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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. My name is Rick Burgess.

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Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. A host of the Rick Burgess Show.

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Speaker 1: series on the book of Job. We're going to be

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Speaker 1: in Job twenty today, but you can go back and

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Speaker 1: week curriculum based on the Book of Acts after Pentecost,

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Speaker 1: five weeks on each one of those. So if you're

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Speaker 1: and I'll certainly let you know that. So let's open

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Speaker 1: up in a word of prayer and then let's jump

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Speaker 1: right in to Job chapter twenty. Lord, thank you for today,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the opportunity to open your Holy Word

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Speaker 1: and glean from this incredible historic moment, learning from Job

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Speaker 1: and his friends so many things. And today Lord, I

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Speaker 1: pray that you continue to to be with us. We

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Speaker 1: pray for those Lord, that are hurting. We have a

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Speaker 1: special prayer today, Lord, is all the men together over

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Speaker 1: the Henson family. Lord Jordie Henson, who has been such

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Speaker 1: life that awaits. So Lord, you have told us in

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Speaker 1: we who are redeemed, when we are laying down the

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Speaker 1: a different way. We grieve with the hope that only

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Speaker 1: pray Amen. So let's take a look at chapter twenty

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Speaker 1: so we know that last week, if you missed it, Jobs,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting to watch his battle. He's very upset with

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Speaker 1: They're making the accusation, which sadly will continue again today,

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Speaker 1: go back to the divine God administers justice on the wicked. Period.

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Speaker 1: So far doesn't say anything new, but it is the

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Speaker 1: being dishonored by Job. Here's here's what he is saying.

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Speaker 1: Think about the last thing that Job said. Look back

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Speaker 1: up here at twenty eight and twenty nine, that that

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Speaker 1: Job is let them know that there they got problems coming.

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Speaker 1: Okay in twenty nine, especially so so Far as respond

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Speaker 1: long standing theology that God punishes the wicked period, and

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Speaker 1: underline since man was placed on earth. Interesting, So again

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Speaker 1: and at that point it is God punishing those who sin,

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Speaker 1: hasn't stopped this. Now again, these men leave out all

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Speaker 1: that part of God too. This is the problem. Remember

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Speaker 1: we talked about it a lot in here, where we

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Speaker 1: so we're flawed. Nothing but beggars showing other beggars where

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Speaker 1: guess it's just human nature that we just pick our favorites.

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Speaker 1: it's all about the reverence of the Father. Everything's very

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Speaker 1: gonna preach his mercy and his grace and his love. Well,

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Speaker 1: work together. As I've said a thousand times. We don't

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Speaker 1: understand how serious he takes sin. It all works together.

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Speaker 1: think the snakes got bad pr you know, other than

425
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: the downfall of the human race. I don't know what

426
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: everybody's upset with them about. And the fact that they're

427
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,959
Speaker 1: one of the few officially cursed animals we have on

428
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: the planet. I just can't find myself being talked into

429
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: feeling better about a cursed animal. I mean, if the

430
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: animal has been cursed by God himself. I think that's

431
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: an uphill climb if you're going to be in the

432
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: pr marketing for it. So anyway, snakes have always equaled evil. Seventeen.

433
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: You ever just somebody who likes snakes a little too much,

434
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 1: You kind of find yourself taking a note of it. Yeah,

435
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,240
Speaker 1: it's all right to be maybe interested in maybe watching

436
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: a doc room documentary on them. Shouldn't have them around

437
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: the house. You know what, if you've got terrariums full

438
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: of snakes, our friendship is never gonna work, all right,

439
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: So I can't take that kind of pressure. Somebody, somebody

440
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: forgot to shut it real good, and we're all dead.

441
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: You know, if some if your little dog gets out,

442
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're gonna be fine. But that snake's a

443
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: different deal. Seventeen. He will not look upon the rivers,

444
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: the streams flowing with honey and curds. Uh, this is

445
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: the opposite. Now, now we've talked about the venom of

446
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: snakes and poison. Now we're going the opposite. We're going

447
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: to delicious things, the opposite of venom. So not only

448
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: are all you gonna get is venom. Let me tell

449
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: what you're not gonna get You're not gonna get honey,

450
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get curds. Have you have somebody ever

451
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: had the deep fried curds? If y'all had this yet,

452
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: it's like a cheese stick, but it's curds. Hey, let

453
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: me tell you something. The guy who trains me don't

454
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: know about them, but they're great if you have not

455
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: right to today. I got a brother Nod and he's

456
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: had them. Let me tell you the courage are good.

457
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: So anyway, so honey and curd and he says, you're wicked.

458
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,959
Speaker 1: So you're not going to get those poisoned. Yes, honey

459
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: and courage. No, because you are wicked, you're not going

460
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: to look upon rivers and streams flowy. You realize right

461
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: here what he's also alluding to. I don't think you're

462
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: going to heaven. I don't think you're going to heaven.

463
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: He's really thinking that job is bound for hell. So

464
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,959
Speaker 1: eighteen he will give back the fruit of his toil

465
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: and will not swallow it down. From the profit of

466
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: his trading, he will get no enjoyment. The wicked will

467
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: eventually any of the things they gained, any any of

468
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: the good deals you made, any of the good trading

469
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: you did, any profits you pulled off from your labor,

470
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: God's taken it all away. And I tell you why,

471
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: because you cheated people to get it. I don't know

472
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: what you did, but you did. All this success you

473
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: had as a businessman, God's taken it all away. So

474
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: all we can think of is all this that we

475
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: thought you had done so well and you were blessed

476
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 1: by God must not be true, because God's taken every

477
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: bit of it. All this work you did, all these

478
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: great ideas you had, all this good business you profited from,

479
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: and He's taking it all away. So we believe that's

480
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: telling us you did something evil nineteen For he has crushed, crushed,

481
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: and abandoned the poor. He has seized a house that

482
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: he did not build. Okay, now, this is the first

483
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: time in this diatribe that so far is going to

484
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: get specific, going to point out a specific sin. He's

485
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: finally going to do that he's taking He's telling him

486
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: right now, there's two things. I know, benevolence that belongs

487
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: to godly people. But let me tell who's wicked, those

488
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: that steal from the poor. I'm alleging that you stole

489
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: from the poor. I'm alleging that you took advantage of

490
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 1: the poor. I'm alleging that your gain was their loss.

491
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: He makes a specific allegation now, because if you were

492
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: truly benevolent, then we would see it and you would

493
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: look godly. It's obvious that you have stolen. Now, that's

494
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: the first time that so far gives him a specific

495
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: example of what he thinks he's doing. You're maybe the

496
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: maybe he was a landlord. You know, it says you

497
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: took the house from them. That what in yours? You know,

498
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 1: you you manipulated the poor. So we don't know, but

499
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: he's very he's very specific on that, that one twenty

500
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: because he knew no contentment in his belly. He will

501
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: not let anything in which he delights escape him. What

502
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: we what we saying now, you're gluttonous, you know, the

503
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: sin that none of us like to talk about. You.

504
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: You're you're never satisfied. Now he uses, you know, the

505
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: analogy of the belly here, you know, which is one

506
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: of the forms of gluttony. There there's certainly more than

507
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: than overeating, but it is also overeating. It's not left out.

508
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: It's something that I justified for a very long time

509
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: as y'all a lot of you know, until the Lord

510
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: finally just said, I don't know when you're gonna run

511
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: out of rope on this one. But you keep justifying

512
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: sin in your life. Uh and uh and and I'm

513
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: never gonna be able to use you the way that

514
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: I could if you would just deal with this. And

515
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 1: so what he's saying is, you know, now that we

516
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: look back on how much you had, you're a bit

517
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: of a glutton. Seemed like you were never satisfied. Maybe

518
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: you were too wealthy, maybe you over did well. When

519
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: was it ever enough for you? It's like you were

520
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: never satisfied. So I tell you what I'm gonna say.

521
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: I'm going to make another accusation. I think you're greedy.

522
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: I think you over indulged. And maybe that's what God

523
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: is upset about, you know. And uh and let me

524
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: tell you this. You might have built up a lot

525
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: of stuff. This is the fate that is that awaits

526
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: all the wicked. You might have thought you could be

527
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: so important and so wealthy and have so much that

528
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: you could somehow balue by your way out of God's punishment.

529
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: You can't do it. You manipulated the poor, You took

530
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: from the poor, and you're greedy. He had morning. You've

531
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: been pretty specific now, it was never enough for you.

532
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: Now I want to just for a minute land there,

533
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: because I know that when you think about human beings

534
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: and job's innocent. Okay, So I'm not saying that. I

535
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: just want to talk about human beings in general, and

536
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: even myself. I'm talking about myself. Remember everything I always

537
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: comes from here. First. I just think about how disgusting

538
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: it must be for God when he looks down on me.

539
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: And I don't know your situation in general. I think

540
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: this is true, not specific to every one of you.

541
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: You know, don't be like the woman who took every

542
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: dog real well, but that's not what I do with that.

543
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you, okay, But do you think

544
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: God just sometimes it's just nauseated by the fact that

545
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: we just never seemed to tell him You've done plenty.

546
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: I have plenty. I'm content how many more times when

547
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: we come back to him and say, well, now, I

548
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: told you, if you just do this, I'd be at peace.

549
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: And I just don't want you to do this one

550
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: more thing for me. If I just had this one

551
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: more thing, if I if I just had had a

552
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: little little more money, if I just had a little

553
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: bigger house, I've just had that car that I really

554
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: want instead of this one that I mean, it runs fine,

555
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: but it's not the one I wanted. You know, if

556
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: I was if I was a little more of this,

557
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: a little more that, if my business was a little

558
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: more successful. You know, we can be guilty of never

559
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: being satisfied. It's never enough. I know that you redeem me.

560
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: I was going to hell and you went to the cross,

561
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: and thank you for that. I'm sure that was very uncomfortable,

562
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: but I want more than that. I'm not satisfied with

563
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: just redemption. I want you to do something else for

564
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: me too. Then maybe I'll be really all in. I'm

565
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: here to tell you that if God never did another

566
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: thing other than the Cross, I mean nothing, He's done enough,

567
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: and Job did not have the attitude that nothing was enough.

568
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: We'll find this out later. But that's one of the

569
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: things that Zo far believes about him. It thinks he

570
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: knows about him, or it must be that. But it

571
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: is a good time for us to sit back and

572
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: go Could that accusation be made about me and actually

573
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: be more accurate than it is? On Job twenty one,

574
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: there was nothing left after he had eaten. Therefore, his

575
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: prosperity will not endure. You didn't leave anything for anybody else.

576
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: You took it all for yourself, Joe. By the way,

577
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: there's no evidence most of the people that work with

578
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: Job actually thought he was great. I mean, the indication

579
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 1: was is he was selfless and he did care for others,

580
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: and that he did try to take care of everybody.

581
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: But no, so far says you kept it all for yourself.

582
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: You're just so greedy, You just so gluttonous that you

583
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: know what, You were so prosperous and left nothing for

584
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: anybody else. But let me tell you something, God's gonna

585
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: take it away from you. You have been a oppressor

586
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be plunged into poverty. No food left,

587
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: riches are fleeting. You're gonna know what everybody else that

588
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: you op press feels like God's given it back to you.

589
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: Twenty two. In the fullness of his sufficiency, he will

590
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: be in distress. The hand of everyone in misery will

591
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: come against him. Ohe all these people that you mistreated, Joe,

592
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: They're coming for you. There's gonna be the demise of

593
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: the wealthy, but because it was ill gotten, the fall of

594
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: the powerful, the humiliation of the proud, the collapse of corporations,

595
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: the sudden death of those who proudly thought they were immortal.

596
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: He's broken you down, Joe, because of your attitude and

597
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 1: the way you treat your people and all those people

598
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: you mistreated. It's payback time. They're coming for you, and

599
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: you will fall twenty three to fill his belly to

600
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: the full, God will send his burning anger against him.

601
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what you're gonna get. You're gonna

602
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: get a belly full of God's wrath. You filled your

603
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: belly and overfilled it, and you've been gluttonous with all

604
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: the things of this world, all the food, all the money,

605
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 1: all the land, all the wealth. Well, your belly's about

606
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: to be full of God's anger. That's what you're gonna

607
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: be full of. Now. I just can't imagine. This is

608
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: where you have to be careful. I remember when I

609
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: was talking to John Lennox If I mentioned that before

610
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: he's he was, you know, an apologist. He's a scientist

611
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: of a scientists of mathematics mathematics at Oxford, Cambridge, and

612
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: he went out, you know, defending the faith and taking

613
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: on some of the Remember when we had the four

614
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: Horsemen of the atheist movement, you know, it was the

615
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: first evangelical atheist we'd ever experienced, which was weird, and

616
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: and he was debating them, and we got into discussion

617
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 1: one time about how Galileo was removed from the church

618
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: because he said that the earth moves around the sun.

619
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: The sun does not move around the earth, and that

620
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: was blasphemy because the church at the time said no, no,

621
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: No scripture says otherwise, and they doubled down on it.

622
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: And I think that Galileo was put back in good

623
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: standing with the church in nineteen ninety four. Okay, So

624
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: John Lennox said, some some times when you take your

625
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: theology and you stop learning, and you stop seeking God,

626
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 1: and you stop learning about God, and you double down

627
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 1: on these things, and you don't keep seeking, you don't

628
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: keep praying, he goes, there may come a day where

629
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: you have to go to people and say I was wrong,

630
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: the church was wrong, and Galileell was right, but they

631
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: were convinced by flawed theology that he was wrong. So

632
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: be careful, be careful for any of us to think

633
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: you've ever gotten to the point where you figured it

634
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: all out and you know everything about God and you

635
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: know everything, and so you take that in every situation,

636
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: no matter how much God may be teaching you something different,

637
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: you will not budge. I can raise my hand how

638
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: many of you can remember early in your faith that

639
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 1: you had bad theology? My hands up. You learn things

640
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: maybe when you were little, and you didn't quite understand it,

641
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: and you applied it the wrong way, and God had

642
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: to correct it and you were like, oh, and somebody

643
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: had to show you some scripture and you're like, oh,

644
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was in there, you know, And oh,

645
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: I think I have that wrong. And so this is

646
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: what's happened to these men, because this is the part

647
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,959
Speaker 1: I can never get passed. Their flawed theology was so

648
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: strong that it really violated something that I thought would

649
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: always solve it what's actually happening, But it didn't work.

650
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they're now giving a version of Job that

651
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: at one time they would have never given. I mean,

652
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: if you walked up to them before all this suffering

653
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: and said I think Job's an oppressor, they'd be like,

654
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: are you crazy? You're talking about Job. You're talking about

655
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: one of the most respected men in our entire community.

656
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: But now they've forgotten everything that they knew about Job.

657
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: They've forgotten about every day he lived his life. They

658
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: forgot about every single testimony about him that they knew

659
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: and others, all because they refuse to consider that the

660
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: theology might be wrong. He's not getting the benefit of

661
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: the doubt, no matter how much integrity he lived. And

662
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: I think we've all seen it, right. I don't know.

663
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: Have you ever had somebody you had one thing that

664
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: they thought about you that was wrong, and they took

665
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: everything they knew about you and just threw it away

666
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: in a moment. My hands up. I'm dealing with some

667
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: of that now. And you find yourself going, do you

668
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: realize how many things you have to forget to believe

669
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: this about me? Now? You can come ask me about it,

670
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: and you can let's get clarity on it. Oh no, no,

671
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: we want to ask you about it. We'll stand far

672
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: off and up on the hill and will look down

673
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: and will make these accusations. It will never come to you.

674
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: You know what's always funny when people go after you,

675
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: and they and one of the things they want you

676
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: to know is how well they know the Bible and

677
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: the very way they're going after you violates what the

678
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: Bible says to do about this. I said, I guess

679
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: you forgot. You didn't read any of the parts about

680
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: how you handle a disagreement, how you handle an accusation,

681
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: how you handle you know you've been hurt, so all

682
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: that's thrown out, and you're still going to bring the

683
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: judgment down to person using your knowledge of the Bible

684
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: is the reason you're going to And the very way

685
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: you're judging them, and the very way you're handling them

686
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: is exactly opposite of how the Bible said to handle it.

687
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: I usually don't put any weight whatsoever. And an accusation

688
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: from someone within the church about someone else within the church,

689
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: if the first answer to the question is have you

690
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: gone to them? If they say no, then I'm done

691
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: until you go to them. I don't want to hear

692
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: about it, because that's what we're supposed to do. That's

693
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: what Batthew eighteen tells us to do, their first thing to do.

694
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: And so if you don't do that, then just shut

695
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: your mouth. And so right now they're throwing out everything

696
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: they've ever known about job because their theology, which is wrong.

697
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: They will not consider seeking God for some clarity that

698
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't know as much about God as they

699
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: thought they did. Twenty four. He will flee from an

700
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: iron weapon, A bron's arrow will strike him through. This

701
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: is not pleasant. He's saying, it's going to be one

702
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: disaster after another for you, the godless, the godless job.

703
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: You know what you get. You don't just get one calamity.

704
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,479
Speaker 1: You get a series of calamities. And look at twenty five.

705
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: It is drawn forth and comes out of his body.

706
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. Terrors come

707
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: upon him. The sword is is put through you, or

708
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: it could be the arrows. Then it's pulled back out

709
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: of the body. And you know what has done now

710
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: this gallbladder here, believe it or not. The English Standard

711
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: version comes back and says, we think gallbladder. Some of

712
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: the other English translations go with the liver. But the

713
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: bottom line is that this Hebrew word is kind of

714
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 1: hard to find the exact organ. There's some disagreement on that,

715
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. The bottom line is you're going

716
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: to receive an injury that is deadly. One of your

717
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: major organs is going to be destroyed. Something that you

718
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: would not survive a mortal one does. That makes sense?

719
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: So now twenty six utter darkness is laid up for

720
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: his treasures. A fire not fanned will devour him. What

721
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: is left in his tent will be consumed. Nothing is

722
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: going to be left Job, nothing. A fire that cannot

723
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: be put out will all time destroy everything. Now keep

724
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: in mind this reference to the tent here also is

725
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: a little bit of a fallback to what God did

726
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: to his children, or Satan did, but God allowed. Twenty seven.

727
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will

728
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: rise up against him. Look, Joe, the guilt of the wicked,

729
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be brought into the light. By the way,

730
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: he's right about that. The Bible tells us that things

731
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: that are done in darkness will eventually be brought into

732
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 1: the light. That is true. The problem is is he's

733
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: saying that Job has something that needs to be brought

734
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: into the light, and that part is not true. Again,

735
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 1: the concept true, the accusation against the person doesn't hold up.

736
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: Twenty eight The possessions of his house will be carried away,

737
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: dragged off in the day of God's wrath. Now notice

738
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: this carrying away. We're getting into a flood analogy. Now, okay,

739
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: everything is going to be carried away, you know, by water, river, flooding,

740
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: and all of this, this whole flood, this destruction is

741
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: going to be from the hand of God. Ultimately it

742
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: may be done through flooding, but God is the one

743
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 1: who's behind it. And when all this stuff's being taken

744
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: away from you, that is going to be by the

745
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: hand of God. God's the one doing this to you.

746
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: Job which Job agrees with it, just doesn't know why.

747
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: And they're saying, well, we know why you're wicked. Job's like,

748
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: I'm not wicked, of course you are. Twenty nine. This

749
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed

750
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: for him by God. Now Here this is interesting, and

751
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to close. Notice that nowhere in these

752
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: final verses, when so far is correctly saying that God,

753
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: his hand and his wrath is what causes all this

754
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: and the reason why this is happening is because you're wicked.

755
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: He has that part wrong. But have you noticed which

756
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: tells you that God is still teaching them about himself.

757
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: Have any of you throughout this whole study, We're now

758
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: twenty plus weeks into this. Okay, has anybody heard any

759
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: of his friends when they talk about all they know

760
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: about God, ever mention mercy, ever mentioned grace, ever mentioned repentance.

761
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: They've never mentioned it. Never one time when they refer

762
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,760
Speaker 1: to God, which tells us what they don't know everything

763
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: about God. Apparently they know nothing about mercy and grace.

764
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I can't think of one

765
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: monologue they've done that they've mentioned, May God have mercy

766
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: on you, May God, you know, forgive you he he

767
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: you know, God is merciful. Uh, They're talking about wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath,

768
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: and they do call job to admit it, and maybe

769
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: God all relent, relent wish, which that that's sort of

770
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: a form of repentance. But they haven't talked about God

771
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: offering any mury mercy. Only they are just saying wrath

772
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: is coming. And where they're flawed is they're saying and

773
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: that's all the wicked can expect. Well, not if the

774
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 1: wicked repents, Not not if God offers mercy and God

775
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: offers grace. So you can see they have no concept

776
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: of this part of God, and they don't have any

777
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: concept about God. Refining people through through suffering. Now here's

778
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: here's where I'll go ahead and give you because I

779
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: know some of you need this. I know what we're

780
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: all doing now because it's like watching a show. When

781
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: somebody's being wrong, we begin to scream to the TV,

782
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: don't we When when is this going to When is

783
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: this going to come to life? When is the truth

784
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: going to be out? When are they going to be

785
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: told they've got the story wrong? Can somebody please? I

786
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: can't take much more of this misunderstanding? Right? These people

787
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: have this wrong. You're screaming that's not what happened. You

788
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: ever screamed that this is not what happened, and you're waiting.

789
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: I will go ahead and tell you that. Next week

790
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: we're not going to get all the way there because

791
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: his friends don't listen, but I do love that. Next week,

792
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: Job is finally going to say again, he's mentioned it

793
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,759
Speaker 1: in passing and they ignored it. He's going to try

794
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: again and they'll ignore it again. But he's going to

795
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: try it again. He's going to say to so far

796
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: and to his friends, but the wicked do prosper? You're

797
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: wrong about that. We see that we could people prospering

798
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 1: all the time. You're you're making this real simple. Wicked

799
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: people get punished, good people get blessed. But our own

800
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: observations tell us that can't be true. They ultimately pay

801
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: a price if they don't repent. But to say that

802
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: wicked people never prosper, they do. And he's going to

803
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: point to that next week will be ignored. But he

804
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: will point to it again next week. So let's pray, Lord,

805
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: thank you for our time together. Thank you for this ongoing,

806
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: very very intriguing study. Provocative, to say the least. Lord,

807
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: As we approach at the time this study was done live,

808
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: we are just a few days from the declaration of

809
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: independence from when the country in which we live decided

810
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: that tyranny and unchecked power was undesirable, and as a

811
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: country desired to to govern themselves, Lord, we certainly want

812
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: to reject the tyranny of an earthly king. But as

813
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: much as we may say that we're free in this country,

814
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: if we're not redeemed, we're not free at all. The

815
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: only true free people are those that have been freed

816
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: from the penalty of sin. These freedoms that we cling

817
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: to and we certainly should be thankful for. And the

818
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: ability to achieve our maximum potential through maximum liberty. Certainly

819
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: fine here on earth, and it's not a bad thing.

820
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: But I can have all the liberty that a constitution

821
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: gives me. But if I don't have repentance, I got nothing.

822
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: I'm still in slavery because I'm a slave to sin.

823
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: And ultimately, Lord, I will face the king of kings,

824
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: not face a constitutional republic. I will not face a democracy.

825
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: I will face a dictatorship. But oh, how wonderful to

826
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: be under the authority of a benevolent king. A king

827
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: that lowered himself and came to us when we could

828
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: not come to him, A king that went to a

829
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: horrible cross and took the punishment that an earthly king

830
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: would have handed out on the people, not on himself.

831
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: May we seek true freedom and the redemption that you

832
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: provided for us and your son, Jesus, May today we

833
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: want true freedom by turning from our sin and repenting

834
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: of our sin, and then turning away from your wrath

835
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: and judgment and to your mercy and grace, and just

836
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: ask you to forgive us. And we believe that forgiveness

837
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: is available through the sacrifice of your son. And we

838
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: believe that eternal life is available through the defeating of

839
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: day by your son, and we beg you Lord to

840
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: forgive us. And maybe you're out there, maybe today's the

841
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 1: first time you've ever done that, or the first time

842
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: you ever meant it. Well, if that's the case, then God,

843
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: here's your Christ for repentance, and He through Jesus will

844
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 1: make you free. Indeed, in the glorious name of Jesus,

845
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: we pray Amen.