Book of Job, 25

Pastor’s Opening

THIS is one of the supreme sayings of Scripture. It rises, like an alpine summit, clear above all ordinary heights of speech, it pierces the clouds, and glistens in the light of God. If I were required to quote a selection of the sublimest utterances of the human mind, I should mention this among the first: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” Methinks I might almost say to the man who thus spoke what our Lord said to Simon Peter when he had declared him to be the Son of the Highest: “Flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee.”

Main Theme(s)

I. First, then, here is A TERRIBLE SUPPOSITION though he slay me.”

II. Secondly, we have before us A NOBLE RESOLUTION— “yet will I trust in him.” 

III. And, now, the last point is this, A SECRET APPROPRIATENESS about it all.