It's called Marty. I had that
song on my mind. And I actually couldn't even
remember who wrote it, but it did come to me later. Ed Hale. And I wonder if there are some
of you who remember when he was here. Anybody? Okay, it's been
a bunch of years ago. Not too many. But he was from
Louisiana. Louisiana, to those of you who
insist on being pronounced correctly, but when we lived down there,
we just called it Louisiana. And he wrote his own words, lyrics,
and his own music. Well, so I called Marty to see
if she had the words, and she was going to inquire further.
And then I happened to think of his name, and So I told Susanna
to see if she could find the song, and I suggested she get
in touch with Mike Bartram. And Brother Mike sent her the
words, but he didn't have the music. Well, you know, our girls
in our family are kind of musically gifted, and Susanna and Angelina. got together and they put those
words to that tune. And David, he does a pretty good
job on the piano. And so he said, yeah, yeah, I
got that. So that's how that song evolved. And such a blessing. I thank
you for that. It was wonderful. It certainly
goes with the text of scripture we have for this evening. And
I also wanted to say that I appreciate the reading of Brother James'
reading for us tonight. I appreciate his prayer. And
he's going to be speaking actually tomorrow at a funeral. Tuesday? Okay, Tuesday. And for your niece,
I believe. And so you be mindful of him
as he sets forth the gospel. And I believe, unless he's changed
his mind since we talked about it, he's going to be speaking
from Romans chapter 10, the passage of scripture that he read to
us this evening. So we certainly will be remembering
you as you conduct the funeral service. Now, let's go to the book of
Job once again this evening. We'll go to Job and we'll go
back to chapter 33. Job chapter 33, our subject is
continued over from this morning, one among a thousand. For the
benefit of those of you who may not have been here or who are
watching this evening by way of the internet or maybe who
are listening to this message much later, at a later date,
I'll kind of bring you up to speed on the subject here. But I'm taking my text from Job
33, and if you would look at verses 23, And 24, Job 33, 23,
if there be a messenger, if there be a representative, literally
it's the word angel. If there be the angel of God
with him, an interpreter, a revealer of secrets, even a mediator. And then he says, this man Elihu
says, one among a thousand to manifest or show unto man
his uprightness. It has to be revealed to us.
The uprightness of Christ Jesus has got to be revealed to us
and he's got to reveal to us that we've got to be upright
in God's sight. that outside of the Lord Jesus,
there is no righteousness to be had. Our brother just read
to us from Romans chapter 10, the Jews in their ignorance,
they went about to establish a righteousness of their own.
And they didn't know, they didn't believe, they didn't understand,
they didn't comprehend. They were ignorant of the fact
that the Lord Jesus is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone who believes. There is a righteousness to be
had and it is in the person of Christ Jesus, who is the Lord,
our righteousness. Verse 24, then he is gracious
unto him and saith, he says to law, he says to justice, deliver him from going down to
the pit. And here is the reason. I have found, God says, I have
found a ransom. This man, Elihu, who is the speaker,
and he speaks from chapter 32 through 37, and I will say a
good bit of the 32nd chapter is directed toward Job's three
friends, and then as he gets into the 33rd chapter, He speaks
more directly to Job. But this man, Elihu, was most
remarkable. I said this morning, He's a picture
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and what I want to talk about tonight
is He's a preacher of our Lord Jesus Christ. Just to review,
to bring you up to where I want you to be tonight, and then,
so I want to build on what I said this morning. He's a picture
of our Lord Jesus in His name. Elihu, God Himself. He is my
God. He is Jehovah. One writer that
I was reading this afternoon says Elihu means Jehovah is my
Savior. And in His name, He is certainly
a picture of our Lord Jesus, for Jesus means Jehovah who saves. There is no other Savior. There
is no other Redeemer. There is no other one who can
rescue us from our sins. He is God, my Savior. He is Emmanuel. He is God with
us. He's the mighty God, the everlasting
Father and the Prince of Peace. He's a picture of our Savior
in His name. He's a picture of our Savior
in His origin. Elihu says in chapter 33 in verse
four, the Spirit of God hath made me. Even as the Spirit of
God came upon Marian, our Lord Jesus, his body was conceived
in her womb. A body thou hast prepared me
is what the Lord Jesus said, and he had to have a body, he
had to be flesh and blood. He had to be a partaker of flesh
and blood in order to be identified with the people he came to save.
And he had to have a body in order that in that body he would
suffer and bleed and die and meet all the demands of justice
for our salvation. That's why the scripture says
he was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering
of death. God can't die, God can't suffer. God can't be hung on a cross,
nailed to a cross. God can't experience any kind
of pain and agony. God is spirit. God inhabits eternity. this issue of our sinfulness
is going to be settled. One with flesh and blood is going
to have to deal with the justice of God on the behalf of and in
the stead of His chosen people. Thus, our Lord Jesus took part
of flesh and blood. He came down here, God sent Him
on a mission of mercy, born of the Spirit, He had to stand in
the stead of men and reconcile us unto God. Behold the perfect
man, Christ Jesus. And then he was a picture of
our Lord Jesus in his position. He's the days man. This is what
Job had asked for earlier in the book. I can't speak with
God. God can't speak with me. I need
somebody to speak between the two of us. I need someone who
can bring us together. I need someone who can put His
hand upon God, as it were, and deal with God and deal with all
of His demands. And I need somebody who can put
His hand on me and deal with all of my needs. Well, who can
that be? It can't be God in His everlasting
Spirit because God is a consuming fire. And God's angry with the
wicked every day. God can't come and deal with
us one-on-one. We'll absolutely be consumed. And of course, we can't come
to God. And we don't want to come to God on top of that. We
have no ability to and we have no desire to. Well, who's going to bring us
together? Who's going to settle the issue? Who's going to reconcile
us to God? Who's going to intervene on our
behalf? We couldn't come to God and God
couldn't come to us. I love the songs of Isaac Watts.
And Isaac Watts wrote in 1709, dearest of all the names above,
my Jesus and my God, who can resist thy heavenly love or trifle
with thy blood? "'Tis by the merits of thy death,
the Father smiles again. "'Tis by thine interceding breath,
the Spirit dwells with men." Listen to this. "'Til God in
human flesh I see, my thoughts no comfort find. "'The holy,
just, and sacred truth are terrors to my mind. "'But if Emmanuel's
face appears, my hope, My joy begins. His name forbids my slavish
fear. His grace removes my sins. While Jews on their own law rely,
and Greeks of wisdom boast, I love the incarnate mystery, and there
I fix my trust. Thank God there's a mediator.
Thank God there's somebody to deal with God in his purity and
his holiness on our behalf. We're like Israel. When Israel
was at the foot of the mountain, Mount Sinai, and the mountain,
you know, was all on smoke. It was shaking. It was belching
smoke. There was thunder and lightning.
It's a fearful, fearful time. The ground was shaking. And they
said, Moses, you speak to God for us. We're afraid. And you see, we need somebody
to speak with God for us. We need a daisman to deal with
God and meet every demand of his law and of his justice. And our Lord Jesus did exactly
that. And the reason we're not condemned,
the reason we cannot be condemned is because our blessed substitute,
God's appointed sacrifice for sin has settled the issue once
and for all. We're made the righteousness
of God in him. He is our only mediator between
God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. He's just the savior we
need. He's bone of our bone. He's flesh
of our flesh. God approves of him. That's what Peter said in his
message there on the day of Pentecost. A man approved of God among you
by signs and wonders. He said, as you yourselves also
know, and though you with your wicked hands put him to death,
God showed he approved of him and approved of his work because
he raised him from the dead. And he exalted him to be enthroned. He's a perfect man and he's the
perfect savior. When he was on this earth, he
was holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners. He
is the prophet who teaches, the priest who intercedes. He's the
priest who offered the sacrifice unto God, and he's the king who
governs all things to fulfill the Father's everlasting purpose. And then Elihu is a picture of
our Lord Jesus in his word, in his speech. Elihu came with the
word of God. Look at chapter 32 and verse
eight. He says, but there is spirit
in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Chapter 32 and verse eight. God
gave him understanding and he came forth with words. He says
this in verse nine, great men are not always wise. Neither
do the aged understand judgment." Now you understand he's speaking
this because he's the younger man. He's the youngest of all
of them. Job's three friends and Job himself
were much older than this man Elihu. But he says, great men
are not always wise. And the aged don't always understand. You know, we say with age comes
wisdom. Not necessarily. Because Elihu
had listened to these men who were much older than he was,
but they revealed not their wisdom, not their prudence, and not their
understanding, but their ignorance. Their ignorance. But this was
a man who had the mind of God. God had taught him. Elihu had
been instructed by the Lord. And in this, he's a picture of
our Lord Jesus. He had unusual understanding. That's why it says in verse 10,
therefore I said, hearken unto me, listen to what I have to
say. And our Lord Jesus said, listen
to me, I'm the word of God. I'm the word of God. He not only
spoke the word of God, he was the living and incarnate word
of God. Elihu said this, look at chapter
33 in verse one. Now he's directing his words
to Job. Wherefore, Job, I pray thee,
listen, or hear my speeches. Elihu is like the Word of God.
He's like Christ Himself. Hear my speeches and hearken
to all my words. Behold, now I have opened my
mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth. You say, well, that's the way
we all speak with our tongue and our mouth. The idea is I'm
speaking words that I know. Words that I'm aware of. I'm
speaking of things that I am very confident in. I'm speaking
things of wisdom. You need to listen to me. And
that's what Christ says, because He is the wisdom of God and He's
the power of God, and you better listen to Him. You better listen
to Him who is the Word of God. Look at verse 3. My words shall
be of uprightness of my heart, and my lips shall utter knowledge
clearly. He has knowledge. We're ignorant. He's got knowledge. Well, what
would be the wisest course of action for us? To listen. To
listen. No wonder He says over in...
Look at verse 31. No wonder he says this, Mark,
well, O Job, hearken unto me. This is chapter 33, verse 31. He says, hold thy peace and I
will speak. If thou hast anything to say,
answer me, speak, for I desire to justify thee. If not, hearken
unto me and hold your peace and I'll teach you wisdom. If you'll
be quiet, I'll teach you. That's what he says. And you
see, this is the issue with the natural man. We're always babbling
on and on. We're always talking. We're always
giving our opinion, but we don't know anything. And I'll tell
you, the sooner God the Spirit teaches us of our ignorance,
and the sooner He shuts our mouths and opens our ears, the better
off we'll be. This man Elihu, he's a picture
of Christ Jesus who is the word of God in his speech, in his
speech. Over in John chapter 10, our
Lord Jesus said some magnificent things. For instance, and you
know the passage of scripture as well as I do, he said, I am
the door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved and go
in and out and find pasture. He said, I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. He said, other sheep I have which
are not of this fold, them also I must bring. There'll be one
shepherd in one fold. He said of his life, he said,
no man taketh my life from me. I have the power to lay it down.
I have the power to take it again. This commandment have I received
of my Father. And you know what the religious
leader said? This man's got a devil. Why do you listen to him? That's
what they said. Why do you listen to him? Well,
I'll tell you why I listen to him. Because he's the way to
God and he knows the way. I listen to him because he's
the truth of God and he speaks the truth to me. And he's the
life of God and he's the only one who can give me life. That's
why I listen to him. That's why you better listen
to him. There's nobody else that can bring you to the Father.
There's nobody else that can present you spotless and without
blemish, having been washed in His blood and robed in the garments
of salvation. There's nobody else can present
you to a holy God but Jesus Christ Himself. You better listen to
Him. The best thing we can do is shut
our mouths and ask God, open up my ears. Open up the ears
of my heart so that I might hear the word of the Lord. That's what he says. Look at
verse 16. He opens the ears of men. He
seals their instruction. Our ears are closed off. Chapter
33, verse 16, he opens the ears. The seeing eye, the hearing ear,
Solomon said, are of the Lord. He opens the ears of men. He
seals their instruction. He's the only one who can seal
the instruction to your heart. You can hear the truth of the
gospel. You can hear redeeming grace from several men. Men who know the gospel. But we can't open up the ears. and we can't seal it to the heart.
But I'll tell you who can, one who's greater than Elihu, one
who is the word of God. In fact, Elihu even says this,
look back in chapter 32, look at verse 21. In fact, I'll back up to verse
30, chapter 32, verse 20. I will speak that I may be refreshed
Job 32, 20. I will open my lips and answer.
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let
me give flattering titles unto man. For I know not to give flattering
titles, and so doing my maker would soon take me away. Here's
what Elihu is saying. Listen, I'm gonna just tell the
truth, and I'm not gonna flatter anybody. And if you think I'm
gonna be influenced by your rank, or your age, or your wealth,
or your personal friendship, you're wrong. I'm going to state
the truth. No matter how it affects you,
no matter what you think, no matter what you feel, I'm going
to give the absolute truth out, and I'm not going to flatter
you. And the Word of God, Christ our Lord, He never flattered
anybody. You see, we come to the worship
services not to make us feel good about ourselves, but to
feel good about Christ Jesus and our position and our salvation
in Him. This is not about soothing your
flesh. It isn't about making us feel
better about ourselves. Well, you know, I'm a pretty
good person after all. No, you're not. No, you're not,
and neither am I. No man seeketh after God. There's
none that doeth good, no, not one. This is not about flattering
you. We're not going to flatter you.
We're gonna brag on God. That's who we're gonna brag on.
We're gonna brag on Christ Jesus, who is the Son of God. So Elihu,
in several ways, is a picture of Christ. Secondly, now, Elihu
is a preacher of our Lord Jesus, and he was a powerful preacher.
He certainly was not the oldest of Job's acquaintances. He was
the youngest, but he had wisdom. He had the right message. He
knew God. It doesn't matter what a man's
age is. It doesn't matter what a man's
education is. Man comes preaching, hears all
that matters. Does he have the message of God
and did God send him? It is said of John the Baptist,
there was a man sent from God whose name was John. That's the man you want to listen
to. Well, how do I know whether God has sent a man or not? He'll
come forth with God's message. He'll boast in the Lord. He'll
speak of the greatness of God. which is exactly what Elihu does. Look in chapter 33 in verse 12. Behold, he says this to Job and
Job had been fussing like we tend to do in times of trouble. Job said in verse 10, chapter
33, verse 10, behold, he findeth occasions against me. He counteth
me for his enemy. That's a low thing to say, isn't
it? It's a terrible thing to say when God chastens you and
you come to the conclusion, He's not my friend, He's my enemy.
He's not your enemy. He's not your enemy, He's your
friend. Job, He's your friend. These things that are happening
to you are for your good. The Lord is guiding Job through
his life, bringing him to the end of himself to see the glory
of God in Christ Jesus. He's bringing him to worship
more fully and to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ. But Job says, he put my feet
in stocks. He marketh my paths. And Elihu
says, behold, in this thou art not just. I will answer thee. And here's what I'm gonna tell
you. God is greater than man. God is greater than man. He speaks
of the greatness of God. Well, how great is God? Well,
he's great in creation because he made all things by the word
of his power. He's great in providence because
He guides all things along according to His will. And He's great in
salvation because salvation is of the Lord. It's of the Lord
in its purpose. Salvation is of the Lord in its
purchase. Salvation is of the Lord in its
power. Salvation is of the Lord in its
preservation. And salvation is of the Lord
in its perfection. Behold, God is great. God is
great. You know, when we were little
in our house, and we had some little prayers that we memorized,
but one of them was, and you probably heard, God is good,
God is great, and then we'd say, let us thank him for our food,
something like that. But we said, God is great. Never
really understanding the significance of that statement. He is great,
but he's much greater than any of us can ever comprehend. Great in wisdom, great in holiness,
great in power, great in might, great in wrath, great in salvation. In fact, we read in Hebrews 2,
how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? And it's God's salvation. And
so the first thing that Elihu says in preaching the Lord, he
said he's great. And then he tells us secondly
of the sovereignty of God and his right to deal with men according
to his will. Look at chapter 33 and verse
13. Why dost thou strive against
God? Why do you contend with God? Why do you argue with God? For He giveth not account of
any of His matters. He doesn't account to anybody
for any of His business, any of His acts. Now you're accountable
to God and so am I, but God's not accountable to anybody at
all. He doesn't have to answer anybody.
He doesn't have to give a reason why He does thus and so. That's
hidden in His own secret counsel and purpose. God is right in whatever He does
because He's God. Romans chapter 9. The Lord said,
I'll be merciful to whom I'll be merciful and whom I will I'll
harden. Is he right in doing that? Absolutely. He's right. Why would a creature
strive against the Creator? Why would an immoral man strive
against a holy God? Why would the clay strive against
the potter? Why would the thing formed say
to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? Who are we
to question God's dealings at all? Oh, how arrogant of man
who is but a a maggot on this earth. Oh, how arrogant it is
to dare and question what God Almighty is pleased to do. It's utter foolishness. And those
who argue against the absolute sovereignty of God just show
their ignorance of who God is. And they dare to speak in the
face of him who has the power to cast them into everlasting
hell. God does what he wants to. He
says, I'll be merciful to whom I'll be merciful, whom I will,
I'll harden. He showed mercy to the Israelites. And they were
a wretched people, a rebellious people, a murmuring people, an
unbelieving people. but showed him mercy and brought
him out of Egypt. They didn't deserve that. On
the other hand, he hardened Pharaoh, and God had the right to do that.
He could have softened Pharaoh's heart if it had been his purpose,
because he can soften the heart of anybody. He could have softened
his heart, but he didn't soften his heart. The Bible says God
hardened his heart. Doesn't God have the right to
do that? He can show mercy to whom he will and he can harden
whoever he wants to. It's the Lord. It's like when
the Lord said to Samuel, I'm gonna bring Eli's family to an
end. And God told him, he said, when
I start the thing, I'm gonna finish it. And of course, these
words were spoken to Samuel while Eli went back to sleep. And the
next morning, Eli said, well, what was it that the Lord said
to you? And Samuel said, I'd rather not say. They're hard
words. And Eli said, well, the Lord
did you and more, if you don't tell me what God told you last
night. And Samuel said, God said, he's gonna kill your boys. Do you think Samuel's so foolish
he's gonna argue with God? He said, it is the Lord. Let
him do what seemeth him good in his sight. I tell you, when
God acts, no matter what he does, who are you to reply against
God? And the best thing you can do is keep quiet. Keep quiet. We're so prone to murmur. we're so prone to complain, to
raise opposition against what God does. It's the Lord. It's
the Lord. And then he goes on and he tells
us, Elihu tells us of the need of the effectual grace of God
before a sinner can really hear the call of grace. Chapter 3
and verse 14, he says, for God speaketh once, yea, twice, yea,
man perceiveth it not. I take this to be like the general
call of the gospel. God speaks. He speaks to his
servants. He speaks through creation. He
speaks through providence. He speaks through the proclamation
of the word of God, yet man doesn't perceive it. In other words,
if that's the only call you hear, if it's the only voice you ever
hear is the voice of a preacher or the voice of creation or the
voice of providence, you will not be any better off spiritually. And back then he spoke in different
ways. Verse 15, and a dream and a vision of the night when deep
sleep falleth upon men and slumberings upon the bed. But there's got
to be another kind of call. There's got to be an effectual
call. And this is what the Lord does. He opens the heart. He
gives understanding. I've already read verse 16. Then He opened at the ears of
men, sealeth their instruction. He seals it to the heart. And
watch this, that He may withdraw man from his purpose. He's going
to turn you around. And that's what we've got to
have. He's got to turn us around. We're going the wrong way. We've
got a wrong will. Our will is altogether wrong.
Our purpose is wrong. There's got to be the will of
God that changes our will. Thank God it says in Psalm 110,
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. He withdraws
man from his purpose because man will perish if left to himself. And the Lord, He turns us. And
watch it, He hides pride from man. He breaks our pride. Here
we are in our arrogance and we're standing up and we think we're
somebody and God just cuts us down to size. And He shows us
we're nothing. And He's everything. And here's what He does. He keeps,
verse 18, he keepeth back his soul from the pit and his life
from perishing by the sword. He saves you in such a way that
he satisfies his own sword of justice because the Lord Jesus
took that sword of justice on the behalf of his people. God
drew forth the sword and thrust it into the heart of his only
begotten Son. And therefore he keeps us from
perishing by the sword. And then Job, the inspired writer,
tells us that Elihu is like a gracious messenger from God. Christ Jesus is the gracious
messenger, and this is who Elihu's preaching. Chapter 33 and verse
23. If there be a messenger with
him, this is the angel of the Lord. This is the angel of the
covenant. This is the one who was our representative
in the covenant of grace. We talk a lot about the covenant
of grace, and rightfully so. David said in 2 Samuel 23, this
is all my desire, this is all my salvation. In that covenant
of grace, listen, we had somebody represent us. We had somebody
standing for us. In fact, we were there in him,
that one who is our head and we're his body. Our Lord Jesus,
and he is himself the messenger. He's called the messenger of
the covenant. The representative, we had a
representative there. He's the angel of the Lord. Furthermore, Elihu says of him,
he's an interpreter. And oh, what a glorious interpreter
he is. And actually, in that word, interpreter
is the idea of an orator, one who speaks very powerfully. I'll
tell you how powerfully he speaks. He raises the dead. That's how
powerfully he speaks. He is the interpreter. He speaks
very powerfully and He makes known the saving will of God
to us. He interprets the things of God. He makes known the things of
God to us. You wouldn't know anything about
grace, about the gospel, about salvation, about sovereignty,
substitution, all of these glorious doctrines, justification and
so forth, unless there was an interpreter. unless there is
somebody who makes known to you the mind and will of God. And Elihu in preaching Christ
Jesus says, he's one among a thousand. One among a thousand. There are
999 liars out there, but there's one who is truth. There are 999 men whose word
can't be trusted, but you can trust Him because He's the everlasting
God. He's one among a thousand. The
prophet to teach and make us wise unto salvation, the priest
to pay the ransom price we owe to divine justice, the priest
to intercede to God for us, The king to rule and govern. He's
one among a thousand. None can compare to him. He's
the chiefest of 10,000 to my soul. That's what Solomon has
the church saying. He's altogether lovely. No matter
how you look at him, he's one among a thousand. In other words,
he's unique. There's not another one like
him. It is said, and I suppose this is true, that when it snows,
that no two snowflakes are alike. Maybe so. Well, I'll tell you
this. There's no one like Christ Jesus.
He stands alone. None like the master. None like
the savior. And Elihu tells us, and he tells
Job, through the work of Christ Jesus, God is gracious to us.
God says, look in verse 24, then he is gracious unto him, and
God says, deliver him, deliver the guilty. Deliver him from
going down to the pit. This isn't a question. This isn't
a request. This is a command. This is the
effectual word of God. Deliver him. It isn't, do you
want to be delivered? No, but here's the command of
God. Deliver him, it's the word to
the Savior. Deliver him from going down to
the pit. It's the word to divine justice.
Deliver him from going down to the pit. And here's the reason.
God says, I found the ransom. Where did he find the ransom?
In his own son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Deliver. Deliver. Deliver from what? Going down
to the pit. Did you notice the word pit is
used in verse 18, verse 24, verse 28, and verse 30. It's deliverance
from going down to the pit. There's the pit of hell where
millions and millions of people have gone and many others are
going. But I'll tell you what, there's
not one of the chosen ones there. There's not one of the redeemed
ones there. They can't go. Deliver them from
going down. What's the reason? God found
a ransom. Somebody paid their debt. Somebody
answered every demand of justice against them. God says, I found the ransom.
You couldn't find it, and I couldn't find it. Nobody's wise enough
to come up with a way how God can be just and justify the ungodly. But God did. God did. And Elihu, and I'll give you
this and quit, Elihu tells us in Job the results of the work
of Christ Jesus. Here's what happens to the sinner,
verse 25. His flesh shall be fresher than
a child's, He shall return to the days of
His youth. He shall pray unto God and He'll
be favorable to Him. You know what was said of Saul
of Tarsus? After the Lord dealt with him
and the Lord said something to Ananias about him? Here's what
He told Ananias. Behold, he prayeth. This is a
different guy, that's what he said. This is not the same old
Saul of Tarsus. No, behold, he prayeth. He'll
pray unto the Lord, and the Lord will be favorable to him. And
he'll see his face with joy. For he will render unto man his
righteousness. He makes you righteous in Christ
Jesus. And of course he convicts us,
verse 27, he looketh upon men and if any says I've sinned,
I perverted that which was right, it profited me not, he'll deliver
his soul from going down into the pit and his life shall see
light. Lo, all of these things, verse
29, worketh God, worketh God, oft times with man to bring his
soul back from the pit. to be enlightened with the light
of the living. Yes, sir, Eli, he's a picture
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and he's a preacher of our Lord Jesus
Christ as well. Well, I hope God will use these
messages today to, first of all, honor himself and then help us
poor sinners. Let's sing