6-12-2016 Weekly Message

This week’s meditation: Psalms 16: 1-11

Scripture: Job 14: 1-22

Title: Blessed hope, revealed fully for us

           We give thanks to the Lord once again for the grace given unto us so much great through the confession of Job, who lived four thousand years before the gospel of Christ is revealed.

          He confessed of the life of man that is as a few days, and full of trouble. And man comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not to se the judgment of God. He also testified of the heart of man as unclean so that clean thing cannot enter into his heart. And there is no one that knows the day when he dies, but upon the appointed time set by God; he is destined to depart the earth all of sudden.

          He looked up at the trees finding out of them that have hope; even if they are cut down, they will sprout again, and the tender branches thereof will not cease. And he grieved of man how much he is made in vain: “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.“(Job 14: 10-12)

       Finally, he prayed to God with his supplication:” O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.“(Job 14: 13-15

          Job prayed with another supplication unto the LORD God confessing himself as a sinner : ” 16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. “(Job 14: 16-17)

           Job confessed of man as nothing including himself before God: “And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope o man. Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.“(Job 14: 18-22)

          God planned to send his only begotten Son to the world in the future and to let him preach the all the truth that men should know about. And God called out Job who was perfect and upright, and feared God, and avoided evil. God led him the worst miserable situation, and let him ask through his mouth of the things that men eagerly wanted to know about. God had chosen Job who  understood himself as a miserable sinner in the age when no law of God was given so that no one was of guilty feeling against the law. God let him testify of the judgment against sinners.

      He continued to confess: “And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?,,,, 10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

…. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? “(Job 17:15; 19:10; 27: 8)? 

         After Thousand of years had been passed by sine Job passed away, The LORD God anointed his servant, King David, and had him testify of the hope of man:  “The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.“(Psalm 16 : 5-11)

          The LORD God revealed of the truth that man can  rest in the hope of resurrection even after death of body through the Holy Ghost within King David. David testified of the reason why he could rest in the grave, for he should not go into the hell trusting in the LORD God; he understood that the Christ to come in the future shall die for the sin of the world, and his body shall not be corrupted, and he shall cast all his sins into the hell. He rejoiced for the eternal life to be given by the Lord, and for his life at the right hand of God forever more. He also confess, his hope is in the words of God(Ps. 119:49). Therefore his only hope was to be changed like Christ (Ps. 17:15)

            Finally, the Christ that he had waited appeared in the name of Jesus. He gave the words of the way that solves the issues of sin and curse and death for all men regardless the Jews or Gentiles. He is the One that created heaven and earth with his word; and he made light with the  word saying, “Let the light is! He spoke unto Martha in front of the grave of Lazarus when his body had already corrupted for four days. Actually he spoke his word unto all men in the world:  “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? “(John 11: 25-26) He spoke these words once again::”  Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? “(John 11:40)

           That’s right! Moment to believe the word of God who created the heavens and the earth is made up as soon as he said that to see the glory of God. Even now it would be the moment to see the glory of God for them that believe in the Word of God. The glory of God is eternal life in the Spirit. The eternal life that is within believers is the proof that all sins are forgiven, and also the liberation from all the curses and death. From then on, our hope is the hope of the resurrection in the word of God.

           All the Christians are able to live in joy in the hope of resurrection. Apostle Paul of the difference of the glory of resurrection one to another:

 ” There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. “(I Corinthians 15:41)

       The old persecuted Christians who lived in the midst of persecution with joy to receive better resurrection. Apostle Paul testified of them as the heroes of faith:  “Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection“(Hebrews 11: 33-35)

          Bless the Lord God for us to wait   for the glorious appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ that is blessed hope and the great God and our Savior. (Titus 2:13) Amen! Hallelujah!