<TITLE>12. Par 109-117</TITLE>L-109 When his people come, the churches, and tried to--to reconcile him, and say, "Looky here, Job, looky here, you know that you've sinned. You know that you've done wrong. How would God ever punish a righteous man like that, would take all he's got, take his children, tear up his home, do all of these things, and break down your health? And here you are setting here, a miserable wretch. How do... How can you justify yourself, Job, by saying that you're not a sinner?"
But Job knowed he wasn't a sinner, because he was standing on the Word. Amen. God required that burnt offering and a--a confession, and Job had made his confession and stood on the Word. And he cried in the midst of his trouble, "I know my Redeemer liveth; at the last days He'll stand on the earth. And though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." See, his comfort was God's promise, God's Word.
That's the heritage that we have: God's Word; It's the promise. Yes, sir.

L-112 Abraham, we talked about him this morning. I'd like to bring him back again just tonight for another witness. What a comfort Abraham had, when people might've called him a fanatic. When everything went wrong with Abraham, what would they have said? "Where you going, Abraham, with that little boy?"
"Going up to offer him up."
"Why?"
"Well, if He is Jehovah, when He spoke to me, the Almighty God, the El Shaddai, the Bosom, when I was a hundred years old, and my wife was ninety, and He give me this child. Now, if that same God requires the life of this child, I received him as one from the dead; I have confidence God's able to raise him up from the dead." Why? That was his comfort.

L-114 And old Job said in his time, "Though He slay me, yet I'll trust Him." He's anchored in the Word. He knowed what the Word said, and that was his Comfort. That was his faith to receive him, to hold him.
And Abraham knew that He was God. So if his son... He was dead; Sarah's womb was dead; his manhood was dead; and yet God give him this boy because that He promised him that. And if the same One that promised him that, told him to sacrifice the son, he knowed that God was able to raise him from the dead.

L-116 Now, if God, Who raised me from the dead, me a sinner, dead in sin and trespasses, He quickened my soul, He did something to me. He did something to you. He took that spirit of the world away from me. He took that desire of the world. He lifted me up above those shadows. And He give me the baptism of the Holy Ghost. If my God can do that, death can't separate me from Him. That's it. There's nothing that can separate me. That's the comfort. "He that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." That's right." I know. "He that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood, has Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up at the last day."

L-117 If God could take me when I was down in mire and sin, and raise me up to make me a Christian, if God could take me when I was perplexed and distressed, and was in the condition that I was in, a miserable wretch, and raise me up to give me the hope of Eternal Life, and to baptize me with the Holy Ghost, and to fill me with His power and glory, then He's able to take me through the valley and the shadow of death, and receive me into the glory on the other side. Because He promised it, that's our comfort.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand.


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