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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. We are so grateful

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Speaker 1: Rick Burgess and I'm also the host of the Rick

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Speaker 1: So what we do here most every Wednesday is study

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Speaker 1: the Word of God. We've been doing that for about

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Speaker 1: a decade. Today we'll be continuing our study of the

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Speaker 1: very provocative book, the Book of Job and if you

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Speaker 1: want to turn to chapter twenty eight, that's where we

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Speaker 1: do is we're going to open up in a word

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Speaker 1: of prayer and we will jump right into job chapter

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be

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Speaker 1: with these men in the room, but also with the

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Speaker 1: We are thankful that they are here. Lord, I pray

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Speaker 1: today as you continue to mold me into the man

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Speaker 1: your power. I pray today that we all take something

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Speaker 1: away from studying this incredible book and even in chapter

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Speaker 1: twenty eight today and the pursuit of wisdom. In your

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Speaker 1: holy name, we pray Amen. So, yeah, this chapter is

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Speaker 1: about wisdom. Job twenty eight. You're gonna hear some things

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Speaker 1: at one point you're going to think that we're hearing

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Speaker 1: some of you may have done this where it's whoever's

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Speaker 1: we're being persecuted right now. Remember when we studied first Peter,

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Speaker 1: he's telling them, look, this is refinement, and what analogy

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Speaker 1: But he says, with your faith, hopefully when it is

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Speaker 1: here is Job saying, well, I think I think wisdom

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Speaker 1: maybe wisdom has the same process. Why not wisdom? Then

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Speaker 1: so now what he's saying is wisdom is extremely valuable,

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Speaker 1: They're back they're back. I deal with this on the

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Speaker 1: it's it's just absurd. We don't know what a man

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Speaker 1: that was a biological man. And they lost the case.

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Speaker 1: God's already defined it. But we're now have more wisdom

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Speaker 1: have ever been how many of you ever been in

426
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: a setting where you're like, everybody in here seems pretty happy,

427
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: but it feels about an inch deep and about a

428
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: mile wad. I got to go somewhere where we start

429
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: digging a little bit. You know, every one of these

430
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: services sounds like the same thing over and over again.

431
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm not being challenged. These are things that I've known

432
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: for a long time. I want to be taught that

433
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 1: the next thing. I want my sanctification to go forward.

434
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm kind of hearing a message for

435
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: seekers every single Sunday. I want to go somewhere where

436
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: we're going to go a little deeper. Not that, not

437
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: that those initial services don't serve a purpose. That just

438
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: can't be all we ever do move forward. You know,

439
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, you know, it's people that go to

440
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 1: church a lot, but they don't know the Bible. Uh

441
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: And and you know a lot of times doesn't not

442
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: have to follow the church. There's opportunities to learn the Bible,

443
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: they just don't take them, you know. So uh So

444
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: you know it's like I've talked about in men's conferences.

445
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: The reason why I don't think conference is, even though

446
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: we do them, I don't think conferences are enough. I

447
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: don't think fellowship's enough. Fellowship is important, but it's not discipleship.

448
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: And because I have noticed if you went to a conference,

449
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: I bet it was the same way back during promise Keepers.

450
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: I was lost during Promise Keepers, so I didn't go

451
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: to any of that. But I've seen the crowds. I

452
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: bet the percentage of men that were taking notes and

453
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: writing down the key parts of the message, I bet

454
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: it was a tiny percentage. When you're in that when

455
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 1: you're in that mass gathering rare and a lot of

456
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: times some of its functionality if you're sitting in a

457
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: stadium seat, it ain't that easy to sit there and

458
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: take notes. Not any of that any good. You know.

459
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not didn't have anyth to do with that apathy.

460
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: It's just this setup is not really I don't know

461
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: how I would hold my paper. I don't know how

462
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: I'm going to write. But most of the time when

463
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: I teach big groups, I don't see a lot of people,

464
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: even with the Bible, and I don't see hardly anybody

465
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:24,719
Speaker 1: with a notebook. And so I'm like, well, this probably

466
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: is a place that's difficult. You know how many times

467
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: have you left. I mean, I'm talking about a good service.

468
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: I'm talking about where the teacher was bringing it. And

469
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: you didn't write anything down, and you didn't hope, you

470
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: bibble and you can't wait to tell somebody about the message.

471
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: And I mean you're just now at lunch and you

472
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: and you can't remember it. You start going, yeah, man,

473
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: he said, though, well man, it was I'll never forget it,

474
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: I thought. And because you didn't write it down, that's

475
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: back again. Pen's gonna help you grow spiritually a lot

476
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: more than the greatest memory. And I'm looking around in here,

477
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: some of y'all so old. Your memory is not good.

478
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. Huh, I don't think you are retaining this.

479
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: Some of you sleep through about half of it, not

480
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: cause you're being mean, just because you old gainst their way, okay,

481
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: so so so anyway, So so it's important for us

482
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: to be an intentional right about digging down and growing

483
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: whatever that takes. Uh. And that's that's what he's talking about,

484
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: because wisdom is not just gonna come to you. You

485
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: gotta go get it. Six. Its stones are the place

486
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: of sapphires, and it has dust of gold. Uh. They

487
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: find the jewels that they're looking for when they go

488
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: down there. In their mind. They get those torches out

489
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: and they start turning that earth and they keep turning

490
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: it and turning it and turning it and turning it,

491
00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: and then eventually there it is. They find it, and

492
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: what they find is valuable. Wisdom is you pursue it.

493
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: But wisdom's not going to avoid us. You know. God

494
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: wants us to understand how we get wisdom. And then

495
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: he says in seven, the path no bird of prey knows,

496
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: and the falcon's eye has not seen it. And he says,

497
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm looking in nature? Even animals with

498
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: incredible eyesight they haven't seen these places. They don't know

499
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: how to mind. So they have all this incredible eyesight,

500
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: but they can't see these jewels. They don't have access

501
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: to that. Now, look, that's a deep point right there.

502
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people that have all

503
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: the potential in the world to see wisdom, but that

504
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: don't mean they will because they're not willing to put

505
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: in what it takes to go find right. And I

506
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: certainly have been guilty of that during a large portion

507
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: of my life. That is embarrassing. I shouldn't be shot.

508
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: I should be further along at six than I am,

509
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: but I squandered a lot of my life, sadly so

510
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: so An eight, the proud beast have not trodden it.

511
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: The lion has not passed over it. This is just

512
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, just given different examples of the

513
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: same thing. It says, you know, the lion, you know

514
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: which that time was? You know you ever notice it,

515
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: if it's ever bothered you that we called the lion

516
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: the king of the jungle, but it doesn't live in

517
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: the jungle. It should really be called the King of

518
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: the Serengetti, the King of Africa, but we call it

519
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: the king of the jungle, the tigers in the jungle.

520
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: The line's not in the jungle. See how wisdom works.

521
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: Look at me figuring out out. But anyway, so are

522
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: lines in the jungle? Somewhere? Are they? But anyway? All right?

523
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: So so anyway, but anyway. The lion was very respected

524
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: to being one of the most powerful animals on the earth.

525
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: But he says, you know what, he just walks right

526
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: over the top of it. With all the strength that

527
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: lion has. He can't find these things. He's never seen them,

528
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: He's never got there. So some of the most impressive

529
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: people that walk among us don't have any wisdom. I

530
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: want you think about that, right, Okay, I know a

531
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: lot of people who are impressive, but they're not awful smart.

532
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: And then some people who are really really smart, but

533
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: they don't have wisdom, the elementary wisdom of life. They

534
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: don't seem to have. Now they can thrill you with

535
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: some formula riding on a board and you go, wow,

536
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: that's a lot of knowledge, but it's not necessary wisdom.

537
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: And I mean think about it. Elon Musk, he ain't

538
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: got no wisdom. Look at how he's lived his life.

539
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: Now does that mean he's not smart, doesn't mean he's

540
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: not smart, doesn't mean he's not intelligent. He seems to

541
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: be quite smart and quite intelligent. But he's been cranking

542
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: out babies and ain't got no wife. His life's chaotic,

543
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: his personal life. You know, he hasn't shown a lot

544
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: of wisdom, and sometimes he's reckless with the things that

545
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: goes out and says it's not very it lacks wisdom.

546
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: He's impressive, but I don't find him to be all

547
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: that wise. Smart, yes, absolutely impressive, but not all that wise.

548
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't see him following what God said to do,

549
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: which shows you he's not he's not very wise. So

550
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: so anyway, so you you you you look at this

551
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: this plus the point he's making there, Okay, And no

552
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: matter how powerful he is on earth, he has still

553
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: hasn't seen him meaning you could be a king. How

554
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: many kings do we see throughout scripture? They didn't have

555
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: a lot of wisdom? What what you ever gone through?

556
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,239
Speaker 1: First and second kings? What keeps happening? And then he

557
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

558
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: They just keep saying that over and over again. You

559
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: had a handful that were wise, but you had a

560
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: bunch that weren't. They were they were impressive on earth,

561
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: but they'd have a lot of wisdom. So so now

562
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: next it goes to ten. It said man puts his

563
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.

564
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: Still mining. Uh, this is uh. It requires much effort

565
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: and and the and if you look at the Hebrew here,

566
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: what you're finding is the miner assaults the flint is

567
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: really the word. So he's not it's not casual. He

568
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: assaults it. You ever you ever done this kind of

569
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: work before? You can't. You can't swing all this lightly? Right?

570
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: Have you ever had done done any digging before? You

571
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: can go there and take you a little shovel and

572
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: you pick axe and kind of barely hit it. You

573
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: ain't going nowhere. You got to assault it, don't you?

574
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: And any anybody here ever spent a real long day

575
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: with a post hole digger? Oh my goodness, is that

576
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: not the worst thing ever on the planet. It's for

577
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: you to be handed the post hole digger. That's a

578
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: bad day. What about what about when I had to

579
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: hard to? What about? It ain't been no rain kunk?

580
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: You keep trying to get that good gracious. Uh so,

581
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: So anyway, he says, to get to what they want,

582
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: they have to assault the rocks. They gotta assault this flint.

583
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: So again, here we go where you're not. If you're

584
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: looking for wisdom, it's not just gonna come to you,

585
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: you gotta go get it. You gotta work for it,

586
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: you gotta be you gotta be seeking it. Do you

587
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: even desire to be wise? I do, And that hasn't

588
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: always been the case, but I do. I do want

589
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: to be wise. And we're gonna find out what the

590
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: real key is. But right now we see it's gonna

591
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: require effort. Ten he cuts out channels in the rocks,

592
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: and his eye sees every precious thing. There's that moment

593
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: he cuts tunnels in order to see pay dirt. He

594
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: finds what he's looking for. Is there any greater feeling?

595
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: Have you ever just been in search for something, been

596
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: searched for an answer? I did something so stupid this

597
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: past weekend, and it drove me crazy. And when I

598
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: finally got the answer in the middle of the night,

599
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,360
Speaker 1: I was elated. And it was in the middle of

600
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: the night. I've never been so thankful to be sixty

601
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: year olds. Sixties years old and have to go to

602
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: the bathroom in the middle of the night. If that

603
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 1: hadn't happened, I never thought of it, because that's what

604
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: woke me up. And you know what it was, how stupid.

605
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: I take off trying to go to speak over the

606
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: weekend down around Savannah, Georgia, which those that don't know

607
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: where I live, that's gonna be about a six hour ride.

608
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: So I pick up my brother an hour into the ride,

609
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 1: and we're gonna and we're gonna be going to stop

610
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: first about an hour and forty five minutes from where

611
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: we're going. So the place we're going now from where

612
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: I live in Birmingham should have been four and a

613
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: half hours, but from where I picked Greg up, it

614
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: should have been three and a half. Because I'm almost there.

615
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: I mean I've knocked that hour, I mean out of

616
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: the out of the trip. And so I go to

617
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 1: put in in the ways and it says four hours

618
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: and thirty five minutes, and it's trying to take me

619
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: through the mountains off the interstate. I'm like, what are

620
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: the world? And so I said, is there? I said,

621
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: I guess. I told Greg, I guess we better follow it.

622
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: I said, that's probably telling us say something on the interstate,

623
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: and Greg said, man, that's an hour and a half

624
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: I've got I'm pulling up the other map, so for

625
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: it says three hours and four minutes. In Ways, that

626
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: saying four hours and thirty five minutes. Why don't these

627
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: other maps see the problem? I said, I don't know, man,

628
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: but I mean, I just think there's a reason that's

629
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: trying to take us through the mountains and on these

630
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: back roads. And we finally say there's just too big

631
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: a difference. And we found multiple other maps that kept

632
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: saying three hours and four minutes. So we trudge on.

633
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: We never see any problem. Greg said, what do you

634
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: think was wrong with Ways? I said, I'm never using

635
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: it again. Never use it again. I'm out. I said,

636
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Speaker 1: I can't figure out why it was doing that. Let's

637
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Speaker 1: drive me crazy. We almost went into the mountains. We

638
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: almost add an hour after this trip unnecessarily bothered me

639
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Speaker 1: all day. Did it, went on down, went to the church,

640
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: got down to near Savannah, did the event. It was great,

641
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Speaker 1: get back to the hotel, go to bed, woke up

642
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: in the mid night, was going in the bathroom. I said, oh,

643
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was coming from the farm to

644
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Speaker 1: try to avoid all the stuff on I sixty five

645
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Speaker 1: and I went to Ways and said I don't want

646
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Speaker 1: to go interstates, and I left that clicked and it

647
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: felt so good. I mean, it's felt so bad that

648
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: I almost did it, but it felt so great to

649
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: go hoo. I've been trying to figure out how that happened. Eureka,

650
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: you idiot, but that's what it was, and it felt

651
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: great to have the answer right because it bothered me.

652
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: I was like, what happened? And I want to apologize

653
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: to people that ways because I really ran them down.

654
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: But really that was I clicked it and never went

655
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: back and changed it. So it was saying, you don't

656
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: like to go interstates, so we ain't never gonna put

657
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Speaker 1: you on interstate again. I got news for you. Will

658
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Speaker 1: be an hour and a half more, buddy, but we'll

659
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Speaker 1: take you through tee Haull Mountain if that's the way

660
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: you want to go. H So anyway, But you know

661
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: how that feeling have you ever had that you've been

662
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: searching for an answer and then and then then it

663
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: feels that way. That's what he's talking about here. He

664
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Speaker 1: cuts these tunnels, he sees pay dirt look at eleven.

665
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle.

666
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Speaker 1: And the thing that is hidden he brings out to

667
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: the light, all the hidden materials, the things man can

668
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: only bring to the light, even by damning the water.

669
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Speaker 1: He says, they You're gonna have to have some kind

670
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 1: of light to be able to see. You know, he's

671
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: now talking about panting for gold a little bit in

672
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Speaker 1: these where they damn up that and they use the

673
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Speaker 1: water and they pan for gold. But what's the only

674
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: way you can see what's in there. You gotta have

675
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: some light. You got to get out of the mind

676
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: now and get out here and look for some light.

677
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: And here's what he says. He says, wisdom is the

678
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: light of the world. And you know what, it can't

679
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: be bought. It can't be bought. Look you look at

680
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Speaker 1: the eleven, he said, and the things that are hidden

681
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: he brings out in the light. There's no way that

682
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Speaker 1: you're going to be able to buy wisdom. You can't

683
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: go get it. Wisdom has to be given to you,

684
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: but you got to go look for it. And it

685
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: comes from God, which is where he's headed. So now

686
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: we change a little bit. We're done with the mining. Now,

687
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: but where shall wisdom be found? I've given you this analogy,

688
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: but where is it? And where is the place of understanding?

689
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: So that's that's a rhetorical question where now he's setting

690
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: up what we want to do next. Wisdom can't be found.

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: No one knows where understanding dwells. Now. Look at thirteen.

692
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: Man does not know it's worth and it is not

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Speaker 1: found in the land of the living. He's saying, you know,

694
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Speaker 1: I don't know anyone you know. Not only can it

695
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 1: not be found above ground, it can't be founder under

696
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: the water either, you know. Look at look at what

697
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: he's going to say coming in fourteen. So first of all,

698
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Speaker 1: he says, it's not above the ground, it's not on

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Speaker 1: the land. It's not in the land of the living.

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00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: That's pretty much where everybody lives for team. It's also

701
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: not in the deep. The deep says it's not in me,

702
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: and the sea says it's not with me. Can't find

703
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: it above ground, can't find it. You can't find it.

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00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: All the way under the water to the bottom of

705
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Speaker 1: the ocean. You can't find it. Fifteen. It cannot be

706
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: bought for gold and silver, cannot be weighed as its price. Look, already,

707
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: he's already discussed that wisdom can't be found. He begins

708
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: to discuss, now what it might be like? Would it

709
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: be like gold? That's the first example. But you can't

710
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: use gold or you can't use silver to buy it,

711
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: so that must not be right. You can't just come

712
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: in and say, hello, do you sell wisdom? I've got

713
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: some gold and silver? How much it costs to get wisdom?

714
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: You can't go out and buy it. He's already said,

715
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: you got a mind for it. You're not just going

716
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Speaker 1: to happen upon it on the land. You're not going

717
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: to go down scuba diving and find it down there.

718
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: And you can't go And you can't. I don't care

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Speaker 1: how much money you got, you can't buy wisdom. Anybody

720
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Speaker 1: ever seen some really wealthy people that don't have wisdom? Oh?

721
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, have you ever seen so many

722
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: wealthy people that have no wisdom? Already giving you one example,

723
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: but I mean there's many. And one thing those of

724
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,479
Speaker 1: you that don't know, because a lot of people watch

725
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: these archives and listen to them on different times. You

726
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: have to pardon our enthusiasm in here, because on this

727
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Speaker 1: particular day, in real time, Taylor Swift is getting married

728
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Speaker 1: to Travis Kelcey and we're just all so excited. We've

729
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: been waiting on this. What a matrimony of wisdom this is? Now,

730
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Speaker 1: I will tell you this. Let me tell you this.

731
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Speaker 1: It is accommodation of a lot of money, A lot

732
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: of money. I want how it feels to be like

733
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Speaker 1: a NFL star and you married a woman that wants

734
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: you to sign the prenup. She could buy Travis Kelsey

735
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: about ten times, you know it, I mean, but anyway,

736
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: so yeah, right, more than that, you're right, so anyway,

737
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Speaker 1: But but but do they have a lot of wisdom?

738
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Speaker 1: They've got an empire? No. One of the things we

739
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: said on the air, if you want this to really matter,

740
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: is for two people. And Adler talked about this and

741
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: he was so right. What if two people this powerful

742
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 1: actually decided to enter into holy matrimony. They got involved

743
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: in their local church, and they began to be discipled

744
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: as disciples of Jesus, and they took all this platform

745
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: that they have been allowed by God to have, by

746
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: the way, and they actually used it to glorify him.

747
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: Now that'd be something to celebrate today, and maybe that'll happens.

748
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: Let's hope and pray it does. I know it could.

749
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: God can do anything. So so anyway, so he's saying

750
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: that there's no way you can buy it. And now

751
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: look at sixteen. It cannot be valued in the gold

752
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: of oph in precious onyx, or are sapphire. I mean,

753
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: you can't take all these valuable things that you know

754
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: what when you try to take these valuable things that

755
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: in those days they thought were so valuable, and they say,

756
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: next to wisdom, these things are worthless. You can't barter

757
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: these things for wisdom. You can't come in and say,

758
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: I got some sapphire for you know anything. I mean

759
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: you can't. I got some monys over here. You can't

760
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: do any of that. And then he said in sixteen,

761
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: these are things also that may be valuable to us,

762
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: but not to wisdom. They're worthless to God. You think

763
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: God needs these things to me? That's one of the

764
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: most hilarious things about people who don't tie. Oh, this

765
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: is my money. I made this money. Do y'all realize

766
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: how little wisdom that has? First of all, do y'all

767
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: think God needs your money? This is all about obedience,

768
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: This is testing obedience, you know, and you're also saying

769
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: to God, thank you for letting me keep you know,

770
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: money that I didn't have the ability to make. Ah,

771
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: God didn't go that worry to come up with that. Well,

772
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, who made you? Well? God? Okay,

773
00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: So who gifted you? God? Well, I guess it is

774
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: God's money then, okay. And by the way, he doesn't

775
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: need it. I mean, this is something we've come up

776
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: with in society to function. It's all his. But if

777
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: you think that you have made any of that, do

778
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: you think really that Taylor Swift did this speaking for

779
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,919
Speaker 1: them on her own? Who gifted her? Who made her?

780
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: Who gave her the savviness that she does have as

781
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: a business person? But where'd that come from? Where did

782
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey's athletic ability come from? God? And what he

783
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: did is he gave these gifts what so people could

784
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: glorify him with them, just like he gave you me gifts. Look,

785
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: when I first started doing radio, I didn't do it

786
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: for God. I did it for me. And I remember

787
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: when when I first was redeemed, I didn't know what

788
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: to do with it until God gave me a small

789
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: town pastor to sit down men and say this is

790
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: why you've been allowed to do this. Now go do

791
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: it for him. And you know, my first thing was,

792
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: I guess I need to go to Christian radio, to

793
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: which my pastor said, you think he didn't own all

794
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: the radio? It's all his? What do we decide? The

795
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: Christian radio is the only thing that's God's Now. We

796
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: may not give it to him, but it's his. We

797
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: may not glorify him with it, but it's his, just

798
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: like a sense of humor. Sometimes the sense of humor

799
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: is used to glorify God. Sometimes the sense of humor

800
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 1: is used to blaspheme God. But he came up with it,

801
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: because if we're made in his image, where does sense

802
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: of humor come from? Must be him so, And there's

803
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: no doubt you can see that throughout scripture. I think

804
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: one of the first ones is right out of the

805
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: gate when he watches tells Adam, you can do all this,

806
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: you can do all to go over there and name

807
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: those animals. And he's watching these animals come by in pairs,

808
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: can you imagine, And Adam's kind of thinking, hmm, everybody

809
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: seems to have a partner. I ain't got one. Also,

810
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: I talked to a buddy mine today that said, the

811
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: reason why that God waited on creating Eve too, because

812
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 1: it's just this guy's in there is He said, do

813
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: you really think he could have got all that naming

814
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: done and all that guarding done if she'd already been created. Oh,

815
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: I don't think you should call him that, you know

816
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: what I mean. So we had never got all that done.

817
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: We had never got all that done. Uh and so,

818
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: so notice he waited and God didn't. God didn't bring

819
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: woman in til that was already done, you know it.

820
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: So so that's I mean, that's one thought I didn't

821
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: come up with that. I'll tell you that. That's they said.

822
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: The reasonhy I want to have a picture of Adam

823
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: and Eve. She never did like any of the pictures

824
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: they never could use. Uh so so anyway, so so anyway,

825
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: let's look at now, let's look at seventeen. Gold and

826
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for

827
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: jewels or fine. God, this is just the same point

828
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: being made again. It's just more examples of the same thing. Eight.

829
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Speaker 1: No mention shall be made of coral or crystal, or

830
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: of crystal. The price of wisdom is above pearls. Apparently

831
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Speaker 1: pearls were known even at this time, he said. He

832
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: keeps making the point, but he's finally doubling down. There

833
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: is nothing wisdom is above anything I can think of,

834
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,280
Speaker 1: and you can It's almost like he said, I'm even pearls,

835
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: I mean pearls, it's still more valuable than that. So

836
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: we're getting the point that there's nothing of more value

837
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: right than wisdom. Everybody with me. We tracking, He goes,

838
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: and then he talks about the topaz of Ethiopia nineteen

839
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.

840
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: So again when he talks about this topaz of Ethiopia

841
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: cannot be its equal, you know, it's it can't be

842
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: valued by gold. It's it's beyond that. It's to be revered.

843
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:03,439
Speaker 1: It's it's about here we go. It's about it's about

844
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: submission to God. And that's where Job's got headed. That's

845
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: where he's headed. You got he said, y'all trying to

846
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: find all this thing about wisdom. If you really want

847
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: a mind for it and you really want to know

848
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: where it is, you got to go and submit yourself

849
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: to God. I think about James James four. This by

850
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: the way James four. A lot of you know this.

851
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: Some of you know James four, seven and eight was

852
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: the turn around of my whole life, turn around of

853
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: my whole life. I was trying to figure out how

854
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: I had been so well trained in the Gospel, my

855
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 1: parents getting me to church, Sunday school teachers, preachers, baptized

856
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: by water twice, and I was like, how have I

857
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: ended up such a wicked man? And I had that

858
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: confrontation with the pastor that y'all know that told me

859
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,919
Speaker 1: didn't see the evidence of redemption, which he was right.

860
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: And when I went home to contemplate that, I had

861
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: not Some of y'all know this story, but I had

862
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: not looked at a Bible in thirteen fourteen years. But

863
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: of course my house had some Bibles in it, because

864
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: I'm from Alabama, and I had more Bibles than I

865
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: knew Bible verses, but they had not been opened. And

866
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: so I go over and all I really knew to

867
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: do was that little middle thing. And so where you

868
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: take psalms, you open up to the middle of the

869
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: Bible and it falls. And I attempted that and I

870
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: missed it, and the Bible fell to the Book of James.

871
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: I was so ignorant to scripture. I didn't even know

872
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: how funny that was that somebody who knew nothing is

873
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: now going to read James. Okay, if y'all don't know that,

874
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: we did a Bible study on James. Everybody in the

875
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: room was convinced we were lost by the end of

876
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: the study, and we all repented. Okay, it's a hard book. Okay.

877
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: James has taken us. He's demanding that we have proof

878
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: of this claim. And and he's talking to a church

879
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: and he says, I see things going on in here.

880
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: The look just like the loss, the way you were

881
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: treating people, the way we're acting. He even says, which

882
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: spoke to me, y'all know a lot about God, but

883
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: so does the devil. Okay, and y'all, y'all don't send

884
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: y'all are acting more like the devil. So what I

885
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: see is the demonic faith in here. Okay. And then

886
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: he says in chapter four, verse seven, therefore, based on

887
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:43,240
Speaker 1: him making that case, submit yourself to God, resist the devil,

888
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: come near to God, and he'll come near to you.

889
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: And I'm telling y'all because of the seeds, praise God

890
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: for the siege because I don't you know, God had

891
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: put those seeds in there so they would start to

892
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: bloom a little bit. When I when I saw this,

893
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 1: I looked at that word submit and I said, that's it.

894
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: It was like me remembering that I'd clicked back roads

895
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: only on the ways out. I was like, that's it,

896
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: that's it. I have believed in Jesus, but I've never

897
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: submitted to the authority of God. I'm still under my

898
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: own authority. I don't resist the devil. I dance with

899
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: the devil. I'm far from God. And so in that moment,

900
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: and that these verses have always meant so much to me,

901
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,800
Speaker 1: In that moment, I just said, as best as I

902
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: could muster with very little knowledge of any theology. I

903
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: know that you died for me. I know that you

904
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: went to the cross. I've never not believed in you.

905
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm just not under your authority. I've never submitted to you.

906
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: I've never truly repented of my sin and turned to you.

907
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: And I abut this. I know that what you did

908
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: shows me how much you love me. But I've just

909
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: realized I don't love you, because if I loved you,

910
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like this. So I'm asking you to

911
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: teach me to love you. And I almost submit to

912
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: your authority and ask you to change me. And did Now?

913
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: Did I learn everything overnight? No? Am I still learning? Yes?

914
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: And I know some of you're not gonna like to

915
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: hear this. Can I tell you what has taken me

916
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: the furthest in my biblical knowledge? Teaching some of y'all

917
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: Doddin who started? I started. I resisted teaching for the longest.

918
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: I would say things like, my wife's the teacher, I'm

919
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: the speaker. I got me about four messages and I'm

920
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: ready to go, and and God just wouldn't. He would

921
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: not have it. And he made me miserable. And I

922
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: hated school, and I hated having a project you. And

923
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: I said, Lord, I don't want to have a week.

924
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: Every week I got a project you. I got to

925
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: get ready for the next one. I said, I just

926
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: don't want to put myself in that situation. I'm too busy.

927
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: And you know that not doing it. I've been now

928
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: teaching for how long? You ain't gonna win against him?

929
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: And see, I thought that he wanted me to teach

930
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: you start off arrogant. I need to teach for the

931
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: benefit of others, and before you know it, you're teaching

932
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: for the benefit of you. And if others come along

933
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: and fine, And it's taught me so much. You know why,

934
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: because I'm the kind of person that needs to be

935
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: put in some gates, some boundaries that are beautiful, and

936
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: I need to be forced to do it accountability. You

937
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,520
Speaker 1: ain't gonna teach the Bible if you don't get yourself ready.

938
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: And then you know what, Now though, I just eat it,

939
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: I just love it, just eat it and need it,

940
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: and eating it's just so good, can't get enough of it.

941
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if God's going to reveal himself to me,

942
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big deal. I think I'll start mind

943
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: it right, so you know the fact that he's willing

944
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: to say, I'll tell you all these things about me.

945
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: Come on, I'll tell you about me. So if you're

946
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: not studying the Word of God, it is actually a privilege,

947
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: not a burden. Now it started off to me as

948
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: a burden, but it's not, so, he says in twenty one.

949
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: It is hidden from the eyes of all living and

950
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: concealed from the birds of the air. We've covered that

951
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: a baden in death. I mean we talked about these.

952
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: One of these is destruction. One of these, of course,

953
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: is just death. They say, we have heard a rumor

954
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: of it with our ears. Yeah, destruction, we've heard of it. Death,

955
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: we've heard of it. But they don't know it either.

956
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: And then look at here, here we go twenty three.

957
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 1: God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.

958
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: Life and death don't know it. The birds of the

959
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: air and all creation doesn't know it. So where do

960
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 1: we find it? We find it from God. God understands

961
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: the way. He knows the place twenty four. For he

962
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: looks to the ends of the earth, the round earth,

963
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: and sees everything under the heavens. Animals have no access

964
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,320
Speaker 1: to it. Wisdom isn't with the living or the dead.

965
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 1: They don't own it. God knows wisdom and fully understands it.

966
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: He is perfectly wise, omniscient, perfectly wise. He sees everything

967
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:54,439
Speaker 1: Verse twenty four. He sees it all. When he gave

968
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: the wind its weight and apportion the waters by measure.

969
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,959
Speaker 1: Oh that I love that one. Underline that one. You'll

970
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: know that job's won't get that in the resume. What's

971
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 1: one of the things that God says to Job. By

972
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: the way, the encounter's coming. Hate to give away the end,

973
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: but it is coming. And what is one of the

974
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: things that he asked, Job? Do you tell the water

975
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: where to stop? Did you do that? You tell the

976
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: wind what to do? See how I do? And you're

977
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: gonna question me? And but Job, look, Job seems to

978
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: know it. Have you ever known something that God had

979
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: to remind you of it? I've been reminded many times

980
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 1: of things I already knew. But God took me back

981
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: there and said, you remember, you do know that? Right?

982
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: You know who I am right now? Now you're in

983
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: distress right now, Rick, and you're crying out to me.

984
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: You seem to be getting a little afraid, which I

985
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: don't like. You seem a little anxious. I'm not crazy

986
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: about that. So you've already forgotten every time I've come

987
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 1: through for you. You think this time I'm not coming through.

988
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: You don't think this time I've got your best interest

989
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: this time? Some reason you can't trust me this time?

990
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: How many times have I come through and you still

991
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: have to come back and wonder if you can trust me?

992
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 1: What do you It's one of the first things I say.

993
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: I know it gets on people's nerves when they're struggling.

994
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: In the first things, I say, clean to what you know,

995
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: clean to the promises of God. But how you can't

996
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: cling to something you don't know, right, So so God

997
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: does know, and Job seems to know things about God's

998
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: resume that God has to tell him. Here later in

999
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: this book, look at twenty six when he made a

1000
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 1: decree for the rain and a way for the lightning

1001
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: and of the thunder. Then he saw it and declared it,

1002
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: he established it, and he searched it out. God's wisdom

1003
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: is even in the storms as a blessing. He's getting there.

1004
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: He's getting there. God's even in the storm, right, God's

1005
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: even in the storm. God when he produces a storm,

1006
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: he produced it for a reason. Now Satan's allowed to

1007
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: do a storm. He might kill some folks, but God

1008
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: still had to allow that. Okay, But he's even in

1009
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: the storm. And sometimes it's not blessing. I mean, it's

1010
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: not a blessing, it's judgment. But sometimes it's not judgment,

1011
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: it's a blessing. I've had storms in my life that

1012
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: were a blessing. Then he saw it and declared it,

1013
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: he established it, he searched it out. He is all known,

1014
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: He is sovereign. He utilizes wisdom and everything because wisdom

1015
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: has flown from him from the very beginning. He's the

1016
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: beginning of everything. He's always been wise. He didn't just

1017
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: start being wise. He didn't go to school to be wise.

1018
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: He is wisdom man. And look at twenty eight and

1019
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: he said to man, behold the fear of the Lord.

1020
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 1: That is wisdom, and turn away from evil. You do that,

1021
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: if you turn away from evil, that's understanding. So what

1022
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: is wisdom? Solomon tells us again? Doesn't he later fear

1023
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: God and do what he says? Is that sound familiar

1024
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: from Ecclesiastes Solomon's basic letter of repentance. I tried everything,

1025
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: and he came to the same conclusion that Job had

1026
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: already come to. I have come to the conclusion that

1027
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: the whole role of man is to fear God and

1028
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: do what he says that is wisdom. Do you believe that?

1029
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: Do you fear God? Now? Does that mean that you

1030
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: are in awe of God? Yes? Does it also mean

1031
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: that you fear his wrath? You better believe it. It

1032
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: means that too, you don't want to be on the

1033
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: wrong side of him. Because I promise you in the end,

1034
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: those that have decided to go against him, they're not

1035
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: just going to be in all of him. They're gonna

1036
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: be destroyed by And to be in that group is

1037
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: to lack wisdom. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today,

1038
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: thank you for the message, thank you for these men,

1039
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: thank you for the men and women that are joining

1040
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: us everywhere. Thank you so much, Lord for the reminder

1041
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: today from Job and your holy name. We pray Amen.