<TITLE>03. Par 15-24</TITLE>L-15 Now, I want to read a little portion of Scripture here, found in the 19th chapter of Job, beginning with the 15th verse.
They that dwell in my house,... my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I call my servant, and he give me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own flesh.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bones clave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words now were written. Oh that they were penned in a book!
That they were graven with an iron pen and laid in the rock for ever.
For I know... my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And though after... 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; though my reins be consumed within me.
I would like to take for a text there, found in this Job 19, "I Know."

L-17 The patriarch at this time was somewhat like we are today. He had been in deep troubles, as we call it, "high waters," and he was desperate. Many days he'd set on the ash heap, and was trying to find words to console him, trying to find something that would give him courage, and something that would--would be a comfort to him as he seen his life fading out of him.
First place, he was an old man, somewhat ninety years old, and he has been stricken by the hand of God. Now, we know that God had not touched him with His hand, but that God had permitted Satan to touch him. God only has agents to do things. God wants an evil done, He just turns Satan loose to do it. And if He wants good done, He has His servants He turns loose to do it.

L-19 And Satan had touched Job for a purpose: to try him, because he and God had had a debate. And God told Satan that, "I've got a servant in the earth; there's none like him. Whatever I say to him, he'll do it. He's a perfect man, and a just man."
Satan said, "If You'll just let me have him, I'll make him curse you to your face."
Job, not knowing all these things going on, it brought the patriarch into a deep distress. Yet, somehow, when all was gone from him, he still maintained his position in--in Christ. "I know my Redeemer liveth," he said.

L-22 Now, we come to those places. We all come. And I believe that today, that we are gathered here for something like that same purpose. We are all on the ash heaps. We have our troubles, and our ups-and-downs, and our--our bad moments, and our sicknesses, and our heartaches, and our disappointments. So we come like this of a morning, this Easter morning to find words of comfort, like Job was trying to find from his friends.
None of them could give him any consolation. Because of his trouble, they were accusing him of being a secret sinner. Then in the midst of all that trouble, God came to his rescue.

L-24 Job was questioning. As he knew, not only was his sickness, and his boils, and trouble, and heartaches, from losing his family and all of his wealth, was just about to take his life; but he was an old man, well stricken in years, and knowing that he was going down to the grave, and knowing that he believed that there was somebody who brought him on the earth; he just couldn't come here by himself. And he knowed that he come from a father and a mother, but yet, that father and mother had to have someone to bring them. And it would revolve on back to the original, "Who brought the first one?"


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