<TITLE>03. Par 19-25</TITLE>L-19 Then when Job stood at the very tempting of the crucial moment, he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He'll stand on the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." No matter how dark it seemed, and how unreal it seemed, there was something that Job anchored his soul on: God's Eternal promise. Oh, if we could only do that. Notice, he rested on the promise, "I know my Redeemer liveth."
And I want you to notice, for future words I wish to say, Job specified his burying place. And when Job died, he was buried thus.

L-21 There was another man by the name of Abraham who took God at His Word. And he believed God, and he called those things which were contrary to the promise God give him, as though they were not. He took God at His Word. And when the days passed, and the weeks and the months, and even the years passed, that never fazed Abraham one bit. The Bible said, "He staggered not, through unbelief, at the promise of God, but was faithful, giving praise unto God."
When everything seemed to, every day, it simply did grow more difficult every day; but instead of getting weaker, Job got stronger every day. Oh, what a blessed assurance we have. When difficult seems to rise to make the thing, that God has promised, an impossibility; instead of cowing off back into the world, we ought to stand the more firm than we ever stood on THUS SAITH THE LORD. It ought to settle it when God says something.

L-23 And Abraham called those things which were, as though they were not, because they were contrary to the Word. And when Abraham lost his sweetheart and wife, Sarah, after many years living together, he bought a portion of ground near the place where Job was buried, and buried Sarah. Wonder why? They were prophets. They seen. They contacted God. And now, when Abraham died, he was buried with Sarah.
Now, he did not want these fellows to give him that portion of ground. He bought it before witnesses. What a beautiful type of baptism. He bought it before witnesses, that it was his possession. Oh, that's the way a real believer ought to come, not slip off in the corner, but stand before the witnesses, "I am a witness of the Lord Jesus, and of the Holy Spirit, and of His great works," and so much more as we see this evil day approaching.

L-25 And then when Abraham's son, which was Isaac, the promise was to be given him... And when Isaac died, he was buried with Abraham. And Isaac begot Jacob. And when Jacob was died way down in Egypt... But notice, before he died, he said to his prophet son Joseph, "Come here, son, and put your hand upon my crippled hip." For remember how he was crippled, is because the Angel of the Lord touched his hip, and he limped from that day on. He said, "Lay your hand on my hip and swear to me by the God of our fathers, that you'll not bury me down here in Egypt." Why? Oh, they had the Word; they had the revelation.


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