Job chapter 4. I titled this, A New Trial Arises
for Job. Job had all his family taken
from him except his wife. He had all his sheep and his
camels and everything he owned, his servants, all taken away.
And he still did not curse God. And then he lost his health.
His health was taken away. He sat there and scraped himself
with broken pottery, scraped the boils that were from the
top of his head to the sole of his feet. And he still did not
curse God. And when he did open his mouth,
he cursed his birthday. He questioned why he did not
die when he was born. He could see no reason for his
life as it was at that time. He couldn't see any reason for
him to be alive. But I know this, oftentimes we
cannot see why God keeps us here. I've heard this said by a couple
elderly. There was one lady in Ashland,
I think she was 103 or 105 when she passed away. She went to
13th Street and she believed the gospel. She said, I don't
know why the Lord leaves me here. And I'm sure probably Henry probably
may have felt that way as he got older and you're not able
to stand and preach the gospel. I tell you why God leaves the
elderly here for us, us younger ones. We need the elderly. We need that wisdom that walks
in the room and quietly sits down. There's a volume spoken just in somebody's
quietness, when they know when to be quiet. You know, most of
them, we don't know when to shut up, do we? But as we get older,
now, as we get older, and I saw this in my pastor, the time I
spent there under him. You know, we get older, and trials
come, we just get quieter. Just get quieter. I saw, and
I thought about this as I was thinking of this, why God leaves
us here, you know, when we feel like we're useless. But I saw
this, and I don't know how this will apply, but I saw this on
a, on those nature channels. There was a couple of young elephant,
male elephants, that were in a park, they put them in this
park and they were tearing up everything in the park. They
were tearing all the trees up, they were just tearing trees
down. And they brought an old, an old male elephant. They brought
him and put him in the park and those young elephants stopped
tearing that park up. Just by its presence, just by
its presence. You know, one of the things,
as I get older, if the Lord allows me to get older, there's one thing that's going
to ring in my ears, you know, when I don't feel like coming
here. You know, when I have to step
down and if I live to be old like my parents. I'm going to
remember hearing Henry Grunt coming up those steps at Paul's. You could hear him coming all
the way up those steps. I mean, it was in pain. But I
tell you what, those groans, those groans coming up that steps
speaks volume to us younger ones. Because someday we're going to
get old. And when we don't feel like being
here, I'm going to remember those who were old and they came anyway.
They had infirmities and they came anyway. But anyway, that was my thought
on that when I was reading this. But you know, it's actually when
we are the most emptied of ourselves that we are the most useful. God is emptying Job. That's what's
going on. He's emptying Job. Satan is trying
to get Job to curse God, but God is pruning the tree. that
it will bear more fruit. And he's using Satan to do it.
He's using Satan to prune the tree. And this tree is going
to bear more fruit. You want to bear more fruit?
Are you sure? Do you want to be conformed to
the image of Christ? Well, there's going to be some
suffering involved in that. To be conformed to the image
of Jesus Christ is going to involve suffering. Fruit bearing is going
to involve pruning. It's going to involve pruning.
But when God empties us of ourselves, that's when we are the most useful.
Listen to 2 Corinthians 12.10. Therefore I take pleasure in
infirmities. Really? Can anybody in this room say
that? I take pleasure in my infirmities.
I take pleasure in my pain. I take pleasure in infirmity,
in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses
for Christ's sake. How you handle pain and suffering
is either for Christ's sake, you say, the Lord has given this
to me and I want to bear it for His glory. Or we can handle it in a way
that it brings reproach. Paul says, for when I am weak,
then am I strong. Then am I strong. He's not talking
about weak in faith. He's not talking about weak in
faith. He's talking about weak in himself.
That's when I'm strong. Now, Eliphaz and the other two
friends of Job make a great mistake here. They judge by outward appearance. Eliphaz is charging Job of being,
and this is why he's charging now, this is serious, he's charging
Job of being a hypocrite. You're a hypocrite. He mistakes
the trial Job is under as punishment for something Job has done, some
sin he has done. Him and his two friends are going
to charge Job with Job, you've done something, because this
doesn't happen to innocent people. This does not happen to those
who are righteous. God doesn't do this. Oh yes,
He does. Yes, He does. You know they're
getting a good lesson here. You know that? I thought about
that today. I thought, not only is Job being
emptied of himself that he's going to bear more fruit in the
end, But these three friends of his are going to learn a lesson,
a spiritual lesson. Because at the end of this, a
sacrifice is offered for them. And you know what he said? You
know what God said about Job? And you know Job said some pretty
tough things. He said, You have not spoken of me the things that
are right, as my servant Job has. He doesn't bring up some of the
things that Job said. He said he's spoken the things
that are right. But they charged Job of being
a hypocrite. But in this, Job was like our
Lord when our Lord was suffering on the cross. Well, actually,
the 33 years of his ministry, public ministry, he was constantly
being badgered, he was constantly being accused, they were saying
things about him that was not true. And when he hung on the cross,
they thought he was suffering for sins he committed, didn't
they? Isaiah tells us this in Isaiah 53, 4. Surely he hath
borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem
him strict and smitten of God and afflicted we, the Jews, he's
particularly speaking of, we. We esteemed him strict and smitten
of God and afflicted for his own sins. He must have been an
awful criminal for God to do this to him. Our Lord can identify with all
His children no matter what they go through. He was tempted in
all points like as we are, yet without sin. He didn't sin like
you and I do when you and I are tempted. When He was tried, He did not
complain. Now Job does complain, but our
Lord didn't. He didn't complain. Now it says
in verse 1 and 2, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and he
said, and no doubt he was probably the eldest, that's why he spoke
first, If we say, or venture, if we venture to commune with
thee, or have a word with thee, Job, will you be grieved? He's
going to. He's going to be grieved. He says here, But who can withhold
himself from speaking? I'll tell you who can, a wise
man. A wise man can. I thank God for this book. I
thank God for Job and his trials. It has given us wisdom. When
someone's going through something, don't be so hard. Don't be so
hard. God knows why. Judge not that
you be not judged. You know, by nature, by nature,
By that old Adamic nature, we are quick to judge. We are literally
quick to judge. Well, this is what I think. Usually
when somebody just spouts that off, I just plug my ears up. It's like a man said to me one
time when I told him, I said, well, this is what I think. He
said, there you go again, working without tools. That's what he
told me. He was a lot older than me, too.
He'd get away with it. But if we venture to commune
with thee, will you be grieved? He said, I've got to say something
here, Job. I've got to say something. Will
it trouble you if we venture to correct you? That's what he's
saying. You know, wisdom is not always
with the aged. It's not always with the aged. Eliphazeth Job up here in verses
3 and 4, listen. And this is a setup. You know,
it sounds good. What he says here in verses 3
or 4, it sounds good. And it's true. It's true. But he's setting him up. He's
setting him up. Watch this. Behold, thou hast
instructed many. How many times did the Pharisees
try to set up our Lord? How many times did they try to
catch Him? But Eliphaz here, he sets him up and he says, Behold,
thou hast instructed many. Job was a preacher of righteousness.
I ain't no doubt about that. Job knew the gospel. He said,
I know my Redeemer liveth. And he talked about Him. And
he taught those who listened to him. He taught them about
the Redeemer. Job did that. He did that. He wasn't teaching
them how to grow beans. He's teaching them about the
Redeemer. He's teaching them about God and how God can be
just and justify the ungodly. Job taught them that. Thou hast
instructed many and Thou hast strengthened the weak hands,
the ones who are weak and weak in faith and ready to fall. Job, you, by your words, by your
words of grace, by your words of truth that the Lord gave you. He said in verse four, Thy words
have upholding him that was falling. and thou hast strengthened the
feeble knees." Job instructed many in the way of righteousness
and redemption, I know that. And this gives us some insight
into Job's character. Here's a good insight into his
character. He was a wise man in spiritual matters. He was
a wise man in Christ. He was a caring man. He was a
very caring man. He was a man of great compassion.
Just like His Lord. Listen, this is true. Grace in, grace out. If the love of God is shed abroad
in the heart, it's going to come out. And it's going to be shown
to those who are close by, whether they believe or not. It's still
going to be shown. It's still going to be demonstrated.
You know, when grace is in a man, when the grace of God is in a
man or a woman, they cannot help but be gracious. He can't help
it. Kind and gentle. You know, grace
makes a big difference in someone. I was talking to someone this
morning. When I was talking to Jeremy this morning about this,
he talked about, you can't be born of God. You cannot be born
of God and there not be a great difference. You can't do it. It'll change your language. It'll
change your habits. It'll change your company. It'll
change everything about you. It'll change you. It has to. You can't be born of God and
a drastic change not take place. That's just like when God came
on this world and He said, let there be light. You know what
a drastic change it was. Then He said, let the earth bring
forth, and all this stuff started being created. Do you know what
a massive change that was? Or how much more when someone's
born of God? How much more? This speaks of Job's character.
what Eliphaz is saying about him. But it also speaks of our
Lord, Job's Lord, our Lord. He lifted up many by His words,
didn't He? How many times have you come
here and you've been lifted up by the gospel? How many times
have you come here and you're down, you've been down? I know
this by experience. You've just been down, you've
been a little cold, or you've been a little depressed, spiritually
depressed. Doctor asked me last week, I went a couple weeks ago
to the doctor, she said, now have you been depressed lately?
I said, no. No, because she was going to
write it down. I said, no. But you and I get
spiritually down, don't we? Everybody does. Everybody does. Well, how many times have you
come here and a word has been spoken and you've left here lifted? You left here lifted. That's
why it's so important to come and sit under the word. It just gives us strength. It
lifts us up. He lifted up many, He strengthened
many. You know, Paul said this, I can
do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me. He strengtheneth
me. He heals the brokenhearted, and
He still does. He's healed my broken heart so
many times. I mean, my heart's been broken
over sin so many times, my sin, so many times, and He's healed
it. He's healed it. Because if not, it would drive
you into despair, wouldn't it? It would. Your sin would drive
you into despair if He didn't heal your broken heart over sin. But now comes out the knife. We have to realize something
here. Satan is behind this. Remember the Lord said, Peter,
Satan has desired you to sift Jewish wheat. And then long after
that, he denied the Lord three times. But behind the scene,
Satan is using these three men, and it's tough when a friend
turns on you. When a friend turns on you, it's tough. But he's using them to get at
Job's mind, to get into his head, to get into his heart, and to
cause him to doubt, and to cause him to eventually curse God.
I mean, he's hammering it. You know, if you want to talk
about You want to talk about somebody being shot at. I mean,
Joe was being shot at here. You know, not just his body,
but now he's shot at in his mind. And I tell you, that's the hardest
place to deal with is the mind. To wrestle in the mind, to have
conflict in the mind. That's tough. That's tough. But now listen to verse five,
but now, let me show you, let me go back here, man. I'm going
to try not to be too, I'm going to try not to be long on this.
He said, behold, thou hast instructed many, Job, you've strengthened
the weak hand, thy words have upholding him that was falling,
and you've strengthened the feeble knees. He said, that's so, Job,
you've just been a champion to people that's in need. But now,
now comes the knife. Now comes the reason for him
saying what he said. But now it's come to you, Job. Not handling
it too well, are you?" This is what he's saying. But now, Job,
now it's come to you and you faint. Thou faintest. It touches thee and thou art
troubled. This shows how heartless we can
be when God leaves us to ourselves. When our Lord hung on the cross,
and I mean He was mutilated, and they stood there and they
just hurled insults at Him. You would think that when somebody's
that mutilated, that you'd have a little bit of pity, a little
bit, but none. Is there any sorrow like unto
my sorrow, all you that pass by? But we can be heartless by
nature, we can. Eliphaz here, listen, he should
have followed Job's example in upholding his friend Job. He
just said, you've helped those that were down. You've helped
those who had feeble knees in the weekend. Well, Eliphaz, now
it's your turn. Why don't you do it? Why don't you do it? Why don't
you help your friend Job? When he's down, help him. But instead
he pokes at Job's pain. He said, it touches thee. This
is a little more than a touch. Don't make light of it. He's
making light of it. It toucheth thee. He's lost all
10 children. I mean, all 10 children are taken
away. Everything he owned is taken away. All of his servants
are taken away. His wife turned on him. All of his health is
gone. He's got boils from head to toe.
And he's saying, it touches you, Job. That's a little more than
a touch. The hand of God's on him. But what he's doing here, he's
saying, Job, you're a hypocrite. He's calling Job a hypocrite
here. He said, you helped all these people and you've told
them how to believe God, you've told them how to walk through
their trials, you've told them all these things, now you're
falling apart. You're a hypocrite, Job, you're a hypocrite. Job, you ought to take your own
counsel that you've given to others when they were down. And here's, in verse 6, here's
one that really hurts. And of course, you know, for
the next several chapters, I mean, they're just, I mean, they got
their bow back, just pulling each one, taking a turn, taking
a shot. But God's controlling this. God's emptying Job and
Job is going to find out, he's going to find out far more who
God is at the end of this, far more than he did when he was
prosperous. He's finally going to see who God is. But he says in verse 8, "...is
not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness
of thy ways?" You remember in the beginning
of this book, Satan said, does Job fear God for nothing? He
said, you put a hedge about him, you bless the work of his hands,
that's why he worships you. And this is the same attitude
and spirit that Eliphaz has right here. Let me see if I can put
this in a way we can understand it. But Eliphaz seems to be saying,
We now see the true nature of your fear of God, and the righteousness
of thy ways, that it was not real. Your fear of God is founded on
your righteousness and uprightness and the blessings you are getting
from God. And now that those blessings are gone, Job, you've
turned. You've turned. Where's your fear
at? Where's your fear of God at? He's telling Job he's a hypocrite. And he's charging Job of having
that same spirit that's in false religion. False religion does
what it does to get what it can out of God. Not because of love
to God, but what he can get out of Him. This is hard. This is hard, but this is God's
servant. This is God's child. You know,
the Lord can put us through some extremely hard things, as He
did Job here. But He has promised us that He
would not put on us any more than we could bear. He put on His Son, He put on
His Son what we could not bear. Everything else we can bear.
You understand? Everything else we can bear.
We could not bear what Christ took. We could not drink that
cup dry. That cup of wrath, we could not
bear that or drink that cup. He did, He did. But now everything
else, He can enable us to bear it. And He does. Now, Eliphaz here, he keeps twisting
the knife. He says in verse 7, Remember, I pray thee, whoever
perished being innocent. Job, he says, think about it. Whoever perished or where were
the righteous cut off or suffered? Have you ever seen the righteous
suffer so much, Job, that were innocent? He's telling Job, you're
guilty of something. You're guilty. Well, I tell you
this, true. It's true. No innocent person
ever perished. The innocent won't perish. If
you're truly innocent in Christ, you won't perish. I promise you,
you're not going to perish. I'm not going to perish. If I'm
in Christ, I'm not going to perish. No innocent person has ever perished,
but I tell you what, they sure can suffer. Don't mistake suffering
for something someone has done, or you think they've done something
bad. Don't mistake suffering for that. Because the Scripture says that
the godly will suffer persecution in this life. You know why Job
is suffering? You know why he's suffering?
Because he's godly. He's God. God said, he's a perfect
man. He's upright. He shuns evil.
Well, there's none like him. There's none like him. Job is
going through what he's going through right now because he's
godly. He's God's son. If he were just
a wretch like everybody else around him, Satan wouldn't be
interested in him. Satan wouldn't be interested
in you if you're just a lost wretch. He's not interested in
you. He's interested in those who give glory to God. Those
are the ones he wants to destroy. Those who give glory to the Lord
Jesus Christ. He won't give a flip about the
drunk down the road, or a drug addict, or a harlot, or a liar.
It's those who give glory to God. Oh, remember, I pray thee, whoever
perished being innocent. Well, go over and read Hebrews
11. Well, they suffered, they were sawn asunder, they hid in
caves and dressed in sheep's clothes. Go over and read that.
And that is a history of God's people Since the beginning, since
the beginning, Abel gave up his life because of Christ, because
he believed God. Cain killed him over it. Of course, he didn't lose his
life. We know that. He's with the Lord. One of the problems here is,
and you'll notice as we go through this, Eliphaz and his two friends,
they say some really good things. They do, they say some things
that are true, but they misapply. It is so important for me as
I stand here to rightly divide the word of truth. I know you
often hear me pray, and it's not just that I don't know what
else to say. But you hear me pray, enable me to rightly divide
the word of truth." I don't want to misapply the Scriptures. If
you don't know how to use the sword, put the thing up. And
this is a sword. This is one that's sharper than
any two-edged sword. It cuts going both ways. It's
sharp on both sides. And it's just like here, he doesn't
know what he's talking about. What he's saying is so true.
No innocent person has ever perished. Because Christ has made them
innocent. You're not innocent by nature, that's for sure. And he says in verse 8, Even
as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness,
reap the same. That's true. But you're applying
it to the wrong person. Just like the Lord Jesus Christ,
when He was on this earth, they applied wrong things to Him. They said, he cast out devils
by the spirit of Beelzebub. They said, he's a blasphemer.
He's a gluttonous man. He said, I've seen this. Eliphaz said, Job, I've seen
this. I've seen that they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness,
they reap the same. So you have been plowing You've
been plowing iniquity and sowing wickedness, Job. You've been
leading a double life. That's why he said, you've been
leading a double life. Now it is true that they do reap
the same. Galatians 6, be not deceived,
God's not mocked. For whatever man soweth, that
shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh,
shall other flesh reap corruption. He that soweth to the Spirit
shall the Spirit reap life everlasting. David, you know, David in Psalm
73, he said, he was misapplying at one time. Look over in Psalm
73. This is what I'm talking about, misapplying the truth. David said in Psalm 73, verse
three, he said, well, verse two, but as for me, my feet were almost
gone, my steps well and I slipped for I was envious at the foolish
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. There are no bans
in their death, but their strength is firm. No, it's not. They are
not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like
other men. Therefore pride comes to them a battle as a chain of
violence." You know, he was all messed up. He was all wrong here
until he went into the temple of God, and then he saw their
end. He said, oh, oh, I've misjudged this. Yeah, we need to wait till
the end of a matter before we pass judgment on anything. Eliphaz
is wrongly applying to Job what belongs to the wicked. That's
what he's doing. And he says here in verse 9,
"...by the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of
his nostrils are they consumed." That's true. God takes away the
wicked. He takes them away. "...and their
place thereof shall know it no more." But be careful who you
apply that to. It doesn't apply to God's child.
Not at all. And then Eliphaz compares Job
here to a lion who's lost his dominion. That's what he's saying. Job, you're like the lion, that
strong lion who had dominion and is strong, and now he's lost
it all. He doesn't have it anymore. In
verse 10-11, the roaring of the lion, the voice of the fierce
lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. The old lion
perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered
abroad. He said, Job, you're just like
the old lion who's lost his dominion. You've lost it. Well, this is
hard stuff, isn't it? But you can imagine how our Lord
felt, who was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from
sinners, to take such insults. You know, when he was in the
wilderness, being tempted in the wilderness, how Satan came
at him hard, hard. Don't think he didn't feel it.
He's a real man. He's a real man. When he's in
the Garden of Gethsemane, he said, I'm going to die right
here. I'm paraphrasing. I'm going to die right here if
I don't get help. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto
death. I'm going to die right here if
I don't get help. Now Eliphaz tells of a vision
he had. God spoke in visions in that
day, and I don't really know about this vision at all here,
but I'm gonna take what Eliphaz said about it. And Eliphaz, he
uses, here's the thing, he uses this vision against Job. He uses
it against Job. He said, Now a thing was secretly
brought to me, and mine ear received a little of it, and a little
thereof, in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falleth on men. Fear came upon me, trembling,
which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my
face. The hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, the spirit
stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof. An
image was before my eyes. There was silence. I heard a
voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? Job, are you more just than God? Some of the writers said that
it is translated, How shall a mortal man be justified with God? But he says here, shall a mortal
man be more just? Shall he be more just than God?
Well, you can't be more just than just. If you're just, you're
just. I thought, that's a... I thought, Eliphaz, you know
what you're saying? If you're just, you're just. You can't
be more just. Shall a man be more pure than
his maker? I mean, he's directing this at Job. Well, the answer to that, of
course not. Of course not. The fact that man is mortal says
he's not more just than God. You know, I want you to think
of this. If Adam had not fallen, he'd still be alive on this earth
right now, wouldn't he? Sin made him mortal. Something
happened. Something happened for Adam to
become mortal. And that something is sin. It's sin. And the only way that
it can be put away is by the blood and righteousness of Jesus
Christ. That's the only way it can be
put away. By His blood it can be washed away. Behold, He put no trust in His
servants. In verse 18, His angels He charged with folly. He said
there's nothing pure and clean in His sight. You know, if God
had not chosen the elect angels, if He had not chosen them, they
would have fallen too. They would have fallen too. Every
one of them would have fallen, one by one. They didn't fall
by representative. They fell one by one. And they all would
have fallen. And those that did fall, he did
charge them with folly. They were cast out. These are
angels, which are far greater than what we are. But listen, God has not and never
will turn the running of all of creation over to the angels
or anyone else but Jesus Christ, the Mediator. He's the only one
that it's been turned over to. He's the only one God has entrusted
it to. But he says here in verse 19,
How much less If he doesn't put any trust in
the angels, which are far greater, how much less in them that dwell
in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed
before the moth? Then so, man's headquarters is
in the dust. He came from dust, from dust
thou art, dust thou shalt return. Your body, my body, is made from
dust, the earth, it's made from this earth. And God puts no trust in these
clay pots, but I'll tell you what He has done. He's put this
treasure in earthen vessels. He's put the treasure of the
gospel in you. Eliphaz says here in verse 20
and 21, I'll close, they are destroyed, the wicked. And I tell you, He's putting
Job over in this He went from being his friend to shifting
him over here with those who sinned against God, and God's
against. They are destroyed from morning to evening. They perish
forever without regarding it. I mean, it's true. It's true. Men and women die daily. They die daily. It never seems
to be real to anybody until they're right there. Until they're right
there. And it's happening. But until
then, I mean, it just doesn't seem like everybody thinks it's
going to happen to somebody else. But sooner or later, it's going
to happen to me and you. Sooner or later. And he says here, but now listen. They are destroyed, but you're
not. You're not. God's children are not destroyed
and no trial is going to destroy you. This is going to bring Job
closer to God. He's going to learn more of God
in this than all that's ever gone before. By the hearing of
the ear, I've heard of thee, but now mine eye seeth thee.
And the result is I abhor myself. and sackcloth and ashes. Well,
now you're teachable. Now you're teachable. When you and I are full of ourselves,
we're not teachable. But he says here, the wicked perish. And listen, they perish forever
without any regard. Like cattle, they're slaughtered
and no one asks what's going on. They don't ask. You know, Henry gave his illustration
one time. He said, it's like the farmer.
He goes out. He's got these cattle out in
the pasture. And he goes out, and he gets one and takes it
to the slaughterhouse. He puts a rope around his neck,
and he leads it off. And the other cattle are there. They
look up at it for a minute, and they go right back down to eat
him. They go right back down to feed him, not considering
that one's going to the slaughter. It's life is over today, and
one of them is going to be next without any regard to it. In
verse 21, Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? Yes. You know, when a man or woman
dies, it does not matter what they have achieved in this life.
It doesn't matter what degrees they've got or what titles they've
got. When they die, it stops right there. It stops. Their excellency does not go
with them. Unless you're a child of God.
And then your excellency is His. It's His. And what's His is yours. And that goes with you. They
die, he says, even without wisdom. There's an end to an ungodly
man, but not so the godly. His end is peace and riches untold. Eliphaz is making a great mistake
here, applying what belongs to the ungodly to the godly. To
the godly. All because of what he sees with
his natural eyes and not with spiritual understanding. Remember this. And our Lord said
this, judge not by appearance, but judge a righteous judgment. He was judging by appearance
and didn't have a clue what was going on. He didn't have a clue,
but he was, him and his two friends, they were going to straighten
him out. They were going to straighten him out. Oh, if we could just read Scriptures
like this and learn from it, see the grace of God, and learn
to just be quiet and wait on the Lord. You know what would
have been great? If his three friends had just
prayed for him. Just prayed for him. As Paul said, restore such a
one in the spirit of meekness, considering yourself lest you
also