<TITLE>09. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 At the end then after Job had done everything laid in the way, these provided ways of approaches to God for all of his children, he approached for his children, praying in their behalf. If you ever notice, at the end of the road, Job restored back double. God gave him double what he had, purged him, and restored to him.

L-44 He had ten thousand head of cattle, he had twenty. He had ten thousand head of sheep, he had twenty. If he had thirty thousand head of--of a goats, why, he had--he had a--a sixty: God doubling to him. And then again, I believe he had seven children. And God restored his seven children. Did you ever notice? He never doubled his children, He just restored his children to him. Amen.
Why? How did He do it? Through the approach, the burnt sacrifice. That's right. Yes, sir.
They were all in glory, waiting for him to come. God restored Job his children after they were dead. He never restored back, making him fourteen children. He restored his animals and so forth back, but he restored to him. Because why? He become God's provided way of approach through the burnt offering. That's the approach.

L-45 Abraham, when he was old, he come from the land of the Chaldea, in the city of Ur, and sojourned. God separated him from his people, from all of his associates, separated him away from his loved ones, and sent he and Sarah into a strange land, to be with strange peoples, to be a sojourner. Aren't you glad you're a sojourner?

L-46 A sojourner, a pilgrim. Amen. A sojourner, one that is sent out. In other words, Abraham was a missionary or an apostle. He was sent of God to a strange land. And the word "apostle" means "one that's sent" missionary the same.
And in this land, he was a different from the rest of them. So he was an apostle, pilgrim, and a sojourner. And that's what every believer that comes to God today, through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, is called out of his habitations.
You women and your card parties, and dances at night, and your rowding, and--and all your drinking, and you men with your sin, God separates you from those things, calls you out to be a what? An apostle. Sent away from that audience, or crowd, into a different type of people... To be a what? A pilgrim to the world, a stranger.

L-47 Oh, I love that old song. They always sing it when we're baptizing:
 We're pilgrims and we're strangers here,
 We're seeking a city to come.
 The lifeboat soon is coming, 
 To gather the Jewels home.
Oh, I just love that old song. I can almost hear the water splashing when we go to singing that.
We were singing that when the Morning Star, the Angel of the Lord made It's first appearance over where I was standing in public, for the first time in my life, at the foot of Spring Street in the Ohio river in June '33, as a young Baptist minister, there baptizing.


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