Coffee With Job. Episode 140
Channel: Jason Blaiklock
Date: 2022-08-05

The Final One Full of Years. Job 42: 16-17

Job 42:16-17 - The final one.  It is recorded that Job lives for 140 years and is greatly blessed.  Do we consider old age a blessing?  Plus some reflections on the whole book.

We have been looking at this book of Job.  What has astonished me is how contemporary it is.  But one key question remains – how Christian is it?  I want us to reflect upon Job, Jesus, and you. 

Job, Jesus, and Suffering

Isaiah ch.53 – The suffering servant. 
A job like Jesus lives a righteous life. He is popular – we are told of Jesus “Everyone is looking for you” (1:37); “the people still came to him from everywhere” (1:45);   But by the end, he is alone and isolated.  Just like Job.  Ch.29 v.2-3 “When God watched over me when his lamp shone upon my head”.  Job rescues the poor and fatherless, he was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.  He spoke wisely “Men listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel”.  Jesus spoke with authority.  
Yet by the end both are isolated.  Both are alone.  Both are despised.   In the kingdom of God suffering and isolation are inevitable.  

Job, Jesus, and Satan

The sorrow of Christ – in Gethsemane – Mark 14 v.33-34.  Deeply distressed and troubled.  Death and Satan attacking Christ. 

Job, Jesus, and the Supernatural

The greatest miracle of all is the resurrection. Job ch. 19 v. 25 “I know that my Redeemer lives and that in the end, he will stand upon the earth.”  Mark ch. 16 v.6 “He has risen!  He is not here.  See the place where they laid him.”

All this leads us to the greatest need and desire of Job – the longing for a mediator.  

Therefore our response to our circumstances and our response to Christ may be bewilderment and to some extent confusion and fear.  But there is also hope and joy – that news is so great that we can hardly believe it to be true.  Jesus is alive and He is the reason for our living.   Romans ch.8