<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 While we're a little off the subject, just a bit, so let me drop you a little something. Why did Joseph want his be--bones buried up there? Notice, when Job, an old--one of the oldest books of the Bible, when he died, he was getting ready... Or before he died, he was setting on an ash heap, scraping his boils. And his wife came and said, "Job, why don't you curse God and die?"
He said, "Woman, thou speakest like a foolish woman." Now, he never said she was foolish, but she was speaking like one. He said, "The Lord gave and the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." Some of his church members came down to give him some consolation, set with their back to him seven days, accused him of being a secret sinner. Not much consolation there, but they accused him of sinning against God; but Job knowed his heart. He knowed he hadn't sinned against God.
Many times people say, "See all that sickness in that family? I told you. They're not living right." Now, God does do that sometime, but not every time it's God doing that; 'cause God here, was dealing with a saint, a trying and proving of a saint. And every man that cometh to God must first be tried of God. And if he can't stand chastisement, then you become a illegitimate child, and not the child of God. Trials to try our faith. Isn't that marvelous, God would give us those trials and tests to prove us?

L-8 Now notice. This is beautiful. Then, after while, Job setting there, knowing his heart, little Elihu came down, which we know the Hebrew word 'Elah' which came in from God, meaning, that's God's representative. Otherwise it was a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ, come down, speaking to Job. Said, "Now look, Job, you're accusing God wrongly." Said, "But now... " He spoke to him and he said now, "You're looking out upon the natural things here, and so forth," and he said...
Job--Job begin to speak to him about the flower, how it dies. In the spring of the year it comes back up again. If a tree dies, it lives again. But it said, "Man lays down; he giveth up the ghost. He wastes away, his sons come to mourn his death, he perceive it not. Where is he?"

L-9 He said, "Now, you been noticing all those things." I'm putting this kindly in a drama-child form for the little ones. He said, "Now, you been looking at that, but remember, that flower or that tree never sinned against God. Man sinned against God, so it separated him from God. But there's coming One, someday, Who will stand in the breach between a sinful man and a holy God and bridge the way: put a hand on a sinful man, and the holy God, bridge the way, speaking of Christ. The prophet saw it. He stood on his feet. The lightnings begin to flash, the thunders roar; Job said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last days He will stand on the earth: though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God."
Watch. When he died, years later, he made a specification of where to bury him. Along come father Abraham, and when Sarah died, he went close to the same land that Job was buried in. He bought a piece of ground. He wouldn't let them give them to him. He bought that ground for a burying place and he buried Sarah near Job. And when Abraham died, he slept in the same grave with Sarah. And Abraham begot Isaac, and when Isaac died, he slept with Abraham. And Isaac begot Jacob. And when  Jacob was--died down in Egypt, but before he died (Oh, I just love this.), he said, "Come here, Joseph." He had a crippled hip where an Angel touched him from wrestling. Look at that. On one side of the river one night, a big strong backslider, on the next side--next morning, on the other side of the river, a limping prince: He'd wrestled with God. Said, "Come here and lay your hands upon my hip and swear to me that you will not bury me down here." Wonder why? "But take me back up there and let me be buried with Abraham and Isaac." Why?


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