29/1/18 – Job 11, Job 12, Job 13, Job 14 Matthew 20:1-19 Psalm 17:6-12

Job 14:7-10

For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.

Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job was pretty depressed at this point, so he’s getting very negative. But he does have a point. Unlike a tree, which can be cut down yet sprout again, man dies and he is laid in the ground. Done.

And where is he after that? That’s a question we will all one day have to confront. We can put off talking about it all we want, but it’s not going away.

Unless Jesus returns first I will die. You will die. And after that, where are you. It’s too big a deal to ignore. Do you know where you are going? “I’m not sure” is not a sufficient answer to that question. You need to know.

When your hope is in Jesus, you have hope for your eternal dainty. You can know that you will have life everlasting.

Matt 20:17-19

And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

Isn’t it amazing? Jesus was very clear with all

His disciples about what was going to happen. Every detail – about his arrest, death and the day He’d be raised. They had fair warning about everything that would transpire. Yet, his disciples still didn’t understand.

Jesus was not ambiguous about who He was, or His mission. Yet even not with the hindsight of knowing the events that would happen next – we still misread and misunderstand. I don’t know how.

The only begotten Son of God, betrayed and crucified. Dead and in the grave. Then raised and now at the right hand of the father – King of all. No need to misunderstand. Simple.