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style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt: 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt 1.5pt'> <div> <p><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot;OUR RECORD IS ON HIGH&quot; (Job 16:19)</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p><span style='font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";color:black'>April 25<sup>th</sup>, 2010</span><span style='font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>Int. Job described his comforters as being <b><u>&quot;miserable comforters</u></b>.&quot; </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>(Job 16:2)</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>1. His so-called comforters only made matters worse for Job. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. <b><u>(Job 16:8) </u></b>&quot;And <b><u>thou hast filled me with wrinkles</u></b>, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>2. They had smitten him upon the cheek. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Job 16:10)</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>3. <b><u>Job was saying</u></b>: &quot;Even now, when I am so greatly misunderstood on earth, God in heaven is sensible of my innocence</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I. <u>RECORDS ARE SOMETIMES NOT BELIEVED TO BE TRUE.<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. <u>SUCH WAS THE CASE WITH THE PHARISEES</u>.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>1. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(John 8:13) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;The Pharisees therefore said unto him,<b><u> Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>2. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Job 16:20).</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'> Hebrew, &quot;are my scorners&quot;; more forcibly, &quot;my mockers  my friends!&quot; A heart-cutting paradox God alone remains to whom he can look for attestation of his innocence; plaintively with tearful eye, he supplicates for this.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>B. <u>RECORDS OF ALL KINDS ARE KEPT BY MEN ON EARTH</u>.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>1. Record snow falls, rain, temperature, etc. For many years.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>2. Record of volcano s, earthquakes, etc.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>3. Voting records, etc.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>4. Hospital records, etc----Dental records.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>II. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>THE SCRIPTURES ARE A RECORD TO BE BELIEVED.</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>1. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(John 12:17)</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'> &quot;The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, <b><u>bare record</u>.&quot;<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>2. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(John 19:35) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;And <b><u>he that saw it bare record, and his record is true</u></b>: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>3. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Rom 10:2)</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'> &quot;For <b><u>I bear them record </u></b>that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. <strong><u>J. F. &amp; B. </u></strong>Says: &quot;For <b><u>I bear them record--or, &quot;witness</u></b>, &quot; as he well could from his own sad experience.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>5. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(2 Cor 1:23)</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'> &quot;Moreover <b><u>I call God for a record upon my soul</u></b>, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>6. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(2 Cor 8:3) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;For to their power, <b><u>I bear record</u>, </b>yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. &quot;God's grace resulted in willingly giving beyond their natural means. Their giving involved first giving of themselves to the Lord. The result of giving themselves was giving in every other area - this was the message of Romans 12:1ff. Paul equates giving of one's self with giving of one's material wealth to the Lord. (Faith cannot be separated from Christian works, and in this case, Christian faith is equated with giving.)&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>7. <b><u>(Gal 4:15) </u></b></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? For <b><u>I bear you record</u>, </b>that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Little Gleaner 1862</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>A man very lame, was a little to blame</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>To stray from his humble abode;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Hot, thirsty and tired, he gently retired, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>And sat himself down by the road.</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>While thus he reclined, a man who was blind </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Came by and entreated his aid:</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>&quot;Deprived of my sight, unassisted tonight,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>I shall not reach home, I'm afraid.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>&quot;Intelligence give of the place where you live,&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Said the cripple, &quot;Perhaps I may know it;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>In my road it may be, and you'll carry me, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>It will give me much pleasure to show it.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>&quot;Great strength you have got. Which alas I have not.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>In my legs so fatigued every nerve is; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>For the use of your back, for the eyes which you lack, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>My pair shall be much at your service.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Said the other poor man, &quot;What an excellent plan! </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Pray get on my shoulders, good brother; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>I see all mankind, if they are but inclined, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>May constantly help one another.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>8. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Phil 1:8) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;For <b><u>God is my record</u>, </b>how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Rom 1:9)</u></b> &quot;God is my witness.....&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. <b><u>Calvin says:</u></b> &quot;<b><u>The Godly will call God for a witness</u></b>, for perjury is a sport to the ungodly, while the pious dread it more than a thousand deaths; inasmuch as it cannot be, but that where there is a real fear of God, there must be also a reverence for his name.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>9. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Col 4:12-13) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. {13} <b><u>For I bear him record</u>, </b>that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea and them in Hierapolis.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>10. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(1 John 5:7) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;For <b><u>there are three that bear record in heaven</u></b>, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>11. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(1 John 5:10) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; <b><u>because he believeth not the record </u></b>that God gave of his Son.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";color:black'>See Sermons of Rolfe Barnard. (Vol 2) (S-13-4) Pg 32 &quot;The Record of God's Revelation to sinful men.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family: "Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>12. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(3 John 1:12)</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'> &quot;Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and <b><u>we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>13. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Rev 1:2) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;<b><u>Who bare record of the word of </u></b>God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";color:black'>a. <b><u>Horatius Bonar</u></b>: &quot;<b><u>Who bore record of the word of God</u></b>. It is the same JOHN who said, 'In the beginning was the Word,' that now is written to by his Lord. He who testified of his Lord on earth now testifies of Him as He sits in heaven. And we know that his testimony (record) is true. The Word spoken of in the Gospel, and the Word revealed in the Apocalypse, are one </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Rev 9:13)</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";color:black'>; both of them revealing wonderfully the Son of the Father, the one in His grace, and the other in His glory. <b><u>To believe this 'record' is to become a son of God</u></b>; for it is faith that introduces us into the heavenly family. <b><u>He who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>III. <u>CONSIDER THAT GOD KEEPS OUR RECORD ON HIGH</u>.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>Luther renders this</u></b>, &quot;<b><u>and he who knows me is on high</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>Job s friends (so called) scorned him</u></b>. <b><u>(Job 16:20)</u></b> <b><u>while his eyes poured </u></b>out tears unto the Lord.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>&quot;True friends are like diamonds,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Precious but rare,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>False friends are like autumn leaves,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Found everywhere.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. Job s conscience was clear:</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>(Job 13:3) </u></b>&quot;Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. <b><u>Job was saying</u></b>: &quot;Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>IV. <u>THIS RECORD INCLUDED JOB S FRIENDS TOO.<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. <u>THE LORD KNOWS ALL ABOUT OUR FRIENDS AS WELL AS ABOUT US. <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Job 16:20) </u></b>&quot;<b><u>My friends scorn me</u></b>: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>He who has a thousand friends </span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Has not a friend to spare, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>And he who has one enemy </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt; color:black'>Will meet him everywhere. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>J. R. Miller</u></b>: &quot;Few objects are of such vital importance to young people as the character of their early friends. Tourists among the Alps climb the mountains tied together with ropes, that they may help each other. But sometimes one falls and drags the others down with him! So the friends to whom the young attach themselves will either help them upward to fairer beauty and excellence or drag them down to blemished character, and perhaps to sullied purity.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>(Job 2:11) </u></b>&quot;Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. <b><u>(Job 42:8) </u></b>&quot;Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and<b><u> my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept</u></b>: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. <b><u>(Job 17:5)</u></b> &quot;<b><u>He that speaketh flattery to his friends</u></b>, even the eyes of his children shall fail.&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>5. <b><u>William Arthur Ward</u></b>, American newspaper editor, writer said: &quot;Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. <b><u>Encourage me, and I will not forget you</u></b>.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>6. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Job 19:14) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>&quot;My kinsfolk have failed, and <b><u>my familiar friends have forgotten me.&quot;<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>7. <b><u>(Job 19:19) </u></b>&quot;<b><u>All my inward friends abhorred me</u></b>: and they whom I loved are turned against me.&quot;</span><span style='font-size: 13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>B. <u>JOB SIMPLY WANTED A LITTLE PITY.<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>1. </span><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>(Job 19:21) </span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"; color:black'>&quot;Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my <b>friends; </b>for the hand of God hath touched me.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>(Job 6:14) </u></b>&quot;<b><u>To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend</u></b>; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>3. <b><u>(Job 6:27) </u></b>&quot;Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and <b><u>ye dig a pit for your friend.&quot;<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>4. Our Lord was termed &quot;<b><u>a friend of publicans and sinners</u></b>!&quot;<b><u> (Luke 7:34)</u></b>, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>C. <u>JESUS WAS ACQUAINTED WITH SUCH FRIENDS</u>.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Psa 41:9) </u></b>&quot;Yea, <b><u>mine own familiar friend</u></b>, <b><u>in whom I trusted</u></b>, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:4.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. <b><u>F. B. Meyers</u></b>: &quot;It is supposed by some David wrote this Psalm during that four years in which Absalom's conspiracy was being hatched.&quot; </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:4.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>b. But being a Messianic Psalm; it speaks of Judas.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>V. <u>THE LORD LOOKS AT OUR RECORD AND THEN TAKES APPROPRIATE ACTION. </u></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>A. <u>GOD KNOWS HOW TO TAKE CARE OF OUR SO-CALLED FRIENDS. <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Job 32:3) </u></b>&quot;Also<b><u> against his three friends </u></b>was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:4.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>a. They had found no evidence or proof of Job s guilt. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>(Job 42:7) </u></b>&quot;And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, <b>My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends</b>: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>B. <u>JOB S RECORD WAS CLEAN AND GOD REWARDED HIM FOR IT. <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Job 42:10) </u></b>&quot;And the LORD turned the captivity of Job,<b><u> when he prayed for his friends</u></b>: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>C. <u>JESUS WARNED THAT FRIENDS SOMETIMES TURN ON YOU.<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(Luke 21:16)</u></b> &quot;And <b><u>ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends</u></b>; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:3.0in'><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>CONCLUSION:</span></u></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'> Are you a friend of Jesus?</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>1. <b><u>(John 15:14) </u></b>&quot;<b><u>Ye are my friends, if </u></b>ye do whatsoever I command you.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>2. <b><u>Thomas Goodwin said</u></b>: &quot;Though Christ calls us friends and not servants, He never exempts us from the obedience of servants to His commands, for <b><u>He tells us that we are not His friends unless we do His commands.&quot; <o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p> <p><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>CHRIST AS A FRIEND</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Young People s Hymnal</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Dear children, how soon in the grave you will lie, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>I ask Have you hope in your end?</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>O have you through grace a bright home in the sky </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Through knowledge of Christ as your Friend?</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>If carelessly still you are passing along, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Your days in your sins you can spend, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>O terrible thought, to that world you belong, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>That know not the Lord as your Friend.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>But O, if you feel that your sins are your woe,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And long for a peace without end,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>You're welcome to Jesus the Savior to go, </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And seek to know Him as your Friend.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>O dread in your youth the sad snares that abound,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And oft at the throne may you bend,</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>And seek that the Lord as a guard may surround </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Your steps unto Christ as your Friend.</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Gothic"'>0</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div id=INCREDISIGNATUREID> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Earnie W. 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