With that, Job chapters 40 through 42, we are going to finally, yeah, finish the book of Job,

which we should have or we could have a week ago, but I wasn't here, so we didn't.

So looking forward to it tonight.

Why don't you turn there if you're not there already?

And while you're turning there, I'll kind of, since it's been a couple of weeks, give you a quick recap and backstory.

We're going to pick it up in chapter 40. And God is going to continue to speak to Job and he's been doing this for the last two chapters in chapters 38 and 39 and in so doing he's questioning Job concerning

all the questioning from Job in the prior chapters where Job was really

pleading with God to explain to him and answer him concerning his suffering.

And what's interesting is that throughout all of this, God is never going to answer any of Job's why questions.

And actually, truth be known, Job isn't going to complain.

And for good reason, given that God is about to restore him twice as much as, I mean,

with everything that he had in the end.

And one of the takeaways, pardon me, for me is that God sometimes saves the best for last.

It reminds me of that account when in the first

miracle Jesus turned the water to wine and the host, which you have to understand in that

culture to run out of wine was unthinkable. You can never be seen in public in the community

ever again because it was just shameful and disgraceful.

And so when Jesus turns the water into wine, then to have that wine be the best at the end, which was really unheard of,

because you always serve the best wine at the beginning,

and then the not so good wine at the end. And one of the takeaways from that is that sometimes the best is yet to come.

And that's what we're going to see here for Job. One commentator said something

really interesting. He said, God answered Job's heart without specifically answering Job's

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