Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Jesus Christ. John 1:17
A man reading the Bible with deep concentration in a vast field

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

Job 19:1 – 19:28

  1 Then Job answered and said,
  2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
  3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
  4 And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
  5 If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:
  6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
  7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but [there is] no judgment.
  8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.
  10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
  11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
  12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
  13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
  14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
  15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
  16 I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
  17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
  18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
  19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
  20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
  21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
  22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
  24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
  25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:
  26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
  27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.
  28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

STATEMENT OF FAITH
We Believe…

In one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;

In the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death for all through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead;

In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;

In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their infallibility, entire trustworthiness, and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;

That all people are sinners and cannot save themselves. Salvation is received as a free gift of God’s grace, apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;

In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost;

In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are thus members of His Body, the Church, whose work is the worship of God, perfecting the saints, and evangelization of the world.

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