The reading in chapters 1 and 2, though we covered chapter 1 last week and did an overview of the book, the 42 chapters of Job, titling the message last week, The Book of Job, attempting the impossible by attempting to preach the entire book in one message. Chapters 1 and 2, as we see this heavenly vista with Satan and Jehovah God. Again, there's one purpose, really, ultimately, if we look at this from Job, we get a grandstand view of heaven and the spiritual realm. And Jehovah God has one plan, one point, that He is glorified. And He's glorified most greatly through the exaltation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Satan has only one plan. It is to foil God's glory. And everything that God does actually foils Satan's attempt at foiling God. God's glory is important. That's why we're here. We come to worship specifically this God to glorify him. That's our whole purpose in coming because When God is glorified, his creation is blessed. And that's one of the things that make the book of Job such a tremendous offering to God's people. The message is entitled, In All This. And we take our text primarily from Job chapter two, verses nine and 10 today. And we're going to see a few interesting things. Verse nine says, then his wife said to him, do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die, verse 10. But he said to her, you speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God and shall we not receive evil? And all this Job did not sin with his lips. This is the word of the Lord and he'll most certainly add his abundant, gracious and magnified blessing to the reading of his holy truth and let us pray. Father God, Psalm 19 says, your heavens declare your glory and the sky above proclaims your handiwork. Lord Jesus, your law is perfect, reviving the soul. Your testimony is sure, making wise the simple. Your precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Your commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. Fearing you, King Jesus is clean, enduring forever. Your rules, O Savior, are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold, sweeter also than the honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Holy Spirit, you are our teacher and guide. You are the testifier and glorifier of our Lord Jesus. Convict us of sin, righteousness, and judgment from the preached word today. Heavenly Father, forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Empower us to know Christ more and to love him with a whole heart. Equip us, our God and Father, to worship you in spirit and in truth, to glorify you in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. For those who weren't here last week, just a brief rundown of the background of the book. The author of the book I present is either Moses or later, because we saw that the name of Jehovah Lord capitalized, the Lord, L-O-R-D, capitalized, or even God, G-O-D, capitalized. Sometimes it says Lord lowercase, and that's Adonai, Yehovah, when God is capitalized. But we see that sometimes just the title God is used, Elohim in the Hebrew, But because Lord Yehovah is used, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh in the Hebrew, in Exodus 6, verses 2 and 3, when God speaks to Moses and tells him, I was not known by this name, the name from Exodus 3, 14, where he says, I am that I am, Ahiah, Asher, Ahiah. Tell them, Yehovah, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh is how it's spelled. Yehovah has sent you. And then in Exodus 6, he tells Moses, I was not known by this name, by the patriarchs, by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but was known to them as El Shaddai, God Almighty. And so I suggest to you that the writer of Job is probably at least Moses or someone later. And I suspect that it's probably Moses. He had time to do it, 38 and a half years in the wilderness, 40 years total. The time of the book is the man who is called in Hebrew, Eov. It's spelled Aleph-Yod-Vav-Beit is how his name is spelled. Some people try to say that he might be Jobab of Genesis 10, the son of Joktan, or Jobab the descendant of Esau in Genesis 36, but those are a different spelling. The names are different. And we know Job exists as a real, person, he's not fictional, though this is considered in the poetical writings. Because Ezekiel mentions him in chapter 14 verses 14 and verse 20. He's mentioned alongside Daniel and Noah, these three men that are righteous. Noah, Daniel, and Job. And we know that Noah and Daniel are real people. So being associated with them, Jehovah God is not, through Ezekiel, presenting a fictitious prophet. He is presenting a real person. Those are two witnesses right there just from Ezekiel, but we have a third one in the New Testament, James 5 and verse 11. It says, you have heard of the patience of Job, in the King James Version, or the steadfastness of Job. English Standard Version. So we have corroboration from three verses, two witnesses, the prophet Ezekiel and also James, the half-brother of the Lord Jesus, the pastor of Jerusalem in the first century. The theme of the book is Because of the righteousness mentioned of Noah, Daniel, and Job in Ezekiel chapter 14, we see the righteousness of Job throughout the book of Job. And that's one of the big themes. The steadfastness or the patience of Job, according to James 5 in verse 11, and we see the integrity of Job to maintain, I haven't done anything to warrant this. This is just what has happened. and defends himself against his quote unquote friends. Also we see in Job so many pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 5 39, you search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life and it is they that bear witness of me. It is so true of the book of Job. All throughout the book there are foreshadows, types, pictures, allegories of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's also allegories and pictures and types of sinful men in which that would speak of Christ as well because Christ is the only Savior. So what a blessed book this is. The breakdown of the chapter, I didn't give you the outline last week as we went over kind of the whole book. There was not enough space in your handout to put it, but in chapters one and two, I provided you Job's piety and prosperity. We see in verses one through five, Job's historical character and his wealth. He was a wealthy man in the days of the patriarchs, probably living around the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In verses 6 through 12, then we see Job's heavenly consideration. Whereas this first meeting occurs, we see the sons of God, which is a term for angels, certainly. In verse 6, let me read that. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. And Satan also came among them. Satan is a fallen angel. Sons of God has never, as we see it in the scriptures, has never been identified with demons. They're fallen angels, but they're fallen so they wouldn't be sons of God. Because the term is reserved for those whom God has an intimate relation. For example, But as many as received him, to them gave he the power to become sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. I'm reading it right from the wall right there. John chapter one, verse 12. We have sons of God. It's a term reserved for you if you're a believer. And fresh water and salt water doesn't come from the same fountain, so how could you be placed in the same realm as demons? Demons aren't sons of God. And that causes problems when you go to Genesis 6, when the sons of God and the daughters of men and some, oh, they're angels. Well, are they fallen angels? Because angels that haven't fallen wouldn't do such a thing. So we have that there. Heavenly consideration. Have you considered my servant Job? There's none like him. And we looked at that last week, that therein is a type of Christ there. Then in chapter one, verses 13 to 19, we have the horrible calamity. Everything that has been struck down that God had given unto Job. And I believe that Job recognized this. His prosperity is because his heavenly father, his God, his El Shaddai, is a gracious, merciful God who abounds with goodness towards his people. And so there's this calamity in verses 13 to 19 that befall Job and then Job's honorable cry. In verses 20 through 22, which is worth reading again, that's really the key verses that we looked at last week. Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. Verse 21, and he said, naked I came from my mother's womb. Naked shall I return, the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. And all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. And that closed out chapter one, but it wasn't finished for Job because there was a heavenly consideration again in chapter two verses one through six as Job's person was physically touched by Satan. Whereas before in verses 13 to 22 of chapter one, Job's property and progeny were plundered by Satan. Now his physical body was touched. It reminds us that when Jesus went to the cross, that his physical body also was touched. And his physical body, the body that you and I are made in the image and after the likeness of Jesus Christ, though pre-incarnate, Adam was made in the image and after the likeness of Christ Jesus. Jesus is the model for what our bodies are. And so how horrible is this that he goes through this, but it reminds us that when he has sores, lamentable sores in the English Standard Version, sore boils. In other words, sore in the King James Version amongst the Puritans meant very, very bad, bad, bad sores or boils all over his body from head to toe that he had to take broken pottery in order to scrape his skin, how painful. reminds us that when Jesus, when he hung upon the cross, that though he is perfect man, that in paying for our debt that we can't possibly pay, that when Jesus went to the cross, he was beaten so miserably that he was unrecognizable as a human. that at 33 and a half years of age, the beard that he had grown, which would have been, he didn't have long hair. First Corinthians 11 tells us that nature itself teaches us that it's a shame for man to have long hair. And so the God who created nature wouldn't have had long hair. He kept it shorn, but he had a long beard and that beard was pulled out completely according to Isaiah 50 verse six. And he was beaten with fists. He was beaten with sticks, rods. He was scourged in such a way that when he went to the cross, Isaiah 52 and verse 14 was fulfilled. It says that his visage was so marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men. He was unrecognizable as a human being. And so Job, in his plight, having his physical body touched, it reminds us of the Lord Jesus Christ. And why was the Lord Jesus Christ beaten so badly? Isaiah 53 says that by his stripes we are healed, because when he suffered the wrath of God, he was at his weakest point physically. And it also showed us how wicked is the human condition that when God becomes a man, men made in Christ's image would mar it so completely. The heavenly consideration has been made in chapter two, verses one through six, and God says, okay, but spare his life. Skin for skin is what Satan says. And so in chapter two, verses seven through 10, we see Job's hurtful condition. In verse seven, so Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his feet, loathsome. It comes from a Hebrew word, which means hurtful, harmful. This wasn't a pimple. or a series of pimples, he didn't have a blemish problem as far as the skin. These erupted in painful sores to the soles of his feet. And then Job's hushed comforters in verses 11 through 13, where we have Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Namathite. They sit with him. They're silent before him. Seven days they did sit. And sometimes there's nothing to say when someone suffers such bereavement and grief. Because it's not just a physical calamity. The physical calamity is like the, in the horrible way, it's the icing on the cake. First, he has everything that God had given him taken away. And then he has his children, the progeny of God, which is by the sovereignty of God, are removed from him, his seven sons and his, three daughters. And probably this happened, the calamity of his sons and daughters probably happened on Sunday. And probably this, I'm just throwing that out as a suggestion because the scripture in chapter one says that they, I'll read it to you, I won't try to quote it and misquote it. It says in verse four, his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house, each one on his day. and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And in verse 13, it says, now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the oldest brother's house. And most Jews will take this by reading it in the Hebrew and understand that on Sunday being the first day of the week, that's when the oldest son would have his feast. And there were seven sons, and so it'd go all the way to the Sabbath, to the Shabbat. So it was the first day of the week. which may have been, that's where the first temptation comes if you take it to Genesis probably, right out the day after the Sabbath. And then the first day out of the garden, if this is Job is following this one, misery has inflicted his, not only his heart, but his body as well. Adam's first day out of the garden would have been a Monday. Because if you look at Genesis 1 and you read it, you'll find out that God mentions that every day was good. And every day was good. He was creating it. But in the record, first day, he said, let there be light. And he saw that it was good. On the second day, when there was a division between the heavens and the earth, he didn't say that it was good. He omitted that. Why? I believe is prophetic, because that's probably the first day out of the garden. It's probably what's going on with Job right here. Now, I may be wrong. That's not an important tidbit. I'd give that to you no charge. Just extend my message five more minutes. Well, we see here the beauty and the blessings of our verses. In all this, and look at the first trial. In all this, Job, did not sin in verse 22. In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. The opponent, Satan in Hebrew, It comes from the Hebrew root word, satan, pronounced just slightly different. Satan is what is the root for satan, which is the name of the opponent. Satan means opponent or adversary, but satan means to attack, to accuse, which is what Satan does. We see this in Revelation chapter 12. He's the accuser of the brethren. And this is what he was doing. God says, have you considered my servant Job? Well, he'll curse you, is what Satan says. And the calamities being the first day of the week, Sunday, I want you to consider that he did not charge God with wrong. And here he did not sin. It's as if he did recognize, and this is why we read chapter one again this week, it's as if he recognized the sovereignty of God, it's God's provision. He understood that he's wealthy because of a God whom he serves. The children came forth from the fruit of the womb, but that was by God's doing as well. That's why we take a great stance on the abolition of abortion. in our congregation because we recognize that the progeny is in the hand of a sovereign God. And it would be wrong because that's a life that He has created. Though we went through the motions. Charles Spurgeon concerning this verse, he preached a sermon in 1890, I believe it was. Anyway, he preached a sermon concerning Job. Yeah, I think it was, yeah, I think it was in 1890, but he says this, quote, Job sinned not, and the phrase which explains it is, nor charged God foolishly. Here, let me say that to call God to our judgment seat at all is a high crime and misdemeanor, end quote. And one of the things in Spurgeon's quote that he got right concerning the Hebrew passage is that it's connection in that he did not charge God with wrong or did not, in the King James Version, nor charge God foolishly. It's connected to he did not sin. Romans 9 20 says, but who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, why have you made me like this? And Paul, the apostle, when he is, you know, dictating the letter to Tertius in Corinth to send to Rome, he's probably thinking of Isaiah, I think, what is it, 42? Isaiah 42, where Isaiah speaks the same things. But Charles Spurgeon, again, in the same message from Job 1 and verse 22 says, quote, we sin in requiring that we should understand God, end quote. Romans 11, again, I take you to the epistle of the Apostle Paul in Romans 11 and verse 33, it says, oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. That was the King James Version. I don't have the English Standard Version memorized yet. Job didn't question God's judgments. And this is why he didn't sin. This is why he sinned not. He didn't question his judgments. Naked I came, naked I go forth. And last week we saw that. We really have nothing. But if we have Christ, Christ has saved us and it says that you are not your own. 1 Corinthians 6 and verses 19 and 20. You're bought with a price. By the price of Christ's precious blood and everything that you have is because of him. And so the only thing that you do have is a possession is Jesus himself. This is why he sinned not. But we look at the second trial and you're not gonna get this for many commentaries. I'm going out on a limb here and I asked the Lord, really? I'm gonna preach this and everyone's gonna fact check me. There's a particular point that's made. In the verse that we are considering, chapter two, verses nine and 10, where his wife says, then his wife said to him, do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die. Now there's a sermon right there, but I'm not gonna go, we're not even gonna touch that one. That one's dynamite. I wanna be able to go home tonight. Verse 10, but he said to her, you speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Now I'm not gonna touch that one either. Shall we receive good from God and shall we not receive evil? Mostly we're going to look at this. In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. Now remember the Spurgeon quote. When he did not charge God, he did not nor charge God foolishly in the King James Version. And in the English Standard Version, he did not sin or charge God with wrong. Remember Spurgeon correctly from the Hebrew language assigned that to its attachment in the first predicate or first part of the sentence. It's likewise with this one. In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. And that's what I draw your attention to on this, is in his not sinning with his lips, my question is, did he sin with his heart? And most of you here, if not all of you, because I realize this too, there are times that I have said the most glorious and splendid and marvelous things with my mouth. But I was thinking, you dirty rat, when someone had done me wrong. My heart's not pure. Though I have a new heart and new spirit, my mind still comes up with things even when I'm preaching the gospel. I've mentioned this time and again that if you want to know how much corruptions are still left in your mortal flesh, remember one of your dreams sometime. Yeah, okay. You know about that. You can't run from it. Sometimes you wake up. I've confessed to you. Sometimes I've waken up thanking the Lord that I'm not that person that was in that dream. Not anymore. Praise the Lord. Because where did that come from? It's still in the flesh that still remains. Though I'm a new creation in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. I'm a new creature. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things become new. However, My flesh is not just the body that gets sick and gets old and dies. It's those things that I developed for 24, nearly 25 years as an unbeliever. All those habits that had to be knocked out year by year, month by month, some of them are still there. We see this even in the scripture. Look at chapter three, verse one, we're gonna go there next week, but look at chapter three, verse one. After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. After seven days in silence, he cursed the day of his birth because why? Isn't the sovereign God who gave you life, isn't the sovereign God who gave you wealth, isn't the sovereign God who gave you children, Isn't that the same sovereign God who gave you life? And next week we'll go to Ecclesiastes, the preacher in Ecclesiastes, Kohelet. He says some of the same things. It's better that I didn't, I was never born. My death is better than my birth, he says. And I'm really getting ahead of myself because that's next week when we get to Job chapter three. We'll take a look at that. But consider Job, James chapter one verses 14 to 15 says, but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Verse 15 says, then desire, when it is conceived, gives birth to sin and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death. And in verse 16, do not err my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Maybe he's drawn away just enough in his heart that he doesn't sin with his lips, but he's gone. This is pretty painful. Now this pain is lasting him seven days. We sometimes go over it because we read so fast. We don't recognize the timeframe of seven days that he's been in this condition where his body has been struck. And then he opens his mouth in pain. Had it been momentary, seven days of comforters, I'm feeling pretty good now, boys. I'm glad that you're here. Let's go out and get a root beer and go eat at Roscoe's before they close. We are oft ignorant of our sin. Sometimes we think that we know things. Sometimes we, you know, I recognize sin, I've read my Bible, As much as I've read this year after year after year, even memorized scripture, I've forgotten the scriptures I've memorized. And there are things from God's word that remind me of the corruptions that still remain in my mortal flesh. And I think I'm doing pretty well. And sometimes you do too, don't you? We go along and we need to be here to be encouraged that I haven't arrived yet. And when I get to preach a word where I kind of mess it up a little bit and say Haman instead of Mordecai and 1 Corinthians instead of 2 Corinthians and whatnot, I'm reminded I have not arrived. Galatians 2 and verses 11 through 13, I won't read that whole thing. I won't turn there and bore you with it. But Paul in showing that the that how forgetful we are, that we're not even mindful that we're sinning sometimes, is that he rebukes when he's in, he's reminding the Galatians that when he was in Antioch, that Cephas came, Simon Peter. Kipha is his name in Hebrew, and he came and And he was there and he was eating with the Gentiles and it was no problem. But when James sent down from Jerusalem to Antioch, they went north, but you're always descending from Jerusalem. They got there and Peter started backing away from the Gentiles and washing his hands and eating with the Jews. So much so that Barnabas was even brought away and Paul had to rebuke him. We get caught up in that, and he didn't think he was doing anything wrong, he was a Jew. But Paul rebuked him for that. Sometimes, see, we need God's word to minister to us, we need the Holy Spirit to reveal to us our sin. And to reveal to us that even the best of what we do is sinful. It contains enough corruptions that we need all of God's grace. We need Christ's imputed righteousness credited to our account in all things. Psalm 19 and verse 12 says, who can understand his errors? That's the King James Version. Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Those aren't secret faults because I hid them from God. Those are secret faults because I don't know them. I think I know God's word, but I don't know God's word as well as I think I do. In the English Standard Version it says, who can discern his errors? And then the psalmist cries out, declare me. Oh, don't you love David, the sweet psalmist of Israel? I know Mike does. Declare me innocent from hidden faults. See, in that version, it kind of makes it a little bit clearer. These hidden faults, things that I don't see myself because I'm so blinded by the corruptions that still remain, they're kind of hiding from me because my flesh hates God's grace, hates the gospel, and hates God's Son. And so sometimes sins creep up on me, and I don't even know I'm sinning. There's a problem with that, it's called presumption. Psalm 19 verse 13, the very next verse, Psalm 19 verse 13 says, keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. What's presumption? Young people, presumption is basically arrogance. It's thinking we know something when really we don't. And we're gonna end up seeing this in the book of Job because this is what Job's friends do. Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar are presumptuous. They think they know things and Job doesn't know everything either because he didn't read chapter one and two. It wasn't written in his day. It was written afterward. We know the clues, but we are privy to, oh, that's what's going on. But sometimes we think we read it in Job one and two, but we don't put it together that that's what's going on for our lives. But we, I got God's written word here. I'm not going to do it. We do just like Job. Presumption was the sin of Job's friends. It's the Hebrew word zayd, presumption. It's an arrogance. They thought they knew God and His workings, but Moses reminds the people in Deuteronomy 29 verse 29, he says, the secret things belong to the Lord, our God. But the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Not everything is revealed. God has things that are going on that are too heavy for us to lift. Even for you young people, sometimes you want a greater responsibility of spiritual spiritual responsibility even in your family, but you're too young to lift them. This is why moms and dads must do so until you're ready for them. And so we have to keep in mind that there are those things. these hidden secret sins, these hidden faults of ours that are still there. And they're there for a purpose because they cause us to continue to lean upon Christ. They cause us to trust in Him, to trust in Him through others so that we may see Christ, not just in Scripture, but we may see Christ in one another. And there's a terrific quote in the handout this week from Spurgeon concerning seeing Christ. Oh, that we would see Christ everywhere. In the market, when we're shopping. In the gas station, when we're pumping gas. Just on the road while we're traveling, if we would see Christ, what Christianity would look like. And that's just paraphrasing our good friend, Mr. Spurgeon. Now, let's close it up with this and all this joyful gleanings in Jesus Christ. We see many, like last week, we saw many foreshadows of the Lord Jesus Christ, but what do we see, how do we see Christ now in this portion of scripture? That Job, as a man who is upright by the word of God before the angels, and also even Satan was among them, that before that entire host, unseen by Job and his comforters. He turns away from evil, or as the King James Version, astreweth evil. By God's word, he was that kind of man with that kind of integrity, that kind of righteousness, because the Holy Spirit wrote of him again through Ezekiel chapter 14, mentioning Job right along Noah, and Daniel, yet he is just a man. We are all just descendants of Adam that are saved by God's grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. And the comparison that we must make with our lives is with the perfect man, the holy man, the heavenly man, the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, Job sinned not with his lips, but I believe it was written there and maybe he didn't have this intent in his heart, but still the Holy Spirit was writing it as such that we might question it so that we don't place Job up on this pedestal. and that we see that he's merely a man. For Jeremiah said in chapter 17 and verse 9, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. Who can understand it? The Hebrew word there can actually mean incurably sick. It's incurable, but our God is the God of the impossible and he cures the incurable. So if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ today and think, well, I'm beyond salvation, you're not. Because our rock, our redeemer is the cure for all ailments. 2 Corinthians 10 and verse 12 says that this is one of the problems that we have, that we compare ourselves with one another. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. We can, the King James version says we compare ourselves with ourselves. We place such a low standard. We have what they call, what teachers call, I think Sister B and Brother Lauren having taught for, Brother Lauren taught for years and Sister B still teaching with the banana curve, right? Everybody's graded on this kind of relative scale, but we're not, in the Bible, we're not, graded on a relative scale. Every one of us is graded by Christ. Before Christ came, we were graded by the law and no one could meet it. That's why Christ came, so that he could fulfill the law, both actively and passively. And though Job was righteous, we see now that the declaration of God in heaven of his righteousness was applied to him by a Christ who had not yet come. Christ's righteousness must be imputed to every man upon Adam until the last man before the Lord's return. That righteousness must be applied for everyone if they are to stand before God. And so we look at one another and, well, I'm doing better than him or I'm doing better than her. That's not how God sees it. He must see you through Christ. And then if you're saved, then he sees Christ's righteousness. And aren't you glad of that? Because none of us measure up. When we compare ourselves with Christ, there's enough corruptions in our flesh that It spoils everything that we do good. We just had that a couple of weeks ago. We were looking at Ecclesiastes chapter 10 on our Sunday evening Bible study. Ecclesiastes chapter 10 says in verse one, dead flies make the perfumers ointment, give off a stench. So a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. We could be the wisest and most honorable with our lips and in our behavior, but the corruptions is still remain in our flesh. cause a stench that heaven must have the righteousness of Christ applied to our lives. So what do we do? Because this is by God's design. Adam's fall wasn't an oops, now what do I do? It was to bring about the glory of God. It was to bring about the glory of God through the Lord Jesus Christ and his exaltation. He didn't create sin, but he put all things together to work them for good to them that love God, for those who are the called according to his purpose. So what is left is this, the simple, the simple passage of scripture that many of you already have had memorized for years since you were young Christians. Proverbs three and verses five and six, trust in the Lord. with all your heart and lean not upon your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge him and he will make straight your paths. Trust in him that though like Job you don't see what's going on in heaven but God is moving those things together so that you can trust him more. You can be more like Christ in your being conformed to his image. That you can be a blessing to others in the trials and calamities that you happen to be facing. That by your grief and bereavements and someone passing, that you may be able to comfort those who are now grieving and bereaving. That in the injuries and insults that still await us in this world, that when they fall in harmful physical Calamity, that you may be a comforter that is truly a comforter and not an accuser like Satan, or would end up becoming the emissaries of Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, accusing Job of some kind of wrong. When in chapter one, God said, he's done nothing wrong. Chapter two, he's done nothing wrong. Uh-oh, skin for skin. We don't see those things. But when we trust in Christ and not concern us with the circumstances, they're in his hand. It doesn't mean that we blindly cast them off. We see what they are. They're hurtful. They're harmful. They're loathsome. You have loathsome sores at times, but let those sores allow you Not 42, you know, 42 chapters or 38 chapters to get rebuked by LU. And then hear the voice of God. Hear the voice of God in the scriptures now and see Christ in the scriptures that you may trust in him. Trust him with your whole heart. And so that the meditations of your heart would be acceptable in his sight. Not just lip service. We don't want that. We want a true trust in Christ. Let's pray. King Jesus, let the words of our mouths and the meditation, the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight. Oh Lord, our rock and our redeemer. Amen.