Read these first six verses and
hopefully say something from them, then do a few verses down
through chapter 26 as we get there. Then answered Bildad,
the Shuite, and said, Dominion and fear are with him. He maketh
peace in his high places. Is there any number of his armies?
And upon whom doeth not his light arise? How then can man be justified
with God, or how can he be cleaned as born of a woman? Behold, even
to the moon, and it shineth not, yea, the stars are not pure in
his sight. How much less man that is a worm,
and the son of man which is a worm. The last time we heard from Bildad
was in chapter 18. And he was pretty rough on Job,
but here is the last time we'll ever hear him speak. And here
he doesn't condemn Job, but he does feel that Job ought to have
a greater, submit greater to submit himself to God in a greater
way because of the greatness of God, the holiness of God,
the power of God, the glory of God. And also because the sinfulness
and impurity and uncleanness of man, even the best man, best
men on the earth. But Bill Dadd expresses he has
some high, high, high views of God Almighty. And he also has
humbling ideas of man. And those two go together. If
you have high views of God, you'll have low views of man. If you
have high views of man, you'll have a low view of God. But them
two go together. You can't see God without seeing
your nothingness. And you can't see God, and if
you see yourself to be somebody, then God is not much. And so
those two go together. If you see God, you're like Isaiah.
Oh, it's me. Daniel you know when he saw the
Lord. He said he is coming and has turned into corruption and
So we you know here. He has these exalted views of
God ideas of God. He has humbling views of man
Let's look at how he views God first of all He said it there
in verse 2 dominion and fear are with him Now when he says
he's when he just said dominions with him that means he has all
authority His dominion goes everywhere. His dominion. And His dominion,
He's the head of all authority. All authority. Dominion and fear
are with Him. You know, when He talks about
His dominion, it's said in Daniel, you know, that God raised up
a king and His dominion would be over all the earth. Well,
God has dominion over all the earth. over everything that s
in it. If there s any authorities in
this world, God has dominion over them. If there s any powers
that are in this world, God has dominion over them. If there
s any rulers in this world, I don t care from the lowest ruler
to the highest ruler, God has dominion over them. And I'll
tell you what, and here's the thing about it, if they have
any power, if they have any authority, God's the one that gave it to
them. And that's the only place he can get them. That's why he's
called the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So he's the head
of all authority. I have no problem with that.
I don't have any problem with that. I'm gonna treat men with
respect, I'm gonna treat the army, I'm gonna treat all people
in authority with respect. and try to treat them right.
But I tell you what, I believe that God put them in the position
they're in and that's the reason we do. And may God have all the
power and all the authority. He got the dominion over this
earth and He got the dominion over the angels. There's not
an angel that can make a move without God Almighty. And then look what else it says
about Him in verse 2. He maketh peace in His high places.
He makes peace. He creates the peace. You know
He's the author of peace. Over in Romans it says He's the
God of peace. The God of peace. And when He
says here, He maketh peace, what does that mean? That means that
He maintains order in this universe. That means He maintains order
in His world and all that's in it, and everything in this earth.
You know, how can faith continue the way they do, people of what
they call nature? How does it continue like it
does without God? And he's the one that makes peace.
He's the one, beloved, that maintains order in his universe. He maintains
order among the heavens. He's the God of peace. His very
nature, he's got a peaceful nature. And I'll tell you, you know,
the scriptures tells us that anger or wrath is a strange work. But He is the God of peace and
He's peaceful in His nature. He said, anger is my strange
work. And here's the thing about it.
Peace, you know what peace means? It means order. It means order. It means quiet. It means rest. It means at ease. And if there's
peace made between God and soul in God, He's the one who has
to make it. He's the one who has to make
order, He's the one who has to make quiet, He's the one who
has to make rest, He's the one who has to make ease. He's the
only one who can do it. Yeah, He makes us peace. And
I thank God that He makes peace. There used to be a preacher,
he used to say it all the time, he'd say, make you peace with
God. Make you peace with God. People
say that all the time. But let me tell you something,
man, it's impossible for him to make peace with God. Whenever you make peace with
a man, when you're at war with somebody, what you have to do
is you have to surrender your weapons. You have to surrender
your authority. You have to surrender your rights.
You have to send her, you got to come under their dominion. When the Civil War was ended,
when Robert E. Lee and them was at Appomattox,
that war right there, Lee handed over the sword, they stacked
all their arms, and that was a complete and absolute surrender. And they came under that authority.
And that's the way it is. If you have peace with God, the
only way it's gonna happen, God's done made peace, what you're
gonna have to do is lay down your arms, give up your sword,
give up your heart, give up your will, give up everything you
got, and come under His rule. And then you'll find peace, then
you'll find quiet, then you'll find ease, you'll find rest.
Then look what else it says there in verse three. He's called the
Lord of Hosts. Is there any number of his armies?
I wonder how many armies God's got. You think about it. How many armies does he have?
You know, back years ago, they used to
have the draft. where they'd draft you into the
military, you know. You could get drafted. They gave
you a number, and if your number come up, you was a gold Jessie.
Well, if God ever calls anybody into service, any force or any
power in this universe, he can call any power, any force, or
any might that's in this world into his service. Now, what do
I mean by that? Wind? He can call the wind, and
you know, he can call the wind, he can make it go 5 miles an
hour, he can make it go 100 miles an hour, he can make it go 170
miles an hour if he wants to. And he's got control over the
wind. He has control over the sea.
Everybody talks about, you know, and I love what Greg Amquist
said, when that storm come bearing down on Florida here a while,
a couple weeks ago, he said, he said, if there's evil in the
city that's not to live, send it. And that's what he's talking
about. I mean, you know, God's got power over the sea. He can
make the sea go as far inland as He wants to and bring it back
out as He wants to. He can do anything He wants.
He can cause a storm in the middle of the sea. He can cause the
sea to lay down like a calm. And oh my. And I'll tell you
something else He can do. He's got power over our minds.
He can make us have a nervous breakdown. He can take our minds
and turn them off that quick. He can take our minds and make
them sharp like that. He can use our minds to bring
darkness to us, to bring submissions to us. He can use our minds to
do anything He wants to with and bring our minds under subjection
to Him. He can take the world. He can
take material things. He can take spiritual things.
He can take natural things. He can take angelic things. I mean, listen. He's got armies
that he ain't never used. He's got four armies just in
the wind. North, South, East, and West. He's got the armies of holy water. You know, He can make a drought
over here, and drown somebody over there. He's God. And we've got to understand that
these are His armies. And when He calls them into service,
you better get out of the way, or be on His side one or the
other. Oh my, listen. They're all at His command, and
at His will. Let me show you, you keep Job,
and look with me in Matthew, I think it's 26. Matthew 26.53,
look what our master said over here. Matthew 26.53, I think that's
what I, I can't read my own writing, I believe that's right. Yes, yes. Now Pilate, They come to get
him, and Peter drew a sword, and he told him in verse 52,
put your sword up into your place, for they that take the sword
shall perish with the sword. Now listen to what our Lord said
here. Thankest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he
shall presently, presently give me more than 12 legions of angels. He said, if I ask God to send
12 legions of angels, He said, they'd be here a snap of a finger.
They'd be here before, that quick. 12 legions, 12 legions. But he didn't. He said, you know
why I didn't? Because it's written, it's written that I must go through
this. And I tell you then, look what else he talks about in verse
three. And upon whom doeth not his light
arise. Oh my, he's the fountain of light. All light comes from Him. James
said this, you know, every good and perfect gift cometh down
from the Father of lights, and whom is no variable, neither
shadow of turning. And all natural light comes from
Him. Look with me in Genesis chapter
1. All natural light comes from
Him. Genesis 1. You know, when God said, Let
there be light, there was light. He made more than just one light. He made a lot of lights. Look
what it said in verse 14. Genesis 1 verse 14. And God said,
Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven. Let there be light
in the firmament of the heaven. That's talking about what we
look up and see. He calls, God calls it affirmative.
And He said it's to divide the day from the night. And listen, let them be for signs
and for seasons and for days and for years. That means that
you know the seasons are going to change just like they always
do all the time. They're going to be for seasons.
They're going to be for days. They're going to be for years.
And look what he said, and let them be for light in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth. And they were so.
And God made two great lights, the greater light to rule by
the day, the lesser light to rule by the night. And he made
the stars too. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light on
the earth. Oh my, on whom does not the light
arise? Ain't a place you can go on this
planet where the sun don't come up. And every time that sun rises
and we get up and we see that sun, you know we understand right
then and there that all light comes from God. And you know,
not only is this natural light, but if we have any spiritual
light, He's got to be the one to give it to us. He said, God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in
our hearts to give the light, to turn on the light of His knowledge,
and of His glory, and of His power, and of His salvation,
we're at in the person of His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, we would have never
seen that light had not God, He commanded it to come in. People
talk about, you know, God opened up their heart to let God in.
God, He commanded the light to shine out of darkness in our
hearts. He commanded it. He commanded
it. And our Lord Jesus said, I'm
the light of the world. And the man that walks and follows
me, he's not gonna walk in darkness. He's just not gonna walk in darkness.
Not gonna do it. Then look what else it says here
in verse four. Oh my, since this is the way
God is, he got dominion. He makes peace in the high places.
How many armies does he have? Countless armies. Light rises
all over the world and on everybody. How then can man be justified
with God? And how can he be clean that's
made of a woman? Oh, he's a holy God and he's
a just God. So how can a man be justified
with this God? How can he possibly be justified? How can God clear a man? How
can a man, when he's in the sight of God, how can God look at that
man and say, I'm not going to charge him. I'm going to acquit
him. I'm going to justify him. I'm
going to justify his words. I'm going to justify his actions.
I'm going to justify his deeds. I'm going to justify everything
there is about him. How can a man be justified in
the sight of God? God said, I'm going to justify
that man. I'm going to clear that man. I'm not going to hold
anything against that man. How can that be? That, if we, that's the most,
I think that's the greatest question that we have to be faced with
over and over again, and I love to be faced with that question.
You know, I told you this fella, you know, had his t-shirt on,
and he was talking about God is. And I asked him, I said,
and he was a youth leader in a big Baptist church here in
town. And I asked him, I said, that
teacher, what is God? You say, God is, what is He?
What is He to you? He said, He's a lot of things.
The first thing I said to him, is He just to you? Is God just? And that's what he's saying here,
God is just and He's holy. So how in the world is God who
is holy and how is He just? How can He justify people like
us? The only way in the world He
can do it is to treat somebody else. Scott used to say this
all the time. God cannot acquit the wicked
and punish the just. But God does exactly that's what
He does. He punished the just for the
unjust. The righteous for the wicked.
And that's the only way God can justify us is by putting Christ
in our stand. And when a man believes on Christ
and he comes to Christ and puts all his trust and all his hope
and all his future, his soul, and all that he is in Christ,
in the Lord Jesus, then God said, I clear that man. That man, I
can't find a fault in him nowhere. Now I can find fault with me,
and I can find fault in you, and we can find fault in one
another, but God can't. And you know what? He won't.
He won't. Oh my. And then look what he
says about man now. Man's unclean. He talks about
how humble man is. How can he be clean that's born
of a woman? He calls him, man is called unclean. David said, I was shapen in iniquity
and in sin did my mother conceive me. Nicodemus, you know, asking
how to be born again. Now, the Lord said, listen, Nicodemus,
death is born of the flesh. That's all it's ever gonna be.
It's gonna always be flesh. That's all it'll ever be. And
I'll tell you, look what he said over here in Job 14 with me.
Job 14 and verse 14. Excuse me, verse four. Job 14,
four. Who can bring a clean thing out
of an unclean? Nobody can. Oh, who can bring
a clean thing out of something that's unclean? Not one. Not one. And you know, when a
leper was a leper. He had to walk around with his
hand over his mouth and everywhere he went he had to holler, unclean,
unclean, unclean, so people could get away from it. It was a very
contagious disease. Unclean, unclean, people started
getting away from it. Moving, moving, moving. Well,
I tell you, you know how far, you know where our uncleanness
started at, where we became unclean? Back in the Garden of Eden. Every
one of us became filthy, naked, dead, blind, deaf, and dumb. And we all done it in our head.
We became unclean then. And I tell you, if God don't
do something for us and cleanse us with the blood of his blessed
son, we'll die unclean. And I certainly don't want to
do that. And all the way back to Adam, all we like sheep have
gone astray. Everyone to his own way. Everyone
to his own way. And oh my. And look what else
he says. No wonder, no wonder he talks
these things about us. And he says, man at his best
estate is altogether vanity. And oh my, this is, this is,
look what else he said. Man's absolutely insane. insignificant. He said down in verse 6, how
much less man that is a worm. How much less man that is a worm
and the son of man which is a worm. And a worm there, it's not talking
about the kind of worms you fish with. It's talking about maggots. Maggots. Nasty worms. Flesh-consuming worms. And He
said, You're a worm. Would you believe our Lord would
call His self a worm? You know the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself, I so identified with us. I'll show you that. Look over in Psalm 22. We wouldn't
say it. We would not say it. We could
not say it. We wouldn't dare deal with that
situation. In Psalm 22, we wouldn't say
this about our Lord, but our Lord said it about Himself. Look
what he says over here. You'd think he didn't identify
with us. Psalm 22. Look down at verse 6. Look what our
Master said. This is the Psalm of the Cross,
remember? He said, But I am a worm and
no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people. Our Lord so identified with us that He said, I'm a worm. Could you imagine the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, the Lord of glory, the Savior of sinners,
our Redeemer, who was eternal, come into this world and so identify
with us? and say, I'm a worm, just like
they are. You know what God called Jacob?
He said, fear not thou worm, Jacob. And you know a worm, they don't amount to much. They're not nothing. And some people, you hear people
brag on their self and boast on their selves and all their
accomplishments and all their significance in this world and
all their accomplishments. And I heard Brother Mahan say
one time, it's just one worm bragging on another worm. And
why'd you know, I'm a better worm than you, I'm a bigger worm
than you, I'm a shinier worm than you. Winston Churchill,
everybody knows who Winston Churchill was. He ran his head over England
during World War II. And William Churchill, you know,
somebody called him a worm. He said, I may be a worm, but
at least I believe I'm a glow worm. Listen, we're not glow worms. No, no, no. I don't have any
problem being called that. I don't have any problem being
called a dog. I don't have any problem being termed insignificant. In the sight of God I am, and
without Christ as my representative, without Christ as my priest,
without Christ representing me before God, without Christ doing
something for me, I would absolutely be nothing in this world without
Christ, that's for sure. But frail in body, frail in mind,
weak in mind, weak to resist the wrong, weak without strength,
oh my. Our Lord said, I'm a worm and
no man. Then look back here in verse five. Look at the moon. Oh, behold. Oh, go all the way up and look
at the moon. It shines not. Yea, the stars
are not pure in his sight. Oh, my. The purest objects in
the universe, the things that God himself made. He said, they
absolutely, according to my glory, and according to how bright I
am in my glory, they don't even shine. And that's why I said,
how much less is man? That's a worm and not. Every object in the universe
are impure compared with God Almighty. Now Job starts here
in chapter 26, and he wants to answer Bildad, and look what
he says about Bildad. One of these men, whenever one
of these men thought they should remind Job of the omnipotence
of God, the glory of God, the righteousness of God, the holiness
of God, the omnipresence of God, Job turns around and takes the
subject up himself to let them know, this is my hope. This is
what I have believed, and this is what I've preached to others.
And look what he said here, verse two, in verse two of chapters
26. How hast thou helped him that's without power? Here you're
talking about how great and glorious God is. Have you ever helped
anybody without power? Have you ever saved anybody with
arm that hath no strength? He says, you think that you know
something about God? He said, God's the only one that's
got an arm that can save. God's the only one that can save
a person that ain't got any power. Have you helped him that's not
got any power? And then look what he said. Look
what he said in verse three. Have you counseled him that hath
no wisdom? God does that, huh? Has thou plentifully declared
the thing as it is? And what he's saying is, have
you really told out all there is to tell about God? That's what he's asking. What
you said about God, is that all? Have you told all there is to
tell about God? You called a man a worm, you
said he's a holy God, you said he's a righteous God, you said
he's a almighty God, you said he has dominion, but if you told
it all out, if you told everything there is about God that there
is to tell about him. Steve read that tonight, said
in the ages to come. Did you notice that? In the ages
to come. The Lord Jesus Christ by His
grace must show His kindness towards us in the ages to come. We're going to live in this world
ages without ages without ages. And we still ain't going to see
all there is about God. We'll spend eternity with Him
and we still won't know everything there is to know. We absolutely
get astonished at the wisdom of God. and the power of God,
the glory of God. And we look up at the stars,
David said, I see the stars and sun and moon that you've ordained.
And I say, oh Lord God, what is man that you'd even think
about him? And oh my. You know, have you
lift up a depraved soul? Have you had any encouragement
to give anybody, lifted up anybody? Have you declared things as it
really is, plentifully declared them as they are? You've used
a lot of words to tell what's already known. Do you think you've
told all there is about God? You said you think you've told
all there is about man? Look what he goes on to say. In verse four, to whom hast thou
uttered these words? Who have you worded them to? But look what he says now down
here in verse six. I'm gonna just deal with a few
words. He said, listen, I'll tell you what I know about God.
I know hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
I say God, I say hell, God can look down hell and see it. Naked,
and all the destruction in this world. Have no covering. Listen to this now. He said,
you know, you said some things about God, but he stretched out
the north over something that was absolutely empty. There was
nothing in the north. He hung, he just stretched it
out there. And listen to this. He hung the earth upon nothing. What's this world hanging on?
He hung the world on nothing. You told tell me something about
God said I know I've got a hope in him. I trust in him. I believe
him I Got to have him for what he's talking about And look what
else he said He binds up the where he binds up the waters
in the thick clouds you look up and you'll see them old clouds
You know hanging low, and they're dark and it looks like they're
going to just bust out any time and And in the cloud, he don't bust
under him. It don't rain under him. It ain't gonna be no rain till
he... You hear that thunder? Boom! That's God. That's God. I've told you this before, little
old Riley, we had this awful storm come in and I like, I like
said to Miss Shirley, go out on the, you know, storm coming
in, we'll go out on the back porch and watch it. We used to
sit and watch them come in, you know, watch them come in, watch
the rain come in, come right across the hill and come through
the fly, come on, you know, we sit there and then boom, boom,
boom, that thunder shake the house, you know, and Riley said,
oh, that's my, She said, I'm scared. And Mary said to him,
that's just the voice of God. She said, does God like little
girls? Yeah, God likes little girls. Scared her to death. But
she said, that's just God's voice. Next time you hear thunder, say,
that's God speaking. That's God speaking. Next time
the lightning comes, the lightnings are his arrows, is what Job said. Listen, oh, Bill, Dad, do you
think, if you said you told all there is to tell yet? And look
what he says here. He holdeth back the face of his
throne. Oh my, he won't let anybody see
his throne. Face of his throne, he holds
it back to keep people from seeing it. He spreads a cloud over it.
You know that Shekinah glory that come over the tabernacle
and come over the mercy seat? He said he spreads a cloud on
it. Look what else it says about him. He compassed the waters
with bounds. Oh my. He says he goes around,
he keeps the water in all the bounds. Until the day and night
come to an end. You know, every day is his day. People say one man steams one
day above another day and some don't steam any day. I'm telling
you what, they say this is the Lord's day. It's rejoicing it. You know tomorrow
is going to be the Lord's day too? Tuesday is going to be the Lord's
day. Wednesday is going to be the Lord's day. Every day is
His day. And I love to get up and be glad
and rejoice in it. It's God's day. And you know
somebody says, what are you going to do today? The day will take
care of itself. I ain't never had a day that
I didn't have something I could do if I do it. Look what else he goes on to
say here now. Now listen to this. The pillars of heaven. Pillars
of heaven? You mean the heavens are held
up by pillars? The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. When the earth shakes, the pillars
of the earth And listen to this, he divides the sea with his power.
He went through that Red Sea, parted it like it was nothing.
When Israel was going into the Promised Land, you know what
he did? He made Jordan depart and let him walk through there.
Made Jordan depart. And I tell you, he divides the
sea with his power. And ah, listen to this, and by
his understanding, He understands everything there is about a man,
and by his understanding, he smites through the proud. He said, one thing God said he
hated, he said, seven things I hate, six things I hate, yea,
seven are an abomination. You know what the first one is?
He hates a proud look. And he said, he'll take the proud
man, he said, you know what I'm gonna do to him? I'm gonna smite
him through. I'm gonna smite him through. And oh, listen to
this now. By His Spirit, He hath garnished
the heavens. You know, you go to a restaurant,
you know, and they'll garnish that dish, make it look so pretty,
so nice, so, you know, just, you say, boy, I hate to even
tell you that, that looks so pretty, that looks almost too
good to eat. But that's why He said, look up at the heavens.
He garnishes the heavens. You know in these beautiful blue
day skies that we have, he'll garnish them with these little
white clouds. He'll garnish, you know, at night sometimes
those stars are just, you know, you look at the Milky Way and
just it goes on and on and on and on. When Shirley first moved
out to the farm, you know, we don't have no ambient light out
there. I mean, it was dark. When it's dark, it's dark. She
said, I didn't have any idea that stars looked like that,
because you know where there's always ambient light. You get
in the dark, and there ain't no other light around. You look
up, and you can't believe there's any stars, how bright they are.
That's God's garnishing it, making it look pretty. Making it first
to sit and stare at, and enjoy it, and then look what he says
now. Oh, Bill, Dad was telling Job
some wonderful things and some things. He had some all-excited
view of God and low views of man. But look what Job said here.
Lo, these are parts of his way, but how little a portion is heard
of him. What I've talked about, that's
just parts of his ways. and how little a portion is heard
of him. How little a portion. You know, as long as we've been
hearing the gospel, some of you started out years ago, years
ago in other places, and as long as you've been studying the word
and listening to the word, you still say, I feel like I still
know so little. And that's what Job is saying,
how little a portion have we heard of him. Well, you know,
that's why we have to say the same things over and over and
over. Because we, you know, how are you going to describe it?
And look what he says. But the thunder of his power,
when he wants to thunder, and let his power be known, who can
understand it? Who can understand it? That's
just parts of his ways. Just parts of them. Just parts
of them. You know, You know how many times Paul
said, behold I show you a mystery, I show you a mystery, I show
you a mystery. And I tell you the greatest mystery,
two greatest mysteries is how God was manifest in the flesh
and the second mystery is how in the world does somebody go
to heaven and yet stay in the grave at the same time. When
a man dies and leaves this world, he immediately goes to be with
Christ. That's what the scripture says. To be answered from the
bodies, to be present with the Lord. And then when he raises these
bodies, what kind of body does he give it? And when is he going to do this? We sang that old song, we'll
understand it better by and by. Amen. Our Father, oh, our Lord
and our God, how we bless your holy name. Lord, you're so glorious. We ain't begun to begin to say what you really like. But Lord, I'd love to begin again
to tell myself and those that listen the greatness and the
glory and the majesty and the power and the wisdom and the
eternality of the Lord God of heaven and
earth. Oh Lord, I'd like to begin again to tell about the Lord
Jesus Christ and His blessed person, this
glorious, glorious person, and His glorious, glorious, glorious,
blessed work that He did to honor and bring glory to His Father
and to save our sinful, sinful, sinful souls. Oh, Lord, Maybe one day we'll
begin, get some understanding. But like we read tonight, the
best we can do is just parts of His ways. And Lord, bless
these dear saints of God. Meet the needs of their home,
meet the needs of their heart, meet the needs of their body.
And Lord, those that are not with us because of their sickness
and the weakness of their body, we pray for them. Lord, God bless
them. Pray for those in this service
tonight who need prayer. And Lord, give your people rest
and peace, comfort and assurance. And when the sun rises and they
get up, see it rise. May we all be reminded, the son
of righteousness arises with healing in his wings. It is the
Lord's day again. Thank you and blessed be your
holy name. Amen. Amen. Let's see, how does that go?
Well, I don't know, I was gonna sing something, but I get it
wrong, so. Good night, God bless you, and
see you Wednesday, Lord willing.