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Job Study 5

Job 15-19 I know that my Redeemer lives

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My Redeemer lives and that in the end he was stand upon the

Earth and after my skin has been destroyed yet in my flesh,

I will see God I myself will see him with my own eyes. I am

not another how my heart yearns within me. I know that my

Redeemer lives. That's what we're taking and let me read

from Chapter 15 words of elephants terminators, he says

to Job verse seven. Are you the first man? Born where you

brought forth before the Hills do you listen in on God's

Council. Do you limit wisdom to yourself? What do you know that

we do not know what insights do you have the region do not have

the gray hair and the age are on our side man even older than

your father. Well, that's quite a start for us to think about

elephants with his. I'm afraid of the prosperity gospel once

again, his first 20. Do you think the heart of his

arguments? What do you think about that? yeah, I think so

verse 20. His days, the wicked man suffers torments so if you

if you see somebody suffering torment what must you conclude?

well? absolutely he must be wicked and that's sort of the

burden of the rest of the elephant, says that this wicked

people well verse 20 -, four distress and anguish will fill

him with terror and he basically says bad things

happen to bad people. What goes around comes around and and

again you might think well that's so far from the comfort

that I would give I would be Reassuring of somebody in

suffering and yet if we start to think the way that elephants

thinks then I think we will start to offer the kind of

comfort inverted Commerce that that elephant's office. I

remember I was in a home Bible study and we were at a prayer

time sharing points for prayer and there was a woman in our

midst who have been suffering with insomnia for for 50 years

but no sooner as she said that she was suffering insomnia for

50 years. People said Oh, have you tried a drop of lavender on

the pillow? Oh yeah. Have you tried going for a walk by the

Sea front before before bedtime. If you tried Chema

special have you tried the shipping forecast? Have you

tried this Have you tried for 15 minutes. We were all giving

her advice about how she could fix herself and she was very

godly. She just sat back and very patiently and after 15

minutes, she just said. Yeah. I tried all those things in the

first year. what I really want you to do is pray that I would

that I would enjoy this and that I would turn those night

times into prayer times for the Lord that I can pray my way

through the missionary prayer diary, and that kind of thing

and her focus was really on getting. Suffering our focus

was on trying to fix her and tell her to do something

different and I think that's kind of the essence of this

miserable comforters. Yes, I mean, look at Chapter 16 verse

two jere replies. I've had many things like this Miserables are

you why are Joe's friend such miserable comforters? Well? I

love that phrase Miserables and glenny. I know that you love

all these memorable phrases that are in the Scriptures,

particularly whether it's James's got that one. He's got

skin of teeth and you. This books' holden's books because

they're all English phrases that they tossed around today,

but they'll come out of the back of the Scriptures. So it's

the King's English and it's a devotional walk through the

Bible using this great phrases out of the Bible that we use

today, but actually anchoring the scripture. So here they are

three of Dan's books, The King's English and all you need

to do to find it is your Google Kings Ain' The King's English

dot Info. Wonderful Glen. show people can enjoy reading that

aren't they they are the I I've used them for a whole year.

fabulous They are and so in this phrase miserable

comforters in Chapter 16 verse two comes up and that and

everyone knows that phrase and these comforters are miserable

because as Glenn was saying, they're always really saying

job you're suffering and it's your fault and all the time you

think is all for it. We went to visit a dear Lady in a hospice

and we. Is a member of our Church fellowship. We have we

actually went and we shared the truth of Jesus and it was

amazing because she was experiencing the presence of

Jesus And she was filled with joy and worshiping and things.

but imagine if instead of pointing to Jesus, we got and

said you know you're in this hospice because you're a sinner

and it's your fault that you'd be like. Oh my goodness get

out. do not that is not comfort that is horrible. Well. that's

what these friends do. Basically, they say to you.

This is all your fault and. Really, they're saying to him,

we will tell you how to get out of suffering You. What do you

know that we do not know. Yeah. What do you know and how to in

instead of thinking about how to get out of suffering? really

what Joe wants to know is what to get out of it or you know

not how to get but what is in this to get in it. You want to

get even in suffering and he's like I need Jesus and those

things like that that no. it's all your fault. so the answer

to his suffering guilt condemnation burden terrible

and Such neat answers, yes, and they thought it was very neat

answers. This is why again we're very careful are we not

when there's somebody who is going through a really rough

time we we can read the books beforehand about suffering so

far, yes or bereavement, but not directly off because what

they need actually is warmth, love comfort and the reminders

of Jesus and being appointed to him. Yes, So not need answers

may feel actually that everyone even God is against him. I mean

in Chapter 16 verse one to 18 look at verse 12. All was well

with me, but he. With me, but does he still have a friend?

who's not such a miserable? comforter? Yeah, absolutely.

and you know it's so unfortunate that he has no

friends to point him to Jesus and so in the end job just has

to point himself to Jesus and in verses 19 to 21, we have

this wonderful verses. Even now my witness is in heaven. My

advocate is on high. My intercessor is my friend as my

eyes, pour out tears to God on behalf of a man he plead with

God as a man pleads for his friend. This is the friends

that job needs and I love that there are four names. Gives to

Christ here you know firstly, he's my witness so often in

suffering we feel like we're alone. Nobody notices. If

you've been in the hospital for any length of time, it can feel

very lonely time, But there's one who sees one who knows and

he's Secondly my advocates one who sticks up for me. You know

we don't have the strength when we suffering. We don't have the

strength to stick up for ourselves in heaven. We don't

have the right to stick up for ourselves in heaven, but

there's one who is our advocate who sticks up for us. My

intercessor you know when when we are suffering. When when

suffering really hits can you pray, you know, sometimes it's

it's just the Romans eight thing just groaning just

groaning. and yet there is one who intercedes for us. He he

pleads with God Verse 21. He's an intercessor prays for us in

verse 20. He is my friend. my friend who knows what it is to

go through such worse suffering the we've ever gone through. he

amplifies he sympathizes. He's gone through the Valley of the

shadow of death and he promised. Our friend through

it, that's who we need to know in our suffering and as we

comfort others, he's the one we need to point people to oh we

ought to hold on to those names of the Lord. My witness, my

intercessor, my advocate and my friend hold onto let's hold on

to that. In the words of Acts 17 verse 15, when job seems to

be well overwhelmed by darkness and chaos and despair and

falling into death. Actually the word hope is mentioned.

Yes, how do we understand the source of such hope? Well,

that's the thing cuz he's just said. Look. these friends is

the no one here who's got any real wisdom and real hope cuz

in verse 12. It's like you guys just keep saying it's going to

be all right or you know not to worry you know and all that

sort of he is not good enough. I need something more than that

and he's like here when he again we see with job. he'll

have a vision of Christ that just like that, absolutely

fantastic and then he sometimes looks. Again and look around

his friends and he ends up getting all down again and now

he's saying the only friend I've got a corruption in the

worm and the grave and things and he said, I know hope so

again. it's why when we're in the the best help we can ever

be. if we wanna be useful comforters, it's not to go job

If we just go. Oh, it's gonna be alright in the end. He's go

is it and he starts looking around at himself and he I

can't see it. I can only see things going down. Verse 11 my

days of my mind, Yes, so the desires of my heart that's

right and he's now looking at he's saying, is it really gonna

be? I don't think it is I'm looking at myself so at this

point when he's doing that looking at himself for his own

resources and his efforts and his own heart and his own

desires, No and he ends up getting deeper and deeper into

the darkness of depression. but when he looks at his friend and

his intercessor and all that he's like, Ah this hope but

apparently build out the. It's not really listening Chapter

18. He comes back with his argument of three. Why are we

in regards to this cattle and considered stupid in your

sights? You would tell yourself to pieces in your anger.

Etcetera so builder is coming back that we are not powerless

cattle but responsible agents who will get what we deserve

from God. It seems like that It's powerful Ric, of course,

but what's what's all about? well? verse Five is the heart

of his argument against the lamp of the wicked is snuffed

out. Okay Joe's snuffed. Guess what you are, You know you you

must be wicked and it's the same What goes around comes

around thing and it forces build that to to think well.

The wicked must get there come up in this life and the

righteous must be blessed in this life and and this powerful

rhetoric about what what happens to the wicked verse

eight a trap seasons and by the Hillel verse 10 news is hidden

on the ground and this is you know crime doesn't pay you know

and it's only law enforcement who generally. Doesn't pay

quite invested in crime not paying of course, will point

out later that the crime very often does pay and in this life

we don't see that. But what bill that has he has this, You

know the wicked get they come up the righteous they they must

be blessed and he's taking his eyes off the cross because what

what do we see at the cross? But you know the the greatest

person ever suffers the most. so that's we the worst kind of

sinners might be blessed the most but whenever we take our.

Of the cross will fall into this miserable comfort. That's

one of the great secrets of the East African revival in which I

was brought up as a child. The cross was always at the Center

of there will be darkness and chaos and bereavement and

murder, But the cross was at the absolute unmistakable

Center of that revival, and it still is the archbishop of

Kenya Today. The Anglican archbishop is a revival man. He

keeps pointing to the cross vico so Chapter 19 now look at

verses one to 22 job. How his friends make him feel more and

more desperate is the way where I was a way out of his

suffering. If only he had the right Well, theology or

righteousness or attitude or if they only genuine comfort for

job and all the suffering The only genuine comfort cuz when

he when they say they look at yourself in your own resources

job. So he does that for 22 years and he goes, it's pretty

bad. Actually. It's really hates me. You see those two or

30 that my words are recorded that there were no that's the

beautiful, but because he's looking at himself, no hope

then he's he remembers and he suddenly like. I if I

everything else I ever say is forgotten May this one thing be

remembered. Oh, that with my latest breath, I might be guest

his name Christ. I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the

end he will stand upon the Earth and after I've died, I

know I'm gonna die either now or later, but I'm gonna die on

my body will decay away, but he will resurrect me and then I

will look on him when we look. Of the face to face this

friend, the one who's always been with me. My Redeemer, the

one who's prayed for me. he will bring me back. I will meet

together on this Earth physically and then all my

physical problems will have gone away and even if now, yes,

I'm suffering and there's all these things wrong with my

body. Then there will be nothing wrong with my body and

I'll be close with him. mortality just like him you

don't. I don't care if everything else I've ever said.

It's forgotten May this not be forgotten and of course here we

are maybe. Three and a half thousand years or more later,

we're reading it. His prayer is well. It wasn't written on rock

forever, but it's on paper and it's here. We're still reading

it. Jesus lives and it sounds like something from one

Corinthians sometimes when I read that phrase, I know that

my Redeemer lives. Where's that from people typically say, Oh,

it's probably from somewhere in the New Testament. It's from

the yeah one Corinthians 15. He's from the first book ever

written in the Bible Jesus lives. That's our hope. So job

1920 - five. It's a verse to learn. It's nobody comes. I

know that my Redeemer lives. It's worth. I mean we're all of

us preachers. We love preaching and that particular sentence

and all those sentences around it So job in this very first

Bible book ever written knows whom his Redeemer is and his

father, of course later on by Abraham, who read reason that

God could raise the

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