Wednesday Evening Message: Job Answers the Assault and Abuse

Job chapter 19. Job chapter 19.

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And as you are turning, I want to read to you.

Something that was Anonymous, but is apropos for our time

together in the book of jokes night.

It's called the Builder. I saw them tearing it, building

down a group of men in a busy town with a hefty.

Blow in a Lusty. Yell, they swung with zest and a

side wall fell asked the foreman are.

These skilled are these men skilled.

The kind, you would hire if you had to build, he looked at me

and laughed. No indeed.

Unskilled. Labor is all I need.

Why they can wreck in a day or two when it has taken Builders

years to do? I asked myself, as I went my

way, which of these roles have, I tried to play, it might

Builder with Rule and square measuring and constructing with

skill and care. Or am I a wrecker who walks the

town content with the business of tearing down?

Jobs friends were content with the business of tearing down.

They were a wrecking crew. They were not a building crew.

And they were actually very good at what they did.

I'm not so sure. They they said around thinking

about how to wreck job's life, I'm not sure that was their

intention. But in doing so in their

conversation they were assaulting him and abusing him.

And so when you think about the Book of Job, you're always drawn

to things that our Lord has said in the New Testament when James

says he's worked in James 126. If anyone thinks himself to be

religious and yet does not Bridle his tongue.

But to seize his own heart. This man's religion.

Is worthless. James is a great book, James

about. You say, you have faith.

Show me. Demonstrated.

And so he says, very clearly one of the evidences of True

Religion. Genuine faith.

Is the ability to Bridal one's tongue. because if you can't

control your tongue and you say, you love the Lord, then your

religion is is worthless. He goes on in the third chapter,

in expounds on this. He says 4 verse 2 of chapter 3.

For we, all stumble in many ways.

If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect

man or a mature, man able to Bridle the whole body as well.

Now, if we put the bits into horse's mouth, so that they will

obey us, we direct their entire bodies.

Well, look at the ships also though, they are so great, and

are driven by strong. Winds are still directed by a

very small Rudder, whoever the inclination of the pilot

desires. So also the tongue is a small

part of the body and yet it boasts of great things.

See how great a forced is set aflame by such.

Such a small fire. And the tongue is a fire, the

very world of iniquity. The tongue is said, among our

members as that, which two files the entire body and sets on fire

the course of our life and it's set on fire by hell for every

species of beasts and birds of reptiles and creatures of the

sea is teamed and has been Tamed.

But human race that no one contained the tongue.

It is a Restless evil and full of deadly poison with it.

We bless our Lord and our father and with it, we curse men who

have been made in the likeness of God from the same mouth.

Come both blessing and cursing my brethren.

These things ought not to be this way.

There's a fountain send out for the same opening both fresh and

bitter. Water going to fit tree my

brethren produce olives or a Vine Bruce fakes, nor can salt

water. Produce fresh.

The tongue is that which defiles?

the tongue is that which destroys the tongue is that

which derails people's lives? Jobs friends were in the process

of trying to derail job. Trying to get him to to think

differently about himself, then what really was in his heart.

It was true about him. It's interesting that the Bible

says that no man can tame the tongue but you can take that

beast of the sea. Think about that.

My kids were younger, we used to take a yearly journey to

SeaWorld that was way back. When when people could actually

ride Shamu in the water, they can't do that anymore.

But back in those days, you could And think about it, you

could team Shamu so much so that you could ride on his back.

You can go down into the water, have them throw you up out of

the water and then pick you up. Again, this is amazing scene to

be able to watch Shamu there at SeaWorld and realize that they

were able to train this huge whale to do things.

That are virtually incredible. But the tongue just a really

small sliver of a thing. That cannot be tamed.

It's like a fire that sets, a blaze of forest.

It could be so destructive. So the tongue is that which

defiles and the tongue is that which defies ever being Tamed

But the tongue also displays the reality.

Of our intermediate. Who we really are.

And so, as you think about what James says, about the tongue, in

the things that Solomon has even said in the Book of Proverbs

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chapter 12, verse number 18, there is one who speaks for

rashly like the thrust of a sword.

But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

That tells you that the men surrounding job were not wise

men because they weren't bringing healing to the life of

Job. Someone would say in chapter 15

verse number, for a soothing tongue is a tree of life, but

perversion in it crushes. The spirit.

Instead of being like a tree of life, with words that bring

healing to job. Those words were crushing, job,

vexing him smashing his life on top of all the other problems

that he faced. David, very similarly said in,

in psalm 57 verse number for these words, my soul is among

Lions. I must lie among those who

breathe forth, fire even the sons of men whose teeth are

Spears and arrows and their tongue, a sharp sword.

David would know about how people's words would would crush

him. In Psalm 64 verse.

Number one hear my voice. Oh God, in my complaint,

preserve my life from The Dread of the enemy hiding me from the

secret Council of evildoers, from the tumult of those who do

iniquity, have sharpened their tongue like a sword.

They ain't bitter speech as their Arrow to shoot from

concealment at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and

they do not fear David's life. He faced much criticism Much

verbal abuse. Job faced even greater abuse

because he faced it every single day from the people that were

his friends, David had lots of enemies. and jobs friends were

not as enemies per se, but they acted as if they were his

enemies. And so, as bildad last week,

assaulted job and abused job job, now is going to respond in

the way. He responds is quite remarkable

and the way he responds is the way that we can learn how to

respond because what you're going to learn about jobs

response is what helps him, keep the proper perspective and the

perspective that job has on his God.

Is that which blows the mind of the believer today?

And you're going to see that. We're going to begin.

By looking at how job is, is crushed by their speeches.

How he is consumed Point number two with his suffering, but how

job is confident in his savior? Three very simple points, but

three points that will bring home to us the reality of what

we need to know. When it comes to handling a

perspective that keeps us energized in the service of the

king, So we'll begin job, 19 verse number 1, then job

responded. How long will you torment me and

crush me with words they were questioned.

They were using their words to, to corrupt his life and to ride

his life. These ten times you have

insulted me, you are not ashamed to wrong.

Neither, there's no shame in your words.

You don't even blush when you speak.

These ten times is not a literal 10 times.

How do we know that we know that?

Because 10 is a number of phonus?

We know that when we read Genesis 31 verse number 7, where

Jacob spoke of Laban changes in wages ten times over numbers

Numbers 14:22

14:22, God said of Israel that they tend to him ten times in

the wilderness in Daniel 11 verse number 20, Daniel and his

friends found to be 10 times better than the wise man in

Babylon. It wasn't that they were

actually 10 times better or that.

There are actually 10 times at Laban increases wages.

It's a number of fullness you have 10 fingers, right?

10 fingers on your hands, your hands are full.

You have 10 toes on your feet. So 10 is the number of fullness.

And so when you speak of that, you understand that Israel fully

tempted, God in the wilderness during their time when they left

Egypt and they wandered, they continue.

To tempt. God, it was a continual fullness

of their tempting and coming against God.

Job says, you have insulted me these ten times.

In other words, he has been filled with their Temptations.

He's been filled with their insults.

It's a never-ending continually continual insult against his

life, This is the first number for, even if I have truly aired,

my error, lodges with me. The other words, if I have

intent, unintentionally sinned, and maybe I have and none of us

knows, actually all of our sins. But he says, if I have erred, if

I have sinned unintentionally, God knows this.

And God will judge me for it because God knows everything.

He says, in verse number 5, indeed you vote yourselves

against me, improve my disgrace to me.

In other words, you're set on one purpose, that's the ACT

arrogantly against me says down in verse number 21.

Pity Me, Pity Me. Oh, you my friends, you show, no

compassion verse 22. Why do you persecute me as as

God does? And then he says in verse number

28, if you say how shall we persecute him and what pretext

for a case against him, can we find Verse 29, then be afraid of

the sword for yourselves for wrath.

Brings the punishment of the sword so that you may know.

There is Judgment job knows that by your words.

You shall be judged by your words.

You shall be condemned. Those were the words of Christ.

He knows that that their words are going to bring forth

judgment upon them. So be careful how you say what

you're saying. Be careful what you say and when

you say it, So he expresses how they have vexed him, how they

have crushed him with their speeches, but then he begins to

say these words as he is consumed with his suffering, he

makes two main points, one, he's afflicted by God, excuse me, a

number two, he's abandoned by his friends.

Look at verse number 6, know, then that God has wronged me and

it's closed his net. Around me, he's trapped me now.

It's not a job. He's been running from God and

got trapped him and threw a net around him and ensnared him.

That's not the point because he's not running from guys like

Jonah, who who ran from God, because he didn't want to go to

the ninevites and he ran the opposite direction and God has

stared him in the belly of a fish.

That's not the case. Joe's not running from God at

all. And yet, he understands that God

in his sovereignty is somehow behind all this.

He just doesn't understand it. He can't grasp it, he's looking

for answers. Look down at verse number. 21

for the hand of God has struck me.

Think about that statement. The hand of God has struck me

now. Is it true?

Yes. Is it false?

Yes. Okay, both are true.

How do we know go back to chapter 1, go back to chapter 1.

in chapter 1, Satan says These words put forth your hand now

and touch all that he has verse 11, he will surely curse you to

your face. Then the Lord said to Satan

behold all that he has is in your hand.

Only do not put forth your hand on him.

So Satan says if you touch him with your hand and God says no,

you put forth your hand and your butt, your hand cannot kill him.

And then over in chapter 2, Chapter 2.

Job says our God says again. Our or Satan says answers.

The Lord and said, verse number 4 skin for skin.

Yes. All that a man has he will give

for his life. However put forth your hand now

and touch his bone and his flesh, he will curse you to your

face. So the Lord said to Satan

behold, he is in your hand only spare his life.

So is it God's hand is touching him?

Or is it Satan's hand that's touching him?

See what job is doing? Is recognizing that God is

behind everything. All things Romans 11 must pass

through him back to him again because he oversees everything

he's control of everything. Yeah, he didn't have chapter one

to look at to understand what's happening.

That Satan is actually involved in the flicking his life and

taking these things from him but God is allowing Satan to do

that. So God said to Satan, you put

forth your hand, you want to touch my servant touch him, but

you can't do this, you can't, you can touch it whatever he

has, but you can't touch him, then you can touch him, but you

can't kill him. So God gave restraints to Satan.

So in job says, it's God who has struck me.

He is speaking of God, in a sovereign control, over

everything. Somehow God is behind this.

He just can't articulate it. You just can't explain it and he

certainly doesn't understand why or how a lot like you and me.

We go through times and we just don't get it.

We don't understand why the conflict.

Why the conflict last so long? Why the hardship is?

As severe as it is. When will it ever let up?

We do. Oh no.

And Joe goes on a since this. Look at this, he says, behold I

cry violence but I get no answer.

I shout for help but there is no justice in other words who's

going to vindicate me, I cried to the Lord.

But this is where God wants them.

You see, we forget this. That God wants us to come to

him, and God wants us to cry out to him and Luke 11.

And Luke 18, talk about persistence and prayer and

patience and prayer and how how important it is for us to

persistently. But beseech, the throne of

grace. That's why God says, keep on

asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking, don't stop.

Because God wants us to continually come to him and so

God allows things to go as long as they do.

Why? Well, Luke 18 tells us.

Will he find this kind of faith upon the Earth?

What kind the kind of Faith that's persistent and patient?

That does not quit beseeching God and asking God to step in

and do what he's going to do. So Joe says, in verse number 8,

he has walled up my way so that I cannot pass.

He has put Darkness on my path. He has, he has no way of knowing

where he's going or what's going to happen next.

Because everything in front of, in front of him is dark, there

was a time. When everything in front of him

was bright is his kids were happy.

Yeah, he was healthy. Things are going along really

well. He could see the future, with

his kids, his grandkids great-grandkids, how things were

going to grow. He could see the future, but not

now, it's completely dark. It's completely Bleak because

everything's been rolled in around him, he cannot see, but

God has him right? Where he wants him.

They may learn to trust The true and living God.

It says verse 9. He is stripped my honor from me

and remove the crown from my head.

He breaks me down on every side and I am I'm gone he is uprooted

My Hope like a tree. He is also kindled his anger

against me and considered me as his enemy.

His troops come together and build up their way against me

and Camp around my tent is question, simply is I don't

understand. I don't get it.

I am hemmed in. I am caught.

I am trapped. I am walled in.

Everything around me is completely dark.

I cannot see where to go. I don't know what to do.

We can understand that. We get to those places.

With a lot less suffering, the jobs going through.

And he's just crying out to God because he feels like he's been

attacked by God. And then abandoned by his

friends, he's consumed with the stuff.

We look at this verse 13. He has removed my brother's far

from me and my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Hey, listen, next time. You think you're lonely.

Read this passage of scripture. All right, it'll open your eyes.

Look what. He says, my relatives have

failed in my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Those who live in my house and my mates.

Consider me a stranger. I'm a foreigner in there.

I called to my servant and he does not answer.

I have to implore him with my mouth.

My breath is offencive to my wife.

That could be applied to most of you men and I am loathsome to my

own brother's. Even young children despise me

and rise up and they speak against me all my associates, a

poor me and those I love have turned against me on top of all

that verse 20, my bone clings to my skin and my flesh and I have

escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

Not only have my friends, abandoned me, not only have my

family, abandoned me not only have my servants abandon me.

Me and those who are intimate friends with me but also

children who are my acquaintances, abandoned me in

even my own health has abandoned me.

Talk about lonely. Talk about isolation, talk about

having, no one that's job. The next time you think you have

nobody cares and no one's interested in what's going on

your life and your family. Abandons you and your friends

have been in. You had no more friends, just

read job. Because Joe had nobody and the

three guys that ride around them, but they were as far from

him as the East is from the West.

And so after he expresses how consumed he is the suffering,

now you're going to see his confidence in his savior.

And what he says is absolutely astonishing.

Verse 23. Oh, that my words were written.

Oh, that they were inscribed in a book.

That was an iron stylus and Lead, they were engraved in the

rock. Forever.

I just wish that someone would write this down little, do you

know, it would be written to write.

If someone could just record my suffering, if someone could just

record my statements, oh, that it would always be there for

someone to read to understand. In no idea.

That they were going to be written down.

None. But they were.

In the living and abiding word of God. those who were there at

the time, those who Who saw him they've all died and gone off

the scene. The exact location of this.

We have no idea. but the words that were spoken, To him and the

words that he spoke to others. They have been recorded.

And God did that out of his grace and mercy and kindness.

So one day you would pick up the book begin to read the book and

to realize that what you're going through is not nearly as

intense as what job is going through.

But more than that, he wants you to have a confident perspective

in God. Because Joe did. so, listen to

what job says, Verse 25, as for me, I know that my redeemer

lives 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

not another my heart faints Within Me.

What a statement? Job has already made one great

confession. This is his second great

confession. His first one is when chapter 9

verse number 10, where he says, who does great things and

fathomable and wondrous Works without number.

And we told you at that time in chapter 9 verse number 10 that

though that that verse unlocks for job the mystery of God and

unfolds for job, the meaning of God This one in job, 19, unveils

to us the ministry of God and unleashes us unleashes for us,

the message. From God, this is a Monumental

statement that expresses everything we need to know about

God, to get us through whatever trial were on or in.

So I'm going to give you seven words, this was going to be my

Resurrection Sunday sermon. But I decided to give it to you

early and save it for another year because I've already

written this year's Resurrection Sunday sermon.

Okay, but this one day will come back again but with greater

detail, but what job says is Monumental because number one

that expresses it expresses Jobs intensity. expresses his

intensity free says, for I know, let's say, I guess, I think if

my memory serves me correct, you know, I know.

That my redeemer lives. There is no question about that.

This is a statement of confidence.

It's a statement of intensity. Why?

Because there's passion behind it then say, well, you know, I

think I know My Savior Lives. No, I know my redeemer lives,

there's intensity behind the statement.

There's passion behind the statement, their strength,

behind the statement. There's no question behind it.

There's no wondering behind it. There's no thinking behind it.

It's I know that my redeemer lives.

The question is, do you because it's so important.

Which begs the question? How does he know?

How can he possibly know that his Redeemer Lives?

How would job ever understand this?

Is that God somehow is going to unveil to him?

Something that he has not unveiled to his three friends.

Maybe. What is it about job?

That he knows something that his friends do not know.

That will allow him to speak with great intensity.

Great Passion. Great certainty great

confidence. I know that my redeemer lives,

what a statement. Faith is always rooted.

In what God has already said. so if it's a statement of

conviction, which is a statement of assurance, which it is, I

know that my redeemer lives, he has to know something about his

Redeemer. He's have, he would have had to

have heard something from someone about his Redeemer, he

couldn't go down to the library, pick up some books, and read

some theology treaty on the God and His Redemptive purposes.

There was no book of the Bible to read Because jobs the first

book written in the Bible. So there's nothing for him to

read about the Bible. But he knows.

He knows more than we know about Our Redeemer.

And he doesn't have the 66 books that you have in your hand.

How did he know? Stay with me.

This is so incredibly good. I told you early on that job was

a contemporary of Abraham. He lived After the flood, okay?

Little patriarchal times that's why he was performing Priestly

duties with his children, in chapter 1, offering of

sacrifices for them right on their behalf.

So is before the levitical priesthood, so is during the

patriarchal time so he lived during the time of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob. And so what happened with

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had to have been passed down to them as

well. So we know that what was passed

down from the very beginning was a promise.

In Genesis chapter 3 verse number feet, 15 of a seed of a

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woman that would crush the Serpent's head.

This would be all passed down verbally for Generation to

generation. And as it was being passed down,

we know that able because we studied Hebrews chapter 11 and

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if you're with his way back in the year 2000, you were with us.

When we studied the Book of Genesis And you know, that Abel

offered an acceptable sacrifice in the God.

How did Abel know how to do that?

Because his parents taught him how to offer an acceptable

sacrifice. And Cain sacrifice was not

accepted by God. Because Abel's was a blood

sacrifice. In Cannes was not a blood

sacrifice, see new about that. They knew about atonement for

sin and forgiveness of sins. But Abraham if he was

contemporary of Abraham, he would know.

He would know something about Mount Moriah he would know

something about substitutionary atonement.

He would know something about a sacrifice that he went up on

Mount Moriah to offer in this would be being passed down from

generation to generation because Abraham, the father of the

Jewish, faith would be one, who would teach others concerning

substitutionary sacrifice. Now, the angel of the Lord would

stop him from killing his own son.

Sun and we provide a substitute on the mountain called for seen

by God. All that would be given to pass

down. So he would know something about

atonement, something about forgiveness, because he would

act as he preached for his children, in chapter, 1 to offer

sacrifices for them. So he learned well, he listened,

well, he obtained the knowledge. Well, We knew he was God fearing

we know he's up, right? And we know that Abraham was

justified by faith. He was declared righteous.

Right. Abraham was Book of Genesis 15

chapter. So, if Abraham was declared

righteous and Joe was an upright, man, that his

righteousness was given to him by God as Abraham's was, he knew

about Grace because Noah was graced by God, Genesis chapter

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6, he survived the flood. And Noah's Three Sons Shem, ham

and japheth would pass down the fact that they have been graced

by God. So you're certain of the grace

of God. So he says, I know.

That My Redeemer Lives. It's an expression of intensity,

but note, this is an expression of intimacy.

I know that my redeemer lives, you don't see.

I know that your Redeemer Lives he didn't say, I know there is a

redeemer he didn't say, I think there's a redeemer He says, I

know that my redeemer lives. In other words, it's an

expression of intimacy on job sparked, not just intensity, but

intimacy, he's my redeemer. How do you know that?

How do you know that God was his personal?

Redeemer. He is mine.

All of his friends had abandoned him.

All at turned. Against him.

Paul would say I know whom I have believed and am persuaded.

A statement just like Joe would make.

I know that my redeemer lives. I have no question about that.

This is the only thing that gets him through his difficult times.

He has a redeemer. It's his own personal Redeemer.

There's ownership there. And my redeemer.

Lives. So important, but not this.

These verses no Express. His intensity.

His intimacy. But his identity.

The identity of the Redeemer. And the Very fact.

That he is, who he is because of his Redeemer.

In other words, the word Redeemer go L Kinsman.

I know that my redeemer my Kinsmen my Champion.

My Advocate lives. So, he knows he has an advocate.

And so he talks about a Kinsman a redeemer.

Now, listen carefully job knows. The plans and purposes of God.

More so than most people know. Job knows about the Redemptive

purposes of God way before the book of Exodus during the time

of Moses. When God tells Moses, I'm coming

down and Moses says, who shall I say sent me?

You tell him. I am that.

I am sent you. Which was next is 3, his

memorial name, right? I'm going to be remembered from

generation to generation based on my name, my Memorial name

because I am a rescuer, I am a deliverer, I am a savior, I am a

redeemer. So job knew more about God or

knew more about God in an earlier time than Moses ever

knew about God. because you see, Job understood the purposes of

God. The redeeming purposes of God

that he would be a Kinsman. He would be a next of kin who

would, who would fight his battles for him and be his

ultimate Champion. His ultimate deliver his

ultimate rescuer way before God ever gave his memorial name.

Those three Hebrew confidence that make up the tetragrammaton

that talk to us about God being llave.

That's that's his name, that's his memorial name.

But way before that, Joe begins to understand the identity of

his God, he is the Redeemer. He's a deliverer.

He's a savior. She says, I know that my

redeemer. Lives.

I know that my redeemer lives, this statement, expresses not

just his intensity, his intimacy, his identity.

But it expresses the immortality of his Redeemer.

He didn't say I know that my redeemer will live.

I know that my redeemer has lived.

He said, no, I know that my redeemer lives.

He is a living Redeemer. He's not a dead Redeemer.

remember in Revelation chapter 11, when the Lord God comes

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before, John on the Isle of Patmos and says, I In the first

and the last, the Alpha, and the Omega, the living one.

Behold. I was dead but I Am Alive

forevermore. speaking of the immortality of the son of God,

Peter would say Matthew, 16 verse number 16, Thou Art the

Christ, the son of the Living God in Psalm 42, verse number 2.

It says my soul thirsts for the Living.

God Psalm 84 verse number to my heart and my flesh Sing For Joy

to the Living God, in John 14:19 Christ had because I live, you

John 14:19

too, shall live. Other words, job knew that his

Redeemer Lives Job, believe that a resurrection.

How could Joe believe in a resurrection?

When he never seen a resurrection?

He was 11. Abraham.

Abraham believed God took his cell up on Mount Moriah and he

was 11 tells us that he believed that God would raise him from

the dead. Abraham believed that a

resurrection if I have to kill the promised son, my only

begotten son and this is the promise of the seed.

That's going to come. Then God must have a plan to

raise him from the dead and the resurrection of the Messiah was

always the plan. So, how does job know that his

Redeemer Lives unless he believes in a resurrection of

his Redeemer? Speaking of the immortality of

his Redeemer. Now listen. we're just getting

started because now, I'm going to absolutely blow your mind.

Listen to this. He says this.

As for me, I know that my redeemer lives.

And at the last, he will take a stand on.

The Earth. This expresses, the

invincibility. Of his Redeemer.

I know. That not only does my redeemer

live. But at the last at the end, he

will stand on the earth. That's not the Incarnation.

That is the second coming of the Messiah.

And you can say, well how do you know that that's very easy to

understand when you think about it?

The invincibility of the Messiah.

Then the last days he will stand, let me show you what it

says in the book of Zechariah. Zechariah 14, verse number four

in that day. His feet the museum, see the

Messiah will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of

Jerusalem on the east. and the Mount of Olives which will be

split in its middle from east to west by a very large Valley

said, half of the mountain will move toward the North and the

other half toward The South. Other words, when the Lord God

returns at the end, he will eventually stand on the Mount of

Olives and split the mount. There he will stand.

Why? Every conqueror of Jerusalem,

stood, on the Mount of Olives, raise their soar, to the heavens

as the ultimate conqueror of the city.

Sigh. I'll do the same because he's

the ultimate Victor. He's Invincible.

The Bible. Also says these words in the

Book of Micah In the Book of Micah.

The first chapter. It says in verses 2 to 4 these

words hero people, all of you listen to Earth and all it

contains and let the Lord God be witness against you.

The Lord, from his holy Temple, for behold the Lord is coming

forth from his place. He will come down and tread on

the high places of the Earth, the mountains will melt under

him in The Valleys will be split like Wax before the fire.

Like water. Pour down a steep place.

In other words God will stand upon the Earth Josie's I know

that my redeemer liveth Lives. And at the last, he will take

his stand on the earth. Listen to Book of Ezekiel

Ezekiel chapter 43 Verse number. Five.

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In the spirit, lifted me up and brought me into the inner court

and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.

Then I heard one speaking to me from the house while the man was

standing beside me. He said to me, son of man, this

is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my

feet where I would dwell among the sons of Israel forever.

In other words, The Souls of my feet will stand on this place on

Mount Zion in the temple and I will rule over my people forever

job knows that how does Joe know that?

Did God some out? Reveal it to him in a dream?

Nope, that's it about that. The guy can then speak to jump

about this? No, this ain't her.

How does job know that? Before the Flood, there was one

profit. Just one.

And that Prophet prophesied. Not about the first coming.

But the second coming of the Messiah.

He's recorded in Genesis chapter 5.

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The book of Jude tells us what He prophesied.

It was also about these men that is apostates that Enoch in the

Seventh Generation from Adam prophesied.

So there's one Prophet Before the Flood.

His name is Enoch. And the prophecy that he gave

was not about the first coming, it was about the second coming.

Let's see what he says. Behold the Lord came with many

thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment upon all and to

convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly Deeds which they

have done in an ungodly way and of all the harsh things which

ungodly Sinners have spoken against him.

So why the Book of Genesis is not record the prophecy of

judgment Jude to the inspiration of the spirit of God records for

us to prophesy of Enochs judgment.

And Enoch prophesied in such a way that Methuselah in the year

that he dies, it shall happen. There will be judgment upon the

Earth and there was judgment. There was a flood that came and

there was judgment but it was a precursor to the ultimate

judgment. That would come when Messiah

comes back with all of his holy ones.

That's recorded in Revelation 19.

That's according to Matthew chapter 25, when our Lord

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returns again, the second time with all of his Saints, with all

of his angels, with all of us, holy ones.

To establish his kingdom on the earth.

Listen job. Was the pre melilla analysts?

Okay, he was premillennial before the term was ever

existed. He believed the second coming of

Messiah and he would Rule, and Reign on the earth.

In the last days, his feet will be on this Earth.

He will rule the invincibility of his Redeemer, his Redeemer

Lives, he doesn't die. He lives.

Not that he died. Yes, the Lord said.

I am the living one behold. I was dead.

But I'm Alive forevermore. Well, God can't die.

God, the spirit. So God becomes, man.

So man can die. He's God right?

The perfect sinless. Sacrifice.

And raises himself from the dead.

In Joe begins to understand Resurrection.

He begins understand the Incarnation.

He begins to understand Redemption.

He begins to understand the revelation of Messiah at the

end. All this And this is what keeps

him going from time to time. He has learned.

All this has been passed down. Listen, very carefully so

important why? Because Enoch would prophesy and

the flood would come, who was the preacher of righteousness

Before the Flood. No, all right.

Peter tells us in second Peter, chapter 2, that that Noah was a

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preacher of righteousness. He preached for 120 years but

everybody dies except no one is family.

He has three sons Shem, ham and japheth and the Blessed sun is

Shem. The blessing will come through

the line of Shem. Shems name means the name.

The blessing comes to the line of the name.

Abraham is a descendant of Shem. Why?

Because in Genesis chapter 12, just 11 tells us that Abraham is

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this tentative of Shem but it's just as if the 12 The blessing

is given Abraham that in you in your seed?

All the nations of the world will be blessed, why?

Because the blessing comes to the line of the name.

The line of Shem, not japheth not ham, but Shen that's how God

designed it. Abraham's a descendant of Shem.

Abraham's given the promise from God about how he will make his

name. Great not just Abraham's name

but the name of the Messiah that comes to the line of the name

for know, that the name of Jesus every knee will bow.

Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the

glory of God the father, right? We know Philippians 2 tells us

that every knee will bow and confess.

Christ is Lord glaciers three, six and nine talks about the

blessing that God gave to Abraham.

Why? Because Abraham is in the line

of the blessing of the name. So, Job. who was a contemporary

of Abraham, but at the learn all this Through Abraham his son,

Isaac, his son, Jacob. It will be passed down to him.

So he could actually say I know that my redeemer lives and I

know that one day, one day in the latter days at the very end,

he will stand upon the Earth. He knows that Nina Adam and Eve

able Noah Shem in the list, goes on and on and all this being

passed down verbally By Word of Mouth.

Does he know everything? No.

Does he even know what he's saying to all the degree in

which it's meant to be? Probably not.

But he does know you as the Redeemer, he is a Kinsman.

It's called a go l. And Advocate a champion.

He knows that the Redeemer Lives and that one day, he will stand

upon the Earth. He will rule and reign.

They says this. He says.

Even after my skin is destroyed yet from my flesh, I shall see.

God. That expresses his in dispute

ability. It's indisputable.

I know that when I'm dead. Guess who I'm going to see?

I'm going to see my redeemer. I'm going to see my God.

I'm going to see him face to face.

Over in, in psalm. Sawmill 11.

No, I'm sorry. Yes I'm 11.

Verse number 7. It says these words for the Lord

is righteous. He loves righteousness.

The upright will behold His face and that was written long after

job, job chapter 17 verse number 15.

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And as for me, I should behold your face and righteousness.

I will be satisfied with your likeness.

When I awake, there is something than jobs mind, that was

absolutely indisputable. When my flesh is gone when I

have died. I know one thing absent from the

body. I'm going to see his face.

Ace present with the Lord. Abraham had I mean Joe had this

tremendous faith in this God that was indisputable because he

knew his God was invincible. He understood the identity of

his Redeemer which made him to be so intense with his passion

and conviction that he could speak with Assurance.

I know that my redeemer lives In the latter days, he will stand

upon the earth when I'm dead. I'm going to see his face.

This is his hope. There's nobody else.

There's nothing else to Hope in. There's no one else to trust in

everybody else is gone. You already read earlier in job,

jet 19, his friends are gone, his family's gone, his wife

loves his breath. So she will be speaking to him.

So he has no friends. He has no family, is nothing is

no servants, no one obeys him, no one listens to him, even the

kids despise them. He's got no one but he has a

redeemer lives. My Redeemer in the midst of your

loneliness. In the midst of your pain.

You have a redeemer. You have an advocate, you have a

champion. You have a warrior, he's got

himself. Who lives and Reigns.

He's not a dead. God, he's a, he's a living God.

Who knows everything about you. And job says this.

Verse 27. Who am I?

Myself Shall Behold who my eyes will see?

And not another My heart faints. Within Me.

A statement that expresses not just his intensity, not just his

intimacy, not just as identity, not just as immortality.

His invincibility is in dispute ability, but his individuality

When I die, I myself. Am going to see him. job knows

more about heaven than, you know, We'll see when we die.

We think we're going to see our friends.

Joe Gibson. I can see my family.

Don't see my kids again, so that's not on his mind.

Why? He's an upright God-fearing

righteous, man. That's why all he cares about

seen him. God.

Thought matters. See, he knows what heaven is

going to be like, I'm going to see his face.

I'm going to see my redeemer. I'm going to see my God, he

lives and because he lives and will stand upon the Earth.

I'm going to see him when I'm dead.

Jim knows that. In this is Job's motive for

living through all this pain and isolation when no one else cares

about his life, his Redeemer. He's intense about that.

He's intimate with that Redeemer.

He's mine. I know who he is.

I don't question that. He's absolutely invincible.

Because he lives and reigns forever.

And one thing that's indisputable is that one day,

I'm going to see his face. When I see his face, there's

only one thing I'm concerned about.

And that's only seeing his face and no one else's.

This, which gets them through his tough time.

This is his second great confession.

Which, as I said earlier. Unveils the ministry of God as a

redeemer. And unleashes the message that

God wants to be known by. These Redeemer, who lives.

And lives. In such a way.

That he will never be defeated. The resurrection is that witch?

Predicates are salvation. If I confess with your mouth,

Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart, that God raised him from

the dead. You'll be saved.

Joe believe in the resurrection of Jesus was Redeemer.

Somehow his Redeemer would come somehow, his Redeemer.

Would live somehow his Redeemer would die, somehow redeem?

We'll come again. Does he understand all this

stuff? Know, they have a book on

eschatology know. But he's pre mail.

First, Premier guy in the Bible book a joke.

That's why I'm free Mill job is by the way.

So is Jesus. So we're in good company Joven.

Jesus. On top of that, in the truck,

the great chapter in the resurrection of First

1 Corinthians 15:58

Corinthians 15:58 it. Close with these words. that be

steadfast immovable, always abounding in the work of the

Lord knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord, What is

it that keeps you in service? The resurrection.

The fact, I know that when I die, I'm going to see him face

to face. That this life is not all there

is this life's that drop in the bucket compared to Eternity.

Job know that. Jobe gnosis.

So even though he goes through all this pain, all the suffering

and yes, he talks about God's Afflicted, me and my friends

have abandoned me and this is the way things are.

And I'm consumed with my suffering because it's

absolutely envelops me so much so that I'm completely sitting

here among my friends, but they're miles away and no one

else was here. I am completely isolated.

I have no one Best part of all that, I do know this.

My Redeemer Lives. And one day, I'm going to see

his face. How about you?

Do you know about your Redeemer? Your next of kin your Kinsmen.

He became our Kinsman when he came to Earth in the Incarnation

of took on flesh and blood. So, you could die for your sins

in mind. How about you do you believe in

that? You understand that?

Do you know that if you do your service, never Lacks.

It doesn't, you can be steadfast, you can be immovable,

always abounding in the work of the Lord job, the best, he could

would abound in the work of the Lord.

Even though he didn't know the verse, he knew the principle

behind the verse The resurrection power of His

Redeemer. Is what got him through each day

every day. Time After Time After Time, miss

all the assault and all the abuse he would receive.

Didn't quit. Never lost, hope.

He believed his Redeemer. I pray.

Father, thank you for today. You are a great God.

So much we could have said. That would speak to the truth of

these verses. Time does not permit this.

On this night. But we are grateful.

Lord, for the things, you've taught job How will he listen to

how we learned over the years? How do we try to pass those

things down to his children and live an exemplary life, a

blameless life and upright, life, a God-fearing life.

It's no wonder he was the greatest man in the east.

When your words, the greatest man on the planet.

He believed in you. His faith.

Never wavered. Was he hurt?

Yes. Was he bewilder times

absolutely? Was he filled with mystery as to

why? Yep.

All that and much more. And yet, there's something he

knew that we need to know. And what he knew.

And we know is that Lord, you are Our Redeemer.

The Lord one day, we're going to see your face.

What a glorious day that will be the pass from this life.

Into your presence. Open her eyes and behold the

greatness and Splendor of your glory.

That will be a great day. Help us to live in the light of

that in Jesus name. Amen.