A Healing Mindset Job 19:25

Job’s Reply to his Trials, Troubled Counselors ( Bildad the Shoe height), His estranged Wife, entire family that remained and to those of us in Time:

Verses 13- 29

This passage came to me as I was asked to speak. I know my redeemer lives.

Here’s some situational issues in the title:

Trials-he lost everything when Satan came after him. He lost his property. The Sabeans took his oxen and donkeys, killed the servants also, the fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the 8000 sheep. The Chaldeans took his camels killed his camel people. Then his sons and daughters were having a party in the eldest brothers house, a wind came up, the house fell down and killed all of them. You don’t want to be in his shoes. More bad things are to come, even though he had sacrificed and worshipped.

English Standard Version (Chapter 19)

13  “He has put my brothers far from me,and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.14  My relatives have failed me,my close friends have forgotten me.

15  The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;I have become a foreigner in their eyes.16  I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

17  My breath is strange to my wife,and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.18  Even young children despise me;when I rise they talk against me.

19  All my intimate friends abhor me,and those whom I loved have turned against me.20  My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh,and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21  Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,for the hand of God has touched me!22  Why do you, like God, pursue me?Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

23  “Oh that my words were written!Oh that they were inscribed in a book!24  Oh that with an iron pen and lead, they were engraved in the rock forever!

25  For I know that my Redeemer lives,and at the last he will stand upon the earth.26  And after my skin has been thus destroyed,yet in my flesh I shall see God,

27  whom I shall see for myself,and my eyes shall behold, and not another.My heart faints within me!28  If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’

29  be afraid of the sword,for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,that you may know there is a judgment.”

Verse 25 is Job’s confession of faith, before the apostles creed, there was Job 19:25.

A prophetic declaration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross and was buried in a tomb. Jesus did not stay there and Job was going to see him alive.

Matthew Henry said that Job is not a stranger to the revelation of the coming Redeemer. Job was not the only one to see the coming redeemer. One such individual was Abraham:

John 8:56 (KJV 1900)

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Every time you say the verse, “This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.” It is really a gospel bombshell. Boom! It is not just a bright and sun shiny day, it is the day when Jesus revealed himself to Moses, the the day when he revealed himself to me. There is no other day that can take it’s place. This statement is a battle cry! It’s to be used coming out of the trenches to vanquish the enemy! It is a call to battle! Leading the charge we shout”This is the Day the Lord has made!”

I think the people who surround Job are doing nothing more than wanting him to slip up, to mess up, and show them conclusively that he is not perfect. The text in later chapters causes Job to say, “miserable comforters are all of you.” They are named Eliphaz the Temanite, Zophar the Naamanthite, and Bildad the shoe-height…smallest man in the Bible. The Zophar was the name genie in the movie Big with Tom Hanks.

They are looking for that hairline crack in the armor of this mighty man of God. Lord, keep us from those who like the drama, but give us people who are willing to just tell us right where we are at that they love us, they are praying, and I wish you did not have to go through this. Here’s my card. If you need me, call me, text me, or something, and i will come running.

Pastor Jim so clearly presented this teaching on Wednesday night. It is called empathy. Choosing not to try and fix the person you are talking to, but deepening your relationship, with eye contact and saying something like: “ I know that must have been difficult, but we have your back. Job did not find empathy. Jobs wife did not have empathy for her husband by proclaiming “curse God and die”, Kind of proves she did not like his theology. Choose empathy. It is a clear path to tearing down the walls that divide us.

How did job get to this hard place?

Job and Trials

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3 He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

He was great no doubt, a pre flood personality. He also lived in fear of his children doing something against God:

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

This fear gave Satan a place to stand and accuse Job, because the first thing he says against him is”

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

Does Job fear God for no reason? 10 Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”

At this point the Lord gives Satan permission to go after everything he has. Satan just could not have the man. Thy Job? Why not someone else, and why not you and me? God’s people are prepared for leadership through suffering. We are prepared for changing times. and we get prepared for the end times. In order to grow and lead, sometimes we have to go through the trial of fire and come back out of the flames walking closer than ever to the Son of God.

After Satan took away everything and killed his children, Job said,

21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Job 1:21–22.

The Healing mindset is there for your hour of trial.

Out of everything that has gone wrong, I know that my Redeemer lives. The Lord gives and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. That is the thing to think. Then you say, “I know my Redeemer lives,” and you do so with your spine standing at attention!I Know

The Redeemer Himself is the Lord Jesus Christ! Make no mistake about it. He is the only one with the chops to hold that title.

King James Version (Chapter 53)

53 Who hath believed our report?And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,And as a root out of a dry ground:He hath no form nor comeliness;And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

3  He is despised and rejected of men;A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:And †we hid as it were our faces from him;He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4  Surely he hath borne our griefs,And carried our sorrows:Yet we did esteem him stricken,Smitten of God, and afflicted. (this is a title”)

5  But he was wounded for our transgressions,He was bruised for our iniquities:The chastisement of our peace was upon him;And with his stripes we are healed.

6  All we like sheep have gone astray;We have turned every one to his own way;And the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,Yet he opened not his mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,So he openeth not his mouth.

8  He was taken from prison and from judgment:And who shall declare his generation?For he was cut off out of the land of the living:For the transgression of my people was he stricken.

9  And he made his grave with the wicked,And with the rich in his death;Because he had done no violence,Neither was any deceit in his mouth.

10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied:By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;For he shall bear their iniquities.

That means we are healed, present

We could be healed, future

We have been healed, present past

We are recovering

We are freshly healed

WE are on the mend

We are getting salty again

We were healed, the past sacrifice of Jesus.

The pronoun “He” is emphatic in its position so that it is He and no other. We know him. This is Jesus.