Pastor’s Opening

THIS is Eliphaz, the Temanite, who is speaking, and he is telling Job what he thinks would be the condition of a man who had been sincere. He says that, surely, God’s presence would be with him; the light should shine upon his ways; and then, when he was himself happy in the light of God, when other men were cast down, he would be able to say to them, “There is lifting up.”

Main Theme(s)

I. First, then, WHAT THE HAPPY BELIEVER OUGHT TO DO: “When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up.”

II. Now, secondly, I will pass on to tell you WHAT DOWNCAST PEOPLE OUGHT TO DO.