Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer. Sing o'er this wonderful love
proclaimed. Hail Him, hail Him, highest archangels
in glory, strength and honor give to His holy name. Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard
His children, In His arms He carries them all day long. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer, for our sins He's served and won. We are all help, hope of eternal
salvation. Hail Him, hail Him, Jesus the
crucified. Sound His praises, Jesus who
bore our sorrows. Love unbounded, ? Wonderful,
deep, and strong ? Praise Him, praise Him ? God of His excellent
greatness ? Praise Him, praise Him ? Ever in joyful song ? Praise
Him, praise Him ? Jesus, our blessed Redeemer ? Heavenly portals
loud with hosannas ring ? Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever and
ever ? Crown him, crown him, prophet and priest and king ?
Christ is coming over the world victorious Be seated, we'll sing
hymn number 266. 266. Fade, fade, each earthly joy,
Jesus is mine. Break every Jesus is mine. Dark is the wilderness. Earth has no resting place. Jesus alone can bless. Jesus is mine. Tim thought my soul away, Jesus
is mine. Here would I ever stay, Jesus
is mine. Perishing things of clay, ? Born
but for one brief day ? Passed from my heart away ? Jesus is
mine ? Farewell ye dreams of night ? Jesus is mine Lost in
this dawning bright, Jesus is mine. All that my soul has tried,
Left but a dismal void, Jesus has satisfied, Jesus is mine. Farewell mortality, Jesus is
mine. Welcome eternity, Jesus is mine. If you have your Bibles with
you this evening, I'd like to read from the book of Isaiah
again. I'd like to read Isaiah chapter
41. I was reading through part of
Psalm 119 earlier, and there was a few verses in there that
blessed my heart, and I was reading on my, the app on my phone, and
you click on it and click references, and it shows you a list of verses
of scripture that it referenced, and it was, I believe it was
verse 116, and it referenced to Isaiah 41, I can't remember now, verse 10.
Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I
am thy God. I will strengthen thee, yea,
I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand
of my righteousness. And Isaiah 42, verse 1, behold
my servant whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. I have put my spirit upon him,
he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. I could stop
there, but let's read all of chapter 41. Keep silence before me, O islands,
and let the people renew their strength. Let them come near,
then let them speak. Let us come near together to
judgment. who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him
to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule
over kings. He gave them as the dust to his sword and as driven
to stubble to his bow. He pursued them and passed safely,
even by the way that he had not gone with his feet, who hath
wrought and done, calling the generations from the beginning,
I, the Lord, The first and with the last, I am he. The isles saw it and feared. The ends of the earth were afraid,
drew near and came. They helped everyone his neighbor,
and everyone said to his brother, be of good courage. So the carpenter
encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer,
him that smote the anvil, saying, it is ready for the soldering.
and he fastened it with nails that it should not be moved.
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the
seed of Abraham, my friend, thou whom I have taken from the ends
of the earth and called thee from the chief men thereof, and
said unto thee, thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and not cast
thee away. Fear thou not, for I am with
thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I
will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold,
all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded.
They shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall
perish. Thou shalt seek them. and shalt not find them, even
them that contended with thee. They that war against thee shall
be as nothing, and as a thing of naught. For I, the Lord thy
God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, I
will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and
ye men of Israel. I will help thee, saith the Lord,
and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I will make
thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth. Thou shalt thresh
the mountains and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. Thou shalt fan them, and the
wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them.
And thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the
Holy One of Israel. When the poor and needy seek
water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst,
I, the Lord, will hear them. I, the God of Israel, will not
forsake them. I will open rivers in high places,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the
wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shitta tree, and
the myrtle, and the oil tree. I will set in the desert the
fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together, that they
may see, and know, and consider, and understand together that
the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel
hath created it. Produce your cause, saith the
Lord. Bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Let them bring forth and show us what shall happen. Let them
show the former things what they be, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them, or declare us things for to come. Show the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods, yea, do good or
do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. Behold,
ye are of nothing, and your work of naught, and abomination is
he that chooseth you. I have raised up one from the
north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun, shall
he call upon my name, and he shall come upon princes, as upon
mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. Who hath declared from
the beginning that we may know, and before time, that we may
say, He is righteous, yea, there is none that showeth, yea, there
is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your
words. The first shall say, To Zion, behold, behold them, and
I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. For
I beheld, and there was no man even among them, and there was
no counselor that when I asked of them could answer a word.
Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nothing, their
molten images are wind and confusion. Behold my servant whom I uphold,
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth, I have put my spirit upon him,
and he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Our most high and precious Lord
God Almighty, King of all, God of all, Almighty and all-powerful, we
come to you through your blessed son. Lord, we thank you for this
day. We thank you for thy word. We thank you for our pastor who
reads and studies and brings forth messages to us regularly. Lord, thank you for using your
word to keep us, to lift us up, to uphold us, to strengthen us,
to teach us, to guide us. Lord, we thank you for such a
blessed assurance that we find only in Christ. We see only through
thy word. Lord, this flesh is weak. The flesh is sinful and it so often looks away from thee
and to self. Lord, there's no comfort in self.
But when I read what we just read, that you will keep us and
you will provide for us. You know our every need. Lord, we ask Pray that you would
continue to keep us, that you would lead our paths, lead our footsteps. Let us be not dismayed, but let us stand strong in the
blessed word of God. Teach us thy way, O Lord. We
ask that you would meet with us here again tonight. Leave us not to ourselves for
vain show. Send your spirit to bless our hearts. Let us forget
the things of this world for a little while. Lord, we ask for mercy and grace
to be pitiful to the weak and the weary. And we ask that you
would show Mercy to our lost loved ones who know you not. We trust that thy will will be
done and that you will save your sheep wherever they may be. We
ask that you will be with your people wherever they be gathered
tonight. And for those who can't be here or can't gather with
their congregations, Lord, we ask that these things
be done for Christ's sake. Amen. Hymn number 75. Number 75. Abide with me. Fast falls the eventide. The darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and Help
of the helpless, O abide with me. Swift to its close, lips
have lied. life's little day. Earth's joys grow dim, its glories
pass away, change and decay. ? All around I see ? ? O Thou
who changest not ? ? Abide with me ? ? I need Thy presence ?
? Every passing hour ? What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's
power? Who like Thyself my guidance
day can be, Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me. Hold Thou Thy Word before Thy
closing eyes. Shine through the gloom and point
me to the skies. As morning breaks and earth's
vain shadows flee, In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me. Boy, that's a wonderful song,
ain't it? Abide with me. Change and decay all around I
see, but thou who changest not, abide with me. Job chapter 42. I'm gonna try to end this study this evening. And don't know where I'll go
next. Romans, John, I don't know. The Lord direct me. You remember when the Lord told
Job to gird up his loins like a man and he began to talk to
Job and Job said after the first time he talked to him, he said
behold I'm vile. I'm a vile man. Then God began to tell him all
the things that he did on this earth. The rain, the snow, the frost,
everything in the ocean that he made, everything on the earth
that he made, the foundation that he laid. He began to describe
himself and all that he had did in this world. And then when
he got through, Job answered him in verse 4, chapter 42, Then
answered Job the Lord, and said, I know you can do everything.
After all you've told me, you've done. After all the things that
you've done in this world, he said, when a deer was hungry,
you fed it. He said, when it was fixing to
have a calf out in the wilderness, you enabled it to do that. He
said, when I look at the frost, he said, you know, my breath
is the frost of the earth. So he talked about the whale
in the sea and the Leviathan and all those things. And that's
why Job said, Lord, I understand you can do everything. Everything
that's done, you can do it. And thought can't be withholding
from you. And then he said, oh Lord, he
said, I've heard of thee by verse five, of the hearing of the ear,
but now mine eye sees you. And only God's people understand
this. Only the Lord's people ever feel
this way about themselves. Hypocrites don't. Church members
don't. Religious people don't. Pharisees
don't. Self-righteous don't. But wherefore
I abhor myself. There's times that we absolutely
loathe ourselves. Our sin just overwhelms us just
in our nature. Just in our nature. and repent
in dust and ashes. And this is where we end up. And it was so, and it was so,
that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord
said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee,
and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken of me
the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take
unto you now seven bullocks, seven rams, and go to my servant
Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And my servant
Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept, lest I deal with
you after your folly or your foolishness, in that you have
not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuite, and Zophar the Naamathite
went and did according as the LORD commanded them, and the
LORD also accepted Job. And the LORD turned again the
captivity of Job, and he prayed for his friends. Also the LORD
gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then there came unto
him all his brethren, all his sisters, and all they that had
been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in
his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all
the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man also gave
him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. So the
Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning,
for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and
1,000 she-asses. He had also seven sons and three
daughters. And he called the name of the
first, Jemima, and the name of the second, Keziah, and the name
of the third, Kuriah and Hapok. And in all the land were no women
found so fair as the daughters of Job. And their father gave
them inheritance among their brethren. After this, Job lived
140 years and saw his sons and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died being old and full
of days." This tells us some things here,
starting in verse 42, or verse seven, excuse me. And after God
had spoken to Job, and spoke all the things that He had to
say to Job, He came to these three friends of Job, the ones
that Job called them, you know, false comforters, you know, called
them miserable comforters, called them physicians of no value,
said wisdom was going to die with them. Well, God agreed with
him. God agreed with him, and he says,
now, he told all these men, he said, Eliphaz, and then Bildad,
and Zophar, the Nebethite, and they did just like the Lord said.
And what this is telling us is that God hears all that's said. God heard every one of these
conversations. He heard every argument that
was made. He heard everything that was
said about him. Every word that was said. Every
prayer that was prayed. He heard every single word, and
he said this, he said, you fellas done a lot of talking, and you
done a lot of talking about me, and you used my name, you had
joined my power, you enjoyed my authority, you enjoyed to
tell everybody what I was like. And he says, you know what? You
was all wrong. He was all wrong. The only one
who had anything right to say about me was Job. And he says, you know, you fellas
didn't speak right about me. And how many people don't speak
right about God? How many people don't speak right
about God? I mean, you know, Paul said it
like this, you know that They have a form of godliness, but
deny the power thereof. They deny the power of Christ's
blood, Christ's righteousness, Christ's sovereignty, Christ's
mercy, Christ's grace, Christ's right to do as He will in this
world. But God listens to every discussion
that mankind has about God. And there are some things said
about God that's never right, never right. If you never refer
to Him as holy, never referred to Him as righteous, never referred
to Him as having all power, never referred to Him as having all
the rights and all the authority. If you refer to Him and what
He done, if you say He's not the Creator, this is one of the
most mysterious things to me, how that people can believe in
evolution and creation at the same time. But they do. How they do it, I don't know. But there was a fella, I'm gonna
tell y'all a story. There was this fella that wanted
Todd's Road to, he wanted to start a little work, and he wanted
Todd's Road to be his sponsor and be his home church, and sponsor
his little congregation. He won't start. This fella's
smart, I mean, man alive. He'd get up and just rattle off
Greek. Like I read English, read the English Bible, he can get
up and just quote Greek. He can quote verse after verse
after verse in Greek. Anyway, Todd said, well, let's
go out and have lunch. We'll talk about it. They went
out and had lunch. And Todd was talking to him,
you know, why you wanna be, you know, and this, that, and the
other. And this fella asked Todd, said, if I gave you John 8, 30,
and told you to exegete that word, that verse, he said, what
would you do? And he said, first thing I would
say is that God was manifest in the flesh that says that they
took up stones to stone him because he was God. He said, you don't
have a clue how to exegete a verse of scripture. And he told Todd,
he told Todd, he said, you're obtuse. You're obtuse. Now here's somebody
who wants his church to be his sponsor and to recognize his
congregation. And then he turns around and
tells the preacher that's doing that, you're obtuse. And you
know what Todd had to do? I'd have to do it myself. He
had to go home and look at the dictionary to see what that meant. That's what I mean, there's people
that don't say the right things about God. Now what would Greek
do, what would Greek do for you or me right now? What would be
speaking in Greek? If I could tell, if I named ever,
if I named Eloha, Elaha, and all that, and I named all the
names of God right now, and all the different Adonai, and all
this, that, what good would it do you? What good would it do
Him? That's what we're talking about
here. He said these fellas argued with Him. They come, Job, and
the first thing they said, Job, you're the awfulest sinner that's
ever born and that God Almighty's punishing you because you sinned. And preachers will say the same
thing today. They'll tell you that God will
punish you if you don't give Him the tithe, and if you don't
live without sin, God will come and get you, and He'll punish
you, because He's not gonna let you live without sin. He's gonna
punish you for your sin. And if you don't pay your tithe,
listen, they don't speak the right things about God. And that s why God said here,
said to Job, He said, Job, My servant Job, every time he opened
his mouth, he said what was right about me. I showed you today,
esteem His Word, His sovereignty, His fear of God, His thankfulness,
all the things. And I tell you what, that God
speaks, He hears everything that we have to say about Him. And
how many times have I told you, when he crosses our mind, we
cannot think of God too highly. We cannot speak of God too highly. And I know I've told you this
before, years and years and years ago, man's done dead and gone.
But he told us one time, said, you all give God too much power. You make God too sovereign. And
you leave out the power of man's free will. And somebody replied to him,
said, can we give God too much glory? Can you give him too much
glory? Can we give him too much glory
with our words? Can we give him too much glory
with our thoughts? Can we give you too much glory
in how we act and how we live and how we treat one another? And oh my, that's why he said,
God said, you know, he said, I hearkened and they heard, but
they didn't speak, that was right. And let me show you, you keep
this in Job, look over with me in Malachi. That's the first
book right before the book of Malachi, where God hears. God hears, that's the first thing
I want us to understand, God hears. Look in Malachi chapter
three. You think God don't listen? And
that's what He did. He heard these conversations
between these four men. They're talking about God hearken,
and I heard, and I see, and I know. It said in verse 16, Then they
that feared the Lord spake often one to another. Oh, thus we fear
the Lord. And they hearkened. They spake
one to another. And the Lord hearkened. He listened. And He heard it. He heard everything
we said. He hears us tonight. He knows
our thoughts. That's what Job said before.
He said, It's not a thought that can be withheld from you. And
I'll tell you what, men, You know, God said here, you and
your friends, there in verse seven over here, it said, you
and your friends have not spoken unto me the things that is right
as is my servant Job. Now look what God said. Now I want you to take seven
bullocks, seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer up
for yourselves a burnt offering. And my servant Job shall pray
for you, for him I'll accept, lest I deal with you after how
you've talked about me. Like my servant Job. Now why
did he say offer sacrifices? You know, you go to Leviticus
chapter one and you'll see the order of God's sacrifices. The
first thing about them is that God's named, he named every kind
of sacrifice all the way down to a turtle dove with the feathers
and everything. He named lambs, he named bullocks,
he named heifers, he named lambs. And he said here, he started
by bullocks and rams, male sheep. And he said, I want seven of
them. You gotta offer seven of them. Ain't but three of them,
but you offer seven. And it tells us over there how
they're to be offered. First thing you do, you lay your hands
on the head of it. You admit that I sinned and this has got
to die in my place. and that blood had to be shed,
and then that thing had to be separated, then put on the burnt
offering, and burnt down to ashes. But the thing is that that blemish,
that sacrifice had to be without spot, had to be without blemish,
and it had to be offered willingly. And so these fellows sinned,
God said, listen, you've got to offer a sacrifice. Or if you
don't offer a sacrifice, He said, you're gonna have to, I'm gonna
treat you like you talked about me. I'll treat you like you talked
to me. It's like that fellow said, you know that God was a
hard taskmaster. And God said, well, I'll treat
you the way you, I'll stand on the ground that you put me on.
If you say I'm a hard taskmaster, I'll be a hard taskmaster to
you. And if you say I'm merciful, I'll be merciful to you. If you
say I'm gracious, I'll be gracious to you. And there's people that
say God's too hard. God's not just because He chooses
some and passes by others. God's not right to pass by some. It's not right for Him not to
love everybody. It's not right for Him to give
everybody a chance. But God said, listen, you didn't
say what's right about me, and you're gonna have to offer sacrifices.
You're gonna have to offer blood. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no sacrifice. There is no putting away of sin.
And this tells us about our Lord Jesus Christ. He was a lamb without
spot. He was a lamb without blemish.
And I tell you what, that lamb and that sacrifice that was offered,
they started first thing in the morning offering blood sacrifices
in Israel. And they did not stop until it
got about dark and they offered the last sacrifice of the evening.
Blood every single day. And then God sent His blessed
Son, the Lamb of God. And we hadn't spoken right things
about God. We hadn't thought right things
about God. And He comes along and He says,
they need a sacrifice. They need an atonement. They
need something to take my wrath away from them. They need someone
to be punished for their sin. And so God, he sent his son,
he was a lamb without spot and a lamb without blemish. And God
offered him, you know what it said? God made his soul an offering. He said, you offer a bullet,
Christ offered his soul. God made his soul an offering
for sin. And God put him on a cross. bless
His holy name, and God charged Him with our sin. And that precious
blood of Christ, we sung it this morning out of His side, that
flowed blood to wash away our sins, and that flowed water to
wash away our pollution. And I'll tell you, our Lord Jesus
Christ, He did it willingly. Nobody made Him do it. And he,
not only did he speak things right about God, he was God. And everything he did was perfect
and righteous and glorious. And we didn't, we're like those
old, all them miserable comforters of Job. And we didn't think about
God right. We didn't speak about him right.
But God said, I got a remedy. I've got a remedy. And over in,
I think it's chapter 33, he says, you know, he said, he's going
down to the pit, but stop him right now. Why? Because I found
a ransom. I found a ransom. Don't stop him. Stop him. Why? I found a ransom. Found a ransom. Oh my. These fellas not only
considered Job a great sinner, but a great heretic. They took
it upon themselves to stand up for God and for truth. And he
said, they've not spoken to me the things that's right. And
as long as there's been a human being on this earth, there's
gonna be people that ain't gonna say things that's right about
God. You know, you look at, I'll just give you a couple of illustrations
in the scripture. You take Saul of Tarsus. Here's
a man who hated Jesus Christ. After the rise of the law, he
was blameless. As a Pharisee, they say, boy,
if anybody's gonna be saved, it's gonna be Paul. He keeps
that law. He eats all the right foods.
He dresses all the right ways. He praises all the right prayers
at the right time. He's a scholar in the Bible. He's a scholar about things.
And then he says, you know what? He said, I was blameless. I was blameless. And I was zealous
toward God more than anybody else. But he said, I'd done it
ignorant and unbelief, and I obtained mercy. And this is a faithful
saying, and I want you all to every one of you to accept it.
Here I am, the greatest sinner that ever lived. He said, I'm
the awfulest sinner that Christ died for. He said, this is...
that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners. And he
said, I'm the chief, I'm the chief. And those things that
I said about Christ was gained to me, but lost for
him. And now everything I say about
him He said, I want to count myself
and all my righteousness as but dung, but dung. That's what Job was saying, I'm
just a, but these fellas wouldn't, they wouldn't call themselves
dung. They wouldn't call their righteousness dung. They wouldn't
call their works dung. They wouldn't call their relationship
with God dung. But Paul said, oh, it's just
dung. And I want to be found in him, found in him. That's what I want to do. And
I tell you, Paul didn't spank about things. Now, beloved, he
really spoke the things that's right about God. So God told
him there in verse eight, said, you offer sacrifice. You offer
sacrifice. So it says there in my servant
Job, he'll pray for you. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ
prayed for us. All of John 17 is Christ praying
for his people. People hadn't been born yet.
In all of John 17, he prayed for them. And then on the cross,
he prayed for them. Father, forgive them. They don't
know what to do. And said, you know, Job will
pray for you. And I, you know, he's the only one I'm going to
accept. The only one God will accept, and ain't you thankful
that you know this, the only one God will accept is the Lord
Jesus Christ. And you know what it says? We're
accepted in the beloved. Here, look what else it goes
on to say. So in verse nine, so Eliphaz
the Temanite, Bildad the Shuite, and Zobar the Mahantite went
and did according as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord
also accepted Job. And I tell you, I, Lord, did
as God commanded him. Father, you gave me a work to
do. I finished that work. And when he cried out, it is
finished on the cross. God accepted him. And right now,
right now, Christ prays for us. He intercedes for us. This is
something that This is how great and how glorious and how majestic
and how powerful our Lord Jesus Christ is. That Christ can pray
for a multitude of people that no man can number and know every
single thought that they ever one of them think separately
and pray for every one of them as they have a need. Every one
of us here right now have different needs, different thoughts, We
have people that's listening, watching us on Facebook or YouTube
or wherever, and they have needs. And God knows that need, and
He'll intercede on behalf of that person for their need. Come boldly unto a throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace in our time of
need. Ain't you thankful that Christ,
when you don't even think of Him, there's never a time that
He doesn't think of you. It's like that high priest I
told you, he got that breastplate on there and he got the 12 tribes
of Israel. Three here, three here, three
here, three here. Four are right across these breasts. And he got six names here and
six names over there. Stones up there, spits of stones
up there. And every one of those written
the name of one of the children of Israel. Reuben, who was as
unstable as water. And all of them. And that means he carried them
on his shoulders, and that means he carried them on his heart.
And our Lord Jesus Christ carries us, carries all of our weight,
carries every burden we bear. He's every tear we shed, He puts
it in a bottle. There's not a groan we make that
He doesn't hear and affected by. There's not a heart that
grieves that He doesn't feel. God accepts him. And bless his
holy, glorious, precious name. He makes us accepted in him. And that's the only place that
God will... God only hears him. And every prayer we pray has
got to go through him. Every time we pray, it goes through
him. Huh? Oh my. And that's what Christ
did, He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. And then He says,
oh my, listen, here these men have to offer this sacrifice,
and oh my, and they gotta do it willingly, be accepted for
Him, and oh my. Then look what He said, and in
this intercession of Job, Job had to intercede for him, and
that means Christ interceded for us. Then look what happens
now. Everything's taken care of. Job's
been accepted. Sacrifice has been offered. Job's
done the interceding. Christ has accepted us. We're
accepted in Him. Sin's been put away. And this
is what happens now. This is what happens when God
does something. And the Lord turned again the
captivity of Jacob. Where was he captive at? Captive
by darkness, depression, loss and grief and mourning over
all that he lost, his children, his family. And when he prayed
for his friends, when he had interceded for his friends, also
the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Well, how much
do we have in Christ? We lost everything in Adam. But
oh, how much did we gain in Christ? Then look what he goes on. Gave
him twice as much as he had. Then look what happens. You know,
remember Job said, there's nobody, my own servants won't listen
to me. The kids mock me. My wife's breast strains to me.
And so boy, when the Lord began to bless him, then there come
unto him all his brethren and all his sisters and all that
had been of his acquaintance before, And oh my, he had such
a house. And as he said, they all went
home with him and they ate bread in his house, with him in his
house. They had this wonderful fellowship,
breaking bread. And look what it said. And they
bemoaned him. They said, oh Job, we're so sorry.
We should have been more. And they comforted him over all
the evil. And listen to this now. The Lord
had brought upon him. That's what Job himself said.
The Lord gave, the Lord take away. Blessed be the name of
the Lord. Uh-huh. And oh, and every man gave him
a piece of money and every one an earring of gold. So they come
and they blessed him and gave him things and look what happens
now. Now listen to this. So the Lord
blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. For
he had 14,000 sheep. You go back over to the other
place, it was 7,000 sheep. Gave him 6,000 6,000 camels before he had 3,000. And 1,000 yoke of oxen before
he had 500. Now he's got 1,000. And 1,000 she-asses before he
had 500. God just doubled him. Just doubled
him. Look what happens now. And he
also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the
name of the first Jemima, the name of the second, Keziah, and
the name of the third, Kerenhepek. In all the land, there were no
women so fair as the daughters of Job, and their father gave
them their inheritance among their brethren." Now, Houndway
said he gave him, so he had 10 kids before, and he has 10 kids here. So he
doubled his family. He doubled his family. Job's
children that was gone, they're still alive, they're just in
a different place. He still had 10 children, they
was already gone, they was already in glory. So Eddie had 10 more,
so he's got 20. He has 10, 20 gone to glory,
10 gone to glory. They're out there enjoying the
presence of God, the presence of Christ, and he got 10 down
here. He said, the Lord, and then he lived long enough. This
started when he was 70 years old, when he got to the end of this.
And God not only done that, but he doubled his years. He gave
him 70 more years. He lived 140 years old. And he
said he had four generations. So he'd have been the fifth.
And so he had five generations to his family. Oh my, ain't that the way it
is with God done us? Did you ever think that God would
bless you the way he has blessed you? Huh? Oh, who would ever think it?
Who would ever thought it? But oh, how blessed God is. Huh? Oh, we lost in Adam, we gain
10,000 times over in Christ. Christ intercedes for us. Christ
is our sacrifice. God bless the end. And our end,
you think we're blessed in this world. Imagine what our end's
gonna be. Oh. You know, in my life, and
I know I got to quit, I know I got to quit, but listen, in
my life, it said, our Lord said over there, he said, do you know
the disciple said, Lord, we've forsaken all and followed you.
He said, there ain't no man, there ain't no man that ever
followed me that I didn't give him a hundredfold in this life
and eternal life to come. And he said, I'll give you a
hundredfold in this life. And what he means is, is that
you'll have more people, just right here in this service tonight.
How many sisters do I have? How many brothers do I have?
How many grandmas and grandpas do I have? Right here in this
service, right here. And the relations closer than
blood relatives. Now where would you get that
at except in Christ? And then I go to Florida, I'm
in the same situation. I go to Lexington, same thing. Wherever you go, got more beds
than I can sleep in, more meals than I can eat. And then I've got a whole nother
family already in glory. Oh, there's a family already
up there. Henry and Doris, they celebrated
their children that passed, that the Lord took home. They celebrated
their birthdays on the day, the regular birthdays every year.
Not the day that they went to glory, but the day they was born.
He said, this is born on this day. And they remember their
birthdays. Oh, we got family. Oh, what a
family we got. And help us always, God help
us always to say the right things about you. Amen. Our Father, oh blessed be your
name, who is like unto thee, who is like unto thee in mercy,
grace, who is like unto thee to wash away all our sins, make
us accepted in Christ, Give us his righteousness. Give us such
a family. Give us such brothers and sisters,
elders in Christ. Thank you, Lord. Blessed be your
holy name. God bless the dear saints that's
not with us tonight. Those that are listening, God
bless them that are weak and frail in body and mind. And Lord,
keep us, keep us, keep us cleaving and believing, and do it for
Christ's sake. Amen. Let's sing just a couple
of verses of 268, and then you'll be at liberty to go. 268, how
firm a foundation. I could take off singing that,
but we'll stand together and sing that. How firm a foundation.
Oh, what a foundation we have in the Lord. you ? How firm a foundation ? ? Ye
saints of the Lord ? ? Is laid for your faith ? ? In His excellent
Word ? ? What more can He say than to you ? He has said to
you who for refuge to Jesus have fled, fear not, I am with thee. Oh, be not dismayed. ? For I am thy God ? ? I will
still give thee aid ? ? I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and
cause thee to stand ? omnipotent hand. When through the deep waters
I call thee to go, the rivers of woe shall not thee overflow. For I will be with thee thy troubles
to bless, And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. When through fiery trials thy
pathway shall lie, my grace also fill. Yes, bless his name. Amen. The flame shall not hurt thee,
I only to die. Thy dross to consume and thy
gold to refine. Oh, listen to this. ? The soul
that on Jesus ? I will not, I will not. ? Deserted to his foes ? That soul
though all hell endeavor to shake. I'll never, no never, no never
forsake. Boy, that's a good way to end
a service, ain't it? Good night and God bless you
and the Lord keep you. All right.