Wednesday Evening Message: Job's Emphasis Towards Eliphaz

Charles Spurgeon as done. Several sermons on the Book of

Job. And when it comes to Job chapter

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23, he records these words about job.

He says, job has fought the Battle, right manly, not perhaps

without a little display of temper and self-righteousness,

but still with much less of either than any of us would have

shown had, we been in the same plight and had we been equally

conscious of perfect integrity? T.

He has in this part of his self. Defense, sketched a fine picture

of a man, perfect. And upright, before God, he is

set before us the image to, which we should seek to be

conformed. Here is the high ideal after,

which every Christian man should strive and happy, shall he?

Be, who shall attain? It blessed.

Is he who? In the hour of his distress?

If he be falsely, accused will be able to say, with as much

truth as the patriarch could, my foot has held the steps.

His way have I kept and not declined?

Neither have, I gone back from the Commandment of his lips?

I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary

food. Spurgeon's assessment of job is

that he has proved himself a Godly Man.

Over and over again. He is the Supreme example.

Of manhood in the scriptures. because of the things that he

says, the way he handles his crises, And the way God has used

him for centuries. There's no secret that God has

called him, the greatest man on the planet.

And there's a reason for that, not because of job necessarily,

but because of what God has done in his life.

So when you come to Job, chapter 23 and Joe chapter 24, you

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realize that job is going to answer.

Not what was spoken to him last week.

He's going to answer in such a way that with Grace, he is going

to talk to God because that's what Godly men do, they talk to

God. And so that's exactly how the

conversation goes so much. So that when you come to chapter

25, which is only six verses that's next week that there's

not much left for bildad to say, and so as we go through the

text, we're going to look at chapter 23, looking at the

situation, concerning job to sufferer and then chapter 24

deals with the situation concerning, those who have

sinned against God and he's going to address that he's going

to give us a perspective that the men who have come to counsel

him do not have But because of job's pain, he's able to relate

to others who are in pain. Not like he has a different kind

of pain and so he shows himself a man of great empathy.

Great sympathy, great Mercy because that's the way job is.

So first of all, chapter 23, the situation surrounding job, the

sufferer as he speaks to God. It says, in verse number 1, then

Joe be applied. Even today, my complaint is

rebellion. His hand is heavy despite my

groaning. Now you read that, you think

who's he rebelling against? He's rebelling against himself.

He's rebelling against his pain. In other words, God's hand is

heavy upon him. But his groaning does not equate

with the amount of pain he's going through.

So his Rebellion is against groaning about that pain, which

is really a good example for us. Because, you know, when we get

sick or we get you know, some kind of Affliction we love to

grown about our pain and we want to grown so loud and so long,

everybody else hears about how bad things are with me job,

wasn't that way. In other words, he talks to us

about discipline. He wants to make sure that God's

hand is heavy upon him. Yes, but he is not going to

grown in line with the amount of pain.

Or grown in line with the amount of pain that his friends have

caused. That's great.

Discipline doesn't want, pity. There's what people feel, sorry

for him. I think about that, if anybody

should have been felt, sorry for it would have been Joe, but he

doesn't want that. He doesn't want you thinking

about his pain and his Affliction again.

Not like us. We want everybody to know how

Afflicted I him. We want to know how much pain

I'm in. We want them to be able to pray

for me all the more Not Joe. He doesn't want to draw

attention to himself. He's an ass for his three

friends to come. They came.

He didn't ask for his three friends to stay, they stayed,

I'm sure the back of his mind he wished they'd leave, but they're

still there. So Joe is going to talk to God,

look what he says. In verse number 20 and verse

number 30 that I knew where I might find him that I might come

to his seat. He longs.

Defined his God. There's a longing about his life

that draws him to God. Oh, that I might find him.

Oh, that I might come before him.

Oh, that I might be able to speak to him.

But I might be able to sit down in his presence and explain my

case. Tammy says, in verse number 4, I

would present my case before him and fill my mouth with

arguments. I would learn The Words, which

he would answer and perceive what he would say.

To me. You see he's a redeemed person,

he doesn't fear entering the courtroom of God.

Because he's been redeemed. We know that from chapter 19, we

read from chapter 1. We know that he's right with

God. He's an upright man, he's a

God-fearing man. He turns Away From Evil, so he

wants to be in God's presence. He wants to be in, God's

courtroom. He wants to be able to present

his case to God, and then whatever God says he's going to

listen to Verse 6. Would he contend with me by the

greatness of his power? No.

Surely he would pay attention to me.

They're the upright would reason with him and I would be

delivered forever. From my job.

My judge job is a guy who understands that in the presence

of God is Mercy in the presence of God.

There's forgiveness in the, in the presence of God grace is

extended. He knows that he knows that when

he gets there and speaks to him in spite of the greatness of his

power. That God would pay attention.

And God would listen, he's a great perspective on the Lord.

It says, in verse number 8, behold I go forward but he is

not there and backward, but I cannot perceive him when he acts

on the left. I cannot Behold Him, he turns on

the right. I cannot see him.

He knows he's there. But he can't perceive him or see

him. He knows he's all around because

he knows God's on depressant. But then he says this.

And this is another one of his great confessions that will draw

an application from at the end of our time together this

evening. But look at listen to what he

says. He says, but he knows the way I

take. There's a change.

From regret. To reassurance.

I go left. I go right, I go forward to go

backward. I don't see him.

I don't perceive him perceive him, but but I do know

something. He knows the way I take.

What he's tried me? I shall come forth.

As go. How does he know that?

What would ever give him that idea?

We'll see in a moment that there there's a plethora of scriptures

that speak of God's refining process, but Joe could read

those. So, how does he know that when

he is tried? He is going to come forth as

gold. Well, if he's a contemporary of

Abraham, I'm sure he would know about Abraham's test on Mount

Moriah to some degree, because he knows about a redeemer who

lives, she does about the resurrection of the Redeemer.

He was 11 tells us that Abraham knew that that if his son was to

be slain that God would raise him from the dead.

So Abraham believed in the resurrection, Joe believe in a

resurrection. And so if he's a contemporary of

Abraham's, he would see how Abraham's life was was

transformed because Injustice at the 22.

God says to Abraham. Now, I know that you fear me Was

there. Something God didn't know?

No, he says that, for Abraham's sake.

God says it for Abraham shake. So Abraham knows that he lived

in the fear of God and that's the way he was supposed to live.

And Abraham passed the test, the test of the sacrifice.

So evidently job knows something about the refining process of

God. How he knows and what he knows.

We don't necessarily know because he doesn't tell us.

But the inspired word of God tells us that he believes that

when it's all said and done, he'll come forth as gold.

It says, first 11th, my foot has held fast to his path.

I have kept his way and not turn to side.

I have not departed from the Commandment of his lips.

I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary

food. Now think about that, He doesn't

have the words that you and I had.

He doesn't have 66 books of the Bible to be able to treasure

those words, the words that he has from God have been passed

down from generation to generation.

Have passed been passed down from from Enoch to Methuselah to

Noah and his family into Chemin to Abraham and and the words of

God have been passed down. So those words are very few and

far between their valuable words because of the words of God, he

Treasures those words, we don't look at God's word as a

treasure. No, he's much because we can

pick it up and read it. Whatever we want to, we can

listen to it on the radio. We have words put the song, we

take for granted the value of the word of God, but but job do

not Joke didn't. Which made him such a unique

individual because with very little to read, and very little,

to memorize and, and very little to memorialize he, he treasured

them all. More than is necessary food.

Now I don't know about you but it's like a Jeremiah member of

Jeremiah 15:16. When God told him you're going

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to go and present the the truth to My People Israel.

And and when you do it's really you know in advance that no

one's going to listen to a word. You say Nobody's gonna listen.

Those are the follow. But I'm sending you Jeremiah

because I've chosen you from your mother's womb, in fact

before I formed you in the womb, I knew you and I chose you

specifically to go and preach so no one listens But he did could

have said, why don't we do that? Give me another job.

Don't say God said, that is your job.

So we did. He said you know that words are

found and I did eat them and they were the joy and the

rejoicing of my heart to realize that even though no one's gonna

listen, no one's going to respond.

No One's Gonna follow the laugh at me.

They're going to reject me. Do not throw me in the pit.

They're call me names. That words are found and I did

eat them and they were the joy and the rejoicing of my heart.

There's a man who realized that when nothing else.

Is available and no one else responds.

God's word is true. And that's what matters.

Most So think a job who has very little words from God and the

ones he has, he cherishes and treasures.

Jeremiah. And Jeremiah had more than job

did, and God would speak to Jeremiah in Jeremiah within

relay, the message to Israel, but no one listened. think about

that when you're trying to witness to your family, And no

one listens. Is God's word so treasured that

it's the joy and the rejoicing of your heart, even though your

your unsaved spouse or your unsaved children, or your

unsaved, aunts and uncles, don't respond.

What's your attitude toward the word of God?

This was Jeremiah's. This was jobs.

I love what the what the Lord says in John's gospel, in the

fourth chapter, The Lord says these words.

Disciples were urging him saying Rabbi eat eat.

But he said to him or to them, I have food to eat that.

You do not know about. So the disciples were saying to

one another? No one brought him anything to

eat, did they? They're one of you have food.

Who gave you food? Were you stashing the food?

And the Lord says my food is to do the will of him who sent me.

And to accomplish his work. Think about that.

Rabbi you have to eat something. We're all eating.

You need. You need to eat as well.

I have food that you have no idea about And that food is to

do the will of my father who sent me.

That was his driving passion. Over in Psalm 119.

Psalm 119 verse number 130, The psalmist says, these words.

Someone 18. I'm sorry 103.

How sweet are your words to? My taste is sweeter than honey

to my mouth. It's almost new about the

sweetness of God's word. The value of God's word that he

should treasure the truth that God has given to him.

And so, you begin to realize that, that when the Lord says in

Matthew, for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every

word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, this is your food

and you need to treasure the written word as your food more

so than anything else. And that's why Joe becomes such

a great hero. for the little bit of words that he had.

He treasured them. More than anything.

Now, the God's going to speak to him and God is going to give him

a whole slew of words. And that's going to only enhance

his belief in Treasure of the truth of God's word, but I

wonder where you are this evening.

When it comes to treasuring the truth of God's word.

More than you necessary food. And so he says these words verse

13, but he is unique and who can turn him.

And what is soul desires that he does free performs, what is

appointed for me and many such decrees are with him.

This whole statement is, is so profound, it will be.

There are application for our time together.

This evening to show you how his three main confessions all come

together. As a one, great confession in a

moment. But you can never mistake God's

silence for his absence. Because you don't hear God.

You don't see. God does it mean that God's Not

There. He's always there.

There's a reason for the silence.

But he's not absent. And so as you come to verse

number 15, therefore, I would be dismayed at his presence when I

consider him. I am terrified of him.

That's the right response. I am terrified of him and

rightly, so, To this man. Will I Look to Him is broken of

a contrite heart? Who trembles at my word?

Is it truly terrifying and terrified by him.

He said he says, I'm dismayed at his presence.

But I know this, I live in the fear of God.

And that's the way every believer, should live.

Absolutely, in fear of the terror of God.

That's why the Bible says there's forgiveness with thee

that thou mayest be feared, God forgives you.

So you will fear him because the unbeliever what has no fear of

God before his eyes in care about God.

The love be afraid of God. Verse 16.

It is God, who has made my heart faint and the almighty, who has

dismayed me, but I am not silenced by the darkness nor

deep Gloom, which covers me what a perspective.

There is Darkness all around me. There's a Gloom that covers me.

I am dismayed by my by my God. But you know what?

I trust. I believe in him.

And that's what joke 23 and 24 is all about.

Even though he can't see God, even though God is silent and it

has yet to speak to him even though he doesn't understand the

ways of God, he knows that God has a way.

It's a perfect way in all he can do is trust in God and believe

in God. And that's that's where God

wants us to be living in trust, living in obedience, even though

we don't have an answer because job doesn't have an answer.

He's perplexed. He truly is.

Dismayed. But he knows that he was, he was

preserved for this moment. He was preserved for this moment

and he was protected in the moment.

He didn't know how protective he was because Satan wanted to kill

him but God says, you can't do that.

God was protecting him. He didn't know what that

conversation. He didn't know about the

conversation between Satan and the Lord God of the universe.

But he knows that he's being protected and preserved for this

moment and on top of that he was prepared for this moment.

As much as he could be, he was prepared.

That's Job. Chapter 1 in Joel chapter 2.

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It was his character that prepared him for this moment.

So that when the trial came, he wasn't obliterated when the

trial came. He wasn't consumed with a trial

came. He didn't crumble the trial

came. He didn't give up because of his

character. He was the man who was

God-fearing upright blameless Turning Away From Evil.

That's what made job. The man that he was.

So when you come to chapter 24, okay, you move from the

situation between Joe, the sufferer to the situation

concerning. Those who sin against God and

his perspective is it's quite remarkable.

In fact, one author said that this way while Jobe awaits God's

answer his mind turned to the topsy-turvy Affairs in the world

that allow the wicked, given to self-serving brutal.

Deeds of violence to oppress the Weak and Powerless, his own

sufferings have, made him more sensitive to widespread human

suffering, he Longs for God to rectify matters on Earth.

While he Grieves that social evil He remains so confident

that God does eventually execute Justice.

That he pronounces a series of curses against the wicked jobs

concern, for Injustice, leads him to challenge the Theology of

his day. But the same time because of his

profound faith in God, his lamenting drives him to God for

an answer. He is anxious that God curse,

the wicked holding them accountable accountable for

their evil Deeds. He begins Alyssa, but look at

the empathy of job verse. 22, through 24 verse number 1, yr x

not stored up by the almighty and why do those who know him?

Not see his days. In other words, why is it that

we are unable to see the Judgment of God happened in

these days? Why don't we know when God's

going to act in act and execute his judgment in these days?

Why isn't God tell us? And that's a good question.

We love to know that. But we do know that God will

execute his Justice. and his judgments because he's promises

that So he says some remove the landmarks, they seize and devour

flocks. They drive away the donkey's of

the orphans, they take the Widow's aux for a pledge.

They pushed the needy, aside from the road, the poor of the

land are made to hide themselves.

Altogether. Behold this wild donkeys in the

wilderness they go for seeking food in their activity, as bred

for their children in the desert.

They harvest their father in the field and glean The Vineyard of

the of the wicked. They spend the night naked

without clothing and have no covering against the cold beer,

wet with the mountain rains and huge the rock for once of a

shelter. Or hug the rock for want to

shelter. She's me other snatched the

orphan from the breast. And against the poor, they take

a pledge, they cause the poor to go about naked without closing

clothing, and they take away. The she's from the hungry within

the walls, they produce oil, they tread wine presses but

thirst from the city mean grown in The Souls of the Wounded.

Cry out yet. God does not pay attention to

Folly. He begins to list what's

happening to the orphans and what happened happening to the

Widow, what's happening, people's property, how how

people come and steal and, and how people abuse them in his

great? Sympathy.

For those people. You see Joe does what his his

comforters haven't done. And necessarily can't do.

He feels for those in pain. He's feels for those who are

being dealt with unjustly by Wicked people around them.

In fact, he gets his eyes off of his own pain to be able to

effectively see the pain of other people.

That's remarkable. Most of us can't do that.

Most of us have such tunnel vision that when were in pain,

it's always see when our world is crumbling all we can see are

the are the bricks building up falling around us.

That's all we can see but not job.

Job sees the people in pain. He provides first example on how

not to be self-serving when Affliction comes our way.

How not to think only about my Affliction and my pain and

asking and wanting others to come alongside of me and and be

of assistance to me. But look at the Injustice of all

those around me. What's happening to them?

This is a remarkable man. Because if anybody should be

thinking of themselves as a job, he has nothing.

He's lost at all his pain, insurmountable. and yet, he

says, the time to think of other people, Who go through

difficulties. God could have stopped all the

injustices but he doesn't. Let's continue.

Because that's what God does. It says verse number 13.

Others have been with those who rebel against the light.

Do not want to know the ways. Nor bide in its past the

murderer, arises at dawn, he kills the poor and the needy and

a night, he's a thief, the eye of the adulterer waits for the

Twilight saying no I will see me.

He disguises his face in the dark they dig into houses they

shut themselves up by day. They do not know the light for

the morning is the same to him as thick Darkness.

As for his familiar with the Terrors of thick Darkness.

God doesn't stop the robber. God doesn't stop.

The thief. God doesn't stop.

The murderer! God doesn't stop the evil doer.

God doesn't stop the adulterer. God just lets them continue in

their sin. Verse 18, they are insignificant

on the surface of the water. Their portion is cursed on the

earth. They do not turn toward The

Vineyards drought and heat consumed the snow Waters.

So does she owe? Those who have sinned.

In other words, As Swift as the snow melts.

So swiftly, will come there, there end their grave.

On top of that a mother will forget him, the worm feeds

sweetie till he is no longer remembered and wickedness will

be broken like a tree. He wrongs the barren woman.

He does no good for the Widow, but he drags off the Valiant by

his power. He rises.

But no one has a Servants of life.

He provides them with security and they are supported and the

eyes of God are on their ways. They are exalted for a little

while, then they're gone. Moreover, they are are they are

brought low and like everything gathered up, even the heads of

grain, they are cut off Now, if it is not so who can prove me a

liar and make my speech? Worthless answer.

No one. Because he can't answer that

because he knows he's right. See Joe's perspective.

On the injustices around him are spot-on jobs perspective on the

wicked, man, who's carrying out his evil is spot-on.

But there's coming to judgement upon that, man.

In God's your time. you know, I got this book from Bruce this

past week or on Divine Providence Stephen Shahrukh has

as they evolve Hume written on the attributes in existence of

God. It's quite lengthy.

It's very hard to read. This book has been for lack of a

better phrase, dumb down for the normal guy, to be able to read

and understand. And he talks about The classic

work of Divine Providence. And in it.

He says this about Job 12, verse number 10, which reads in his

hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all

mankind. Joe made that statement injector

12. Sonic says, there is not a

single molecule in all the universe that lies outside,

God's control. The Lord knows and directs all

creation from the mightiest Angel to the smallest earthworm,

and it is goodness and wisdom God.

Exerts his authority over every single act, large, and small,

good, and evil. He has woven all creation into a

Salvation story that culminates in the cross, and this is Divine

Providence. In other words, he States the

fact that and if you don't have this book you might want to get

it and read it. It's it's really, really good.

If you want to understand the Providence of God, the working

of God and in the in the way of life and the way of the world.

But what he's saying is that everything functions under

Divine Providence, because everything leads to the Cross,

everything is about the Apex of human history Calvary.

So, everything providentially is being orchestrated by God to

move everything everyone. 21 period of time to one day. 21

sacrifice were Christ gave his life for the sins of man.

And that's what Divine Providence does.

God orchestrates, everything toward that end.

And God even lets the injustices of this world continue on

because he's patient and kind and merciful.

So having said that, let me, let me take it back to chapter 23

and show you once again, this Great Divine confession.

Because remember, we've given you two of them.

The first one was in chapter 9. Remember that chapter 9 verse

number 10, who does great things, unfathomable and

wondrous Works without number, that was jobs, great statement

and great confession. We told you that statement alone

unlocks the mystery of God and Folds, the meaning of the book

of Joe, that one statement that one verse unlocks, the mystery

of God and unfolds, the meaning of the Book of Job.

In other words, God himself is in comprehensible.

And then in chapter chapter 20, she be chapter 19, he makes that

Nick's great statement. Verse 25, as for me, I know that

my redeemer lives and at the last, he will take His stand on

the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed

yet from my flesh. I shall see God whom I myself

Shall Behold and who my eyes will see.

And yet, and not another my heart faints within me.

That great confession. Unveils to us the ministry of

God. And unleashes for us, the

message of God to man. This confession.

In chapter 23. Uncovers for us, the Majesty of

God. and utters the magnificence of job, the man It uncovers the

Majesty of God. And it utters.

The magnificence of job. The man in other words, what job

says? Shows us how magnificent he is.

Because he understands something about God that most of us never

get That God has a plan and that plan centers around.

How he purifies, man. And how he performs everything

that's appointed for that man. so he speaks to us about the

Majesty of God when it comes to his refinement and then it

speaks of the magnificence of job, when it comes to his

resolve, this is Job's resolved This is what he comes to.

This is where he is in his suffering and what he is saying

is providing for us a a map on how to live our lives.

And how to how to govern, how did we deal with situations?

But but, but the confession, first of all deals with the

Majesty of God in his refinement.

He says These words. In Job chapter 23.

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He says, he knows the way that I take.

And what he's tried me. I shall come forth as gold.

Got his Majestic because he has a plan.

It's a plan that runs perfectly without any mistakes.

Over in 1st Thessalonians, 5 24 says, Faithfully.

See, who called you who who also will will do it.

Remembering in Daniel chapter 4. Verse number 17.

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It says these words, this sentence is by the decree of the

Angelic Watchers. And the decision is a command of

the Holy ones in order that the living may know that the most

high is ruler over all the realm of mankind and bestows it on

whom he wishes other words. God rules over over man, over

man, does whatever he wants to do and then over in chapter 4

verse number, 34 Talk about Nebuchadnezzar.

He says, I blessed the most high, I praise and honor him.

Who lives forever for his Dominion is an everlasting

dominion and his kingdom endures from generation to Generation

all the inhabitants of the Earth are Canada's nothing but he

does. According to his will in the

host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and no

one can ward off his hand or say to him.

What have you done? Then it says in verse Remember

37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise

exalt and honor the king of heaven and all his works are

true in his ways just and he is able to Humble those who walk in

Pride. The Majesty of God is seen in

this plans because they can't be changed.

They can't be thwarted. And God sticks to them.

No matter what. In fact, in the book of Jeremiah

in Jeremiah chapter 29, it says in verse number for thus, says

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the Lord of hosts, the god of Israel to all the Exiles who

might have sent into Exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

God wants to make sure that they know that it's he who sent them

into Babylonian captivity. True Nebuchadnezzar is going to

come, he's going to plunder the city is going to take them

captive. But Nebuchadnezzar was a servant

of God. And God wants you to know that

I've done this. I'm behind all this.

I'm behind your York activity. They says, in verse number 8,

excuse me for thus, says the Lord of hosts, the god of

Israel, do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your

dividends deceive. You don't listen to the dreams

or which they, they dream for, they prophesy falsely to you.

In my name, I have not sent them declares the Lord for thus, says

the Lord. When 70 years have been

completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill my good

word to you to bring. NG you back to this place?

God says, I have a plan and the plan has had a time limit.

It's 70 years, it's very specific and if you went with us

in our study of Daniel, you know why it was 70 years and why God

told him, it was 70 years. He says these words for, I know

the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord plans for

welfare and not for Calamity to give you a future and a hope.

That we quote that all the time, but it comes to our lives, but

specifically refers only to Israel.

Not you and me by secondary application.

It can be fair to us, but it specifically refers to Israel in

the Babylonian captivity. And so God says, I have a plan.

I have a plan for you and you don't know the plan.

But I do. It's a 70 year plan. and the

good thing about that is that is that God told him in advance job

had no advanced warning as to how long his plan was.

The plan for his suffering he didn't know had no idea and most

of us don't either. We have no idea when we go

through Affliction and hardship and difficulty how long it's

going to last. Only God knows that he has a

plan. Is a plan and that plan is to is

to purify. You look what it says.

He says the plans are for your your tranquility.

Not for your calamity. I'm going to do something among

you. I'm going to give you a future.

I'm going to give you a hope because in Israel is Hope then,

you will call upon me and pray to me and I will listen to you.

You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all

your heart. And I will be found by you

declares the Lord. And I will restore your fortunes

and will gather you from all the nations.

From all the places where I have driven, you declares the Lord

and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you.

In Exile. I have a place.

It's called captivity. I have a place it's called the

place of adversity. But with that place.

I have a plan. And that plan centers around

your Purity in your tranquility. And he says, I have a purpose

but the purpose is it's always this.

Intimacy. For my glory.

It's intimacy. Because when it's all said and

done, you going to call upon me. Because right now, you don't And

when you call upon me, I'm going to listen, I will be there.

You will seek me with all your heart because right now, you

don't, but you will. So, God tells them in advance.

What the plan is. Cousin what the process is

cousin, what the purpose is. Because he wants to understand

in advance his care and concern for them.

By secondary application. We have to realize that God has

a plan. That plan a lot of time,

includes adversity and calamity. But at that plan.

Comes a process, a refining process.

So when it's all said and done, we walk in intimacy with the

true and living God. God moves us toward himself.

Now, think about this. God's doing this in jobs life

and he's already a blameless, man.

He's already a God-fearing man. He's already a man who turns

away from evil. He's already an upright, man.

That's a chapter one. So, Joe was already there.

But yet even though he's there, God is still doing a work in his

life because he's not a perfect man just to blame us man.

And God is going to do something so unique and so special in him.

God's going to drive him even further into intimacy with him.

That he becomes the quintessential man of all

scripture. Because this man was stood

everything thrown at him by the grace, and mercy of the Living

God. And God drove him to a place

where most men can't even dream of being.

For at the end, he will say I've heard of you but now I see you

now. I get it. so, the Majesty of God

is seeing And how are you finds, man?

Is a plan and that plan is to purify.

Amanda's already blame us. A man who was already upright

and God-fearing. But job knows that when it's all

said and done, he will come forth as gold, he will shine

like the royalty of his King. And others will see.

The king because they reflect the image of the king.

Way back in Daniel chapter. I'm sorry, Deuteronomy chapter

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4. God says this to Israel.

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron

Furnace from Egypt. To be a people for his own

possession. As today.

God has brought you through an iron furnace for furnace 400

years. They were in Egypt.

It's a long time. That was an iron furnace.

But they were a people of God's Own possession.

The Bible says, In the book of First Peter chapter 1 in this,

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you greatly Rejoice, even though now for a little while, if

necessary you have been distressed by various trials.

So that the proof of your faith being more precious than gold,

which is perishable even though, tested by fire may be found to

result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus

Christ. The penis is this in, though.

You have not seen him, you love him and though you do not see

him now, but believe in him, you greatly Rejoice with joy

inexpressible, and full of Glory, obtaining, as the outcome

of your faith, the salvation of your souls, So Peter says to

those who are already suffering those who are losing their

lives. Yuri, you rejoice greatly.

Because of what God is doing in your life.

He goes on to say in chapter 4, verse.

Number 12, beloved do not be surprised at this fiery ordeal

among you which comes upon you for your testing as though, some

strange thing were happening to you but to the degree that you

share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing.

So that also at the revelation of his glory, you may Rejoice

with eggs, all Tatian. So, job statement is all about

the Majesty of God. because the Majesty of God is seen in the

refining process of each individual person He says these

words. He is unique who can turn him

his soul. Does that he desires, he

performs, what is appointed for me.

And what's important for job is not necessarily appointed for

you. And what's important for you is

not asleep. Waiting for your, your family,

or your children or your friends, Because God has a

Divine appointment and he doesn't treat us all the same.

Teachers, all uniquely different.

But he will accomplish that, which is appointed for us

because God has a plan. And that plan will be performed.

Exactly as he desires it to happen.

You must understand the loving God in his Providence, how he

works in the lives of his people.

He is not an ogre upstairs who looks down and frowns and growls

that his children. No.

He lovely cares for them and protects them and preserves them

and watches over them and takes them through difficult times.

That they might see the hand of God moving in their lives and

draw closer to him. so, the Majesty of God, Is part of this

statement. Is seen in his refinement, but

the, the Magnificent magnificent of job is seen in his resolve.

Job's resolved as result of God's refining process is

remarkable. because look, he says I've tracked, the ways of

God. I've treasured the word of God

and I've trusted the work of God.

He says, very clearly, he knows the way I take when he tries

Master come forth as gold, my foot has held fast to his path.

I have kept his way and not turn aside.

In other words, it's his way, not my way, it's his path, not

my path. And I haven't turned aside from

that. I haven't rebelled against the

direction that God is leading me and God is directing me.

Remember the Book of Proverbs when it talks about the way?

It's always the way of righteousness.

Well, you have a righteous God is working in upright.

People leading them closer to him that they might exude his

righteousness. It's a righteous way.

He sees that he understands that.

And so he says, I don't turn to the left, I don't turn to the

right, but I stay right. On course, because I want to

follow the way that God has led me.

He is tracked. The ways of God, he has followed

the ways of God does not question.

The ways of God. He's not debating the ways of

God. Befalls in explicitly, not

turning to the left, or to the right. and then, he treasured

The word of God. He Treasures the word of God.

That's why he stays on the path of God because what God says he

does we're God leads. He goes, how do you know your

treasure? God's word?

You just do everything says that's all you don't debate.

What God says you love is worth so much, whatever he says, you

just do Because you love him so much.

If you want to debate with God and question God and and and

just try to try to get in the courtroom with God say you know

what, God, I don't think you're really leaving me the right way.

I mean, that's just not going to work.

Because God is the king of all. We'll see you next week.

That God is the ruler of all. He is the one who holds dominion

over everything and build that will be correct when he says

that will talk about the rulership of God, over all of

man, because he rules over all, he makes no mistakes.

You know, it'd be great to be able to rule your family without

making a mistake, right? That doesn't happen.

As father's, we make mistakes with a rule in our own little

kingdom, but we're going to make a lot of mistakes along the way.

God is making mistakes. Ever makes any errors.

Always does it right? And Joe says, I've treasured his

word, I've tracked, his his ways, I love what it says and in

Psalm Psalm 29 verse number 10, this is so great.

Someone says the Lord sat as king at the flood.

Yes the Lord sisters king forever.

The Lord will give strength to his people.

And the Lord will bless his people with peace, when the

flood happened. God said, as king, why?

Because his Dominion of everything.

God sent the flood. God gave him a hundred.

Twenty years, he was very patient with them.

He told him I was going to happen.

He used no of the preacher of righteousness.

And yet he sits his King. Over the flood.

Over the waters. Because the floods in waters in

scripture, represent the constant tumult that we face all

the time. And got such as king over them.

God, rules over them. He guides the flood.

As he did way back in Genesis chapter 7 and 8.

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He guided the, the depth of the flood.

The length and breadth of the flood he sat as king over the

flood waters. Because he rules over them.

Just like he does in your life in mind and maybe sit there and

think man the flood waters are so high.

I don't know if I could either ever breathe again.

But God says his King over your flood waters.

The only go as high as he wants them to go.

They only last as long as he wasn't the last.

Because he's the Majestic one. He's the king.

He says in chapter 28 of the Psalms verse 6 blessed.

Be the Lord because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trust in him

and I am helped therefore my heart exults in with my song I

shall thank him. The Lord is their strength and

he is a saving defense to his anointed.

Save your people and bless your inheritance be their Shepherd

also and carry them forever. The Reason God sits is King

over. The flood waters is because he

wants to, as he says in verse number 11, give strength to

People. And peace to his people.

That's what God's going to do in your life.

That's why you treasure is words more than you necessary food.

Because God is constantly at work in your life and in mine.

So job says, this is my resolve I tracked the ways of God.

I treasured the word of God and I always trusted the work of

God. He's going to perform what's

been appointed for me. And evidently he says, this is

appointed for me. Because I have it, it's present.

It's here. Psalmist in Psalm 90 verse

number 15 make us glad according to the day, you have Afflicted

us. And with the years we have seen

trouble, wow, a statement make us glad according to the days in

which you Afflicted us, why? Because there was something

about the Affliction that made us glad why?

Because we had to learn to trust in you and depend upon you.

And what we did, we called upon you You heard you answered.

You saved us. You gave us strength to give us

peace. That's what you did. and jumps

is this is my resolve I've always tracked the ways of God.

I'm always going to treasure the word of God.

And I'm going to trust the work of God, even though I don't

understand what he's doing. Because he knows what's

appointed for me, he knows what's best for me.

Here's a man who has nothing compared to what you want to

have when it comes to the full knowledge of the Gospel, in the

truth of the word of God. but what he knew, he fully obeyed,

what he knew, he fully treasured What he knew he fully trusted.

Because it was all he had. Then, everything else.

He didn't even have his wife. Because she's never mentioned

again, outside of chapter 2. So we don't even know if she's

there. Probably not.

But he had the Lord. And so as he tracked the ways of

God entrusted, the work of God, he treasured the word of God.

All the way that was his resolve.

And that's what your resolve and mine should always be. if you

want to follow an example gems, the man He is the greatest hero

in the scriptures. He's the man you need to

emulate. He's the man you need to

understand. He's the man you need to follow.

because with just a little bit of knowledge of God, he had

great faith in God. We have a whole lot of knowledge

about God. And very little faith.

In God. Not Joe.

Hebe loved. His God it wasn't a perfect man.

But he was a blameless, man. In this confession.

Uncovers for us, the Majesty of God and others for us, the

magnificence of job that made it.

Let's pray, father, we thank you Lord, for tonight a chance.

To once again look into the word of God truly Lord, it is a

treasure. May we value you word more than

we do more than necessary food because we don't live by bread

alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Thank you. Lord, we pray in your name,

amen.