Job 1

I just, I'd say prayers, here's my prayer for my song Praise You All the Same.

It comes from Job 1:21.

It says, "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.

May the name of the Lord be praised." And I wrote it in a season, just my daughter, she was born with club feet, which is a rare foot condition, and she's five years old now.

She had a major surgery last summer, so when she was four years old, a little over a year ago.

And thanks to the grace of God, with the wonderful doctors at Scottish Rite, she is healed, but her healing was a process and there were prayers through her healing that weren't answered in the way we expected.

That's why Job 1:21 meant so much.

The Lord gives, the Lord takes away.

That's the three-headed dragon right there.

This is from Job 1, from the King James Version.

Job 1.6, and it says, Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

So it is very interesting.

It's from

Note, nothing conduces more to satisfy a gracious soul under an affliction than the consideration of the hand of God in it.

It is the Lord, 1 Samuel 3 verse 18, Job 1 verse 21. especially to consider that he who afflicts us is shaddai the almighty with whom it is folly to contend and to whom it is our duty and interest to submit it is that name of god by which he enters into covenant with his people i am god almighty god all-sufficient genesis seventeen verse one he afflicts as a god in covenant and his all-sufficiency may be our support and supply under all our afflictions he that empties us of the creature knows how to fill us with himself third she speaks very feelingly of the impression which the affliction had made upon her he has dealt very bitterly with me the cup of affliction is a bitter cup and even that which afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness yet for the present is not joyous but grievous hebrews twelve verse eleven job complains thou writest bitter things against me job thirteen verse twenty six fourth she owns the affliction to have come from god as a controversy the lord hath testified against me note when god corrects us he testifies against us and contends with us job ten verse seventeen intimating that he is displeased with us every rod has a voice the voice of a witness two the compliance of her spirit with this change call me not naomi for i am no more pleasant either to myself or to my friends but call me mara a name more agreeable to my present state many that are debased and impoverished yet affect to be called by the empty names and titles of honour they have formerly enjoyed naomi did not so her humility regards not a glorious name in a dejected state if god deal bitterly with her she accommodates herself to the dispensation and is willing to be called mara bitter it well becomes us to have our hearts humbled under humbling providences when our condition is brought down our spirits should be brought down with it and then our troubles are sanctified to us when we thus comport with them for it is not an affliction itself but an affliction rightly born that does us good so many calamities have been lost upon you if you have not yet learned how to suffer seneca ad heviam tribulation works patience

chapter one CHAPTER II.

there is scarcely any chapter in all the sacred history that stoops so low as this to take cognizance of so mean a person as ruth a poor moabitish widow so mean an action as her gleaning corn in a neighbour's field and the minute circumstances thereof but all this was in order to her being grafted into the line of christ and taken in among his ancestors that she might be a figure of the espousals of the gentile church to christ as i fifty four verse one and this makes the story remarkable and many of the passages of it are instructive and very improvable here is first ruth's humility and industry in gleaning corn providence directing her to boaz's field verses one to three second the great favor which boaz showed to her in many instances verses four to sixteen third the return of ruth to her mother-in-law verses eighteen to twenty-three

Let me ask you a question.

In, in Job, in Job 1, Satan came with the sons of God and appeared before God.

Is that right? That's right.

Who brought up Job's name? God.

That was his ministry before Christ died.

In Job 1, that was before Christ died.

So today, Satan cannot appear before the Lord.

Please remove that.

When Satan had the keys of Adam, he appeared when the sons of God appeared in Job 1.

But after Christ rose up, he seized all the keys of death, life, Hades.

He took all.

So the text is Job 19.

We're going to look at verses 25 through 27.

I think this is probably the oldest text in the canon dealing with the subject of bodily resurrection.

which is what I stressed yesterday at Maxine's.

So he's literally the most godly man alive at the time.

And the devil's response is full of cynicism, evil cynicism.

Job 1, verses 9 and 10.

Does Job fear God without cause? Have you not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has on every side? And so Satan lets us know God is actually protecting Job.