Now, turn with me in your Bibles
to the book of Job chapter 42, the last chapter of the book
of Job. And as I mentioned Wednesday
night, this conclusion of our study of the book of Job in this
last chapter, I'm dividing it up into three messages because
there are three things that are set forth here. in this last
chapter. The first six verses, that's
what I dealt with Wednesday. And that had to do with Job being
brought to repentance. Let's read those verses. Then
Job answered, verse 1, the Lord and said, I know that thou canst
do everything and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Job recognizing the sovereignty and the majesty of God. Who is
he that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered
that I understood not. You know, that's talking about
Job's assessment of providence. Things going on in this world.
Man trying to figure it out on his own. As one old writer said,
reasoning from the ground up. And he says, I talked about things
that I didn't understand. Things too wonderful for me,
he says in verse 3, which I knew not. Job had done that and he
admits it. We know a lot of things by God's
revelation. by the Spirit of God teaching
us, but there are a lot of things we don't know. And we do see,
but we see through a glass darkly. And then verse four, here I beseech
thee and I will speak, I will demand of thee and declare thou
unto me. And then these two verses here
are so precious because it expresses the humility of grace, the repentance
of a sinner saved by grace, He said, I've heard of thee by the
hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee. Job had experienced
some things he had never experienced before. And he saw them more
clearly. He says, and wherefore, or for
this reason, I abhor, I despise myself and repent in dust and
ashes. And that is pretty much, I believe
a great description of the whole life of a believer. looking to
Christ, resting in Him, depending upon God, worshiping God, serving
God, and repenting every day, being brought to repentance.
So that's the first section. Now tonight, from verses 7 to
verse 10, I want to deal with this subject. Here's the second
thing we see, and that's Job as a type of Christ. Job as a type Christ and of course
this expresses one of the major themes of the book of Job and
that is this that there is absolutely no hope for any of us no hope
of salvation no hope of being preserved but by the sovereign
mercy and grace of God that resides in the person and finished work
of the Lord Jesus Christ and And that's what this is about.
So let's let's begin looking and let me say this. Let me just
say a word about this. Now most of you all I know all
of you who have been under brother may hands ministry for years,
you know about these things about types pictures. in the Old Testament. You know,
the Old Testament is a book of Christ just as much as the New
Testament. Christ said that himself in John
5 and verse 39. He told the Pharisees, you remember,
you do search the scriptures for in them you think you have
eternal life. They are they which testify of
me. Before He ascended unto the Father after His resurrection,
He sat the disciples down and He taught them out of the books
of the law, the books of Moses, out of the Psalms, which refers
also to Proverbs and the Song of Solomon, the poetic books,
or Ecclesiastes, the books of wisdom, and the prophets, the
things concerning Himself. If you don't see Christ in the
Old Testament, If you don't see him in the Old Testament, you
don't understand the Old Testament. You don't see it. Well, how is
he in the Old Testament? Well, there are times in which
he appeared to his people in the Old Testament, what they
call a pre-incarnate vision of Christ. Some say that's what
Job had here when he says, but now mine eyes see of thee. That
could be so. I'm not going to, I wouldn't
part company over that. I believe the mainstay of what
Job is saying is there is I see God more clearly now than I ever
had before through these experiences. I saw, I've seen his glory and
continue to see his glory in the face of Jesus Christ. We
see him whom to know is life eternal. But as we grow in grace
and knowledge and we go through trials and the tribulations of
this life and we run to him and run to his word, we see him more
clearly, don't we? Growing. But Christ did appear. He appeared to Moses in the burning
bush. He appeared other places. He
appeared to Jacob. And we could go on. So he was
in the Old Testament that way. Certainly he is the author and
finisher of the faith of those in the Old Testament, just like
in the New Testament. They looked forward to Christ
who was to come. He was in the Old Testament by
prophecy. He was prophesied. The first
prophecy of Christ in Genesis 3.15 is the seed of woman who
would crush the head of the serpent. He's there by promise. The whole Old Testament is a
promise of one to come. The gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ, salvation to come. Abraham believed that promise.
Paul elaborated on that in Romans chapter 4. Talking about how
Abraham believed God and what God had promised, God was able
to perform. The mainstay of what Paul's talking
about there is the promise of the coming of Abraham's Savior. Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ
and Christ echoed that in John chapter 8 even before Paul wrote
it when he said Abraham rejoiced to see my day But he was there
in type now. What is that? That's the types
of the Bible the pictures the representations And we can talk
a lot about the different types. We can talk about Adam even was
a type of Christ. We can talk about Abel's lamb. All those lambs, the animals
that were slain under the Old Covenant and the Old Testament
were types of Christ. John the Baptist said, behold,
the lamb of God, the Passover lamb. The Passover lamb was a
type of Christ. We could talk about the tabernacle.
being a type of Christ in many ways. We can talk about that
priesthood, the altar, the Sabbath day was a type of Christ. Hebrews
chapter 4 teaches on that. We could go back through that.
We can talk about the cities of refuge, the scapegoat. We
can go so many. But now, here we're going to
talk about Job as a type of Christ. Job, old Job. Sinful Job, a sinner
saved by grace. And one thing when you do study
the types that it's important to remember is that no type,
now listen to me, no type is perfect in itself. You can't
make, Henry used to say it this way, he used to say you can't
make a type stand on all fours. And that's right. Don't take
these types too far. Just let it lay in the scripture
the way it is, you know. And so we're going to look at
Job that way. Well, listen to what he says
here. Here's the first thing that's brought out here. Look
at verse 7. He says, And it was so... Now,
Job had been brought to repentance. His three friends had already
said their peace. And it said, And it was so that
after the Lord... Now, the word Lord there is Jehovah. the God of grace, the God of
salvation, so that's who we're dealing with now. Remember I
told you up through a certain part of the book of Job here,
God was referred to only in his creatorship, like Adonai is what
it is, or Elohim is what it was, the powerful God. But here is
Jehovah. Now Jehovah has stepped in. This
is God in his redemptive glory. And we see it says, the Lord
had spoken these words unto Job. And the Lord said, now listen
to who he's talking to here in verse seven. He says, he said
to Eliphaz the Temanite. And he says, my wrath, that's
his anger is kindled against thee and against thy two friends. That's Bildad the Shuhad and
Zophar the Neamathite, Job's three friends, his three miserable
comforters. Remember. Listen, he says for
you have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant
Job hath. So that's the first thing you
see Job's friends had to be brought to repentance of idolatry and
dead works. You know we talked about that
last time. When God brings His people to repentance, He first
brings them to repentance of idolatry and dead works. Read
about that in Hebrews chapter 9. How much more shall the blood
of Christ purge your conscience from death, who through the eternal
spirit, purge your conscience from dead works? What are dead
works? That's works aimed at saving
you or saving me. Here's a sinner coming to God,
seeking salvation based on his works. All right? You know what
kind of works those are? Dead works. They may appear religious. They may be sincere. They may appear moral unto men. But unto God, they're an abomination. Why? Because they deny His glory. You see, God is glorified in
the salvation of sinners by grace through Christ. God sent His
Son to do for His people what we cannot do for ourselves, and
that is produce righteousness. If you come to God with your
own righteousness by your works, you're denying His glory. You're
also denying Christ. You're in essence saying by that
act that you don't need Christ, that what Christ did is useless
for you and worthless to you. You see, that's what Cain was
doing when he brought the works of his hands. That's why he was
not accepted, you see. Man is in need of a righteousness
he cannot produce. And this is the kind of religious
answers that these three miserable, comforting friends came up with
for Job. Why are you suffering? Well,
you haven't done enough. You're not doing your part. There's
some great sin in your life that you've got to fix up and repent
of before God can return blessings to you. That's salvation by works,
you see. you're not saved by works you're
saved by grace for by grace are you saved through faith that
not of yourselves is the gift of God not of works lest any
man should boast and that's the third reason why they're an abomination
to God they exalt the sinner they don't exalt Christ the Savior
they exalt the sinner and so this is the issue they had to
be brought to repentance of these dead works now why you say idolatry
well let me tell you something if you come to God seeking salvation
and blessings and glory based on your works, if you imagine
that you're getting what you're after there, you're not coming
to the God of the Bible. He will not save you. He will
not bless you. He will not glorify you based
on your worth. His salvation, His blessings,
the glory that He gives is all in Christ and Him alone. and based on his blood and his
righteousness alone. And that's what he's talking
about here. He tells Eliphaz and in essence his two friends,
he says, you've not spoken the thing that is right. You've misrepresented
God. That's idolatry. Any preacher
that tells any sinner that God will accept, save, or receive
them based on their works is preaching an idol, not the God
of this book. Now that may sound hard to people,
but it's so now. Ask Cain about it. That may make
you angry. Well, it made Cain angry too,
didn't it? Even to the point that he murdered his brother. His brother was accepted. Based
on what? Not his works. The blood of the
Lamb. That's a type of Christ. You see? That's what Abel was
testifying of. The New Testament tells us about
Abel in Hebrews 11. In 1 John chapter 3, what he
was doing there. And their doctrine. The doctrine
of Job's three friends, it was self-righteousness. It was legalism.
That's what it was. It was false religion. And their
idolatry was evidence in that they misrepresented God as one
who would save and accept and bless men based on their work.
That's not the God of the Bible. The God who reveals himself as
the God who saves by grace in and through the blood and righteousness
of Christ. That's the God of this book. That's the Lord here.
That's Jehovah. And notice here he says, you
haven't spoken the thing that is right as my servant Job hath. Now Job was not an idolater.
Back over in chapter 1 and verse 1, God testifies of Job. Remember,
he says there was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job.
And that man was perfect and upright. What does that mean?
That means he was justified before God. He was complete before God. Now how can that be said of any
man, especially sinful man? How could it be said that any
sinful man or woman is perfect, meaning complete? Job was not
a sinlessly perfect man in himself. But he was sinlessly perfect
in one way, by the grace of God in Christ. His sins were washed
away by the blood of Christ. And that was given to Job even
before Christ came and died on that cross. That's the promise
and purpose and power of God. To save even Job, the Old Testament
saint, in light of one who was to come. That's how Abraham was
justified before God. What is it to be justified? It's
to be not guilty. It's to be righteous in God's
sight. How could that be said of Job or any sinful man? Only
in Christ. You see, that's why we must have
Christ. Without Christ, we're guilty, defiled, under the wrath
of God. So Job was perfect and upright. He was justified. He was complete
in the sight of God in Christ. And he's one that feared God,
it says here. Now, the only way you can fear
God aright is as we latch on to and lay hold of Christ, because
that's the fear of faith. That's respect and honor. That's
not a legal fear of punishment. The opposite being a mercenary
promise of earned reward. That's the fear of faith. Believing
and trusting God, our Heavenly Father. Paul described it in
Romans 8 when he talked about how we cry, Abba, Father, Papa,
Papa. And that's not a derogatory remark.
And Job eschewed evil. He avoided evil. That is, anything
that would dishonor God. So Job was not an idolater. And
the scripture tells us that Job was pleased with God. Remember
he said that, have you considered my servant Job? He said there's
none like him in the earth. Well the scripture tells us in
Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 6, without faith it's impossible
to please God. So we know Job was a man of faith.
Job and his three friends, they all believed that God rewards
all who diligently seek Him. Scripture says that. But Job's
three friends missed two vital things. Number one, that among
men, Based on our best efforts to please God, there's none righteous,
no, not one. Romans 3 and verse 10. There's
none that doeth good, no, not one. None that seeketh after
him. And they'd miss this. They'd miss that all that God
gives in salvation is not of debt, but of grace. God doesn't bless us based on
debt. He never comes into a position
or never puts himself into a position where he owes us anything. Everything
we have from God, and y'all have heard me say this a lot, and
I believe it. By the grace of God, I believe
it. Everything we have, even the next breath we take is a
gift of God's grace. We didn't earn it and we don't
deserve it. Now think about that. So now
Job, he said over here that Job had spoken the thing that was
right in the sight of God. Job was mistaken in many things,
we know that, we studied the whole book. We went through,
we saw where Job made some statements that were wrong, that were even
sinful, proud. And he had to be brought to repentance,
that's what these first six verses said. That's an everyday thing
for a believer, humbled every day. But Job's doctrine was pure
gospel doctrine. His gospel was the gospel of
God's free and sovereign grace in Christ that showed forth his
need of a mediator. You remember back in Job 19,
I know my redeemer liveth, his kinsman redeemer. That kinsman
redeemer in the book of Ruth, that's a type of Christ. He's
our kinsman redeemer. That's why he was born. That's
why the child was born, because he took upon him the likeness
of sinful flesh, yet without sin. And he identified with his
people in our name and in our nature, yet he without sin. And
he's our kinsman redeemer. Well, look at verse 8. Now, here's
the second thing you see here in this section. He says, verse
8, therefore, now listen to what he's saying, therefore take unto
you now seven bullocks and seven rams, male sheep, and go to my
servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering.
Now, who's he talking to? He's talking to Eliphaz here and Bildad and
Zophar, these self-righteous legalists, these unbelievers,
these idolaters. And he says, you have not spoken
that which is right. Now here's what you do. Take
seven bullocks and seven rams and go to my servant Job. Go
to Job. And offer up for yourselves a
burnt offering. And my servant Job shall pray
for you. For him will I accept. I'll accept Job. Lest I deal
with you after your folly. Now what is that father? Salvation
by works. I don't want God to deal with
me based on my works. If he does, what's going to happen?
He says, he says, you'll be under the wrath of God. I want to be
what Paul saying Philippians three. He said, all that I may
know him and be found in him in Christ, not having mine own
righteousness, which is of the law that is by my works, but
that which is through the faith of Christ, the faith of God through
Christ. He says, you take these seven
bullocks and these seven rams and you bring them and make them
an offering, yourselves a burnt offering. Now you know what that
means, that the blood has to be shed. That's what a burnt
offering is all about. You know how they did it. Now
this is before the old covenant. This is before the law of Moses
now. You see, this sacrifice didn't start with Moses. It started
back in Genesis 3. We read about it this morning,
remember? How God shed, how he slew animals and he made coats
of skin. He told Adam before the fall,
he said, in the day that you eat thereof, thou shalt what?
Surely die. What was he saying to Adam? He's
saying, Adam, the penalty of sin and disobedience is death.
That's what he meant. And the only way that sin can
be paid for is death. Without the shedding of blood,
no forgiveness of sins. So he tells Eliphaz, he says,
you take seven bullets, seven rams, offer up for yourselves
a burnt offering, a sacrifice. That's the prescribed way of
worship in the Old Testament. That was a type of a sinner,
that was a picture of a sinner coming to God for forgiveness,
for justification, for righteousness, for eternal life and blessedness
through the promised Messiah to come, Christ, a type of Christ. Now, he says, and my servant
Job shall pray for you. Now, before the Old Covenant
was instituted in the Old Testament on Mount Sinai, and that covenant
went from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary. That's the time span
of the Old Covenant. It's about 1,500 years all total. Before that time, you had what
you call the time of the patriarchs. Now, you know who the patriarchs
are. We mentioned Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were patriarchs.
Job was a patriarch. And what that was is that the
male head of the family, whoever that, the family gathered together,
the oldest living male of the family was the priest of the
family. See, during the Old Covenant,
the priesthood was given to Aaron and the tribe of Levi. But before
that, in the time of the patriarchs, every male was the priest of
the family. You see, God had made it clear,
you cannot come to me and be accepted without a mediator,
without a high priest who has a burnt offering, blood must
be shed, and offered upon the altar. And so the oldest male
was the high priest of the family. And that high priest of the family,
that male, that patriarch, he was to lead that family in the
ways of God. in the ways of grace, in the
ways of the gospel. He was to be the leader, the
spiritual head of the family. And you notice when Esau sold
his birthright, that's what he sold. It wasn't money and goods
and material things. That's what he didn't think anything
of. See, that's what Esau rejected, his position as the patriarch. and the male head of that family,
the spiritual head, he didn't care about the spiritual things.
He didn't care about salvation. He didn't care about the glory
of God and worship. That's what he sold when he sold
his birthright. He didn't care about Christ.
But that patriarch was to be the head of the family. He was
the priest. Now, Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar, in their families,
there was no priest. There was no high priest to offer
sacrifices for them. They were idolaters. So what
did God tell them to do? Go to Job. He's the patriarch. He's the high priest. Job, as
the high priest, was a type of Christ, our great eternal high
priest. See, we don't have any high priest
today. That's why we don't come through men and wear funny collars.
We come through Christ. He's our high priest. We don't come down here to an
altar. Somebody asked me one time, said, why don't you have
an altar down here? I told them, I just tell them, our altar's
Christ. He's what sets the sacrifice apart and gives its value and
uniqueness. We don't shed the blood of animals
today. Why? Because Christ has come.
and done his great work. We don't need the picture now
in our daily lives. We study them as they were revealed,
and we glean from them, and we learn from them, but we don't
use them today because Christ has come. That's why we're a
New Testament church. You see, we don't have an earthly
tabernacle, you see. Christ and his church is the
tabernacle, the dwelling place of God. And that's the type,
you see. Well, Job here is a type of Christ. These seven bullocks, you see
Christ is our high priest, Christ is our burnt offering, our lamb,
our bullock, the bullocks, seven represents the perfection of
the work that was about to be done. That's why they had to
bring seven bullocks. This is a perfect work. This
is a finished work. What did Christ say when he hanged
on that cross in John 19 and verse 30? When he was about to
give up the ghost, you remember? He said, it is finished. Completed work. He didn't leave
it for me to finish up. He didn't leave it for you to
finish up. If he had, it'd been an abject failure, wouldn't it?
He said, it's finished. It's a done deal. That word finish
is an interesting word. Paul used it in Romans 10.4. Romans chapter 10 and verse 4,
for Christ is the end, same word, finishing, completion, perfection
of the law for righteousness to everyone that what? Believeth.
Rest in him. I rest in him for righteousness.
You see, he's the finished word. He did the finished word. Another
time our Lord used it in John chapter 13, or John said of our
Lord in John chapter 13 verse 1, he loved his own unto the
end. That is to the finishing of the
work. Seven bullocks and seven rams represent the number seven
is the completion of a work. They rested on the seventh day.
That's the Sabbath. We rest in Christ who is our
Sabbath who sat down at the right hand of the Father in heaven
ever living to make intercession for us based on what? His finished
work. He put away our sins completely
on the cross. He established all... Here's
what I'm saying. Let me put it to you this way.
Every condition for my salvation was laid upon Christ and he fulfilled
every condition. All that God requires of me to
be saved, to be preserved, and to be glorified is found completed
and perfected in Christ. That's the finished work. Now,
seven bullocks and seven rams. You know what? The bullocks represent
power. The bull. And that's what seven bullocks,
Christ is powerful enough to get this job done. He's able
to save to the what? To the uttermost, them that come
unto the Father. He didn't save anybody part way.
Now I hear preachers say, well, he's done his part, now the rest
is up to you. I hope not. Because if that's
the case, we're goners, as the old fella said. He's done it
all. What part do we have? We're the
fruit. We're the product, you see. We're the recipients of His grace.
You see, it's not that he did even 99% of it. He did it all,
100%. And so this finished work, you
see, is done. Everything that God requires
of me, I find completed in Christ. And he's able to do it. Seven
bolecs. Paul said, I know whom I have
believed and I'm persuaded that he is able to what? To keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. And then the seven rams, that's
a male sheep, the lamb. And that speaks of his willingness,
his love, his submission. And that's what Christ was. He's
our lamb. He's our sacrificial bullock.
He's our sacrificial ram. And Job here stands as the high
priest, offering up for these three men that which God would
accept, not their works, but that work which was typified
by these animals, the blood of Christ. And he said, you do this,
he said, for Job will I accept. In other words, they could only
be accepted based on the blood of the sacrifice through the
high priest. Well, my friend, that's the only
way you and I can be accepted. Here's Job offering up these
sacrifices as a high priest for these three men. And the only
way they could be accepted is on the basis and ground of that
bloodshed, righteousness established, God enabled to be justifier of
the ungodly, their sins laid upon that sacrifice, that's imputation,
and the righteousness of that substitute charged to them, that's
imputation. He was made sin, Christ who knew
no sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. There it is. There's the complete what the
Bible calls propitiation, right there. The high priest, the altar,
and the sacrifice. And he says, him will I accept.
That's a type of Christ. How are we accepted before God? Ephesians 1, verse 6, we're accepted
in the beloved. Job's a type of Christ here.
And he said, now without him, Verse 8, without Christ, without
Job, he is saying, and Job is a type of Christ. Without Job
and without these offerings, I will deal with you after your
falling. The most foolish thing a sinner can do is come before
God without Christ, without a sacrifice, without the blood of the Lamb.
Come like Cain. That is foolish. That is death. He says in that you have not
spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Well, look at it. Job is here offering that sacrifice
as a mediator. There's one mediator between
God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. But here he is. Him will I accept. Oh, I tell
you. We offer up sacrifices unto God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. And that's how we're accepted
in the beloved. Look at verse 9. Here's the third
thing that's brought out in these verses. Look at this. Now it
says, So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar
the Neamathite went and did according as the Lord commanded them. The
Lord also accepted Job. Now, people have asked, you know,
well, did Job's three friends ever, were they ever converted?
Well, this verse here seems to indicate that they were. It says
this much about them. It says they did according as
the Lord commanded them. Doesn't say any more than that.
Doesn't give us a lot of information. But we do see here their submission
to the ways of God's grace. Did they understand exactly what
was going on here? I don't know. Seems to indicate
they did. It says they went and did how? How did they do it? According
as the Lord commanded them. Now I know this about other places
in the Old Testament. For example, you can go to Isaiah
chapter one. There's an example where men
and women were sacrificing according to the commandment, but they
didn't do it according as the Lord had commanded, and he calls
it an abomination. He doesn't call that here. It
says, in fact, the Lord also, you see that also? He also accepted
Job. So it indicates that God did
accept his three friends, so it seems to me that they were
brought to repentance here of dead works and idolatry. This
submission to God's way of grace, when it says they did according
as the Lord commanded, that's the same as submission to Christ
and His righteousness as the only ground and way of salvation.
Well, he says in verse 10, and the Lord turned the captivity
of Job when he prayed for his friends, also the Lord gave Job
twice as much as he had before. Now we're going to pick up there
next time on that because that's talking about how Job was prospered.
But you know, think about it. Here, Job, you know, he was called
a righteous man. The only way that could be said
of Job personally is in Christ. But he was a type of Christ too.
Jesus Christ, the righteous, perfect in himself. Job feared
God and eschewed evil. And the way any sinner can do
that is by the grace of God, isn't that right? But Christ,
he honored his father in every way, perfectly. He hated evil
with a perfect hatred, a righteous indignation. Job 1 and verse
3, he was called the greatest of all the men of the east. That
word men there could be translated sons. Job was so because of God's
grace and God's blessings and prosperity on him. Christ is
in himself, not as a mere man, but as God-man, the greatest
of all the sons of the East. He's the son of God incarnate.
No one like him. None like him in the earth. It's
what God said of Job. Well, the only way that can be
said of Job or anybody is by the grace of God. But in Christ,
that's what he is by nature. God-man. None like him in the
earth. Job was a servant of God. You notice how many times here
God says my servant Job, my servant Job. You know he said that over
in chapter 1 too. Have you considered my servant
Job, my servant Job? Chapter 2 he said that, my servant
Job. We read there in Isaiah 42 how
Christ is the perfect servant of Jehovah. In the book of Mark
chapter 10 and verse 45, Christ said, for even the son of man
came not to be ministered unto, meaning to serve, but to serve
and to give his life a ransom for many. Bill read it in Philippians
chapter 2, how he emptied himself and took upon himself the form
of a servant and became obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross. Job suffered greatly for the glory of God. You know,
Job didn't suffer for any specific sin. That's what the Scripture
tells us. Well, Christ suffered not for any sin of His own, but
for the sins of His people imputed, charged to Him, so that God could
justify us based on His righteousness imputed to us. And then Job,
by the grace and power of God, defeated Satan. You know, it
was Satan who was doing all this. God allowed him to do it. Job
came through, how? By the grace of God. Christ defeated
Satan by his own power, the God-man, when he died on that cross. And
here Job interceded for his friends. Now next week I'll talk to you
more about this. Job received much more than he
had at the beginning. And in that he's a type of Christ,
but we're going to talk about that more. Christ received much
more as God-man. than he had at the beginning
in the sense of the salvation of his people and the blessings
of grace. We'll talk more about that next time.