Sunday Morning Worship Service

Just remain standing. Grab your Bibles or if you're like Moses, grab your tablets. Just don't throw them down. We're going to go to Job. Job the 9inth chapter. read a few verses here in the ninth chapter of Job. And as you're turning there, allow me to give honor to all of our pastors, our bishop, to all the ministers of this great church, the saints of God. We honor you today. We do have a busy month, a busy summer here, the first day of June. It's been busy already, and we are going to continue doing the Father's business. Our kids quest camp is coming up here in just a few like 10 days I think is when it will be. And so make sure you have your child signed up for that. We're also needing volunteers volunteers to come help us uh with that uh age appropriate hopefully 16 and up uh to help us with that. You can sign up and register your child for Kids Quest Camp on the Church Center app and also to sign up to be a volunteer on there as well. We've got a great speaker this year. Pastor Adam Acres, uh is going to be with us. Uh just elected to be the pastor at First Apostolic Church in Sanford, North Carolina. Uh and so we're we're we're just so excited to have him here with us to minister to our children. It's going to be a wonderful, wonderful time. A busy summer, but a great summer being about our father's business. Job nine, and we're going to begin reading at verse number 25. Now my days are swifter than a post. They flee away. They see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. If I say I forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself. Verse 28, I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent. If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain? I want us to look at verse 30 here. If I wash myself with snowwater, and I make my hands never so clean, yet thou shalt plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhore me. is basically saying if you if I if I wash myself and put myself in a ditch and come up, my clothes are going to be dirty and my clothes will rebuke me, condemn me because I'm dirtier than my clothes. That's what he's saying here. My my clothes shall abhore me. Now, here's where Job wants help. He's speaking of God. For if God is not a man, if he is not a man as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment, neither is there any days. Someone say days, days, betw twix us, between us, that night lay his hand upon us both. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me. Then I would speak and not fear him. But it is not so with me. For he is not a man as I am that I should answer him. Neither is there a dazman between twixed us. I want to preach to you today. Teach probably more than preach the gospel according to Job. The gospel according to Job. We've prayed throughout this service, but I wonder again if you would lift up your hands and just ask the Lord to speak to you or to speak to your neighbor today from his word. Father, we're so thankful for your spirit that is in this room, the ministry of the worship. And I pray Lord that you would continue now as we glory in your word, as we preach the word of God, the inspired, infallible word of God that is re relevant to our days and our lives here right now. And I pray Lord that you would help me, your servant, to speak your words, to your people with the help of your anointing that you might receive all of the glory for it. In Jesus name we pray. Can everyone said amen? Clap your hands one more time to Jesus before you are seated today. Tell somebody, I'm going to help Pastor Nate preach. I don't feel I don't I'm not convinced of that. I don't I'm not real convinced of that. The Gospel according to Job. The book of Job is one of the most interesting books in the Bible. If you're not there yet, you're going to get there in your in your daily reading plan. If you're reading the Bible through from Genesis to Revelation, you're going to be coming up to Job here very shortly. And Job's book, the book about Job, uh provides so much comfort and healing to many of God's people. And uh we can we can read it and realize that it's poetic that it's very uh very uh beautiful in its imagery, but it's also it paints a picture of suffering. Perhaps it is the most comprehensive book on suffering ever written, especially that in the Bible. Some think that the book of Job is only about suffering and endurance. And while that might be true, that's only part of the story. The book of Job is about suffering, but suffering isn't just a philosoph philosophical uh idea to debate and to think about. Suffering is theological. that when you begin to think about suffering or if you're going through suffering, you are faced with theology, which theology is the study of God, and you're dealing with doctrine, and you're dealing with the attributes of God. And you ask questions, why is there suffering? Why is there evil? Why is there all of this turmoil in the world? You don't even have to read Job to to think that, right? Most of us can just simply turn on the news, scroll through social media, and think, why is there so much evil in the world? It seems like violence is at an all-time high. And we can and and suffering and and and tornadoes and uh tsunamis, all the things that come along with the world, we say, "Well, why is there suffering? Why is there evil?" So, so Job is a theological book more than it is about uh the philosophy of suffering. But when we read Job, when we uh come right into the first chapter, we are introduced to him. He's a real man living at a real place at a real place in time. We're at in the uh the story of redemption. We're not sure. Some say probably in the timeline of at least Abraham, probably very early at least. And then not only that, we are ushered into this very uh interesting council that's taking place in the heavenlies. Verses 8- 11 of chapter 1, we see God and this council uh with these with these angelic beings having a meeting of some sort. And the Lord said to Satan, he's been going around, roaming around. And that phrase, Satan, is not a name. It's it's a title that means accuser. Here comes the accuser. And God asks uh Satan, the accuser, "Have you considered my servant Job? There's none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that fearth God and isth evil." Then Satan answered the Lord. Here's his answer about when God said, "Do you, have you considered Job? Have you have you taken him into account in all of your accusations that he's an upright man? He's my servant. He's perfect and upright. He's blameless and he hates evil. And this is what the accuser says. Doth Job fear God for not? Hast thou made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to your face. So here's what the accuser is saying. He's saying Job only serves you because you've protected him. Job only serves you and is blameless and upright because uh you put this hedge around him. He's got things good. But if you remove that, if you take your hand away of these blessings, the comfort, he will curse you. And so God allows Satan to strike him to uh face to face all of these terrible tragedies and takes away his children and his home and business and all these things. And so again, this council meets in the heavenlies and Job 2 and 3 says, "The Lord again says, "Have you considered my servant Job?" Meaning he didn't he didn't curse me like you said he would. I removed the blessing away from him. I removed my hand from him. You attacked him and he still didn't curse you. Have you considered my servant that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, the one that fearth God and shoeth evil, that he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause. Please underline that in your Bible because where we're about to go, I want you to understand this because here again, Satan says, "Okay, now if you let me, if you let me attack his health, he will surely curse you." So God allows him to be cursed in his body, his health. He's stricken with these terrible sores or boils on his body. And here again is this terrible situation, this terrible tragedy. We are met with suffering. And I want you to understand a few things as we are moving along. I know I'm going slow, but I promise we're going somewhere today. Is that Job never knows about this conversation. We understand it. We We are We are reading this removed from the situation. We know about this cosmic meeting of between good and evil that Job never knows about. God never tells him about this at all. God never tells Job, I said you were perfect and blameless and you hated evil and this accuser came and he struck you and he said that he you would curse me and I knew you wouldn't. God never tells Job that. Job is never given the answer for why he suffers the way he does. We understand that. We We read that. We know what's going on. We are far removed from this situation and we can step in and go, "Job, here's why you're going through what you're going through. God believes in you." And the accuser, Satan, thinks you only serve God because of your blessings and your good health. So that's why he attacked you. But Job never sees that. Job is never told that. And here's where we must understand. I'm going slow, but I want I'm trying to help somebody today. Is that you will never get the answers to all of your questions. There are questions that we might have. There are questions that we may never get answered. But here's what we can't do as as believers, as uh saints, as family members. We cannot step into a role like we would with Job and say, "Well, here's why you're going through what you went through, Job. There was this cosmic situation going on. Here's why you went through this. Here's the answer." Job never got that. And we can't do that for Job. He's gone. But we can't come into the place of somebody who's suffering, gone through a terrible loss or going through some terrible illness or sickness or pain. We cannot step in and start telling them why they're going through what they're going through. We don't have the answers. We don't we don't know why. And if we're not careful, we'll try to give an answer to a question that we really don't have any answers to. And what we're trying to do, we're trying, we mean well, and we're introduced to these three friends of Job, and they're called friends or companions. And what's amazing is that Job calls them miserable comforters. We think we're doing the right thing when really we're just miserable comforters. We don't need more miserable comforters. We need somebody who will come around and put their arm around us and say, "Listen, I don't have the answers for why you're going through this. I don't have the answers of why you went through this loss and going through this pain, but I want you to know that God is still in control. And we may never have the answers, but he's still good. Though he slay me, yet will I trust." We must not be miserable comforters. We must not try to posture ourselves as having all of the answers to life's questions. And while the book places an emphasis on Job trusting God, we should not overlook the fact that God trusts Job. We cannot overlook the fact that God spoke the name of Job to an accuser. Have you considered him? Have you considered him? His integrity, his character, his faith. It's not just that we should see that Job should trust God, but we also must realize that there are some things that God entrusts in us to go through because he believes we've got the character, the integrity, and the faith. Oh, I wish somebody was hearing me today that God believes in you. That God has faith in you. Oh, God, help us today. I'm trying to go slow, but I want you to understand we must glory must glory in the character of God that's revealed in the book of Job. Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes. And we might think and here's again let me I'm teaching today is that when we are met face to face with these questions why evil why suffering we can start to try to analyze in a way or we try to understand God and put him in this box that he only acts or does things this way and anything outside of that can't be God. It's outside of his character. Or we come to this think well if there is suffering and there's evil why then there must be no God then because a good God a perfect God a loving God would not allow this to take place. Hold on. Hold on. Suffering suffering is the indicator that something is wrong in the world. suffering, evil. There is a that's an indicator. That's a red flag. That's all all the all the all the lights going off that indicate that there is something broken in the world, right? But where do you get the standard of good? Where do you get the standard of peace and tranquility? You see, if there is brokenness and evil and suffering in the world, that means that we know deep within us there is something better than this. And that is the clue. That is one of the greatest clues that there is a perfect and holy and loving and just God. that there is a standard far above what we are seeing in the world today. What is it? It's not going to be in the government. It's not going to be in the in in the economy. It's not going to be in science or medicine. There is a standard that we are attaining to that I realize is we are coming short of. It's an indicator that something's wrong, broken with the world. And so if we're not careful, we'll try to put God in a box and try to come up with all of these answers to the questions. And here's what Job's friends did. They wanted to analyze his suffering. There must be something wrong. And again, this is the gospel according to Job. This is a theological book. They have ideas about God. His friends Job. They have ideas about God and they can be close but not all the way. And here's what they here's what they begin to do. All three of his friends in one way, shape or form. They began to accuse Job for his suffering. This was popular in the ancient near east. It's called the retribution principle. It means that if you do good, you don't suffer. But if you suffer, you've done bad. This is humanity at its lowest thinking. That if I do good, nothing bad will happen to me. But if I do bad, I deserve all the badness. But you have to understand God doesn't work that way. That's right. The issue is Oh God, I'm trying to say this the right way. If we're not careful, we will try to bring God down to our level. We'll try to bring God down to our level. And if we're not careful, here's what we'll do. That God is only good to me when I do good for him. That is not the God of that Bible. Or or or we'll do something worse than that. will say that God is treating me bad because I'm bad, but Godhead is good all the time. And Jesus said this, it rains on the just and the unjust. It's not the rain. My God have mercy. It's not the rain. It's not the suffering. I want you to understand something today that God is so much greater than we can even realize. He is so much more graceful and loving. Listen, he believed in Job. He wasn't a God, I feel him now. He was not mad at Job. He was not upset with Job. It was not an indicator that Job was a bad person. It's an indicator that there is something wrong in the world. Job did not they were saying you must have some hidden sin. You must not you must have some unrepentant sin. There is something your children did. That's why you're this is why you're going through what you're going through. And if we're not careful, we'll do that to believers. Well, you know what they did 20 years ago? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember that. Yeah. God's coming. Yeah. He careful. Careful. It's not an indicator. You You got some kind of hidden sin or some unrepentant. They're close. Understand? They're close. They're right to an they're correct to an extent that sin is a problem. Let me read you I want to read you a quote here. I want because I want you I want to help you here. One of the greatest books that I've read. I've read it I can't tell you how many times I've read it. It's called The Reason for God by Tim Keller. Tim Keller wrote this. He said, "Suffering is not always the result of some personal sin, but it is always the result of living in a fallen world. Hear me now. Job didn't have a hidden sin. He was living in a sinful world. When sin came into the world through the fall of Adam and Eve, it introduced the brokenness. It help it it brought us low. It created a chasm between us and God, the earth and heaven. between us, we see that there is something pure, something without blemish, something without fault, but it's not here. And so suffering isn't always an indicator that you have sinned, but it's always an indicator that we're in a fallen, broken, sinful world, that all of creation moans and groans for the coming of the sons of God. My God, I'm going somewhere. I promise. But I want you to understand something. Please understand something. God is love, not God is mad. I'm afraid some of us have got such a low view of God that you think God is up in heaven right now with a sledgehammer in his hand just waiting on you to do something bad. Or you think God is moody. And just because you had a bad day means God's had a bad day. Just because you had a bad day does not mean God is any less good or any less loving. I want you to know that his mercies do not run out at the end of the day, but they're renewed every morning. So when you have a bad day, you got another day coming where his mercies saying, "Come on, I still love you. Come on, I still care for you. I'm still your provider. I'm still your deliverer. I'm still your Come on, somebody. He's not trying to strike you dead. He's trying to get you to alive. He's trying to get you to glory. He's not trying to send you to hell. He's trying to get you to heaven. My God have mercy. My God have mercy. He loves you more than you can even think. He's a bad bad father. No, he's not. He's a good father. There is no father. I know I'm way off my notes right now, but I feel the Holy Ghost. A father loves to give good gifts to his children. A good one. My little girl, I love to get her gifts. You're going to spoil her. I'll risk it. I'd rather be I'd rather shower her down with love. I'd rather shower her down. I want her to know every day, I love you. You're the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. You're the prettiest girl in the world. You're the smartest thing I've ever encountered in my entire life. Careful. She might get a what? A good life. We got too many deadbeat dads in this world. We need some good fathers who'll tell their children. Come on. You should not withhold love from your kids. And I'm this not a parenting conference, but I'm telling you, your father in heaven loves you that much. How much more will your father give you good gifts? He won't. He's not going to give you a scorpion. He's not going to give you a stone. All you got to say is, "Father, Abba, I love you." And he loves you. He is not withholding love from you when you have a bad day. He wants to give you love every day. Someone say amen. Somebody lift up your hands right now and love him. Oh God, I feel him today. We need a revelation of our good father Jesus. Jesus. Going fast. I promise. Is this all right? You okay? Oh God, it is sin in this world. This is what he says. Job says in verse 30, "If I wash myself," He knows. Job knows he's he knows he's not perfect. You We We need a revelation that we're not perfect. Some of y'all act like you got angel dust. As the pastor says, it's dandruff. You were not born with a halo. There are some horns in there somewhere holding them up. He if I wash myself with snow water or other translations say lie soap which was some of some of the strongest soap you can find at that time. He said if I just scrub my house and make myself so. You ever got anything on your hands? We got some mechanics in the house. You see some mechanics and they got they got grime in their hands. It's because they've been working with all the all the parts and the oil and and all the grease and they have this strong soap and it still has the black under their fingernails and in their in their hands. That's what he's saying here. I can wash myself. I can wash myself and I'll still not be clean enough. Understand something. Selfrighteousness will not save you either. self-righteousness. If I'm if I do this and if I do that, here's my checklist and I if I do this and I do that. Our righteousness, Isaiah said, is as filthy. I can try to do all of my spiritual calisthenics. I can go through all my checklist. Pray, fast, read my Bible, dress right, do this, don't do that, don't go there, don't say this. You can do that's not gonna save you because if that would work, we didn't need a savior. I'm going somewhere. And he plunged me in a ditch and my own clothes shall abhore me. Look at verse 32. Here's where I'm going. For he is not a man as I am that I should answer him that we should come together in judgment neither is there day a daysman between us or betw twix us that might lay his hand upon us. This is what he's saying. This is what Job's saying. God is so holy. He is so pure. He is so good. He is so great. He is so wonderful. And here I am trying to scrub myself and do all of these things and heal myself and cleanse myself and I'm still dirty. I'm still dirty. Come here, Alex. Come here, brother Keith. I know you. Can you help me? Can you both help me real quick? Keith, you're going to be God. Is that all right? You sit over here. It's God. He's holy. Good. Now, let me tell you this. This is one of the greatest men I know. This is one of the greatest men. I' I've known him for a long time. And this one of the greatest men I know. It's God. Holy, pure, righteous, wonderful, good. And here I am. Come over here, Alex. Oh, just a little further away here. We're We're And this is another great man right here. If I needed anybody, I'd call Alex and he'd be there. He'd be there yesterday. But he's going to be Job. Dirty, sinful Job. humanity. God is so holy and pure and good, wonderful, and here I am a sinner, broken, frail, weak. I can't clean myself up. I can't pick myself up by my own bootstraps. I I'll never get to that. He said, if he's not a man, God is not a man. He doesn't understand my brokenness. He doesn't understand my weakness. He doesn't understand my suffering. He doesn't understand my plight. He doesn't understand my sin. He doesn't understand loss. He's a He's not a man. He doesn't understand sickness. He doesn't understand hurt. He doesn't understand. He's not a man. He's God. And here I am in my brokenness and my frailty and my suffering and my sin and my pain and all of my disease. I there's nothing. What I need is a daysman. The word days means mediator. Job says, "If there if he was a man, now if God was a man, then we can settle this. I I'd have somebody to understand. We can get a mediator and he's a man. I'm a man. We can come together. And if there was a if there was a lawsuit, we can we can mediate this situation. But this is God. God doesn't understand my position. God doesn't understand my suffering. God doesn't understand what I'm going through. He's not a man. He's God. And here I am, broken, frail, weak, all the things." And I there's nobody between us. Come over here, Keith. He said, "I need a Is there I need somebody who's God enough to represent his holiness, righteousness, goodness, and love to me." You hear me? And I need somebody man enough to represent all of my sin, my pain, my struggles, my suffering. I need somebody like that to represent me to God. If there was just a dazman, if there was just an advocate, if there was just a mediator who could come in between the two of us, if somebody could represent God to humanity, and if somebody could represent humanity to God, you know what we need? We need somebody who can come here and lay his hands on God. and we need somebody to come in and lay their hands on humanity and represent each other. But he's not a man as as we are. He's not a God's not a man. God's not a man like we are. He doesn't understand suffering. He doesn't understand sickness. I want you to know, Job, that in the fullness of time, God was born of a woman made under the You're not hearing me right now. I need a daysman. I need somebody who can help me. I need somebody who can represent God to man. And I need somebody to represent man to God. Job, let me tell you. Throw up throw up second Timothy 3. That first one there. You got it. And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest And I need I need somebody I need a daysman. I need somebody. I need God to come to my level. I need God to come to my plight. I need God to come to where I am. God have mercy. Great was the mystery. God was manifest in the flesh. Go back to chapter number one. For there is one mediator between God. There's one daysman between God and men. He's not a man that as I am. He's God. He'll never understand me. But he was became the man Christ Jesus. And he came to lay his hand on humanity and deity and bring us to I want to let you know I want to let you know that God was manifest in the flesh. [Music] Come on. He understands what you're going through. We have a high priest who can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. Stay with me. I'm almost done. Get ready. He created the waters as God, but as man, he thirsted on the cross. He created the grain and the flour as God, but as man, he hungered. As God, he hungers nor slumbers. But as man, he was asleep on a boat in the midst of a storm. But as God, he got up on the bow of that boat and said, "Peace, be still." Why? No man spake as this man. You let me let me tell you why. Because he was God manifest in the flesh. He was God. Emmanuel, God with us. Stand to your feet. He'll never understand me. He'll never understand the loss of a child. For God so loved the world, my God, that he gave his only begotten son, Job, you need a daysman. And he came some 3,000 years later and he did what man couldn't do. There was no man, oh, God have mercy, who could represent themselves to God. It wasn't the sacrifices. It wasn't the bulls. It wasn't the lambs. It wasn't the altar. It wasn't the the incense. There was nothing there. That was just a shadow. It's It's only going to work temporarily. But God said, "Let me tell you, I'm not going to let I'm not going to I'm not going to let these sacrifices and these rituals and these ceremonies do something that I can do on my own." And so God robed himself in flesh. God manifest himself in flesh as the man Christ Jesus to come to do what we could not do on our own. He came to represent divinity to humanity and humanity to divinity. And he ever he lives ever ever liveth to make intercession for us. So right now as the man Christ Jesus while you are suffering while you are going through what you are going through and you've got questions and you've got more doubts than you've got faith I want you to know that there is a high priest in Jesus Christ who is interceding on your behalf in glory. He is represent how how is he doing that? He's doing that because he became a man. And as man, he suffered. As man, he hurt. As man, he felt sadness. As man, he felt rejection. As man, he felt all of that. And now as the ascended Christ, he is as he is operating in the office as a high priest for us being able to do what we cannot do on our own. He is representing our problems, our suffering, our needs, our hurts, our disappointments to the father on our behalf. And he does it continually. How much does God love you and me enough to come and do what we couldn't do on our own? And you think you think he's wanting to bring judgment down on you, honey? He brought judgment down on himself at Calvary. The book of Job points us to to the cross. I'm I'm suffering for my sin. Suffering because the world's broken. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But the one who knew no sin, the one who was without sin, the one who did not commit any sin, the one who was tempted at all points but without sin. unjustly took our place. So we who are sinful and unrighteous could become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Now let me I'm going to give you you start playing. You can start playing. But this is I want you to understand. When you suffer and you come short of the glory of God, if you are in Christ Jesus, if you have been made a new creation, you're God. Right? So for sake of illustration here, this is Job. I'll be Jesus. Okay? Take that as lightly as possible. But God doesn't see your sin. He sees the cross. He doesn't see your faults and failures. He sees his righteousness. And so when the Listen to me now, so when the accuser comes, he doesn't love you. You've come too far. He'll never forgive you. He He'll never restore you when he when this the accuser does that. If he do he'll do that to Job, he'll do that to you. I want you to understand something. It's the cross. It's Christ that is standing in. God doesn't see that in you because you're his and he sees the blood of Christ over your He did what you could not do to how much does he love us enough to leave the portals of glory and submit himself to this body. How much does he love you? He loves you so much. I don't have the words, the vocabulary to begin to even explain it to you. Job needed a daysman and didn't get it. But you and I have got one here today. I'm going to open up the altars here in a second. I'm going to do a couple things here. We're going to open up the altar for everybody, but there are there are a plethora myriad of needs in the room. Number one, you might need a revelation of the love of God. And you feel guilty and condemned all the time that you're not going to live. You're not good enough. Brothers and sisters, none of us are. But Christ died for you. Christ came into the world to save sinners, not saints. He came to heal the broken, not those who are whole. And I've got news for you. There's nobody in here who's whole. We're all broken. The next thing is this. Maybe you've got questions why you're going through what you're going through. Maybe you're facing disease, pain, got a bad diagnosis. I don't have the answers, but he does. I'm going to point you to the daysman today that he wants to bring comfort to you. In John, Jesus said this. He said, "I'll send the comforter." In Greek, it's playertos. We say comforter. KJV, I think, says helper. Other translations says advocate. This word, this is what this Greek word means. It means to come alongside. That's what that word means. You know what God wants to do for somebody? He wants to come alongside your suffering today. He wants to come alongside your hurting today and comfort and help and heal. If you need that, he's here today. Maybe you need saving. You need salvation today. I want you to know if you will put your faith in Jesus Christ, if you will confess him as your savior and lord and repent of your sins and be buried with him in baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, we are promised the gift of the Holy Ghost. He will come not just come alongside you as a comforter, but he will come along inside of you as the gift of the Holy Ghost. Would you come right now? Any one of those needs, I want you to come. I want you to know the daysman is here. The comforter is here. The mediator is here. He's still delivering. He He's come to deliver. He's come to heal. He's come to comfort. Today, I want you to come I want you to come with your hands lifted. I want you to come with your voice [Music] lifted. Come on. This is the gospel. This is the gospel. This is the gospel according to Job that God did what we could do. He came to do what we could do. And he wants to do it for somebody today. Oh, he made a way out of bondage and darkness. He made a way out of desertence and rivers. You're making a way. is going to make way. You're making a way out of You're making a way out of making a way out [Music] of You're making a way. You're making a way. He's making a way. You're making a way out of me. [Music] You're making a way out of bondage. You're going making a way out [Music] of making a way. You're going to make a way. Cuz if I know one thing, God is a deliverer. If I know one thing, a God is going to see us through. If I know one thing, our God is a deliverer. If I know one thing, our God is going to see us. He'll see us. [Music] Job called his friends miserable comforters. I want to be a church that knows how to comfort those who are hurting. I'm glad to be a part of a church that knows how to comfort the hurting. I've seen this church rally around people going through sickness or loss because that's what we're called to do. And so here's what I want us to do. There are some praying by themselves right now, but I wonder if somebody could come along some alongside somebody and lay their hands on somebody and maybe just pray a prayer of encouragement or pray a prayer of comfort. I'm not trying to say you're trying to explain why they're going through what they're going through, but instead say, you know what? God is a comforter. He's a helper. He's an advocate. And he can comfort you today. He can bring you some peace today that I can't. Come on. Will you pray with somebody right now? Would you lay your hands upon somebody right now? There is a great deliverance. There is a great healing. There is a great peace in this house. We're not going to be miserable comforters, but we're going to be comforters that are empowered by the spirit, which is the comforter. Come on. There are those who are going through some hurting. There are those who are going through some things I might not be able to explain, but I can pray for you and I can speak words of encouragement and I can speak words of comfort to you. I can come alongside you. Come on. You're making a way. Oh, you're making a way out of deserts and rivers. You're making a way out of bondage and darkness. You're making a way out of desence and rivers. You're making a way like God's going to make a way. You're making a way. [Music] You're [Music] always making me out of your hand. God is a deliverer. If I know one thing, God is going to see us through. If I know one thing, our God is a deliverer. If I know one thing, our God is going to see us. He'll see us through. I might not know everything, but I know that he's a deliverer, that he's a comforter, and that he's for me, and he's not against me. Could we give Jesus some praise right now? Oh, yes.