Thank you.
All right, good evening everyone, it's good to see everyone back here if you could turn into your hymnals to song number one
That's song number one Jesus I my cross have taken
Jesus I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow thee, destitute, despised, forsaken, thou from hints by y'all shall be.
Perish every fond ambition, all I've sudden hoped and known, yet how rich is my condition, God and heaven are still my own.
Let the world despise and lead me, they have left my Savior too. Human hearts and looks deceive me, thou art not like man untrue.
And while thou shalt smile upon me, God of wisdom, love and might, foes may hate and friends may shun me, show thy face and all is bright.
Man may trouble and distress me, twill but drive me to thy breast, like what trials hard may press me, and will bring me sweeter rest.
O, tis not in grief to harm me, while thy love is left to me. O, twere not in joy to charm me, were that joy unfixed with thee.
Ace thee on from grace to glory, armed by faith and winged by prayer, as eternal days before thee, God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission, swift shall pass thy pilgrim days. Hope shall change to glad fruition, faith to sight and prayer to praise.
All right, good singing. Brother Sampson, do you mind praying for us?
I don't mind at all. Heavenly Father, we pray that before you begin, we give you so much thanks for all your gifts and spiritual gifts that you give us.
We're praying this together again today as a church family so that we can worship and praise and give all glory to you.
We pray again that you feel relevant with your spirit and let him to feed us with more truth in your word.
We pray that those who receive the gospel will carry it further.
Amen. All right, turn to your second song. This is going to be in the handouts. We're going to sing, Holy, Holy, Holy.
Holy, Holy, Holy. We're going to sing it out there on the first.
Morning, our song shall rise to thee.
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.
Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee, casting down their golden crowns along the glassy sea.
Cherubim and Seraphim, falling down before thee, which words and art and evermore shall be.
Holy, holy, holy, though the darkness hide thee, though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy, there is none beside thee, perfect and power and love and purity.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea.
Holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea.
Good morning, our song shall rise to thee,
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, all thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea.
We did start out today with 52.
We had Brother Mohit had one report.
We went out today in a neighborhood.
We had another one to report and we had four more.
So that puts us to 58.
So good job soul winning.
And for a Bible memory passage, we are still in Proverbs chapter number one.
We're in verse 32.
So we're starting to round this chapter out.
We do have a couple of weeks left.
So keep working on that if you are working on it.
And if you can, quote it, work perfect to a non-family member, you will receive a prize.
So again, keep working on that.
And on this next page, we do have this long list of expecting ladies.
So just be in prayer for all of them and all their babies, that everyone stays healthy.
And for our preaching schedule today, February 7th, we do have Brother Ben Naim.
And he brought his family down with us, or down with them.
So it's definitely good to have him down again, preaching both services for us.
So when you do get a moment, just thank him and his family for coming down.
February 21st, which is two weeks from today,
we have Pastor Bruce Mejia from First Works Baptist Church coming to preach for us.
So definitely come out, support him.
And just, you know, definitely tell him thank you for coming out to preach for us.
It's definitely a blessing.
February 28th, we'll have Brother Dylan Oz.
And March 14th, we'll have Brother Blake Rincon preaching for us.
So definitely looking forward to all these guys coming out.
Some upcoming events.
We do have that Galveston Soul Winning Marathon right around the corner.
It's going to be here, you know, faster than you think.
It's March 6th, which is a Saturday.
So definitely kind of jot that down on your calendar.
Saturday, March 6th, Galveston Soul Winning Marathon.
And then lastly, if you do have any prayer requests or anything that you need special prayer about,
definitely email that into the church.
And Pastor Shelley will go over those during that midweek service.
And we can pray, you know, just for everybody with anything that you might need.
But that is the announcements for the evening.
Go ahead and pull your hymnals back out.
Brother Mo will come lead us for our third song.
Turn in your handouts to Psalm 139.
That's Psalm 139 verses 19 through 22.
We're going to sing it out there on the first.
Wait, give me an intro again.
We're on the first.
We vow we'll slay the wicked, O God.
Depart from me, therefore ye bloody men.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
For they speak against thee wickedly.
And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
I hate them with perfect hatred.
I count them mine enemies.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
Amen. Turn to your Bibles to the book of Job.
We're going to have Brother Jeffrey read for us, and we're going to pass the offering plate.
All right, Job chapter 1. The Bible reads in Job chapter 1, verse 1,
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job,
and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and eschewed evil.
And they were born unto him, seven sons and three daughters.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels,
and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses,
and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day,
and sit and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
And it was so, when the day of their feasting were gone about,
that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning,
and offered burnt offerings according to a 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 there was a day when the sons of God came to resent themselves before the Lord,
and Satan came also among them.
And the Lord said unto Satan, When's comest thou?
And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Has thou considered my servant Job,
that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that fearth God and is true of evil?
And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Did Job fear God for naught?
Has not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house,
and about all that he hath on every side?
Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath,
and he will curse thee to thy face.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power,
only upon himself put not forth thine hand.
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother's house.
There came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing,
and the asses feeding beside them, and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them away.
Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword,
and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
The fire of God has fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants,
and consumed them, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
The Chaldeans came out three bands, and fell upon the camels,
and carried them away. Yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword,
and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said,
Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness,
and smelt the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men,
and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head,
and fell down upon the ground and worshipped, and said,
Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return dither.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
And all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Let's all bow our heads for a quick word of prayer.
Dear Lord, I pray that you would fill, brother, then with your spirit.
I pray that you would minimize extractions, that you would guide us in receiving the word that is about to be preached,
that you would help us to apply it in our day-to-day lives.
I pray all this in Jesus' name. Amen.
I want to first thank Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to come here and fill the pulpit.
I also want to just apologize for an error I made in the morning.
Pastor Mejia is not coming next week, it's the week after.
And I made reference to that in the morning and messed that up, so my apologies there.
Job 1, verse 1, the Bible says,
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job,
and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and eschewed evil.
Here in Job chapter 1, we get an introduction to this book,
and we see that Job was perfect, he was upright, he feared God.
Now, he was a sinner.
When the Bible talks about perfection, oftentimes what it means is completeness.
Job was a complete Christian, and he was the personification of what it means to be in God's will, essentially.
This is an amazing book here, the book of Job.
If you've never read it before, notice that it's in the poetic section of the Bible.
It's right before Psalms, you have Proverbs after that, and it's a poetic book.
It's written with poetic language, so you have to keep that in mind.
And essentially, we see in the beginning that the devil ascertains that Job would stop serving the Lord
if his life was ruined, essentially, and Job proves him wrong.
There's a dialogue between Job's friends and Job throughout the entirety of the book,
and then God ends up inserting himself into the conversation at the end.
Look at verse 6, Job chapter 1, verse 6, where the Bible read,
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,
and Satan came also among them.
On a side note, we see here that the sons of God are referenced in verse number 6,
and where are they? They're in heaven.
Notice, they're not in some weird Abraham's bosom deal.
They're in the presence of the Lord, right?
And where is God? He's in heaven, which proves that even before Christ,
those who are saved went to heaven, not a holding tank called Abraham's bosom,
which is propagated by dispensationalists.
Just kind of a side note there. Look at verse 7.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job,
that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God and escheweth evil?
God puts Job over here. He says, Hey, there's none like him in the earth.
Have you considered my servant Job?
Now think about that for a minute. Think of the magnitude of this question
that God poses to the devil himself. Have you considered my servant Job?
How many of us could say that the Lord would use this sort of language about us?
Have you considered my servant Samson, for example?
Have you considered my servant Nick?
Have you considered my servant? Insert any person's name there.
I think that we should strive to have that happen for us.
But we see Job, he's upright, he's complete, he's perfect, he fears God, he eschews evil.
And Satan contends, though, that Job would, in fact, turn on the Lord
if his hedge of protection was removed from Job.
And here we see an example of the devil being an accuser of the brethren.
That's his main role, is to be an accuser of the brethren.
Jesus Christ is our advocate. The devil is the total opposite of that.
He's an accuser of the brethren. The Lord then responds to the devil here.
I'm just going to summarize it for sake of time.
And he says, You know what? He's in your power.
And he essentially doesn't restrain the devil, other than ensuring that he doesn't kill Job
from afflicting him and from persecuting him.
And here's what we can take from this. Sometimes when we go through tribulation
in this life, it's a test. It's a test to see whether you're going to respond appropriately,
whether you're going to respond the right way.
Sometimes God will allow us to go through things that are unpleasant, to try us,
to see how we're going to respond to that situation.
How did Job respond? Well, he worshiped the Lord exactly the same way he did prior to the devil's attack.
Look at, well, you can stay there. Here's what Job lost. Let me give you a quick summary.
Here's what Job lost. The Bible says that he lost his oxen and his asses.
Now, imagine if somebody walked up to you and said,
Hey, the company you work for, men, the company you work for just went out of business.
You no longer have a job. You no longer have the ability to provide for your family.
Imagine if somebody walked up to you. What would you be thinking if you had just received news like that?
Unpleasant news. We also know that Job loses his sheep. He loses his servants.
So a modern-day application of that would be, imagine if somebody said,
Hey, not only did you lose your job, but that 401k that you've been presiding over,
that 401k in that savings account that you've been building up over decades, it's been drained.
Or there's been an economic collapse, which we know is going to happen in the future,
when the New World Order is set up prior to the Antichrist declaring himself to be God
at the midpoint of Daniel's 70th week.
You can check out the chart in the back for more information on what I just said, what I just referenced.
But there's coming a day in which there's going to be a famine. There's going to be hyperinflation.
The dollar that we use right now, it's going to end up being worthless one day.
In fact, in many ways it already is. It's a fiat currency backed by nothing.
It's currency that just springs up. It spawns out of midair randomly, backed by nothing.
Not backed by gold, not backed by silver. But there might come a day in which the banks default.
Remember, they use a fractional reserve lending sort of system,
where they don't actually have your money in the bank. They lend it out to other banks.
What if there's a day where you find out that you can't even withdraw money from your own bank account?
That's happening in the world right now, in fact.
In Lebanon, right now there's an economic collapse, reminds me of the end times,
where people can't even withdraw money from their bank, and they're going hungry.
Many people are starving on the streets as a result of this.
What if you lose all your wealth? What if you lose your savings account?
What if you lose all that money that you've been building up over many years? How would you respond?
It also says that Job lost his camels.
Imagine if somebody said, oh, by the way, that car that you have been driving around,
that you saved up all your money for, that Ford Mustang that you bought recently,
it's been stolen, it's gone, it's done, you no longer have it.
Not only have you lost your job, not only have you lost your savings account,
not only have you lost that 401k you've been building up, your vehicle has been stolen, no more.
And how about this one, we also see that Job, and it was read for us before the sermon,
he lost his children as well.
So think about this, your 401, your savings account, gone.
Just trying to use some modern application here.
That vehicle that you like so much, stolen, gone, your wealth has disappeared into thin air.
It's done, it's been deleted, it's over, it's finished.
And then on top of all of that, you find out that a storm came
and it destroyed a building that your children were in and they died.
How do you respond to that? What do you do?
Well, here's Job's response, look at Job 1 verse 20.
Then Job arose and rent his mantle and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped and said,
Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither.
The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, notice this, blessed be the name of the Lord.
He blesses God.
Somebody walks up to you, you have just lost everything including your children.
Imagine if you responded by saying, well praise God.
You know, often times people do that when something good happens.
I just got a promotion, praise God.
I just found out my wife's pregnant again, praise God.
This is an example by the way, she's not actually pregnant yet.
You know, whatever good news, whatever good news you might receive, praise God.
But what if it's the inverse, what if it's something negative?
Family member just died or something horrible happened to you.
Well, the Lord, I mean, it says here, Job 1,
Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither.
The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away.
You know what he means by this in Job 1 21?
He's talking about the fact that the material items that he's amassed in his life, they don't mean much to him.
He said, I came into this world naked and I'm going to leave naked.
I'm not going to be able to take these possessions with me into heaven.
So you know what? Hey, God takes it away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Think about that. Think about the integrity it takes.
Think about the faith that you have to have to say that in the face of this affliction here.
Hey, blessed be the name of the Lord anyway.
Most people wouldn't do that. They'd be, they would murmur against God.
They'd be upset with the Lord and ask, why me? Why is this happening to me?
I don't understand. They would, I mean, blessing God would probably be the furthest thing from their mind
in this, in this scenario.
I want you to look at Job 2 if you would, Job chapter 2.
It should be like right there in your page, in your Bible.
Job chapter 2 verse 6, Job 2 verse 6.
And the Lord sent unto Satan, behold he is in thine hand, but save his life.
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils
from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
So if you're keeping track here, not only does he lose everything,
not only does he lose his children, then he gets boils all over his body.
Verse 8, and he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal and he sat down among the ashes.
God again allows Satan to torment Job.
He removes, he removes the restrainer.
But he does restrain him from killing Job.
And we see that Job is struck with boils and he ends up having to scrape them with a potsherd.
You say, what's a potsherd? It's a broken piece of ceramic material I found online,
especially one found on an archaeological site.
Let me just explain this for you here.
That didn't feel very good. This wasn't like something you would use to massage somebody.
Okay, the guy had boils all over his body. He's scraping them with a potsherd.
And think about this. What did we start off with? The fact that Job was up, right?
The fact that Job, you know, that he loved the Lord.
My question is this, do you think he deserved this?
Did Job deserve this affliction? Did Job deserve this to happen to him? No, he didn't.
The reality is, Job was afflicted without a cause.
Job was afflicted without a cause, reminds me of somebody, reminds me of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ also afflicted without a cause.
There are many parallels between Job and Jesus.
There are a plethora of different connections you can make between Job and Jesus,
which is why the title of my sermon this evening is Shadows of Christ in the Book of Job.
Shadows of Christ in the Book of Job.
And the reason why I chose that word shadows is because of what the Bible tells us in,
and this just came to my mind here, but Colossians chapter 2.
I wasn't originally going to explain this, but I figured why not.
Colossians chapter 2 in verse 16, it says,
Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days,
which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
So the principle there in Colossians 2 is that there are certain components of the Mosaic law
that were a shadow of things to come pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we see that in the Book of Job there are many shadows of Christ that we can look at,
and in fact that's true for every book of the Bible.
That's true for the entire Old Testament, that you see typology, you see pictures of Jesus.
Go to Job chapter 9 and let's look at the first one.
Job chapter 9, my first point, both Job and Jesus were afflicted without a cause.
Both Job and Jesus were afflicted without a cause.
What you have to understand about Job is that he was righteous in relative terms,
and what I mean by that is Job was righteous compared to other people,
but he wasn't righteous in absolute terms in the way that Jesus was.
Jesus was righteous in the sense that he was sinless.
Jesus never committed sin in his life.
The Bible says who knew no sin about him.
In 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21, Job 9 17 says this.
It says, for he breaketh me with a tempest, Job 9 17, Job chapter 9 verse 17,
for he breaketh me with a tempest, now pay attention to the latter portion of this verse,
and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Job was wounded and it wasn't because of anything that he did, it was a trial.
It was a trial to see whether or not he would compromise on his faith in God,
whether or not he would compromise in his steadfastness toward God.
And again, it was not based on any wrongdoing on his part.
People assume though that if something bad happens to you,
they automatically attribute it to God's chastisement or God's punishment.
That's not the case.
And if someone in this church, you know, for example, if their car breaks down
or if they lose their job or if something happens to them that's negative,
you shouldn't then assume automatically, oh, they must not be right with God then.
They must be being chastened by the Lord.
Bad things are going to happen to us in this life and it could be because God's trying us.
It could be because we're being persecuted.
It could be because we're being punished as well.
That's obviously true.
The Bible tells us that in Hebrews chapter 12, Hebrews 10 says that it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
That's for the saved.
It is a fearful thing to fall into his hands.
There's no doubt about that.
And there are times where people are doing wrong, where people are backslidden,
where they're engaging in sin, where they're drowning themselves in sin.
And yes, they are being punished.
But that wasn't the scenario here with Job.
And it's not always the scenario, so don't make an assumption that that's always the case.
Persecution, you can think of it this way, it's hardship stemming from serving God.
That's what persecution is.
Punishment, what's that?
Punishment would be hardship stemming from transgressing God.
That's what punishment is.
That's what chastisement is.
Now I want to bring up a name for you real quickly before we continue on with the sermon.
We're going to take a quick detour for just a moment here to bring somebody up that I think really deserves to get his name called out from behind this pulpit.
And his name is Michael Johnson.
Michael Johnson is a fake pastor.
He's a cowardly snake from North Carolina.
And this guy refused to stand with an individual who I mentioned in the morning.
His name is Pastor Bruce Mejia from First Works Baptist Church.
He said the following on Facebook.
He said, quote, looks like the hedge of protection is gone and he's no Job.
In response to Pastor Mejia's church getting vandalized by the enemies of the Lord by a bunch of psychopath reprobates, Michael Johnson refuses to stand with him.
He says, well, you know what?
You know, I don't want anything to do with this guy.
He says, looks like God's hedge of protection has been taken away and he's no Job.
Isn't that interesting?
Didn't we just read about Job himself and how God allowed the devil to torment him, to afflict him in this way?
Does that mean that Job wasn't right with God?
Does that mean that it was somehow a punishment emanating from the Lord?
No, of course not.
That's not it at all.
And you know what Michael Johnson's saying?
Michael Johnson's saying essentially exactly the same message that the left is perpetrating right now.
That Pastor Mejia deserved to get his church vandalized.
That Pastor Mejia deserved his church to be bombed.
That's what he's trying to articulate when he says something so stupid on Facebook.
That's what he's trying to say.
Hey, I'm not going to stand with this guy.
That's God judging him.
Apparently Pastor Mejia is at fault, according to Michael Johnson, for a bunch of filthy sodomite freaks vandalizing his church.
According to Michael Johnson, that's Pastor Mejia's fault.
He's the one who's incurred the judgment of God.
Why?
Michael Johnson believes that Pastor Mejia deserves God's judgment because in his mind, Pastor Mejia has railed on Michael Johnson.
Because Pastor Mejia makes memes against the lies of Manly Perry and the lies of Michael Johnson,
Johnson then gets on Facebook and says, oh, he deserved it.
God's heads of protection has been removed.
How could he think that?
It's because he's narcissistic.
That's why.
How could he think something like that?
Because he's a railing sack of garbage.
That's why.
He's a railing sack of garbage.
There, I said it.
I'm not going to hold back against this guy.
This snake, this spineless coward getting up on Facebook and attacking Pastor Mejia during a time like this.
You know what?
How dare this guy choose a time like right now to go after First Works Baptist Church.
In my opinion, that shows exactly how much of a black heart he truly has.
It shows just how wicked he is in his heart.
It shows how wicked he is.
It shows how disgusting he is.
I mean, who thinks this, that God would use a bunch of fags to judge Pastor Mejia for preaching against them?
That's ridiculous.
You know, Michael Johnson, let me introduce you to this concept.
The world doesn't revolve around you, okay?
The world doesn't revolve around you.
That didn't happen because of you.
It happened because Pastor Mejia was righteous.
It happened because Pastor Mejia, like Job, was doing the right thing and he received persecution.
Just because he went through a difficult time does not mean that we can all assume, oh, that must have been the judgment of God.
You have to look at what he was doing prior to the event.
What was Pastor Mejia doing?
He was serving the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was going about his business.
And when somebody's going about their business, when somebody's doing right, when somebody loves the Lord,
when somebody's preaching unapologetically the whole counsel of God and they're attacked in response by the devil,
you don't then go, oh, that's God's judgment.
False.
You know what that is?
That's persecution of a righteous man.
And I want to make it very clear.
I stand, and I'm sure all of you do as well, with Pastor Bruce Mejia.
And Michael Johnson could go kick rocks.
Michael Johnson could go jump in a lake.
Cowards.
Snake.
Go to 1 Peter chapter 2.
1 Peter chapter 2.
I got that out of my system.
2 Corinthians 5 says,
For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Jesus was made sin, the Bible says, despite not knowing sin, despite him being sinless.
He was perfect.
He was God manifest in the flesh.
1 Peter 2 says this in verse 21,
For even hereunto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps.
Notice verse 22,
who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.
If someone out-souling doesn't believe you when you make the claim that Jesus was sinless,
here's a great proof text that you can show them.
1 Peter 2, 22.
That's easy to remember.
1 Peter 2, 2, 2.
1 Peter chapter 2, verse 22.
God, manifest in the flesh.
Jesus Christ did no sin.
Yet, he suffered, but Jesus suffered for the things that he didn't do.
He suffered for the things that we did.
That's why he suffered.
Go back over to the book of Job.
Let's look at Job 22.
So again, what's the first shadow that I wanted to look at here?
The fact that like Jesus, Job was afflicted without a cause.
Job was afflicted not because of what he did.
Jesus Christ, in the same way, was sinless, and yet he was beaten, he was battered, he was bloodied, he was mocked.
They put a crown of thorns on his head.
He was crucified.
He was killed.
It was the just for the unjust.
It was the perfect for the imperfect.
It was the sinless for the sinner.
My second point is this.
Another shadow of Christ we see in the book of Job.
Both Job and Jesus were falsely accused.
Look at Job 22 verse 5.
Is not thy wickedness great, and thine iniquities infinite?
Who's talking here? This is a life as Job's friend, supposedly.
He says Job's iniquities are infinite.
He claims that Job is unrighteous to the point of infinity.
How else am I supposed to explain this?
He says his wickedness is great.
False.
In fact, God himself told us in the first chapter that Job was righteous, that Job was perfect, that Job was upright, that there were no men like him.
Job was righteous according to God, but not according to men.
You see, good men oftentimes are going to be hated because they propagate the truth.
Isn't that amazing?
And sometimes that hatred emanates from the least expected source that you could think of.
You might not think that a friend that you've had who you've been close with for years would stab you in the back in this way, but it happens.
And in this case, Job's friends, a life as Bill Dad, Zophar, they turned on him.
They assumed that Job's life was ruined because of something he did that was wrong.
And then they falsely accuse him.
They falsely accuse him.
I think of Pastor Anderson and how he's done nothing but bless people over the years and try and lift them up and try and promote their churches and how he's been kind unto them.
And yet, some people, like Michael Johnson, have taken that kindness and have thrown it in the trash and have stabbed him in the back
and have now made it their life's mission to attack him constantly.
It's sick.
You know, Joel Osteen was wrong.
I know, shocker.
But Joel Osteen was wrong when he claimed that those who follow God's will are going to have a perfect life and nothing's ever going to go wrong for them.
And it's just going to be sunshine and rainbows and daffodils and everything's going to go perfectly and you're never going to have to experience another worry in your life.
Everything's going to go great, according to Joel Osteen, because he wants you to send him a check in the mail.
But see, that's not the reality.
And the book of Job teaches us that.
People are going to lie about you.
They're going to fabricate stories about you out of thin air.
And if they did it to Job, they're going to do it to you.
If they did it to the apostles, they're going to do it to you.
If they did it to the Lord Jesus Christ, they're going to do it to you.
Job 22 verse 6, it doesn't end there.
For thou, verse 6, for thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught and stripped the naked of their clothing.
I missed that part.
When did that happen?
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
Here we see a life as sort of virtue signaling.
Making it appear as if Job hadn't done enough for the poor.
That he lacks love for the vulnerable.
Now remember, God already declared Job as a righteous man.
A life as has no idea what he's talking about.
People will make this accusation all the time toward the righteous.
Oh, you just lack love.
You don't do enough for the poor.
But often times, the people who would levy this accusation toward the righteous don't do anything themselves.
The same people who would look at Pure Words Baptist Church and would claim that this church is nothing more than a hate cult.
All you guys do is hate constantly.
They don't care that people in their own neighborhood are dying and going to hell each and every single day.
They don't care about that.
They don't do anything to try and prevent that from happening.
They do no soul winning.
They don't show the lost any love whatsoever.
But then they'll turn around and they'll condemn the righteous who are actually soul winning and giving people the gospel.
That's the frustrating aspect about it.
And we see here, with respect to Job, haters gonna hate.
A life as is a hater right here.
What you have to understand is, hey, it's kind of a crude statement.
I'll just say it anyway.
Haters gonna hate.
Look at verse 9.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Therefore snares around about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
Job apparently, according to a life as, neglected widows.
And therefore he's in distress.
That's a lie right there.
We see Job's friends, like a life as, exploit the situation.
Why? To rebuke him.
To falsely accuse Job.
You know, Jesus was falsely accused as well.
We'll get to that in a little bit.
But I want to show you another individual who falsely accused Job.
Go to Job chapter 33.
Let's talk about Elihu.
You say, who's Elihu?
Think Bo Ballard.
Now you might not know who that is.
But he's an infiltrator, psycho, who was kicked out of steadfast Oklahoma City.
Think Michael Johnson.
When you think Elihu.
Elihu is a punk.
That's who Elihu is.
He pops up out of nowhere.
Nobody asked him for his opinion.
But he pops up out of nowhere here in the book of Job.
And I had you turn to Job 33.
Notice verse 6.
Job 33 and verse 6.
The Bible reads,
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead.
I also am formed out of the clay.
Now in chapter 31 of the book of Job,
Job requests an answer from God because he doesn't know exactly why he's being afflicted.
And here comes Elihu, popping it out of nowhere, says,
I am according to thy wish in God's stead.
Think of the arrogance of that statement.
It sounds like the devil to me.
Elihu claims to be speaking on behalf of God.
He's not.
Look at Job 34.
One chapter over.
Job 34 and verse 7.
Job 34 verse 7.
The Bible says,
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
You want to talk about a false accusation here.
Elihu claims that Job,
Here's what this phrase means.
Who drinketh up scorning like water.
What he's saying is that Job indulges himself with scorning.
What is scorning?
It means to deride.
It means to mock.
Or to hold an individual,
To mock somebody.
To deride somebody.
And what Elihu is saying is that Job is a mocker.
That he indulges himself with scorning.
He indulges himself with mockery.
That that's what he does constantly.
Now I'm not going to re-preach Pastor Shelley's sermon.
He talked about this a couple of Sundays ago.
And frankly, I don't want to just rip him off.
Okay, you can go watch the original.
It's better anyway.
So you can check that out.
I'm not going to re-preach Pastor Shelley's sermon.
He talked about this a couple of Sundays ago.
So you can check that out.
But this is exactly what Michael Johnson did to Pastor Mejia.
Exactly.
He claimed that Pastor Mejia,
that all he did was mock people constantly.
As if that was a negative.
Well you know Jesus mocked people.
We know that.
And the reason why Michael Johnson feels that way is because
he doesn't like memes.
He thinks memes are bad.
Well you know what?
If you're an idiot and you preach false doctrine,
I'm going to be the first one to make a meme about you.
You deserve it.
Alright?
Job 34, look at verse 8.
So Elihu accuses Job of walking amongst the wicked.
Verse 9.
Job never said that.
Job never said that it profited the man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Elihu is the ultimate Democrat right here.
Twisting the truth.
Just making up a bunch of lies.
Like the Democratic Party.
He says he walks with wicked men.
I've had people levy that accusation toward me.
All those churches that you go to.
That church you go to.
Those friends that you have from church.
They're wicked.
They're bad.
They're evil.
You shouldn't hang out with those people.
Elihu, like the Democrats do,
is making up a bunch of nonsense here against Job.
He's falsely accusing Job.
Says that he claimed, you know, that Job said it profited the man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job never said that.
And you know, by the way, I'm not saying that Donald Trump is anything like Job.
Alright?
So don't take what I'm saying out of context.
But you know, they'll say, oh man, Trump, he stirred up this mob to go and attack the Capitol.
No he didn't.
He told them to be peaceful.
Oh, you know, Trump, Russiagate.
You know, Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.
2016.
False.
Trump didn't do that.
If you want to criticize Donald Trump, there's plenty of material.
How about the fact that he wants to decriminalize sodomy?
Or that he, you know, when he was president he wanted to decriminalize sodomy all over the world.
I say we get on him for that.
How about his flagrant Zionism?
That would be a good thing to criticize him over.
But instead they just make up a bunch of lies.
That's what Democrats do.
Elihu, the ultimate Democrat here.
Anyone who disagrees with these people, they just call you a racist.
They say, oh, you hate women.
I'm married to a woman.
Moron.
They constantly twist.
They constantly gaslight.
They constantly contort what we believe our worldview to drive a bunch of false narratives today.
That's the playbook of Elihu.
You know, this moron leftist reporter put out an article about First Works Baptist Church
and claimed that Pastor Mejia opposed interracial marriage.
They just make things up out of thin air.
He marries people that are mixed race.
A black and a white couple.
He marries people that are different races.
He doesn't care about that.
He's preached against that mentality countless times.
No one in our movement believes it's wrong to marry mixed race couples.
That's stupid.
That's garbage.
But they want the general public who just buy whatever the media sells to believe we're all evil racists.
That's their playbook.
It's defamation.
And Elihu engages in that similar defamation against Job.
Even his friends, so-called friends, do the same thing.
And you notice that throughout the book of Job.
He engages in slander.
And you know what?
The Elihu's of this world, that's what they do.
The Elihu's in the corporate media, they engage in this exact same slander.
The Elihu's that are the enemies of God, they engage in this exact same slander.
Look at verse 37.
Job 34 verse 37.
Again, more slander coming from Elihu claiming that Job spoke against God.
This is exactly what the Jews did to the Lord Jesus Christ.
They claimed that Jesus was a blasphemer.
They claimed that Jesus Christ wasn't right with the Lord.
They said he was demon possessed.
They lost their mind when Jesus asserted his deity.
And the thing is, they put words in his mouth.
Just like Elihu does, or did rather, to Job.
They railed on him.
They put words in his mouth.
They propagated a bunch of unsubstantiated allegations against the Lord Jesus Christ.
Just like Job had to deal with in his life.
I'll read this for you in John 8.
It says,
The Jews look into God manifest in the flesh.
They look at the Lord Jesus Christ and say, you have a devil.
That's what they say to him.
A false accusation.
We also know in Matthew 26, the Bible tells us there,
now the chief priests and elders and all the council,
sought false witness against Jesus to put him to death.
So they set up a bunch of false witnesses to gaslight about Jesus Christ.
They call him a blasphemer.
The high priest calls him a blasphemer.
They set up a bunch of false witnesses to try and, you know,
basically put him to death based on lies.
Based on lies.
Falsely accusing him.
That's exactly what Job went through.
And we read some of the false accusations that were levied at Job as well.
So in that way, he pictures Christ.
Go to Job chapter 12.
Job chapter 12.
My third point, both Job and Jesus were reviled.
Both Job and Jesus were reviled.
Bible says in Job 12, I know we're kind of skipping around the book of Job,
but there are so many connections I believe to the life of Christ and what he accomplished for us.
In Job chapter 12 verse 4, the Bible reads there,
In Job chapter 12 verse 4,
Job's friends here, we see that, you know, they've been mocking.
They've been attacking Job.
And Job says, I'm as one mocked of his neighbor.
He was mocked.
In the midst of this incredible distress that he'd been going through, he was mocked.
Jesus was mocked as well.
Look at Luke chapter 22, if you would.
Luke chapter 22.
Jesus himself was mocked in the same way.
And I think that's what Job chapter 12 verse 4 is exemplifying for us.
Luke 22, when you get there, Luke chapter 22, look at verse 63.
Luke chapter 22 and verse 63.
The Bible says there in Luke 22 verse 63,
And the men that held Jesus, what did they do to him?
Mocked him.
Just like Job said, I am as one mocked of his neighbor.
It says,
Just as Job was mocked of his friends, we know that Jesus Christ, he was mocked as well.
In fact, they blindfolded him.
And then after they blindfolded him, they smote him.
And then they asked him to make fun of him.
Hey, who hit you?
Who hit you?
This is sickening hatred.
This is disrespect.
This is literally the creation.
The creation spitting in the face of the creator.
That's what was going on in Luke 22.
Go back to the book of Job.
Let's go to Job chapter 30.
Job chapter 30.
Meanwhile, I'll read for you from 1 Peter 2 as you go to Job 30.
1 Peter 2 says,
Talking about Jesus, he was reviled.
But he reviled not again.
He took this.
He took this hatred.
But he didn't return the favor in the sense that he didn't physically fight back.
He allowed it to happen.
Now, when he returns for the second coming, things are going to go a little bit different.
But his earthly ministry wasn't about taking these people out.
It was about facing the cross.
It was about being reviled.
It was about being hated.
It was about being disrespected.
It was about facing the cross, the death that he had to take on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins.
Going to hell for three days and three nights and rising again.
That was his mission.
That's why he came to this earth the first time.
And as I said, he was reviled yet he didn't return the favor.
In Job chapter 30 it says in verse 9,
That's what Job says figuratively here.
Talking about how the outcasts have spit in his face.
That's another shadow of Christ.
We know that Jesus was spit on.
Matthew 27 says so.
It says,
Job talks about that here.
I believe a shadow of what would come at the cross.
Look at Job 16.
Go backward to Job chapter 16.
It's amazing to me how the truth elicits such hatred.
How the truth elicits this response from people.
Jesus Christ spit on.
Jesus Christ hated for what he preached.
Job 16, look at verse 9.
Let's look at this aspect of Job and Jesus being a connection.
Job 16, look at verse 9.
He gnashed upon me with his teeth.
My enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.
Look at verse 10.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth.
They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully.
They have gathered themselves together against me.
That kind of reminds me of Christ.
Look at verse 11.
We see another shadow of Christ in the sense that Job,
he speaks of being smitten upon the cheek reproachfully.
He talks about being turned over to the wicked.
That's who Jesus was turned over to.
The wicked as well.
Think of who he was crucified with.
Malefactors on both sides of him.
On the cross crucified with him.
Jesus was smitten in the face by his adversaries.
He was treated as subhuman.
He was hated.
He was reviled.
He was physically assaulted.
And I think we see here in Job chapter 16 a type of that.
We see a picture of that.
Look at Psalm 22.
Psalm 22.
Again, I know we're kind of bouncing around,
but I think there are so many clear references to the Lord Jesus Christ in these scriptures.
And Psalm chapter 22 is another example of that where you see references to the crucifixion.
It talks about that.
Psalm 22 verse 13 says this.
Psalm 22 verse 13.
They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Now if you paid attention to what I read in Job 16.
Job 16 verse 10 literally said this.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth.
Now how could you tell me that Job doesn't picture Jesus?
Psalm 22.
A messianic psalm says they gaped upon me with their mouths.
Job 16 10 says they have gaped upon me with their mouth.
Why?
Because Job pictures Jesus.
Because there are shadows of Christ in the book of Job.
Imagine this being surrounded by scorners as you suffer.
I think that compounds the pain even more.
That's what Job went through.
That's what Jesus went through.
Not only was he physically tortured, but he was also forsaken.
And Job was as well.
Look at Job chapter 19.
Job chapter 19.
You say, Ben, why are we flipping around so much?
Well, look, there are a lot of verses on this.
So let's open up our Bibles and learn something.
Job chapter 19.
My fourth point is both Job and Jesus were forgotten by friends.
Both Job and Jesus were forgotten by friends.
Job 19 where I had you turn, look at verse 14.
He says, my kinsfolk have failed and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
That sounds familiar.
How about Jesus being forgotten three times by Peter,
who claimed that he didn't even know him.
He was afraid of a girl.
He said, I don't know that guy.
Matthew 26.
Then began he to curse and to swear saying, I know not the man.
And immediately the cock crew.
Jesus said that's exactly what would happen.
He would deny him three times and it's what Peter did.
Immediately the cock crew.
Peter was afraid of a girl and he forgot Jesus.
At least outwardly that's what he expressed.
I know not the man.
And Job says in Job 19, 14, my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Look at Job 30.
Flip over to Job chapter 30.
I'll go to my fifth point.
How about this one?
Both Job and Jesus were in captivity.
The Bible tells us in Job 30 verse 15, Job 30 verse 15, terrors are turned upon me.
They pursue my soul as the wind and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
And now my soul is poured out upon me.
The days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season and my sinews take no rest.
So Job's bones themselves are in pain is what he's saying here.
That's probably how Christ felt on the cross.
Look at verse 18.
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed.
It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job's disease, the Bible says here, binds him.
What does that mean?
He was held captive by it.
Verse 19, he hath cast me into the mire and I am become like dust and ashes.
What's he trying to say?
Job's saying he feels right now the lowest depths of his misery and of his pain and of his degradation.
He feels like he's captive by the disease that's taken his body.
He's talking about sinking in the, he says he hath cast me into the mire.
Now what is the mire?
It's mud.
And when you sink in mud, there's nowhere for you to go.
You can't go forward, you can't go backwards, you're unable to move.
He says he's become like dust and ashes, of course in the eyes of his fellow man,
which means he was worthless in the eyes of his fellow man,
just like Jesus was in the eyes of those who were responsible for having him delivered to the cross.
What do we see here?
He hath cast me into the mire.
You know what that implies?
Sinking down.
Go to Acts 2.
Matthew 12 says this, for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,
so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jesus sunk as well in the sense that he went to the heart of the earth, hell, to pay for our sins.
Job sinking in the mire, that verbiage, I believe, typifies Christ going to hell.
And guess what?
When Jesus was in hell, he was held captive, just like Job was captive,
just like Job says that he was captive in Job chapter 30 when he says that his diseases had him bound.
Job was captive, Jesus was captive.
Job talks about going into the mire, and we see that, I believe, is a type of Jesus going to hell
where he was held captive for three days and three nights.
Romans 6 says, knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it if you think that Jesus went to hell just so he could jingle the keys and go,
Nah, sucks to be you guys.
That's garbage, alright, that's not what he went there for.
What would be the point of that?
The Bible says very clearly, death at one point had dominion over Christ.
How could it no more have dominion over him if it never did?
It had dominion over him because he went to hell.
It had dominion over him because he suffered in hell for the sins of the entire planet.
And that just makes the gospel that much more powerful.
I don't understand people who would attack this doctrine, especially when it's so clear in scripture.
Being in the state of, you know, being dead, the state of being dead implicitly implies that you're in hell.
That's the reality, that's what the Bible teaches, and Jesus, of course, he was held captive in hell.
But go to Acts chapter 2, I think I had you turn there, let me go there myself.
Acts chapter 2, notice what the Bible says in Acts 2 and verse 26.
It says, therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad, moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope.
Because why? Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
He says my heart will rejoice because you're not going to leave my soul in hell.
If he was in hell dancing around, if he was in hell going nah nah nah nah nah, you know, you guys are in hell, sucks to be you.
Then why would he be rejoicing about the fact that he's leaving hell?
The reason he would be rejoicing about leaving that place is because he was there to be tormented.
And he was tormented for us.
He was tormented for the sins of the entire planet.
He went to hell so that we would never have to experience the second death.
He took that punishment on our behalf. That's powerful. That's powerful.
Ephesians 4 says this, you don't have to turn there.
Wherefore he saith, when he ascendeth up on high, he led captivity captive.
Jesus was captive at one point, but then he led captivity captive.
He went from being captive in hell to pouring out his wrath on the souls who are in hell.
And that's what he did for us.
And in Job 42 it says, and the Lord turned the captivity of Job.
Job was captive at one point, just as Jesus was.
Job, the Bible talks about how he was tossed into the mire, he went into the mire, he experienced the mire just to assure Jesus went to hell.
So many cool shadows there.
Look at Job 19 if you would, Job chapter 19.
Both Job and Jesus were forsaken.
Both Job and Jesus experienced a hellish existence on this earth.
But Jesus Christ literally went there.
It wasn't figurative, he literally went to hell.
My sixth point, I'm almost done.
My sixth point, my second to last point, both Job and Jesus spoke of a resurrection.
Both Job and Jesus spoke of a resurrection.
Job 19 says this in verse 25.
Verse 26.
In his flesh he'll see God.
What does that mean?
It means Job knew first of all that his redeemer lives.
And second of all, that he's going to see God one day in the flesh, implying that he knows there's a resurrection coming in the future.
He talked about a future resurrection.
That's exactly what Jesus said in John chapter 5.
I'll quote it for you.
He said this.
Jesus also spoke of a coming resurrection.
And I believe you can connect John chapter 5 to Ezekiel chapter 37 which talks about the valley of dry bones.
Remember Ezekiel was told to speak under those bones.
And John chapter 5 talks about how those who are in the graves will hear his voice.
That's the voice of God.
A connection there to the valley of dry bones in my estimation.
But there's coming a day in which we, like Job, are all going to see God in the flesh.
Job spoke of that day.
Jesus pointed to that day as well.
It's the culmination of everything that we've been waiting for.
It's the culmination of everything that we've been working for.
We're going to receive those glorified bodies.
Obviously, salvations by faith.
What I'm talking about there are the rewards that are waiting for us in heaven when I make that statement.
The day of the Lord, the resurrection, the rapture.
Yeah, we're working for that day.
Not because you have to work for salvation.
We're working so that when that day comes, Jesus will look at us and say,
Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
That's why.
Obviously, salvations by faith. I get that.
But you don't want to just stop at being saved, do you?
Job chapter 42. Go there. Job chapter 42.
The day of the Lord is coming.
The resurrection is coming.
The rapture is coming.
The return of the Lord Jesus Christ is coming.
And Jesus talked about that.
How about the Olivet Discourse?
A very famous portion of scripture in which Jesus describes the events that must come to pass before the rapture.
And he says,
And then shall he send his angels to gather together the elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other, in Matthew 24.
Job 42 says in verse 7, here's my seventh point.
Here's my last point, in fact.
Both Job and Jesus acted as an intercessor.
Here's what I mean by that.
Look at Job 42 verse 7.
And it was so that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job,
The Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
My wrath is kindled against thee and against thy two friends,
for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams,
and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering.
Pay attention to this right here.
Notice these words.
And my servant Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept,
lest I deal with you after your folly,
in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
So what does God say here?
He says take a sacrifice, go to my servant Job,
offer that offering, it's Job who I'm going to accept on your behalf.
That sounds like Jesus.
You see Job's friends are rebuked here.
God says I'm not accepting you, I'm going to accept Job instead.
I'm going to accept him as the intercessor.
We see that Job will pray for his friends.
He'll pray for his friends.
He'll be a mediator.
He'll be an intercessor.
And we need an intercessor as well.
Go to Romans 8, Romans chapter 8.
1 John 2 says,
My little children, these things write I unto you that ye sin not,
and if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Satan is our accuser.
Remember what I said earlier?
Satan is our accuser.
The devil is the accuser of the brethren, but Jesus is our advocate.
Whenever you mess up, Jesus advocates for you in heaven.
Jesus is our advocate.
And Romans chapter 8 also talks about how he makes intercession for us.
It says exactly that in Romans 8, 34.
Who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again.
Who is even at the right hand of God, who also make intercession for us.
He makes intercession for us.
What does that mean?
It means we can go boldly, as the Bible talks about in Hebrews chapter 4.
We could go boldly unto the throne of grace when we mess up.
And we can ask for forgiveness.
And Jesus acts as a mediator between the Father and us.
And he advocates for us in heaven.
He is our advocate with the Father.
And just as God said, I will accept Job.
I will only accept Job.
He said that in Job chapter 42.
And Job interceded for his friends on behalf of what they've done.
Because of their sin, their transgression.
We know that the Father accepted Jesus on our behalf.
So that we can go to heaven for free.
We know that the Father accepts Jesus as our advocate.
And we can go boldly unto the throne of grace now in the New Testament.
And ask for forgiveness without having to offer up a literal animal sacrifice or a carnal sacrifice.
Because Christ's blood on the cross was the ultimate sacrifice that lasts forever.
So now when you mess up, you get down on your knees and you ask for forgiveness.
And the Bible says that you will be forgiven.
Here's my conclusion.
I said both Job and Jesus were afflicted without a cause.
They faced torment.
But it wasn't for anything they did.
I said both Job and Jesus were falsely accused.
I said both Job and Jesus were reviled.
I said both Job and Jesus were forsaken.
We know Jesus was forsaken by Peter.
I said both Job and Jesus were in captivity.
Jesus in hell. Literally.
Both Job and Jesus spoke of a future resurrection.
Talked about that.
And I said both Job and Jesus acted as an intercessor.
We're going to read one more verse and I'll be done.
Job chapter number five.
I'm sorry, John five.
My apologies.
John chapter five is where we're going to end.
This will be the last verse I read and then we'll wrap it up.
And you guys can go home and watch the Super Bowl.
I'm kidding. Just kidding.
I know y'all are clamoring for it.
When's this guy going to stop?
John five verse thirty-nine.
Let me just say this.
I'll take any sermon on any topic over that garbage.
And I'm glad you guys are at church today.
Everyone else all excited.
I'm going to go to the Super Bowl.
We're going to go get drunk.
I had some guy out zoning tell me that.
I'm going to go get drunk.
I don't want to talk religion right now, man.
I'm going to go get drunk and watch the Super Bowl.
It's like, you're a moron.
That didn't have anything to do with us preaching,
but sometimes you've got to vent.
Job five verse thirty-nine.
Look at this.
I'm sorry.
I don't know why I keep saying Job.
John chapter five verse thirty-nine.
It says this,
Search the scriptures,
for in them ye think ye have eternal life,
and they are they which testify of me.
The scriptures testify of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every book of the Bible
testifies of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The gospels themselves
obviously are the most obvious ones
that testify of Jesus Christ.
But you have Old Testament,
the entire Old Testament,
which is filled with pictures,
which is filled with shadows.
And if you're wondering,
okay, what can I take out of this sermon?
First of all,
that there are several different shadows
and types of Jesus in the book of Job.
But second of all,
what I want you to do is this.
This is my challenge I want to leave you with
as I head back up to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
As you go through your Bible from cover to cover,
don't just mindlessly read it.
And here's what I mean by that.
Don't just get through your reading for that day
and check it off on your list
without actually taking the time
to retain the information.
So here's a task for you.
Look for pictures of Christ
everywhere throughout your Bible.
Look for types.
Look for shadows of the Lord Jesus Christ.
My hope is that, you know,
a sermon like this,
that it would inspire you
to look for pictures of Christ,
that it would inspire you
to find these types,
to find these shadows.
And I think in doing so,
it'll give you a renewed appreciation
for the book of Leviticus, for example.
It'll give you a renewed appreciation
for the book of 1 and 2 Kings
or 1 and 2 Chronicles
or whatever the case may be.
It'll give you a renewed appreciation
for the Word of God
as you find these incredible types,
these incredible shadows of Jesus.
And it'll also show
that this entire book
testifies of Christ,
that this entire book
is about one man,
God manifest in the flesh,
100% God, 100% man.
This is about Jesus.
And, you know, these Jews,
they say, you know,
people believe that the Jews
only believe the Old Testament.
Well, you know what?
That's false because if they believed
the Old Testament,
they would have believed in Christ.
Because the Old Testament
testifies of Christ.
If they believed Moses,
they would have believed Jesus
because Moses testified of Jesus.
Moses pictured Jesus.
Isaac.
Think of all these wonderful pictures
that we have with Abraham and Isaac,
Abraham having to sacrifice his son.
And then, of course,
what we talked about tonight
with the book of Job,
all the different types,
all the different pictures,
all the different shadows
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
it's all over the Bible.
And my challenge for you
is simple, find them
and share them with your friends,
share them with your family.
It'll really help you
just have, like I said,
a renewed appreciation
for the magnificent Word of God
because that's what it is.
It's amazing.
It's wondrous.
And it's awesome.
Let's pray.
Father God, we thank you so much
for the book of Job,
for all these awesome types,
for all these awesome pictures
and figures that you have put
in the Bible for us.
And Father, I just pray, Lord,
that you would help us to find more
and to share them with our friends,
share them with our families.
And also, Lord,
that we would look at
what Job went through
and recognize that, yeah,
even though we might be
going about our business
and doing that which is right,
that, Lord, sometimes things
still don't go
the way we want them to.
And help us, Lord,
to have the same attitude
that Job did,
not to turn on you,
but rather to keep our integrity.
And, Lord, I pray
that you would help us
to remain faithful,
even when things don't go our way.
Help us to have Job's attitude,
no matter what we lose.
And, Lord, help us
to prove the devil wrong,
who accused Job of turning on you
if you took his wealth away from him.
In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Amen.
In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
Amen.
Song 439,
Count Your Blessings.
Song 439, Count Your Blessings.
They're on the first.
Song 439, Count Your Blessings.
When of all those billows
You are tempest-host,
When you are discouraged
thinking all is lost,
Count Your many blessings,
name them one by one,
and it will surprise you
what the Lord hath done.
Count Your blessings,
name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to wear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly.
And you will be singing as the days go by.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
When you look at others with their lands and gold,
think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold.
Count your many blessings, but he cannot buy
your reward in heaven or your home on high.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
So amend the tumbling, whether great or small.
Do not be discouraged, God is over all.
Count your many blessings, angels will attend.
Help and comfort give you to your journeys end.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Alright, you're all dismissed.