<TITLE>07. Par 53-61</TITLE>L-53 See, it... Everything had turned against him. His... Even his servants wouldn't speak to him. His wife was a stranger. There he set on the ash heap, that great trial. And the church come and turned their back to him for seven days. And no one to comfort him.
Then he must have saw the vision of Easter, when he cried, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He'll stand on the earth. I know. O that my words were penned with an iron pen in a stone, that my words could never fade no more, for I know my Redeemer liveth. I know. I know."
What do you know, Job? "I know my Redeemer liveth." Did you notice, not only was there Someone living, but He was a Redeemer to Job.

L-56 Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. I'm so glad that I'm part of Easter, that I'm part of that resurrection. And we are part of it this morning, because in us dwells that resurrection Life, that as a partaker, brought Easter. "I know that my Redeemer..." What do you know? I'm not guessing at it. We got too much guessing today. "I know my Redeemer liveth." Yes, sir.
Now, what was He? If He lived, He was a Redeemer to Job. "My," personal, my, "my Redeemer liveth."
And what else do you know, Job? What did you see in that vision? "And at the last days, He shall stand on the earth. And though the skin worms destroys my body, yet in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself. I know my Redeemer liveth, and He will stand at the last day upon the earth. Though my reins be consumed within me, though the skin worms destroys my body, yet in my flesh I shall see God." Through that was the greatest vision.

L-59 Daniel saw an Angel. The Hebrew children saw the Son of God. Noah saw the rainbow. Abraham seen God face to face. But Job saw the resurrection; Job looked forward. All the patriarchs and great saints of the Bible looked forward to that day with an assurance, through their vision, through their revelations, that there would come a time of resurrection.
Now, we see great works go on. We see great powers of God. We see great things that He could do. You couldn't look at the sun and--and know that it isn't the power of God that brings that world around over that sun. You couldn't see a springtime come without knowing there was a God. You can see healing of blind eyes, deaf ears, know it's God. But what if that was all there was and after we died we was gone? But the resurrection, the Easter, oh, that's what sealed everything that God ever promised, was the resurrection.

L-61 And they have to have a crucifixion before you can have a resurrection. And before the church will ever be able to see a resurrected power, before I can ever see a new ministry take place myself, before you can ever enter into a new fellowship with God, there's got to be a self-crucifixion so that there can come a resurrection. We've got to die out to our own thoughts, die out to our own ways, die out to everything that's around us, go through the trials and tribulations, that we might see a new resurrection, a new Life. Before a sinner can ever become a Christian, there has to come a death, then a resurrection.


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