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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm
Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter eight and
Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the message. Bill Dad from Shoeha
Speaker 1: was next to speak. How can you keep on talking
Speaker 1: like this? You're talking nonsense and noisy nonsense? At that?
Speaker 1: Does God mess up? Does God Almighty ever get things backward?
Speaker 1: It's plain that your children sinned against him? Otherwise why
Speaker 1: would God have punished them. Here's what you must do,
Speaker 1: and don't put it off any longer. Get down on
Speaker 1: your knees before God Almighty. If you're as innocent and
Speaker 1: upright as you say, it's not too late. He'll come running.
Speaker 1: He'll set everything right again, re establish your fortunes. Even
Speaker 1: though you're not much right now, you'll end up better
Speaker 1: than ever. Put the question to our ancestors. Study what
Speaker 1: they learn from their ancestors. For we're newcomers at this,
Speaker 1: with a lot to learn and not too long to
Speaker 1: learn it. So why not let the ancients teach you?
Speaker 1: Tell you what's right, instruct you in what they knew
Speaker 1: from experience. Can mighty pine trees grow tall without soil?
Speaker 1: Can lushous tomatoes flourish without water? Blossoming flowers look great
Speaker 1: before they're cut or picked, But without soil or water,
Speaker 1: they wither more quickly than grass. That's what happens to
Speaker 1: all who forget God. All their hopes come to nothing.
Speaker 1: They hang their life from one thin thread. They hitch
Speaker 1: their fate to a spider web. One jiggle and the
Speaker 1: thread breaks, one jab and the web collapses. Or they're
Speaker 1: like weeds springing up in the sunshine, invading the garden,
Speaker 1: spreading everywhere, overtaking the flowers, getting a foothold even in
Speaker 1: the rocks. But when the gardener rips them out by
Speaker 1: the roots, the garden doesn't miss them one bit. The
Speaker 1: sooner the godless are gone, the better, then good plants
Speaker 1: can grow in their place. There's no way that God
Speaker 1: will reject a good person, and there is no way
Speaker 1: he'll help a bad one. God will let you laugh again.
Speaker 1: You'll raise the roof with shouts of joy, with your
Speaker 1: enemies thoroughly discredited, their house of cards collapsed. Let's pray, Lord,
Speaker 1: We thank you for your word, and we thank you
Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at it
Speaker 1: together today. And Lord, as we've been going through the
Speaker 1: book of Job, it's interesting to see the kind of
Speaker 1: counsel that his friends choose to give to him, because
Speaker 1: interspersed in the midst of what seems like helpful commentary,
Speaker 1: we also see some stark lines that they draw that
Speaker 1: don't necessarily take into account the fact that at times
Speaker 1: you allow trials to come into the lives of those
Speaker 1: that you love for the purpose of glorifying your name
Speaker 1: and strengthening their faith. And Lord, we know that this
Speaker 1: was an experience that you were allowing Job to go
Speaker 1: through to testify to the power of your presence with him,
Speaker 1: to help him to go from being a man who
Speaker 1: knew about you to becoming a man who knows you
Speaker 1: in a deeper way than he ever knew before. Lord,
Speaker 1: we know that that's a purpose for the trials and
Speaker 1: our lives as well, that they would point out our
Speaker 1: need for You, that we would recognize through the experiences
Speaker 1: that we have in this world, that we need the
Speaker 1: gift of salvation through your son Jesus Christ, and that
Speaker 1: we would ask for that rescue. Lord, thank you for
Speaker 1: making that abundantly clear to us from your word, and
Speaker 1: we pray that throughout the course of each day that
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be so self reliant in the sense that
Speaker 1: we forget to come to You for the help that
Speaker 1: we truly need. Lord, will we try and go about
Speaker 1: life and our own strength. We're setting ourselves up for failure.
Speaker 1: We need your strength. And we're grateful that through faith
Speaker 1: in your Son, your power is present within us and
Speaker 1: is being worked out through us. So we're grateful for
Speaker 1: all of these things, and we're grateful for these reminders
Speaker 1: that we see in your word today. And we pray
Speaker 1: this all in Jesus' name. Amen.