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Speaker 1: So let's open up in a word of prayer and

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Speaker 1: we'll jump right into Job nineteen. Lord, thank you, thank

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Speaker 1: you for today. What an honor it is Lord to

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Speaker 1: open up your Holy Word, and Lord, we just we

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Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit. In this ongoing narrative about

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Speaker 1: Job and Lord, we're learning so much about you, we're

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Speaker 1: learning so much about him, and also we're learning a

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Speaker 1: Job nineteen. There's going to be some statements here that

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Speaker 2: But let's kind of talk about where we are. Job.

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Speaker 1: He has made his case over and over again that

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Speaker 1: us we're back to Job as the speaker. We've learned

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Speaker 1: that ever since chapter four, that that's how the book rolls.

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Speaker 1: So we get into verse two and Job says, how

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Speaker 1: Now, God's going to show up eventually and he will

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Speaker 1: And he says, why are you continuing to crush me?

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Speaker 1: If you look at the original language here, he's saying,

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Speaker 1: How long will you continue to just destroy me with

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Speaker 1: Are you not ashamed to wrong me? Now, let's not

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Speaker 1: suggests that they could be enjoying, you know, putting him

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Speaker 1: The bottom line is this isn't between you and me.

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Speaker 1: And he's just saying, just stop it, just just stop

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Speaker 1: is again, he saying, what you're doing here is you're

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Speaker 1: You're elevating yourself, either by putting me down or by

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Speaker 1: Y'all are doing both. You're you're not just putting me down.

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Speaker 1: is this is interesting. Here's Joe again. God is dealing

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Speaker 1: Dad used this net analogy. So he he wants to

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Speaker 2: That God would be the one that would that would

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he's being very specific, cause that's directed right

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Speaker 1: I've made my case with you guys, Okay, I want

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Speaker 1: this to stop. How long is this gonna go on?

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Speaker 1: Are you enjoying this? Putting me down and lifting yourself up?

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Speaker 1: But I want you to know I'm done with it.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear this anymore. Anybody ever got

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Speaker 1: to the point do you just finally say I'm done.

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Speaker 1: always very transparent. I want to be teaching myself as

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Speaker 1: I'm teaching here. I don't talk at you. I talk

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Speaker 1: to always make sure you understand that I that I'll

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Speaker 1: walking through this, everywhere you see he, you can put

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Speaker 1: the word God. You know, there's almost a little bit

436
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Speaker 1: of a we're a little squeamish with that. Ont we

437
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Speaker 1: were real to stay with He's we know that may

438
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Speaker 1: stand for God. It's a little bit squeamish. And because

439
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: we don't we understand what Job's saying, we may not

440
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: like what he's saying. We don't like to think that

441
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,880
Speaker 1: somehow that God might deem for us the best thing

442
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: to be misery. We just rather not go down that road.

443
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Speaker 1: We don't want to think like that. We don't want

444
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Speaker 1: to be that. I don't want to consider that. That's

445
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: all right, that's pretty normal.

446
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Speaker 2: Now.

447
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Speaker 1: It's one thing not to desire it. It's quite another

448
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Speaker 1: thing not to believe it.

449
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Speaker 2: That's different.

450
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Speaker 1: Because you can find people out there that will tickle

451
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,080
Speaker 1: your ears and say, not only do we not like it,

452
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: we don't believe it. And then you'll have to tell them,

453
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Speaker 1: do y'all ever do a Bible study on the Book

454
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Speaker 1: of Job, And I'm gonna bet the answer is no.

455
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Speaker 2: We do not so.

456
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Speaker 1: And so that's the bottom line. God is doing this.

457
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Speaker 1: He knows God is doing this, and he's trying to

458
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Speaker 1: figure it out. Look here, God has kindled his wrath

459
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Speaker 1: against me and counts me as his adversary. Now this

460
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Speaker 1: is where Job is incorrect. He doesn't have this right.

461
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: God's in control, He's got that right. But he thinks

462
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Speaker 1: God's got something against him. He thinks God is doing

463
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Speaker 1: pouring out his wrath on him over something that God's

464
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Speaker 1: mad about. That isn't correct. Now that's important too. That's

465
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Speaker 1: a big ee today. Okay, that's a big ee today.

466
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Speaker 1: Don't always assume that the difficulty that you're in is

467
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Speaker 1: because God's upset. There's many times that you have difficulty

468
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Speaker 1: and God's not upset at all. He just knows this

469
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Speaker 1: is what we need a for him to be glorified.

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Speaker 1: Could be that be for our own refinement. I mean,

471
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Speaker 1: the Bible tells us that difficulty produces a steadfastness. It

472
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Speaker 1: brings us into a more appreciation for the holiness of God,

473
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Speaker 1: makes us more dependent on God. It certainly humbles us,

474
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Speaker 1: doesn't it, which is happening here with Joe? So this

475
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: part Job does not have right. God is not angry

476
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Speaker 1: with him. His anger and wrath are burning against him,

477
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Speaker 1: he thinks. But here's the thing that's gonna blow your mind?

478
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 2: Does anybody?

479
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: And I have a problem with this, even with shows

480
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: and movies, and I get ostracized for this. I'm about

481
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: to tell you something's gonna happen in the future of

482
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Speaker 1: our study. Are you okay with that? I'm also the

483
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 1: kind of guy that'll tell you if you're watching a movie,

484
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: don't get attached to that gutta.

485
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Speaker 2: You know so?

486
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Speaker 1: But but I'm gonna I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell

487
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: you this right now. God's angry with his friends. He's

488
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Speaker 1: not angry with Job. God's actually angry with his friends.

489
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Speaker 1: And You're like, well, why are they sitting there so

490
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Speaker 1: comfortable while Job suffers? God does things the way he doesn't?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So so he he he trusts Job.

492
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Speaker 1: He doesn't trust them. Try and try that again. You don't,

493
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Speaker 1: just don't just look down. That's that's a takeaway. Job

494
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: is suffering. His friends are not God's anger. When he

495
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Speaker 1: starts giving his speech to these friends, he's angry with them,

496
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Speaker 1: but they're not suffering.

497
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Speaker 2: He trusts Job. He is suffering. Hang on to that.

498
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Speaker 2: That's a good one right there.

499
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Speaker 1: So we're going to see that God is going to

500
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Speaker 1: get really upset with these friends, and you know why,

501
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: because their representation of God is incorrect. I'd write that

502
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: one down. God's angry because people claim to be representing

503
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Speaker 1: him and they're representing him incorrectly. We got some of

504
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: that going on in our society right now. So if

505
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: you don't know what a correct representation of God is,

506
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: you're gonna get food by these Charlatans.

507
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 2: Okay.

508
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: So that's why it's important to be here, and I'm

509
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: so thankful that you guys are so so devoted to

510
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: be in here every week. It's important and I commend

511
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: you for it.

512
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 2: So here we go. Verse twelve.

513
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Speaker 1: His troops come on together and they have cast up

514
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: their siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

515
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 2: So he's here.

516
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Speaker 1: A lot of commentators think, even though he's still talking

517
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: about God, he's almost seeing these friends, and he's comparing

518
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: them to an enemy, to enemy troops. You know, their

519
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: arguments against him are like a siege, a siege ramp,

520
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: you know, where they're coming into battle and unwilling to

521
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: refrain and listen. They are aligned together, all three of them,

522
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: against me. So he's not just saying that he thinks

523
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: God's against him. He looks over at this bunch and

524
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: he says, well, look.

525
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Speaker 2: At this group.

526
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Speaker 1: It's like a bunch of troops aligned together, all on

527
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Speaker 1: the same page, and every one of them are coming

528
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: after me. They're like a siege on me. They're like enemies,

529
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: enemy troops.

530
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 2: So then.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you if you have a

532
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: soft heart. Thirteen through twenty is probably one of the

533
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: more pathetic and pitiful parts of this entire book, because

534
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: Job feels like that he is he's leaving his argument

535
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: with God, and he's coming to the realization that he's

536
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: been forsaken by his friends and his family.

537
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: And this is a low.

538
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: Moment for him here because he's still trying to figure

539
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: out what God's doing. But then he goes, but I

540
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: know what these people are doing that I can touch

541
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: and I can feel, and I have been abandoned by

542
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: everybody I thought that I could trust. Thirteen, He has

543
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: put my brothers far from me, and those who knew

544
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: me are wholly estranged from me. Now they do not think,

545
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: because he's going to get here, the commentators here do

546
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: not think he's talking about siblings, even though he will

547
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,479
Speaker 1: get to that these are likely What he means is

548
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: fellow countrymen, even including these friends. He says, my own

549
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: relationships are strained, my fellow countrymen, my brothers, my friends,

550
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: I'm a stranged from all of them. Notice though who

551
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: he blames for it are blames or is saying has.

552
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 2: Done it God.

553
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: God has turned my own my own friends against me.

554
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: God has turned my own countrymen against me because I'm

555
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: not being vindicated. So now they're mad at me for

556
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: something that God's doing and God's not defending me. So

557
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: then he gets into to fourteen. Now we're talking about relatives,

558
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: because it says relatives, My relatives have failed me. My

559
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: close friends back to friends again have forgotten me. So

560
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,560
Speaker 1: all family and all friends have left me. Fifteen The

561
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: guests in my house and my maid servants count me

562
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Speaker 1: as a stranger.

563
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 2: He's saying, those.

564
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Speaker 1: Who have known worked for me, worked with me, those

565
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Speaker 1: that at one time honored me in the past, they

566
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: see me now like somebody.

567
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: They don't even know. They see me as a stranger.

568
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: You've ever been in a situation like this, and you're like,

569
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: when did When did the person I was?

570
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: Change? Y'all? Y'all knew me, you know how I do things.

571
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: You've seen me past, test after test, you see me

572
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: do this, and all of a sudden, in this particular struggle,

573
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: you've decided that I'm not the person that you always

574
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: acknowledged I was. Now suddenly I'm a stranger. You know,

575
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: where did I ever show, y'all that there was anything

576
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: about me that you now can't trust? And you know

577
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: what a feeling that is. And it's been throughout the

578
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: book of Job. He continues to just be heartbroken, and

579
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: if you've ever been there, you will be too. That

580
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: they're not giving him the benefit of doubt because he's

581
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: lived his life with integrity for a really long time.

582
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: So Verse fifteen, the guest in my house and my

583
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: maid servants count me as a stranger. I have become

584
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: a foreigner in their eyes. Now look at sixteen. I

585
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: call to my servant, but he gives me no answer.

586
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.

587
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm so far gone now that I even have to

588
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: beg my own servants, who at one time would the

589
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: minute I said something, they would jump to it. If

590
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: I said this is what we're going to do today,

591
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: they'd do it. And now these same people that I

592
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: used to have authority over. Now we're not talking about

593
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: slaves here. We're talking about people that were being taken

594
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: care of by job that worked his land, worked his

595
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: worked his cattle.

596
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 2: And all his camels and all this.

597
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: And he had a great relationship with them, he said.

598
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: But now the very people that used to work for

599
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: me and respect me, I have to beg them. I

600
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: have to beg them to show me mercy. Oh, how

601
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: the mighty have fallen. My breath is strange to my wife,

602
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: and I'm a stench to the children of my own mother.

603
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 2: They're siblings.

604
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: Now, you got them, and also the wife. Now there's

605
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: a literal thing here, but there's also a figure thing here.

606
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: Is it likely that job does not have great breath

607
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: right now?

608
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: Probably? So, okay, probably so.

609
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: But but what he's really saying here in the figurative

610
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: sense he's using that as an example, is that I

611
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: got no relationship with my wife right now. My wife

612
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: has told me to curse God and die. She's devastated

613
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: by the death of our children. Do we see her

614
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: anywhere right now? I mean, it doesn't say the three

615
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: friends and his wife. Now, I want you to think

616
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: about this. If if your relationship with your wife, if

617
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: you're married in here, if your relationship with your wife

618
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: is where it needs to be and it's healthy, do

619
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: they just abandon you when you're struggling. No, my wife

620
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: will be right there with me. Wouldn't you think she

621
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: would be sitting right there with them. She might tell

622
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: these idiots to leave and stay there by ourself, you

623
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: know what. But she's nowhere to be found. And he says,

624
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 1: so I've even really I'm despised, I'm seeing as despicable

625
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: and undesirable by my own wife. And then he says,

626
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: and I'm a stench to the children of my own mother.

627
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: Apparently there are siblings involved, and he says, they don't

628
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: even want anything to do with me. My brothers and

629
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: my sisters or whatever they are. They don't want anything

630
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: to do with me either, And he says in eighteen,

631
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: this is something you see in our society so much today,

632
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: which makes me sick. Even young children despise me when

633
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: I rise, they talk against me. I mean, I'm so

634
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: far gone. I'm so I've lost any honor, any authority.

635
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: Kids don't even listen to me, Kids disrespect me, kids

636
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: will say anything they want to to me. They don't

637
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 1: think I'm of any value. You know, when you're an

638
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: elder and young people disrespect you and mouthed off at

639
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: you and don't don't show you any honor, it's a

640
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: terrible feeling. We got a lot of that going on

641
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: in our society right now. Young people have kind of

642
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: lost respect for older men and women.

643
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 2: It's ugly.

644
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: And if you look around, their decision to do that's

645
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 1: really worked out great. And so you know there's something

646
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: to the gray haired folks. We're worth listening to. And

647
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: Job says, you know what, I can't even get. I

648
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: can't even get Your children don't even like me. They

649
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: don't even want to be around me. So now look

650
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: look what happens next. In nineteen all my intimate friends

651
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.

652
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: Now what is this right here? You remember when we

653
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: talked about the circles. You know, you have your your

654
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: your strangers or the farthest circle out. Then the next

655
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: circle in and are lances, and then you get into

656
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,240
Speaker 1: that little circle in the middle. This is what Job's saying,

657
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: the inner circle.

658
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 2: They're gone. I mean the.

659
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: People that were closest to me, those whom I have

660
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: loved and at one time they love me. These are

661
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: the people that I are, my confidants, these are my

662
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: two am people. These are the closest people family and

663
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: friends that I have that It doesn't get any closer.

664
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: Use the word intimate here. It doesn't get any closer

665
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: than our relationship. And now even these people have nothing

666
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: to do with me.

667
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 2: They're gone. Verse twenty.

668
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: My bones stick to my skin, to my flesh, and

669
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. It's

670
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: he says, you know what, And I'll Calhoun County this

671
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: one because it can get a little convoluted.

672
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 2: But the bottom line here is physically.

673
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: I'm so far gone physically, I don't even know how

674
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm still alive. It's a miracle that I am still alive,

675
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: and I must be hanging on by a thread, by

676
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: the skin of my teeth. I'm barely How am I

677
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: even here? How am I even here? And he's also

678
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: this is a complaint because you know, if you if

679
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: you've ever been with someone that you loved and they're

680
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: suffering and there's and there's no hope as far as

681
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: physically now hopefully they're redeemed. And you know, it's beautiful

682
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 1: about the redeemed. I mean this just hit me today

683
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: as I was kind of going over everything and I have,

684
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, someone that that I love that is days

685
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: away from death, and I thought to myself, off, because

686
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: he's fully redeemed. And I'm talking about getting a well done,

687
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: good and faithful servant kind of thing, a life well

688
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: lived for the kingdom and for the Savior that redeemed him.

689
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: So right now, see I feel bad for him, But

690
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: in days, he's gonna feel bad for me. That's all

691
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: about to shift. See, right now, I feel like I

692
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: have the upper hand. I'm like, well, I have my

693
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: health and I have this and he's near death. But

694
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: when he takes that step and his spirit for the redeemed.

695
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: Now when that spirit is in glory and sickness and

696
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: death are no more for him, and he's standing in

697
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will say

698
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: to him, well done, good and faithful servant. He will

699
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: not need me to pity him at all, and he'll

700
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: begin to pity me because I'm still here and all

701
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: the garbage and he don't have food with it anymore.

702
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 2: It's a weird flip, isn't it.

703
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,840
Speaker 1: You know, you've been there by their beds before and

704
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: you feel bad for them, but when they go, they

705
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: feel bad for you.

706
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 2: So let's go to where they're going. They don't want

707
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 2: to come back to where we are.

708
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: So so this is where he is. I'm hanging on.

709
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I'm hanging on. I'm ready,

710
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: I just be ready. He's sorrdy told us he's ready

711
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: for this to end, right, So that's not that's not speculation.

712
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: He's told us that. So twenty one, have mercy on me. Twice,

713
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: have mercy on me, ohe you, my friends, for the

714
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: hand of God has touched me. Two he pleads to

715
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: his friends again, have mercy on me. Don't you see

716
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: that for whatever reason that I'm trying to figure out.

717
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 1: God is against me right now, and you know what

718
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: he's saying. Are you gonna be against me too? I mean,

719
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: you see that I'm in trouble. Why would you choose

720
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: to see that I'm in trouble that you too would

721
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: be against me? Where's the encouragement about let's work through

722
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: this and let's all figure out what God's doing. And

723
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: God's touching you right now. But I wonder why would

724
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: have been so much of it if you could have

725
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: maybe doubted your theology like me and say, well, you know,

726
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: I've never seen as opposed to saying and are we

727
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,959
Speaker 1: supposed to change our theology because of Job?

728
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 2: Maybe what they've already said.

729
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: Maybe you come in and say, I know Job, really, well,

730
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: hang in there. God's doing something. We don't know what

731
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: it is, but we're standing with you, and we know

732
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: your integrity, and we'll get to the end of it.

733
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: God will reveal this to you. We're standing with you.

734
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: You know what they said, God's against you, and you

735
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: know what, so are we, And he's begging them show

736
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: me mercy.

737
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: He says it twice.

738
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: I think about Jesus, don't deny grace and mercy to

739
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: people that I didn't deny to you. I know this

740
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: is this is the We're not to the New Covenant yet,

741
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: but Jesus has already taught us that. You know what, Hey,

742
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: when you put me on the cross, I could have

743
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: asked for angels to come take me off that cross,

744
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: and I could have told my father.

745
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 2: To wipe you out. And I didn't, and you deserved it.

746
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: So don't take the grace and mercy that I didn't deny,

747
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: and then you deny that somebody else. And that's what

748
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: he's pleading for right now. So now we're going to

749
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: get into to twenty two. Why do you like, God

750
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

751
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: I've given you a pound of flesh and you what

752
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: do you want two pounds? I mean, why are you

753
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 1: acting the way God is act to me right now

754
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: in pursuing me and just trying to pile on right

755
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: I mean, job's like somebody throw a flag. I mean

756
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: they're spearing me. I mean, God's got me on the ground.

757
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no need to spare me just And

758
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: that's really what he's saying. So now comes a testimony

759
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: of hope. This is interesting right here, This is where

760
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: this thing gets chills on you. This is the interesting

761
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: thing about this book. It's almost like Job forgets everything

762
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: he knows, and then he starts remembering the things that

763
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: he knows.

764
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 2: Right, you ever been there?

765
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: I have, you know where all of a sudden, like

766
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: I've forgotten all the things that God's done for me.

767
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: I've forgotten what I believed and my moment, it's almost

768
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: like I think something's changed, and God hasn't changed. And

769
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,919
Speaker 1: watch this shift right here. Okay, this is interesting here

770
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: twenty three. Oh that my words were written, Oh that

771
00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:01,479
Speaker 1: they were inscribed in a book? Hey, Job, they were

772
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: We got them. And he's crying out for that. I wish,

773
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: I wish this could be documented. Well, God did document it.

774
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: Job is saying that I think people could learn from this.

775
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: I want everybody I want on record that I was

776
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: saying I was innocent. Well it is, we got it, Job.

777
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk to him. Abut verse twenty

778
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: three of chapter nineteen. I almost say, hey, Joe, remember

779
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: that the time you want it to be written down?

780
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 2: How about that? Yeah?

781
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: And uh so God did that? And look he wants it.

782
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: He wants it in there good to look at twenty four.

783
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: He didn't want it to be anything that's gonna be

784
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: you know, kind of sorta in there. Okay, he said,

785
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: I this may be seen as the highlight of this

786
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: entire book of Job.

787
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 2: Okay.

788
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: So so Job feared that he would die before he

789
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: was vindicated. He wished that this was being recorded. It is,

790
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 1: and this is, and he wants it to be something

791
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: that would last forever. Look at twenty four. Oh that

792
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: with an iron pen and led they were engraved in

793
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: the rock for ever.

794
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 2: It is. Isn't that great?

795
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: So what he's saying is I want this to be

796
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: if I go, let this be my epitaph. I wish

797
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: it was right there on the stone wherever my body's

798
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: going to be laid, that I was ben the I

799
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: was crying out that I was innocent.

800
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 2: Well, it was Job, and you know what we.

801
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: Do have it Then comes twenty five, probably what you

802
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: are real familiar with when you saw when people quote Job,

803
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: they often quote this, and for good reason. Look at

804
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: look at look at down twenty five. I'm going to

805
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: ask you if you have something to write with and

806
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: remember what we've talked about for years. Adrian Rodgers, thank

807
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: you very much. The cheapest pen helps you with Bible

808
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: study more than the greatest memory. Okay, what a great

809
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: word of wisdom he had so many for I know,

810
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: I want you under lie in their highlight, and I

811
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: know for I know. I think that's interesting because he

812
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: seems like he's been vacillating and now he's gonna come

813
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: back and say, I know, you know, he almost seems

814
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: like he's forgotten, but then he's reminding himself.

815
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 2: For I know that my redeemer lives.

816
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: And at the last he will stand upon the earth. Wow,

817
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: I know that's huge. Redeemer. What is the word here?

818
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: A redeemer mean? Now we know that, but just want

819
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 1: to remind you. This means I know there's someone that

820
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: will deliver me to make this right. Remember, he's already

821
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: been asking for this. Now he says, I know this exists.

822
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: He's clinging to this is going to be made right now.

823
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: He doesn't know about the New Covenant. He didn't know

824
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: about the New Covenant, but he sure is foreshadowing in it.

825
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 2: I need a redeemer.

826
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: How good does it feel to know that we don't

827
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: have to wonder if a Redeemer is coming.

828
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 2: He's already come. Have you been redeemed? Though? Do you stand.

829
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: Guiltless before a holy God? Are you made fully righteous

830
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: by this redeemer?

831
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 2: Do you know his name?

832
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 1: Have you left your own authority? Have you left faith

833
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: in your own abilities? And just said I can't meet

834
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: the standard. But Jesus you did, and I just give

835
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: my life to you, and I turned from my sin,

836
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: and I say you forgave me on the cross. You

837
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,359
Speaker 1: died for me on the cross. I acknowledge that had

838
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: to happen. I acknowledge I need to be made fully righteous. Hey,

839
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: partial righteous ain't gonna get it fully righteous under the

840
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: blood of Jesus Christ and his sacrifice and then the

841
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: eternal life we got when he walked out of that.

842
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: To him, I took care of the sin. I took

843
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 1: care of the death, and everybody and me will stand

844
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: before a holy Father fully redeemed.

845
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 2: And vindicated. Which job is screaming for me? He says.

846
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: I know it's possible, I know it's there. I know

847
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: God knows that I'm not wrong. I just don't know

848
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: how this is gonna work out, but I know it's

849
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: going to Watch this he doubles down. He really senses,

850
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: which is interesting because he seems like he's lost all hope,

851
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he kind of bounces

852
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: back here and look at twenty six and after my

853
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh, I

854
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: shall see God. He doesn't think he's going to hell.

855
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: He said, it may be that God doesn't do this

856
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: while I'm still alive. But I'm telling you, when I die,

857
00:48:56,880 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand before God and I'm gonna see him.

858
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: He's not saying that God's gonna crush me or send

859
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: me to hell. He is saying, I don't know why

860
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: you're making my last days on earth miserable.

861
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 2: I got no idea what you're doing. But I know this.

862
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: I know that I'm right with you, and I know

863
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: that if I'm not vindicated before I die, when I die,

864
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: I will be vindicated. Do you have that hope? Do

865
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: you have that hope? Can I go ahead and just

866
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: let you in on something. As long as you live

867
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: in this falling place, with all us falling people, we

868
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 1: ain't never gonna treat you right. We'll have moments where

869
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: we're okay. We're always gonna have some misconception about you.

870
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: We sometimes might get caught up in gossip we shouldn't

871
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: where we think things about you. We may see imperfections

872
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: and try to elevate ourselves and say, well, I'm not

873
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: as bad as that person. You know, there was one

874
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: time my whole purpose on earth was to make people

875
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: feel better about themselves and because of how wicked I was.

876
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: But I will say this, if we're right with God

877
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: through Christ. Cling to that, I know that I'm right

878
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: with God. I don't I'm not perfect. I keep making

879
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: mistakes because I'm being sanctified. But I know that when

880
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: I die, I'll be glorified, not because of anything that

881
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:14,760
Speaker 1: I could.

882
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:18,439
Speaker 2: Do, but because what Jesus has already done right.

883
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: And and you know, because just like we said before,

884
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: this whole thing of Paul's straining and pressing on and

885
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: working out his salvation, that's that's that sanctification, that's that fight,

886
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: that's that Look, I'm not gonna be satisfied where I am.

887
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: I want more of Jesus. I want more of the

888
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,760
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. I want to know his word. I'm working

889
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: it out. I want to grow. I want to be

890
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: able to handle the word. I want to be able

891
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: to advance the kingdom. I want to know what to

892
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: say when somebody asked me, where does my hope come from?

893
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: None of that's earning this redemption. It's the response to redemption.

894
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: It's sanctification. And then one day who glorification and the

895
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: fight's over and we can we can, we can just

896
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: stop the battle and say, flesh finally gone. Andy boy,

897
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: you have been a nightmare. I'm glad to see you go.

898
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: Right Well, job seems to know that's gonna happen. Look

899
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: at twenty seven whom I shall see for myself talking

900
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: about God now, and my eyes shall behold and not

901
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: another My heart faints within me. I will see God

902
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: and he will not be a stranger to me. And

903
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: just the thought of me standing there in front of

904
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: God just causes my heart to faint just thinking about

905
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: that moment. Can you imagine? That was another thing that

906
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,759
Speaker 1: Adrian Rodgers always said. You can tell that I've been

907
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: greatly influenced by Adrian Rodgers.

908
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 2: Right after I was redeemed.

909
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,760
Speaker 1: He's one of the first preachers I started reading and studying,

910
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: and he's such a great teacher and listening to old sermons,

911
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: and I remember he said you know, people keep talking

912
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: about the moment that they see God and the things

913
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: they may say and the things they may ask. And

914
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: he said, I I just want you to prepare you.

915
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: It's possible, if not likely, you may just fall on

916
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:10,760
Speaker 1: your face and say Holy for a thousand years before

917
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: you ever get up and ask anything.

918
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 2: He's that overwhelming. He's that overwhelming. I will go ahead

919
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 2: and tell you this.

920
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: I don't think the great I am when we come

921
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: rushing in and go, well there's Rick, Rick, what's your

922
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: Q and A what are some things you want to

923
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: run by me?

924
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 2: That's probably not the way that's going to go.

925
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: I think the time will come when, but I have

926
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: a feeling when I first see his glory, I'll probably

927
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:34,879
Speaker 1: uncontrollably go on.

928
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 2: My face and just say Holy.

929
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: So so anyway, because that's what job saying. I think

930
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: my heart will it faints within me to think about this.

931
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 2: Twenty eight.

932
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: He gives a stern warning to his friends, Hey, he's

933
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: had enough, listen to this. He now turns. From that moment,

934
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: I think, don't y'all think you go with me here?

935
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters out there. I'm certainly not the final

936
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: word on this, but I tend to think because he

937
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: looked like he was kind of down, he was done

938
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: with him, he was upset, kind of lost his confidence.

939
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: And then he starts this this thing about I wish

940
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: all this would be written down. And then he gets

941
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: into the Redeemer. Then he gets sin to seeing God.

942
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: I think that gives him confidence for these last two verses.

943
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: I think it changes his whole countenance. I think he

944
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: turns down and going, you know what, and now that

945
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 1: I just remember that. Let me tell you people something,

946
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: right you ever had that where you just somebody has

947
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 1: to use just just like man, I'm not got no

948
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: wait a minute, just hang on just a second, and

949
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: you start kind of building yourself back up. Well, he's

950
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: building God up, and he knows he's right with God.

951
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:36,919
Speaker 1: And he says to his friends, look at twenty eight.

952
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: If you say, how will we pursue him? And the

953
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: root of the matter is found in him. If you're

954
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: blaming me for this, if you think I've brought this

955
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: on myself.

956
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 2: Look at this.

957
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: Be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment

958
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: of the sword. That you may know there is judgment.

959
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:59,879
Speaker 1: Now this is also Jesus t all a lot about

960
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: this job. Didn't know that yet, but you know what

961
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: he's saying. If y'all keep hounding me like this and

962
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: you keep saying I'm the problem, look at you, Look

963
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 1: at you, Look at you. You are the ones that

964
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: are about to be judged. And you're gonna be judged

965
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: because you made yourself judge.

966
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:19,439
Speaker 2: What did Jesus say?

967
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,399
Speaker 1: Just remember, when you're pointing out the speck in somebody's eye,

968
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: you better get the log out of your own eye.

969
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: And then he reminds us what you're gonna be judged

970
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: by the same standard, and what you judge that person. Now,

971
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: if you're pointing out that something is wrong, and you

972
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: acknowledge that if you were doing that, it was wrong too.

973
00:54:42,719 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: This Sometimes people take Jesus's teaching and they incorrectly interpret it.

974
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: We had a whole generation that did this that thought.

975
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: All Jesus ever said was.

976
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 2: That, hey, don't judge.

977
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: No, what Jesus said was don't judge incorrectly. Don't interpret

978
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 1: that to say we can never say something's wrong based

979
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: on biblical s standards.

980
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 2: That's not what Jesus was teaching. He was saying, there'll be.

981
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: A hypocrite, don't make yourself God, because you're not God.

982
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: Acknowledge that you're imperfect too, and be sure you have

983
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,919
Speaker 1: your life in order before you decide to correct somebody else.

984
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: What he said is correct people with yourself corrected first.

985
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,760
Speaker 1: Don't run out and be a hypocrite pointing to everybody

986
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:22,720
Speaker 1: and not realize you're health to the same standard.

987
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 2: That's what Jesus was saying. And you know what, Job's

988
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 2: kind of give us friends a little bit of that.

989
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 2: I tell you we're.

990
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: Gonna find out y'all think y'all are judging me, and

991
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: you think I'm the one in trouble with God. I

992
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: want you to be real careful because this sword you're

993
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 1: slinging around, it's gonna be turned on you.

994
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 2: By the way, that does happen. Job gave me just

995
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 2: a little bit of be careful.

996
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: Now, be careful with your little end zone dance on

997
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: how bad I am, because I just remembered where I

998
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: stand with God. And if you continue to hound me

999
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: and say I'm the problem and God's punishing me because

1000
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: I'm wicked, and you keep talking about how wicked I am,

1001
00:55:58,000 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. God's gonna point to you,

1002
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: how wicked you are. Of course it has no impact.

1003
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: They continue this narrative, but it's gonna start. It's gonna

1004
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: start lose thing a little bit. But there's so much

1005
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: to take away from this nineteen I just couldn't get

1006
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: enough of it, and I hope that it's helped you today,

1007
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 1: because the main thing to take away from this is

1008
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: God's in control.

1009
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 2: God's actually upset with the.

1010
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: Friends, not with Job. He's suffering. They're not, but he's

1011
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: upset with them, not Job, and that Job cries out.

1012
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: I know that this is all gonna be made right.

1013
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: I don't know how, but it is going to be

1014
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:48,479
Speaker 1: made right. And then he turns around and says, and

1015
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:52,240
Speaker 1: be careful how you treat the redeemed, and be careful

1016
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 1: how you judge me, because you're gonna be judged by

1017
00:56:56,239 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: that same standard. And if you're judging incorrectly, God's gonna

1018
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 1: punish you for that. And if you represent God incorrectly,

1019
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: God's gonna punish you for that. Let's pray, Lord, thank

1020
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: you for today, thank you for these incredible words, thank

1021
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: you for the study, thank you for the power of you.

1022
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: And Lord, I pray that you'll continue to mold us

1023
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,920
Speaker 1: into the people that only you can make us. And

1024
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: I always, Lord, I just sinse anytime somebody may have

1025
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: stumbled across this Bible study, somebody is in the room

1026
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: with us that because of the Holy Spirit, and because

1027
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: of the cutting of the Word of God, that's you know,

1028
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: it's cutting me as I teach, it's cutting people as

1029
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: they hear. Maybe there's things that people right now go, Hey,

1030
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: that's what I need to hear. I got to get

1031
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: this straightened out. And today's day, for the first time

1032
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 1: or the first time they ever meant it, they say,

1033
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: I repent. I repent of this sin I keep justifying

1034
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: my life. I repent of the way I'm doing whatever.

1035
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: And they turn to you and they say, Lord, I'm

1036
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: leaving my own authority because I keep messing things up.

1037
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: It's time for me to toe submit to you, to

1038
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: deny myself, to count the cost to enter that narrow

1039
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: gate and just cry out, I can't redeem myself. You

1040
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: are the redeemer. Redeem me, Jesus, and then mold me

1041
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: into something that you're more comfortable with, and forgive me

1042
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: for trying to make you something I'm more comfortable with.

1043
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: And during our times of trouble or may we not

1044
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: be upset with you, but be wise enough to look

1045
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: to you if we're redeemed, and ask you, the teacher,

1046
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 1: what are you teaching me that we learn not to

1047
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: waste difficulty that you've allowed to be sure we get

1048
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: every benefit from it, and the glorious name of Jesus,

1049
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: we pray amen.

1050
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 2: All right, guys, thank you very much,