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The sermon text for this morning is
the Reading Job Chapter One and all the
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way through job chapter two, verse
ten. So the reading is from the
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book of Job, beginning at the
beginning of chapter one and going all the
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way through chapter two, verse ten
and the sections where job becomes to suffer
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a great many things, but this
is the reading of God's word, so
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please give your attention to it as
such. Job Chapter One, Verse One
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through Chapter Two Verse Ten. This
is God's word. There was a man
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in the land of ooze whose name
was job, and that man was blameless
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and upright, one who feared God
and turned away from evil. There were
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born to him seven sons and three
daughters. He possessed seven thousand sheep,
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three thousand camels, five hundred yoke
of Oxen and five hundred female donkeys,
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and very many servants, so that
this man was the greatest of all the
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people of the east. His sons
used to go and hold a feast in
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the House of each one on his
day, and they would send and invite
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their three sisters to eat and drink
with them. And when the days of
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the feast had run their course,
job would send and consecrate them and he
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would rise early in the morning and
offer burnt offerings according to the number of
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them. All for job, said. It may be that my children have
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sinned and cursed God in their hearts. That's job did continually. Now there
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was a day when the sons of
God came to present themselves before the Lord,
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and Satan also came among them.
The Lord said to Satan, from
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where have you come? Satan answered
the Lord and said from going to and
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fro on the earth and from walking
up and down on it. And the
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Lord said to Satan, have you
considered my servant job, that there is
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none like him on the Earth,
a blameless and upright man who fears God
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and turns away from evil. Then
Satan answered the Lord and said, does
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job fear God for no reason?
Have you not put a hedge around him
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and his house and all that he
has on every side? You have blessed
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the work of his hands and his
possessions having creased in the land? But
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stretch out your hand and touch all
that he has and he will curse you
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to your face. And the Lord
said to Satan, behold, all that
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he has is in your hand,
only against him. Do not stretch out
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your hand. So Satan went out
from the presence of the Lord. Now
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there was a day when his sons
and daughters were eating and drinking wine in
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their oldest brother's house, and there
came a messenger to job and said the
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oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding
beside them, and the Sabians fell upon
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them and took them and struck down
the servants with the edge of the sword,
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and I alone have escaped to tell
you well he was yet speaking.
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There came another and said the fire
of God fell from heaven and burned up
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the sheep and the servants and consumed
them, and I alone have escaped to
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tell you well he was yet speaking. There came another and said the Chaldeans
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formed three groups and made a raid
on the camels and took them and struck
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down the servants with the edge of
the sword, and I alone have escaped
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to tell you well he was yet
speaking. There came another and said your
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sons and daughters were eating and drinking
wine in their oldest brother's house, and
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behold, a great wind came across
the Wilderness and struck the four corners of
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the house, and it fell upon
the young people and they are dead.
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And I alone have escaped to tell
you. Then job arose and tore his
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robe and shaved his head and fell
on the ground and worshiped, and he
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said, naked, I came from
my mother's womb, and naked shall I
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return? The Lord gave and the
Lord has taken away. Blessed be the
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name of the Lord. In all
this, job did not sin or charge
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God with wrong again. There was
a day when the sons of God came
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to present themselves before the Lord,
and Satan also came among them to present
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himself before the Lord. And the
Lord said to Satan, from where have
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you come? Satan answered the Lord
and said from going to and fro on
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the earth and from walking up and
down on it. And the Lord said
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to Satan, have you considered my
servant job, that there is none like
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him on the Earth, a blameless
and upright man who fears God and turns
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away from evil. He still holds
fast his integrity, although you incited me
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against him, to destroy him without
reason. Then Satan answered the Lord and
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said, skin for skin, all
that a man has, he will give
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for his life. But stretch out
your hand and touch his bone and his
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flesh, and he will curse you
to your face. And the Lord said
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to Satan, behold, he is
in your hand. Only spare his life.
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So Satan went out from the presence
of the Lord and struck job with
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loathsome sores from the soul of his
foot to the crown of his head,
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and he took a piece of broken
pottery with which to scrape himself. Well,
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he sat in the ashes. Then
his wife said to him, do
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you still hold faster integrity? Curse
God and die, but he said to
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her, you speak as one of
the foolish women would speak. Shall we
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receive good from God and Shall We
not receive evil? In all this,
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job did not sind with his lips. That's far the reading of God's word.
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Please be seated. Well, if
there ever had been a man born
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in Adam's line in the way that
made him just ordinary, who could have
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avoided all suffering by being righteous,
then job is that man. You would
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think. Look how righteous job is
and how his righteousness is true righteousness,
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not just a show of fake righteousness. Everything in that first chapter of job
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shows that job is sincere in the
righteousness that he has. Verse One Describes
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Him as blameless and upright and that's
the description to take at faith value.
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Job Is truly blameless. He is
truly upright. The text simply says it
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and is speaking truly when it does. But also job's uprightness comes out quite
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clearly in what unfolds in chapter one
of the text. One way we see
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job's uprightness there in our text is
through what he does in verse five and
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in Verse Six. In those verses, versus five and six of chapter one,
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job makes sacrifice for his kids just
in case they have sinned. Preemptive
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sacrifice for sin that might have been
or else might not have been. Job
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Doesn't know, but he makes sacrifice
anyway. What this shows is how deeply
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God cares about pleasing his God.
He's so concerned that his kids not offend
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God that he'll offer sacrifice even just
in case they have sinned, not even
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knowing for sure that they did,
but still doing it just in case and
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not even asking them again. What
this shows is that job really cares about
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God with sincerity. Job's truly upright. It's not just a show that job
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is putting on here. He really
is righteous. That shouldn't be questioned.
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You also see that job is righteous
by what the Lord says up in Heaven,
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right there in verse eight of Chapter
One. The Lord says there to
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the Devil that job is a servant
of God who's the most righteous on the
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earth in that day. Isn't that
essentially what the Lord's words imply? Now
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that's a pretty remarkable thing, isn't
it, for God to hold up this
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man above all the others, all
others alive on the earth in this day.
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Job is singled out as the one, the most righteous of all in
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this day. And so highly does
God think of job and his righteousness that
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here he chooses to use him in
a challenge with the devil. This man
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is so righteous that God deems him
worthy of using him to contest Satan's doubts
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and Satan's charges and Satan's accusations and
insinuations. Again, that's remarkable for a
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man who is just an ordinary man
to be used in this way. So
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we see, job stands out on
the Earth for true righteousness. This is
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clear from what the Lord says in
heaven. Yet even though this man stands
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out for his righteousness, this doesn't
keep him from having to suffer, does
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it? For even still for all
the ways job is righteous, he still
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ends up losing so much under God's
hand. And yet the thing is that
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his righteousness only stands out even more
after all that he loses. For when
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the time comes for job too survey
what he's lost, what does he do?
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He only blesses God. He will
not curse his God. Losing his
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animals, servants and children, he
blesses the Lord in Verse Twenty One.
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Naked, I came from my mother's
womb, he says, and naked shall
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I return. And the Lord gave
and the Lord has taken away, but
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still job speaks a blessing upon the
Lord's name in that verse. It's the
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same also in verse ten of Chapter
Two, where job once again refuses to
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curse the Lord. There he loses
his health, the support of his wife.
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Even still, job refuses to speak
ill of God. He continues to
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hold fast to God in that moment, and what this shows is job's remarkable
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righteousness. By holding fast to the
Lord, even in what he loses,
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job shows that the Lord was correct
when God told Satan that job really was
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righteous and that job was a true
servant of God who had true love for
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God. See, Satan had questioned
if job was sincere. He had wondered
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if job only served God, because
God had blessed job and prospered him,
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keeping him safe from loss. But
how job responds to his sufferings? Puts
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to rest Satan's doubts, Satan's accusations, Satan's insinuations. And yet, even
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with this being true about job,
that he is truly righteous and it's not
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a show, this did not preclude
him losing almost all that he had.
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Since righteous job loses everything in this
text. Someone as righteous as job in
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our text loses tenzo animals, multiple
servants and ten adult children in one afternoon.
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Righteous job loses everything. Nothing is
spared. Also then, on that
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second occasion, he loses his health, he gets covered in painful deep sores
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and his wife turns against him when
he needs her the most, when he
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trusts in God. She's done trust
in God. And this is where he
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ends up, after all else that
he lost. You See, Beloved,
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if righteousness could prevent suffering in this
life, you would expect job to not
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have to suffer. But job,
who is righteous, still suffers great loss.
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Even though he is righteous, he
still suffers loss. But the question
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is why? Why has job lost
all this. What is God's purpose in
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the lost job suffers here? One
thing that we should notice is that it
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is not due to sin that job
suffers, or because he's not righteous after
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all. Notice it's actually the opposite. Job Actually suffers because he is righteous.
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The reason God let Satan Cause job
to suffer is because God's pleased with
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job, not that job sinned.
If you know much at all about this
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book of Job, then you know
that job's friends will accuse him of sinning
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and that they will think that he's
hiding some sin and that that's what explains
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all the loss that job's suffered.
But here in job one and two,
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it is made clear that the reason
job suffers is actually because he's righteous.
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It's because God has become so pleased
with him that job becomes the target of
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all Satan's fury. So one thing
to note is that job does not suffer
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for sin, but for righteousness.
That's why he suffers. He suffers because
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the Lord is pleased with him,
not because the Lord has been offended by
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him. Yet another thing to keep
in mind also is that God does have
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a plan to restore all job's fortunes
when this book plays out. By the
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end of the book, God restores
what job lost and gives it back in
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the end. So the fact that
job is righteous and that he suffers should
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be seen as something that is only
for a time. God will not leave
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righteous people to suffer forever. He
will prosper them in the end. But
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the last thing to notice is that, although job here is truly a righteous
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man, his righteousness can't prevent him
from suffering, because his righteousness still isn't
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good enough to achieve that. After
all, job is still just a regular
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man, although righteous, a man
who has fallen in Adam, a man
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who has not done enough to win
eternal life or all safety from suffering loss.
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Only one man could do that,
and that man is not job.
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Although job is righteous, it's still
not enough to win eternal safety from suffering
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forever. Only one man, Jesus
Christ, could do that. Could do
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that. But beyond all this,
why is job suffering loss? It turns
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out that there is something more to
the why of it. Job Shull fers
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as a display of God's glory.
Job Suffers to show that the Lord is
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worth serving. Job demonstrates that God
is worth it to serve, even in
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times when he is not giving his
blessings. Remember the charge that was made
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by the devil. That job only
serves God because the Lord Prospers Him.
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Well, that job holds fast even
when God Withdraws Blessing. Shows Satan that
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he has misjudged this man job.
But this also shows at the very same
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time that the devil has misjudged the
glory of God. That job holds fast
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to God. Well, God withdraws
his blessings, shows that God is worthy
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still win. He withdraws his gifts, that God himself alone is worthy to
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be praised and worshiped by those who
come to know him. And in this
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as job serves this purpose. Here, job serves as a prototype of what
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God has in mind for his church, those saved by Jesus Christ. Job
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is a servant of God with a
status of righteousness that is known only in
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heave and who suffers to demonstrate God's
glory to those who are up in heaven,
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these heavenly beings, those sons of
God mentioned in the text. He
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is a servant of God who suffers
with this righteous status without understanding all the
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reasons why. And this is what
we are called to as God's Church in
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Christ. Any FESIANS, the third
chapter, in the ten verse, Paul
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says that God has purposes known up
in heaven, concerning his church, in
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whom he demonstrates the very center of
his wisdom, and that up in heaven
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God uses his Church to showcase his
glory, his wisdom to these heavenly beings.
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Isn't that exactly what's Ha happening in
the book of Job? God is
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demonstrating his wisdom through his righteous servant, demonstrating his wisdom and his glory to
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heavenly beings. We, just like
job, are used by God to showcase
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his wisdom to beings assembled in heaven. That's what Paul says in He Feesians,
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chapter three, verse ten, and
we are used in this way,
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much like job, often without understanding
what God's doing or why. In in
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this we are just like job as
a people who have a great status of
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righteousness known up in heaven. Our
suffering isn't because heaven rejects us but,
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like job, because God's pleased with
us. Through Christ. God's purpose is
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to showcase us to those in heaven
as trophies of his, who display his
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glory, who shut down the charges
like that made by Satan that it's not
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worth serving God if he won't Prosper. You know, in us God upholds
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his own glorious worth, using us
to show that he is worth it to
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serve, even when we are suffering
under his hand without our understanding the why,
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much like job, and all this
is part of God's own great,
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glorious plan to bring us to the
day when we will come to him,
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when will enter his presence to serve
him forever, a people redeemed by the
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blood of the savior, who went
about serving God here on the earth even
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when they were suffering under his sovereignty, people whose righteous status was secure in
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heaven, even if people on Earth
might sometimes feel cause to question whether these
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people can really be the target of
God's pleasure, the target of God's affection.
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All of that will be revealed on
that day that is to come.
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Heaven's purposes, what God was doing
with our lives, God's pleasure, with
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us in it all and through it
all, our great status of righteousness in
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Jesus Christ, even if, even
though in this life we, like job,
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often suffered great loss, on the
day that is to come we will
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come to see how God was at
work glorifying himself in US and through us,
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in all that we suffered, how
he was using even our sufferings to
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showcase his glory to beings in heaven, perhaps even unbeknownst to us, much
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the way he used job with Satan, and job never came to understand his
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sufferings, even to the end of
his life, not until he went into
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glory, with job able to understand
his sufferings. The same may yet be
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true for us, and the same
surely is true to some degree for us.
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And when that day comes that our
God is bringing us to, we
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will on that day praise God,
glorify him on that day even more than
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we did in this life. We
will confess on that day that all our
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sufferings were worth it to sir of
this God. But then also, when
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that day arrives, we will be
there to witness the thing that job longed
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for, the thing that we ourselves
long for so often, a time in
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a place when the righteous will never
suffer again. And that's because, when
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the day comes that we are all
waiting for, we will, on that
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day, enter the life that Christ
has one for us by his perfect righteousness,
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that righteousness that is so much better
than the righteousness of job and the
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life that Christ has one for us
is a life where there is true absence
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of suffering forever. Clothed with Christ's
perfect status, will then get his reward,
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perfect life, without suffering, loss
anymore, perfect blessing from God and
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from being with God, in his
presence. From that day on, he
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will prosper US always, and even
though it is worth it to serve him
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at times when he doesn't prosper us
in this life, then he will be
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pleased to prosper US forevermore in perfect
blessing, and on that day we will
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take pleasure in blessing his name.
Yes, may we do so today,
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maybe we do so now, but
on that day our words will echo the
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words of job in a much more
glorious fashion, as we will bless the
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name of the Lord for all of
that entire age, the entirety of the
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life to come. We will rejoice
in the God who has freed us from
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all suffering and we will live before
him forevermore to praise his name. Church
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of God. That day that I'm
speaking of is the day that God has
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destined you for as your great inheritance
through the righteousness of Christ, your savior.
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That day is promised as a day
of blessing to all who trust in
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the work of Christ, a day
of blessing, a day of being with
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God. It is foreshadowed here in
the book of Job Well, may it
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please our God to bring all of
us to that day by His grace,
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even though our road might lead through
hardships. May it please God to sustain
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us as his servants, those who
serve him, yes, even in suffering,
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those who serve him, all to
display his glory in us. May
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it please him to use us in
this way until that day. Amen,
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let's pray
