<TITLE>11. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Oh, I hope you'll get that. Every man that comes to God must first be tried. Trials, tribulations goes into category of a Christian. God don't promise a flower bed of ease. To every one of you that accept your healing, look to the devil to be right there to put whatever torment to you he can. For everyone that comes must first be tried.
Job knew the sacrifice was laid out there. He offered it through the shed blood, God's only way of reconciliation for sinners. He offered it to God, and he knew that he was just in doing so. No matter which way the waves turned, Job stood pat.
There you are. That's the way you do it. No matter what Miss Jones said, and Miss Job either one. Didn't bother him. He knew he was--he was in the line of reconciliation. He offered God's provided sacrifice, the lamb.

L-41 Even his wife turned against him setting out on this ash heap scraping himself with a--of the boils that was on him. His children was all killed, and his sheep gone. Everything looked like had happened to him, but still Job stayed right there. And his wife come out, said, "Job, why don't you curse God and die?"
He said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman."
Now, he never said she was foolish; said she spoke like one. Said, "You speak like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." There you are.

L-42 Then down from the east came the little Prince Elihu, representative of Christ. Wish we had time to go into the Name of "Elah" and so forth. Show you that it was a representative of the Lord Jesus. He came to Job, and He corrected him.
He said, "Now, Job, look you're thinking looking at the flowers how they go into the dust and they come back, a tree falls down, it comes back." But he said, "Man layeth down here, he giveth up the ghost. He wastes away. Where is he? His sons come to mourn, give him honor, but he perceive it not." Said, "You're looking at all of that, Job." But said, "Yet you're just because you've offered the right provided way. You've come to God through fellowship. You've offered the slain beast. And you're righteous, Job." And he said, "Now, those flowers never sinned, neither did the tree sin. But man sinned and he separated himself; that's the reason he don't come up in the springtime." But he said, "Job, listen, there is coming One, a just One, Who can stand in the breach between a sinful man and a holy God, and place His hand on each one and make reconciliation."

L-43 Job, being a prophet, he got in the Spirit. That's the only way you going to get anything anyhow is when you get in the Spirit. Got in the Spirit. The power of God come on him. He foresaw the coming of the Lord. He raised on his feet; he shook himself. The thunders roared, the lightnings flashed.
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, Whom I shall see for myself, mine eyes shall behold, and not another."


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