Job 19

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The, I know that my redeemer lives, let's go with Job 19.

That, that's, that's, that's the easy one.

The other place where we all see Christ is this shows us by realizing that, I mean, the message of Job, and this gets into his confession, the, oh, I, I, I reali- it's the, Job, Job ends with, "Time out, I spoke too much.

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Yeah, I mean, the, the God whom we trust for no reason ends up giving us tons of reasons to trust him, you know? And, and both in, in the times of, of suffering and the times of great blessing.

I, you know, the, the text from Job 19 is a very clear proclamation of Christ.

Thanks be to God that, that it is recorded in this book.

I'm Clem Harrell.

Today is Saturday of the 26th week in Ordinary Time and we are continuing our first readings from the Old Testament book of Job and in our Gospel we have the return of the 72 disciples as recorded in Luke's Gospel and they return rejoicing and Jesus describes the effects of the spiritual warfare that they have been waging in the ongoing campaign of establishing his kingdom on the earth.

Let's begin though with the first reading from the book of Job.

It's an important reading because we're getting the kind of climax, the culmination of Job's story arc.

And the book of Job, it's important, I think, to pay attention to the details in this passage, because Job has been going through all these trials and afflictions.

He's had his very unhelpful friends, if you could even call them that, giving him all sorts of advice and blaming him for his suffering, saying he must have done something wrong, all And he's had this whole sequence of God explaining that he is God and Job is not.

And that these different sufferings that Job has experienced, that he's not in a position to understand why they happen, why God allows them to happen.

But that's not all.

The question again is this.

Can you trust God when you are submerged in suffering? Can you say with Job today, though he slay me, yet will I trust him?

Welcome to Love Worth Finding, featuring the profound yet practical lessons of Adrian Rogers.

We've all faced devastation at some point in our lives.

It's in those difficult seasons that we often ask, if God is enough, can God be trusted in our troubles? This is what Job learned in his suffering.

In part one of today's message, Adrian Rogers began to share how the book of Job shows us that God himself is not only necessary, but he is enough.

If you have your Bible, turn now to Job chapter 13 and look at verse 15 as Adrian Rogers shares part two of Can God Be Trusted in Your Troubles?

THE TITLE OF THE MESSAGE IS, CAN GOD BE TRUSTED IN YOUR TROUBLES? ALL OF US KNOW THAT GOD IS NECESSARY.

Can you trust God when you're forsaken of friends? My kin's folk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

And then look in Job 19 verse 19.

All my inward friends abhorred me.

And they whom I loved are turned against me.

And we, in storms and trials, can attain consolation and can survive only by faith, for the just shall live by faith.

When all salvation disappears from the visible horizon, then the absolute trust in God is required, like in Job 19, verse 25.

With a fervent and living faith that knows that the Lord of power remains almighty, Job 19, verse 42.

The psalmist knows very well that he is always our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble, Psalm 45 verse 2.

That is why he exclaims, therefore we will not fear even though the earth be moved, Psalm 45 verse 3 again.

In the midst of his suffering, if you know Job's story, he suffered greatly.

But in the midst of his suffering, Job said in Job 19, verses 25-27, he said, "...as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will rise up over the dust of this world." Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall behold God, whom I myself shall behold and whom my eyes will see and not another.

My heart faints within me.

Job had a confident hope that despite the fact that his body would decay to dust, the day would come when he would nevertheless stand before God and would see Him with his own eyes.