1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Study Headquarters 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: dot com. You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter twenty 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: five and twenty six and will be reading from the 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: New Living Translation. Then Bildad the shoe height replied, God 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: is powerful and dreadful. He enforces peace in the heavens. 8 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: Who is able to count his heavenly army. Doesn't his 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: light shine on all the earth? How can a mortal 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: be innocent before God? Can anyone born of a woman 11 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 1: be pure? God is more glorious than the moon. He 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: shines brighter than the stars. In comparison, people are maggots. 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: We mortals are mere worms. Then Job spoke again, How 14 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: you have helped the powerless? How you have saved the weak? 15 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: How you have enlightened my stupidity? What wise advice you 16 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: have offered? Where have you gotten all these wise sayings? 17 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: Whose spirit speaks through you? The dead tremble those who 18 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: live beneath the waters. The underworld is naked in God's presence. 19 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: The place of destruction is uncovered. God stretches the northern 20 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing. 21 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 1: He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the 22 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,639 Speaker 1: clouds don't burst with the weight. He covers the face 23 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: of the moon, shrouding it with his clouds. He created 24 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: the horizon when he separated the waters. He set the 25 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: boundary between day and night. The foundations of heaven tremble, 26 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: they shudder at his rebuke. By his power, the sea 27 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: grew calm. By his skill, he crushed the great sea monster. 28 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: His spirit made the heavens beautiful, and his power pierced 29 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: the gliding serpent. These are just the beginning of all 30 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: that he does. Merely a whisper of his power, who 31 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: then can comprehend the thunder of his power. Let's pray, Lord, 32 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at these 34 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: portions of scripture today. And Lord, as we continue to 35 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: see the provocation that Job receives from his so called friends, 36 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: we also see the frustration that that creates for him. 37 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: But in the midst of that, he testifies to some 38 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: true and powerful realities that you display. He speaks of 39 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: who you are, and he speaks of your character. He 40 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: expresses his faith in your sovereignty, and he testifies to 41 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: your power. Lord. It's also fascinating the kind of foreshadowing 42 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: that you use him to speak when he speaks of 43 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: you as the one who, by your power makes the 44 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: sea grow calm, and that your power pierced the gliding serpent. Lord, 45 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: when we look at portions of scripture like this, we 46 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: remember the work of your son Jesus Christ to calm 47 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: the wind and the waves. We acknowledge that in his 48 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: crucifixion and resurrection that Satan the serpent was defeated and 49 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: the hold that he had over humanity was shown to 50 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: be incapable of standing up to Christ's power. Lord. We're 51 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: grateful for these realities, and we're grateful for the fact 52 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: that you love us and are present with us in 53 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: the midst of all that we experience in this world. Lord, 54 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: we commit this day to you, and we pray that 55 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: we would honor you in the midst of all we 56 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: experience today. And we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.