Episode Transcript
It's near enough 10 o'clock to call it 10 o'clock.
We're in Job chapter 4 this morning.
We're in Job chapter 4 verse 12 because we finished verse 11 last week.
That's how this works.
We go from one verse to the next and all the way through the book, and then we start another book.
And you might ask, well, what happens when we go through the whole Bible?
What do we do then?
Yeah?
Well I'd have to teach for another 75 to 80 years.
Not skipping Jeremiah, no Nelda.
I'd have to teach maybe a hundred years for that to happen.
Pastor John MacArthur took 55 years to teach just through the New Testament.
But to answer the question you didn't even ask, we'd just start over and do it again.
You got the answer right.
And you'd be better students and I'd be a better teacher the second time around.
But for today, let's just review from our last lesson.
We looked at five uses of the word lion, L-I-O-N, in verses 10 and 11.
And we learned about the attributes that those lions have and that they actually represented men.
And the conclusion of the matter from last week was that the breath of God, or called the blast of God in that chapter. broke all of those lions and their fierce attributes.
So that means there's not a man.
Remember the lions represented the men.
There's not a man with some sort of quality about him that God cannot break.
And it was Eliphaz who described all this, seeming to paint Job as each of those lions.
And presuming that Job was on the receiving end of God's blast because of some sin.
Now we're going to begin in verse 12.
Where Eliphaz continues, he says, now a thing was secretly brought to me.
That is, to Eliphaz exclusively, a word or a thing was brought.
And This uh word thing is normally translated as word.
So our context is going to bear that out, that these were words. that he was given.
If I have some words I want to communicate to someone, I might say I have something to tell you, a thing to tell you.
I probably wouldn't say I have words to tell you, but that's what it means.
And looking at the last part of this verse, here in verse 12, we read.
And mine ear received a little thereof.
So that allows us to know that this word was spoken.
His ear, Eliphaz's ear, received these words or this thing.
The ear receives the spoken word, just like the eye receives the written word.
And notice it says, mine ear received a little, and I underscored the word little, a little thereof.
It does not mean that his ear only caught part of what was said.
That's how we might think of it if we asked someone what he heard And if he said, I heard a little of it, we might conclude he didn't hear all of it.
But here the Hebrew word for little has to do with an inkling of a sound, which we might call a whisper.
So in that whisper Eliphaz heard all the words, but they weren't loudly spoken or thunderously delivered, and that's why the word little is used there.
In fact, most of the translations of that verse that I consulted read something like this, and my ear received a whisper of it So that gives you the idea.
And verse 13 continues by describing further the setting in which these words were secretly received in a whisper.
He said, in thoughts from the visions of the night The word thoughts has an interesting meaning.
It has to do with divided thoughts.
Like opinions are.
You know, opinions are divided, aren't they?
That's what most of social media consists of is divided opinions.
In fact, the prophet Elijah uses the same Hebrew word when in the presence of the prophets of Baal and the children of Israel.
There were a lot of opinions there.
So in 1 Kings chapter 18, verses 20 through 21, 1 Kings 18, 20 through 21, it says So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel.
Now those were the prophets of Baal.
And they are all of of a certain opinion.
And he said, And Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?
If the Lord be God, follow him.
But if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.
So the opinions of which Elijah spoke were differing opinions.
There should have been only one opinion, that the Lord was God and not Baal.
But there were opinions that Baal was God.
And those opinions were divided, or they divided, or they distracted the children of Israel from what they should have been believing.
In our text, the thoughts in the visions of the night were thoughts that divided or distracted Eliphaz from his sleep.
Or they divided him from the thoughts he normally would have had when he fell asleep.
You know, when I lay down to sleep I have a hard time dismissing certain thoughts from my head.
If I had a busy night at work.
I might think about some of the calls we went to and how we responded.
We had a death investigation last night, so those kinds of things weigh on my mind.
Maybe whether we did the right thing in a situation or not.
If I have a personnel issue, I may be thinking of how to handle it.
And those are normal thoughts for me.
And eventually I fall asleep from exhaustion, just like you do.
But let's imagine that I receive the news of a death of a close friend or a loved one.
Well, those thoughts would be thoughts that would divide me.
They would distract me from the thoughts that I normally have when I go to bed.
And we don't know what Eliphaz normally thought when he went to bed.
We don't know what raced through his mind.
But we know these thoughts he is about to convey to us divided his thoughts on the night in question.
And those thoughts were, look back in the text, from the visions of the night or the revelations of the night.
Revelation is a mysterious word for some people, but it need not be.
If you ask the man on the street, what book of the Bible do you want to know the most about it?
They probably say, I want to know about Revelation.
Well, if you don't know the gospel, you're not going to understand Revelation.
If you don't know the Old Testament, you're not going to understand Revelation.
But that's what they'll say.
But Do you know what the root word of revelation is?
Reveal.
To reveal something is to take that which was hidden and make it known.
And when you open a birthday present, you reveal what's inside.
Now I'm gonna give you all a hint, you'll save a lot of money if you won't buy all that wrapping paper.
Just put it in a Walmart sack and hand it over.
Turn loose of it.
They're not going to use the wrapping paper.
They're going to use what you bought them.
But that's a digression.
The book of Revelation is simply a revealing of the things that were previously not made known.
And Eliphaz's visions of the night were revelations that he received at night.
On other nights he had other thoughts.
But the revelations or the visions he had on this night that he's going to tell us about divided his thoughts.
And being even more specific about when these revelations happened, he said, look back in the text in verse 13, when deep sleep falleth on men.
Now deep sleep is like a trance.
That's what we're in when we fall asleep.
And the first time that this phrase for deep sleep is used Is in Genesis chapter 2 verse 21, where it says, And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept.
And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
Now, I don't know that Adam was necessarily sleepy Before he went to sleep, but the Lord caused him to have a deep sleep.
He caused that deep sleep to come upon Adam.
And during the deep sleep that fell upon him, Eliphaz's words, he didn't have a rib taken out, he heard words.
And those words were secretly spoken to him.
And all of the words that Eliphaz used to describe this dream could have been said very simply, I had a dream.
But is very eloquently put here in the in the scriptures and we learn something from it.
And of course, if Eliphaz said I had a dream, what would any. . interested person say.
Tell me about it.
So he would have told them what he heard.
I told my wife the The night before last I had a dream.
It's the day before last.
You all understand I sleep when you're awake.
I protect you while you sleep.
And I said, I had a dream that you had the house painted on the outside.
You had it painted sea foam blue and they didn't do a very good job.
And I was furious.
That you didn't consult me.
See, I had that dream.
That's a useless dream.
It did no good to have that dream.
There were no revelations made to me.
The house was not painted when I woke up.
It was just like it was before But Eliphaz would have told them what he heard if somebody would have asked him, tell us about your dream.
Well, he's telling about his dream when nobody asked.
Now let's look at the nature of this dream.
Verse 14.
He said, fear came upon me Now this was a terror.
We would call this a nightmare.
We don't get to choose what kinds of dreams we have Do we?
I'd just as soon not have a dream that was bad, a dream that was a nightmare.
I like to have dreams where I'm doing something. uh that's that brings value to me, maybe catching fish, but I don't get to choose my dreams and you don't either.
And we certainly don't like to have nightmares.
Well, this nightmare brought fear to Eliphaz, but we'll see as we look at the dream, it shouldn't necessarily be called a bad dream.
In the sense of actually being bad or evil.
Fear is not always a counterproductive emotion.
Well, let's talk about the human emotion of fear for a moment, since he said fear came upon me.
When is the first time we see fear in the Bible?
Well, of course, it's in Genesis, where most things are seen for the first time.
I'll read you a passage from Genesis 3, which was after man had sinned in the garden.
And here are verses 8 through 10.
Genesis 3, verses 8 through 10.
Speaking of Adam and Eve, and they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
And Adam and Eve, excuse me, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord.
God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid.
That's our same word, for fear Because I was naked and I hid myself.
Now Adam and Eve had not previously been afraid of the voice of the Lord.
That means they didn't have the cowering terror and fear and the dread they displayed here in the verses I just read.
They had perfect fellowship with their creator and with each other for that matter.
And what brought about this cowering fear that we read about was sin.
They sinned, therefore they knew they were naked, therefore they were ashamed, and tried to hide themselves from God.
They did the one thing that God told them not to do.
And now the voice of God, which at one time was a great comfort to them. was no longer bringing them comfort, but bringing them fear.
That voice became the thing of which they were afraid And their nakedness had not previously brought them shame.
But now they feel shame, which is another emotion that sin brings.
Imagine if Adam and Eve had just obeyed God, they would have never known fear and they would have never known shame.
So the human emotion of fear has been around since the first man sinned.
Now there are other things that cause us to fear.
Imagine yourself walking down a path in the woods.
I always use woods, woodsy stories.
I don't say imagine yourself walking down deep Elum in downtown Dallas.
That's not fun.
Walking down a path in the woods and you hear the familiar sound of a rattlesnake's vibrating rattle.
And immediately your sympathetic nervous system kicks into high gear and your heart starts racing.
And you begin shaking and you start looking around for that snake.
Fear tells you to stay away from that snake so you don't get bitten.
And Eliphaz's fear came upon him because the words he heard in secret during his deep sleep Caused him to fear.
And not only did fear come upon him, but look at back in the text it says, and trembling.
Now trembling is a physical expression of fear.
It's one we can see.
I can't see fear inside your body, but when you start trembling, then I can see that.
David expressed that Trembling in Psalm chapter 55 verses 3 through 5.
Psalm 55 verses 3 through 5 He said, Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, for they cast iniquity upon me, in wrath they hate me My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Fearfulness and trembling there's our word are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Now the voice of God caused Adam and Eve to fear because they knew they were naked and felt ashamed.
All the result of their sin.
And David was in fear.
And trembling because of a voice.
It wasn't God's voice, though.
It was the voice of the enemy.
And trembling came upon Eliphaz because he feared in a dream.
I've had dreams in which I was in fear.
You probably have too.
And most of my dreams that involved fear were about me being chased by someone who was trying to take my life.
And when I'm awakened during that kind of dream, and I'm always glad I wake up from it.
I find that my breathing is heavy, my heart's racing, and I'm on alert for danger.
And all of that subsides very quickly when I sit up in the bed or I get out of bed and go into another room.
But nevertheless, the fear and the trembling I feel at that moment is very real And it's physically expressed through the release of the adrenaline, the sympathetic nervous system doing its thing, and the rapid heartbeat and the heavy breathing.
And Elifaz must have felt something like that. during this fearful dream that he had.
And this fear resulted in trembling, and the trembling was so bad, look back in the text, it said, which made all my bones to shake.
Now that's the epitome of trembling right there.
Is when all your bones shake.
In fact, that word shake is also translated as fear and afraid in the Old Testament.
In fact, most of the time it's translated fear and afraid.
So it goes together with shaking.
So we might reasonably assume because of that that when a person is shaking, he's in fear.
Now he might be cold.
Or he might be in withdrawals from being on some sort of drug.
Each of those things have an almost certain feature they cause shaking.
When I was in the emergency room with my mother about a year ago, it was so crowded and they had to have her out in the hallway in a bed waiting for a room.
And there was a man they brought in and he was younger than I.
He looked uh he looked quite a bit older than me.
But he was younger.
I listened to all the HIPAA violations they were committing as they Talked about his medical information in the hallway.
And he was there, uh, he was an alcohol withdrawal.
And I don't know if you've ever been through that or if you've ever seen somebody go through that.
It is pitiful.
It's terrible They shake violently.
And he's trying to hold a cup of water and he couldn't.
And he's just poured it all over himself.
And all they could do is just let him lay there.
And finish those withdrawals.
Come down from it.
Keep him hydrated.
Make sure he didn't swallow his own vomit.
Just awful things.
But I'll never forget that trembling, and I don't mean like this.
I mean he was violently shaking.
And it just it stuck with me.
Look back in verse fifteen, now that we understand the emotion of fear and how it affected Eliphaz, he said, Then a spirit passed before my face.
Now, Ruach is the Hebrew word for spirit, and we studied it in verse 9 last week, and it in that verse it was translated as breath.
And in this dream.
We will see that the spirit was not totally invisible.
Now we think of a spirit, we think of something that cannot be seen.
It was not totally invisible, but its form was not discernible.
You'll see in a moment.
In Eliphaz's dream, he said, a spirit passed before his face.
That means in his presence, before him.
Now just stop right there.
That alone could cause a man in a deep sleep to fear and tremble.
A spirit passing before his face in his dream and he doesn't recognize what it is.
Some mysterious spirit passing before your presence is not something you think about every day.
It's probably not something you go to sleep thinking.
Uh well, just before you fall asleep, I may have a dream about a spirit whose form is indiscernible tonight.
It doesn't happen every night, does it?
And he said in verse 15, the hair of my flesh stood up.
Now that's another manifestation of fear.
This is what happens when you shiver.
You look down at the hair on your arms, and maybe you're cold right now.
I don't know.
And you'll probably see that your hair is standing away from your flesh.
And we call these goosebumps.
And they're the result of the contraction of very small muscles that are at the base of the the roots, your hair follicles.
And this can also happen when you're cold or when you're overcome with some other kind of emotion, but in Eliphaz's case, the fear caused his hair to stand on in, or to stood, he said it stood up.
Verse 16 Now he's speaking of the Spirit here.
It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof That means the spirit stood still.
It passed before Eliphaz's presence in this dream, and then it stood still.
Now, when this happens, it's apparent that if a person did this, for example, if somebody passed before your face and stood still in front of you, They're no longer passing before your presence.
Now they're standing still in your presence.
They have something to do with you.
There's some reason they stopped in front of you.
And so you're probably going to be on alert.
I was uh coming home late one night from a fishing trip out in East Texas and I stopped at the QT there off of Interstate 20 and Terrell to fill up with gas and just to get out and walk around my truck.
And I parked at the furthest pump away from everybody and from the store And I look up and it's two or three in the morning and here comes this person, this woman walking toward me.
And I as soon as she started making a beeline toward me, I already knew what that was about.
She wanted mu gas money.
And so she got about from where my wife is to me.
I went like that.
And I always do that.
I put a lock eyes with them and put my hand out and do that.
And that usually turns them around And so she kept coming, I said, I said, hey, and she was talking, and I said, hey, I don't, I'm not interested.
And she said, excuse me, I was speaking.
How about that?
I interrupted her solicitation of my money.
But The closer she got, the more on alert I was, because I knew that this was fixing to be something I had to deal with, and I did, and she went on her way.
Got in a car with somebody who did have gas and probably went and bothered somebody else.
But for Eliphaz, he's got this image now standing before him And this, if it was standing before his eyes, this is how we know that the spirit was different than the blast of God.
Remember that that word spirit was also translated as blast.
And in the case of the blast of God, we can only see the effect that it has.
We don't actually see the blast of God.
You think about a tornado, we don't actually see the wind.
We see what the wind is blowing.
I grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and we had tornadoes every year.
And in West Texas, when a tornado picks up that West Texas dirt and all that debris and carries it, that's how you recognize it.
So you'll see the loose dirt swirling violently in a cone shape. of some type and that way you know you're looking at a tornado and you can make the reasonable assumption there's a bunch of wind and it's doing its vortex thing, spinning violently, but you don't actually see the wind in the tornado, just what it picks up and carries.
And the spirit that passed before Eliphaz, however, was recognizable as some kind of form.
He just didn't know what it was.
He didn't know who it was But it still was an image before his eyes.
That means he saw something or someone And the word image here in the text is also translated as the words likeness or similitude.
In Exodus chapter 20, verse 4, we see the word likeness.
God said to the children of Israel, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness.
There's your word. of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
So a graven image is a likeness.
It's an image.
And it usually represents something and it's recognizable.
So if if the graven image represents a certain bird that somebody's worshiping, then it probably looks like the bird.
They can recognize that as being the bird.
And Eliphaz definitely saw this image, this spirit.
And he saw that it was an image, but he couldn't recognize what it was.
Look next at the verse 16, he said.
There was silence.
There was silence.
When this indiscernible image, a spirit. stood still before Eliphaz in his dream.
There was silence.
That means there was calm.
In the midst of the terror and the trembling and the goosebumps Eliphaz experienced, there was silence, calm when this spirit stood still Eliphaz was the only one trembling.
The spirit was not trembling.
And to give you an idea of what that looked like, that calm, I'll read a passage from 1 Kings chapter 19.
Where Elijah was in a cave, and God spoke to him.
And I'll read verses 11 through 12.
1 Kings 19, verses 11 through 12, if you're taking notes.
This is God speaking to Elijah.
And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord, and behold the Lord passed by.
And a great and strong wind rent the mountains and break in pieces the rocks before the Lord.
But the Lord was not in the wind.
And after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
And after the fire, a still, there's our word, still small voice.
The word still is the same as the word silence in our text.
So there was stillness of the voice, even in the presence of the strong wind, the breaking mountains, and the earthquake in Elijah's scene there.
And there were stillness and silence in the presence of the Spirit who stood before Eliphaz in his dream.
Now what do we know about silence?
Well silence is sometimes good, isn't it?
In fact, there's a saying, speech is silver, silence is golden.
But sometimes silence makes us uncomfortable.
Next time you're feeling adventurous, just walk up to your spouse or your sister or brother and just stand there in front of them.
Don't say anything.
And you know what they're normally going to say?
What?
They want you to say something.
When you're silent, it creates discomfort in an interaction.
However, in our text, silence is more about uh being calm than it is about just not talking.
After all, if the Spirit were unrecognizable and just stood there in front of Eliphaz and never said or did anything, what would be the use of us knowing that a spirit passed before his face in this dream.
This voice was not silent There was just silence or stillness.
The voice was not silent because the next verse tells us what the Spirit said.
Verse 17.
Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Now this was the rhetorical question the Spirit asked Eliphaz in the dream.
Now it's a rhetorical question because it's not being used to elicit an answer, but to make a point.
That's essentially what a rhetorical question is.
It's not used to give an answer or solicit elicit an answer.
It's used to make a point.
The obvious answer to the question is no.
Mortal man shall not be more just than God.
Actually, mortal man is not even as just as God.
He's less just than God.
In fact, mortal man is unjust when left to his own devices and when he follows his own heart.
Jeremiah said that very clearly.
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Who can know it?
1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 50 through 53.
1 Corinthians 15, 50 through 53.
And listen for the word mortal.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Boy, that'd be good for these people who are works-based salvation believers, if you will.
To hear is you're corrupt.
How are you going to inherit incorruption?
You can't do it.
Behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
In a moment in the twinkling of an eye At the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Now we could spend a lot of time on that verse, and I'd just love to.
But I want to use it to show you what a mortal man really is, because that is the question the Spirit posed to Eliphos.
Shall mortal man be more just than God?
And the the word mortal we get in the English language has a Latin origin to it.
And it uh mortal means dead.
Death.
M-O-R-T is a Latin root there for dead.
In Spanish it's muerte.
Death.
But the Hebrew word translated mortal in our text simply means men.
And I think that's very instructive.
If you're a man, you're mortal How's that?
And that means women too.
And 1 Corinthians 15, verse 22, and then put a little A there, a lowercase A if you're taking notes, because I'm just reading the first part of the verse 1 Corinthians 15, 22a, Paul wrote, For as in Adam all die.
That means all are mortal.
That's what that means.
Everyone born of the seed of Adam is mortal.
And the passage from that I read a few moments ago from 1 Corinthians 15, verses 50 through 53 Teaches us that mortality is the result of corruption.
It goes hand in hand with corruption.
The wages of sin is death.
The wages of sin is mortality.
You die.
Mortal man is one born of Adam, corrupted by sin, and who dies as a result.
And that is what every person has to look forward to if he stays just like he is spiritually.
He can come to church, he can park in the church parking lot, he can come into church, dress for church, stay at church, eat at church Die and go to hell because he's mortal, he's corrupt, and he's never trusted Jesus as his savior.
But Eliphaz is asking rhetorically, shall that kind of man that I just described, that Paul just described, shall that kind of man be more just than God?
Well, he certainly could not be, and he would not be.
That man is corrupt, so he's not just at all.
Let's look at that word just in our text back in Job 4.
17.
I'll read you a psalm that has the word justified in it, and it's the same as just in our text.
It's Psalm 143, verses 1 through 2.
Psalm 143 verses 1 through 2.
Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications.
In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Justifies from the same word as just in our text.
So to put Eliphaz's question another way We might ask, is there any living man who has ever been more just than God?
And the Bible is clear as we looked at New Testament scriptures as well.
The Bible's clear there has never been such a mortal man.
Ever.
Now the critical thinker might ask, but didn't Jesus die?
Wasn't he mortal Well and and wasn't he God?
And they're maybe they're confused by that.
It's a very good question if you were wondering that.
And we're not afraid to answer questions like that.
We love that.
What do we know about death in general?
Death is Final.
Now we're just talking about death.
Death is permanent.
You can stand over a dead animal or a dead person as long as you want, and they're not coming back to life in front of you.
Death brings about the decomposition of the basic elements of the body, or it of the body, and it goes back to its basic elements.
Now when Jesus died, his heart stopped beating just like ours does.
It was necessary that he die.
But there's a huge difference in his death and the death of any mortal man.
Death could not keep him.
Death could not keep him.
Death has kept all of our loved ones who've passed away, every one of them, are still dead and in the grave.
Death has kept every animal dead.
Listen to what the Bible says about death's power when it comes to Jesus, though It's found in Acts chapter 2, verses 22 through 24.
Acts 2, 22 through 24.
Ye men of Israel, hear these words.
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs.
Now he's called a man right there. which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know, him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death. because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
In other words, it was not possible because of who Jesus was, it was not possible.
For death to hold him down.
The pains of death could not keep him.
It was impossible for the agony of death to hold Jesus in the grave.
For mortal man, on the other hand.
The agony of death has the absolute power to hold him in the grave.
Mortal man has no power to overcome death, corruption, and all that's associated with it.
Your undertaker can do a bang up job on you, put all the makeup and everything else, you're going to break down.
You're going to turn back to dust one day Romans five fourteen.
Nevertheless, death reigned From Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Death reigned.
It had power and authority to keep man in the grave.
But in Jesus' case Romans chapter 6, verse 9.
Romans 6, 9 tells us: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more.
Death hath no more dominion over him.
So the difference between mortal man and Jesus, between mortal man and God, God the Son here that we're talking about, when it comes to death, is in the authority death has over each one of them.
And only the one who has authority over death is just.
In Acts chapter 7.
Before he was stoned, Stephen said this in verses 51 through 52 concerning Jesus Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.
As your fathers did, so do ye Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?
And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the just one.
That's in capital.
Capital J, Capital O, that's a person.
The just one of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers.
Jesus was and is the just one.
He was God and he was just.
And he reigned over death.
And unless a person is in Christ, he is not just.
And he has no power over death.
And the resurrection is the just one giving life to the unjust ones.
No mortal man is more just than God.
And we'll pick up there next week, Lord willing.
Father, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for the encouragement that we have here, that knowing that we're mortal men, we're corrupt, and we have no hope of being just at all.
Except when we believe in Jesus.
And Lord His just.
And in Him we are just.
And we are righteous.
And we're unincorruptible.
And Father, we pray that you would take this word and build us up in the faith and help us to be able to explain it to others That they might also know the just one.
In Jesus' name, amen
