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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Job chapter thirty three

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Speaker 1: and we'll be reading from the message. So please job

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Speaker 1: hear me out, honor me by listening to me. What

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Speaker 1: I'm about to say has been carefully thought out. I

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Speaker 1: have no ulterior motives in this. I'm speaking honestly from

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Speaker 1: my heart. The Spirit of God made me what I am.

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Speaker 1: The breath of God Almighty gave me life. And if

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Speaker 1: you think you can prove me wrong, do it. Lay

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Speaker 1: out your arguments, stand up for yourself. Look, I'm human,

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Speaker 1: no better than you. We're both made of the same

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Speaker 1: kind of mud. So let's work this through together. Don't

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Speaker 1: let my aggressiveness overwhelm you. Here's what you said. I

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Speaker 1: heard you say it with my own ears. You said,

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Speaker 1: I'm pure. I've done nothing wrong. Believe me, I'm clean,

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Speaker 1: My conscience is clear. But God keeps picking on me.

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Speaker 1: He treats me like I'm his enemy. He's thrown me

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Speaker 1: in jail. He keeps me under constant surveillance. But let

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Speaker 1: me tell you job you're wrong, dead wrong. God is

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Speaker 1: far greater than any human, So how dare you haul

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Speaker 1: him into court and then complain that he won't answer

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Speaker 1: your charges. God always answers one way or another, even

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Speaker 1: when people don't recognize his presence. In a dream, for instance,

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Speaker 1: a vision at night, when men and women are deep

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Speaker 1: in sleep, fast asleep in their beds, God opens their

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Speaker 1: ears and impresses them with warnings to turn them back

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Speaker 1: from something bad they're planning, from some reckless choice, and

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Speaker 1: keeps them from an early grave, from the river of

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Speaker 1: no return. Or God might get their attention through pain

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Speaker 1: by throwing them on a bed of suffering, so they

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Speaker 1: can't stand the sight of food, have no appetite for

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Speaker 1: their favorite treats. They lose weight, wasting away to nothing,

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Speaker 1: reduced to a bag of bones. They hang on the

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Speaker 1: cliff edge of death, knowing the next breath may be

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Speaker 1: their last. But even then an angel could come a champion.

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Speaker 1: There are thousands of them to take up your cause,

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Speaker 1: a messenger who would mercifully intervene, canceling the death sentence

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Speaker 1: with the words I've come up with the ransom. Before

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Speaker 1: you know it, you're healed, the very picture of health.

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Speaker 1: Or you may fall on your knees and pray to

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Speaker 1: God's delight. You'll see God smile and celebrate finding yourself

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Speaker 1: set right with God. You'll sing God's praises to everyone

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Speaker 1: you meet, testifying. I messed up my life, and let

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Speaker 1: me tell you, it wasn't worth it, but God stepped

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Speaker 1: in and saved me from certain death. I'm alive again

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Speaker 1: once more. I see the light. This is the way

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Speaker 1: God works over and over again. He pulls our souls

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Speaker 1: back from certain destruction. So we'll see the light and

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Speaker 1: live in the light. Keep listening, Job, don't interrupt. I'm

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Speaker 1: not finished yet, but if you think of anything I

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Speaker 1: should know, tell me. There's nothing I'd like better than

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Speaker 1: to see your name cleared. Meanwhile, keep listening, don't distract

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Speaker 1: me with interruptions. I'm going to teach you the basics

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

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

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Speaker 1: look at this portion of scripture today. And Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the fact that you teach us valuable things

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Speaker 1: through the speech that Eli who is giving here is

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Speaker 1: he's speaking to Job. Lord. It's fascinating to look at

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Speaker 1: some of the things that a lie who was reminding

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Speaker 1: job of. And Lord, he speaks of the fact that

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Speaker 1: you pull our souls back from certain destructions so that

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Speaker 1: we see the light and live in the light. And

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Speaker 1: we know Lord that this is ultimately only accomplished through

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Speaker 1: your son Jesus Christ. So Lord, we thank you that

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Speaker 1: you open our eyes to be able to see our

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Speaker 1: need for salvation through Christ, and that once we receive

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Speaker 1: the gift of salvation, that we have the privilege of

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Speaker 1: walking in the light. Lord, thank you for enabling us

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Speaker 1: to walk with you. Thank you for your love for us,

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Speaker 1: and we thank you, Lord for your presence with us

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Speaker 1: today as well. We love you, Lord, and we commit

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Speaker 1: this day to your care. And we pray this all

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen. Yeah,