Episode Transcript
We're going to be in the book of Job.
Job chapter one.
Right after the book of Esther.
Now, our prior studies in the books of Samuel, 1st and 2 Samuel, 1st and 2 Kings gave us a look into the lives of many kings, many prophets, priests, and other categories of men and women The book of Job is an in-depth look at the life of one man.
Now, there are other people involved in this book, but not nearly as many.
And we're going to be looking particularly at his adult years, though he will make some references all the way back to when he was in his mother's womb.
Now, how many of you have never been taught the book of Job?
Just raise your hand.
That's encouraging One of the reasons that many people haven't studied the book of Job is that many Bible teachers haven't taught it.
So if they don't teach it, unless you strike out on your own and try to read and understand this book, then you probably haven't been taught it either.
Or, as with most teachers, preachers, they'll pick a verse out of Job and preach on it and never come back to it.
You have no idea what the context is.
And I've actually taught through Job twice.
The first time was about 25 or 30 years ago.
And I was a brand new Bible teacher and I had no idea what I was doing.
You might still think that, but I really didn't.
But I knew to go verse by verse.
I don't know how much the students were fed.
I know they were fed some because I read God's word to them, if that's all they got out of it.
The second time I taught through it, I was a lot more seasoned in expounding God's Word.
Though I still find myself insufficient for such an undertaking, but God was good and he's going to be Good again as we study through this rich and powerful book together.
So let's dive in with verse 1.
We're in Job chapter 1, if you've just joined us.
And it says, there was a man.
Now we could spend quite a while on this phrase, so we will spend a little bit of time on it Notice first of all that this phrase, there was a man, makes a definitive statement.
It doesn't suppose there may have been a man.
It doesn't say if there had been such a man.
But it plainly states there was one.
And so this not only makes the statement definitive, but it makes it historical.
We're about to learn about a person who really lived We're reading about a man who once lived.
And the phrase primarily draws our attention to this man rather than a time period.
In Genesis, you're drawn to a time period right away, in the beginning.
God.
Now every Bible study begins with God, with God in mind.
It's done through God's lens, his view, his word.
But we see in our text that our attention is initially drawn to a man rather than a time period or a place.
Or the conditions that existed then, and all those things will come up, but they're secondary, at least at the beginning.
Now, a second thing we observe, because we've learned this in our study of God's Word, is that this man was a part of God's creation.
In Genesis 1. 27, so God created man in his own image.
In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
So God created man, and man through the woman procreated more men and women.
Through the conception and birth process.
Now I want to stop right there and give you a little doctrinal nugget.
When somebody, and we'll just take the the homosexual crowd, when they say God made me this way, no, he didn't.
Sin did.
God made man perfect.
He made man and woman.
In the garden there was no sin.
They sinned, and everyone born after them. was a sinner.
Sin entered into the world in the garden.
God cast them out.
And so through procreation, men and women are born.
But the creator is God.
And so we trace all creative acts back to God.
And without Adam and Eve, the man about whom we are reading here would not have existed.
But because this man was a part of God's creation through Adam and Eve, we're going to learn not only much about this man, but we're going to learn about God.
If we don't learn about God, our Bible study is a failure.
It's not really a Bible study.
It's just a talk.
And we certainly don't want to spend our time just talking.
Now a third thing we see.
And that we know because we've been taught this from God's word is that this was a man, and we know from Scripture that he was a sinner.
He was born under the curse that sin brought into the world.
And because of that sin No matter what good things we read about Job, and there are some good things, in fact, we've already read about Job.
You may have remembered in an earlier study.
About in the Kings that we saw Job's name.
But no matter what good things we read about Job, he needed to be saved just like you and me.
And you're going to learn some things about this man that if you'll be honest, it'll make you ashamed of yourself and your own walk with the Lord.
It certainly did me.
But in judging my own walk next to Job's walk, I was encouraged to know that God can do the same things in you and me as he did in Job.
He's not limited because of who we are.
Our text says there was a man.
Look back in the text and it says, In the land of us Now we know historically that not only was there a certain man, but that man was in a certain place.
And this place is important because it's part of what we call the setting.
It doesn't matter whether this man was in Uz or was in Lubbock, Texas.
It doesn't matter.
What matters primarily is What God is going to do.
But for the sake of our study, it's helpful for us to know that He was in a certain place and that was us.
Now, where was us?
I was, when I was a kid, and I still am, but I was a big geography buff.
I used, and I that's if you know me.
You'll know how weird I am about some things, but I could sit down with a map all day.
A Texas map, and I could tell you, if you told me, well, I'm from Canadian, Texas.
I'd say, oh that's where US Highway 83 runs north and south through there, doesn't it?
And people from Canadian would look at me like, how'd you know that?
Because I was a map reader as a kid.
You might have read comic books, I read maps.
And so to know where things were is always appealed to me.
And us was first a man in the Bible before it was a place.
Now that's very common in the Bible.
Judah was a man before Judah was a place.
Israel was a man.
Remember Jacob's name was changed from Jacob to Israel.
And he was a man before there was a place called Israel.
So the name Uz. appears first in Genesis chapter 10, verses 22 through 23.
Genesis 10 22 through 23 It says, the children of Shem, Elam and Ashur, and Arfaxid and Lud and Aram, and the children of Aram, Uz.
And Hull and Gether and Mash.
Now Shem was one of Noah's sons.
When he came off the ark, we were introduced to Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Now we see us, the name Us again in Genesis chapter 22.
And I'll read verse 20 through 21.
Genesis 22, verses 20 through 21.
And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold.
Milkah, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor.
And here they are.
Huz, H.
U.
Z.
Which is the same Hebrew as Uz.
His firstborn.
And Buzz, of course he would have a brother named Buzz, right?
His brother, and Kimuel, the father of Aram.
Now we know by studying Luke chapter 3 and Matthew chapter 1, both of which contain the genealogies or the family trees of Jesus.
That Abraham came from the line of Shem.
So if you trace Abraham's lineage back to the ark, he came from the line of Shem That's where you get the phrase or the description, Semitic people.
You probably heard of somebody being anti-Semite or anti-Semitic.
Comes from the name Shem.
Not everybody who came from Shem was a Jew, by the way, because Ishmael also came from Shem.
But that's for another study.
And Shem's own son was named Uz.
Now there is one other man named Uz who came from the line of Esau In Genesis chapter 36, verse 28.
Genesis 36, 28.
And That text does not tell us he descended from us, but that he was in the land of us.
Genesis chapter 46 verse 13.
Genesis 46 13.
You'll see that one of the sons of Issachar was named Job.
Now Issachar was Jacob's fifth son born unto him by his first wife Leah.
And so I give you all that to tell you this.
There are opinions on both sides of the argument. from various scholars throughout the ages about whether Job came from Abraham through Esau or from Abraham through Jacob and Issachar.
Because it's not clearly stated, at least to me, so my position is I'm not real sure, but I think because of what we see in the Bible, we can be reasonably sure.
That Job, this man we're talking about, we haven't given him a name, but that's who he is, lived after Abraham.
Now let's look at the location of Uz.
We've looked at the men named Uz.
We'll look at the location.
Jeremiah the prophet referred to us two times.
The first time was in his prophecy that God would punish all the nations That took advantage of the children of Israel while they were in captivity.
So the first one is in Jeremiah 25 and verse 20.
Jeremiah 25 and verse 20, which says, and all the mingled people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod.
And then when Jeremiah wrote the book of Lamentations, then he mentioned in chapter 4, verse 21, Lamentations 4, 21.
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz.
The cup also shall pass through thee unto thee.
Thou shalt be drunken and shalt make thyself naked.
So that verse tells us Edom, which was also what Esau was called.
Edom, that that was in the land of Uz.
So geographically It's reasonable to conclude here, and I think it's certain because of what's stated already, that the man in our text.
Lived in the land of Uz, of which Edom was a part.
Now let's give this man a name.
Back in your text it says, whose name was Job.
Now the name Job is not a pleasant name when you look at what it means.
It means hated, persecuted.
Now, how would you like to not only have the name Job, and everyone knows what it means, but to have to live out that name?
When is you you may have heard somebody say, well, she has the patience of Job.
Well, probably not, unless she's been through what Job's about to go through.
So it's been a compliment that somebody has the patience of Job, and that patience is not just putting up with a bunch of things that other people do that might annoy you.
It has to do with suffering, terrible suffering.
And that's one of the reasons as we kind of look ahead at what we're going to learn in this book about suffering.
It's not the only thing we're going to learn.
But I can promise you, there's not a person in here who's not going to be helped because every one of you have suffered and it's not over.
Now let's look at the word here.
The word name.
It says whose name was Job.
There was a man in the land of us whose name was Job.
When's the last time you considered that word, the word name, N-A-M-E, just a fairly common English word?
It's such a common thing to ask somebody, well, what's your name?
Well, what happens next?
We forget it, don't we?
We just, and in forgetting that name, we just told that person in so many words, the giving of your name was not important enough for me.
To put in the front of my mind and I'm gonna tell you I am the worst.
Brother Fulton thinks he is I'm the worst.
And I've improved in that area, but my overall effort earns the grade of C.
And when I'm 120, maybe, I'll get an A.
The Hebrew word for name, if you pronounce it in the Hebrew, it actually sounds like the word shame, and that's not what it means.
That's just an unfortunate uh pronunciation.
If you look at the way that the Hebrew word for name is translated in other places in the Old Testament, It's translated as the words renown and the word fame.
Now, those aren't the only other translations, but I want to look at those for just a moment.
Speaking of how he rescued Jerusalem when she was cast out, God said this through the prophet Ezekiel.
And we find it in Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 14.
Ezekiel 16, verse 14.
He said, and thy renown, same as the word name, went forth among the heathen for thy beauty.
For it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
What a beautiful passage about the salvation with which God clothes a nation, a people.
And when you read about that same Jerusalem Ezekiel's talking about, earlier in that chapter, back up in verse 6, it says this.
This is God speaking about Jerusalem.
And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, live.
How about that?
To Jerusalem Whose name, and that's the word we're looking at, is the word name, whose name invoked images of dying in the pollution of their own blood.
God said, live, live.
Now let's learn this well.
When God sees a dead, dying thing and says, live, Not only does that thing live, but its name is no longer associated with death, but with life But there are those with a name who claim to be alive and not dead and they're deceived Revelation chapter 3, verse 1, as we think about the importance of a name.
Revelation 3, verse 1, and unto the angel of the church in Sardis write.
These things saith he, that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars, I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest. and art dead.
That's Jesus talking.
Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die.
For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
So there are churches such as the one at Sardis who are counting on their name to be accepted by God.
Jesus didn't tell Sardis, your name's not perfect.
He said your works are not perfect.
Now here's what God said about how Sardis could make their works perfect before him, how they could have their name restored.
It's in Revelation 3 verses 3 through 6.
Revelation 3 verses 3 through 6.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast and repent.
If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief. and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Thou hast a few names, even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
He that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.
But I will confess his name before my father and before his angels.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Now, if you haven't been taught the book of Revelation, some of those things may be a little high in the sky to try to reach, but The ones in white raiment in that passage are the Christians.
Those are the saved.
And their names are written in the Lamb's book of life, and they will not be removed.
Can't be.
Because God wrote them there.
And all Sardis, the church, needed to do was to remember what they had received and heard, which was the word of God They had received the Word of God and heard the Word of God, but they left the Word of God And the second thing they needed to do was to hear what the Spirit of God said.
Now, where do we hear what the Spirit of God says?
Do we have to go to a Benny Henn revival to figure that out?
No, we don't.
We read God's word.
So if you want to know, well, what what does the Spirit of God say?
Read His Word.
It's all right there.
There's no special revelation that somebody's going to get outside of God's word.
If they tell you they got one, you better run away fast.
In 2 Samuel chapter 23, King David began to say his last words on this earth.
And in verse 2, he said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
So the Spirit of the Lord speaks the word of the Lord through the servant of the Lord.
And it's not complicated.
And this is how a man or a church has a name of renown.
Now as we continue studying this Hebrew word for name in Job 1.
1 We come across another translation for that same Hebrew word, and that is the word infamous.
So you see the Hebrew word has a wide application.
And when it's translated infamous, it is combined with another Hebrew word that means unclean.
So you have unclean name.
So that whole thing means infamous.
If you don't have the word unclean there and just the Hebrew word for name, it's just name, it's a name of renown.
So what that tells us is your name is either infamous or it's a name of renown.
There's no in-between.
You can't say, well, I just kind of a neutral.
I wish one a neutral name.
I don't want to be good or bad.
You're one or the other.
Your name is either a good name or it's a bad name I mean, I have neighbors, and I'm thankful that my neighbors, I can call them good neighbors.
They don't get in my business.
They don't tear up my property.
And for right now, none of them have dogs that bark incessantly during the night.
Because that's not a good neighbor.
But I've had neighbors who were not good neighbors.
But I've never really thought of my neighbors as just neighbors, not good or bad.
You're either a good neighbor or you're not.
So to be to have your name as infamous, unclean That's a bad name.
And by one's name, he's either going to be known as clean or unclean, good or not good.
Now let's look at where this word infamous is used in the Old Testament, because it's the same as the word name in Job.
And again, speaking of the city of Jerusalem and her sin, God tells us through the prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel 22, verses 4 through 5.
Ezekiel 22, verses 4 through 5.
Speaking to Jerusalem, thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed.
And hast defiled thyself in thine idols, which thou hast made.
And thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years.
Therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Those that be near and those that be far from thee shall mock thee, which art, here's the word, infamous and much vexed Because of sin, a name that should have been lovely to God, Jerusalem.
A name that should have been pleasant for him to hear was infamous.
And even to those people.
And nations close to Jerusalem and far away from Jerusalem, her name would be infamous But as we learned earlier in the lesson, God can take that which is infamous and make it famous.
He can take the unclean and make it clean.
And in the case of Job's name, which means persecuted, hated, God can make that which is hated loved.
He who hates sin Loves the sinner, and he loves the sinner through his son Jesus.
Can I encourage you with Revelation chapter 3 verse 12?
Revelation 3 verse 12.
Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God?
And he shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem.
Which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and I will write upon him my new name.
The name of our God Written upon us is the name by which we will be known through all eternity Then that's the only name that matters.
I'm in Christ, I'm crucified with him, and who I am and what my name is outside of that doesn't matter, It doesn't bring me fame with God, it brings me infamy as a sinner.
If I'm born Andy Lee Shepherd, and that was my birth name, not Andrew.
So if you call me Andrew and I smile, I'm just being courteous to you, but I'm Andy.
That name right there, if that's the only birth I ever had, that's an infamous name to God.
That's a sinner who's never repented But I was born again by the Spirit of God through my faith in Jesus Christ.
And so it's his name that I'm counting on.
And that name.
Gives me hope, not despair, like my own.
So if you're counting on who you are and what you've done, you're not any better than the atheist who says there's no God.
It's his name that gives me a name worth living for.
Now let's learn.
That's our spiritual lesson.
Let's learn an earthly practical lesson here too.
We usually do it the other way.
We learned the practical lesson and then the spiritual lesson that it teaches.
And here we did it backwards.
But the two are tied together.
It's not like you can have one and not the other.
They're really tied together.
Because God's word addresses both of them.
So let's look at the practical truth about the word name.
And I'll read it from Proverbs chapter 22, verse 1.
Proverbs 22, verse 1.
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
And loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Now if you look at that text in your Bible in the King James Translation, the word good is in italics.
So it wasn't in the original writing.
The reason it's added here is to show that this name is not associated with infamy or with being unclean.
It's a good name.
And the proverb tells us that the amassing of riches, wealth takes second place to the choosing of a good name, or at least it ought to.
When you choose to have a good name, you're choosing a path of righteous living.
And when you choose a path of unrighteous living, then you are in essence choosing to have an infamous name Now, the worldly person would scoff at that remark.
He'd say, ha, everybody in this county knows me.
Or everybody in the world knows this person.
Just ask around town.
Everyone here knows me.
The problem with an attitude like that is that that person doesn't think his name is infamous.
And he thinks it's famous because he values the opinion of carnally-minded people.
If such a person were to measure his walk against God's word, then he would also measure his name against God's word and against God's name.
And if we were honest, or if that kind of person were honest, he would find that his name is just like Sardis.
It's defiled because it's left God's word.
So with that teaching in mind, here's a good test for you, a good question to ask yourself before you say something or do something that's against God's word.
Are you willing to give up a good name in God's sight in exchange for a good name in the world's sight?
That's the question.
Are you willing to give up a good name in God's sight for a good name in the world's sight?
When God sees me acting in my flesh, Andy Shepherd is not pleasant to him.
My flesh is not pleasant to him.
And I'm talking about practically, not salvifically, because my salvation's not in my name, it's in Jesus' name.
We're talking about me. as a person walking this earth.
But let's also think about what our name means to our fellow man.
You probably realize, if you thought about it, there are certain behaviors that are repulsive to both Christians and to lost people.
Here's an example.
Nobody likes a thief.
I don't know of anyone who is okay with their stuff being stolen.
A lost person doesn't like a thief, and if you steal from a Christian, they're not going to like a thief either.
And then there are also certain kinds of, you know, I've had fishing rods stolen out of my boat twice in my life, and that's the angriest I've ever been at a theft.
You can take my pickup, don't take my fishing rods.
I can live without my pickup, but I gotta have my fishing rods.
But there are also certain kinds of behaviors in which we engage that are pleasant to both Christians and to lost people.
If you open the door for someone who has their hands full, whether it's a Christian or a lost person, That person is going to associate your name with that of someone who's helpful and compassionate.
They may be an unbeliever.
You don't really have any idea.
Say, hey, thank you for holding that door for me.
And so because our name is evaluated by those among whom we live.
The Apostle Paul wrote to Pastor Timothy about the qualifications of a bishop, which is a pastor.
In 1 Timothy 3, verse 7, he said, Moreover, he, meaning the bishop or the pastor, must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Now them that are without means those who are outside the church.
Those are the unbelievers, those are the heathen. the nations, and to have this good name among those outside the church A pastor is to meet all the following qualifications, and we find these in that same chapter in 1 Timothy 3, verses 2 through 6.
1 Timothy 3 verses 2 through 6.
He said, A bishop must then be blameless, the husband of one wife.
Vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre.
But patient, not a brawler, not covetous.
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity.
For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God?
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Now let me break that down for you.
Think of a person who's outside the church.
What would he think?
Well, no person outside the church Would think poorly of a pastor's name if he was the husband of one wife rather than having a harem like Solomon did.
An outsider wouldn't scorn a pastor's name because he was sober or discreet or well-behaved or hospitable or apt to teach.
The world wouldn't have a problem with a pastor who wasn't a drunkard.
An outsider wouldn't think poorly of a pastor's name if he heard the pastor was not a brawler.
Or was not a greedy person, but was patient, not covetous.
An outsider wouldn't disdain a pastor's name if the pastor had pleasant.
Obedient children rather than brats.
To even those outside the church, such a pastor would have a good name.
And see, you know, he's a good man, even if they were unbelievers.
That's a good man.
He's got a nice family.
He's always helpful.
Now, one more thing about having a good name when it comes to the opinion of those outside the church.
This does not mean that a pastor or any Christian for that matter is supposed to compromise on God's word in order to get others to respect his name.
And I'm going to tell you they don't.
You may think, well, you know, I've been I've been uh trying to live like a Christian at work and all I do is get made fun of.
And I know some of y'all have been there, you get made fun of, or people Don't want to talk to you, or they'll sure curse out loud about the Lord, but when you try to tell them your side of that, like God is good, they don't want to hear it.
But the world is watching for a Christian to fall.
The world is watching for pastors to fall.
And when an individual Christian falls into sin, it rarely makes the news.
But boy, when a pastor falls, it's blasted all over the front page.
It's on the internet. televisions and if you still read them magazines.
And while a godly pastor might be criticized as hateful or homophobic or intolerant or narrow-minded for holding fast to God's word, he should never let go of those convictions to have a good name in this world.
So that is not what Paul is telling Timothy.
Hey, just try to blend in with the people around you so they'll like you.
It's not about being liked, it's about having a good name.
And as we learn about Job. the one whose name means persecuted, hated.
We're going to learn about how God sees people differently than man does.
So let's learn now about the character of this man whose name was Job.
Look back in your text in verse 1, it says, that man was perfect and upright.
Now right away we meet up with the word perfect as it applies to a man's character.
So let this let's get this meaning straight before we continue.
The Hebrew word translated perfect means complete.
It also means morally pious or good It does not mean Job never sinned.
It does not mean that.
Let me Remind you of an overarching biblical truth given to us by the Apostle Paul concerning this matter.
It's found in Romans 5. 12, and some of you already know it.
Romans 5.
12.
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, And death by sin.
And so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Now that includes Job.
And this was written long after Job had passed away, but it was a truth that existed before he was ever born.
And it addresses every man born after sin entered into the world.
So everyone who descended from Adam and Eve, right down to us.
Has been born into sin.
So get this.
Perfect does not mean without sin when it comes to describing a man. here in the Bible.
The only one that would ever apply to would be Jesus.
Now the word upright in our text means straight, level.
The first time it's used in the Bible will tell you more about its meaning, and that's in Exodus 15, verse 26.
Exodus 15, verse 26.
And this is Moses speaking, and said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight.
And will give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes.
I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Now the words that which is right are from the same Hebrew word as the word upright in our text And the key is that it has to be upright in the sight of the Lord.
So again, in telling us that Job was upright, it doesn't mean that everything Job ever did.
Was completely right in the sight of the Lord.
It does mean he walked with God and he observed God's word as a pattern for his life.
When people thought of Job's name in those days, they said, That man walks with God.
And then look back in the text as we begin to close here.
It says, and one that feared God.
Now the word feared, as you may have learned before in here, it has a wide application.
And if it's correctly understood, it means two things.
One Reverence or respect for the Lord.
And two, terror of the Lord And the problem with this world is not that the world is cowering in fear of the Lord.
It's that it's not cowering in fear of the Lord.
That's the problem with the world.
This world ought to be terrified of the wrath of God.
And not only is the world not terrified of the wrath of God, but the world doesn't even respect the word of God.
Lack of reverence for God is rebellion against Him.
If you rebel against His word, you're rebelling against Him.
So don't tell God Or tell people, I love God, and then rebel against his word.
Those two don't go together.
John chapter 14, verses 23 through 24.
John 14, 23 through 24.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words.
And my father will love him.
And we will come unto him and make our abode with him.
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings, and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
Job feared God.
And therefore he loved God's word.
He had reverence for the scriptures, but he also understood the terror of the Lord.
And let's be dismissed in prayer.
Father, thank you so much for the book of Job and what we've already learned and what it's going to teach us.
We're excited about. continuing this study.
And Lord, during our next hour, we pray that as we sing and praise your name and as we hear your word taught again, That you'd be glorified in your saints, and that you would draw lost people to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In his name we pray.
Amen.
