Is God for me or against me?

Ben Green | Job 19 

‘Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,
  for the hand of God has struck me.
Why do you pursue me as God does?
  Will you never get enough of my flesh?’
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‘I know that my redeemer lives,
  and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
And after my skin has been destroyed,
  yet in my flesh I will see God;
I myself will see him
  with my own eyes – I, and not another.
  How my heart yearns within me!’

Accused by his friends, abandoned by his family, and - as it seems to him - struck by God, all that Job values has been stripped away. All the more astonishing, says Ben, that Job still longs to see God and has faith that one day this will happen. All the more reason for us to believe, who can see something that Job did not: the cross.

The recording begins with the reading from Peter Frere. Earlier in the service, the whole congregation read Psalm 16 as an act of worship.