Message topic: Yet will I trust Him.
Scripture: Job 13: 8-16.
There is something that I would like to draw your attention to this morning, but it would not be surprising if some of you are well aware of the fact that a large percentage of people who attend worship services does not always get the full understanding of what was said during the service because of words that was used, which are not commonly used in our daily conversation.
How often in your communicating with others through writing or speaking regularly used the word yet? It appears to me that it was commonly used in the old days in communicating with others.
Let me share with you some of the scriptures in which the word yet is used: in Lamentation 3:20-22 the (NLT) Bible says, I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss, (Yet) I still dare to hope when I remember this: the faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. I (yet) or I still remember that the faithful live of the Lord stands for ever.
In Matthew 7:24:-25 the (NIV) says everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the wind blow and beat against that house;( Yet) it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
In Habakkuk 3:17-19 the (NIV) says though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though, the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, (yet) I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to tread on the heights.
In Psalm 42:11 (KJV) asked the question, why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall (yet) praise him who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
In 2nd Corinthians 4:16 the (NASB)says therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, (yet) our inner person is being renewed day by day.
In every sense Jesus is our (YET), Everything before Him pales when compared to the after.
I would hope that each of you each time you hear the word of God, from any source you would reflect on Proverbs 4: 7 which says: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding. No one can please God or to be obedient to God, without understanding who He is and what He requires from us.
In the Bible, several people are described as perfect or “blameless” in different contexts. However, the term “perfect” in the Bible does not always meant being entirely without sin in the way that Jesus was. Instead, it often refers to a person’s completeness, integrity, and devotion to God.
Here are some individuals the Bible describes as perfect or blameless, alongside the significance of this description.
Noah: in Genesis 6: 9 states, Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with God, this highlights Noah’s righteousness and faith in a time of great wickedness.
Job: in Job 1:8 and 2:3 describe Job as a perfect and upright man, one who feared God and shunned evil. This emphasizes Job’s blameless character and unwavering piety.
Jesus is often referred to as the only truly perfect and sinless man. His perfection is essential to His role as the Messiah and the atoning sacrifice for humanity’s sins. The Bible uses the concept of perfection in different ways, including: Human perfection: initially, Adam and Eve were made perfect, but this was lost due to the fall. The Bible acknowledges that all humans after the fall are inherently sinful.
We have Christ’s protection: Jesus stands as the only sinless and perfect human, fulfilling the requirements of the law and providing salvation.
In John 11: 25, the (KJV) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, Tho ugh he were dead, yet shall he live; He is our hope, He is our sustenance, He is our redeemer, He is our all in all
How should we understand the word (YET) and how much attention should we pay to (yet) in our effort to please God?
Our scripture for today is based on a man by the name of Job: who was Job, and what should we know about this man and why? In christen dome he is regarded as a man of great faith in the true God of all the earth.
We also know that he was from the land of Uz, as was the friend of God Abraham, and he was the richest man in all the region.
Listen to inventory of all that he owned: he had a wife and ten children, there were seven sons and three daughters. He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
As it was then, so it is today that where ever God’s people are gathered to give praise to God, Satan is always near to distract anyone who will listen to his cheating voice: then the Lord said to Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in all the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and avoid doing evil?
Satan gave God a challenge in these words, if you will take away all the protection you has given him, he will turn and curse you, so God gave him the authority to do to Job anything except one thing, you cannot touch his life.
Satan left the presence of God and attack Job by taking all that he owned from his ten children to all his cattle and his servants; even his friends, then Job said, I came into this world naked from my mother’s womb, and naked will I return, (Yet) I will serve the lord.
Realizing that he fail, Satan went back to God and said to Him; put forth thine now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. Then Satan went from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his feet unto his crown.
Then his wife said unto him, dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God and die. But he said unto her, thou speaks as one of the foolish women, what? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
There were not only discouragement from his wife but also from his three friends who had come to see him in all his troubles, but concludes that there must be some secret sins in his life why God was treating him this way.
Job then said unto them, hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Though he slay me, (yet) will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
In other words, I have been doing all that He ask me to do, and if this is the way He wants to treat me, let it be, I will yet put all my trust in Him.
Now, what about you and I? how much trust do we have in Him? Have we ever promise to put all our trust in Him at all times? Have we at anytime ever ask for faith like the faith of Job to do the task He has for us each day? Have you and I concluded what- ever the path is that He leads us we will follow or yet please Him as Job did? He is waiting to welcome us into the place He has provided.