Episode Transcript
Good morning.
It is 10 o'clock and time for us to begin our Bible study.
We are in Job chapter 3 In verse 22 this morning, Job chapter 3, and I'm glad to see each of you here and online as well and welcome our visitors.
Jeremy and Heather, I believe I got the names right.
I'm the worst, so I have to say it out loud quite a bit to get it right.
But for all of you who are here or who've tuned in, Your hunger to hear and understand God's word is commendable.
Last week we learned the bitter in soul and the one in misery.
Dig for the relief of death just as servants dug for water, which is among Earth's greatest treasures.
If you don't believe it, look at the fights that countries have over water rights.
And until it's found, water is a treasure that is hidden.
And death, until it is found, is a hidden treasure for the ones who are bitter in soul.
And for those who are in misery, it's the treasure they seek, according to Job, what he said about it last week.
And we began verse 22 by reading about those who long for the grave.
And the verse says Which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave.
Now it was actually a question And the thirsty man who digs for water has his thirst quenched whenever he finds the water and gets to drink of it, and therefore he rejoices greatly.
You know the sounds you make when you're really thirsty and you take that first big gulp of water and you let out some sort of sound of relief.
I think you're happy.
And for the bitter in soul who finds the grave, Job says there's the same rejoicing.
Now let's go on to the new part of our study.
We're in verse 23.
If you've just joined us online, we are in Job chapter 3, verse 23.
And the question here is, why is light given to a man whose way is hid?
Now if you have the the King James translation, you will notice the words.
Why is light given?
That those are all in italics.
And if you're not familiar with why that is the case.
The italics are supplied, or the words in italics are supplied by the translators. of the King James Translation.
And it means that the words themselves were not in the original text.
Of course, here the original text was in Hebrew.
But they're supplied by the translators to help us understand what the sentence means, to bring all of the words into context.
If you take those words out and try to make sense of this one verse, you're left with this question, to a man whose way is hid?
And it's hard to make sense of that.
So look back in verse 20.
In fact, We'll read, or I'll read verses 20 through 22 Uh because this question that's being asked in verse 23 actually starts in verse 20.
It's one long question.
It says, Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?
which long for death, but it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures, which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave.
Now you see the question mark So that question was three verses long.
And ours is, why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom God hath hedged in?
But if you get rid of the words that are in italics, then Out of necessity, verse 23 is part of the question that's being asked in verses 20 through 22.
And so when the translators put why is light given, they're trying to remind you about the original part of the question in verse 20, wherefore is light given and wherefore is simply light Why?
It's the same thing, just a different word.
Now that we've read that, we know that Light is the thing that is given to the people who are described in verses 20 through 22.
And when the translators put the words in italics in verse 23, they were showing us that this verse is still part of the original question that began in verse 20.
Wherefore or why is light given?
Now, to the question Job is asking here, we look at the first, or look at that word for light that's in verse 20.
Because that word was from the original Hebrew word, which is translated as light or lights, or sometimes sun or lightning, and so forth.
And the gift of light is given to a man whose way is hid.
That's what the text says.
And Job wants to know why is that?
And just to remind you, this is a man who has now lost all of his children, most of his servants, and his cattle And his health.
He's in bad shape.
Physically, psychologically, spiritually, in every way So keep that in mind as you evaluate what he says in our text.
And it's apparent to me that he's referring to himself as the man whose way is hid, or we would say hidden.
In a way, W-A-Y there is the course or the road of a man's life.
And when it is hidden, it's secret.
It's closed.
It's absent from the eyes of other people, at least according to the perception of the one whose way is hidden.
In Isaiah chapter 29.
The prophet wrote about the children of Israel who had dishonored God.
And in verse 15, it's Isaiah 29, 15, he wrote, Woe unto them that seek deep to hide, there's our word, their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us?
And who knoweth us?
Now in that verse, you heard the word hide, which is the same word as hid in our text from the same Hebrew word.
And the wicked Jews of whom Isaiah was writing did everything they could to keep their counsel, to keep their works hidden from God.
In fact, they were so arrogant they said, Who seeth us?
And who knoweth us?
Or put in the declarative mode, nobody can see us and nobody knows what we're doing.
And they included God in that Now, had this statement referred to man's ability to see and to know their evil doings, they may have been correct.
After all, there is a lot of evil being done in this world that we're not aware of.
I mean, we're aware of some of it.
We see it on the news if it's accurately reported.
We hear about it, perhaps you see it with your own eyes, depending on what line of work you do. what your experiences in life have been, but you're not aware of all of it.
In fact, you're probably not aware of most of it.
But this statement obviously referred to God when it was made by these Jews, who seeth us and who knoweth our works.
And these foolish Jews believed they could hide their counsel and works from God.
And Isaiah said, no, you can't.
Now what does God tell us?
About how those hidden counsels and works are revealed.
First Corinthians chapter 4, verse 5.
1 Corinthians 4 verse 5 says, therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come.
Who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then shall every man have praise of God.
So the counsels of the heart and the works that were in darkness will be openly shown by light.
And light given to works that are hidden exposes those works, so they're no longer hidden.
And the fact is, they were never hidden from God, only from man.
And the wicked don't want that light.
First Corinthians chapter 3 verse 13, and if you're taking notes, put the little letter A.
That means we're reading only the first part of the verse, so we want to be honest about it in our notes.
1 Corinthians 3, verse 13a says, every man's work shall be made manifest.
For the day shall declare it.
Now what is the day?
It's light, isn't it?
Day can be light, or day can be the light and the darkness of a 24-hour cycle.
But here it's obvious that it it's light.
And manifest is just that which is shown.
When you manifest something, you show it openly.
Now let's look at an even more profound spiritual truth here from Job's text.
In an earthly sense, just from a human perspective, a man who is grieving like Job has a sense that his way is hidden from the world.
And it's not that nobody can physically see him, but that nobody can truly understand his heart, his grieving heart.
Not even his wife, as we'll see.
That man's sorrow and despair are his own And although his friends and his family may sit with him, pray with him, embrace him, They can't shine a light on his way, on his heart.
They cannot expose the counsels of his heart or the works he does in darkness.
However, this principle here is not limited to the earthly ways of a man being hidden from the world.
If it were, we could say they're hidden from most of the world and we move on.
No, in fact, the prophet Isaiah described the children of Israel in a prophetic sense. as he began to prophesy of the Savior who would one day come to deliver him.
How many of you all in here have listened to Handel's Messiah?
Man, that's great.
You know what that is?
That is absolute undiluted scripture sung And it takes a while.
In fact, if you probably haven't heard the entire work, which is well over two hours, you've probably heard the 45-minute version.
But let me tell you, it's wonderful.
And uh only those at the top, top flight of musical voices can do justice to that because of some of the uh Wow, it's very complex musically for a person who's singing.
But what's more important to me than the style of music, whether it be classical or more contemporary, is that It's God's word.
And Isaiah chapter 9 is the source of much of the lyrics in Handel's Messiah.
And so in Isaiah chapter 9 verse 2, it says, the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.
They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Now remember, Job talked, y'all want me to sing that, don't you?
The people that walked that walked and dark.
I can't go any lower than that, but the bass singer can.
He's wonderful.
Please tune in and listen to one of those accomplished bass singers.
But Job talked about the ones who seek the grave, the ones which long for death, and he wondered, why would light be given to them?
And the truth is that every person walks in darkness in the shadow of death because we're born with a sinful nature.
In Psalm chapter 107, verses 13 through 14.
Psalm 107, 13 through 14, the psalmist wrote, Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bands in sunder.
Now what does it mean in Isaiah chapter 9 when he said, Upon them, that is upon the wicked children of Israel, upon them the light hath shined.
That was prophetic of what Jesus would do when he came to seek and save that which was lost.
And in fact, in John chapter 12, verses 44 through 46, getting a lot of note-taking in this morning, John 12, 44 through 46.
It says, Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness Now Isaiah prophesied that upon them the light hath shined, as though it's a prophecy.
It's of an event that has not yet occurred, but it's written as though it had.
Because all prophecy is, is pre-written history.
God already knows it.
We're predisposed to sin because of our father Adam.
We practice sin because of our flesh.
We prefer to sin because of our pride and our rebellion.
And we're in darkness until we believe on Jesus.
That's the requirement for receiving the light of the world. is to believe on Jesus and his finished work.
You cannot receive that light in any other way And Job's question about why light would be given to one whose way is hid.
Is surely limited to his earthly way.
Because Job was a Christian.
We've already listened to God's testimony about Job.
Job was the best man he had on this earth.
And he wasn't a Christian because he was the best man.
He was the best man on his earth because he was a Christian and he walked with the Lord.
So as a Christian, he wouldn't have questioned why God would send a Savior one day to take away the sins of the world But even so, in his despair, he made this statement that on its face appears to question God's sovereignty as it pertained to Job's life.
Simply put, Job just wanted to leave this earth and be with the Lord.
And in his right mind, he probably would have echoed the Apostle Paul.
Who wrote the following in Philippians chapter 1, verses 23 through 26?
Philippians 1, 23 through 26.
1L2Ps, in case you're trying to figure it out.
He said, For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better, nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
And having this confidence I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith, that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
Let me remind you about the Apostle Paul's ministry.
He was imprisoned, persecuted.
Beaten.
He was dealing with wolves inside and outside the Lord's churches He had some sort of physical infirmity which he called a thorn in the flesh and which he asked God to take away, and God said, no, my grace is sufficient for you.
And when he wrote the Philippian epistle, he was ready to go be with the Lord, just like Job was.
In fact, Paul said it was better to go be with the Lord than to stay here, and that is true.
However, Paul, in his right mind Said, it's more needful, even though I want to go be with Jesus, it's more needful for me to stay right here, not for my own furtherance, not for my own joy, not for my own rejoicing.
But for that of the Philippian Christians.
Notice in the passage I read you, Paul didn't say, I want to stay here on earth so I can travel the world.
So I can finish my bucket list.
Or so I can live to be a ripe old age surrounded by all my children and grandchildren.
He was unmarried.
He didn't have any of that.
He said he needed to stay here for them.
His words were for you, for your furtherance in joy of faith. that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ.
Paul's earthly life was not all about himself.
It was about the ones to whom he ministered.
When people are emotionally suffering as Job was and can't see a good reason to remain here, it's important to let them know how many people love them.
It really is.
They know that, but it's been moved somewhere else in the brain.
We ought to let them know what joy they bring to the people around them and how much we need them Paul said it's more needful for me to remain with you.
He put them before him, his own misery.
And let me tell you.
Paul, the imprisonments, the beatings, the just the general lifestyle he he had to live just to survive.
The chances that he fully recovered from one beating before he got another one are pretty slim.
So physically he'd taken quite a toll on his body, I would imagine.
He probably ached, and they didn't have Advil back then.
But as for ourselves, when we find ourselves in the state in which Job was, We need to remember that God is fully in control and he sees our way.
He sees our course of life.
Our way is not hidden from him.
The psalmist David wrote in the very familiar 23rd Psalm verse 4, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Now, this was written by a man whose newborn son with Bathsheba passed away.
A man who lost his son Absalom when his own captain of the guard, Joab, and his men killed him.
But in all of this, David remembered that God was with him.
And in all of Paul's misery, he remembered that other people needed him.
And in our case, we need to remember that it is probably more needful for us to remain than to depart and be with Christ.
There have been several times in my life during which I could have been killed, but God delivered me from that.
No, my mother doesn't know about all of them I know that he had a purpose for not allowing me to die Or to be seriously injured during those occasions.
And I'm very thankful for that.
I enjoy being alive and doing what God has called me to do.
And once you understand And accept that God walks with you and that your continuation of life on this earth is needful then those dark times won't seem as dark.
It doesn't make them go away.
And at this time in his suffering, Job was not thinking that way.
Look back in Job 3. 23, where the question continues about why light is given This time it says, and whom God hath hedged in.
That is, why is light given to one whom God hath hedged in?
The Hebrew word for hedged in is almost always translated as the word covered, which makes a lot more sense My daughter Lauren, she probably wishes I'd use my daughter Sarah every once in a while for a story, but I'm just gonna keep using Andy 2. 0 because that's what she is.
My daughter Lauren used to play hide and seek with me.
And there we didn't announce that the game was happening.
She was in third or fourth grade during this phase of her life.
And she just thought when she and I were home it would be cool to hide and not And make dad think I'm not here anymore.
Now she knew better than to go outside the house.
That would have been a big no-no.
So She was pretty good at it.
Sometimes she'd put herself in the closet and arrange all the hanging clothes and boxes to hide herself, and she wasn't that big around, so it didn't she didn't need much room And it took me a while, but I would eventually find her.
And one day I was busy doing something in my house.
And I noticed she wasn't in her room and I hadn't heard any noise.
She wasn't in the kitchen or anywhere else that I could see and I figured, all right, she's hidden herself, and she wants me to come find her.
So I looked all over the house.
And I couldn't find her and I spent more than the usual amount of time looking for her.
And I thought I had uncovered every place in the house where she could possibly hide that little body And I began to get worried.
And we hadn't talked about a code word that said, hey, come out now, dad's panicking.
We hadn't discussed that.
So I thought, well I'm gonna do my best.
And so I just said very loudly, Lauren, I'm I'm worried about you.
That was much more excitable than that.
Please come out right now.
And she knew by the tone of my voice, hey, game's over.
That little stinker had hidden herself behind the pillows on her made-up bed.
She slid right in there.
She was hedged in.
That's our phrase.
She was hedged in.
She was covered by those pillows.
And in my panic.
I wanted nothing more than for her to be uncovered from her hiding place, from her hedge.
And once she came out, I was so relieved.
I gave her a hug and I told her, you got me good.
I wasn't mad Job's way was hidden.
His life was covered in darkness, so he thought.
And he wondered aloud, why would light be given to him when he's covered up?
Why couldn't he just be left in the dark and left alone?
Look at verse 24.
Now he tells us why he had these feelings.
Verse 24, for my sighing.
Cometh before I eat.
Now another translation has it this way, for my groaning comes at the sight of my food So the word sighing here is used in a way we don't normally use it.
In fact, we have such a limited kind of a narrow view of the word sighing.
We often see it as an irritating sound or maybe a sound of displeasure from others If I tell my children, well, when they were younger, we're having spinach and broccoli and beef liver tonight, how does that sound?
I would probably get a response like this.
That's how we think of sighing, isn't it?
It would be their way of telling me, Dad, we're not looking forward to this meal.
This is purely nutrition.
People who get up on Monday morning and sigh that they have to go to work, they may say, I gotta go in.
It's Monday.
And then they sigh when they get to work.
They're showing a lack of enthusiasm for getting up and going to work.
We don't think of sighing as something that's associated with grieving.
In fact, we would probably use the word groaning before we would use the word sighing.
So Job's sighing here, and if you look at other translations of that word, it's the word groaning as well.
And I want to read you a passage that may help us understand more about what sighing means in our text.
Psalm chapter 6, verses 6 through 7.
Psalm chapter 6, verses 6 through 7.
The psalmist wrote, I am weary with my groaning.
Now that's the same as the word sighing.
Look what it says about it.
All the night make I my bed to swim, I water my couch with my tears.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief.
It waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
So you see the connection in that verse between groaning and grief.
Between groaning and crying, in this psalm, David was a grieving man.
And he specifically says he was grieving because of his enemies.
And when he sighed It was in the midst of crying so many tears that he made his bed to swim.
And of course, this is a metaphor, but you can imagine the image of crying so much.
That your tears accumulate and cause the bed to float.
That was that was the imagery there Now we might understand a little bit more about the word sighing in our text.
Think of it as groaning.
And Job said, this sighing, this groaning came before he ate.
Now when food is set before a hungry person, the last thing he thinks about is sighing.
If you ask Brother Doug what he likes to eat, see if I get this right, Brother Doug.
He'll tell you, I love groceries.
It doesn't matter.
You put something in front of Brother Doug, and they'll is nodding amen over there.
I love that.
Just just put some groceries in front of him And I can promise you that Brother Doug doesn't normally sigh when food's put in front of him.
And I don't either.
We eat most of our meals at home.
And we love to number one is because I'm cheap, but we love to be together, cook together, eat together.
Clean up together.
It's just a good time.
And if you do that, you'll understand what I'm talking about.
The food's good, and so is the fellowship.
And I can't imagine the look on my wife's face if I were to groan and shed tears when she put a plate of groceries before me.
I wouldn't do that.
I'm always so thankful because I know from cooking how much work it is, how many sometimes hours it takes to cook something that we dust off in about 10 minutes.
And then how long it takes to clean everything up.
I've done all of that.
Well, what Job was doing was when the food was set before him, he was sighing.
And it wasn't because of the food.
It was because his mind was swallowed up with grief.
The food was the last thing on his mind.
That might be a good way to understand it.
He was grieving.
He was hurting from the boils.
Remember, he had boils from head to toe that he scraped with a pot shirt as he sat in the pile of ashes.
And he was in no mood to eat.
It doesn't say he didn't eat.
It says sighing came before his food.
This has probably happened to some of us in here.
You lost a friend.
Maybe you had an argument with your spouse.
You had a terrible day at work because of some unkind words that someone spoke to you.
You sit down to what should be a joyful occasion, a meal, and you just start crying or groaning.
That's what Job was talking about.
And he also said, if you look back in verse 23, And my roarings are poured out like waters.
Now we think about lions when we think about roaring.
Or at least I do.
And the Bible has a couple of verses that describe that roaring of the lions.
One of them is in Zechariah 11, verse 3.
Zechariah 11, verse 3.
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled, a voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
Now there's also a roaring of a man who's in great despair.
And one such example is found in the 22nd Psalm.
And if you've read Psalm chapter 22, you'll know that it is a prophetic psalm that points to Jesus suffering and death on the cross.
And in the first verse, Psalm 22. 1, the psalmist wrote, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring?
Now that's the same word as in our text, roaring.
And those, although they were written by the psalmist David hundreds of years before Jesus came to earth as a man, those were the very words Jesus spoke when he was on the cross.
Found in Matthew 27, 46.
Matthew 27, 46 says, and about the ninth hour.
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabakhtanai, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And there the word forsaketh means abandoned or left behind.
And when Jesus became sin for us, he took upon himself that which was repulsive to God.
That was our sin.
And the words Jesus spoke were the roaring that David wrote about when he wrote Psalm chapter 22, verse 1.
And although Jesus knew his father would have to do this, have to forsake him, it grieved him when it happened.
But that grieving, those roarings, turned to joy again when Jesus was received by his Father at his right hand.
And Job's roarings, look back in verse, back in the text, it says, are poured out like waters.
They're poured out like waters.
Now this metaphor of pouring makes me think of a bucket. into which all those roarings are gathered and then dumped out at once In order to have roarings to pour out, we have to have roarings inside.
It has to build up.
And when Job roared, he was letting out all of that distress that was in him.
Let me tell you what this sounds like to me.
It sounds like what we call the ugly cry.
Y'all know what the ugly cry is, don't you?
If you don't, you will.
But I think most of you know When we're crying around others, we for some reason try to show some restraint.
Some are better at it than others.
And I don't know that it's a compliment that you show restrain or not.
It's just the way we are, the way we've been conditioned socially, not to let it all out in front of a crowd of people we don't know.
And when you when it's just you though and your pillow the ugly cry or the roaring comes out It's been in there all along.
And now it comes out like water out of a bucket.
My uh my dad lost his wife a little over two years ago to cancer.
And he asked me to wait a couple of weeks to come down and see him.
And I said, okay.
You know why?
He had some roaring to do.
And these emotional reactions happened with Job because, look at verse 25, for the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me.
And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
There was something Job feared or dreaded.
Same word.
And that something was all of the terrible things that happened to him in the first two chapters.
Satan had his way with Job, with the only limitations being the ones God put on Satan.
And I'll remind you what Job did every day.
And it's told to us in chapter 1, verse 5.
It said, and it was so When the days of their feasting, speaking of his children, were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning.
And offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all.
For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.
Thus did Job continually.
Now that was what he did daily, continually, before all this tragedy came into his life.
Every day Job was afraid one of his children had sinned and cursed God in their hearts So he sanctified them.
He offered burnt offerings to God for every one of them.
It's like praying for your children by name.
The wages of sin is death, and now Job's children are all dead.
And by his statement here, I believe he thought in his heart. that his children died because they had sinned and cursed God in their hearts.
Remember, he didn't know at this time That God had allowed Satan to test Job.
Now, if we apply Job's statement to us, that is the thing that he feared greatly has now come upon him.
We could probably say that our greatest fear as Christian parents is that our children will curse God in their heart and sin.
There were two things for which I prayed most fervently before my children were born Number one, that they would be born healthy, and two, that they would be saved.
My wife and I never wanted to know the gender of our children.
Some people like to do that and some people don't.
Absolutely personal preference.
No judgment whatsoever on that.
We never prayed specifically to have a boy or a girl.
How would you like it if you found out that your dad was praying for a boy and you were a little girl?
Even if he never said another word about it, wouldn't that be terrible?
And I know people say I've You know, I I just want to have a boy.
I have a friend who was a former highway patrol sergeant, and he and his wife had ten boys before they had a girl And I think after number three, they probably thought, you know, the math has got to be in our favor.
The next one's going to be a boy.
And by the time they had ten on the ground, they said, well, here we are.
So but it didn't matter to me My greatest desire for them was once they were born, that they would be holy, separated unto God.
Yes, I wanted them to be happy, but I wanted them to be holy more than anything else.
And that meant I needed to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And I believe Job was a better parent than I was, but he had the same fear that many of us share.
And now his children were dead, so he feared that his worst fear had come to pass.
They'd sinned and curse God in their hearts and God killed them.
At least that is the interpretation or the impression I get.
You may not share that, and if not, that's okay.
Just be sure you know why you don't Look at the next verse, he said, I was not in safety.
The word is also safety is also translated as prosper or prosperity and happy or happiness.
Now, if you go back to a time in Job's life before Satan afflicted him, Job was in safety He prospered greatly, and so did his family.
He had all his cattle and servants and a happy life And this time of which he speaks must, in my opinion, be limited to the seven plus days since his world began to fall apart.
Because only then Was he not in safety?
The enemy had come to steal his livestock.
The fire fell from heaven and burned many up.
His servants were killed.
His children were killed.
This is not a picture of safety.
And he said next in the verse, neither had I rest.
Again, his life before Satan's malignant intervention was one of peace.
And quietness.
And the next few words echo that where it says, neither was I quiet, meaning settle down.
He wasn't settled down after this.
Lack of safety, lack of rest, and being unsettled are all words or phrases that describe life for Job after Satan came to town.
And that's what the devil has for you, by the way.
With God, there is safety, there is rest, there is quietness in the person of Jesus Christ.
Not in this world.
Jesus said, you will have tribulation in this world.
You're a Christian.
You are headed for trouble with this world.
But in him there's safety, there's rest, there is quietness.
And while Job was in this terrible, life-changing set of circumstances, he said in the verse, Yet trouble came.
Trouble did not spare him just because he lacked safety and rest and quietness.
It piled on, and that's the thrust of this part of the verse.
Trouble is commotion, it's agitation.
Also translated as the word noise, fear, wrath.
Now I'll give you an example of this as we close.
Your car breaks down in the middle of the highway.
So you get out and try to push it out of the roadway, but in doing so you hurt your back.
So now you have a disabled car in the middle of the roadway and you're injured.
And a man pulls up in a pickup behind you, and you think, oh good, somebody's here to help me.
So you think he's going to help you push your car out of the roadway, but instead he pulls a gun and robs you at gunpoint.
Takes your money, leaves you in the middle of the roadway with your car and your hurt back.
You were not in safety when your car broke down.
When you hurt your back, you didn't have rest or quietness, yet trouble came anyway.
And that's how Job felt Let's pray.
Father, we're so thankful for everyone who came to the auditorium and also those who watch online and who will watch the recorded version later in the week.
Thank you for every one of them for their hunger to hear your word, and I pray you'd bless the truth of your word to them that it may make a difference in their lives and draw them closer to Jesus.
In his name we pray.
Amen.
