Job 37-42

Hey, hey, welcome to Coffee and Devotions. It is Saturday morning, January 9th. This is where every day you and I, we get together, we get into God's Word, and we grow in our love for the Lord together. And this year, 2020, we'll make it through? All the gospels. No, all the wisdom literature. We finished the gospels. That's right. It's a new year, isn't it? Ah, yep. All right, so we'll make it through all the wisdom literature. So this morning, guess what we finish? Job. We've finished the whole book of Job. Why don't we go ahead and have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into my favorite part of the book of Job.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day and we thank you for your word. We pray now that you would bless us and care for us. We pray that you would let us lean into your words. and see your great love for your people. In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, here we go. Job chapter 37. At this, oh, I almost did it again, but there we go. So, there we are. Now we are at the right screen. Real quick, If these videos are helpful to you, let's let Facebook and YouTube and et cetera know these are helpful and their algorithms are just of the such that either you have to like it or you can put a comment down below that I love this or thank you, something to let me know that this is of value to you and also let Facebook and YouTube know that it is as well. All right, you ready? Okay.
Job chapter 37. He thunders with His majestic voice, and He does not restrain them when His voice is heard. God thunders marvelously with His voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend. For He says to the snow, Fall on the earth, likewise to the gentle rain and to the heavy rain of His strength. You want to read 7 through 13? every man that all men may know. His work the beasts go into dance and remain in their lairs. From the chamber of the south comes the low wind and cold from the scattering wind of the north. By the breath of God ice is given and the broad waters are frozen.
Also with moisture he saturates his bright clouds and they swore about being drawn by his guidance that they may do whatever he commands them on the face of the whole earth. He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
All right, what do you think Elihu is saying here? Well, first we should see, is this still Elihu talking? Let's see who this is. Yeah, so this is still Elihu, and he's talking about the clouds, and the thunderstorms, and the snow, and So who's he saying controls all that? God. Is he right? Yes. Yeah, he's absolutely right with that. Good. Listen to this, O Job, stand still and consider the wondrous works of God.
Do you know when God dispatches them and causes the light of his cloud to shine? Do you know how the clouds are balanced, those wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge? Why are your garments hot when he quiets the earth by the south wind? With him you have spread out the skies strong as a cast metal mirror.
Teach us what we should say to him, for we can prepare nothing because of the darkness. Should he be told that I wish to speak, even now men cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies. When the wind has passed and cleared them, he comes from the north as golden spool and with God is awesome majesty as the almighty we cannot find him he is excellent in power in judgment and abundant justice he does not oppress therefore men fear him he shows no partiality to anyone who Alive and of heart.
Alright. So, is that all true? Is God majestic and above all? Yeah. Yeah. Is God the sovereign one of the universe? Yeah. Yeah. So in all of this, Elihu says things that are pretty good about God, doesn't he? Yeah. Does he say good things about Job? Nope. Nope. Alright. Now, now the Lord speaks. Okay, let's not play with that again. Alright. Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now prepare yourself like a man. I will question you and you shall answer me.
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding, who determined its measurements? Surely you know. Or who stretched the line upon it to what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst forth and issued from the womb? When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band, When I fixed my limit for it, And set bars and doors, When I said, This far you may come, but no farther, And here you proud waves must stop.
Whoa, who created the sea? Dad. Who told the sea where to stop? Dad. What's he telling Job? You know. No, he's asking questions, but Job doesn't know these things. Does God take care of all the big, huge things in the world? Yeah. Yeah. Here, let's go ahead and I'll let you read 12 through 15. Are you commanded in the morning, since your days begin, and cause the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, The wicked be shaken out of it. It takes on like clay under a seal and stands out like a garment. On the wicked the light is withheld and the upraised arm is broken. All right.
Have you entered the spring of the seas? Or have you walked in search of the depths? Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death? Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell me if you know all of this. Who made the sea? Who knows the entrance to the dead? Yeah, right. God's done all this. God knows all of this. Good. Go ahead. You can read 19 through 21. Where? Where is the way to the dwelling of light and darkness? Where is its place that you may take it to its territory, that you may know the paths to its arms?
No, it's because you were born then or because the number of the day is great. Yeah, right. Was Job born before the light? No. What did God do on the first day? He created light. Yeah, he separated the light from the darkness, right? Was Job there? Yes. No. No. Was Elihu there? Was Eliphaz there? Were any of his friends there? No. No, right?
So he's saying, whoa, hold on. You don't know any of this stuff. Have you entered the treasury of snow, or have you seen the treasury of hail, which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? By what way is light diffused, or the east wind scattered over the earth? Hold on one second. If you unplug that, the camera will stop working. So let's not touch this cord. Thank you.
Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water or a path for the thunderbolt? to cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, a wilderness in which there is no man to satisfy the desolate waste and cause to spring forth the grasses of tender grass, growth of tender grass. Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice and the frost of heaven? Who gives it birth? The waters harden like stone and the surface of the deep is frozen.
Can you bind the cluster of the paladins? Yeah, that's a bunch of stars up in the sky. Good job. Or loose the belt of Orion? Orion, good. Can you bring out Mazara? Mazara. In its season? Or can you guide the great bear with its cubs? Do you know the alternate Can you lift up your voice to the clouds that an abundance of water may cover you? Can you send out lightnings that they may go and say to you, here we are, Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart? Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven?
When the dust hardens and clumps and the clogs cling together, can you hunt the prey for the lion? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions? When they crouch in their dens or lurk in their lairs to lie and wait, Who provides food for the raven when its young ones cry to God and wonder about for lack of food? Who feeds the lions?
Yeah, so God handles all the great big things, right? Was He there when He separated the light from the darkness? Was He there when He set the stars in their place? Was He there when He made the ocean? Yeah, God did all of this. But not just the big things. He even cares about the small things. like the little sparrows. Just like Jesus says, right? We don't need to worry because he talks about the sparrows and God gives them their food. Good!
All right, you want to read one through four there? Do you know the time when the wild mountains look very young? Or can you mark when the deer give birth? Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young. They bow down. They bring forth their young. They deliver their offspring. Their young ones are healthy. They grow strong with grain. Grain? Grain. They depart and do not return to them. That's right. So he even cares for the mountain goat. Scott cares about the deer when they give birth. God cares about the young bear. God's the one who cares for even the animals.
Now, we've been reading in your homeschool a whole bunch about the Greek gods, haven't we? Yeah. And do they have to have a god for all these little tiny things? Yeah. Yeah, all these crazy gods all over the place. But who's the one true living God who does all of this? God. God alone, that's right. That's right, the Lord does it, Yahweh himself.
Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager? Whose home I have made, the wilderness and the barren land is welling. He scorns the tumult of the city. He does not heed the shouts of the driver. The range of the mountain is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger? Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you? Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him? Will you trust him to bring home your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
The wings of the ostrich waved proudly, but her wings and pinions like the kindly storks. For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust. She forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them. She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers. Her labor is in vain without concern, because God deprived her of wisdom, and did not endow her with understanding. When she lifts herself on high, she scorns the horse and its rider.
You made the ostrich, but is the ostrich wise? No. Right, so who's the one who gets wisdom? The ostrich. But isn't the ostrich proud? Yes. Can it run fast like a horse? Yes. Is it smart like a horse? Yes. He says no. He said no. You want to read about the horses now in verse 19? Yeah.
Right here. his neck with thunder. Can you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snore strikes terror. He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength. He gallops in the clash of arms. He mocks at fear and is not frightened, nor does he turn back for the sword. The crow rattles against him, the glittering spear and javelin. He roars the distance with fierceness and rage, nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded. at the blast of the trumpets.
Aha! He smelled the battle from the thunder of the cannons and shouting. Man, that's really sounding cool for the horse, huh? Yeah. Yeah, the horse loved to go in the battle, right? gallops, and he goes into war, and the quiver rattles at his side, and he hears the captain, and he's ready for battle. Who made that stately and majestic and strong and awesome horse? God. God did. That's right.
Does a hawk fly by your wisdom and spread its wings towards the south? Does the eagle mount up at your command or make its nest on high? On the rock it dwells and resides, on the crag of the rock and the stronghold. From there it spies out the prey, and its eyes observe from afar. Its young ones suck up blood, and there are slain. And where the slain are, there it is."
Have you seen some eagles lately? Yes, lots of eagles when we were on our trip. Yeah, and are they huge? Yeah, they're almost as big as a car window. Yeah, they're almost as big as a car window. Did Job make them? Who made them? God. God did. So he made these amazing, majestic creatures, the horse, and he made the eagle. Right? That's God who made these amazing creatures. Alright.
Moreover, the Lord answered Job and said, Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Who shall rebuke God? Let him answer it. You go ahead and read what Job says to God. But I will proceed no further." Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Now prepare yourself like a man, and I will question you, and you shall answer Me. Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
Have you an arm like God, or can you thunder with a voice like His? that adorn yourself with majesty and splendor and array yourself with glory and beauty. Disperse the rage of your wrath. Look on everyone who is proud and humble him. Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low. Tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in hidden darkness. Then I will also confess to you and your own right hand can save you.
Did Job get really close to impugning God? Was he confessing the deep sorrow of his heart? And did he want to ask God and get answers from God? And now is God answering him? And is God answering him by telling him the full story? No, he's asking him a question and he's going to answer it. You think Job's going to answer it? I don't know. We'll have to keep reading, huh? All right. OK, so we're going to read about the behemoth now. Now look at the behemoth which I made along with you.
He eats grass like an ox. Now see his strength in his hips, and the power in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar, and his sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron. He is the first of the ways of God. Only he who made him can bring near his sword.
Surely the mountains yield food for him and all the beasts that field play there. He lies under the lotus tree in a covert of reeds and marsh. The lotus trees cover him with their shade, the willows by the brooks around him. Indeed, the river may rage, yet he is not disturbed. He is confident that the Jordan gushes into his mouth, though he takes it in his eye, for one pierces his nose with a snare.
Oh, you can read about Leviathan. Go ahead. Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? Which you lower? Can you put a weed through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you? Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever? Will you play with him as a bond? with a barn, or will you leash him for your maidens? Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion him among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears? Lay your hand on him, remember the battle, never do it again! Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false. Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him? No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against me?
Who has preceded me that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is mine. Who made the Leviathan? Who made the behemoths? God. God did. So can anybody... What does he say here at the end? Everything under heaven is mine. Right, everything. So does he have the right to do with his things what he wants to do? Yeah. That's right. I will not conceal his limbs, his mighty power, or his graceful portions.
Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle? Who can open the doors of his face with his terrible teeth all around? His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal. One is so near another that no air can come between them. They are joined to one another. They stick together and cannot be parted. Their sneezings flash forth light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning blasts. Sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals and a flame goes out of his mouth.
Strength dwells in his neck, and sorrow dances before him. The folds of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him and cannot be moved. His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as a lower millstone. When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. Because of his crashings, they are beside themselves.
Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail, nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee. Slingstones cannot make stubble of him. Darts are regarded as straw. He laughs at the thread of javelins.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds. He spreads pointed marks in the mire. He makes a deep boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. He leaves a shining weight behind him. One would think that Deep had like white hair. On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear. He beholds every high thing. He is king over all the children of pride. Man.
God made amazing creatures, didn't he? Yeah. Did he even make the mountain goat, though? Yeah. Does he care for when the mountain goat gives birth? Yep. Does he know the light? Yep. Does he know the darkness? Yep. Did he set the stars? Yep. Does he feed the lions? I think that's going to be a yep, yep, yep, yep. Do you think that he takes care of Job? Yep, yep, yep. Do you think he knows everything that's been going on? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Go ahead and read what Job says in 1 through 4. Then Job answered the Lord and said, I know that you can do everything and that no purpose of yours can be withheld from you. You ask, who is this who hides counsel? stand things too wonderful for me which i did not know listen please and let me speak you said i will question you and she'll answer me i have heard of you by the hearing of the ear but now my eyes see you therefore i abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. What did Job learn about God?
That he's a God of providence. That's right, he's a God of providence. Did he think that maybe God wasn't in control of things? It's possible at times he was getting close to that. But what does God show him here? He's in control of things. What do you think? Does that give you any comfort? Yes. Why do you think that's helpful to you? Because I don't want to worry about things happening. Yeah, we don't have to worry, because is God going to care for us? Yes. Does God know everything that's happening? Yes. Even when bad things are happening? Yes. Even when sad things happen, but it's not because of our sin? Yes. That's right. God is still in control. God is still provident. This is amazing. God is so good to us. How wonderful is it that we don't need to worry that God is like the petty God of the Greeks and Romans, but he's a loving God. Yeah.
So it was after the Lord had spoken these words to Job that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, my wrath is aroused against you and your two friends for you have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has. Interesting, isn't it? that God condemns his friends.
Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Again, isn't it interesting that Job, Job knew God's sovereignty, Job knew God's majesty, but yet he still didn't understand it to the full extent, but they slandered Job, they slandered God against Job. And here now Job is again a type of Christ. Notice they have to bring their sacrifices to Job and Job will pray for them. Job becomes the intermediary. Job becomes the mediator between them and God, that God's wrath might not fall out upon them. So Eliaphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shiite and Zophar the Neamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them, for the Lord had accepted Job.
And the Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had had before. Can you read this part, Nathan? Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintance before came to and ate food with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him.
And each one gave him a piece of silver, and each a ring of gold. Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima, the name of the second, Keziah, the name of the third, Keren-hapuch.
In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. After this Job lived 140 years and saw his children and his grandchildren for the four generations. So Job died old and full of days." Again, it's supposed that this event happening in Job's life is probably around the time of the patriarchs. You notice that his days are 140 years.
This is similar to that of the patriarch, but we also notice here again The messianic trajectory, as Dr. C.J. Williams points out, that Joe went from this highly exalted state to this humiliated state, and now back up to a place of exaltation. Didn't that happen with Jesus? No. Yeah. He wasn't even higher. That's right. He went even higher, though, didn't he? And Joe went even higher. That's right.
Where was Jesus at first, from before all time? In the beginning, nothing. Yeah, but then once God made the heavens, where was Jesus? In the heavens. Because he's God, right? But what did the gospels in Philippians 2 teach us? Did Jesus stay in heaven?
He came down to earth. He came down to earth. He humbled himself. Not just that, but when he came to earth, was he a king? So he wasn't like born in a palace or something. He was born as a little baby in a manger. Yeah. No. Well, he kind of died, um, angrily. Painfully on a cross.
That's right, on the third day, that's when it gets better, isn't it? Did things get better for Job? Yeah, Job was exalted, but was Jesus exalted even more? That's what we mean by when we say a type of Christ. There are things in the Old Testament that show us, oh, this is like Jesus. And that's what Job is like. So for you.
Do you need to worry about what you'll eat or what you'll drink or what you'll wear? Do you need to be consumed with your grief or can you be comforted that the sovereign God who feeds the lions and cares about the times when the mountain goats give birth cares for you? That the God who set Orion and the Pleiades in its place also counts the hairs on your head? that even though you might now on this earth face trial and tribulation and persecution and suffering, do you know that your God in heaven still reigns and that you can rest perfectly in him?
I pray that's the case. Let's go ahead and pray today. You ready? Lord, we thank you so much that you are so great and that you have loved us with such an amazing love. We thank you so much for Jesus Christ and we pray that we might trust in Him and know your goodness towards us. In His name we pray, Amen. May the Lord bless you today and may He fill you with peace. I pray that you get to worship tomorrow and I'll see you tomorrow as we get into the Psalms. Bye. Can you say bye? Bye. Oh.