<TITLE>11. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Notice what happened then. Then he broke out in boils and set out on the ash heap, out there, scraping himself with a crock, or something. His wife come to the door; all of his friends was gone. Three church members come down, turned their backs to him for seven days, wouldn't even speak to him, accused him of being a secret sinner (Not much consolation from the Church then, was there?), secret sinner.
But Job... Listen, Job knew in his heart that he wasn't a secret sinner. He'd confessed his sins upon the basis of the shed blood, and he knowed that God was under obligation to meet him on those basis. Amen. The only propitiation for sin, was the shed blood of the lamb, which God promised redemption as a shadow, to last until Christ come. And Job had met God on those basis. He wasn't a secret sinner; he had no sin, because he'd offered the sacrifice that God had required.

L-43 So, his wife, kindly indifferent, come out and said, "Job," said, "you look so miserable, why don't you just curse God and die the death?"
He said, "Now, thou speakest like a foolish woman." Said, "The Lord gave, the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord. We brought nothing into this world, and certain we take nothing out. "The Lord gave: the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord."
Set right on the ash heap, a man sincere that's got faith in the Word of God, and the Word of God had introduced to him the way back home, through the shed Blood of the Lamb, the carpet, the welcome mat at the door is the shed Blood. Amen. There you are sinners. The welcome back home again, to Immortal Life is through the shed Blood of the innocent Son of God, laying at the door. And Christ...

L-44 Job knowed that he had done all that he could do. Now, perhaps they maybe they tried (some of the theologians), tried to say, "Now, Job, what strength is there in that blood of the lamb that you're offering?"
Job said, "It's according to the Word. He requires that." And he knew that he was innocent. So down from the east come a little prince by the name of Elihu, in other words God's manifestation of the pre-foreknowledge of the Lord Jesus, God Himself: El, meaning God, Eli-hu.
And He begin to straighten Job up. He said, "Look, Job," He said, "I'm not accusing you of being a secret sinner, but you have accused God wrong."
And now, Job said, "Now, look, I've noticed these trees; if they die, they live again. If a flower seed drops in the ground, it lives again, but man layeth down; yea, he giveth up the ghost; his sons come to mourn; he perceive it not. He don't raise up no more. He lays there. Oh, that You can hide me in the grave..." In distress, honest man, getting just a little bit of child-training.

L-45 Maybe that's what's the matter tonight, with some of us. I know it's done me a lot of good. It does all of us good to get a little training like that.
He said, "I know I haven't sinned. I've offered myself; I put the sacrifice out there just according to God's Word. And I believe that God has accepted it. I'm not a sinner."
He said, "That's right, Job." Said, "You're watching those flowers, how they die, go into the ground, springtime they come back up again. But man lays down, he doesn't rise no more." Said, "Job," (In this way so the children will get it), said, "the flower never sinned. But man sinned, and now, you're only operating under a shadow. But the time's a coming, when there'll be One come, a worthy One Who can stand in the breach and put His hand on a sinful man and a Holy God, and bridge the way together."


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