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

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Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the English Standard version. And

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Speaker 1: Job again took up his discourse and said, as God lives,

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Speaker 1: who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who

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Speaker 1: has made my soul bitter, As long as my breath

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Speaker 1: is in me and the spirit of God is in

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Speaker 1: my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood, and my

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Speaker 1: tongue will not utter deceit. Far be it from me

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Speaker 1: to say that you are right. Till I die. I

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Speaker 1: will not put away my integrity from me. I hold

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Speaker 1: fast my righteousness and will not let it go. My

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Speaker 1: heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

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Speaker 1: Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him

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Speaker 1: who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. For

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Speaker 1: what is the hope of the godless? When God cuts

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Speaker 1: him off? When God takes away his life? Will God

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Speaker 1: hear his cry? When distress comes upon him? Will he

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Speaker 1: take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God

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Speaker 1: at all times. I will teach you concerning the hand

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Speaker 1: of God. What is with the Almighty I will not conceal. Behold,

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Speaker 1: all of you have seen it yourselves. Why then have

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Speaker 1: you become altogether vain? This is the portion of a

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Speaker 1: wicked man with God and the heritage that oppressors receive

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Speaker 1: from the Almighty. If his children are multiplied, it is

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Speaker 1: for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.

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Speaker 1: Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows

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Speaker 1: do not weep. Though he heap ups silver like dust

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Speaker 1: and pile up clothing like clay. He may pile it up,

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Speaker 1: but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will

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Speaker 1: divide the silver. He builds his house like a moth's,

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Speaker 1: like a booth that a watchman makes. He goes to

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Speaker 1: bed rich, but will do so no more. He opens

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Speaker 1: his eyes, and his wealth is gone. Terrors overtake him

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Speaker 1: like a flood. In the night, a whirlwind carries him off.

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Speaker 1: The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone.

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Speaker 1: It sweeps him out of his place. It hurls at

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Speaker 1: him without pity. He flees from its power in headlong flight.

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Speaker 1: It claps its hands at him and hisses at him

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Speaker 1: from its place. Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege to

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Speaker 1: be able to look at this portion of scripture. And Lord,

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

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Speaker 1: see that Job is well aware that in the end

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Speaker 1: things will not turn out well for the unrighteous, for

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Speaker 1: those who rebel against you, for those who have no

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Speaker 1: faith in you. And he's also confident in your strength

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Speaker 1: and in your power and the fact that you set

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Speaker 1: things right. But Lord, it's also clear throughout this book

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Speaker 1: so far that Job is wrestling with a bit of

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Speaker 1: self righteousness. It's clear that he can't see an area

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Speaker 1: of his life where he's rebelled against you, and this

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Speaker 1: trial is not in his life because of some sort

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Speaker 1: of act of rebellion. But Lord, we also know that

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Speaker 1: we're to recognize the fact that by nature we are

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Speaker 1: sinful people. And Lord, it's healthy for us to acknowledge that,

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Speaker 1: because in our specific context, it reminds us of the

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Speaker 1: fact that we need your son Jesus Christ, to grant

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Speaker 1: us the gift of his righteousness because ours is insufficient. So, Lord,

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of today and throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: every day, we pray that we would express our gratefulness

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Speaker 1: to you for restoring our lives, for making us whole,

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Speaker 1: for giving us your righteousness so that we don't have

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Speaker 1: to rely on our own, because our own is insufficient,

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Speaker 1: and apart from Jesus Christ and his presence, we have

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Speaker 1: no true righteousness. So thank you, Lord for revealing these

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Speaker 1: things to us from your word. Thank you for allowing

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Speaker 1: us to have a moment to meditate on them throughout

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Speaker 1: the course of this day. And by your grace, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we pray that we would walk with you faithfully throughout

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Speaker 1: the course of this day. We committed all to you,

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Speaker 1: and we thank you for it all in Jesus' name, Amen.