The Book of Job
Book of Job, 62
Deliverance From the Pit
Job 33:24
Pastor’s Opening
LET it never be forgotten that, in all that God does, he acts from good reasons. You observe that the text, speaking of the sick man, represents God as saying, “Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.” If I understand the passage as relating solely to a sick man, and take the words just on the natural common level where some place them, I would still say that the Lord here gives a reason why he suspends the operations of pain and disease, and raises up the sufferer: “I have found a ransom.”
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Job 33:24
“Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.”
Main Theme(s)
I. Now, coming to our text, I shall ask you, first, to look with me upon A MAN IN GREAT PERIL.
II. Now let us notice, in the second place, A NEW PRINCIPLE IN ACTION: “Then he is gracious unto him.”
III. This brings me to my third point, which is concerning how this grace operates. It operates by A WORD OF POWER.
IV. I finish by noticing that, in this case, God supplies us with his reason for delivering a soul, and it is AN ARGUMENT OF LOVE: “Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.”
