When Will Words End?(Job 16-20, 25-30)

It is easy to condemn suffering, but suffering makes us human. When we bind ourselves to the Torah, the Torah is the strength of our brokenness, as John Calvin said in his sermon, “When Will Windy Words End?” this:

 

“Since he is founded, and then someone builds thereon, so that he is confirmed in the Law, he is conformed in patience to bear steadily his afflictions, and then he is resolved to pray and to call upon God, to have recourse to Him.” (Translation Leroy Nixon Th. M., 1952)               

 

When God does not help, we need to persevere.

 

 The Holy One is seen is destruction but speaks is silence, so that cut down the noise of human progress so that each man may hear the soul of his Creator as Psalm 46:10 states,   “Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” NASU As the martyrdom of St. Sebastian gave witness against Rome, so the modern condemnation of Christianity judges them, for we serve the Lord. It is the Lord who judges. Therefore, our only intercessor and help when we walk in agony in the Messiah, even if He causes our pain.

 

 .   We live in a fallen world. That world has chosen to fight the Lord, thus the enemy of His children. Any time those who honor the Lord fall so are attacked as vultures to a hurt animal, but the people of God will rise as Micah 7:8, “Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a light for me.” NASU

 

The children of darkness abandon the Children of Light. Marx mocked faith failing to see the universality of pain. Infidelity curse the family of those surrounded by darkness. Salvation in Yeshua is found not in strength but brokenness as Job 19:35-26 says, “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God.” NASU Wickedness will cease only in the return of Messiah.

 

If one save one person one saves the world, so that we need to held the weak, the fatherless and the foreigners. If we mistreat them the Holy One will seek their vengeance as Exodus 22:23-24 says, “If you afflict him at all, and  if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry; and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.” NASU We are to heal the nations.

 

Those who have bind themselves to fight the Children of the Lord bind themselves to the Fallen one. Everything is open and naked before the Lord. The Holy One has already defeated the serpent, but those who serve the Lord will receive trials at His Hand. Those who walk in the integrity of the Lord will rise in judgment of their mockers as Isaiah 54:17 says, ‘“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.”

 

Wisdom dances quietly but is the most beautiful one at the dance. Even as men dive in to the bowels of the earth to gain wealth Wisdom must be sought. Her value is greater than the Earth’s resources, for we cannot buy her. Only the Holy One knows where she rests. There terror of God which brings obedience to His commandment is the beginning of understanding her.

 

Even in darkness, the Lord protects His children. They must prepare for the lean years by seek to embrace the full counsel of the Lord found in Scripture. His Children find hope both in their former blessings and the Hope of Glory. Our testimony must be that of helping the weak and saving the poor. No one knows the number of the days the Lord has given us.

 

God brings trials to his Children. His silence is not a sign of absence but creating patience Monte Sahaja said that everything is a blessing, even curses are blessings, for the one whose eyes are bright enough to see them.”  Laura Story said it best in her song “Blessing,” “What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise.”      

 

Pity the weak. Help the poor. Seek peace. Do not judge a person’s appearance. Hope