Jeanette played that song that
I love so dearly. I love to tell the story. And
I do. I do love to tell the story. I love to preach the gospel.
It's a difficult, exceedingly difficult thing, a weighty burden,
an impossible thing for a mere man to do without the aid of
God's Holy Spirit. But I do love to do it when God
gives me utterance. I love to tell the story, but
you know, Jim, I'd rather he told it. If God would speak,
then we'll be spoken to. You need to hear somebody other
than this man. Now, I've gotten myself into a predictable pattern
of preaching. I like to preach God as high
as I can preach him, and I like to preach man as low as I can
preach him. I like to bring people to utter
despair of themselves and their own goodness by making them see
from the scriptures just how high and how holy God really
is, how high and how sovereign God is. But sometimes even believers,
Barbara, sometimes even believers will admit to a little bit of
a distaste at hearing of how wicked we are. She very candidly
came up to me the other day, and she won't mind me saying
it, but she said, you know, I came in one day and you began calling
us worms and maggots. She said, you know, I just, I
thought, I get tired of being called a maggot. Well, I don't
blame you. It's distasteful to the flesh,
it really is. It's distasteful to our, it offends
our flesh, it offends our pride and our dignity. But that's the
only people Christ came to save, maggots, worms, wiggling maggots,
somebody says. We always put that adverb or
verb, wiggling maggots, because we try to wiggle and we're just
dead. But as Paul said to young Timothy,
he says it to me now, preach the word, be instant or consistent,
in season or out of season, whether or not men want to hear it or
not. Call them a worm whether they want to hear it or not.
Preach God high and holy and lift it up, whether men want
to hear it or not. I thank God by his mercy and
grace that people here want to hear that. That's the gift of
God. That's the mercy of God. And
seeing and believing and loving the fact that God reigns and
rules. But Paul said that to young Timothy,
and he said this too. He said, preach the word, be
instant, in season and out of season. He said, reprove. Reprove
of what? We need to be reproved of our
sin. We need to see ourselves for
what we are. He said, rebuke, rebuke. Rebuke for what? Self-righteousness. Sin and self-righteousness are
really the same thing, but we need to be rebuked for our self-righteousness,
for trying to get to God any other way than Christ. And we
do it. We still have so much of it in
us. And he said, exhort. Exhort to
what? believe Christ, come to Christ,
reprove of sin, rebuke of self-righteousness, and exhort them to come to Christ.
So there's really only one message that will do all of that. That's
the gospel. And it's the gospel very simply
and very quickly or shortly explained in this. God is holy. God is
sovereign. God is just. God is, above all,
holy. And we have offended this holy
God. We've rebelled against him. We've been wicked and offended
this holy God, but God sent his Son down here to pay for that
rebellion, to pay for that iniquity. And these triune truths, these
very simple—I sum them up in these very simple statements.
But these triune truths make up the one whole truth of all
the Scripture, and it could be summed up in one word—the gospel. The gospel. Summed up in that
word. And it's this message, this message
of God's truth that we must preach upon every occasion God gives
us to stand before any group of people. This message that
we must preach. And it's this that we must dig
and search for throughout the scriptures, whatever text a man
may take. He must search for this gospel
and bring it out. See it in that text. And because,
as I've said before, or as Christ himself said it, because God
said to. Why preach the gospel? Because
God said to. He said, Go ye in all the world
and preach. Now, not just preach. There's
a lot of preachers, a lot of preaching going on, which is
not much preaching, really. But He didn't just say, Go preach. He said, Go preach the gospel.
Now, don't preach moral reforms or civil duties and so forth,
civil issues, morals. Preach the gospel. Why preach? Because God said to you. And
secondly, it's our only hope. The gospel is our only hope,
and we need to hear it at every opportunity. Our only hope. He
that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Not he that doeth,
not he that doesn't doeth, he that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. The gospel. Go preach the gospel.
And it's the only message that will effectually accomplish anything
of eternal value for God's people. The only message, the only thing
that will lead us to repentance, the only thing that will lead
us and give us peace and comfort and encouragement and hope and
instruction and motivation and inspiration and reformation,
and these are the things that every true preacher desires for
the people, all of these things, and only one message will effectually
accomplish all of these things. It's good advice to a man. Why
search for anything else? Preach that. It's all contained
right there. Right there. So I want you to
look with me here in Job chapter thirty-three. Job chapter thirty-three. Now historians, it's warm. Historians, Bible historians,
believe that this is the oldest recorded book in all of Scripture.
The book of Job. And we're going to see, if God
will help us, the gospel as clearly as we've ever seen it in this
old book, the book of Job, Job chapter 33. Now, God sent this
preacher to this man Job. He does that sometimes. He sent
a preacher to one man, Philip, to the Ethiopian Union. He does
this sometimes. It's mercy. It's grace. God sent
this preacher to a young man, or this young preacher to a man
named Job, and you, like Job, if you heard the gospel, or will
hear the gospel, you'll hear it from a man, from a preacher.
God is chosen by the foolishness of preaching, and it may be a
young man. Paul told Timothy, let no man despise thy youth.
It may be a short man. Who has to despise a day of small
things? But it's a man nevertheless,
a man, because God is chosen by the foolishness of preaching.
So I want you to listen and look with me at what Elihu, this young
preacher, says to Job. Look at verse 6. Elihu begins
his words to Job. He began in verse 1, but look
here at verse 6. He said, Behold, I am according
to thy wish in God's stead. in God's stead, and every true
and faithful preacher can say this. We are ambassadors for
Christ, as though God did beseech you by us. If a man's speaking
according to God's Word, if a man is exalting God, the three things
that I said, abasing man and putting Christ as Lord and their
only hope, he bears listening to it. He bears listening to
it. And he's in God's stead. He speaks to us as in God's stead. And look what he says. He says,
I'm also formed out of the clay. Now, we have this treasure in
earthen vessels. He said, I'm formed of the clay,
but we're not to despise the vessel even though it is a vessel
of clay, but don't admire it too much either, because God
may dash it before you. He'll do that. Verse 7, Behold,
my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand
be heavy upon thee. It's not I, Job said, that you
need to fear. It's God and God's Word. He that
telleth a dream, let him tell his little dream. But he that
hath my word, let him speak it faithfully. And he that heareth
the word needs to heed it and to hear it, hear it carefully
as the word of God." Paul thanked God that the Thessalonians heard
the word of God as it was in truth, the word of God, not just
the word of a man. And I marvel at that, that anybody
is ever blessed through the preaching of this man. I know for a fact
It's not this man. If anybody's ever blessed, it's
the word of the living God. So this young man said to Job,
he said, verse eight, Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing.
And I've heard the voice of thy words. He said, I heard what
I've heard what you say, and I sat back and I've listened
and I pondered and I thought about what you've been saying.
And I hear I hear what you're saying. And as every faithful
watchman will do, has his ears open, his eyes open to the things
that are going on and being said in this world. And a faithful
watchman will say, I hear what the people are saying. And I
hear what our generation are saying. I hear them. And they're
talking. It's just like this man Job here,
verse 9. They say, I am clean. I am clean
without transgression. I'm innocent. Neither is there
any iniquity in me. I hear that's what our generation
is saying. He's a good man. No, that's not what the Bible
says. There's none good, no, not one. There's none that doeth
good, no, not one. None righteous. That's what the
Scripture says. Yet men think too highly of themselves,
don't they? I'm innocent. I'm clean. No iniquity found in me, verse
10. And they say this. They murmur and complain against
God's providence. Behold, he findeth occasion against
me. He counteth me for his enemy.
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths." And
every one of us are guilty of murmuring about our lot in life. There was a book once written
about, the title of it was, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
It's just the opposite. It's just the opposite. It's
amazing that good things happen to bad people. But this is the
theology of the world, isn't it? complaining against God's
sovereign and wise providence and control, thinking, I'm innocent.
What have I done to deserve this? I've done nothing. I've gone
to church all my life. I've been a good citizen. I've
done this and that. Why would this happen? Why would God do
such a thing? And we're all guilty in some respect of it. In verse
12, this is what Elihu said to Job. He said, Behold, in this
you're not just. You're unjust in your speaking
and your understanding. You don't understand that God
is just. That's what you fail to understand. And this is where
men have missed it. This is where all error starts.
Ignorance of who God is and what man really is. And this is what
he says. You're ignorant. You're unjust in this. I'm going
to answer you. I'll tell you the truth of the matter. Look
at it. God is greater than man. God is greater than man. Religion today has God on man's
level, doesn't it? Has God just like a man, thinking
and acting and reacting just like men think and act and react. But God says, Thou faultest.
I was altogether such a one as yourself, but I will reprove
thee and set these things in order before your eye. Some people,
he does that too late. condemnation, but by his mercy
and grace, sometimes he sets these things in order before
you in a saving way, and you can thank God for that. But men
are ignorant of the fact that God is God. I say this every
time I stand up here. God is God. We're fundamentalists. That's the foundation of the
faith. God is God. He reigns, he rules
among the armies of heaven and the inhabitants of earth, and
none can or saying to him, what are you doing? You can't do this.
No, he's God. He's God. And God is holy. He
is holy. He will by no means acquit or
clear the guilty. He's holy. He's just. He hates
sin. He hates iniquity. And God is
in heaven. And we're on earth. So the scriptures
say, let your mouth, your words be few. But better ignorant of
this. We're so prone, so quick to speak
up on our own behalf. This is exactly what Job was
doing. so foolishly, speaking up in his own defense. And God
is everything, and we're nothing. I tell you, if you've ever come—the
reason I call us maggots and worms, because that's what the
Scriptures call us, first of all—worms. Fear not, thou worm,
Jacob. I am the Lord, I change not.
Therefore, you sons of Jacob, you worms, will not be consumed. For some reason, mankind thinks
that there's some in intrinsic or some great value in the life
of a human being to God Almighty. Now, let me explain myself. The
Scripture says we're like an undergrasshopper. We're like
an underworm. That the nations before Him are
as vanity, right? Mighty Lebanon in all its glory
and beauty is not sufficient to burn, the Scripture says. We think nothing of stepping
on ants and grasshoppers and doing. They have no value whatsoever
to a human being. God is infinitely higher than
us, than we are. That's the truth. God doesn't
need us. He doesn't need us. We sure need
him. And this is where the glory of
God and the mercy and the grace of God comes in. But if a man
would understand this, he'd quit striving with his Maker, and
he'd start crying to his Maker. But this is what he says here
to Joel, verse 13. Why do you strive against him?
Is it not because you don't understand who him is? Why do you strive
against him? That's what Paul said to the
people. Oh man, who are you that replies against God? We don't
have him, we don't have his business open in our peanut miles, do
we? Yet men do, don't they? I don't think it's fair. Who art thou that replies to
him? Why do you strive against him? Look at it, verse 13. He
giveth not an account of his matters. He doesn't have to,
does he? He doesn't give as much as I
love my daughter even, as much as I esteem her so highly. I don't give an account even
to her of all my matters. Or how much more enemies and
rebels against God would he condescend to explain himself on every hand? He giveth not an account of his
matter. Look over here at Job 38 with me. Job chapter 38. Look what he says to Job. Job 38 verse 1. Who are you to
strive against God? Then the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind and said, Who is this? Who is this? that darkeneth counsel by words
without knowledge." Who opened his big mouth? Chope soon got his mouth shut,
didn't he? Who is this? Gird up your loins.
Okay, you want to spit? Gird your loins up. I'm going
to ask you a few questions, boy. I'll demand them be. Answer me. Where were you when I laid the
foundation of it? Job, where were you when I made
the earth? Don't you know about this time
Job started crawling? Like I feel sometimes, I'm just
sinking down out of sight behind this pulpit. If there was a trap
door here, you know, I'd get in it. Where were you? I hear what you're
saying. Let's hear what you have to say
now. Where were you when I made the earth? Can you answer me? Huh? Who laid the measures thereof,
verse 5, if you know? Can you? Do you? I did, Joe. Verse 6. Do you know where the
foundations of fashion? Did you lay the cornerstone thereof?
I did, Joe. Verse 18. Have you prestige? Can you measure the earth? And
questions keep getting tougher. I can, Joe. Can you? Verse 26. Can you cause it to
rain? Boy, man, all his modern technology. Oh, my. We find out, don't we? You let the rain stop for just
a little while. We can seed the clouds, we can
do whatever we want to or try to do, and all of our modern
science and technology, we can't bring one drop of rain. Can you make it rain? God says,
I can. Only I can. He said over there
in Isaiah 45 and 9, I believe it is, or 7, Drop down ye skies, ye heavens
from above, let the skies pour forth In the same sense, man
can't make himself righteous. Only God can do that. Only God
must pour down righteousness. We're just as helpless before
God in this righteousness matter as we are to make it right. Can
you? Can't do it. Can you go whale
fishing with a rod and a hook? That's what he said in chapter
41. Can you catch a whale with a fishing pole? I can, God says. I'm God. See what he's showing
Joe? See what he's showing him right
off the bat? I'm God. No mistake about it. You understand
this? First of all, I'm He. I'm God. And God giveth not an
account of His matter. The Creator doesn't tell the
creature everything. Give us not an account of his
matter. I entitled this message, no account given to no counts. No account. He doesn't have to.
He doesn't have to. Yet, look at this. This is great.
Look back at the text. Verse 14. Yet God in mercy and
grace has spoken and has given an account. And what an account.
the account, the most blessed testimony and account ever known
to man, ever heard by human ears. God has given an account to no
counts. That's you, Nancy. God Almighty,
who giveth no account of his matters to anybody. Condescending. Stopped one day and said, I want
to lay her in on it. That's mercy and grace. Look
at verse 14. For God speaketh once. Yea, he
does. God in sundry times and diverse
manners, he spoke unto the fathers by the prophet. What a blessing!
What a gift of God, the Old Testament scripture. God spoke, and he
did it audibly at times. He spoke to men and women audibly
from heaven, even. He spoke to them once. God has spoken once, verse 14. Yea, twice. And he hath in these
last days spoken unto us. by his son. And Peter said, we
have a more sure word of prophecy, wherein unto you do well to take
heed as the word of God. Oh, that men would be wise and
hear. But verse 14 says, yet man perceiveth
it not. God Almighty. And you know it
was so with the children of Israel in the wilderness. God spoke
and did so many wonderful works in their midst, yet they rebelled
against him still and didn't heed him still. They spoke once
and even twice, and now we have this more sure word of prophecy
wherein we would do well to take heed as a light in a dark place.
God is speaking right now. As Jacob said, surely the Lord
was in this place, and I knew it not. And if God is speaking
through his word in the gospel right now, you'd do well to take
heed. Surely the Lord was in this place,
and I knew it not. Men perceiveth it not. Verse
15, in a dream, in a vision of the night. God used to speak
to prophets in this manner. In a vision of the night, when
deep sleep falleth upon men, slumber is upon the bed, then
he would open these prophets' ears and seal their instruction. Verse 17, that he might withdraw
man from his purpose. God did this graciously, mercifully
spoke through these men and sent these messengers. These men were
30 feet out into the world to bring this message of glad tidings
to God's people. Killed them all, every one of
them. And God did it in His goodness
to withdraw man from his purpose and hide pride from man. You
see that? It's the goodness of God that leads a man to repentant,
that breaks a man's pride. It's the goodness of God, the
mercy of God. One of the best things God could
do for a man is to bring him down. to abase him, because the
abased, those that unblock themselves, will be exalted with Christ. Yet man perceiveth it not. Look at verse 18. God in his
restraining grace, he keeps back his soul from the pit. The long-suffering
of the Lord is salvation. Today is a day of salvation.
This is gospel times that we're living in. The gospel is being
proclaimed. The door of the ark is still
open. And anybody, I say this without reservation, from God's
Word, anybody that wants to go in can go in still. The door
is still open. Seven days. Anybody that wants
to. We don't preach an exclusive
gospel in that respect. We call upon everybody to come
to Christ. Come in. The ark's open. Now
is the day. Repent, believe, come to Christ. That's what we, sound real Arminian? It's just biblical, it's gospel.
Yet men perceive it not. God's long-suffering is salvation.
Brother Scott Richardson said, he preached a message one time
on the silence of God. The silence of God. He said,
everybody everywhere wants God to break his silence. They're
calling on God to speak. Speak, God. God has spoken. He
has spoken. He doesn't speak audibly anymore,
but he does speak through this Word. And like I said, if he's
with us, he's speaking right now. But yet men everywhere want
God to speak from heaven. Show us a sign! No sign will
be given, except the sign of the prophet Jonas and a picture
of Christ. But no sign will be given. But Scott said when God
does speak finally, when he finally does audibly open his mouth and
speak from heaven, then that's all she wrote. No more salvation. Mercy's river will be dried up,
cut off. The fountain will be dried up,
right then and there, when God speaks, because it will be in
wrath and judgment. In fact, the article written
says when he leaves his throne, Christ is right now seated in
legal repose and rest on that throne. But when he gets up,
it's all over. He's going to walk this wine
press in his wrath. and wring men out. Yes, he is. The Lord keepeth back man from
the grave, verse 18, keepeth his soul back from the pit, and
his life from perishing by the sword. Well, God sometimes, though,
in mercy and grace, brings a man, crosses the wheel in the path
of a man, and brings him down to see himself. Verse 19, he's
chastened with pain upon his bed. Trials and afflictions are
all from God, Deuteronomy 32 and 39. I am the Lord, I do all
these things," he said. I wound, I heal, I kill, I make
light, I do all these things. And he chastens, brings pain
upon the bed, a multitude of bones with strong pain, so that
his life abhors bread and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is
consumed away that it cannot be seen, his bones that were
not seen stick out. Yea, his soul draweth near unto
the grave, and his life to the destroyer. And man comes to the
grave, and Scripture says, oh, that they were wise and would
consider their latter in. For it's appointed unto man once
to die, and after that to judgment. Yet men don't even perceive that.
Seventy, eighty, ninety-year-old people still, George Byrne, mocking
God in the face of death, in the face of judgment, act like
they're never going to die. Men perceive it not, that they're
coming, man's going to his long home. life may be to the destroyers.
Verse 23, but if there be a messenger, if there be a messenger, oh, my soul, y'all, this is one of the most blessed
places on the face of the earth. There's a messenger here. I don't
care if it is me. It has been that man. There's
a messenger with you. A messenger, and the scripture
says, how beautiful. How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bring us good tidings. Good tidings
that publishes peace. What a gift of God. We're going
to find out someday what the greatest gift of God to us was
a gospel preacher. I believe that. I know it. I
see my pastor as the greatest gift of God to me. outside of
our Lord himself, of course, because he speaks of our Lord
himself, a gospel preacher. How beautiful are his feet! I
told you one time I wrote a man a letter after he preached a
message that so blessed my heart, I wrote him a letter, and all
I put on that letter was, Dear so-and-so, you have beautiful
feet. Love, Paul. Oh, my soul, what
a wonderful sight and a sound as the preaching of the gospel,
even though it is from an earthen vessel. That's what makes it
all the more marvelous, coming from such a weak and frail and
vain babbler. They said, Paul, and they can
say to me now, what's this vain babbler going to say? Hopefully
all that God tells him to say. What's he going to say? Well,
I'll tell you what, sir. I've always looked at this in
light of just a preacher. But think about this. Think about how this applies
to the Lord Jesus Christ himself, a messenger. Isn't Christ the
great messenger, that prophet? Isn't he? Isn't he the voice
of God come to us, the only one who can reveal the Father to
us, that messenger of God's covenant? Isn't that Christ himself? If
there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, isn't he the
only one that can reveal the Father, interpret what God himself
says, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit that could apply to him
also? Look at it, look at it, one among a thousand, ten thousands
as it is, this messenger, to show unto man his uprightness,
his righteousness. I'm not talking about Job, I'm
not talking about man's righteousness, I'm talking about this messenger,
to show, talking about Christ, to show his righteousness, the
only acceptance with this holy God who demands it, who demands
this righteousness. to reveal his righteousness,
to reveal the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God,
I say, Paul said, I say at this time, his righteousness, that
God may be just and justifier of them that come to God by him.
The only man, the only messenger ever really approved of God,
the only one. If there be a messenger with
him, an interpreter, if the Lord Jesus Christ comes down, and
reveals to you who you are, who God is, who you are and who he
is, and saving faith. This verse of 10,000 is showing
you his righteousness, your only hope of acceptance with God.
Now, what do you call that, verse 24? Grace. Coming out of that tomb. And
that's for every one of us. Unbind him. Loose him. Deliver
him from going down into the pits. Deliver him from the grave. Why? Why should I? I am the ransom. I am the ransom. Put me in his
place. Put me in that grave in his stead. Grace, grace, and mercy, and
it's called deliverance. Deliverance, the precious, you
know, a ransom price. Old Brother Ed sang that song,
and a ransom was found. The only, the ransom price that
God demands of us, and we said it earlier this morning, the
soul that sinneth, it must surely die. That's the curse, and Christ
has made a curse for us. And the price that must be paid,
though, is blood. You know, a death presupposes
blood's been shed. The soul that's sent must surely
die. Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission.
Christ shed His blood, and not just any blood will do. It must
be precious blood, pure and sinless and holy blood, the blood of
God Himself, the Church whom He hath redeemed with His own
blood, the blood of God Himself. That's the ransom price that
it took. eternal soul. Well, God made the way. Oh, boy. He made the way through
the blood, past the veil, into the Holy of Holies of God, the
Psalms. He made the way by covering our
sins in his precious blood. He made a way whereby the unjust
can be justified, that is, by making Christ sin for us who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in evil. That's the gospel. That's the gospel. And if God
applies this, if God applies this life and death and saving
benefits to you, to your life, look at verse 25. This is what
will happen. Your flesh will be fresher than
a child. You'll be a new creature, a new creation in Christ. And
you'll return to the days of your youth. But yet, I believe
this is talking about Christ even. Christ, He's holy, He's
innocent, He's harmless, He's spotless, He's pure, He's the
Son of God, the Child of God Himself. And verse 26, "...and
his shall pray unto God." Peter, Christ said to Peter, Peter,
Satan hath desired thee to sift you like wheat. What was Peter's
hope? Christ said, but I have prayed
for thee. And it's our only hope, too, that we have a mediator
at the right hand of God Himself who prays daily for His people,
who intercedes, an intercessor, who prays for us. And He'll pray
unto God, and what will happen? God will be favorable unto Him.
He said, I thank You, Father, You always hear me. I know You
hear me. You love me. I've done Your will. I've done
that which is pleasing in Your sight. But for their sakes, they
need to know this, that You hear me, so that they'll resort to
me to pray for them. And if he'll pray for us, God
will be favorable unto him. And look at this, and God will
see his face with joy. He'll see his face with joy and
render unto every man his righteousness. You've seen that before? I shouted
when I saw that. He'll render unto every man that
comes unto God by this man his righteousness. This is the promise
of God that he gave to Abraham, and this is the promise that's
yours by faith, that he gave to Abraham. Righteous, wholly
accepted in the Beloved Son of God. Well, look at this, verse
27. He looks upon men in mercy. Christ himself came down here
to look upon men. What is man? This is what he kept, this is
what he started out by saying, God is greater than man. What
is man then that God's even mind is to love him? And the Son of
Man that he would visit him. That God would spare us, first
of all, his infinite mercy and grace. That God would come to
us and to speak to us, his wonderful and glorious grace. That there
would God, God himself, come down. And tabernacle among us is the
Old Testament. Amazing grace, the scripture
says, the psalm says. He looks upon man, and if any
say, that's all he requires. I've seen it. I've seen it. If anybody say, that's it. What
does God require of us, Jim? Nothing but to say, I've seen
it. Against thee and thee only have I done this evil. Have mercy
upon, according to your lovingkindness, according to your infinite mercy.
Have mercy. All right. Sounds simple, doesn't it? It is. Simple faith. Simple. Oh, how sweet the glorious blessings.
Simple faith, McLean. That's what the song says. And
he looks upon it, and he says, I've sinned. I've perverted that
which was right, and it didn't profit me. I've got myself in
this mess. Will you help me with it? Yeah, he will. Verse 28,
he'll deliver his soul. I'm going down in opinion. In
his life, he'll see the light. Who's the light? Christ. You
look at him from then on. Look at it. Look at this. Lo,
all these things, God works, worketh God, oftentimes. He does this. You mean God does
this, really? Quite a lot. Oftentimes, with
man. Terry, if he elected one man,
he'd be too many. He'd be more than we deserve,
wouldn't he? But he, the scripture says he has a people more than
the stars of heaven, more than the sands of the seashore. Cannot
be numbered. Innumerable company. What mercy. And he didn't have to, didn't
need to. And the ones he elected didn't want him to. But he did. That's mercy. My, my. And all
these things, God works oftentimes with man to bring his soul back
from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Who's the living? That's Christ, our life. Mark well, look at
this, listen to this, verse 31. So mark this well, here in your
soul shall live. Mark it well, oh Job, oh Job. Mark it well, hearken unto me
and you'll hold on to peace. Mark it well, listen, you behold
your peace, Christ. Your peace is made peace by the
blood of his cross and he speaks to you. If you have anything
to say, ask, seek, knock. Seek Him. He'll justify you. God justifies you. He delights
to show mercy. Yeah, He does. If not, you don't
have anything. What do I say? I don't know what
to say. Well, don't say anything. Verse 33. Just listen. Just hear and
believe. Hear the gospel. Come to Christ
and I'll teach you wisdom. Come to Christ and come to God
by faith, asking for mercy. the grace of His hand and He'll
teach you all about Christ, the only one you need to know. God
will bless that. Stand with me and I'll dismiss
it in prayer.