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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Hello, I'm Rick Burgess,

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Speaker 1: are in a Bible study through the book of Job.

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Speaker 1: Today we'll be in Job chapter fourteen. If you'd like

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Speaker 1: This is a podcast about spiritual warfare. One of the

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Speaker 1: things that many times we are not very educated on

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Speaker 1: is something that the Bible talks about quite a bit,

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Speaker 1: and that is spiritual warfare. Angels and demons, they are real,

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Speaker 1: So there is a supernatural, a cosmic forces and things

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Speaker 1: to educate you on spiritual warfare, not to obsess over it,

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Speaker 1: but also not to ignore it, because you don't have

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Speaker 1: It's just whether you know how to fight it properly.

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Speaker 1: So we will train ourselves to what the Bible has

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Speaker 1: to say as our source. And there's two episodes that

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Speaker 1: let's jump right into Job Chapter fourteen. Lord, thank you

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Speaker 1: talk for eternity. Thanks to you. Thank you for this

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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to, you know. He he's going to talk about,

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Speaker 1: you know, she all here in a minute. He's going

427
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Speaker 1: to understand this place of the dead. But but there's

428
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Speaker 1: they don't. He doesn't seem to understand what God does

429
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Speaker 1: with us, even if we're right with him after we die.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to know. He has a faith that,

431
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Speaker 1: you know, he wants to be right with God and

432
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Speaker 1: that there's something, but he does not. He doesn't he

433
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Speaker 1: has he has zero concept, it seems, of the resurrection

434
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Speaker 1: of the dead because he never references it, and he

435
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Speaker 1: talks about when we die, we just die. You know,

436
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: even even lakes and rivers could be filled again, but

437
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 1: we can't be roused out of this death, out of

438
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Speaker 1: this sleep. So then he does talk about here she

439
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Speaker 1: all that he knows. He says, oh, that you would

440
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Speaker 1: hide me and she all that you would conceal me

441
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Speaker 1: until your wrath be passed, that you would appoint me

442
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Speaker 1: a time and remember me. There it is again. So

443
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Speaker 1: he seems to think that the dead goes somewhere until

444
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Speaker 1: God's doing what he's doing, and then he'll go get them.

445
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Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of there there, but it's

446
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Speaker 1: not it's kind of hard to understand what he really believes.

447
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Speaker 1: He does believe he's going to this place that they

448
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Speaker 1: all talked about where the dead go. You even see

449
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Speaker 1: this throughout a lot of the Psalms and the Old Testament.

450
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Speaker 1: But he is saying, right now with his men, let

451
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Speaker 1: me have the peace of death until this is over.

452
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Speaker 1: Whatever you're upset about, let me go ahead and go

453
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Speaker 1: to sleep till it's over, and then just think about

454
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Speaker 1: the foreshadowing. When your wrath is over, remember me. He

455
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Speaker 1: realizes something has got to deliver me from God's wrath.

456
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Speaker 1: I hope that God will remember me when his wrath

457
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Speaker 1: has been satisfied. How does the wrath get satisfied? Jesus? Remember,

458
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Speaker 1: don't don't have bad theology. God did not decide not

459
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Speaker 1: to hand out his wrath on No, he had to

460
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Speaker 1: pour out his wrath. That's he was. He was, He

461
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Speaker 1: was just to pour out his wrath. His wrath is

462
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Speaker 1: going to be poured out on one or two things

463
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Speaker 1: already pulled, poured out on Jesus, by the way, that's

464
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Speaker 1: where you need to be, or it's going to be

465
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Speaker 1: poured out on you if you reject Jesus. Remember what

466
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Speaker 1: we said about the cross. It got real exclusive right there.

467
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Speaker 1: You're either redeemed by the cross or you're condemned by

468
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Speaker 1: the cross, one or the other. So here's job. He

469
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Speaker 1: seems to understand, and he's yearning for something that can

470
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Speaker 1: just end God's wrath. And I just soon be asleep

471
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Speaker 1: till it's over. Foreshadowing of the New Covenant. There it

472
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: is again. He's looking for it. He knows there's something

473
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Speaker 1: that needs to be done, and he yearns for it.

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Speaker 1: Do you yearn for that day? When God's wrath is

475
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Speaker 1: completely done, all who oppose him, and the supernatural and

476
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: human beings, all who oppose him are eradicated, and we

477
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Speaker 1: finally go into the New Heaven, the New Earth, the

478
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Speaker 1: New Jerusalem, and all this is over. God's wrath is

479
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Speaker 1: no more because we have been saved from his wrath

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Speaker 1: by a son, Jesus, who now illuminates the new Heaven,

481
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Speaker 1: the New Earth, and the New Jerusalem. And we're done

482
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Speaker 1: with all this. Have you ever sometimes thought, I just

483
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Speaker 1: like to go to sleep till we get there. But

484
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Speaker 1: that's not what we were called to do. As the

485
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Speaker 1: apostle Paul kept telling the church over and over again,

486
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Speaker 1: we don't go sit up on a mountain and wait

487
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Speaker 1: to die. We're supposed to be making disciples. We're supposed

488
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: to be teaching people all that God commanded, and we

489
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Speaker 1: do that until he returns. Our body finally gives out.

490
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: What did Paul say, I am straining for the finish line.

491
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Speaker 1: I press on. I don't look back to the way

492
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Speaker 1: I used to be. I press forward to what's next.

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Speaker 1: That's not about justification. He doesn't need to strain for

494
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Speaker 1: justification or press for justification. That's the obedience. That's the

495
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Speaker 1: work that he's been called to. That's let me be

496
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Speaker 1: found in your favor, let me hear a will done.

497
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Speaker 1: He even goes far as to say, if you take

498
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Speaker 1: my life here in prison, that'd be great. I'll be

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Speaker 1: in your presence. If you think these people need me,

500
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Speaker 1: then you let me out and I'll serve them. Either way,

501
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm going to be fine. So but right now, Job

502
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Speaker 1: just wants to die, understandably, But it's not the right

503
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Speaker 1: attitude to have. Fourteen. If a man dies, shall he

504
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Speaker 1: live again? You see what I'm talking about. He doesn't quite.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he understands it. All the days of

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Speaker 1: my service, I would wait till my renewal should come.

507
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Speaker 1: Foreshadowing again, it's clear that Job isn't sure about this

508
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Speaker 1: resurrection of the dead, but he does seek an answer. Now,

509
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Speaker 1: what is this word? Service? Is interesting? Here? All the

510
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Speaker 1: days of my service, I would wait. The word here

511
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: in Hebrew actually is reserved for military service. It usually

512
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Speaker 1: is talking about military service. I don't know whether Job

513
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Speaker 1: is saying I have worked hard for you, I have

514
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: served you. But look at the bigger, the bigger statement here,

515
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Speaker 1: till my renewal shall come what is he talking about? Hey,

516
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: how about a new life? How about a new beginning?

517
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: Can you deliver me from this and just renew me?

518
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: Who renews us, Jesus, who gives us the new life? Jesus?

519
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: He is just saying, give me that, this what I

520
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: have right now, it's got to be better than this.

521
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Speaker 1: Give me something new, renew my life. He's really crying

522
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Speaker 1: out to the question in the email, redeem me, make

523
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Speaker 1: me write with you. I want to be back in

524
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Speaker 1: the proper place with you. Fifteen. You would call and

525
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Speaker 1: I would answer you. You would long for the work

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Speaker 1: of your hands. I would like an answer. I would

527
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Speaker 1: like an answer. Now, what does he mean by you

528
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: would long for the work of your hands? He's talking

529
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Speaker 1: about himself. You made me? This sounds a little bit

530
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Speaker 1: like the Garden of Eden, doesn't it. You're the one

531
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Speaker 1: who made her. Why did you make us? If you

532
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: made me, you know me? And if you made me,

533
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Speaker 1: then why won't you give me an answer? Why would

534
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Speaker 1: you make me to be silent and not answer me?

535
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: I would Hey, if you call, I'll come. I'll listen

536
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 1: to you. Call me in front of you. He's going

537
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: to call me in front of you and I'll listen.

538
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Speaker 1: You made me so, why won't you answer me? Sixteen

539
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: for then? Meaning if he can get that to happen,

540
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Speaker 1: you would number my steps. You would not keep watch

541
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Speaker 1: over my sin. He's changed you. Remember when he said

542
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: he felt like God was a hunter, hunting him like pray.

543
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: He says, I don't want that. I don't want that.

544
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Speaker 1: This is what I want, then, this is moving. I

545
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: want you to be my father. I want you to

546
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Speaker 1: love me, and I want you to just tell me

547
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Speaker 1: what to do. I want you to lay out my

548
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Speaker 1: steps for me. I'd be fine with that. I'm confused.

549
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. I wish you would

550
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: just tell me what to do and lay out my

551
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Speaker 1: steps like a father would, a son was a son.

552
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: And here's what I would like. Because I thought I

553
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 1: was blame us. I thought we dealt with everything. I

554
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: want to get to a place where you remember my

555
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: sin no more. Woo, there it is again. I wish

556
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: you just whatever's bothering you about me. I wish you

557
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: would just finally be done with it. I want to

558
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: be made right with you. I want you to be

559
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Speaker 1: my father again. I want to be your son. Show

560
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: me what to do. Go with me, Walk with me.

561
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: I feel like you've left me. You ever felt like

562
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: God left you? Even though you know that's not true.

563
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: You're just looking for something. Give me some reassurance. I

564
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: always get it every time I'm asking for it. I'll

565
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: get it now. I may not get it as quick

566
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: as I want it, but I get it. Could you

567
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: love when you get it? Sometimes it'll be what It

568
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: didn't even have to be, this big, miraculous moment. You

569
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: want to tell everybody, how many times have you been

570
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: praying to God trying to get an answer on something

571
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: and you just simply open up the Bible and there

572
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: it was. It just pointed your right to it. Is

573
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: this what you're looking for? Meaning, by the way, I'd

574
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: already answered this, you just must have forgot. I've already

575
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: told you what to do. Right? Can you imagine? Have

576
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: you ever have you ever had your children do that?

577
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: At likely that they don't recall anything you said. You're like,

578
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: I think we've covered this and so but God does

579
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: provide that answer. But in this a beautiful moment where

580
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: we see such a foreshadowing of the New Covenant, how

581
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: about this? How many of you are glad that you

582
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: you were created in the time of the New Covenant.

583
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: These things he's yearning for, we got see. We wouldn't

584
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: have to ask ask these questions because we would know them.

585
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: And if we didn't know them, one of God's people

586
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: could tell us, could show us job doesn't have that

587
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: job's working all this out as he goes seventeen, look

588
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: at this, My transgression would be sealed up in a bag,

589
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: and you would cover over my iniquity. My goodness, Jesus.

590
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: You ever heard anybody say the whole Bibles about Jesus,

591
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: It certainly is now this bag analogy. I couldn't believe

592
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: it was here when I was studying this because this

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Speaker 1: is something that I've been convicted of in the last

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Speaker 1: few years of my sanctification process, and it's this analogy

595
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: of my sins being in the bag. But it's not

596
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: a bag that Jesus has yet. It's a bag that

597
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: Jesus is asking for me and I still have it.

598
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: You go, what you mean, Rick, have you not confessed

599
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: your sin? Yeah? But I've given Jesus most of the

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Speaker 1: back and Jesus said, I want the whole bag, and

601
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I still got a few things in the back.

602
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: And Jesus is like, give me the whole bag, and

603
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, and then I'll reach in the bag and

604
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: I'll give him one more. There's that, give me the bag.

605
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: If you want us to be right with everything? Why

606
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: is there still things in the bag that you still

607
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: seem to love more than me? Yeah, but I don't.

608
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: It's not like I love them more than you. I

609
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: just I'm just not quite done with him yet. And

610
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: what Jesus is saying, just what Job's saying. I can

611
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,879
Speaker 1: put every sin you have in a bag, and if

612
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 1: you repent and hand it all to me, I'll conceal

613
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: it and we'll be done with it. But we're not

614
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: gonna be done with it as long as you keep

615
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: things in the bag. I want the whole bag. I

616
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: don't want you to hand them out to me individually.

617
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: Have you ever been that when you were redeemed? I

618
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: got a lot to work out, and we're gonna work

619
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: it out one by one, as opposed to saying, let's

620
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: get it all done right now. And I don't. I'm

621
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: not cleaning to anything. I'm all in. I'm all in,

622
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: and uh and I will tell you that, you know,

623
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: my bag is almost empty but it ain't empty. I

624
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: hadn't given. I still got to give more to it.

625
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: You know, I'm still working it out through the same notification.

626
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: And in all fairness, there's some things. Most of the

627
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: things that were obvious and I knew were wrong, they're gone.

628
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: What's happening is I didn't know I still had some

629
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: in the bag, and Jesus could show me that I do. Oh,

630
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: you're right, I didn't know that was in there. And

631
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: so he's still working it out, right, amen by about this,

632
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: But he's working it out. I ain't where. I'm not

633
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: there yet, but I ain't where I was, right, Okay,

634
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: So little Calhoun County English there for you. So let's

635
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Speaker 1: go to Let's now go to eighteen. But is that

636
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: not Jesus right there? I just wish my transgressions could

637
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: be selt up in a bag and you would just

638
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: cover my inequality. You talking about like Jesus did eighteen.

639
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: But the mountain falls and crumbles away and the rock

640
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: is removed from its place. Now, I mean, he gets

641
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: to This is the thing about job that every time

642
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: he and I visit and we're going through this, I

643
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: just watched this rhythm that he's got He goes from

644
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: I'm looking for hope, I'm almost found hope, and it's

645
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: all hopeless. And then I just why would I even

646
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: hope for that? He said everything he wished would happen.

647
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: He's asking, God, you're going that's hopeful, that's hopeful. Job.

648
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: Then he goes, but that ain't gonna happen. Did I

649
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: tell you about the It reminds me. And we talked

650
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 1: about him on the on the radio show, and we

651
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: got a big laugh out of him. I know, Adler

652
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: remember this. It was a guy that I he was

653
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: the most negative man I ever sat next to an airplane.

654
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he was completely negative. And his statement every

655
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: time he would say something negative like that he wished

656
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: he could, he would go, of course that's over. And

657
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,280
Speaker 1: he just kept doing all the flight, all the way home.

658
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: Tell you what I wish that. You know, when I

659
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: was younger, I could, you know, go go go to

660
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: the ball games and I'd get season tickets and I'd

661
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: go and enjoy myself. Of course that's over, and just

662
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: everything was over. I mean it was like every little

663
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: thing I used to be but eat anything I wanted to,

664
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 1: didn't have any problems at all. Of course, that's over.

665
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: And he just did that all the way back to Birmingham,

666
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: and I got to where I just I got his

667
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: rhythm going. I was just like, okay, he would bring

668
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: some hey, hey, you know with us. So I'm just

669
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: say you, so I really used to enjoy that. You

670
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 1: enjoy that. I really did. Of course that's over. And

671
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 1: so anyway, this is kind of job he gets, kind

672
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: of he gets right there, I'm going to sell. Hey, man,

673
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: you're talking about you're talking about the New Covenant. But

674
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: that's over. There's no hope. He said. All mountains fall away,

675
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: rocks fall one by one. Before you know it. You

676
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: look over the cliff and what's at the bottom, debris.

677
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: It's just falling apart, crumbling away, just like we do nineteen.

678
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: The water wears away the stones, the torrents wash away

679
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: the soil of the earth. So you destroy the hope

680
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: of man, just like that, just like erosion. God, you

681
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: wipe away all my hope. Just a minute ago, he's

682
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: asking God for hope, and now he's saying, of course,

683
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: you just wash it all the way. You just wash

684
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: it all the way. Twenty you prevail forever against him

685
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: talking about mankind and himself and he passes. You change

686
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: his countenance and send him away. You take away all

687
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: hope God you get how about this? You get me

688
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: set right, and I get myself together. I get just

689
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: a little bit of hope. And right when I'm joyful,

690
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: you take my joy. This is what the Hebrew word

691
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: says here, and you turn my joy into a twisted

692
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: face of death. I was happy, I had it, just

693
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: like I liked it. Of course that's over. Say do

694
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: what he's saying. You change my countenance, meaning what my

695
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: countenance one time was joyful, but it's not now you've

696
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: changed that. And really, like I said, the Hebrew word

697
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: here is into a twisted face of death. Twenty one

698
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: now this is here comes a mourning father. Now his

699
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: son's come to honor, and he does not know it.

700
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: They are brought low and he perceives it. Not if

701
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: a man's sons are destroyed, it's probably better off that

702
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. But what if they were honored?

703
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: What what if somehow they're being honored right now? It's

704
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: also sad if I miss that. He basically said, you

705
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: know you just took you just took my sons away

706
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: from me, and I don't really know why you did that. Remember,

707
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: he's not saying Satan did it. I don't know why

708
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: you did that, And you know, and if there was

709
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: something wrong there, you know, I guess it's better that

710
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: I didn't see what the deal was. I didn't see

711
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: how they died. But also it's also just as sad

712
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: as if a man has sons that are being honored

713
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: and he misses out on that too. So whatever was

714
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: going to happen to my sons, I don't know now,

715
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: because you didn't allow me that. I didn't get to

716
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: see it through. You know, have you ever had people

717
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: what he's doing? Did you ever have people say, which

718
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: I've been there. Sometimes if one of your children go

719
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: on to glory before you and praise God, we hope

720
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: they're redeemed, and somebody will say, well, you don't know

721
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: what God kept them from experiencing. Yeah, and you can

722
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: find hoping that there might have been grace and mercy

723
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: and the shortness of their life of something horrible that

724
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: was coming. And Job says, so, I guess that's okay.

725
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that, But what about all the things

726
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: I didn't get the experience that might have been wonderful.

727
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: That's sad too. Now he's a little off there when

728
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: you talk about the sovereignty of God. And I told

729
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: you that I had God speak so sweetly to me

730
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: through the Holy Spirit, not in the audible, but just

731
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: it was so it was such a correction. Some of

732
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: you know this story. But after my son went to heaven,

733
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: he was the youngest of all of them, but he

734
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: still had, you know, siblings that were still involved in things,

735
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: and even two brothers that were, you know, six and eight.

736
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: And so I remember being a little league game for

737
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: the six year old and I was coaching third and

738
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: Browner had not been gone very long. He had gone

739
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: to heaven and winter and this was that spring and

740
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm standing on third base. And those of you that

741
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: don't have children, and every dad would admit this, not

742
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: that playing sports makes any kid more successful than another kid,

743
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: but as men, there's something really cool and maybe from

744
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: almost two, the first time you see your last name

745
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: on the back of a jersey, it's a cool little thing.

746
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: And so I'm on third base and six year old

747
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: comes to third and he looks up smiling in this

748
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: little bat in helmet. It was coach pitch. You know.

749
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: And he turns around and I see his name on

750
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: the back of the Jersey Burgess and I was sad,

751
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: and I thought, I'll never see that, I'll never see

752
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: Brown or play little League. And just as quick as

753
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: the sadness came, I was so reminded he was never

754
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: gonna play little league when I wove him together in

755
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: Sherry's womb. He was never gonna play little League. That

756
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: was not my plan. You're not missing anything that was

757
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. You got to trust that though his

758
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: life was short, it was perfect, and he showed us

759
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 1: that over and over over. If you have read Cherry's book,

760
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: you know how many times he did and so and

761
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: in that instant, I had a peace, you know, a

762
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: reminder God's in control. And that didn't bring me sadness.

763
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: That actually brought me peace, which is what it should

764
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: bring us. So twenty two he feels only the pain

765
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.

766
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: This is that thing where you try so hard God

767
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: tries to get you to look beyond your circumstances, and

768
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: Job said, I just can't. Right now. All I know

769
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: is what I'm in. I can't see past this. You

770
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: ever been in a time of difficulty and you can't

771
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: see past it. Everybody keeps saying one day this is

772
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: gonna be over. You just can't see past it, and

773
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: then you can't remember all the times that it delivered

774
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: you all you can do. I'm just stuck right here.

775
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: I can't get out of this. I can't see behind this,

776
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: I can't see in front of this. I just see this.

777
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: That's all right. God understands that. And Job says that

778
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: all I know is my body and my soul, and

779
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: I just know my situation, and my situation is pain

780
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: and misery. So all I know is I'm mourning for

781
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: no one else right now but myself. Not the best ending.

782
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 1: But Job's view of life in the afterlife, remember, they're dim.

783
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the New Testament, he doesn't have the

784
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: New Covenant. He is going through all this with an

785
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: incomplete vision. He's dim. Even Paul says, we're still dimed

786
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: to a degree, and there's things that we don't understand

787
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: until we're finally glorified. But Job's view of all this

788
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: is even more dim than ours because he doesn't have

789
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: the New Covenant. His view of the afterlife, he doesn't

790
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: seem to understand that or know the things that we

791
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: know compared to the New Testament. See Job right now,

792
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: he doesn't have one Corinthians fifteen. He didn't have it.

793
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,720
Speaker 1: He didn't have old death wears your sting. He doesn't

794
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: have that. You know, the body is going to die

795
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: and it's going to be renewed with the glorified body.

796
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: He didn't have that. He didn't have first Peter, you

797
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: know three and four where Peter's talking about don't worry

798
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: about the difficulty you're going through because the day is

799
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: coming when all this is going to be made right.

800
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the revelation. He doesn't see, you know, John,

801
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: the revelation he sei. He doesn't see chapter seven, He

802
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: doesn't see chapter twenty one. He doesn't see any of that.

803
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: He doesn't know all this is going to be made new.

804
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: He doesn't have any of that. So what's happened is

805
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: Job has simply gone into and be careful that we

806
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: don't do this. He's simply gone into the library of

807
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: his own prison. Now as we get ready for next week,

808
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,720
Speaker 1: Job has gone into that library of his own prison,

809
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: of his own knowledge. He's prepared his case he's presented

810
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: his petitions, he's presented his arguments before the Judge of

811
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: the universe, and a verdict is coming. He keeps calling

812
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: out to the Judge of the universe, and his day

813
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: in court is coming. But first I'm going to start

814
00:45:53,880 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: that next week. Job's accusing friends have decided that they'd

815
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: like to have their say one more time, and we'll

816
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: jump into that next week. Let's pray, Lord, thank you

817
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: for today. I pray Lord that for all of us

818
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: that have the opportunity now to hopefully coming up on

819
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: the long weekend when this Bible study was happening, live

820
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: to have some time to rest and reflect, and for

821
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: our countries we go into thinking about something called Memorial Day,

822
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: when we thank people who gave their lives to pay

823
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: the lease on the freedoms that we enjoy. May it

824
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: be also a reflection of a thank you to you

825
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: for giving up your life and suffering on our behalf.

826
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: Not just for some temporary freedom, but you gave your

827
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: life for eternal freedom, for freedom that can never be

828
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: taken away, for freedom that no longer needs a lease

829
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: to pay because you have paid it all. Thank you,

830
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: Thank you that we have the hope that job can't

831
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: see right now. Thank you Lord, and forgive us from

832
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: when we knowing the things we know still act a

833
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: lot like Job, just acted as if we don't have

834
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: that hope. Unlike Job, we know it and may we

835
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: never take it for granted, and we thank you for it.

836
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,959
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. We pray Amen. Thank you guys,

837
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: and thank all of you.