1 00:00:10,121 --> 00:00:12,741 Joshua Kehler: Toward the end of Elihu's speech, a thunderstorm is gathered. 2 00:00:13,401 --> 00:00:14,591 and filled him with awe. 3 00:00:14,821 --> 00:00:18,041 It is though his senses, he senses the approach of God in the storm 4 00:00:18,261 --> 00:00:19,971 and brings his words to a close. 5 00:00:20,141 --> 00:00:22,951 And sure enough, somehow out of the world, when comes the voice of God 6 00:00:22,951 --> 00:00:27,821 to Job, and we come to the climactic dialogue between Job and God, and we 7 00:00:27,821 --> 00:00:31,971 see that the answer to Job's problems was not an explanation about God, 8 00:00:33,101 --> 00:00:34,961 but a revelation of God himself. 9 00:00:35,861 --> 00:00:36,141 Dr. 10 00:00:36,141 --> 00:00:38,941 Paul Turner said, for God's answer is not an idea. 11 00:00:39,351 --> 00:00:43,441 A proposition like the conclusion of a theorem, it is Himself. 12 00:00:43,451 --> 00:00:44,991 He revealed Himself to Job. 13 00:00:44,991 --> 00:00:50,171 Job found personal contact with Emmanuel, God with us. 14 00:00:50,621 --> 00:00:56,351 This is the anchor Job needed to tether himself to see God as He is. 15 00:00:56,971 --> 00:01:00,221 Not as we perceive Him to be when we look around, but God as He is. 16 00:01:00,251 --> 00:01:04,650 A big vision of the majesty and the greatness of God. 17 00:01:04,681 --> 00:01:06,871 The greatest thing we can do in the midst of our suffering. 18 00:01:07,871 --> 00:01:10,801 It's the only thing really to do in the midst of our suffering, 19 00:01:11,420 --> 00:01:12,991 because it's all there. 20 00:01:13,631 --> 00:01:16,091 So the gathering storm, I'm almost done. 21 00:01:16,841 --> 00:01:22,561 Job 38, Then the Lord answered Job, from the whirlwind, this is the best. 22 00:01:23,561 --> 00:01:26,841 Who is it that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? 23 00:01:27,841 --> 00:01:28,811 That's, done. 24 00:01:29,431 --> 00:01:30,211 That wins. 25 00:01:30,411 --> 00:01:30,971 You win. 26 00:01:31,101 --> 00:01:31,971 Case closed. 27 00:01:33,526 --> 00:01:36,976 he rolls up, we get excited when Taylor Swift rolls up to the 28 00:01:36,976 --> 00:01:38,596 football game, with her entourage. 29 00:01:38,966 --> 00:01:44,206 He rolls up with tornadoes and whirlwinds and stuff, lightnings and thunders, right? 30 00:01:44,276 --> 00:01:49,186 He's just it's approaching as Elihu's talking, and Job's oh, you know. 31 00:01:50,146 --> 00:01:53,656 then he rolls his opening and is okay, looking at the three 32 00:01:53,656 --> 00:01:54,386 friends, looking at Elihu. 33 00:01:54,776 --> 00:01:58,166 Job, who is it who, wants to question me with such ignorant words. 34 00:01:58,376 --> 00:01:59,166 That's the best. 35 00:02:00,586 --> 00:02:06,276 And then he says, brace yourself like a man because I have some questions 36 00:02:06,276 --> 00:02:09,656 for you and you must answer them. 37 00:02:11,045 --> 00:02:15,306 You've been asking questions this whole time and now I have some questions, Job. 38 00:02:16,356 --> 00:02:16,736 I love it. 39 00:02:16,736 --> 00:02:17,406 Gird up. 40 00:02:17,436 --> 00:02:18,206 Gird yourself up. 41 00:02:18,226 --> 00:02:18,706 Get ready. 42 00:02:18,706 --> 00:02:19,496 Be prepared. 43 00:02:20,356 --> 00:02:25,596 God asked Job 77 questions about creation and nature. 44 00:02:27,176 --> 00:02:28,026 It's amazing. 45 00:02:28,806 --> 00:02:29,306 I love it. 46 00:02:30,646 --> 00:02:31,806 What does Romans say? 47 00:02:32,416 --> 00:02:34,576 That the creation of the world reveals. 48 00:02:35,066 --> 00:02:36,116 That there's God. 49 00:02:37,116 --> 00:02:38,026 Yes. 50 00:02:39,046 --> 00:02:40,146 So I love this too. 51 00:02:40,916 --> 00:02:43,876 The point was to humble Job, and to cause him to rest in the 52 00:02:43,876 --> 00:02:45,946 greatness and the goodness of God. 53 00:02:45,956 --> 00:02:48,426 The wisdom and the will of his maker. 54 00:02:48,496 --> 00:02:49,856 to just give him a vision. 55 00:02:49,856 --> 00:02:49,916 Amen. 56 00:02:51,256 --> 00:02:52,136 Of the throne room. 57 00:02:53,576 --> 00:02:54,676 Of the sovereign hands. 58 00:02:56,206 --> 00:02:56,946 Of the feet. 59 00:02:57,576 --> 00:02:59,176 That the earth is its footstool. 60 00:02:59,256 --> 00:03:03,316 the alpha, the omega, the beginning and uncaused cause. 61 00:03:03,676 --> 00:03:07,386 He's never had a beginning, he's always been the creator 62 00:03:07,386 --> 00:03:09,356 of time and spacetime itself. 63 00:03:10,496 --> 00:03:11,446 Quantum physics? 64 00:03:11,496 --> 00:03:11,846 What? 65 00:03:11,876 --> 00:03:14,446 He made it as the building blocks of the universe! 66 00:03:14,526 --> 00:03:19,491 This is What we need to lean into, and he knows that this is what Job needs. 67 00:03:19,491 --> 00:03:24,321 And I love this because God doesn't question Job's sincerity or his integrity. 68 00:03:25,251 --> 00:03:29,511 He only questioned Job's ability to explain the ways of God in the world. 69 00:03:30,351 --> 00:03:32,411 Really beautiful, really gentle. 70 00:03:33,081 --> 00:03:36,141 He's not you pathetic person, righteous. 71 00:03:36,141 --> 00:03:37,041 I'll show you righteous. 72 00:03:37,091 --> 00:03:40,321 No, he just says, okay, Job, you got a lot of questions. 73 00:03:40,361 --> 00:03:41,091 I got some questions. 74 00:03:42,721 --> 00:03:45,430 And he just takes them through creation. 75 00:03:46,430 --> 00:03:52,961 Knowledge of our own ignorance and weakness, like you're saying sister, 76 00:03:52,991 --> 00:03:55,111 is the first step toward true wisdom. 77 00:03:55,881 --> 00:03:58,491 I can't tell you what a comfort these chapters have been in my life, 78 00:03:58,491 --> 00:03:59,901 especially in the midst of suffering. 79 00:04:00,151 --> 00:04:01,981 And that's why it's such a pivotal anchor. 80 00:04:02,451 --> 00:04:06,511 That's why it's changed my life is that I heard you with the hearing of my ear 81 00:04:06,511 --> 00:04:13,121 But now my eyes see you and I reject my former ideas about you and I repent 82 00:04:13,201 --> 00:04:14,621 dust and ashes What is dust and ashes? 83 00:04:14,781 --> 00:04:19,721 I humble myself in the lowest possible way which is the posture that is 84 00:04:19,761 --> 00:04:25,441 only appropriate to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and that is 85 00:04:25,451 --> 00:04:28,891 how we made the warp and woof of the universe to operate and to flourish. 86 00:04:28,901 --> 00:04:29,651 What does he say? 87 00:04:29,911 --> 00:04:33,081 He says, humble yourselves in the hand of God and he will lift you up. 88 00:04:33,121 --> 00:04:36,781 those who exalt themselves, he will abase or crush. 89 00:04:37,281 --> 00:04:39,701 But those who humble themselves, he will exalt. 90 00:04:39,751 --> 00:04:47,521 that is the posture as created one in front of Creator. 91 00:04:47,571 --> 00:04:50,451 The disciples, They're terrified from the storm. 92 00:04:50,491 --> 00:04:51,441 They think they're gonna die. 93 00:04:51,451 --> 00:04:52,801 Jesus is asleep on the boat. 94 00:04:54,071 --> 00:04:54,751 He wakes up. 95 00:04:55,341 --> 00:04:56,281 He says, shut up wind. 96 00:04:58,111 --> 00:04:58,771 And he goes back. 97 00:05:00,301 --> 00:05:03,041 And then it uses a stronger word. 98 00:05:03,151 --> 00:05:06,471 Now they're more terrified, which is great. 99 00:05:06,481 --> 00:05:08,821 It's like the way to conquer fear is greater fear. 100 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:12,691 Like to be in awe of majesty itself in their presence. 101 00:05:13,671 --> 00:05:14,861 the best Isaiah. 102 00:05:14,961 --> 00:05:16,531 He's fresh out of Bible college too. 103 00:05:16,531 --> 00:05:18,151 First five chapters of the book of Isaiah. 104 00:05:18,361 --> 00:05:21,930 He's woe to you Corazon, woe to you Bessetta, woe to you. 105 00:05:21,940 --> 00:05:23,420 He's pronouncing woes on everybody. 106 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:24,090 woe. 107 00:05:24,460 --> 00:05:25,340 Like that prophet. 108 00:05:25,340 --> 00:05:26,660 He's just yeah, they're all wicked. 109 00:05:28,545 --> 00:05:32,495 In the year that King Uzziah died, I had their hopes on him because he was a good 110 00:05:32,495 --> 00:05:35,855 king, but he turned bad at the end because he went into the temple thinking, I can 111 00:05:35,855 --> 00:05:37,645 be like a priest, and he got leprosy. 112 00:05:39,495 --> 00:05:44,315 In the year that he died, I saw the Lord lifted up, and the train of the 113 00:05:44,355 --> 00:05:49,425 lobe filled the temple with glory, and its pillars shook, its foundations 114 00:05:49,425 --> 00:05:53,905 removed, and I said, woe is me. 115 00:05:54,905 --> 00:05:55,895 That's the journey. 116 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:01,870 Woe to you, woe is me, and that humility, and what does God do in that humility? 117 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,900 I have unclean lips, Lord, I can't even speak for you, I've been speaking for 118 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:10,390 you, and it's unclean, I'm full of pride and self righteousness, he's gotcha, I'll 119 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,540 take the coal off the altar, I'll purify your lips, and I'm gonna send you out. 120 00:06:14,850 --> 00:06:22,000 incredible, like the humility, that's what God is doing in us, that's why, It's pride 121 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,170 that God won't touch with a ten foot pole. 122 00:06:24,450 --> 00:06:26,950 He says, I resist the proud, but I give grace to the humble. 123 00:06:27,070 --> 00:06:33,530 Like it's pride that is so The thing that all, through Proverbs, six things 124 00:06:33,530 --> 00:06:37,020 I hate, yea, seven, an arrogant look, it's pride, they're all rooted in 125 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:44,120 pride, so God is producing humility in Job and changing Job in the process. 126 00:06:44,130 --> 00:06:45,300 It is his grace. 127 00:06:45,409 --> 00:06:49,470 He whispers in a still small voice to me when I'm in the midst of the 128 00:06:49,470 --> 00:06:51,440 suffering, Where were you Joshua? 129 00:06:53,220 --> 00:06:57,330 So many times in my life, I'm like, God, why would you let this happen again? 130 00:06:57,340 --> 00:07:00,970 It was the one thing I said, no, this isn't, why? 131 00:07:00,970 --> 00:07:02,130 Where were you, Taylor? 132 00:07:02,450 --> 00:07:03,060 I got you. 133 00:07:03,940 --> 00:07:04,720 I got you. 134 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:07,790 questions about the world below? 135 00:07:09,180 --> 00:07:10,950 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? 136 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,140 Tell me if you have understanding. 137 00:07:12,140 --> 00:07:15,400 God compares himself to a builder who surveys the site, marks 138 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,520 off the dimensions, pours the things, lays the cornerstones, 139 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,780 and erects the structured job. 140 00:07:18,850 --> 00:07:19,530 You weren't there. 141 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:22,340 How can you claim to know so much about the works of God? 142 00:07:23,655 --> 00:07:25,725 8 to 11, God focuses on the sea. 143 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:28,585 Or who shut up the sea with its doors and burst out of the, 144 00:07:28,735 --> 00:07:29,825 as it burst out of the womb. 145 00:07:29,825 --> 00:07:31,925 The image here is not on building, but birth. 146 00:07:31,945 --> 00:07:34,105 The seas were knit together in secret, then burst forth like 147 00:07:34,105 --> 00:07:35,615 a baby emerging from the womb. 148 00:07:35,615 --> 00:07:37,145 They were clobed with clouds and darkness. 149 00:07:37,145 --> 00:07:38,165 Their limits were set by God. 150 00:07:38,325 --> 00:07:39,265 Who did all of this, Job? 151 00:07:40,375 --> 00:07:40,815 It was I. 152 00:07:40,835 --> 00:07:42,025 I set the limits, not you. 153 00:07:42,835 --> 00:07:44,975 You weren't there and you don't know how I did it. 154 00:07:46,095 --> 00:07:47,065 And he keeps going. 155 00:07:47,075 --> 00:07:48,795 The Lord focuses on the dawn. 156 00:07:49,895 --> 00:07:52,215 Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and cause 157 00:07:52,235 --> 00:07:53,975 the dawn to rise in the east? 158 00:07:54,135 --> 00:07:57,065 My goodness, God pictures himself here as a commander, commanding his troops. 159 00:07:57,415 --> 00:07:58,705 God is so creative too. 160 00:07:59,590 --> 00:08:01,570 He, he's a builder and an architect. 161 00:08:01,580 --> 00:08:05,550 Then he's birthing something, that's precious to him. 162 00:08:05,810 --> 00:08:09,990 And then he's, commander and he's, commanding the army as a son to rise. 163 00:08:10,180 --> 00:08:11,620 Like, it's so beautiful. 164 00:08:12,170 --> 00:08:13,320 Job, you never did it. 165 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:14,020 You can't do it. 166 00:08:14,030 --> 00:08:15,180 You don't know how to do it. 167 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:16,220 I've always done it. 168 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:17,230 And I always will. 169 00:08:17,250 --> 00:08:19,020 God focuses on the depth and the breadth as a son. 170 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:19,560 Seas. 171 00:08:19,910 --> 00:08:22,980 In verse 16, have you explored the springs from which the seas come? 172 00:08:22,990 --> 00:08:24,340 Have you explored the depths? 173 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,690 Job, you've never even been to the bottom of the ocean or around the world and you 174 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,540 think you know enough to argue with God? 175 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:32,090 Questions about the world above. 176 00:08:32,090 --> 00:08:34,919 God takes his focus off the world below and turns it to the world above. 177 00:08:35,190 --> 00:08:38,150 19 to 21, he asked Job about the origin of light and dark. 178 00:08:38,470 --> 00:08:41,610 Whew, where does light come from and where does darkness go? 179 00:08:41,630 --> 00:08:47,190 I study that for a living and I still have no idea what electricity is. 180 00:08:47,190 --> 00:08:49,940 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused 181 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:53,030 the dawn to know its place? 182 00:08:53,230 --> 00:08:56,020 That it might take hold of the skirts of the earth and the 183 00:08:56,020 --> 00:08:57,650 wicked be shaken out of it. 184 00:08:58,620 --> 00:09:01,570 The depth of the breadth of the sea and the land have you explored 185 00:09:01,570 --> 00:09:04,530 the springs from which the seas come have you explored the depths? 186 00:09:04,530 --> 00:09:08,430 and the world above, where does light come from and darks go? 187 00:09:08,860 --> 00:09:11,830 God asks him about snow, hail, and rain, and frost in verse 22. 188 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,810 Have you visited the storehouses of the snow and seen the storehouses of hail? 189 00:09:14,810 --> 00:09:15,730 Can you make it rain? 190 00:09:15,730 --> 00:09:17,210 Do you know how to whistle for the lightning? 191 00:09:17,210 --> 00:09:18,960 So it comes and says, here we are. 192 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:21,330 Can you count the clouds with your wisdom? 193 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:25,640 One of the amazing things too is this is just revealing how intricately 194 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,410 involved God is with the universe. 195 00:09:29,810 --> 00:09:31,330 Can you count the clouds with your wisdom? 196 00:09:31,330 --> 00:09:34,410 Or do my earthly pastimes stretch your mind a bit too far? 197 00:09:35,030 --> 00:09:37,550 Question after question designed to puncture Job's pride and bring 198 00:09:37,550 --> 00:09:40,350 him into his knees in humble repentance, verse 31 to 33. 199 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:44,180 God asked Job to lift his eyes higher to the stars, verse 31. 200 00:09:44,420 --> 00:09:47,860 Can you direct the movement of the stars, binding the cluster of Pleiades, 201 00:09:47,860 --> 00:09:49,350 or loosening the cords of Orion? 202 00:09:49,630 --> 00:09:51,290 Do you know how many stars there are, Job? 203 00:09:51,620 --> 00:09:54,460 One galaxy can have up to a trillion stars, and there are 204 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:57,680 a hundred billion galaxies that are visible to our telescopes, 205 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,410 and we only see a little slice. 206 00:09:59,410 --> 00:10:03,230 Done. 207 00:10:04,710 --> 00:10:06,940 I'm done like five times, you know. 208 00:10:07,180 --> 00:10:09,340 Job's like, oof, right? 209 00:10:09,370 --> 00:10:12,670 Psalm 147, he counts the stars and calls them all by name. 210 00:10:13,670 --> 00:10:14,190 Hebrews 1. 211 00:10:14,190 --> 00:10:17,460 3, he's the radiance, the glory of God, the exact imprint of 212 00:10:17,460 --> 00:10:20,640 his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. 213 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:25,520 One of the beautiful things about the posture of humility and being in the dust 214 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:30,620 is, guess who also stepped into the dust, was this God himself, the one who upholds 215 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:34,090 the world and the universe by the word of his power, stooped low into the dust 216 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:36,360 to wash your feet, to become the servant. 217 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,840 I didn't come to be served, but to serve and give my life a ransom for many. 218 00:10:41,930 --> 00:10:41,960 What? 219 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,550 So mind blown again. 220 00:10:43,580 --> 00:10:44,270 Crazy. 221 00:10:45,310 --> 00:10:46,880 Job is ignorant and impotent. 222 00:10:46,890 --> 00:10:48,540 He doesn't know where they came from. 223 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:50,620 He doesn't know how to make, how to make them work. 224 00:10:50,930 --> 00:10:54,270 He's utterly surrounded above and below by mysteries. 225 00:10:55,350 --> 00:10:56,120 And so are we. 226 00:10:57,390 --> 00:11:03,130 And we think because we've cracked quantum mechanics and physics that, we 227 00:11:03,130 --> 00:11:09,730 deserve answers to the problem of evil and suffering, but still so much is a mystery. 228 00:11:10,430 --> 00:11:13,390 Job has been saying, your plan is, very dark and doesn't make sense. 229 00:11:13,410 --> 00:11:15,690 God says, how much do you really know? 230 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,900 Again, like the six year old showing up to the rocket launch saying, this 231 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:20,130 thing will never get off the ground. 232 00:11:20,130 --> 00:11:22,600 God's saying, you have a major knowledge problem here, Job. 233 00:11:23,830 --> 00:11:27,300 if you have a God who's big enough and powerful enough to be mad at because he 234 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:31,150 isn't stopping the evil and suffering, then you have at the same time a God 235 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,090 big enough and powerful enough to have reasons for why he allows it. 236 00:11:35,625 --> 00:11:37,835 That you couldn't possibly conceive of. 237 00:11:39,035 --> 00:11:41,795 You can say there is no God and everything is a crapshoot. 238 00:11:42,185 --> 00:11:44,515 Or you can say there is a God but I can't see any reason 239 00:11:44,515 --> 00:11:45,675 why this should have happened. 240 00:11:46,145 --> 00:11:47,845 Does that mean there can't be a good reason? 241 00:11:47,845 --> 00:11:49,235 Because you can't think of a good reason? 242 00:11:49,235 --> 00:11:50,495 Yet we do it! 243 00:11:51,235 --> 00:11:54,135 God is saying if you believe in me, I have reasons you can't possibly 244 00:11:54,135 --> 00:11:58,175 conceive unless you are in the same category of knowledge as me. 245 00:11:58,825 --> 00:12:01,035 Is this the kind of person we treat as an assistant? 246 00:12:01,065 --> 00:12:02,085 Treat like an accomplice? 247 00:12:02,085 --> 00:12:06,265 Someone we get upset because they're not answering our emails quickly enough? 248 00:12:06,265 --> 00:12:09,775 You Your God is too small. 249 00:12:10,805 --> 00:12:13,075 therefore, you do not have rest. 250 00:12:14,775 --> 00:12:18,465 If you know that His will is infinitely, immeasurably, unspeakably 251 00:12:18,475 --> 00:12:23,305 beyond the largest notion of what He is up to, then you can have rest. 252 00:12:23,715 --> 00:12:28,005 Because then you can say, and here it is, I don't know, but He knows. 253 00:12:28,625 --> 00:12:34,485 Christians do not say, I don't understand you at all, but I trust you anyway. 254 00:12:35,675 --> 00:12:40,775 Rather, we say, I do not understand you in this situation, but I 255 00:12:40,825 --> 00:12:43,465 understand why I trust you anyway. 256 00:12:44,790 --> 00:12:47,050 Those are two huge different things. 257 00:12:47,390 --> 00:12:49,510 Cause we get accused of blind faith. 258 00:12:50,260 --> 00:12:50,830 no, we don't. 259 00:12:50,950 --> 00:12:51,740 It's not blind faith. 260 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,720 We know why we believe we know why we believe because of Jesus in the cross the 261 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,550 historic person Jesus came and lived the perfect life We couldn't live and died to 262 00:13:01,550 --> 00:13:06,280 death we deserve to die and was raised on the third day and testified by eyewitness 263 00:13:06,290 --> 00:13:11,210 testimony to thousands of people and then ascended into the clouds to sit at the 264 00:13:11,210 --> 00:13:14,580 right hand of the Father and then gave the person of the Holy Spirit the third person 265 00:13:14,580 --> 00:13:16,835 in the Trinity to change the lives of 266 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:20,585 of his followers and of his family and to change the world at that 267 00:13:20,585 --> 00:13:22,905 time and continues to change it now. 268 00:13:23,375 --> 00:13:24,585 I know why I believe. 269 00:13:25,945 --> 00:13:29,505 So again, Christians do not say, I don't understand you at 270 00:13:29,505 --> 00:13:31,005 all, but I trust you anyway. 271 00:13:31,485 --> 00:13:33,855 Rather we say, I do not understand you in this situation, but I 272 00:13:33,855 --> 00:13:35,765 understand why I trust you anyway. 273 00:13:36,515 --> 00:13:39,465 Therefore I can trust that you understand, even though I don't. 274 00:13:40,705 --> 00:13:45,375 Faith does not know why in terms of the immediate, but it knows why it 275 00:13:45,385 --> 00:13:48,115 trusts God's in terms of the ultimate. 276 00:13:49,115 --> 00:13:53,185 But if you say, how dare He do this, and what's going here, God is too small, and 277 00:13:53,195 --> 00:13:57,775 you will not have peace, and will always be nervous, upset, bitter, and anxious. 278 00:13:58,135 --> 00:14:01,225 You'll not have any peace until you get a God sized God. 279 00:14:02,035 --> 00:14:03,865 It's just, Job, look up. 280 00:14:04,805 --> 00:14:06,055 Job, just look at me. 281 00:14:07,325 --> 00:14:11,025 That's why this title's, this, it comes from, the three of me goes, look up here. 282 00:14:11,025 --> 00:14:13,685 Heh, look up here. 283 00:14:14,335 --> 00:14:15,995 then questions about the animals. 284 00:14:16,015 --> 00:14:18,915 God pauses for Job's response and gives him opportunity to respond. 285 00:14:19,915 --> 00:14:22,735 Then the Lord said to Job, do you still want to argue with the Almighty? 286 00:14:23,735 --> 00:14:27,125 You are God's critic, but do you have the answers? 287 00:14:28,555 --> 00:14:31,515 Then Job replied to the Lord, I am nothing. 288 00:14:32,425 --> 00:14:34,075 How could I ever find the answers? 289 00:14:35,045 --> 00:14:37,215 I will cover my mouth with my hand. 290 00:14:37,995 --> 00:14:39,385 I have said too much already. 291 00:14:40,025 --> 00:14:41,055 I have nothing more to say. 292 00:14:41,475 --> 00:14:42,375 Job is getting the point. 293 00:14:42,375 --> 00:14:42,985 This is the best. 294 00:14:43,325 --> 00:14:46,745 Job had told his friends to cover their mouth. 295 00:14:47,415 --> 00:14:47,824 And Job 21. 296 00:14:47,825 --> 00:14:49,695 5, cover your mouth. 297 00:14:49,715 --> 00:14:50,655 You don't know what you're saying. 298 00:14:50,665 --> 00:14:51,385 You're ignorant. 299 00:14:52,495 --> 00:14:53,965 And now he's I'll cover my mouth. 300 00:14:54,435 --> 00:14:55,605 But now he covers his mouth. 301 00:14:55,945 --> 00:15:01,634 A finite creature who has no wisdom to run the world and is utterly ignorant of 99. 302 00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:06,965 99999999 percent of its processes Has no business instructing his maker and ruler 303 00:15:06,965 --> 00:15:12,045 how to run the world much less condemning God for the way he runs it God did not 304 00:15:12,055 --> 00:15:18,205 simply say might makes right so he's not just might makes right Stop condemning 305 00:15:18,205 --> 00:15:20,045 my ways, because I'm more powerful. 306 00:15:20,875 --> 00:15:23,625 He said in the first place, there are 10 million things about running 307 00:15:23,625 --> 00:15:26,985 the world of which you don't know the first thing, but I know perfectly. 308 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,690 So Job, it's presumptuous to assume you can counsel me about 309 00:15:31,690 --> 00:15:33,530 how to run a more just world. 310 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,240 You can't begin to know all that has to be taken into account in making 311 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,410 decisions about how to run the world for my glory and for the joy of my people. 312 00:15:43,220 --> 00:15:46,160 And in second place, God showed that his might is not arbitrary, 313 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:50,330 But purposeful, and the purpose is to uphold his glory and bring about 314 00:15:50,330 --> 00:15:51,990 lasting joy in his beloved children. 315 00:15:51,990 --> 00:15:55,120 Therefore, Job should not presume to accuse God of being arbitrary 316 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,770 or capricious or irrational. 317 00:15:57,050 --> 00:15:59,920 He should submit to the wisdom and goodness of God's dealings and hold 318 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:03,189 fast to the promise of Psalm 84 11. 319 00:16:03,270 --> 00:16:06,940 God withholds no good thing from those who walk uprightly. 320 00:16:07,780 --> 00:16:10,290 And we lean into Jesus because he was the only one who walked 321 00:16:10,310 --> 00:16:12,100 uprightly on our behalf. 322 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:14,900 So he blesses us without reservation. 323 00:16:14,970 --> 00:16:20,540 I hope we know that God continues this case against Job and said of confronting 324 00:16:20,540 --> 00:16:24,290 Job with the vastness of his creation God selects two creatures and then 325 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:31,050 finally How do we know God loves us and uses his power and might for his glory? 326 00:16:31,050 --> 00:16:34,600 So Job is undone and those 77 questions 327 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,640 How do we know that God loves us and uses his power and might for his? 328 00:16:39,970 --> 00:16:42,450 Glory and our good and Job 9 16 17. 329 00:16:42,450 --> 00:16:46,640 He said and even if I some summoned him and he responded You I'm 330 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:51,310 not sure he'd listen to me, for he attacks me with a storm and 331 00:16:51,310 --> 00:16:53,560 repeatedly wounds me without cause. 332 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,330 If God shows up, he'll crush me like a storm. 333 00:16:58,990 --> 00:17:03,840 And to Job's horror, I think, as he watched the approaching clouds, God shows 334 00:17:03,850 --> 00:17:06,450 up as a storm, a hurricane force storm. 335 00:17:07,140 --> 00:17:13,030 God shows up in his infinity and his majesty and justice and holiness. 336 00:17:14,030 --> 00:17:17,540 And if Job, the righteous one, couldn't stand in his own goodness, how could we? 337 00:17:17,579 --> 00:17:18,690 Why isn't he destroyed? 338 00:17:20,420 --> 00:17:24,400 This is one of the first places where God is referred to as Yahweh and not Elohim. 339 00:17:24,410 --> 00:17:29,005 The personal name of God He already accepts Moses at the burning bush. 340 00:17:29,185 --> 00:17:30,185 I give you my name. 341 00:17:30,295 --> 00:17:30,845 It's Yahweh. 342 00:17:30,845 --> 00:17:31,745 I am that I am. 343 00:17:32,195 --> 00:17:37,845 When God speaks to Satan, the word means to speak as a superior to an inferior. 344 00:17:38,125 --> 00:17:41,945 When God answered Job, it's a word that means to reply or answer. 345 00:17:42,485 --> 00:17:45,135 it means a dialogue between friends. 346 00:17:46,135 --> 00:17:48,345 So as you're reading this in Hebrew, you'd see the difference. 347 00:17:48,345 --> 00:17:51,225 You'd see, God is talking down to Satan. 348 00:17:51,225 --> 00:17:54,705 And then when he comes to Job and in the storm, he doesn't crush him. 349 00:17:54,705 --> 00:17:58,885 He doesn't But he says, Hey friend, let's chat. 350 00:17:59,925 --> 00:18:02,345 And you'd be reading, Oh, he's his friend. 351 00:18:03,455 --> 00:18:03,495 What? 352 00:18:04,255 --> 00:18:06,125 How's that possible? 353 00:18:06,765 --> 00:18:10,455 And it's deliberately to startle the reader out of the voice of 354 00:18:10,455 --> 00:18:12,365 the storm comes a voice of love. 355 00:18:13,365 --> 00:18:16,485 Will you discredit God asked my justice and condemn me just 356 00:18:16,485 --> 00:18:18,135 to prove that you are right. 357 00:18:19,195 --> 00:18:21,845 Must I be condemned so that you will be justified? 358 00:18:22,685 --> 00:18:23,285 God asks. 359 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:32,780 Must I be condemned so that you will be justified in order to justify yourself? 360 00:18:32,780 --> 00:18:35,080 You've been condemning me at that moment. 361 00:18:35,130 --> 00:18:40,010 The answer is no job needs to be quiet and rest in God. 362 00:18:40,010 --> 00:18:46,960 But the storyline of the Bible, the answer is yes, unless Jesus went to the cross 363 00:18:47,110 --> 00:18:51,730 and was condemned, then we couldn't be justified as we've been talking about. 364 00:18:51,730 --> 00:18:53,050 The theme has been storms. 365 00:18:53,530 --> 00:18:55,300 Jesus was thrown into the storm. 366 00:18:55,300 --> 00:19:00,750 He comes as a storm and then he, the Lord of the storm, takes the storm 367 00:19:00,750 --> 00:19:06,350 into his heart as he suffers for our righteousness and our goodness. 368 00:19:07,355 --> 00:19:12,875 The cross means that God is infinitely holy and infinitely loving. 369 00:19:12,885 --> 00:19:13,745 God loves you. 370 00:19:13,775 --> 00:19:14,575 God knows you. 371 00:19:14,585 --> 00:19:16,235 God is not deaf to your suffering. 372 00:19:16,465 --> 00:19:21,365 He is grieved by the world's trauma as you are and more. 373 00:19:22,185 --> 00:19:25,175 None of us can sink so low that God has not gone lower still. 374 00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:28,605 His only son died here, but God has promised to set things right. 375 00:19:28,605 --> 00:19:29,405 Let history finish. 376 00:19:29,405 --> 00:19:32,905 Let the orchestra scratch out its last mournful warmup note of discord 377 00:19:32,915 --> 00:19:34,785 before it bursts into the symphony. 378 00:19:35,565 --> 00:19:39,185 The whole of creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the 379 00:19:39,185 --> 00:19:43,005 children of God coming into their own. 380 00:19:43,385 --> 00:19:47,205 So then Job 42, what did to answer the Lord said, I know that you 381 00:19:47,205 --> 00:19:49,835 can do all things that there's no purpose of yours could be thwarted. 382 00:19:50,395 --> 00:19:53,815 He submits to God's absolute sovereignty that you could do whatever 383 00:19:53,815 --> 00:19:56,755 he pleases and is not constrained by anything outside of himself. 384 00:19:56,965 --> 00:19:59,415 Believe with all your heart in the absolute sovereignty of God. 385 00:19:59,415 --> 00:20:04,535 Pray that God would Give you a vision and a revelation of that. 386 00:20:05,625 --> 00:20:09,705 Joe423 you asked, Who is it that questions my wisdom with such ignorance? 387 00:20:10,925 --> 00:20:11,505 It is I. 388 00:20:12,305 --> 00:20:12,735 I love it. 389 00:20:12,755 --> 00:20:14,405 Joe answers, It is I. 390 00:20:14,415 --> 00:20:16,245 I was talking about things I knew nothing about. 391 00:20:16,265 --> 00:20:17,935 Things far too wonderful for me. 392 00:20:18,470 --> 00:20:19,200 So beautiful. 393 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,780 He submits to God's infinitely greater wisdom and knowledge. 394 00:20:22,950 --> 00:20:25,850 He has spoken about things he is very ignorant of. 395 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,290 Believe with all your heart that everything he does is right and good. 396 00:20:30,290 --> 00:20:33,550 Pray that God gives us this revelation. 397 00:20:33,915 --> 00:20:37,565 Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Romans 8, 28, we know that God causes 398 00:20:37,595 --> 00:20:40,295 everything to work together for good, for those who love God and are called 399 00:20:40,295 --> 00:20:41,475 according to his purpose for them. 400 00:20:41,815 --> 00:20:42,005 R. 401 00:20:42,005 --> 00:20:42,205 C. 402 00:20:42,205 --> 00:20:45,235 Sproul said this verse is not merely biblical expression of 403 00:20:45,235 --> 00:20:47,995 comfort for those who suffer affliction, it is far more than that. 404 00:20:48,005 --> 00:20:49,705 It is a radical credo. 405 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,170 For the Christian worldview, it represents the absolute triumph of divine 406 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:56,860 purpose over all alleged acts of chaos. 407 00:20:57,070 --> 00:21:02,360 It erases misfortune from the vocabulary of the Christian. 408 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:05,700 Herein I will speak, I will question you, and make it known to me. 409 00:21:05,700 --> 00:21:09,190 I had heard you by the hearing of my ear, but now I see you, and therefore I despise 410 00:21:09,190 --> 00:21:12,130 myself, and repent in dust and ashes. 411 00:21:12,660 --> 00:21:15,020 We repent of pride in thinking that I know better than God. 412 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:16,660 We change our minds. 413 00:21:17,660 --> 00:21:19,170 I'm suspicious of you, Lord. 414 00:21:20,170 --> 00:21:23,740 In light of his majesty and who he is, the revelation of his greatness, 415 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:30,250 of his goodness, of his for us, that he's with us, that he's Immanuel, 416 00:21:30,250 --> 00:21:38,140 of his power, of his love, of his control, we go, I'm changing my mind. 417 00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:41,310 Yeah, that was, I'm rejecting that. 418 00:21:42,110 --> 00:21:46,250 In fact, I'm gonna reject it so hard, I despise that I even thought it. 419 00:21:46,770 --> 00:21:48,800 That is a good way to reject a premise. 420 00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:53,180 I had held onto this for so long, I'm going to reject that premise so hard, 421 00:21:53,340 --> 00:21:55,880 it makes me vomit when I think about it. 422 00:21:55,970 --> 00:21:57,140 that is so great. 423 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:58,680 That is so great. 424 00:21:59,030 --> 00:22:00,720 And then he just takes the posture. 425 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,170 He's and now I'm going to humble myself. 426 00:22:05,170 --> 00:22:07,910 He gets a vision of his God full of majesty, beauty and splendor. 427 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,740 I heard you with the hearing of your, and I think that's the hardest thing in 428 00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:18,055 suffering is, when you, have the radio on, but you're also Watching the game, there's 429 00:22:18,055 --> 00:22:22,255 something on audio, but it fades when all of a sudden the action takes place on 430 00:22:22,255 --> 00:22:23,705 screen and you're like, Oh, he's running. 431 00:22:23,705 --> 00:22:26,335 You just got the past and you're in and you're like, yeah, go. 432 00:22:26,545 --> 00:22:28,045 Everything else on audio fades. 433 00:22:28,045 --> 00:22:28,775 And that's what he's saying. 434 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:30,755 he's saying so often God is audio. 435 00:22:30,755 --> 00:22:31,565 We know he's there. 436 00:22:31,565 --> 00:22:32,315 We know he's true. 437 00:22:32,315 --> 00:22:32,875 We know he's good. 438 00:22:33,170 --> 00:22:37,660 but his audio and what is on visual, what's got our attention and focus 439 00:22:38,010 --> 00:22:41,540 is the circumstances, the trauma, the suffering, the difficulty. 440 00:22:41,790 --> 00:22:43,230 That's what's real to us. 441 00:22:43,230 --> 00:22:43,950 That's what's present. 442 00:22:43,980 --> 00:22:44,950 That's right before us. 443 00:22:44,950 --> 00:22:45,980 That's what we're looking at. 444 00:22:46,270 --> 00:22:49,200 And God wants to simply rescue us by reversing that. 445 00:22:49,470 --> 00:22:53,280 He says, don't bury your heads in the sand and pretend like suffering doesn't exist. 446 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,240 Or you know that, just buck up or, He says, no, it's there. 447 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,740 But what you need is you need to see me, King Jesus standing as the 448 00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:04,380 suffering servant who took the only suffering that could truly destroy you. 449 00:23:04,790 --> 00:23:08,260 And I took suffering and I wrestled with it and I took it down and I crushed 450 00:23:08,260 --> 00:23:11,630 the head of the snake in such a way that now the suffering that happens 451 00:23:11,630 --> 00:23:13,560 to you can only make you more like me. 452 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:15,580 It can only serve your joy. 453 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,560 It can only defeat itself in your life. 454 00:23:19,110 --> 00:23:23,310 Suffering will never, ever have the last word in the life of a believer. 455 00:23:24,705 --> 00:23:25,915 Jesus has the last word. 456 00:23:25,925 --> 00:23:30,995 He's already won over suffering, and he will weaponize it against the snake. 457 00:23:31,615 --> 00:23:36,205 He'll take the very thing, the very weapons of the enemy, and turn it against 458 00:23:36,205 --> 00:23:39,585 him, and turn it into crowns of joy. 459 00:23:39,655 --> 00:23:42,195 God brings restoration in Job's life. 460 00:23:42,195 --> 00:23:43,965 He doesn't do that to everybody. 461 00:23:43,965 --> 00:23:44,645 C. 462 00:23:44,645 --> 00:23:45,325 H. 463 00:23:45,325 --> 00:23:49,865 Spurgeon said, we're not all like Job, but we all have Job's God. 464 00:23:51,405 --> 00:23:54,315 Though we have neither risen to Job's wealth, nor will probably ever 465 00:23:54,315 --> 00:23:59,755 sink to Job's poverty, yet there is the same God above us, and the 466 00:23:59,755 --> 00:24:02,935 same God with His everlasting arms beneath us, if we're brought low. 467 00:24:03,845 --> 00:24:06,385 And what the Lord did for Job, He will do for us, not precisely in the 468 00:24:06,385 --> 00:24:09,595 same form, but in the same spirit. 469 00:24:10,365 --> 00:24:14,975 And with like design, He looks forward to blessing you. 470 00:24:15,025 --> 00:24:16,825 So, let's take communion. 471 00:24:17,215 --> 00:24:20,185 And, I just want to say that there was only one truly 472 00:24:20,195 --> 00:24:22,825 innocent sufferer on this world. 473 00:24:22,885 --> 00:24:23,615 And it wasn't Job. 474 00:24:23,615 --> 00:24:24,585 It was the greater Job. 475 00:24:25,585 --> 00:24:30,375 Who did suffer, the cataclysmic suffering that we're all scared of. 476 00:24:31,375 --> 00:24:32,945 The only one that could destroy us. 477 00:24:32,955 --> 00:24:35,815 He was destroyed so that we wouldn't be. 478 00:24:36,895 --> 00:24:37,735 he loves you. 479 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:39,295 He's good. 480 00:24:40,295 --> 00:24:41,805 God, give us a revelation of you 481 00:24:42,805 --> 00:24:47,931 and Lord, we take our posture and humility for you. 482 00:24:48,931 --> 00:24:49,961 Thank you, Jesus. 483 00:24:50,861 --> 00:24:52,371 Thank you for rescuing us. 484 00:24:54,321 --> 00:24:56,501 Would you ever live in our vision? 485 00:24:57,501 --> 00:24:58,941 Would you ever be before us? 486 00:25:00,471 --> 00:25:02,661 Holy spirit, like 487 00:25:03,661 --> 00:25:05,721 Elisha's servant, open her eyes. 488 00:25:06,386 --> 00:25:09,806 To see the armies of the Lord, a host to see the majesty and the glory of the 489 00:25:09,806 --> 00:25:13,916 King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, like John, the beloved who saw you and 490 00:25:13,916 --> 00:25:17,776 revelation one, he got such revelation. 491 00:25:17,796 --> 00:25:19,016 he passed out as dead. 492 00:25:20,246 --> 00:25:25,756 Maybe not that much, maybe 50%, but Lord, we ask for that now in Jesus name. 493 00:25:26,186 --> 00:25:26,566 Amen.