WHICH I SHALL 44:08 NOT RETURN, TO THE LAND OF DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF 44:11 DEATH, A LAND AS DARK AS DARKNESS ITSELF, AS THE SHADOW 44:15 OF DEATH, WITHOUT ANY ORDER, WHERE EVEN THE LIGHT IS LIKE 44:18 DARKNESS." WAS JOB FACING THE SECOND 44:21 DEATH DURING HIS SUFFERINGS? THAT LAND OF DARKNESS? 44:26 AND DID JESUS FACE THE SECOND DEATH? HE DID. 44:31 THEN JOB MAKES A STATEMENT - IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF HIS 44:34 SUFFERINGS HE MAKES THIS AMAZING STATEMENT OF TRIUMPH. 44:39 HE SAYS, "THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM." 44:43 WAS THERE A TRIUMPHANT STATEMENT OF JESUS ON THE CROSS BEFORE HE 44:47 DIED? YEAH. 44:49 HE SAID, 'FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.' - I 44:53 TRUST MY SPIRIT - AND THEN HE CRIED OUT AND GAVE UP THE GHOST. 44:59 A FEW MORE THINGS AND THEN I'LL MOVE ON WITH THE LESSON. 45:02 I KNOW I'VE COVERED A LOT OF THIS, BUT ISN'T THIS EDIFYING? 45:04 IT'S TALKING ABOUT JOB'S REDEEMER. 45:06 YOU FIND, ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB, HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. 45:10 THIS IS WHY I BELIEVE THE BIBLE'S A SUPERNATURAL BOOK. 45:13 YOU KNOW, IF YOU TALK TO - I'VE GOT SOME MUSLIM FRIENDS AND THEY 45:18 SAY THE QURAN IS HOLY - 'MORE HOLY THAN THE BIBLE - CAN'T 45:21 TRUST THE BIBLE - QURAN - PERFECT' - AND YOU CAN TALK TO 45:25 BUDDHISTS AND HINDUISTS AND A BAGAVAD GITA - AND EVERYBODY'S 45:28 GOT THEIR HOLY BOOK - NOT EVERYBODY, BUT MANY RELIGIONS 45:30 HAVE THEIR HOLY BOOK. ONE OF THE REASONS I BELIEVE THE 45:33 BIBLE IS SUCH A SUPERNATURAL BOOK IS, WHEN YOU READ THE OLD 45:37 TESTAMENT, YOU KNOW YOU'RE READING THINGS THAT WERE WRITTEN 45:40 THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE CHRIST. WE KNOW FROM THE DEAD 45:43 SEA SCROLLS THAT DATE BACK TO 150 - 200 B.C. 45:47 THAT THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS LIVED. 45:51 AND WHEN YOU READ THESE PROPHECIES - YOU READ THE STORY 45:55 ABOUT JOSEPH BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST - BETRAYED BY HIS 45:58 BROTHERS, SOLD FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE, FORGIVING - HE'S A TYPE 46:02 OF CHRIST. MOSES STRETCHING OUT HIS HAND ON 46:04 THE MOUNTAIN - SAMSON STRETCHING OUT HIS ARMS AND DYING. 46:07 I MEAN, THERE ARE SO MANY TYPES OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLE AND YOU 46:10 READ THEM AND YOU GO, 'THIS CAN'T BE A COINCIDENCE. 46:12 IT'S A SUPERNATURAL BOOK.' AND JOB IS THE OLDEST BOOK AS FAR 46:17 AS, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE EVENTS TRANSPIRED, PROBABLY THE FIRST 46:20 BOOK MOSES WROTE THERE IN THE WILDERNESS. 46:24 AND YOU SEE ALL THE TYPES OF CHRIST AND THE SUFFERING THERE. 46:26 JONAH - SLEEPING IN A BOAT DURING A STORM - THEY WAKE HIM 46:29 UP AND SAY, 'AREN'T YOU AFRAID WE'RE GOING TO PERISH?' 46:31 THAT'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. AND JESUS SAID JONAH WOULD BE A 46:35 SIGN. AND SO YOU SEE ALL THESE OLD 46:37 TESTAMENT TYPES OF JESUS AND I - THERE'S HUNDREDS OF THEM FROM 46:40 GIDEON TO JEPTHA TO RUTH AND JUST - ESTHER - JUST 46:44 TYPES OF CHRIST. YOU COULD NOT MANUFACTURE THAT. 46:49 AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THE LIFE OF JESUS AND ALL THE OLD TESTAMENT 46:52 IS LIKE A KALEIDOSCOPE OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 46:56 DAVID - TYPE OF CHRIST. SO JOB IS ONE OF THE GREAT ONES 47:00 IN THE BIBLE, THAT'S WHY I'M GETTING SO EXCITED. 47:02 SORRY. ALRIGHT, WHERE WAS I? 47:05 OH, THEY WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR CLOTHING, MOCKING AND TAUNTING - 47:07 OH, JOB AND JESUS ARE BOTH MERCIFUL MEDIATOR - SOMEONE'S 47:11 GOING TO READ FOR ME 1 TIMOTHY 2:5 - JOHN, YOU'LL HAVE THAT? 47:16 LET ME READ WHAT IT SAYS IN JOB, "NOW THEREFORE," - GOD TOLD JOB 47:20 - "TAKE FOR YOURSELVES SEVEN BULLS AND SEVEN RAMS, GO TO MY 47:24 SERVANT JOB, AND OFFER UP FOR YOURSELVES A BURNT OFFERING; AND 47:29 MY SERVANT JOB SHALL PRAY FOR YOU." 47:31 - JOB SAYS THIS - OR GOD SAYS THIS TO THE FRIENDS - "FOR I 47:34 WILL ACCEPT HIM, LEST I DEAL WITH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR 47:38 FOLLY;" - YOUR SINS. 47:39 IN OTHER WORDS, IF IT ISN'T FOR THE INTERCESSION OF JOB, GOD IS 47:43 GOING TO PUNISH THE FRIENDS OF JOB. 47:47 SO JOB IS A PRIEST WHO INTERCEDES FOR THEM TO BE 47:50 FORGIVEN. DO YOU SEE THAT? 47:53 NOW GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US 1 TIMOTHY 2:5. 47:58 >>1 TIMOTHY 2:5, "FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN 48:03 GOD AND MANKIND, THE MAN CHRIST JESUS." 48:07 >>YOU KNOW WHAT A MEDIATOR IS? IF TWO PEOPLE CAN'T COME TO SOME 48:11 AGREEMENT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A GO-BETWEEN. 48:14 ON THE OLD COOK STOVES IN THE KITCHEN - NOW THEY'RE A LITTLE 48:18 MORE COMPLEX AND THEY'RE PROBABLY DIGITAL WITH A SCREEN 48:20 AND A GENIE, BUT IT USED TO BE YOU HAD THREE SETTINGS ON YOUR 48:24 STOVE - YOU HAD THE GAS STOVE - YOU HAD LOW, MEDIUM, AND HIGH. 48:30 BETWEEN THE LOW AND THE HIGH THERE WAS THE MEDIUM. 48:34 AND HERE ON EARTH YOU'VE GOT THE LOW, AND UP IN HEAVEN YOU'VE GOT 48:37 THE HIGH, AND WE NEED A MEDIUM. WE NEED SOMEONE WHO'S A MEDIATOR 48:41 - WHO'S IN THE MIDDLE - THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS. 48:44 JESUS IS IN THE MIDDLE TO RECONCILE US TO GOD. 48:49 THE CROSS IS A LADDER THAT CONNECTS HEAVEN AND EARTH. 48:52 MOSES WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN TO MEDIATE FOR THE PEOPLE. 48:56 HE KIND OF SAID, 'ALRIGHT, LORD, I'M GOING TO GO HALFWAY TO 48:57 HEAVEN' - NOT THAT YOU GET HALFWAY TO HEAVEN BY CLIMBING A 49:00 MOUNTAIN, BUT IT'S A SYMBOL OF THAT - AND HE WOULD HEAR FROM 49:03 GOD. HE'D COME DOWN TO THE 49:04 PEOPLE - HE WAS A MEDIATOR. JOB WAS A MEDIATOR. 49:07 NOT ONLY WAS JOB MEDIATING AT THE END OF THE BOOK, FOR HIS 49:09 FRIENDS, BUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK WHEN HIS SONS WOULD 49:12 FEAST AND ALL OF THEM WOULD INVITE THEIR SISTERS AND 49:14 BROTHERS ON THEIR RESPECTIVE BIRTHDAYS, THEN JOB WOULD BE 49:18 AFRAID. HE'D CALL THE FAMILY TOGETHER 49:19 AND HE WOULD THEN INTERCEDE. HE'D SACRIFICE AND HE'D 49:22 MEDIATE FOR THE FAMILY. SO JOB IS THE GREAT MEDIATOR 49:25 FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE BOOK. 49:27 HE'S A PRIEST. AND IS JESUS OUR HIGH PRIEST? 49:31 SO YOU SEE THIS SIMILARITY HERE ALL THROUGH THE STORY. 49:34 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO THAT NEXT SECTION - THE DEATH OF CHRIST . 49:38 AND YOU READ HERE IN 1 JOHN 2:6, "HE WHO SAYS HE ABIDES IN HIM 49:44 OUGHT HIMSELF ALSO TO WALK JUST AS HE WALKED." 49:48 CHRIST GAVE US AN EXAMPLE ABOUT HOW TO LIVE AND HE SEALED THAT, 49:54 OF COURSE, BY HIS DEATH. YOU READ IN GALATIANS 4:19, "MY 49:58 LITTLE CHILDREN, FOR WHOM I LABOR IN BIRTH AGAIN UNTIL 50:02 CHRIST IS FORMED IN YOU," - IT SAYS HE'S AN EXAMPLE. 50:05 GOD WANTS THE LIFE OF JESUS REPRODUCED. 50:08 NOT ONLY ARE WE TO WALK AS HE WALKED, BUT IT SAYS CHRIST MUST 50:11 BE FORMED IN YOU. GOD WAS REFLECTED IN JOB; JESUS 50:19 REFLECTED GOD; WE ARE TO REFLECT JESUS. 50:22 YOU'LL DO WELL IF YOU REFLECT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JOB, TOO, 50:25 IN YOUR LIFE. THAT'S WHY PAUL SAYS - I ALWAYS 50:29 USED TO WONDER ABOUT THAT. YOU KNOW, AS A CHRISTIAN YOU 50:31 ALWAYS SAY, 'FOLLOW JESUS.' BUT PAUL ACTUALLY SAID, 'IMITATE ME' 50:36 - 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1 - THIS IS FUN BECAUSE IT'S 50:39 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1, RIGHT? 1 CORINTHIANS 11, VERSE 1, 50:46 "IMITATE ME, JUST AS I ALSO IMITATE CHRIST." 50:48 SO DON'T FOLLOW ANY PASTOR OR APOSTLE EXCEPT AS THEY IMITATE 50:53 CHRIST. IF I ACCUSED YOU OF BEING AN 50:56 IMITATOR, WOULD YOU BE COMPLIMENTED? IT DEPENDS ON WHO 51:00 YOU'RE IMITATING. IF YOU'RE DOING YOUR BEST TO 51:04 IMITATE CHRIST, THEN THAT'S A GOOD THING. 51:09 I KNOW THAT, MY MOM, SHE WAS, YOU KNOW, AMONG OTHER THINGS SHE 51:13 WAS AN ACTRESS AND SHE USED TO HAVE FUN - SHE HAD FRIENDS FROM 51:18 ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH DIFFERENT ACCENTS AND WHENEVER 51:20 SHE'D GET ON THE PHONE WITH HER DIFFERENT FRIENDS, SHE'D IMITATE 51:23 THEM. AND MY BROTHER AND I ALWAYS 51:25 KNEW WHO SHE WAS TALKING TO. ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE HAD AN 51:28 ENGLISH ACCENT AND WE SAID, 'OH, SHE'S TALKING TO SO AND SO.' 51:31 AND THEN SHE'D HAVE A NEW YORK ACCENT AND WE'D SAY, 'OH, SHE'S 51:34 TALKING TO SHIRLEY.' AND SHE'D JUST - FOR HER OWN ENTERTAINMENT 51:38 - SHE'D JUST TRY TO TALK LIKE THE PERSON SHE WAS TALKING TO. 51:41 AND WOULD IT BE THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN WOULD SPEND ALL THEIR 51:45 TIME STUDYING THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND SAYING, 'I WANT TO BE LIKE 51:48 JESUS.' AND IMITATE HIM, AMEN? MATTHEW CHAPTER 11, VERSE 29, 51:53 JESUS SAID, "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU AND LEARN FROM ME," - WE'RE 51:58 TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO EMULATE THE LIFE OF 52:01 CHRIST - TO STUDY THAT. OH, LET ME FINISH THAT VERSE - 52:06 "FOR I AM GENTLE AND LOWLY IN HEART, AND YOU WILL FIND 52:08 REST FOR YOUR SOULS." YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE 52:15 WE'RE REALLY GOING TO FIND PEACE. 52:16 EVERYBODY IMITATES SOMEBODY, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT. 52:20 YOU MIGHT THINK, 'I'M MY OWN PERSON.' NO, YOU'RE NOT. 52:22 WHY DO YOU SPEAK THE LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK? 52:26 BECAUSE YOU IMITATED THE PEOPLE SPEAKING THAT LANGUAGE AROUND 52:28 YOU. WHY DO YOU EAT THE FOOD YOU EAT? 52:31 BECAUSE SOMEONE FED YOU THAT FOOD AND YOU COPIED THEM. 52:33 ALMOST EVERYBODY IS THE SUM TOTAL OF PEOPLE THAT WE'VE 52:40 LOOKED AT, WHETHER IT'S YOUR MOTHER OR FATHER, OVER THE 52:43 COURSE OF YOUR LIFE. AND SOME OF YOU THOUGHT, 'I'M 52:46 NEVER GOING TO BE LIKE MY MOTHER AND FATHER.' AND THEN YOU HEAR 52:49 YOURSELF - HOW MANY OF YOU - AND THEN YOU HEAR YOURSELF SAYING 52:52 THE VERY SAME THINGS YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER SAID, IN 52:54 SPITE OF YOURSELF? ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 52:58 SO WE ALL IMITATE - KIDS START DRESSING IN THESE BIZARRE 53:03 FASHIONS AND YOU THINK, 'WHERE IN THE WORLD DO THEY COME UP 53:07 WITH THAT?' SURE ENOUGH, THERE'S A RECORD 53:09 ALBUM, THERE'S SOME MUSIC VIDEO, THERE'S SOME HERO IN HOLLYWOOD 53:12 THEY SAW DO IT AND THEY START TO DO IT. 53:16 NO ONE WOULD EVER WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND SAY, 'I'M GOING TO 53:19 HAVE A PURPLE MOHAWK.' (LAUGHTER) OH, MAYBE SOMEBODY - 53:23 I GUESS SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD DID AND THAT'S WHERE EVERYONE GOT 53:25 THE IDEA. SO IMITATE CHRIST. NOW - AND THEN THERE'S A WHOLE 53:30 SECTION AND I DON'T KNOW IF TIME - WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TIME TO 53:32 READ THAT WHOLE SECTION IN ISAIAH 53, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 53:36 THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS, AND IF YOU READ THAT, YOU KNOW, WELL, 53:41 LET'S GO THERE REAL QUICK AND WE'LL READ SOME OF IT. 53:44 IT'S THAT BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE THAT DESCRIBES THE SUFFERINGS OF 53:48 JESUS AND YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE SUFFERINGS OF JOB AND NOT WONDER 53:53 ABOUT THAT. BY THE WAY, HOW MANY OF YOU 53:54 REMEMBER WHEN PHILIP WAS INSTRUCTED TO GO TO THE DESERT 53:58 OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - THE EVANGELIST PHILIP - AND 54:02 WHILE HE'S IN THE DESERT, HE RUNS INTO AN ETHIOPIAN OFFICIAL 54:07 WHO HAS JUST COME FROM WORSHIPING IN JERUSALEM? 54:10 HE'S ON HIS WAY BACK TO ETHIOPIA AND HE'S EITHER PARKED OR RIDING 54:13 ALONG IN HIS CHARIOT AND HE'S READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 54:18 AND HE'S READING CHAPTER 53 AND HE'S READING ABOUT THE 54:20 SUFFERINGS AND HE'S WONDERING, 'WHO IS THIS SUFFERING?' 54:26 AND AT THAT VERY MOMENT HE INVITES PHILIP UP INTO HIS 54:28 CHARIOT AND PHILIP SAID, 'YOU'RE READING ABOUT JESUS.' 54:32 AND YOU WOULD THINK HE WAS TALKING ABOUT JOB. 54:36 AND YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, VERSE 4, 54:41 "SURELY HE HAS BORNE OUR GRIEFS AND CARRIED OUR SORROWS, YET WE 54:44 ESTEEMED HIM STRICKEN, SMITTEN BY GOD, AND AFFLICTED, BUT HE 54:49 WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS; HE WAS BRUISED 54:51 FOR OUR INIQUITY." HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT 54:53 JOB WAS WOUNDED FOR YOU? JOB - MEANT TO SAY 54:56 'JOB' NOT 'JESUS'. ARE YOU ENCOURAGED BY JOB'S 55:00 FORTITUDE UNDER SUFFERING? >>YES. 55:02 >>ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD. 55:04 JOB WAS ALLOWED TO BE AFFLICTED AND GOD ACTUALLY HAD TO WITHDRAW 55:08 HIS PROTECTION SO JOB COULD BE AFFLICTED THAT IT MIGHT, TO 55:11 LATER GENERATIONS, BE A SOURCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT - AND ALSO TO 55:15 REBUKE THE DEVIL - "WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, BRUISED FOR 55:20 OUR INIQUITIES, THE CHASTISEMENT OF OUR PEACE WAS UPON HIM. 55:24 BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED." - OF COURSE, JESUS WAS WHIPPED 55:28 AND THAT'S WHAT THE STRIPES MEAN - "ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE 55:31 ASTRAY, WE'VE TURNED EVERYONE TO HIS OWN WAY AND THE LORD HAS 55:35 LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL." 55:38 AND WHEN THAT ETHIOPIAN TREASURER READ THAT 'THE LORD 55:43 LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY OF US ALL' IT CAN'T BE MISUNDERSTOOD - 55:47 CHRIST WAS A SIN BEARER. HE IS THE LAMB OF GOD. 55:50 ALRIGHT, AND THEN, ONE OF THE LAST THINGS: SATAN UNMASKED - 55:54 JOHN 12:31 THROUGH 33, "NOW IS THE JUDGMENT OF THIS WORLD; NOW 56:00 THE RULER OF THIS WORLD WILL BE CAST OUT. AND I, IF I AM LIFTED 56:04 UP FROM THE EARTH, WILL DRAW ALL PEOPLES TO MYSELF." 56:08 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE RULER OF THE WORLD BEING CAST OUT. 56:11 THERE'S THIS INTERESTING SECTION IN THE END OF JOB, WHEN YOU'RE 56:15 READING THE BOOK OF JOB, AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE 56:17 CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD AND HE TALKS ABOUT THESE DIFFERENT 56:21 ANIMALS - AND WHAT'S THE LAST ANIMAL THAT JOB TALKS ABOUT? 56:25 HE TALKS ABOUT THE MOUNTAIN GOAT AND HE TALKS ABOUT THE OX AND HE 56:27 TALKS ABOUT THE DONKEY AND HE TALKS ABOUT THE HAWK AND HE 56:30 TALKS ABOUT THE HORSE - WHO REMEMBERS WHAT THE LAST ANIMAL 56:33 IS? IT'S CALLED LEVIATHAN - VERSE - CHAPTER 41 - 56:39 "CAN YOU DRAW OUT LEVIATHAN?" AND AFTER HE GETS DONE TALKING 56:43 ABOUT LEVIATHAN, THIS SERPENT, THIS MONSTER, THEN GOD 56:49 APPEARS TO JOB. WHO IS THE ONE WHO DEALS 56:52 WITH THE LEVIATHAN? >>JESUS. 56:56 >>CHRIST - THE - MICHAEL FIGHTS WITH THE DRAGON AND SO HE'S 57:01 SAYING, 'LOOK JOB, YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT'S GOING ON - WHY 57:03 YOU'RE SUFFERING LIKE THIS. IT'S THE LEVIATHAN. 57:07 AND YOU CAN'T - YOU CAN'T OVERCOME THE LEVIATHAN, BUT I 57:10 CAN.' AND SO, IT'S INTERESTING, THIS LEVIATHAN, I BELIEVE, 57:14 BECOMES A TYPE OF THE DEVIL AND HE'S THE ONE - A LOT OF TIME 57:18 GOD SPENDS TALKING ABOUT THE LEVIATHAN. 57:20 WHO INSTIGATED THIS WHOLE BATTLE IN THE BOOK OF JOB? 57:23 THE DEVIL DOES - THE DRAGON INSTIGATES THE WHOLE THING. 57:26 AND THEN, FINALLY, HE IS REBUKED IN THE END. 57:29 YOU KNOW, THE LORD APPEARS AND THE LORD TALKS TO JOB. 57:31 THE DEVIL NEVER APPEARS AGAIN IN THE BOOK OF JOB. 57:34 HE HAS TO WITHDRAW IN DEFEAT. 57:36 'RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU. 57:39 ANYWAY, WE CAN SEE THE REDEEMER IN THE BOOK OF JOB, AMEN? 57:43 I WANT TO REMIND OUR FRIENDS WATCHING THAT WE DO HAVE A FREE 57:46 OFFER AND IT'S CALLED CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE AND IT IS A CLASSIC 57:49 BY JOE CREWS AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE - ONLY IF YOU 57:52 PROMISE YOU WILL READ IT AND SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. 57:55 866-788-3966 - I THINK YOU CAN ALSO REQUEST THIS ONLINE. 58:00 JUST - YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT AND READ IT THERE FOR FREE. 58:02 IF YOU DO CALL IN, ASK FOR OFFER #703. 58:05 GOD BLESS YOU 'TILL WE STUDY OUR NEXT CHAPTER IN THE BOOK OF JOB. 58:10 (MUSIC) |
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