We'll turn in the Word of God to the book of Job, Job chapter number 19. As I prepared for the service, I was taken a little back. to think that I've been here for nine years and I've never preached from Job chapter 19 on Resurrection Sunday. But we're going to change that today. Some very familiar words. I opened my little daily light yesterday and I would just ask before I did so that the Lord would confirm the word and certainly he did that yesterday for the text that we take today was found in that little devotional book. And so we're in the will of God Trust that you'll hear God's word, therefore, in that light, and that you'll understand that you're hearing God's message, God's word today, not just simply a sermon, but the word of God for this congregation. Job chapter 19, verse 21. Let's take the reading from there. Job 19, verse 21. Job, he's speaking here, and he says, have pity upon me. Have pity upon me, O my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Oh, that my words were not written! Oh, that they were written in a book!" And they are. They are written in a book. Because we're reading them today. And so what Job prays is actually, actually has come to pass. They're written in a book. And that they were graven with an iron pen and laid in the rock forever. In other words, this is what I want to be placed on my tombstone, my epitaph. my headstone in the graveyard. I want this to be written." And what he says is certainly a good thing if you're thinking about, what should I write on my headstone? Well, here's a good statement that you should even think about and pray over. "'For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, Yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, whom I shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me. But ye should say, Why persecute we him seen? The root of the matter is found in me. Be ye afraid of the sword, for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword. that ye may know there is a judgment. Amen. We'll end at the close of the chapter. Let's pray briefly. Father, O God, send thy Spirit, thy blessed Holy Spirit to open the book, to open our hearts, to open our understanding, how closed we can become. Lord, even when we come to a familiar text, Oh God, it's more probable, more likely that we find ourselves closing out and shutting down and drifting into sort of a state of daydreaming. But Lord, bring freshness as we open thy holy word just now. Minister to our hearts, speak to the children, speak to the teenagers, speak to the adults. And grant, Lord, a blessing from heaven itself, the blessing of the risen Christ. We pray this in and through our Savior's precious name. Amen. What do we need the most? If I was to send a questionnaire into every home in Northern Ireland with that single question on it, I'm sure the responses would be many and they would be varied. Some people might respond to that question by saying, we need more money in our pockets. either by tax breaks for the working man or woman or by an uplift in benefits for those who are economically inactive. Someone else might say, well, we need the waiting times in the National Health Service and the waiting list to be drastically reduced because there are people waiting far too long to see consultants. or to have an operation performed on them. Someone else might say, we need more leisure facilities tailored for our children and our young people, so to get them out of the house and away from their computers or their smartphones. Other responses might be, we need somebody to fill in the potholes. I was driving along the Lysna Hunching Road the other day, And there's a pothole there, and if you went into it, you would need a ladder to get out of it. Now, that's maybe exaggeration, but it is a large pothole. Beware if you're driving along the Lysnahunchin Road. Get in the potholes, get the potholes filled in. That's the great need. That's what we need the most. But as necessary as all of these things might be, there is one thing. There is one thing that we need more than anything else. The thing that we need the most is a Redeemer. But more than that, we need a living Redeemer. A living Redeemer. When addressing his friends in Job chapter 19, Job tried and tested by his God, comes to utter words that resonate with every believer, every Christian, every child of God on this Resurrection Sunday. For he says in verse 25, For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. Taking these words as my text along with the words of verse 26 and 27, I want to preach on this Resurrection Sunday a message of entitled, The Living Redeemer. The Living Redeemer. Considering this declaration of Job here in the verse 25, I want you to observe firstly from it the entity that Job presents. The entity that Job presents. Job speaks here of a Redeemer in verse 25. For I know that my Redeemer liveth. The one overarching theme that unites every book in the canon of Holy Scripture is the theme of redemption. The Word of God is a revelation of God's redemptive story. Don't miss that as you read through the Word of God, through the Scriptures. The overarching theme, one common theme, The overarching theme that unites every book that we find in Holy Scripture is that of redemption. The Bible, the Word of God, is God's revelation of His redemptive story. since the fall of mankind. From a state of innocence, they enter sin. Men, women, teenagers, boys and girls have been faced with the greatest of dilemmas. The dilemma being this, how can the sinner escape the eternal condemnation off their sin? The answer to that question is found in God's redemptive plan. Now redemption is simply deliverance that comes to be experienced whenever a suitable ransom price has been paid by a redeemer. James Smith, he put it like this, to redeem is to deliver. To deliver righteously by the payment of a price or meeting the demand in order to emancipate or to set free. In our case, the curse must be executed. The penalty must be paid. We could never pay it ourselves, but the righteous lawgiver and governor was willing to accept a substitute to allow someone to suffer in our stead. That someone was found not among men, not among angels, but among the Godhead. Among the persons of the Godhead a Redeemer for his people was found. For in the councils of eternity, God the Son was commissioned to be the Redeemer of his elect people. The word Redeemer in our text is the Hebrew word gael. It's a word that refers to one who seeks to retrieve a kinsman's lost inheritance, by paying the necessary price and by exercising the necessary power to do so. The necessary price and the necessary power, they must come together in order to redeem humanity. Christ as Redeemer, He paid the necessary price of our redemption by His death upon Calvary's cross. And thus he has the power to redeem us from our sin, from Satan, from death, and from hell. He met the price and he possesses the power in order to redeem us from our sin. Now when Job speaks here about his Redeemer, I know that my Redeemer liveth. His words presuppose his need of redemption. Why would Job need a Redeemer if he did not need to be redeemed, delivered from his sin? You see, Job comes to acknowledge here that he needed himself to be redeemed. One who was born in sin, Job needed to be delivered from sin's condemnation, from sin's curse, and from sin's control. And in Jesus Christ, the coming Messiah, Job now finds a suitable redeemer. The word is vindicator. one who will come to vindicate, one who will come to deliver, one who will come to redeem, that which he could not do by himself, he finds now in the Messiah, the coming Christ, that he, he is the redeemer of his people. You'll notice that whenever Job comes to speak of the Lord Jesus Christ, he uses personal terms to refer to him. The most personal of terms is employed by Job here in our text in the verse 25, for he speaks of him as my Redeemer. For I know that my Redeemer, not the Redeemer, not a Redeemer, but my Redeemer, my Redeemer liveth. Now the sinner's Redeemer is spoken of in various terms. He is referred to as your Redeemer. Isaiah chapter 43 verse 14, Thus saith the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. He not only referred to as your Redeemer, he's referred to as our Redeemer. Again, Isaiah 47 verse 4, As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel. Not only is He known as your Redeemer and our Redeemer, but He's also referred to as thy Redeemer. Isaiah 44 verse 24, thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by himself. Your Redeemer, our Redeemer, thy Redeemer, but Job says, my Redeemer, for I know that my, my, my Redeemer liveth. There may be some in this meeting house this afternoon who can only speak of Jesus Christ in terms of being your Redeemer. In other words, He is someone else's Redeemer. Maybe He's your friend's Redeemer. He's your mother's Redeemer. He's your father's Redeemer. He's your brother, your sister, your auntie, or your uncle's Redeemer. He's the minister's Redeemer. He's the elder's Redeemer. He's the Redeemer of the committee and the deacons within the congregation. He's the Redeemer of the organists. But is He your Redeemer? Is He your Redeemer? He may be someone else's Redeemer, but is He yours? If you can only refer to him as your Redeemer, thy Redeemer, he's thy Redeemer, he's your Redeemer, then there needs to come a time in your life, a moment, whenever Jesus Christ redeems you from your sin. When he comes to deliver you from your sin, its condemnation, its curse, its guilt, It's penalty, it's punishment. You see, it's all well and good in knowing that the Son of God is the Redeemer of others, but sinner, that'll never save you. It'll never bring you into heaven. It'll never reconcile you to God, to simply know that He's somebody else's Redeemer, and never to know Him yourself, never to know Christ as your Redeemer, never to be able to say, my Redeemer, He's my Redeemer. You must, or He must become your Redeemer and that happens when you turn from your sin and put your trust alone and your faith in Him for salvation. And so I pray today that you'll leave this house, this house this afternoon, being able to say that Jesus Christ is my Redeemer, He's mine. He's my personal Redeemer, for He has redeemed me from my sins. He has delivered me from my guilt, and from my shame, and from my condemnation. He's my Redeemer. Do you know what's an amazing thing to be able to say that? Because the holy angels cannot say that. They don't speak of Him as being their Redeemer. They speak of Him as being their Creator. But the holy angels in heaven, those who did not fall from their first estate, they don't refer to him as my Redeemer. Not only that, but the demons in hell don't speak of him in these terms. Those angels who fell from their first estate, and that rebellion led by Lucifer, the son of the morning, they cannot say that he's my Redeemer, for if he was their Redeemer, then surely they ought not to be in hell. For none who are redeemed find themselves in that terrible place. Not only that, but the unconverted sinner cannot speak of Him in these terms. Here you are today, can you speak of Him as my Redeemer? Well, you know you can't. Well, you know that you're still in the bondage of your sin. and still held in the gall of bitterness because of your sin. You can't refer to him as my Redeemer, but thank God every believer, every Christian, every saint of God can. Every believer can say, he is my Redeemer, and he's my Redeemer. And because he is, he's mine. When I'm on the mountaintop of Christian living, but he's also mine whenever I'm in the valley. He's mine when I'm progressing well in the Christian life, and He's mine whenever I fail Him so miserably as a believer, and He'll be mine whenever I come to tread death's dark valley, and He'll be mine whenever I climb the holy hill of Zion, and He'll be mine whenever I stand before the judgment bar of God and at the judgment seat of Christ. He'll be mine then, and He'll be mine for all of God's eternity. His life is mine. His death is mine. His resurrection is mine. His glorification is mine. He's mine. He's mine today. Is He yours? Can you say that? Notice before I move on that Job's faith was in the Redeemer. He says, I know that my Redeemer liveth. Job's faith wasn't in some prayer he prayed. His faith wasn't in the sinner's prayer. His faith wasn't in the tears that he shed or the tears that he didn't shed whenever he first turned to God in faith. His faith isn't in the faith he exercised. No, rather the object of his faith was in the Redeemer, the Redeemer himself. That's all important. The object of our faith, not the quantity of it, not the quality of our faith, is critical. Christ is the object of the Christian's faith. I trust and I pray that that's where your faith is resting on this Resurrection Sunday, that your faith is not in your repentance, not in your tears, not in the prayer that you prayed or the formulation of words that you used whenever you came to Christ, but today that your faith is actually in Jesus Christ. resting on Jesus Christ he is the object of my faith I'm resting on him today heaven will only become yours if you have faith in Christ the Redeemer. And so we speak here about the entity that Job comes to speak of. But there's a second observation that's to be made from Job's words here, namely, the vitality that Job attributes. The vitality that Job attributes. You see, Job attributes to his Redeemer the quality of life. He says, for I know that my Redeemer is dead. He doesn't say that. He says, I know that my Redeemer liveth, liveth. Now don't forget the setting in which we find these words recorded. Job has just buried not one, two, three, not five, six, not seven, eight, but he has buried 10 of his children. Here's a man who knows a lot about death. Death has surrounded this man. He finds himself with death a very present reality in his life, and yet though death has surrounded Job with respect to his children having been cut off so quickly and suddenly by such a tragic event that we read off in Job chapter 1, yet in the midst of death, He's able to say, my Redeemer liveth, my children are dead, but my Redeemer lives. My Redeemer lives. They may be dead, but he is not dead. It was an anchor for him in the midst of death to know that the Redeemer that he had come to put his trust in was now living for him, living to pray for him, living to care for him, living to preserve him. And he says, my Redeemer liveth. Now you could miss very quickly a doctrinal truth that is bound up in these words. When Job comes to use that word, that expression, my Redeemer liveth. You see, Job wasn't looking down the corridors of time to when the Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, would take to himself humanity or flesh. And He would come into this world to redeem them that were under the law. And in foreseeing the coming Redeemer, Job does not say, for I know that my Redeemer will live. That there's going to come a time when He will live. Though the Lord Jesus Christ had not yet come into the world, Jesus Christ was still Job's Redeemer, pointing us to the fact of the eternal sonship of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ did not come into existence in Bethlehem. Job says, I know my Redeemer liveth. Today he liveth. Not that he's going to live, but he's living today. long before Bethlehem and the manger and Christ taking to himself our humanity and living in the flesh among us. Here we find Job, he's declaring that he is convinced, wholly convinced that the Redeemer is living at that present time. My Redeemer liveth. I remind you today that this is most important with regard to a living Redeemer. A dead Redeemer is of no use to anyone. Jesus Christ must be a living Redeemer. A Redeemer who lives is what the spiritually dead sinner needs. One who has life in and off himself and one who is able to impart that life on to the spiritually dead sinner. That's what the sinner needs. And thank God the Redeemer that is presented to us in Holy Scripture is one who has life in and off himself. He who was once dead now lives in the power of an endless life. and communicates that life to all who trust in Him. Let me ask you, are you looking then to the living Redeemer to deliver you from your sin? Have you by faith looked away from every dead so-called Redeemer and placed your exclusive trust in Christ the living Redeemer? Or that this meeting place that you would come into contact with the living Redeemer? Now that skeptical mind of yours, you might say today in this house, how do you know that your Redeemer liveth? How do you know that Christ the Redeemer liveth? Well, there are three lines of evidence that point us to the fact that Christ is the living Redeemer. Number one, the empty tree points to the fact that Christ, the Redeemer, liveth. He's no longer on the cross. Rome keeps him there on their crucifixes. They keep Christ on the cross. There he is, still dying, still suffering. But the empty cross proves that Christ, the Redeemer, liveth. Not only that, but the vaquita tomb points to the fact that Christ, the Redeemer, liveth. While Maccas has its body corrupting there for the Muslim, and many another spiritual leader of many a false religion, their tombs are filled, and their bones are there, and their flesh has decayed and decayed. There has been decomposition upon that physical frame, yet not the Savior, because Christ rose from the dead. The tomb is empty today, and so the empty tree, the vacated tomb, I am the occupied throne. It all points to the fact that Christ, the Redeemer, liveth. He's in heaven. He's ever living to make intercession for us. Christ, the living Redeemer. He's the living Redeemer. You know, there are many in this world and they place their hope in counterfeit and dead Redeemers. They hope that Allah or Mohammed will be their Redeemer. Others hope that Joseph Smith will put in a word for them. Other people believe in Confucius and Buddha and many a dead and counterfeit Redeemer. But the Christian is the one who has placed their confidence in a real and in a living Redeemer. And they who know him, savingly know him, they understand that he lives and he lives for them. He lives to care for them. He lives to sympathize with them. He lives to strengthen them, to secure them. He lives to protect them and to aid them. He lives to succor them and encourage them and to lead them. Job had a living redeemer and made a dying family. And so is every Christian. Our families, they will leave this world, they will die, but never the Christian's Redeemer. He lives, he lives, and he lives forevermore. The vitality that Job attributes. Note thirdly, the certainty that Job expresses. With his world having crashed in around him, there are many things that Job did not know. at this particular time. Why such tragic events had happened when he was walking uprightly with his God was a question that he didn't have the answer to. How were things going to turn around for God's servant again was something that Job didn't know. When was there going to be a reversal of his fortunes was again a matter that Job had no idea about. And yet there was one thing that he did know amidst all the things that he didn't know. He knew that his Redeemer lived. He says, for I know, I know that my Redeemer liveth. He didn't say, I think he lives. He didn't think and sit back and he says, well, I hope he lives. He didn't say to himself, I assume he lives, or I presume he lives, or I trust he lives, or I suppose he lives, or somebody told me he lives. No, he says, I know. I know it. I know it. I know that my Redeemer liveth. I know it. You cannot but miss the ring of conviction and certainty that is bound up in the words of Job. Job was a man who was fully convinced that his Redeemer was living. And, brethren and sisters, there's a lesson for us to learn here, and it's this. Instead of us focusing on the things that we don't know, especially when everything seems to be falling around us and falling apart around us, we need to center our hearts and we need to settle our souls on the things that we do know. Not what we don't know, but what we do know in the midst of the trial. It's not about what you don't know. Why is this happening? When's it going to end? These are things that are hidden from us, but in the days whenever the world falls in around you, you need to settle your soul and you need to ground your heart in the things that you know. So what do you know? What do you know today? What do we know? Well, on your behalf, in a week that has passed, I made my way through 763 Bible verses, all of which contain the word no. And so I want you to listen up, because I've cut out all the work for you. So enjoy it. enjoy it. I, as it were, put in the labor. Now you enjoy the fruits of the labor. What does the Christian know? What do we know? Well, Exodus 18 verse 11, we know that God is greater than all other gods. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods. Job 42 verse 2, we know that God can do everything. For Job said to God, I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from me. Psalm 56 verse 9, we know that God is for his children. When I cry unto these, then shall my enemies turn back. This I know, for God is for me. Psalm 135 verse 5, we know that God is pre-eminently great. For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods. Psalm 140 verse 12, we know that God will defend his afflicted and impoverished people. I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor. Ecclesiastes 3.14, we know that God, what God does is eternal. I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God doeth it that men should fear before him. Romans 8, verse 28, we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them you are called according to his purpose. 2 Timothy 1 verse 12, we know that the one in whom we have believed, for which cause I also suffer these things, nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed against him, against that day. 1 John 3 verse 2, we know that at Christ appearing we will be like him, Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3 verse 5, we know that Christ came into the world to take away our sins, and ye know that he was manifest to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. 1 John 5, 13, we know that through the written word of God we can know we have eternal life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life. and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. You see, brethren and sisters, what settles us, what steadies us in life's storms and in life's difficult days is not what you feel. It's what you know. What you know. Christian, don't be telling the world what you feel. Tell the world what you know. What do I know? Find your voice and confidently declare to the world what God has brought you to know. Is that not what happened? That individual member, that blind man, Jesus Christ heals him. They're in John's gospel. And he's asked many a theological question. And he's only a new convert. He hasn't been schooled in the truths of God's Word, and so they ask him about the Son of God, who is he, and where has he come from, and who does he claim to be, and the blind man says, he says, all of these things I don't know, I don't know the answers to these questions, but one thing I do know, that whereas I was blind, now I can see. And so, child of God, you may not understand the intricate details of theological disputes and theological concourse and theological debate, but thank God you can know this. You can tell your unsaved loved ones, I know this. I know that I'm saved. I know that I'm reconciled to God. I know that I'm redeemed. I know that I'm born again. I know that I'm a child of God. I know that I'm going to heaven. You see, child of God, the Christian faith is a no faith. You can know certain things. And so find your voice. And here's one thing that you can tell them that you know. Tell them that you know that your Redeemer liveth. Tell them that. I know he lives because he changed my life, and he saved my soul, and he's worked in my family. You know, I was just thinking, just in the past week, I was just thinking about Brother Joey again, and just started to think about that night that Joey got saved and that mission in Muckermore Orange Hall. I started to think about the events that have spun out as a result of that. The lives that have been affected because of one person's conversion. His wife gets saved. Some of his children come to faith in Jesus Christ. their influence with the gospel, and they influence their family with the gospel, and now grandchildren know the Lord Jesus Christ. All because one man got saved. Isn't it a marvelous thing what is set into motion whenever God begins to work in a person's life? Tell them that you know that your Redeemer liveth. Tell them that. Mr. Spurgeon said, nothing seemed to be certain with Job but uncertainty, yet there was one thing concerning which he felt that he could put his foot down and firmly say, I know. The winds may reach the tempest roar, but they cannot shake this rock. I know, I know, I know that my Redeemer liveth. You see, the Christian is someone who knows certain things. And it is for us to tell the world what we know. That's our task, to tell the world what we know. There's a final observation from Job's words, the prophecy that Job articulates. There are two parts to the prophecy that Job comes to articulate in these verses. The first part of Job's prophetic utterance relates to his Redeemer, Job's Redeemer. Regarding his Redeemer, Job goes on to say that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. The latter day is sometimes called in scripture the last day or the great day. It is a day to which all other days are pointings and to which all other days are moving towards. This day, the day of the Lord, the latter day. On that day, the Redeemer will come again and stand upon the earth. And so we find that it is Christ's second coming, not his first that is uppermost in the mind of Job when he comes to consider the death of his children. Looking beyond the first coming of Jesus Christ, he does mention it in the fact of a Redeemer. The Redeemer must come, he must come to redeem. There's his first coming, now he speaks of his second coming. And when he speaks about the second coming of Jesus Christ, Job sees the Redeemer's return to this world in order to stand upon or to stand over the earth. At His coming, the saints will be gathered to Him, where the ungodly will face the judgment as He judges the world in righteousness. A most obvious question arises that needs to be asked to you. When Jesus Christ returns, stands upon the earth, will you be gathered on to Him? Will you be judged in righteousness? If you're not a Christian, it's time that you give serious consideration to this matter. He's coming again, and he's coming to judge the world in righteousness. He's coming again. Job looks towards, he's a little bit like Enoch. Enoch remembers the second coming of Christ. Over there in the little book of Jude, he speaks about Christ's second coming. He's coming with 10,000 of his saints to judge the world, to judge the ungodly of all of their ungodly deeds which they have committed against God. I ask you, are you looking towards the second coming? Are you living your life in light of the second coming of Jesus Christ? Are you living loosely? Are you living carelessly? Are you living worthily? How are you living in light of his return? The second part of Job's prophetic utterance, it relates to Job himself, because it goes on to say in verse 26, 27, and though after my skin worms destroy this body, Yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me. You know, Job, he employs graphic language here to describe what was undoubtedly going to occur to his body after his body was buried. Job believed in burial. And what he says is that there's going to be little earthworms, and they're going to destroy my body. how graphic the language is. Worms we're going to see to the physical body's decomposition. And yet Job, he goes on to say that in his flesh he's going to see God. Now how do you square that circle? How do you, as it were, bring these two thoughts together? The flesh is going to decompose the worms, simply the body, that body is going to, eventually just become worm food as the body goes through the decomposition, the decay process. So here we have this thought, the decaying of the body, and yet in this place he's going to say, God, how is this going to happen? It can only happen by one way, and that is by resurrection. Job believed in resurrection. Resurrection. Job was convinced that the Redeemer who himself would rise from the dead and stand upon the earth, would then raise his dead body from the power of the grave at his return. Job believed in resurrection. See, if the Savior's return, our bodies will be placed in a grave someday and worms will destroy that body of yours that you pampered and you moisturized. you modified, it's all going to go. All that money you've wasted, it's all going to grow old. Eventually it's all going to decay. But while you may think that to be the end of your physical existence, it's not. Because there's coming a day when all in the grays will hear his voice. Jesus Christ said it. And they shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. There's only two possible resurrections, the resurrection to life, the resurrection to damnation, or of damnation. I ask you, what resurrection will it be for you? Will you be raised to life, or will you be raised to damnation? Job was assured through the resurrection of Christ that he would be raised to life too because he was in union with Jesus Christ. And such is the hope of every believer who dies in Christ. They have taken to the heart the words of the Savior himself. He that believeth in him, though, or me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. His resurrection Sunday is a reminder that Christ the Redeemer liveth. a Redeemer that we all need. We all need Him. That is our greatest need, a living Redeemer. And there only is one, and His name is Jesus Christ. If you know not Him, it is the prayer of many that you will come to know Him savingly, and that this Lord's day Did you leave this house testifying like Job testified? I know. It's settled now. I'm fully convinced and persuaded of this. I know that my Redeemer liveth. It's only two letters, but it's all the difference between heaven and hell. He's my Redeemer. Is he your Redeemer? Can you say He's mine? He's my Redeemer? I trust you can. And if not, walk the road, the road of repentance and faith, and find yourself coming to know Christ the Redeemer today. Amen. May the Lord bless His Word. Let's bow our heads briefly in prayer. Our gracious Father, we thank Thee for the living Redeemer. We rejoice, O God. that because he died and because he is risen again, those who have come to trust him, their sin debt is paid, their redemption is secured, redeemed, how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the lamb. Lord, we pray that each person will be able to leave this house saying that he is my redeemer. He's mine. I know him. He has saved my soul. He has redeemed me from the hand of the enemy. And he has ransomed me from the power of death and the grave. O grant, dear God, man and woman to turn to him. We pray this