Sermon for March 24th, 2019

Job 19:13-25 (Neal's translation, with deference to C.L. Seow's

13 My family bonds he has severed;    I'm a stranger to ones who were close.
14 My kin-folk and friends are all gone;    I'm forgotten guests in my home.
15 Even the house-maids don't know me;    In their eyes I'm an outsider now.
16 I call to my servant, but he's silent;    crying, I beg him to come.
17 My spirit is strange to my wife;    and I long for the children I've lost. 
18 Even the foolish revile me;    when I rise up they ridicule me.
19 My closest counselors dismiss me;    those dearest to me turn away.
20 This flesh hangs loose upon bone;     by the skin of my teeth I am left.
21 Have sympathy--have sympathy--my friends!  For the fist of the Lord strikes me down.
22 Why do you hound me (as He does),    unhappy to feast on my flesh?
23 If only my words were written!    A witness inscribed for the world
24 With iron and lead engraved;     eternally etched in stone!
25 For I know my redeemer lives:    The Last One--he will rise on the dust. 

Two Preachers and a Trucker: Redeemer

CALVIN:

(final word) JOB: