After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
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… Number seven. After all this, Job lived 140 years and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations. And then finally, he died. An old man and full of days. Isn't that great? Here we go. Only God can fill our final years with divine music that frees us to live above our circumstances. Only God can fill our final years with divine music that frees us to live above our circumstances. It frees us. freezes. When I have ceased to break my wings against the faultiness of things, wrote Sarah Teasdale, and learned that compromises weight behind each hardly open gate, when I can look life in the eyes grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth and taken an exchange, my youth. Job has truth. Job is freed, freed from the prison of fears freed from the tiny cell of limited thinking and negative attitudes he's freed from grudges he's freed from a works theology he's freed he's free free at last praise God almighty He's free and he lives to over 200 years of age. …
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. So the husband agreed to go just a day earlier and he would meet his wife who would come that day following. …
… And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. 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. we have been fascinated by stories. When we were very young, they were the stories of imagination, a world that seemed larger than life to us, and they all began with the same four words, once upon a time. It didn't matter what time it was, it just, for us, represented a world of kings and queens and princes and knights and fights and love and war and romance and usually marriage and, of course, they all finished the same way. Same six words, they lived happily ever after. Oh, that that were true. We grow up with the same hope deep in our hearts because some of us are sort of like that. We like looking at the brighter side. And so when we build a house, we think it'll be our dream house. And it's not. …
… 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. And yet through you and your precious son, all things in this universe hang together. …
… And their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. 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. Join me in prayer, will you please? we're reminded of the psalm, our father, that says those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. And as we witness the reaping of Job in his joy, we thank you for the memory of the journey. We thank you for your faithfulness to this man of endurance, even when things got terribly thin and the series of tragedies seem only to increase and multiply, you were there. You were there all the time. You faithfully watched over him. Thank you also, Father, for your goodness and equity. You are not unrighteous to forget our work and labor of love. Thank you for rewarding even as you afflicted. there are some today going through a time of testing. The days are thin, the nights seem long, and the hope at times is like the morning fog that quickly passes away. …