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Build she says was born in Bethlehem and taken to Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod he spent his childhood and young adult years in a small town in northern Galilee Nazareth was an out of the way place far from the center of Jewish life in Judea Have you ever wondered about those years in Nazareth What about his home life and how he was accepted by the people who live there well that's what we'll explore on through the Bible with Dr j. Vernon McGee I'm your host Steve Schwartz and in just a minute the Bible boss will set out for our venture where we'll get an unusual insight into Jesus' early years as seen prophetically in the book of Psalms So grab your Bible and find your seat and while you do let's share a couple of letters from our fellow passengers the 1st one is a letter that Dr McGee received several years ago let's listen to I'm sure again now but let me share with you the low point that a lesson are sent to me. The title of this is school prayers and there's no author of it given here but pass it on to you it says now I sit me down in school where praying is the gangs the rules are this great nation under God binds public mention of him odd any prayer a class or a site's violates the bill arrives any time my head I by law becomes a federal matter now he ches of stars are pole and eat quite are a make no mention of their creator hell of experts in Denmark are Sweden but not a word of what Eva did in Aden the law is specious ific the law is precise praying out loud is no longer nice grain allowed in a public hall upsets believers of nothing at all in silence alone can we meditate and if God should get the credit great this rule however has a gimmick in it you've got to be finished in less than a minute so all I ask is a minute of quiet if I fail I pray n. And maybe I'll try if not all low on this play I'm a should I die in school my soul you Ok that's a very good point appropriate for the present now and next is an encouraging email that we received from a listener named Nancy I love the world per team email about Monaco so specific so believing so encouraging Yes intercession changes hearts we don't have the will to believe him or care for others without the power of the Spirit Jesus says it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven but all things are possible with God Yes . We can all believe for at least one soul Monaco is loved by God Lord send someone with the news of salvation in Christ Jesus I so appreciate this ministry praying around the world is the best way to reach the world grace peace and mercy be multiplied to you all well thanks Nancy thanks for cheering us on it more importantly thank you for joining us as we pray for God's Holy Word to reach this whole world you know if you want to join Mansi and me and thousands of other through the Bible listeners as we travel the world on our knees then you need to join our world prayer team by signing up today at t t v dot org forward slash pray now let's do that Heavenly Father thank You for this opportunity to gather around your word would you send us your spirit to fill us with his wisdom so that we can understand your truth in New in life changing ways in Jesus' name we pray Amen here is through the Bible with Dr j. Vernon McGee. I started today brings us to this 69 psalm and this 69 Psalm is a great messianic psalm I think it's one of the greatest I was drawn to it when I was a student in college and from that data there so it's been a favorite song of mine so you'll forgive me today if I hang around in a little longer than we stay around some other but it has a mean that we need to get and they New Testament pays attention to it it is quoted in The New Testament more than any other song with the exception of course the 22nd Psalm is number one and they get paraded in the New Testament and some 69 is the number 2 on the hit parade it's quoted for instance several times in the Gospel of John several times in the of pestle to the Romans in the Gospel of Matthew Mark Luke and in the book of Acts and very candidly I think there are many references to it without actual quotation at all it's called an emperor at the psalm because from verses 22 through 28 we have what is known as an emperor could tolerate prayer and yet we have several quotations about a half a dozen in that section where it's quoted in a New Testament Now let's get into this psalm because I'm a it's one of the most wonderful songs and I know any thing at all now that's psalm as we have put in our note and I give this to those that do not have our notes so you can say what you're missing because we have here they silent years in the life of Christ in the Gospels from the time he was born practically their one to 2 references Dr Luke gives a reference when he's 12 years of age but we do not hear from him and tallies 30 years of age. And what about that period Well there's some tales that I am and it tells the life of cry now some pointed to the wells on the death of cries some 69 wells on the life of crime and you have those dark days and Nasser and the dark hours on the cross and then there is this imprint the car is section which actually is a cry for justice now shall we listen to it because it is the sum of his humiliation and rejection lessen as it opens on really a rather dull full note and it's a little a song because he's the lead of that as well as the rose of Sharon and he's all together lovely side of me all God of the waters of coming in under my soul. You notice how he suffered actually the physical suffering was bad enough but I think that the suffering of Christ in this a life was almost unbearable I'm confident that multitudes of us would have ended our lives if we had gone through what he did down here and none of the ranch some ever knew how deep where the waters cross dark was the night the Lord threw every found a sheep that was a loss and that's when he's on the cross and it's only those last 3 hours on the cross actually in which that cross became an altar in which the Lamb of God The taketh away the scent of the world was offered for it was then he was made sent for us but he suffered before but there is actually no salutary our saving that you and no suffering other than he took the place of humiliation and this is something that he took voluntarily the limitation of Christ as a human being was a self limitation I'd like to know more than I know I'd like to expand we here today is so much about expanding your mind I'd like to expand mine but not the method that's being used but the large eases he came down contracted he became a man he him self and we have that now in that state he cries out he says eyes sinkin De Mar where there is no standing and come into deep waters where the floods overflow me now this weather floods of suffering we started that way born younger and I asked stable actually which was apparently a part of the end and I'm not sure what the stable part was is that is there the. Part in that day and the other part was all public at least he had a place where no one could see what took place except the cat out as an oxygen and his sheep and day were better than that Larry and crowd that was in the end that failed it now what he's saying here is this it began in suffering and now we go to Nasser where he was brought up we are told worse Larry I am weary of my crying my throat is dry mine eyes fail all I wait for my God my friend those 30 years were times when his eyes were red with weeping by verse forward and he quoted this they that hate me without a cause I'm older than the has a mind head and you ever notice that this is one that is quoted in the docile of John John 15 verse 25 and he's the one who quoted it implied it to him sell they that help me without a cause more than a has a mind had they that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully are my then Iris Dougherty that which I took not a way out they hated him without a cause they had no justification for it and we're told today that we are justified and actually we are saved the day on the basis of fact that we're told that it is done freely we have that translation in Romans 324 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that sent Christ Jesus and the word is the same as they hated me without a cause and here it should be being justified without a cause that is he didn't find anything in me that would say oh boy that. Fella McGee down there he's such a nice fella out justified there's nothing like that he says he's a poor lost center and there was no cause with then me neither hated him without a cause that I might be justified without a cause but a wonderful truth there is here now will you notice verse 50 god than no it's my foolishness and my sins are not hidden from the now somebody says well how in the world cannot apply to him You must remember he not only came down here to take the place of a human being but he came down here the holy harmless undefiled separate from centers that are in those last few hours on the cross he's made send for us and that's the thing that he was resisting in the Garden of Gethsemane many let this cut pass but elect coupler saying Mike I cut of the neck quickly the prophets talked about as filling up and he took that and that was awful for him comes natural for us of song doing what comes naturally well for us it's a man but for him it was juicy and that's the thing that makes this suffering here so terrible verse 6 Let not them who wait on the oh Lord God of hosts be ashame for my sake let not those who seek the beacon founded for my sake old god of this real Now let me move on because for that I say I have borne reproach you see 2 reasons that East bearing there is one reason is because of who he was they hated Him same reason that the center hates the righteous person today the one thing that as a sinner you resist it's that and then the other reason is because of the fact that he has come to hate that place that low on will play so now here we have something that to me is quite wonderful. Verse 8 I am become a stranger under my breath rim and then alien under my mother's children now that tells me a whole lot that I wouldn't know otherwise Mary had other children that confirms what the Gus oh say and not only that but we find out something else that these other children treated him as a stranger by well because they've picked it out that Joseph was not his father Joseph was their father but not here and they hated him for it and he says here and a come to stranger and my brethren you think that was a happy home in which he was raise it was a very unhappy home all these lovely pictures you have of the home in Nazareth I have a picture like that the whole monopsony Oh it's so nice and lovely ideal home it was anything but an ideal home my friend that he was raised in now he was a stranger to my brother and they were as have brothers an alien of my mother's children and this is the virgin birth when say's father killed his mother's child now you notice 4 of those zeal of thine House have eaten me up and the reproaches of those who reproach be I've fallen upon me now this is a verse you remember he quoted also in reference to the temple that my they were religious and business termites and doing just about the same amount of damage there in the temple or they were busy but far from God as Ilan house if eat me up now verse 10 when I well and chasing my soul with fasting that was to my route wrote when he would pass a week they would ready cooling for it so you just putting on. Then he says something else here I'm made sackcloth also my garment and I became a proverb to them you know what the proverb was he was illegitimate that was the word secular you know around you know the liberal today the modernist isn't the one that all of the fact that he was an illegitimate son and you know what they would call it because notice what happened verse 12 is what happen in not only the home in Nazareth but in the little town of Nazareth burst while they that said in the gate speak against me those who were the leaders in the town and I was the song of the drunkard they are stablish men made fun of him and the drunkards down at the bar they made up dirty little dead is about him and his mother and I say to you Wednesday this is the life in Nazareth lesson so nice that you know why Eve took that place been raised in a town where they said he was eligible to me in order that I might be a legitimate son of God. Nobody in heaven want to point their friend or at Vernon McGee and say that you are not God's Son you know why because he down here bore that place for me on the cross and paid the penalty for my saying my this is a wonderful Psalm Now I must move along here verse 13 Let me read that but as for me my prayers under Lilo are in an acceptable time and there's a reference to that by the way in 2nd Corinthians a 6 chapter verse 2 now that's it again a very wonderful psalm and move on out of the emperor the taller a part of it burst trying to to let their table become a snare before them and that quick should have been for their welfare let it become a trap now that's quoted as you well know in Rome and it's quoted in reference to the loss and sense it's in the New Testament I see nothing un-Christian about it I'm fraid these Emperor controller and prayers have been greatly misunderstood when you put him back in the position that they should be put in this is a judgment at least for now and sing upon the loss he says here in verse 25 let there habitation be desolate and lot now and well in their hands that is quoted you remember by Peter in the book of Acts and then move on in verse $26.00 for they persecute him whom thou as smitten and they call to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded and the neck would be under their neck quickly and let them not come into the high righteousness let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous now I have a suggestion to make here you will find it in my book on Revelation when the Lord said something about blood. Adding out the name out of the book alive now that was a warnin a didn't do it and the question arises What do you ever have done the suggestion that I have made it's not original with me at all it's one of the many explanations for that passage and the suggestion is here let them be blotted out of the book of the landing and when you're born you're putting God's Book of the living and I take it that you're made a candidate for salvation and I think when you're blotted out that you've crossed over the line and you're no longer a candidate for salvation and he says and not the written with the righteous I would think that that would be the reasonable explanation of this now there's some closes with all a lot of lowering a song of praise I will pray is the name of God with a song when magnify him with Thanksgiving verse 30 you see he came in humiliation a is coming back in exile Taishan and the only ones that will be in Heaven other redeem and friends there are just 2 kinds of people in the world today lost people save people redeem centers and on redeem sent you can distinguish very easily which one you're in and then always you have this God's poverty of program verse 33 but the law of here is the cooler and he despises it not his prison God is going to bring justice to this earth someday won't be here tally get you now when we come to some 7th day this is some of David. And it's a brief little lovely thing and actually you will find it in the last part the last 5 verses of Psalm 40 and one of the critics says a fragment accidentally here inserted Well I'll agree with the critic if you will take out the word accidentally and it's called a psalm of remember so why is it put here again because my memory is not very good and love knew that now maybe yours is a good memory so God repeated it he said By the time you get him again you'll have forgotten all about some 45 but here's some things to remember my case so God did a lever me make haste to help me a lot I like that and then verse 5 but I'm poor and needy make haste on to me oh god my health my deliverer all laws make no Terry and he just wants me to know he's my helper and he wants me to know that he's for the poor and needy and I come in that class and he's going to be my deliverer and my helper and these that today now you have some 71 here that's an elegy it's a prayer it's called a prayer for old age because 2 verses here speak of that verse 9 casts may not all in the time of all age or sight may not when my strength and this by the way is a good sum for us a new sense I have found that there is some means a little bit more to me today and it did 20 years ago verse 18 again now all so when I am old and gray headed old God 1st sight me not until I've shown by the strength under this generation and by power to everyone that has come now let me say this to senior citizens right now friends don't go into the corner and sit in a rocking chair God hasn't for say can you and right down to your dying days kept you here for a purpose and I'm crying. God I said a lot don't let me sit down in a rocking chair permanently but be sure and give me a rocking chair love the set and one man of my friends where I go there are certain homes I visit actually across this country and certain conferences they have a chair there it's a rocking chair with my name on it and I appreciate that by the way I always drag out a rocking chair while I love a rocking chair but I don't want to stay there all the time I want to be active right on through and that's the thing I've asked God to let me do this is a wonderful son now we come to what is called a psalm bar Solomon and I like the way the new skull thing a bible is put it like that the critic has said Solomon wrote this song I don't think that Solomon wrote this psalm at all it may sound like him but after all he's a son of David and this is David Psalm somebody says how do you know it concludes with Verse 20 the prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended now this is a psalm that concludes this 2nd section which is the Exodus section and in the conclusion of the Exodus section Doug low rate of the Lord hailed a cab or not and this is a some one of god of righteousness and as you go through this you will notice how many times righteousness at the beginning of the King died judgment so God and I righteousness each will judged by people with righteousness and justice and that is the plank in the platform that no candidate has ever had as far as I can tell but the large isas has that Miss platform is going to rain someday and when he does David says My prayers are all ended and through prayer it's all been realized they'd also said back in 2nd Samuel remember he said that this is my salvation when I got to put my son on the throne down here now that's what that some is all about I'll not go into detail we'll begin the 3rd section next time. 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Commercials not available in all states get cashed in. Dot com college students senior citizen your daily walk Christian Radio dot com. Abounding grace with Gary Wagner sponsored by reformed heritage church of San Jose on am 1100. In the midst of depression our adversary the devil would tell us that we are all alone and nobody has experienced the depths of despair that we are experiencing and again that comes straight from the father of lies as we'll see next on a bounding grace with Pastor Gary Wagner. If we haven't gone through it ourselves we will. Probably know person or 2 who's gone through deep depression extreme despair we find ourselves tired of life at that moment but we long for that Calgon take me away a moment with God God take me home I'm done. Yet we find a different answer to this hired this here in Job Chapter 10 and that's what we're examining today please join us here's Pastor Gary Wagner with today's broadcast of abounding grace from reform parents church in San Jose so that we will call upon him so that we will love him so that we will learn to depend totally upon him because he knows if the pressure is off you're going to go to wrack and to Rule one If I take away the pressure and make everything seem Ok like everything is going your way you'll relax and you will give in to temptation or worse you think you're really something because everything seems to be working out for you. Because everything is always working out for us and going just the way we would like it to go. We really need to take inventory of our lives and if things are not going well and we're struggling we also need to take inventory because either way the Lord is teaching us listen you are weak you need to trust me you need to call upon my name. To go back to job we don't need to know what God is do we know with us all we need to remember is that he will do with Aust what is best for us. Because God made us from our parents watery substance. We think we can define the process or understand that process beloved nobody understands it it's a total Mariko every single human being that has been formed by God is a walking Americal Well they think they can explain it. To because you. And I or existence of God That means he's free to do with us whatever he wills my friends and we can either complain bitterly this is unfair I'm sick of this I want an easier life I want my spouse to be more loving and care more about me I want my children to be better I want more money a better job whatever it may be that beloved is not our prerogative because we do it all with ourselves and we don't get the chart our own course God always OS and we all our very existence tell him. Well Joe forgets this a little bit and verses 14 through 17 quite frankly job is completely confused and hit me it's 1st 14 he says Lord if I sin you know it and you want to quit me of my iniquity but in verse 14 he says if I be wicked woe to me if I am righteous even then I'm not going to lift up my head now he's not saying it doesn't matter if I'm way kid or I'm righteous either way on done for that's not what he is saying he is simply saying Lord I know that your righteous and you see all things and you know if I'm sinful Therefore if I am wicked will to me. But on the other hand if I'm right in other words if I'm not guilty of any notorious sin and I'm generally walking before your Majesty what good is even that it. Is a job here stands on the abyss on the brink and he looks at the holiness and the majesty of God and he says what good is my righteousness before you're holding us. He says I'm not going to lift up my head he says Lord you see my afflictions even the ones I don't see. How this reminds me of several passages in Psalms and I want to look at just a couple real quickly and Psalm 2518 David praise look upon my affliction and my pain and forgive all of my sins Psalm 119132 look there upon me and be merciful to me as the used to do and to those who love thy neighbor and then Psalm 119153 consider my affliction and the liver me for I do not for get of I law this is job's confession here and so here is bewilderment. Please look upon if you will smile upon the everything will be Ok. If you have been confused before about the way God has dealt with you in your life why is he treating me like this I don't understand why is this happening to me I'm not a wicked person. We don't have to understand it God says I'm not an internet search engine where you can just type in your question and you get an answer from me in 2 seconds he says most of the time I just want to when you feel the pain and the troubles of life and you feel my pressures coming on you just say Lord smile upon me and it will be Ok you don't need to ask the questions just trust me. That's what's troubling job more than anything else dishonest children it's not as good as it's not as healthy it is Lord if you will just smile on me if you would just look upon me so that I know at some level you are with me and I feel your loving presence it'll all be Ok I can then walk through the valley of the shadow of death all my life if I know that you are with me that your rod and your staff for their calm for even me. So please remember here is the righteous response. When all the props of life are knocked away and when it seems like God has given you a bad to run of things here's the response a godly man makes Lord please see my afflictions and give me relief. That his afflictions are not diminishing verse 16 they are actually increasing he feels like God is hunting him a like a lion he says Lord you've dealt with me in the past so marvelously so more rock illicitly I don't get what's going on now what all of these witnesses are going to me it seems like your wrath is increasing it's not like Job has any new physical problems per se here it's just that he is more and more burdened by everything the longer the time pass and he doesn't hear from God and. Most of the time when life is going tolerably well it's easy for us to think God is just a bigger version of us. He's there you know just to get us out of our scrapes he's there to make sure life just goes smoothly on like we think it should well as you already know that's not the way God is God has a master plan it is a detailed plan for our lives and he is going to sift Doss and he's going to try OS and he is going to prove that he is God and that we are not all that it's easy to say Lord just solvent Lord my life is in your hand when everything's going well. But let it be our health taken away let our children our spouse die or really struggle with something or our income is reduced or liberties are taken away and we suddenly have to become refugees in order to worship God and raise our families in his fear and we cry foul this is unfair 6 Lord how could you do this to me. So please remember when you look at your life you may not see any huge glaring sins but every godly man and a woman like Job will feel in himself that he is guilty of countless sins that he cannot see. So we run to the Lord and we ask for Marcy and he is gracious to gratitude so this must be our response to our trials Lord look upon me be merciful to me you alone are my God my Savior my lord it. Over says $18.00 to $22.00 are terrible. Job's faith here is just a tiny tiny flicker he turns back to what he said in chapter 3 Lord why was I born he said I wish I would have died immediately or verse 19 I wish they would have just carried me from the womb to the tome job is a wee pain saying we love him but we can't walk with him here especially when he says in verse 20 are not my days few ceased then and let me alone. Leave me alone. What if God leaves me alone. If God leaves me alone life becomes a living hell. If God leaves me alone there is no comfort for me anyway I may turn to the bottle or to drugs or to hedonism or whatever it may be but there is nothing for me so we can't walk which job here but we can understand he adored god job love the Lord with all his soul strength and mind. But where is he. Where is that the love of my life. So let's be careful of judging him too harshly because we've not been tested like Job was here. Very few of us in this room have been tested to any extreme but even if we have we have Christ crucified Christ raised and arraigning frosted God's right hand and we have the completed scriptures we have the Holy Spirit in ways that job did not have him so rather than contempt condemned job let's cry with him Lord help me look upon my affliction it's you see at least job here is wrestling with the Lord he hasn't killed himself or just to give an r.p. Hasn't gone to anything to try and do all his pain. Now he does say and verses 21 and 22 people Lord please go ahead and complete your work I am ready to die and this is rough for us to hear but job has hope in the resurrection and will see that coming up and other chapters job is not here a wicked man or talking as an unbeliever. But on one level he says My soul is dark without you life is darkness so go ahead and complete your work my life is chaos disorder go ahead and finish me. Now a job and not been a godly man suicide would have been a viable option but job is a Godly man. And as a godly man he kept crying to the Lord and He does this throughout the book his grief goes too far yes his words go too far but let me tell you this is a lot of desire talking here it is faith the screening for the God that He loves is like David in the song floor where are you I need your help I've gone all these enemies why have you forsaken me don't leave me Lord it's like Peter drowning in the depths of the Sea of his own sins of unbelief and yet crying out to the Lord Lord save me I'm drowning and in some respects it's even our savior in the garden of disseminating the Lord's looking at this cup of pain in judgment and he knows he's going to drink it but he's begging father why this cop why this cup of judgment would you please if it be your will take it away from me if there's any other way to save your elect and fulfill your will and to bring your sheep to myself then to drink this cop yet he still submit to. The job here doesn't pray with this perfect submission. But you know our Lord Jesus was still shaken to the gaps by his trouble us in several places in the Gospel it says that the sorrows of death and the horrors of hell and the pains of death were upon him and he was on hinged that he had to be supported by angels he was terrified of God's dealings with him many knew Isaiah 5310 was calming you have put me to grieve. You have put me to grief father it wasn't pilot it wasn't the Jews they were just the instruments it was God It was the father who laid upon them all of the judgment and wrath for our sins and because we are in Christ and we are God's dop did Psalms God will sometimes bring us to grief. So beloved please expected it would probably won't be as bad as job it may not be everything it wants or it may be but I have known some brothers and saucer sisters who have suffered some pretty horrific things in a very short period of time. So please please remember that you and I always need humbling and chastening and sifting and refining and when God does this he has bigger things going on than just our feelings Joe didn't see this he didn't know that 3000 years later. We would be studying this book with his name on it. And how much profit that we have gotten from Job story because we're following Joe but every bitter step and we know how it all in its job didn't know who are watching this and God is sustaining him job is crying out he goes too far and yet God continues to hold him up and we know he is going to bring him out of the end Oh Ok. So what is our lesson. God is going to bring us through our trials as well the lesson is proverbs $1221.00 there shoulder no evil happen to the righteous. If God doesn't bring something that we think is evil into our lives like Joseph said he'll bring good out of it we have to trust him a lot we have to yield our lives to him and slay Lord do what you will to my children do what you will to my hell do what you will to my job do what you will do with this sin that I'm dealing with all I hated but i'm crying out to you do what you will with my spouse do what you will with my body do what you will with me I'm yours save me so when the Lord goes to sift in us and he will at some level we have to do what Joe did we've got to cry out to him. Let's turn to one last verse and then I'll close Psalm 27. I can't get over the fact that all these things we are studying and job and even though he goes too far sometimes he is still crying to God and this is very much like Psalm 27 or 7. When I cry with my voice Have Mercy also on me and answer me when he said seeking my face my heart said unto you they face the Lord will I see. God says to us at all times us going it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be open. And in this we can be like Joe he says like to see bills roll and I cry out to God lose your job cry out to God suffer persecution cry out to God lose your health cry out to God lose our spouse cry out to God concerned about what's going to happen to you tomorrow cry out to God cry to Him No one in this room has ever cried out their God perfectly but we must cry. How do we know when our little children are in trouble. They don't sit in the room and say hey mommy daddy I just fell off my bed and my head is believing will you come in here when you get the chance and help me Oh that's not the way it is they're screaming call me in here and calm no no do you cry like that give Gawd no Rast my friends that is the life blood of faith give him no rest more if you take my health I'm going to cry out to you that I will continue when tell you he'll let me to it for crying out to him. We're doing what job did God says seek my face and our soul says back to him your face Lord will I seek job survived because of this and we will turn who because of all those who seek the Lord will live. And you can bank on that. Don't bank on having an easy life don't bank on having everything going your way don't bank on being the one to whom God is going to say well you know I'm not really going to test this Christian too much because he's really special and I want him to have an easy life. Remember what Job said there was 2 disciples who said Lord when sitting on your throne and all of your pomp and glory can you allow us to sit on your right hand and your left hand now I don't think this was necessarily a sinful request I don't think that these men were trying to share God's glory. I think they just wanted to bask in his glory So what did Joe Jesus say to them Well it's not mine to give who sits on my right hand or who sits on my left but I'll tell you this unless you're willing to drink the cup that I drink off unless you're willing to carry the cross unless you are completely willing to deny yourself. That is the only way you'll sit with me. And they say Lord we are willing Jesus says you're right you will drink this cop so at some level we're going to get some drops of suffering in this life and it times they may be big gulps for a while we're going to get some testing. As I have said before God will throw faith into the fire. Because he wants to purify us and he wants to refining costs so what are we supposed to do. We are to call upon the name of the Lord he alone my friends is our rock and our salvation he alone is the one who say yes he alone is our God. Amen close. Father we thank you for Job's cries and how instructive they are for us and we pray that you would help us follow his example of calling upon your name wrestling with you we thank you that we have completed word and that you have lifted up our heads and of ascribe to us your righteousness by virtue of your rights this life. We no longer need to be confused you have been Daoud office with faith and persuaded us that you are able to keep that which we have committed unto you against the day of your judgment we fully trust that when you test us and sift offs and chasten us that you are indeed with offs and love us and you will always afflict your children to purify us and perfect OSs for Christ's sake. And that will bring us to the end of our time today here on abounding grace with her teacher and Pastor Gary Wagner from reformed heritage Church in San Jose thank you for joining us today it's our hope and prayer that we've been able to encourage you in Christ and stimulate your walk in him to address questions comments prayer requests or concerns please call or write to us we'd love to talk with you 408-866-5607 is our phone number 408-866-5607 You're also welcome to visit our website drop us an e-mail when you do reform the heritage dot org real simple reformed heritage dot org a lot of information there about who we are we would invite you again to stop by reformed heritage dot org Or if you're writing to us the address is p m b post mailbox for. 2 and The address is 1484 Pollard road Los Gatos California 95032 that address can be found on our website reform heritage dot org Or again simply call 408-866-5607 copies of today's program are just $5.00 mention today's date and we'll get a cd out to you please remember that we are listener supported which means when you link arms with us financially we're able to continue the ministry here on this station it's a great way to study God's word together isn't it and we'd love to continue to do so would you prayerfully consider how God might be leading you to partner with us we'd love to hear from you again what you call 408-866-5607 or reformed heritage dot org Sunday service by the way if you'd like to join us are 2 in the afternoon were located at Lone Hill Church 5055 lone Hill Road in Los Gatos directions can be found at our website reform Terre to start or again Sunday services or at 2 pm further information can be found again at reformed heritage dot org or by calling for away 8 665607 thank you for joining us until next time. 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