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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Here we are continuing

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Speaker 1: our study of the Book of Job. If you are

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Speaker 1: joining us for the first time, we are in Job

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Speaker 1: sixteen today. If you want to go ahead and turn,

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Speaker 1: of prayer and let's jump right into job sixteen. Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for today. I pray Lord Jesus that should

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Speaker 1: see some foreshadowing to the new Covenant, How thankful we

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Speaker 1: are that we were able to live under the new Covenant.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, just watching Job grasping for you is he

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Speaker 1: doesn't know what we know. And Lord, today, may we

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Speaker 1: be reminded how wonderful it is that we do have

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Speaker 1: you're going to see Job. So Eliphaz has you know,

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Speaker 1: I find it interesting. Job doesn't really let he's not

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Speaker 1: going to run through all three of them before he

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Speaker 1: he's not near as nice this time. He's not near

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Speaker 1: his case. It really hasn't changed anything. Now. One thing

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Speaker 1: And the email or pointed out he said times must

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Speaker 1: in Job's time. He said, everybody's getting to say what

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Speaker 1: And I thought, well, what a great question, because I

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Speaker 1: verse six they claim they're there to comfort and sympathize

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Speaker 1: really hasn't gone that way. Done, You've done none of

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Speaker 1: kind of to the emailer's point. One of the commentaries says,

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Speaker 1: that's accurate. Helpful advice is usually brief and encouraging. What's

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Speaker 1: it's usually very encouraging. So have you ever felt that

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Speaker 1: in these days are something. The bad emails are always

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Speaker 1: And and really he's saying back to Lafas, is this

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Speaker 1: mean so really, we're You're not looking for the answers.

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Speaker 1: You've already made your decision. No matter what I say

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Speaker 1: my hands up. I confess it. I shouldn't have done it.

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Speaker 1: Not going to do it anymore. I saw that somebody

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Speaker 1: I've never seen this move before. A guy made an

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Speaker 1: want me to refute it publicly. So I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: I learned from that. Uh. And what's funny is when

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Speaker 1: and say, Rick, wipe your feet with this guy. You're

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Speaker 1: never gonna make this guy happy, you know it? And

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Speaker 1: prove that you're wrong about God. Okay, So, and I'm

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Speaker 1: proclaim him publicly. That is accurate. So for he said,

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Speaker 1: I was you, I could sit right where you're at,

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Speaker 1: and I could say the same thing about you. Now.

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Speaker 1: the cheek, and they mask themselves together against me. Now

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Speaker 1: this again, this is more of that Psalm twenty two stuff. Okay,

426
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Speaker 1: So this is echoes here he's trying to say. See

427
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Speaker 1: if this sounds familiar. He's trying to say because of

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Speaker 1: the severity of this, here's what he's calling himself. And

429
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Speaker 1: I want you to think about this foreshadowing. You know

430
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Speaker 1: what he says, I'm a righteous sufferer. I'm righteous and

431
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Speaker 1: I'm still suffering. Who does that sound like? That's that

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Speaker 1: Psalm twenty two stuff again. So he said, I may

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Speaker 1: be suffering, but it's not because I'm unrighteous and That's

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Speaker 1: what I don't understand. Everybody's against me. My adversary is

435
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Speaker 1: against me. God has gnashed his teeth against me. Men

436
00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: are against me. Men are striking me on the cheek.

437
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Speaker 1: They gather themselves against me, and then look at eleven.

438
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Speaker 1: God gives me up to the ungodly and cast me

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Speaker 1: into the hands of the wicked. Now, this is interesting

440
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Speaker 1: verse eleven. All of our brothers and the theologians, it

441
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Speaker 1: was fun to watch them argue about this. I had

442
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Speaker 1: a good time with it. I don't know where I

443
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Speaker 1: land on it. You can, I'll tell you the options.

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Speaker 1: One group of com sators say he's talking about he's

445
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Speaker 1: talking about the Sabians and the Kaldeans. He's saying because

446
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Speaker 1: they're the ones that took him all away from all

447
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Speaker 1: this stuff away from him. They're wicked people. God let

448
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Speaker 1: them do it, so that's who he's talking about. I

449
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: think that that one feels a little more likely to me.

450
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Speaker 1: But a lot of commentaries say he's talking about his friends.

451
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Speaker 1: He could be talking about them. He sees them as

452
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Speaker 1: wicked now and he's been sitting there listening to them

453
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Speaker 1: complaining about him. I think it's probably the first versus

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Speaker 1: the latter, but I want you to know there's a

455
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Speaker 1: disagreement on that. Exactly who is he talking about right

456
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Speaker 1: here that God has given him up to now, I

457
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Speaker 1: would say it's the first, because I don't do you

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Speaker 1: think he's going to call his friends ungodly? I don't

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Speaker 1: think so. Uh. And he says, and he casts me

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Speaker 1: into the hands of the wicked. I'm not sure he

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Speaker 1: would call him ungodly or wicked. He's called him bad friends.

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Speaker 1: Now we know the Kaldeans and the Sabians were ungodly

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Speaker 1: and wicked. So that's where I land, and so just

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Speaker 1: wanted you know, though, if you were to research this,

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Speaker 1: you might see the other I wouldn't put as much

466
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Speaker 1: credibility in that, just because it looks like it's a

467
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Speaker 1: little more common sense to be the people who had

468
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Speaker 1: the Pagans who actually came in and killed his kids

469
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Speaker 1: and took every weather storm, killed his kids, but they

470
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Speaker 1: took all his stuff, took all his livestock and all that.

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Speaker 1: So that may be. So going into twelve, I was

472
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Speaker 1: at ease. What is he remembering? I had it going on.

473
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Speaker 1: I had it just like I liked it. I was

474
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Speaker 1: at ease, and he who's he. God broke me apart.

475
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Speaker 1: He seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces.

476
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Speaker 1: He set me up as his target. Okay, I was

477
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Speaker 1: doing great. God destroyed my life. I mean, he's shooting

478
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Speaker 1: arrows at me. He's made me the target. His arrows

479
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: are coming right at me. I don't know why he's

480
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Speaker 1: marked me for this, but man, he's got me right

481
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Speaker 1: in the bullseye, true to a degree. But once again,

482
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Speaker 1: he never is mentioning that Satan has a hand in this. Allowed.

483
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Speaker 1: But really the person who's taking all this stuff and

484
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Speaker 1: bringing all these people on him is Satan. God's allowing it,

485
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Speaker 1: so ultimately it is God. But he's not even considering that.

486
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Speaker 1: And have you ever felt that way? Have you ever?

487
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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a poor, poor, pitiful me day

488
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Speaker 1: and you're like, man, everything was going great, and now

489
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: this does life ever seem that it's you ever heard

490
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Speaker 1: this phrase? I've uttered it. Man, it's always something to

491
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: always something, you know. You know, I'm healthy, healthy, healthy,

492
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Speaker 1: Now I'm sick. And you think to yourself, somehow I

493
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Speaker 1: thought I'd be healthy forever for the rest of my life.

494
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: I'd never be sick again, you know, And then you know,

495
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: and what is it always? You know, he said, there, hey,

496
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Speaker 1: good news, we got the money for that vacation. Hey,

497
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like their conditions because it's not cool,

498
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: you know, you know what I mean. And then then

499
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden you bring in the ac people

500
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Speaker 1: and where they say five grand you're gonna have to

501
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: have a new unit, and you're like, and there goes

502
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: the vacation money. Right. I thought I could get a

503
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: little bit of head. And it's always mhm. I tell you, hey,

504
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: tell you one thing. Everything's going great, you know. That's

505
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: just say you're riding along, what happens check engine? Like?

506
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Speaker 1: You know what that check engine line says minimum twelve

507
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: hundred minimum, you know. It's just like all the car

508
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: leaders said, now let's start at twelve hundred. Boy on

509
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: twelve hundred, you know. And and so so anyway, mac Brunson,

510
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: who's my current pastor, he told a story though about

511
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Speaker 1: how sometimes we just want to don't want to face

512
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: those things. About the woman that just put a piece

513
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Speaker 1: of tape over the check engine line. I just don't

514
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Speaker 1: want to see it, you know. And then the car

515
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: finally breaks down. Their husband's like, what's going on? He

516
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Speaker 1: pulls that tape back. My goodness has been take is broke.

517
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: But do you ever sometimes just check angelote comes on

518
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: in your life, You're just like, ah, man, I just

519
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with that today, you know. And

520
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 1: so that's really what he's saying. He said, my life

521
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: was going great. But if we can get to the point,

522
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Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that we go looking for trouble.

523
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: I want to be sure, even with our new podcasts

524
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: strange encounters, please don't go looking for trouble enough, trouble

525
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: comes without you haven't looked for. Okay, we really should

526
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Speaker 1: be more shocked on when our lives going well than

527
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Speaker 1: when it's not going well. To me, that's the surprising

528
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Speaker 1: parts of life is that God would be gracious enough

529
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Speaker 1: for me to have so many good days. I'm the

530
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: one who deserves the bad days, you know. The fact

531
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Speaker 1: that He's given me good days is what's surprising, not

532
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: the fact that I have bad days, and the fact

533
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Speaker 1: that we're all redeemed. That's why Jesus said in John

534
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Speaker 1: sixteen thirty three, no matter what's happening, and you will

535
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Speaker 1: have tribulation in this world. Jesus said, it's always gonna

536
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: be something. But you always be at peace if you're redeemed,

537
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: because your biggest problem I've overcome, right amen. Yeah. So anyway,

538
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: so here he goes talking about how good his life was,

539
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: and then in thirteen he says, his archers surround me.

540
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Speaker 1: Now we're gonna get a little glory. Here he slashes

541
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Speaker 1: open my kidneys, does not spare. He pours out my

542
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: gall on to the ground. This is just him saying,

543
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Speaker 1: I mean he's hit me in the major organs. I mean,

544
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Speaker 1: these are the organs that are vital for survival. He

545
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Speaker 1: has hit me. He's taking my life, and the gall

546
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: here represents bitterness. He's given me nothing but bitterness. And

547
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Speaker 1: then fourteen he breaks me with breach upon breach. He

548
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: runs upon me like a warrior. This is really imagery

549
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Speaker 1: of him being burst open. It's ugly being burst open.

550
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: And you know what else he says, It is a

551
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: non stop brutal attack. He's not just standing across the field.

552
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: He's running at me like a warrior. He's stepping up

553
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Speaker 1: on my toes. Right, don't shoot you see the wide

554
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: of their eyes. I mean he's all over me. And

555
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: you know we used to My brother did this. I

556
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: know y'all may be shocked and that that when I played,

557
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: I was never a running back. I know that may

558
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: be shocking, but I always felt like they should have

559
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: given me the mail. I think I could have helped

560
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: offensively more than they allowed me. But but my brother

561
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: was a running back, and they used to do this thing.

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Speaker 1: Anybody remember the good old triple option? Anything better? Man?

563
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: I love the triple option? Right? My daddy thought, if

564
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: you didn't love the triple option, that just showed how

565
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: stupid you were. And but there was a thing called

566
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: a junction block, and so that that lead running back

567
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: would have to get that defensive end or the outside

568
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: linebacker or whoever showed up. And it was a junction block.

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Speaker 1: I mean you had to cut their legs out from

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Speaker 1: under them. And he said, the more people would mess

571
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: up on it as they throw the block too early.

572
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: And my brother said, we were always taught to do

573
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: the right junction block. You don't throw to your standing

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Speaker 1: on their cliqus. Just when you think you're about to

575
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Speaker 1: step on their feet, then you throw it. And when

576
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: you do that, it's indefensible. And I saw him up

577
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: in end after linebacker. These guys always thought they'd get

578
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: ready to put their hands down and push him down.

579
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: He'd wait till the last minute, but they just flip

580
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: up of the air, and we just keep on rolling.

581
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: And so this is what he's saying, is God's all

582
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Speaker 1: over me. I mean, he's stepping on my feet. He's

583
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: coming after me like a warrior. I can't get any relief.

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00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: This is a major attack. He's doing it. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why. And then he turns around in fifteen through seventeen,

586
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: and you always gonna do. He's gonna plead his innocence.

587
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: I don't deserve this. Then you know, we know this imagery.

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00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: A lot of you here and some of you out

589
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: there may be new to it. But anytime you see sackcloth,

590
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: which is here in fifteen, I have sewed sackcloth upon

591
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: my skin, and I have laid my strength in the dust,

592
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: dust and sackcloth, which we're gonna see again in job.

593
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna see it again in the big moment. But

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00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: he's already saying that always represents repentance. Dust and ashes,

595
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: sackcloth always a sign of repentance. You saw this, Jacob

596
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: morning Joseph. In Genesis thirty seven, Jonah you know in

597
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: chapter three, verse eight, it's it's throughout scripture this always means.

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00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: So what he's saying now is interesting because this almost

599
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: sounds like I don't know. I don't know how many

600
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: guys in here are those of you out there are married?

601
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: But have you ever been in trouble and you can't

602
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: get your wife to tell you why? Okay, I'm sorry

603
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: for whatever idea? What is it? I mean, well, you

604
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: should know, and maybe if I knew, I wouldn't be

605
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: saying what I'm saying right now. It's obvious I don't

606
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: know what you should know. Well, maybe I should, but

607
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I don't. I'll tell you how

608
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: I could know. You could just tell me. And I

609
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 1: think that's what he's doing right now. I think he's

610
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: to the point right now he's going, well, apparently something's

611
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: up that I've done something. So hey, I repent. I'm sorry.

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00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: I want to be innocent with you, I want to

613
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: be right with you. I'll do the things I need

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Speaker 1: to do. Look you look at sixteen He goes on,

615
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Speaker 1: and he says, my face is red with weeping, and

616
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,919
Speaker 1: on my eyelids is deep darkness. What an image here?

617
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: I cried out to you. I'm weeping, I'm moaning about

618
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: this situation. Dark circles are under my eyes. And hear

619
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: the language he's using signifies the shadow of death. And

620
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm done. I'm cried out. I got

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Speaker 1: nothing else I can cry. And look at my eye,

622
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: look at my face. And then he goes into seventeen

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Speaker 1: and here he comes. He says, I'm innocent, although there

624
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: is no violence in my hands. And look at this

625
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:18,240
Speaker 1: right here. I'd underline this, and my prayer is pure. Wow,

626
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: that's what's got him confused. Remember we said blameless does

627
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: not mean sinless. He's like, my prayers are pure. I've

628
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,479
Speaker 1: repented of everything I need to repent of. I don't

629
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Speaker 1: have anything unresolved with you. I stand before you, and

630
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: when I pray to you, my prayer is pure. You know?

631
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Speaker 1: Would we always talk about that, you remember Paul even

632
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Speaker 1: talking about this. Be sure you're not at odds with

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Speaker 1: anybody when you come to take the Lord's Supper? Is

634
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Speaker 1: there anything else that you have unresolved? And if you have,

635
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: you know, don't be bringing that gift up here to

636
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: the altar. You need to set it down and go

637
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: get resolved with you go resolve the problem. Then you

638
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: come back. Have you done everything that you can do

639
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: as far as you're concerned to resolve this? And you

640
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: know what, Job is saying, my prayers are pure, there's

641
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: no violence in my hands. I don't know what I've

642
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: done here. I am innocent, And then he goes into

643
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: his hope for vindication eighteen through twenty one. He wants

644
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: to be vindicated. O earth cover not my blood, and

645
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: let my cry find no resting place. I want vindication

646
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: before I die. Don't let me die with this being unresolved.

647
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: They have been there. Have you ever thought to yourself,

648
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: I hope that my life doesn't end before whatever gets resolved.

649
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: And he's saying, in this situation, I sure do hope

650
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: that before I die, you answer me on this and

651
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: we clear this up. I don't want to die at

652
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: odds with you, right? You know that that's that thing

653
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: that you always think about. I think a lot of

654
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: us if we were honest, we wouldn't. We wouldn't. It

655
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: wouldn't really bother us. There's two things you ever got

656
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: in that dilemma? Do you want to know that you're dying?

657
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: We all are. But I'm talk about I'm about it

658
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: straight up, Like would you like to know, Like if

659
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: somebody comes in and says, I tell you got it,

660
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: you got about two three weeks and you think, ooh,

661
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: that's daunting. Now I know I'm not gonna be around

662
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: here much longer. But then there's also, well, I tell

663
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: you what, though, I won't die with anything on the table.

664
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm gonna get everything straight. And then

665
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 1: there's the other thing that sometimes we say we prefer

666
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: I just hope I never see it coming. Well I

667
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: understand that, but boy, that means you better be right

668
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: with them every day. M hm. You know, think about

669
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: if I knew I was gonna die today, I probably

670
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing what ever you know, and and so

671
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: you so, and we're not in control of that, right

672
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: you know? You know it was it was It was

673
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: awful because I mean, I have these kind of friends

674
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: and we we even some of my closest friends, and

675
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 1: you ever you ever surprised how your friends see you?

676
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: And we were having discussion about and I mean, I

677
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't suggest you do this, but we we just we're

678
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: we're we're different. I guess we actually discussed who we

679
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: thought was gonna die first, and and we actually had

680
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: a we had a we had a list, we had

681
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: a ranking on who everybody thought would go. I was

682
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: in the number two slot and uh. And so we

683
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: have one friend that you know, we we always give

684
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: a hard time about how he eats, and you know,

685
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: he's got all the hypertension and all this kind of stuff.

686
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: And we had him in the number one slot. And

687
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: then I said, how did I get number two? And

688
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: they said, oh, Burgess, you're gonna die when those violent deaths.

689
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are we talking about? And then

690
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: one of them says, oh, yeah, this was gonna happen.

691
00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: Somebody said, you know what happened to Rick? He said

692
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: this will be go ooh you know And I said,

693
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,959
Speaker 1: what is this and they said, no, you're not going

694
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: out easy, You're going out hard. And I thought, well,

695
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: thanks guys, that feels great, what a wonderful day. I'm

696
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: glad we had this discussion, you know. And but yeah,

697
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: so I don't know, I mean, that's not my call,

698
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: but there were many times where that looked like that's

699
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 1: how it would go. But I'd like to think differently now.

700
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: But anyway, so so he is saying that I do

701
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: not want to die before this is resolved. And you

702
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: know what he's said, I want the answer. I want

703
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: it before I'm covered him, before I'm dead nineteen even now, behold,

704
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: my witness is in heaven. Here we go, here comes

705
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: a foreshadowing, and he who testifies for me is on high.

706
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Well well, well look at job getting into the New Covenant.

707
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: Here he says. You know, we saying, here's what I need.

708
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: I need a witness. I need an advocate. I need

709
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: to intercessor. But look at this, I need a friend.

710
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: But look at this not on Earth, because I've already

711
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: looked around that didn't appear to do me any good.

712
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: Now that's not as saying we don't need friends on Earth.

713
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: Of course we do. And you want advocates and you

714
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: want people that defend you. But what he's saying to

715
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: solve this problem, I need one in heaven. Here's what

716
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: he's saying. Chills. I'm getting chills. So again, back when

717
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: I first wrote this down, now I'm getting chills again.

718
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: You know what he's saying, I need a divine redeemer

719
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: whoa Yes he does, and yes we do. I need

720
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: somebody in heaven that goes before God and makes my case.

721
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: Isn't it wonderful that we do? I mean, you realize

722
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: that as we we don't know what's going on around us.

723
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: Right now, we're sitting here right now, and that nasty, defeated,

724
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: pathetic devil, the accuser is saying to the God who

725
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: created us, how are you tolerating him? How you let

726
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: him live another minute? And then the angels that went

727
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: with him were said, you didn't offer us redemption, You're

728
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: gonna offer him redemption. I mean, we had the big overthrow.

729
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: I got it, but you never gave us a shot

730
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: to get right with you. You're gonna give them the shot,

731
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: you know. That's one thing the demons hate, is there,

732
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: like he offered redemption to the humans and not to us.

733
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: Were doomed. There's no way out for us. But yet

734
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: he gives them a shot. And Jesus just stands there

735
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: interceding force. The Bible says, they're fully righteous in me. Now,

736
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: if you don't know Jesus, then the devil and the

737
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: demons are making a case against you. That's correct, and

738
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: God is going to pour his wrath out on you,

739
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: just like he will then, But those that have been

740
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: redeem Jesus keeps standing there in silence in that mess

741
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: and saying, they're with me, and Job is looking for that.

742
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: Oh if somebody could have just walked in and said, Job,

743
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: I have great news. But he didn't know that. And

744
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: his friends don't know it either. They're no help. But

745
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: he says he is appealing to God's holy trinity and

746
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: he doesn't even know it. I don't see any indication

747
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: that he really understands to try you and God. He

748
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: knows God, but he doesn't know any of this, but

749
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 1: he knows enough. There's something in him that is looking

750
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: for exactly what Jesus provided Amen twenty. Notice he said

751
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: he didn't use the word friend, but these words can

752
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: be used as friend. In nineteen. You can see the

753
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: difference here of the dichotomy. He says, I need a

754
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: friend in heaven because I ain't got no good friends.

755
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: Right here, my friend scorned me. My eye pours out

756
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: tears to God. I turn to my friends here, Lord,

757
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 1: I got nothing. I need a friend in heaven, and

758
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: I turned my eyes and I don't appeal to them anymore.

759
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,959
Speaker 1: Who's he say? I appeal to you? Then? He goes

760
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: on and he's going to explain what an intercessor would

761
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: do for him. You know what an advocate would do

762
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: for him? Twenty one, that he the heavenly one, that

763
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: he would argue the case of a man with God.

764
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: Look at the term he uses right here in English

765
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: as a son of man? Wow does with his neighbor.

766
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: What was Jesus' favorite title for himself, son of man?

767
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: I one hund percent man. I want to em present God.

768
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,959
Speaker 1: I've come to resolve this. I'm a son of God

769
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: at the same time a son of man because I

770
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: was born of a woman. And here is job saying,

771
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: if I could just have this person that would argue

772
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 1: the case of a man with God, who could go

773
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: to God and see if he could just resolve the

774
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: issue with us as people. It had to be something

775
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: like a son of man, the way the way a

776
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: son of a man would would defend his neighbor. Something

777
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:39,760
Speaker 1: like that. Who does that sound like Jesus? And Job

778
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: is He's just He's just where is this? I need this?

779
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: And anybody that has ever doubted that the entire Bible

780
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: is about Jesus, you're having a rough day today because

781
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:57,439
Speaker 1: here here it is all throughout the book of Job.

782
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: Now twenty two on a belongs with next week's lessen

783
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: but I'll hit it for you anyway, because it's gonna

784
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: shoot us the next week. He says, for when a

785
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: few years have come, I shall go the way from

786
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: which I shall not return. All he's saying there is

787
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna go into this talk. Because remember we

788
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: arrange the chapters for our benefit. Joe's not speaking in chapters.

789
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:29,240
Speaker 1: So what he's saying here is I'm just ready. Surely

790
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: my death is close. And he's going to start that

791
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: because if you notice, he's wanting this advocate, he's wanting

792
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: this intercessor, but he just doesn't know whether he's ever

793
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: gonna get it before he dies. And so next you'll

794
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: see that he kind of starts getting down, thinking, I

795
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: just can't seem to find my hope. And that's that

796
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: transition in twenty two. I just can't seem to find

797
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: my hope. But he knows what he wants, but he's

798
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: just not certain he can find it. See what I

799
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: can tell all of you and here and all of

800
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: you out there, we are living on the other side

801
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 1: of the cross. We are living on the other side

802
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: of the resurrection we are. We have God's presence with

803
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: us fully in the Holy Spirit. Jesus has been this intercessor.

804
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: Jesus has been the advocate. Jesus has been the friend,

805
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 1: so when all else seems to fail you and job

806
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: is going to say it before we're done, and he's

807
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: even said at once in a chapter or two back,

808
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: we're never without hope. I know you may not believe

809
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: that sometimes, but you're never without hope. If you've been redeemed,

810
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: then that is the hope that you always cling to,

811
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: even when it seems like there's nowhere to turn. And

812
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: we've all been there, and I've been there many times

813
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: when you think, you know what, I'm just getting down

814
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: to the end of it. I'm tired of this world.

815
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: I'm tired of this. And then you start thinking, I

816
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: don't know where my hope is. But what we always

817
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: have to be reminded of if you're redeemed, is my

818
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: hope is in Jesus. I have the indecessor, I have

819
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: the advocate, I have the Friend, and because of him,

820
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: everything that I've ever done wrong to God can be

821
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: made right. Everything I repent of God says yes, if

822
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: we're sincere in our heart. My son paid that for you.

823
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: But the other side of that is we also have

824
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: to cling to that hope when we realize that God

825
00:47:55,520 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: may be allowing us to go through difficulty. We can't

826
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: lose hope there either, and we have to learn to

827
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: turn and say, my hope is in you, and whatever

828
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: you're allowing right now is for my own good and

829
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: or for your glory. Because all of us know this,

830
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: don't we We all know this. When you're going through difficulty,

831
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: your faith really shines. It really really does. And I

832
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: think we've all seen it. I've seen people get pressed

833
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: pretty hard, and God was glorified, and I've seen people

834
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: get pressed pretty hard. And I've seen people turn on

835
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: Him and fail and embrace something that's not of Him

836
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: just because that was an easier road. I've seen it seen,

837
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: I've seen both. So let's listen to the pleadings of

838
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: Job today, and let's picture him now. What is it

839
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: must be like for Job now to be able to

840
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: look in the face every day? There he is. There's

841
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 1: the intercessor, there's the advocate, there's the friend. There's the

842
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: redeemer that I kept crying out for. Do you realize

843
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: that Job has met him. Job is in his presence,

844
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Speaker 1: and one day you will be too. I will be too.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine? I can't even imagine what I would

846
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Speaker 1: say other than thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure i'd have a great speech plan, but

848
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Speaker 1: I bet you that's all that comes out. Imagine his glory.

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Speaker 1: Imagine hearing that worship as you're walking and you're You're there,

850
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Speaker 1: We're with him. Sickness is over, aging is over, death

851
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Speaker 1: and destruction is over. Disappointment is over. Concern about some

852
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: currency so you can survive is over. Everything's provided, You

853
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: want for nothing, and you just subide in him. Do

854
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Speaker 1: you believe that to be true? May give you hope today?

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Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for

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Speaker 1: this wonderful time together, and thank you for this incredible

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Speaker 1: message and this reminder of what really matters. So many

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Speaker 1: things we can't control sometimes that overwhelms us. Lord. This

859
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Speaker 1: world is spiraling in so many different directions when we

860
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Speaker 1: get pulled and we get tugged. Thank you, Lord for

861
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Speaker 1: being something that is steadfast. You are the foundation, You

862
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Speaker 1: are home, and you always calm the storm. Lord. If

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Speaker 1: there's anybody out there that today you made sure they

864
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: heard this message, and this is the day you've prompted

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Speaker 1: them that they say, I repent. I want that redemption,

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Speaker 1: I want that advocate, I want that intercessor. I want you, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: that they cry out to you Lord with the sincerity

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Speaker 1: of their heart, and they repent of their sin, and

869
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Speaker 1: they leave faith in themselves. Lord, when I had faith

870
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: in myself, myself always failed me. I'm so thankful I

871
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Speaker 1: shifted my faith to You, who have never failed me.

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Speaker 1: And may they do the same today, Lord, and experience

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Speaker 1: the joy and the peace and the hope of redemption

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Speaker 1: in You and your holy name. We pray Amen, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for being with us.