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Speaker 1: I'm John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter seventeen

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Speaker 1: and will be reading from the English Standard version. My

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Speaker 1: spirit is broken, my days are extinct. The graveyard is

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Speaker 1: ready for me. Surely there are mockers about me, and

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Speaker 1: my eye dwells on their provocation. Lay down a pledge

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Speaker 1: for me with you? Who is there who will put

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Speaker 1: up security for me? Since you have closed their hearts

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Speaker 1: to understanding, Therefore you will not let them triumph. He

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Speaker 1: who informs against his friends to get a share of

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Speaker 1: their property, the eyes of his children will fail. He

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Speaker 1: has made me a byword of the people's and I

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Speaker 1: am one before whom men spit. My eye has grown

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Speaker 1: dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

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Speaker 1: The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs

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Speaker 1: himself up against the godless. Yet the righteous holds to

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Speaker 1: his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger

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Speaker 1: and stronger. But you come on again, all of you,

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Speaker 1: and I shall not find a wise man among you.

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Speaker 1: My days are past, My plans are broken off. The

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Speaker 1: desires of my heart. They make night into day. The light,

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Speaker 1: they say, is near to the darkness. If I hope

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Speaker 1: for she ol as my house, if I make my

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Speaker 1: bed in darkness, if I say to the pit you

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Speaker 1: are my father, and to the worm my mother or

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Speaker 1: my sister? Where then is my hope? Who will see

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Speaker 1: my hope? Will it go down to the bars of Sheiel?

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Speaker 1: Shall we descend together into the dust. Let's pray. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we thank you for your word, and we thank you

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Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it

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Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, as we take a look at

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Speaker 1: this portion of scripture, we can see that Job was

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Speaker 1: in the midst of his despair, and his heart was heavy,

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Speaker 1: and he was grieving, and he was dealing with just

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Speaker 1: a lot of disappointment and certainly a change from what

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Speaker 1: he had expected he would experience. Lord, he was troubled,

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Speaker 1: his heart was heavy. And again, Lord, we're grateful that

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Speaker 1: you allow us to see these things, as hard as

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Speaker 1: it may be. And Lord, it's interesting when we look

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Speaker 1: at some of Job's experience and we compare it to

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Speaker 1: the experience that your son Jesus Christ had during the

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Speaker 1: course of his earthly ministry. We know that people mocked

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Speaker 1: your son, just as Job felt mocked in this past.

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Speaker 1: We know, Lord, that as he makes the comment that

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Speaker 1: he has been made a byword of the peoples. Even today,

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Speaker 1: people misuse the name of your son, Jesus Christ, and

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Speaker 1: some even speak poorly of him. But Lord, truly, your son,

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the righteous Messiah, Savior, an anointed one

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Speaker 1: who suffered on our behalf, who went through trials and

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Speaker 1: tribulations for our benefit, suffering our penalty on the cross.

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Speaker 1: But Lord, we're grateful that death did not defeat your son. Rather,

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Speaker 1: your son has defeated death. Jesus Christ has defeated death

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Speaker 1: and shared his victory with all who trust in him. So, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we're grateful for these things. We're grateful for the privilege

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Speaker 1: of knowing you. We're grateful for the fact that we

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Speaker 1: have new life through faith in your son. And Lord,

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Speaker 1: we pray that throughout the course of this day that

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Speaker 1: we would be mindful of the fact that you are

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Speaker 1: present with us no matter what we're going through. We

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Speaker 1: love you, Lord, We thank you for all of these things,

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Speaker 1: and we commit this day to your care and pray

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Speaker 1: this all in Jesus' name. Amen,