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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stangey,

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Speaker 1: and today we're in Job chapter forty two, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be reading from the English Standard version. Then Job answered

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Speaker 1: the Lord and said, I know that you can do

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Speaker 1: all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

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Speaker 1: Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I

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Speaker 1: have uttered what I did not understand. Things too wonderful

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Speaker 1: for me which I did not know here, and I

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Speaker 1: will speak. I will question you, and you will make

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Speaker 1: it known to me. I had heard of you by

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Speaker 1: the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

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Speaker 1: Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

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Speaker 1: After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the

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Speaker 1: Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, my anger burns against

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Speaker 1: you and against your two friends, for you have not

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Speaker 1: spoken of me what is right as my servant job

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Speaker 1: has now. Therefore, take seven bulls and seven rams and

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Speaker 1: go to my servant job and offer up a burnt

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Speaker 1: offering for yourselves and my servant job. Shall pray for you,

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Speaker 1: for I will accept his prayer, not to deal with

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Speaker 1: you according to your folly, for you have not spoken

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Speaker 1: of me what is right, as my servant, Job has

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Speaker 1: so Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the shoe height, and

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Speaker 1: so Far the Namethite went and did what the Lord

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Speaker 1: had told them. And the Lord accepted Job's prayer, and

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Speaker 1: the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had

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Speaker 1: prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice

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Speaker 1: as much as he had before. Then came to him

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Speaker 1: all his brothers and sisters and all who had known

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Speaker 1: him before, and ate bread with him in his house,

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Speaker 1: and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all

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Speaker 1: the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And

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Speaker 1: each of them gave him a piece of money and

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Speaker 1: a ring of gold. And the Lord blessed the latter

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Speaker 1: days of Job more than his beginning. And he had

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen,

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Speaker 1: and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons

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Speaker 1: and three daughters. And he called the name of the

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Speaker 1: first daughter Gemma, and the name of the second Keziah,

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Speaker 1: and the name of the third Karen Hapooch. And in

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Speaker 1: all the land there were no women so beautiful as

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Speaker 1: Job's daw and their father gave them an inheritance among

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Speaker 1: their brothers. And after this Job lived one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty years and saw his sons and his son's sons

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Speaker 1: four generations. And Job died an old man and full

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Speaker 1: of days. Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for your word,

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Speaker 1: and we thank you for the privilege of being able

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Speaker 1: to look at this portion of scripture today, and we

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Speaker 1: thank you for the privilege of being able to see

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Speaker 1: how this book resolves as we watch what you did

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Speaker 1: on behalf of Job. As you spoke to Job's friends

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Speaker 1: and you corrected them because of the bad advice they

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Speaker 1: had been giving Job. And as you commended the way

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Speaker 1: that Job was speaking of you and portraying you correctly,

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Speaker 1: and you restored Job's fortunes and blessed him and his

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Speaker 1: family in ways that he certainly was not expecting. Lord,

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful and to this book, and there are

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Speaker 1: important applications that we should take from it. Lord. It's

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Speaker 1: also interesting that for Job's friends to be okay, you

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Speaker 1: required that Job would pray on their behalf, and that

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Speaker 1: they would have to acknowledge that they had spoken poorly

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Speaker 1: and that they had said things that were not correct

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Speaker 1: about you. Lord. It's fascinating when we think about the

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Speaker 1: fact that you required that intercession be made on behalf

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Speaker 1: of Job's friends, and then we look at what your

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Speaker 1: word tells us about your son Jesus Christ, who suffered

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Speaker 1: on our behalf and who serves as the intercessor between

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Speaker 1: God and man. Lord, we're grateful for the intercession ministry

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Speaker 1: of your son Jesus Christ, and we're thankful Lord that

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Speaker 1: it's prefigured in the events of this passage. We're given

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Speaker 1: a foretaste or a glimpse of the ministry that Christ

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Speaker 1: accomplishes on our behalf every single day. So Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for these pictures, thank you for these lessons. Thank

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Speaker 1: You for the resolution that we see coming to Job's

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Speaker 1: life in the midst of this book, For the things

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Speaker 1: that you taught him, For the fact that you invited

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Speaker 1: him to confess and repent before you. He does so,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately his faith in you is stronger because of

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Speaker 1: this experience that you allowed him to go through. Help

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Speaker 1: us to have that kind of perspective in the midst

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Speaker 1: of our trials as well. We love you Lord, We're

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Speaker 1: grateful for your presence with us. We commit this day

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Speaker 1: to your care, and we thank you for all these

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Speaker 1: things in Jesus' name. Amen.