TEXT: JOB 1:21
THIS IS THE CRUX OF THE BOOK OF JOB. JOB MADE THIS STATEMENT AFTER HE LOST EVERY THING HE HAD-CHILDREN, SERVANTS, LIVESTOCKS AND PROPERTIES. IT LOOKS AS IF JOB WASN'T REFERRING TO PHYSICAL NAKEDNESS; TO MY MIND HE WAS REFERRING TO ALL THAT MADE HIM GLORIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF MEN.
HIS HOUSEHOLD, LIVESTOCKS AND ALL THE PHYSICAL POSSESSIONS WERE ACTUALLY A CLOTHING TO HIM. CLOTHING IS BUT A MERE COVERAGE ON OUR BODY. PAUL SAYS WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THE WORLD AND WE SHALL CARRY NOTHING OUT OF IT.THE TRUE STATE OF EVERY MAN IS NAKEDNESS. A NAKED MAN IS A TRUE MAN. NO MAN KNOW WHEN HE SHALL LEAVE THIS WORLD BUT WE KNOW THAT WE SHALL LEAVES THIS WORLD NAKED THE WAY WE CAME.
IT IS THEREFORE GOOD TO CONSTANTLY STAY NAKED ALL THE TIME SO THAT WE CAN STAY READY FOR THE HOME OF THE SPIRITS. NAKEDNESS SPEAKS OF OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY. A MAN THAT IS NOT OPEN AND NAKED CANNOT MAKE IT TO HEAVEN. THE FIRST MAN WAS CREATED NAKED AND KNEW NO SHAME. ALL COVERINGS AND SUGERCOATING MUST BE PUT AWAY, LETS BE HONEST TO ONE ANOTHER: THIS IS TRUE CHRISTIANITY.
JOB CAME TO A DEFINATE KNOWING THROUGH THIS BLOW ON HIS LIFE: THAT NOTHING HE HAS CAN BE CARRIED WITH HIM TO THE OTHER WOLRD. LET'S UNDERSTAND THAT OUR HOUSES, CHILDREN, MONEY, DEGREES, TITLES AND ALL THE TOYS THAT WE HAVE ARE BUT MERE DECORATION HERE BELOW WE SHOULD BE SEPARATED AND DETACHED FROM THEM.
WHENEVER GOD DESIRES TO BRING A MAN INTO TRUE AND DEEPER PURITY, HE PURGES HIM OF THINGS-PROPERTIES, EVEN CHILDREN.ISAAC WAS A PROMISE FROM GOD TO ABRAHAM YET HE ASKED ABRAHAM TO SACRIFICE HIM ON MOUNT MORIA. ABRAHAM MUST BE PURGED OF EVEN ISAAC: ISAAC ACTUALLY DIED ON THAT MOUNT, PAUL SAYS IN HEBREWS THAT ISAAC DIED AND WAS RAISED BY GOD. FROM THAT DAY ISAAC DIED TO ABRAHAM AND ABRAHAM DIED TO ISAAC.
THIS IS TRUE PURITY. NO MAN CAN FOLLOW GOD THAT HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED THIS KIND OF BLOW. GOD MUST PURGE US OF HIS GIFTS AND SHIFT OUR ATTENTIONS TO HIM AND HIM ALONE. HE MUST STRIPE US OF ALL OUR CONFIDENCES AND BRING US TO A PLACE WHERE WE CAN CRY OUT: MY HOPE IS BUILT ON NOTHING ELSE SAFE JESUS BLOOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS! WE MUST GIVE UP ALL THINGS THAT TURN OUR ATTENTIONS FROM GOD, EVEN IF THEY ARE SPIRITUAL THINGS.
UNTIL WE LEARN THAT NAKED WE CAME FROM OUR MOTHERS WOMB AND NAKED SHALL WE RETURN THITHER THEN WE HAVE LEARNT NOTHING. CHRISTIANITY IS TOTAL NAKEDNESS AND BEING BEING SLATHERED ON THE ALTER OF SACRIFICE. THE GOSPEL CAME TO US THROUGH SACRIFICE AND MUST GO TO OTHERS ON THE FLOOD OF OUR BLOOD. MAY WE FROM THIS DAY BECOME NAKED, EMPTY OF EVERY THING-EMPTY AND EMPTIED! AMEN
