1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio. For more resources to help you in your 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: walk with Christ, please visit us at Bible Studyheadquarters dot com. 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter eight and 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:26,240 Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the message. Bill Dad from Shoeha 6 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: was next to speak. How can you keep on talking 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: like this? You're talking nonsense and noisy nonsense? At that? 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: Does God mess up? Does God Almighty ever get things backward? 9 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: It's plain that your children sinned against him? Otherwise why 10 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: would God have punished them. Here's what you must do, 11 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: and don't put it off any longer. Get down on 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: your knees before God Almighty. If you're as innocent and 13 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: upright as you say, it's not too late. He'll come running. 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: He'll set everything right again, re establish your fortunes. Even 15 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: though you're not much right now, you'll end up better 16 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: than ever. Put the question to our ancestors. Study what 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: they learn from their ancestors. For we're newcomers at this, 18 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: with a lot to learn and not too long to 19 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: learn it. So why not let the ancients teach you? 20 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 1: Tell you what's right, instruct you in what they knew 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: from experience. Can mighty pine trees grow tall without soil? 22 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: Can lushous tomatoes flourish without water? Blossoming flowers look great 23 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: before they're cut or picked, But without soil or water, 24 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: they wither more quickly than grass. That's what happens to 25 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: all who forget God. All their hopes come to nothing. 26 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: They hang their life from one thin thread. They hitch 27 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: their fate to a spider web. One jiggle and the 28 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: thread breaks, one jab and the web collapses. Or they're 29 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: like weeds springing up in the sunshine, invading the garden, 30 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: spreading everywhere, overtaking the flowers, getting a foothold even in 31 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: the rocks. But when the gardener rips them out by 32 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: the roots, the garden doesn't miss them one bit. The 33 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: sooner the godless are gone, the better, then good plants 34 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: can grow in their place. There's no way that God 35 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: will reject a good person, and there is no way 36 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: he'll help a bad one. God will let you laugh again. 37 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,839 Speaker 1: You'll raise the roof with shouts of joy, with your 38 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed. Let's pray, Lord, 39 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: We thank you for your word, and we thank you 40 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it 41 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, as we've been going through the 42 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: book of Job, it's interesting to see the kind of 43 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: counsel that his friends choose to give to him, because 44 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: interspersed in the midst of what seems like helpful commentary, 45 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: we also see some stark lines that they draw that 46 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: don't necessarily take into account the fact that at times 47 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: you allow trials to come into the lives of those 48 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: that you love for the purpose of glorifying your name 49 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: and strengthening their faith. And Lord, we know that this 50 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: was an experience that you were allowing Job to go 51 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: through to testify to the power of your presence with him, 52 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: to help him to go from being a man who 53 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: knew about you to becoming a man who knows you 54 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: in a deeper way than he ever knew before. Lord, 55 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: we know that that's a purpose for the trials and 56 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 1: our lives as well, that they would point out our 57 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: need for You, that we would recognize through the experiences 58 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: that we have in this world, that we need the 59 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: gift of salvation through your son Jesus Christ, and that 60 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: we would ask for that rescue. Lord, thank you for 61 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: making that abundantly clear to us from your word, and 62 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: we pray that throughout the course of each day that 63 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: we wouldn't be so self reliant in the sense that 64 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: we forget to come to You for the help that 65 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: we truly need. Lord, will we try and go about 66 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: life and our own strength. We're setting ourselves up for failure. 67 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: We need your strength. And we're grateful that through faith 68 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: in your Son, your power is present within us and 69 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: is being worked out through us. So we're grateful for 70 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: all of these things, and we're grateful for these reminders 71 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: that we see in your word today. And we pray 72 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: this all in Jesus' name. Amen.