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centered, four square. I had it right! “But I never saw Him”. I had all the
answers, but I never saw God. And then he says, “Now my heart sees
you”. The whole message is, He is God! And all you need when you are
in trouble, going through the problems of life, is to see God! And He is
the answer!
As far as the record goes, God never told Job about the devil coming up
and having that little discussion. We know that because we have the first
two chapters. Job never knew that. But notice what he does in verse
42:6,

“Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Now here is an amazing thing. The purpose of God was not to show Job’s
insignificance. But he saw his insignificance. The purpose of God was not
to show his ignorance, but he saw his ignorance. The purpose of God was
to show Job Himself. When I really see God, then I will repent in dust
and ashes. All of the doctrine of the depravity of man, never made him
repent. What he needed, he got. And that is a full vision of God.

The full answer to the problems of life is seeing God. Who is Behemoth?
Who is Leviathan? Why does He bring this up? Let me refresh your mind
about the book of Job. When it began, Job had gone through these
terrible things, and these three men who were his best friends came
from afar, and they saw him and wept. The Bible says they sat down and
for seven days they never said a word. They did not ask him any
questions; they did not accuse him of anything; they just sympathized.
And at the end of seven days, Job thought, at least I have somebody that I
can tell my problems to.
In chapter 3 there is a record of it. He just blurted out, “Oh, cursed be the
day that I was born, and my conception. Whoever has mentioned my
birthday ought to be shot. And when the doctor told my mother it was a
boy he should have been killed. And my mother should have died, and I
should have died, I hate my birthday!” And then he said, “And who can
fight Leviathan?” In chapter 3 he mentions Leviathan. And those three
friends heard what came out of his mouth. What came out of his mouth
was intended to express what was in his heart, but it never did. What was
in his heart was so deep he could not bring it up

They thought he was cursing his birthday. He was cursing the futility of
this life. Being “born of woman”, the first and natural birth. This
existence has no answers. That is what was way, down, deep. What his
words could not express.

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