WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:00.719 Good morning. 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:06.320 Today's reading is from Job chapter 1, verses 1 through 5. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:17.519 There was a man in the land of Oze whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.120 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:33.520 He possessed seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East. 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:43.039 His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:53.759 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:59.759 For Job said, It may be that my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.840 Thus Job did continually. 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:03.520 This is the word of the Lord. 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:06.159 May be seated. 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:09.599 Well, good morning. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:10.799 My name's James Rathman. 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:12.879 I'm the pastor here at Redemption Church Denver. 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.280 It's a joy to gather together with you all each Sabbath day. 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:23.120 And uh it was particularly joyful last week as I got to sit under Bruce Nicoly's teaching. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.959 If you were here, uh by a round of applause, how did you like it? 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:28.319 Run? 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:32.560 Pretty good. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:35.040 Your feedback will be collected and delivered to Bruce. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:45.760 Uh yeah, that was uh that was so joyful, such a uh so wonderful to sit uh under his teaching last week, so thankful for the Nicolese as part of our church. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:02:14.479 Uh today we are continuing with this series, and we are uh continuing with our our series titled The Christian Home, and we're looking at what it means to have a home that is shaped by the gospel, what it means to uh create a family culture that uh that is brought back into alignment with how God intended the family to be by the renewal that he accomplishes by the gospel. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:19.120 So we're looking at this especially from the angle of parents to children. 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.719 This is the ordinary way that the scriptures talk about the culture of a home being formed. 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:32.719 And uh it's it's how parents create this environment, how parents interact with and teach and lead their children. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:44.240 And so what we've looked at before uh leading up to this is we've seen how God intended the family to be, how we are we are all as individuals. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:48.240 We cannot conceive of ourselves outside of the context of our family. 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.479 We are formed by the family. 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:58.400 It is not just that individuals clumped together form a family, it is that each individual is formed by the family. 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:08.080 And that's God's original intent, that we are formed by this uh this loving community that we just receive. 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:10.400 That is God's intent for us. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:12.400 But this is corrupted by sin. 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:22.240 And of course, we have families that are full of drama and disagreement and that they're you know family stuff. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:24.000 You know when your family gets together? 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:25.199 It's like that. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.240 And the Bible describes it just like that. 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:41.039 Uh, something that I've found helpful to point out is like if you were to talk to any Bible character in their 40s and ask them what their family is like, they'd be like, well, you know, I'm not talking to half my brothers. 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:45.840 Uh in fact, I'm not talking to any of my brothers because they'd sold me to Egypt. 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:49.840 So things are not great with the household. 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:51.280 And it's like, well, how are things back then? 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:51.599 I don't know. 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:52.719 Let's check in with Judah. 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:58.479 How are your weren't your sons getting married soon to that lady Tamar? 00:03:58.719 --> 00:03:59.520 How's that going? 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:04.319 And then you'll hear a very weird story that you can look up on your own time. 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:13.599 Anyway, the point being that you will uh encounter, if you were to ask any of them, like what's your what's your family like, you would see, oh, it's it it's rough. 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:18.000 It's this doesn't seem like what family was intended to be like. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:24.959 But the hope of the gospel is not that God sees the family as I intended it to be, has been corrupted. 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:33.680 Therefore, I'm removing that institution from the created order, and I'm replacing it with nothing, just sort of spiritual relationships or whatever. 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.480 That's not that's not the way that God redeems the world. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:44.079 Instead, his redemptive grace comes in and restores to the position of function that which has been broken. 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:51.439 When you heal a broken arm, when somebody's arm gets, you know, snapped, picture this arm, but like snapped. 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:54.000 Good. 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.160 When they go to the doc, the doctor is not like, well, where do you want me to put it? 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:03.360 I can set it and I can heal it at this angle, and then that could be kind of a fun thing, or I could set it. 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:05.120 The doctor doesn't ask. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:13.920 The doctor says, There is a position of function which I will return this to, and it will heal into that position of function. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.879 This is the way that the that the healing of Christ works. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:18.560 This is the way that the gospel works. 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:23.600 See, is there is a position of function that I intended for the family. 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:30.240 And the hope of the redemption that he's accomplishing is that it would be restored to that position of function by his grace. 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.199 This is what this is the way that Christ heals. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.439 So we've looked at how parents have these roles within the home. 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:49.920 And the roles that we're seeing that parents have are the very roles that Christ executes as our redeemer: the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:06:02.480 This is what parents are uniquely instructed to be for their children to establish, to restore the order that God intends to be restored into the home. 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.800 We've looked at the office of a prophet. 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:10.639 We've seen how it is our responsibility to tell our children their story. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.079 They don't know it. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:13.680 They just got here. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.079 And in order for them to learn their story, you must tell it to them. 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:27.519 And the most important story that they are a part of, that they are thrust into, is the story of the redemption of all creation in Jesus Christ. 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:36.240 And to send them out into the world without this story is to send them out into the into the cold without a cloak to cover them. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.319 So we cover them with the cloak of the story of the gospel. 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:41.839 That is our prophetic role. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:47.600 And we saw last week, as Bruce shared with us, what exactly are we sharing when we share the gospel? 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.800 What does it mean to share the gospel with our children? 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:58.240 And it it means that that old story, that old gospel that you know is what we are called to share with our children. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.800 That they are sinners in need of a savior. 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:05.680 Their only hope in the world is that they would be rescued by Jesus Christ. 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:09.519 And they do that by putting their faith in Jesus Christ. 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:13.680 And faith looks like knowledge of him, and it looks like trust of him. 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.879 Like when JT sat in the chair, you may remember. 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.040 Great chair sitting right now. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.759 He's doing a wonderful impression of what he did last week. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.399 Right now in a very similar chair. 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:33.600 And now we are moving into what it means for parents to be priests in the home. 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:40.399 So as we move into that with this long introduction, which is usually a good sign for you folks, let's pray. 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:53.759 Holy Father, we praise you for your grace towards us, that you have given us the prophet, priest, and king, that these offices have been perfectly executed on our behalf by Jesus Christ. 00:07:54.079 --> 00:08:02.319 Lord, that in Jesus Christ you have proclaimed to us our hope of salvation and eternal life by the gospel. 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:14.000 Lord, we thank you and praise you that you have offered a once-for-all time sacrifice in your Son so that our sins have been washed away. 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:19.360 And Lord, we praise you that you rule over us, that you subdue us to yourself. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:30.720 Lord, we pray that we would be more subdued, that our hearts would be more willingly obedient by the work of your Holy Spirit, and that you would sanctify us as a church to love and honor you. 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:47.120 Father, as we move into this exemplary model of Job as a priest in his home, I pray that you would let us trust in our hearts the truth that there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:08:47.279 --> 00:09:03.120 And so that as we look towards this thing which we aspire to in our homes and how quickly that can turn into condemnation, we should recognize there is no place for that here, but that all that you require of us you freely give to us. 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:13.120 And Lord, let our hearts not be condemned, but instead inspired in the freedom of your grace to restore the position of function in our families. 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:14.960 We lift this up in Jesus' name. 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:15.840 Amen. 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.279 So now we are looking at what it means to be a priest in the home. 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:28.879 How is it that we are called to be priests to our children, especially parents called to be priests to our children? 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.000 As prophets in the home, we tell the story. 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:40.720 So what was it that our high priest, Jesus Christ, how did he execute the office of a priest? 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:48.080 Well, the shorter catechism question 25 asks this question: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.519 Which is perfect because that's the question I want to answer. 00:09:51.759 --> 00:10:09.600 And the answer is Christ executeth the office of a priest in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God and in making continual intercession for us. 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:24.240 So that first part of how Christ is our true high priest is he offers up himself as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.039 Now that part of the priestly office you can't do. 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.240 You can't do that for your children. 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:38.480 This is something that is done exclusively by Christ for us. 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:41.360 This is why we are Christians. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:52.720 Because Jesus Christ offered himself up as a sacrifice which perfectly satisfies divine justice on your behalf. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:11:04.799 And by faith alone you might trust in the blood of Jesus Christ, so that you might stand before the Creator of heaven and earth and stand there righteous and justified in his sight. 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:08.320 Because Jesus has accomplished this on our behalf. 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.879 He did it for us. 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:18.000 This is that strange and completely unique claim of Christianity. 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:27.759 That Christ is our true priest, and that all that got that God required of us that we failed, Christ fulfilled for us. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:29.919 It's a free gift. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:31.759 It's done for you. 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.919 It's an alien righteousness. 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:35.600 It's imputed to you. 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.159 It's received by faith alone. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.960 All that awesome stuff. 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:47.840 Just the best stuff that when you really catch it, it just becomes the salve for your soul. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:58.639 That that that treadmill that you're on of trying to justify yourself before the Lord, you receive as a gift, finally, Jesus Christ has done it. 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:00.080 He has done it. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.159 So that's wonderful news. 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:03.440 Wonderful news. 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:08.080 And so your role in that priestly office is nothing. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.200 Jesus has accomplished all of that on your behalf. 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:15.919 How do you, what do you do with regards to this that your children might be reconciled to God? 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:17.679 Well, it's a prophetic office. 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.399 You tell them the story of Jesus Christ. 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:22.320 You tell them what he's done. 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.559 You tell them that it really happened. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.559 You know, there was a man. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.759 He was born around Christmas time. 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.919 He he was God. 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:33.840 He is God. 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:35.200 He was killed. 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.519 And then he rose again three days later. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:38.960 You tell them the story. 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:40.559 Tell them the story. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:51.200 But that next part, that that last clause, says Jesus executes the office of a priest in making continual intercession for us. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:58.000 That means that right now, at the right hand of the Father, Jesus is praying for us. 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:02.399 He's interceding to the Father on our behalf. 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.360 Jesus is saying, You should honor your promises to them. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.240 Let's honor our promises to them. 00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:11.440 Why? 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:14.799 And Jesus can say, Well, because look at my wounds. 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:25.200 Look, the sacrifice that has been given on their behalf is sufficient to procure for them all of the blessings in the heavenly places. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:31.360 And so Jesus is going to God the Father and He's saying, Let's give them all the blessings. 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.679 Every day, all the time. 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:36.480 Jesus is saying, More blessings for them. 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:37.919 I bought them all. 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:40.159 Let's give them all to them. 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:46.799 And he's applying them to you and your life in the precise and particular ways that are good for you. 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:50.000 This is the wonderful news of Christ's intercession. 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:54.960 Now, this part we can do along with Christ. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:03.279 What we can do for our children in the priestly role is we can pray for our children. 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.679 The whole point of this sermon is this. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:10.799 Pray for your children. 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:11.840 That's it. 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:13.440 That's the whole point. 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:15.279 That's the whole point. 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:20.480 No, you're thinking this is not this probably could have gotten there. 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:22.480 Don't we already know that? 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.720 The whole point is pray for your children. 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:35.279 Our model for this, our model to be the types of parents that pray for our children is shown to us by Job. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:44.080 Job is described as a man blameless and upright who fears God and turns away from evil. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.039 Job is blameless and upright. 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:59.039 Now, we only really get like one uh uh characterization of Job before this introduction of Job as blameless and upright. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:12.159 And you know how like if you wanna if you want to make a show what a character is like, then you like have him, I don't know, save a dog or something at the beginning of a movie, and then it's like, well, I like that person now. 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:18.320 You show one little slice of characterization in order to let you know what to think about that character. 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:28.240 Well, what what the Bible shows us about Job is that he prays for his family and he leads them into worship. 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.200 It's as if the scriptures are saying Job is like, he's the most blameless person on earth. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:40.559 So, what picture does the scripture give us of the most blameless person on earth at this point? 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.000 He prays for his children and he leads them into worship. 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:46.639 And the Bible's like, what else do you need to know? 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.080 What else do you need to know about how blameless and upright he is? 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.559 He prays for his children and he leads them into worship. 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:53.440 The end. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:54.240 The end. 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:55.360 That's all you need to know. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.519 He's blameless and upright. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:03.519 And you and us, the scripture readers, and throughout, you know, all of time basically, Job is very, very old. 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:08.480 That since we since people have been hearing the story of Job, they should think, yeah, that's all we need to know. 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:10.639 Tells me all I need to know about the man. 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.320 But the scripture's description of him being so that's what we're gonna look at. 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:15.679 We're gonna look at his example. 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.679 We're gonna look at Job's example of being a priest to his family. 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:26.960 In Job 1.4, it says, His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:32.320 And they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:40.879 Now we know that Job is blameless and upright, and so that's sufficient reason to follow his model, but we want to see, like, yeah, but what did it look like in his home? 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:47.360 What was the culture of his family like under his priesthood? 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.120 What was the effectiveness of it? 00:16:49.360 --> 00:17:01.200 Well, Job had seven sons and three daughters, and a ton of female donkeys, which is, you know, when you roll up on your enemies, and they see that type of thing. 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.920 Our lives are so different. 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:11.759 What were their kids like? 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.160 What was what were his kids like? 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:16.880 Well, here was the pattern of their lives. 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.359 The Bible also just gives us one little detail. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.279 This is all you need to know. 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:26.319 They loved to host each other in their homes. 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:36.880 And they they had organized a pattern where they would constantly be hosting the whole family in each other's homes. 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.279 They love to get together and eat and drink together. 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.880 This is high praise. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:46.880 This is high praise. 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:52.319 This is the only detail you need to know to describe the healthiest family you could possibly imagine. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:18:06.000 The only what we're all aiming for, the the like our hope, you know, in an earthly sense, for our families is wouldn't it be great if we could all get together and eat together and like it? 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:10.079 Can you think of a greater miracle? 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.000 Can you think of something you'd want to experience more? 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.079 I can't think of anything, of anything better than that. 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.480 That seems like the best thing. 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:22.720 And so this is not a throwaway detail. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:31.839 This is this is the picture of the wonder of what's experienced under Job, within Job's household. 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:37.039 You know, we want our aims to be this high, to be this wonderfully high. 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:40.319 Imagine your family, you know, think of your family. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:47.119 Parents, think of think of the think of your kids, like your the family you're in charge of. 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:55.599 And then imagine a couple generations, and they you see your kids and they're always hanging out at each other's homes, and their cousins are running around. 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.000 Can you think of anything better than that? 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:03.200 You know, the only thing you can think of better than that is just more of it. 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.759 You know, just just add more. 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:07.680 You should imagine that. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.200 You should try and imagine that. 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.400 It's beautiful. 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:20.000 It's the one detail that we're given, and I think it's the only detail that we need that should call us to see how wonderful Job's kids are. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:27.839 Now, if you were to hear this, if this was the only detail you got on like, if you are like standing in the park and you're talking with somebody and it's like, hey, what do you do? 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:29.839 Or what you guys got any summer plans? 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:39.440 And they said, Yeah, I got 10 siblings, and every year we pick one of our homes and we and we summer all together in that home. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:47.200 You would have all the information you needed about this person, and you'd be like, We're different. 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:58.160 Mostly because summer is a verb to them, which tells us they're they're some East Coast elite. 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:08.640 But you would think, like ten kids, they all summer in each other, so they're getting together all uh consistently to all be together. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:11.359 What is their dad like a senator or something? 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:24.559 You would think, and you would immediately think there's something above them, like their dad being a senator, and then the those blessings flowed down to them. 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:26.480 That's what you would think. 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.119 And there's no there's no other way to explain it. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:36.240 There was something above them, and those blessings flowed down to them, that they get to experience that thing together. 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:37.440 And that's true. 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:39.200 That's how that happens. 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:40.400 That's how that happens. 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:42.640 You can see it in Job's family. 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:51.920 That the blessing of being in Job's family flowed down to glorious times of feasting amongst the family. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:54.400 It's a beautiful, beautiful image. 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:56.079 So, what did Job do? 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:58.559 Three things we'll look at that Job did. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:02.799 The first is he initiates worship. 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:10.400 He is the one in the family who takes it upon himself to initiate the worship of the family. 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:11.839 This is what a priest does. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:13.680 In Job 1, verse 5. 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:16.799 We're just looking at verse 5 for the rest of the time, just a little bits of it. 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:18.240 It's a long verse. 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:24.319 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them. 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:31.279 So they have their feast days in each other's homes, and then after the feast days are over, they get a message from Job. 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:37.920 And the message is some he sends some messenger, and the messenger says, It's your father Job. 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.160 He's he says, Consecrate yourself. 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:43.200 We're worshiping soon, now that the feast days are over. 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.319 Job initiates the worship of the family. 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:53.759 So they would all say, Okay, we've got to prepare ourselves, get the family together, we're gonna go to the Job's main house. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:59.839 And while we're at Job's main house, he he you know, he likes to make sure that we worship God together. 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.400 And their kids were like, oh, it's such a long walk to go to Joe's main house. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.119 And they're like, this is important to your grandfather. 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:10.240 Is what they would say. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.200 And they would say, why does he care about this so much? 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:22.480 And they and the kids, in order to teach that what they would say is, you're going to consecrate yourself because this is the most important thing to your grandfather. 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:29.920 And they would all know, the whole household of Job would know what is the most important thing to our dad? 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:35.200 The one from whom all these blessings have flowed down to us. 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:42.799 You know, we all have houses that we can host, you know, nine other adults in their families. 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:44.880 That's cool. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:47.920 How did these blessings flow down to us? 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.000 Well, it was from it was from Job. 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:52.079 It's from our it's from our dad, Job. 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:54.880 Okay, well, what's the most important thing to Job? 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.680 We know it's the thing that he's that he sends messengers to prodd us to do. 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:01.200 It's worship God. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:03.599 That's the most important thing to him. 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:04.480 We know it is. 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:05.680 The most important thing. 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:07.359 All of Job's kids would know. 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:08.960 Here's what Job initiates. 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.960 He initiates the worship of God. 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:16.240 I know for a fact the most important thing to my dad is the worship of God. 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.440 That's what dad really cares about. 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:25.359 This is especially a word for fathers, this call to initiate the worship of your family. 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:29.839 Now, I I this happens at, I can think of two levels that this ought to happen at. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.440 One is bringing your family to church. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:36.559 Your kids should know this is really important. 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:38.960 This is really important to dad. 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:42.720 I know that he wants, he's gonna want us to be at church. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:44.799 I know he's gonna want that. 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.000 Why does he, why does, why do we have to go to church every Sunday? 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:50.960 Why does dad always want us to be at church every Sunday? 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:54.319 He he must, here's what they might think. 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:56.640 I think he believes it. 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:00.480 I think he really loves God. 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:03.039 I think he wants us to know and love God. 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:08.480 So that's that's the first level of you initiate this, consecrate yourselves. 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:10.240 We're getting ready for church in the morning. 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:12.960 Everybody up and at them, getting out the door. 00:24:13.599 --> 00:24:16.480 You know, and then you patiently bring them to the car. 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:24.559 Yes, you I you're realizing, you're realizing what I've said so far is bring your kids to church. 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:27.680 This is something everyone here has done today. 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:35.759 And you're just remembering this morning and thinking, I'm going to have to become a saint to do this again next week. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.200 You're exactly right. 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:39.119 You're exactly right. 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:41.440 You're going to have to become a saint. 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.599 The Holy Spirit is going to have to do a glorious work in your heart just to do that. 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.599 And the second thing is initiate worship in your home. 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.839 Fathers, initiate worship in your home. 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:56.640 Now, this can be so challenging. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:03.599 It can be challenging because there's so much internal resistance to starting. 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:11.920 If you have no pattern of worship in your home, there is so much internal resistance to just starting. 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:20.799 Because what you feel like as a father is I'm not mature enough in my faith to lead these people into this. 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:28.160 There are still so many sins that I feel entangled in, that I'm not the type of man who can do this. 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:29.440 I'm not Job. 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.720 I'm not blameless before the Lord. 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:37.680 All of that internal resistance can build up. 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.680 And there are, here's what you should do with that internal resistance. 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.599 The first thing is confess your present state to the Lord. 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:51.279 Tell him, Lord, I'm not the Father that you've called me to be. 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:57.839 I feel like I can't lead my family into true worship of you without feeling like a hypocrite. 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:05.759 And like I'm faking this in some manner, or ushering them into some lie in my own heart. 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:07.279 Confess that to the Lord. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:16.799 Say, Lord, I would like to be the type of man who can lead my family in worship and not be a hypocrite when I do it. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:30.559 The second thing is you remember that you are bringing them into the worship of the one who has already gone before you and already forgiven you. 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:34.960 That's the one you are bringing them into the worship of. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:41.680 You're bringing them to worship the one who, while you were yet a sinner, has forgiven you. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:44.400 That's the one you want them to know. 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.680 You are not bringing them into worship you. 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:54.880 This would be you would not that would be bad. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.240 There you go. 00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.720 This is called preaching, everyone. 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:04.640 I tell you good things and bad things. 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:10.799 I just saw my wife just cringing in the back. 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:13.200 And it distracted me. 00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.039 Just literally going like this. 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:34.640 Well, anyway, the um speaking of feeling like a hypocrite when you do stuff, there's what you do, it so you are leading them into worship of not yourself, you're leading them into worship of your savior, the one who is their savior. 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:37.279 Don't forget the message you're telling them. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:46.000 You are sufficient now to say, I'm a sinner, Jesus saves me, you're a sinner, Jesus can save you too. 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.279 You're sufficient right now to tell that message. 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:55.119 And in fact, if you're telling any other message, you're not sufficient to be leading them into worship. 00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:01.279 Because that's the worship we are leading them into, is of Jesus Christ, our Savior. 00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:06.160 That is the nature of the worship that we are leading them into. 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.640 Fathers, you are commissioned by God to do this right now. 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:15.920 To tell your children, hey, it's dinner time, I we're going to worship the Lord together tonight. 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:19.279 If they're older kids, they'll say, What are you, what? 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:22.799 We've never done anything like this. 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:27.039 Why are we suddenly doing this now? 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:29.599 You'll say, It's important to me. 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:32.079 And I probably should I probably should have done it earlier. 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.599 This may be weird. 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:36.079 But it's important to me. 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:38.720 And I want you, I want you guys to know what I know. 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:39.440 And you know what? 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:41.599 Your your kids want that. 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:43.359 They want that. 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:46.640 They want to hear what's important to you. 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:49.920 They want to hear the most important thing from you. 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:53.519 So initiate worship. 00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:56.000 It's our priestly role. 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:05.759 Second thing that we see Job do is he lays a foundation of intercession for his family. 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:11.519 He has a foundation of intercession that is laid for his family. 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.200 By intercession, I mean praying for his family. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:22.000 The foundation of his ministry, the foundation of his parenting is praying for his family. 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:32.559 Job 1, verse 5, also another part of it, says, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:39.519 I was laughing earlier this week with Gibson about how Job is just a guy in a field. 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.240 This is the extent of what Job knows. 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.519 He has no Bible, he doesn't have the Abrahamic covenant. 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:50.559 He's just like, what can you know about God when you're just a guy in a and you have a field? 00:29:51.519 --> 00:30:05.839 And he looks around about God and he he's able to know the types of things about God that we see, like like, you know, Cain and Abel, that we see like Abel knows, where he's like, we should give him an offering of life, a blood offering to the Lord. 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:13.440 I can tell that the Lord is glorious and that the Lord is worthy of thanksgiving just by creation. 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:20.160 I can just look at the world and know there's a divine law, there's a divine lawgiver, this is sufficient for me. 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:30.240 He can look at his own heart before that and know I have fallen far short of what I owe to this God who has given me everything. 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:40.000 And in knowing that, he can understand I ought to offer some thanksgiving and atonement on behalf of myself and my children to this God. 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.680 This can all just be known. 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.960 This is all plainly obvious to a man in a field. 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:49.759 And so Job intercedes for his children like this. 00:30:50.319 --> 00:31:11.759 But of course, this pattern of Job's intercession is made explicit by the Word of God, as they are given the pattern of worship in Leviticus, and we are shown the sacrificial process that is done by the priests, but of course, all of that for us has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ, the once-for-all time sacrifice on our behalf. 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:13.359 So what does it mean? 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:17.440 Should we rise up early in the morning and start grilling? 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:20.960 Which is what those sacrifices would have looked like. 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:24.480 No, it doesn't, uh it doesn't mean that for us. 00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:29.279 Our sacrifices are contrite spirits, broken hearts. 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:37.519 The sweet aroma that we offer up to the Lord, like the sweet aroma of barbecue, it's the best smell. 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:40.319 So it's the smell that God requires. 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:45.759 The sweet aroma that we offer up to the Lord is our prayers. 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:55.599 Your prayers come into the throne room of God as a sweet offering of sacrifice to him. 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:58.319 That really happens. 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:01.039 That's what your prayers do. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.039 And so Job offers prayers for his children. 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:15.200 Now, when we think of praying for our children, we usually think of praying as like an after-the-fact type of thing. 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:23.599 We see we have a child, for example, and we try and parent them, and then they don't receive this parenting. 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:27.839 And instead, they they take out their weak on us, you know? 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:35.839 And they they yell and scream, and they realize the power that they really have over the home. 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.640 And we think, I'm pinned. 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:40.559 And then we pray. 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:44.000 We're like, okay, we're our backs up against the wall, we're let's pray. 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:44.880 That's good. 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:46.319 You should do that. 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:47.680 You should do that. 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:49.200 You you should pray. 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:55.759 But oftentimes prayer for the Christian, it's like uh it's on the other side of techniques. 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.599