After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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… No one can be compared to God when it comes to blessing. The Lord restored the fortunes, verse 10 of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The Lord increased all that Job had twofold. Had his brothers and sisters and his family come back. They all gave him money. Verse 12, the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. 13, he had seven sons and three daughters. He names them, and the blessing falls even on the daughters as well, I'm sure, as the sons. No one can be compared to God when it comes to blessings. Did you miss the words? The end of verse 9, mark it. The Lord accepted. Beginning of verse 10, the Lord restored. End of verse 10, the Lord increased. of verse 12, the Lord blessed. Those are words of grace accepted, restored, increased, blessed. Now let me warn you of something, because you're conditioned as I have been for so many years of my life, you're conditioned in this cynical world because of the fallout of our cynical society. …
… Therefore, I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes. Verse 10, the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. Verse 12, the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. Verse 16, after this, Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations. And Job died, an old man and full of days. chuck title today's message what job teaches us about our god it's amazing how miscommunication can lead to misunderstanding. This is especially true when what is being communicated winds up in the hearing of the wrong person. I thought of that just this past week when I came across the story of a Minneapolis couple who were there in February, and it was raw, and it was frigid and they decided they would enjoy a long weekend together in Florida. Under the sun and relaxing at the beach. The problem was both of them worked and so getting a schedule that coordinated was a tough thing to do. …
… Somebody in the first service wanted to know, do we bury Job today? Job 42, verse 10, the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. all his brothers and all his sisters, and all who had known him before came to him. And they ate bread with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money and each a ring of gold. The Lord blessed the latter years or the latter days of Job More than his beginnings And he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels And 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys And he had seven sons and three daughters He named the first Jemima, the second Keziah And the third Karenhapuk In all the land, no women were found so fair as Job's daughters. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. …
… Look at verse 10. And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job. When he prayed. Not until. I got the word when circled in a bright blue in my Bible. When he prayed for his friends, the Lord restored the fortunes. And the Lord increased all that Job had. Twofold. Isn't that just like him? I told you he was the best at justice. All these long, sleepless nights and restless, painful days. all of the sermons he's had to sit through and listen to from these clowns that have been acting like they're representing truth and their judgmental spirit. And now Job, broken in his own repentance, having his face lifted up on behalf of his friends, his friends restored because of the mercy. And now grace on top of grace, he looks up and the Lord says hey Joe come here it's gonna be twice as good boils are gone I mean why not he made us so is all it takes and he blows them away and he gets his health back and he gets his home back and he gets his property back and he finally gets his family back his grace here so he doesn't get twice as many kids he gets It's the same number of kids, 10. …
… the Lord told him, and the Lord accepted Job. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. chuck titled today's message finally justice rolls down there is something wonderfully satisfying about justice. We love it when right is rewarded and when wrong is punished. No one is better at either than the living God who is all fair and all knowing. When his justice rolls down, it is always right. One of the reasons Christians love to learn about future things is a part of the future things deals with rewards that are promised God's people. Those rewards are sometimes specified for us in prophetic books of the Bible. For example, there are crowns that are promised, the faithful. Not just one or two, but there are five specific crowns, and they make quite a study when you go into the New Testament and learn of the rewards that God has for his own people as we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, which is set forth in the third chapter of 1 Corinthians. …
… Verse 10. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. Verse 12, the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. Verse 16, after this, Job lived 140 years. and saw his sons and his grandsons four generations. And Job died an old man and full of days. My Father, we have often turned to you in times of need. We turn to you today in a few extra moments of praise. We have given you our songs of praise today. We have acknowledged your character. You are immortal, invisible. the only wise God. You are, because of your transcendent yet invisible presence, you are over all our lives and in all our ways and you, like none other, watch over your own and care for us with an infinite care that is beyond our imagination. You never slumber. You never take a nap. You never sleep. You're never preoccupied. Your mind is never on something other than each one of your children. …
… Somebody in the first service wanted to know, do we bury Job today? Job 42, verse 10. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. Then all his brothers and all his sisters, and all who had known him before, came to him. And they ate bread with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money and each a ring of gold. The Lord blessed the latter years or the latter days of Job more than his beginnings. and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys. And he had seven sons and three daughters. He named the first Jemima, the second Keziah, and the third Karenhapuk. In all the land, no women were found so fair as Job's daughters. And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. …
… And the Lord accepted Job. The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. Pray briefly with me, will you? May we bow together? Father, we've rarely even used the word forever as it relates to anything on this earth. So temporary is a part of our lives, but the eternal remains a rare commodity. We've sung several times this morning and we've heard sung back to us that your kingdom is forever. it's a privilege and it's an honor. It's a choice distinction to be numbered in your forever family, a part of your forever plan, doing the work of your forever will. Forgive us, our Father, for the wasted efforts and the spent hours worrying over the temporary, concerning ourselves with things that lack the dimension of forever. Thank you for catching us up short this morning with that thought. Thank you for the faithfulness of this man we have been visiting with through these weeks. …
… And then finally he learned the sympathy of God. The book ends this way, Job 42, verses 10 through 13. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And God will turn your captivity too, friend. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before. Then came unto him all his brethren and all his sisters and all that had been his acquaintance before and did eat bread with him in his house. and they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. Every man also gave him a piece of money and every one an earring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. For he had 14,000 sheep, that's twice as many. 6,000 camels, that's twice as many. And 1,000 yoke of oxen, that's twice as many. 1,000 she-asses, that's twice as many. But watch this. He had also seven sons and three daughters. …