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Speaker 1: Prayer today. We will pick up in chapter one of

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Speaker 1: Job and we're going to finish chapter one going verses

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Speaker 1: thirteen through twenty two so here we go. Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for today. I pray Lord for your help anytime

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Speaker 1: we're unpacking your Holy Word. It is just a what

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Speaker 1: a pleasure that the beginning and the end would make

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Speaker 1: sure that we have this information. If we're uninformed about you, Lord,

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Speaker 1: it's on us. You have allowed yourself to be known.

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Speaker 1: You've said, if we seek you will find you have

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Speaker 1: you have given us your inspired Holy Word. And Lord,

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Speaker 1: I just pray today that we continue to use this

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Speaker 1: opportunity that you have afforded us to draw nearer to

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Speaker 1: You and your holy name. We pray Amen. All right,

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Speaker 1: So here's what happened if you missed last week. The

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Speaker 1: other angels. And here's what this is. The accusation he

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Speaker 1: And what he does is he makes accusations that none

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Speaker 1: So and they seek to what we know this from scripture,

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Speaker 1: it's important to learn today. Whatever boundaries that God lays

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Speaker 1: which is crucial. In thirteen, he says, now there was

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Speaker 1: So he tries to figure out exactly what he's going

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Speaker 1: a lot of you want this to be Orbama fans Sabians,

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Speaker 1: but it's actually not pronounced that way. Okay, So it's Subbians.

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Speaker 1: The Subbians, their nomadic tribe. They fell upon them and

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Speaker 1: that there were feasts that the children had in each

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Speaker 1: to now, why is he concerned about that? Well, and

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Speaker 1: again this is just this is speculation. It's okay to

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Speaker 1: speculate as long as you acknowledge you're speculating. Would it

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Speaker 1: so that's something we can't let off the table. Now, again,

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Speaker 1: they're not being judged by God. Job's being tested. That's true.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to leave that. However, the concern this

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Speaker 1: not that they're going to sin and curse God. But

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Speaker 1: I'll probably get concerned. Right, So to me, that's just logical.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes they'll even roll their shoulders at you like

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00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: I'm ready. And it's a terrible, terrible feeling because you

428
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: realize this is different than the zoo. And I remember this.

429
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: This actually preaches I haven't put a message around this yet,

430
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 1: but it preaches I was on a safari. Because we

431
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 1: use the analogy of Satan as a lion, I was

432
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: on a safari and one of the guides. Some of

433
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: you have ever heard this story, but it preaches, okay,

434
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: this is why we are called by God to what

435
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: I didn't call you to? A spirit of fear, be

436
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: anxious about nothing? Why is that what shows me rick

437
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: that I trust God? True? But there's also some spiritual

438
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: warfare advice there, because here's what I was told by

439
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: the God. Now, remember, Satan is referred to in an

440
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: analogy as a lion, okay, looking for someone to devour.

441
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: You know what the God told me in that deep

442
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: South African accent. If we are charged by a lion

443
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:23,439
Speaker 1: or a predator, do not run. If you run, you

444
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: will just be tired when you die. Why did he

445
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 1: not want me to run? It triggers it triggers the

446
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: predator that your prey. It triggers the predator to attack.

447
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: If you just stay calm and let him get his

448
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: gun up, he'll shoot the animal before it gets you.

449
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: But if you run, then that animal goes from prowling

450
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: and easing his way to you to a full out sprint,

451
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: and he's a lot harder to shoot it, and he's

452
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: closing the gap between you and him, and you ain't

453
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: gon outrun it. We're not gonna outrun Satan. And what

454
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: he's looking for is are you afraid? Can I scare you?

455
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: Can I get you to be so afraid? It triggers

456
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: my attack. That's why he's called a roaring line. And

457
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: he's also roaring why trying to claim territory. And they

458
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: say that male line that you can hear him from

459
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: five miles saying this is mine. And if he thinks

460
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: that you'll give up ground, he'll take it. So the

461
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: next thing that happens is just an all out of

462
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: salt on Job's children. While he was yet speaking verse eighteen,

463
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: there came another and said, your sons and daughters were

464
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Speaker 1: eating and drinking wine. Again it's specified, it isn't in

465
00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: verse four, but it is in these two verses in

466
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: their oldest brother's house. And behold, a great wind came

467
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house.

468
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: And it fell upon and look at this this description.

469
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: It fell upon the young people. It's almost like the

470
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: guy just couldn't say your children. It just couldn't say

471
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: it the young people, and they are dead. I long

472
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: have escaped to tell you so. So notice a word

473
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: in here that none of the other messengers use. None

474
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: of them do. And it's in verse nineteen, and behold,

475
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: he realizes he's about to deliver news it's unlike what

476
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: the others have delivered. And behold, this is this is

477
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: a this is a this is a prompt in the

478
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Speaker 1: holy world to God, to us to understand. This is

479
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: the climactic episode of this part of the study. Okay, behold,

480
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: livestocks numbers were larger, But there's no comparison to the

481
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,719
Speaker 1: wealth that he has lost to the animals that he

482
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: has lost, no comparison. No matter how weird this world gets,

483
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: God has never elevated animals to the same value that

484
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: he does human beings. To pretend so is blasphemy. There's

485
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with you having a little pet and enjoyed

486
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: it taking care of it, But when you elevate them

487
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: to human status, that is twisted. It's not of God.

488
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: So again we realize that they can all be replaced.

489
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: And you'll see later that this will be completely confirmed

490
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: by the time we end this study. Okay, I won't,

491
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: I won't tell the ending yet. There's no comparison to

492
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: the grief of the earthly death of your children. Nothing comparison,

493
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, you've all been there. We've all

494
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: been there, right. I remember before it ever happened to me,

495
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,719
Speaker 1: I remember seeing it happen to other people. I remember

496
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: one scene vividly, uh at at at the church, and

497
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: I saw a couple, you know, down at the altar,

498
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: and I just remember thinking, man, that's that's unsurvivable. How

499
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: how were they ever even face another day? And I

500
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: remember praying for them. I was in the balcony and

501
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: I remember looking down. I was like, and you know,

502
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: I had the kind of same reaction we all do.

503
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: You're almost like, I don't even know that I want

504
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: to go near that. I don't. I don't want to

505
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: see that scene. I don't want to I don't want

506
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: to step there. And you hear that in the messager,

507
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: don't you. He can't even call them his children. It

508
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: fell on all the young people. They're all dead. Now.

509
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: We also see here that while they were feasting, and

510
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: the timeline seems so short, that all this has happened

511
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: in such a time period, if you want to know

512
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: how quick this happened. And I read this in one

513
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: of the commentaries, and I thought, I've never even thought

514
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: about this if you want to get a timeline on

515
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: how quick Lucifer devours so much. It apparently all happened

516
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: in the length of one feast. They're not even done

517
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: with the feast and all this has happened. That's not

518
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: a long period of time. And I don't care how

519
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: long your family sits around the table. That's a lot

520
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: going on in this short period of time. We actually

521
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: have the timeline because we know the feast was still going.

522
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: So now, like the second calamity with the sheep, we

523
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: do see this again something that may make us uncomfortable.

524
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 1: We see this was done with the force of nature,

525
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: some sort of storm of some kind. It might have

526
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: been some of these sandstorms that come off the desert, desert.

527
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:23,959
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, it was tremendous wind. And you see

528
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: that Satan once again is behind this, but his weapons different.

529
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: It's almost like he has access to these weapons. He's like,

530
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: here comes theft and murder, Here comes fire, Here comes

531
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: theft and murder again. Let's go with let's go with

532
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: a storm this time, let's just collapse the roof on them.

533
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: And apparently, if allowed, he can do it. So there's

534
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: a lot here too that is symbolism, but we won't

535
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: unpack that till we get later about the four corners

536
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: of the house and all this. But it fell on

537
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: his chiin children and and they're dead. See when you

538
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: there's just something about and I saw it in so

539
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: many different ways. The animals again, were a lot of wealth,

540
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: a lot of that's it's it's bad, it's it's the

541
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: servants are horrible. They're human beings, so that's another level

542
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: of horror. But still, let's just let's just say it, okay,

543
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: even though these other human beings have been murdered, that's awful.

544
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: He knows them, he has a relationship with them. And

545
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: and the animals they can be replaced, but there's some

546
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: there's nothing quite like flesh and blood. Now when I

547
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: say that, and I say this all the time because

548
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: I've seen it with my wife as well, I don't

549
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: mean that these have to be children that you birth.

550
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: If you've adopted a child, if you've taken on children,

551
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: and you've been given the role to connect with them,

552
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: and even in a step parent way in a broken family.

553
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: What I'm talking about is is there is a paternal

554
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: and a maternal connection to children that are yours. That

555
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: is unlike anything else in the world. It's it's it's

556
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: even different than your connection to your spouse, which is

557
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: powerful and should be the most powerful. But but that

558
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: that child connection is different, especially dealing with with in

559
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: this culture, because you know, the children were always the

560
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: glory of their father. Uh and uh and and Job

561
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: is hearing this news. And then if you get into practical,

562
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: because you know the wife will see later, you know

563
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: she doesn't do as well as the husband. But I

564
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: will say this, even though I've seen my wife just

565
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: cling to the one and only living God, I had

566
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 1: to learn as a dad that there's a maternal connection

567
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: to these children. We're not in a there's something about

568
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: the wound that God gave them that there's a yearning

569
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: and a and a screeching and a mourning that comes

570
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: from there that is that has a whole different tone.

571
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: And there's a connection with the father that is unique

572
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: to the father. But but this is horrible, horrible news.

573
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: And this is this is the moment for Job early on,

574
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: and Lucifer didn't stick around to say let's let's extend this.

575
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 1: He said, let's go and see if I can take

576
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: him out. I tell you what Lucifer does have you

577
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: ever have you ever been you know, like a I

578
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: in a battle or even a sporting event. You know,

579
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a great strategy that says, let's

580
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: take them out. Let's take their legs out from them,

581
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: right out of the gate. That's what he's doing. I'm

582
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: gonna kill his kids as quick as I can, and

583
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: we'll find that where he is. I want this game

584
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: to be short. Okay, Well we know that too, that

585
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: we are told by the Psalmist in Some one twenty seven,

586
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: verse three that these could not be replaced because they

587
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: are a special gift from God. Behold, children are heritage

588
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward,

589
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: natural disaster used by Satan. So so how how does

590
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: that work? Why? Why? Why? Why? You know? Because we

591
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: will say many times that it's allowed by God. That's true.

592
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: But I think you may see storms and natural disasters

593
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: a little bit different. And this is gonna get kind

594
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: of deep. But what you have here is that Lucifer

595
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: is an independent agent. Okay, he's he's contract. Okay, I'm independent,

596
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: I make I make my own choices living. He's making

597
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: choices inside the boundaries that God has set. So God says,

598
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: I understand when this place fell, everything things out of whack.

599
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: We got all these storms coming. And if you want

600
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: to get down to it, I want you to think

601
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: about that. When we get into earthquakes and volcanoes and

602
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: tornadoes and hurricanes, you have Satan initiating these things, but

603
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: then you have God having to permit it. Do you

604
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: remember that? Does that make sense? See, it's a lot

605
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: of times we want to sometimes make a case, you know,

606
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: to try to figure out what God's doing in this

607
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: This horrible incident came from Satan. Really the better question

608
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: is to say why, why was it allowed? What? What?

609
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: What are you trying to accomplish in this? But Satan

610
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: did it, He exercised his free will, but God allowed it,

611
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: which is sovereign. You see all that working together. This

612
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: is that dance. I think sometimes we try to pretend

613
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: like we figured out when when let's just be honest,

614
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 1: we haven't. We just we just we just have faith.

615
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: We say that's the truth, and I have faith. But

616
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: governs God's sovereign hand controls the universe. But Satan's free

617
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: will is the force that always instigates evil in the world.

618
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: God doesn't instigate evil. Satan instigates evil and God sets

619
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: the boundaries. Don't want to let that sit for a minute.

620
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: So why does God allow these things? Is he allowing them?

621
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: And this is what you got to watch out for

622
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: when people start this kind of stuff which is blasphemy.

623
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: God does not allow these things because he's like being

624
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: cruel or sadistic in some way. Now see that's what

625
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: Satan wants you to believe. So no, be careful, stay

626
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: right here. I've talked to people that have told me

627
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: they went through this. I think God protected Sherry and

628
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 1: me from this. I don't recall ever having this thought.

629
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 1: I understood it, but it wasn't anything negative. He comforted me.

630
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: But I have talked to people that have been through

631
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: horrible calamity, people of faith strong, and I've been in

632
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: that hospital room and I've sat down with him and

633
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: I've had to pray with him because they knew what

634
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: was happening, and it was this either a demon, likely

635
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: a demon operating on behalf of Lucifer will come to

636
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: you knowing that he can't get you not to believe

637
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: in God because that's absurd, but you know what he'll do.

638
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Speaker 1: So you you think God is in control of all things? Yes,

639
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Speaker 1: I do. Get away from me Satan. So, yes, that's

640
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 1: what you believe. I absolutely believe. Oh so he did

641
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: this to you. So he did it to you to

642
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: try to get you to say, why would God be

643
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,720
Speaker 1: cruel like that? That's why we got to understand suffering.

644
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: That's why we got to understand difficulty. It's so important

645
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Speaker 1: that we understand it. And the Bible is not silent

646
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: on this. Now, if you don't know the Bible and

647
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, some demon or some spiritual force

648
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: on behalf of Satan begins to manipulate things about God

649
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: that you don't know aren't true, you got problems, and

650
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: he can get you to real quick start seeing God

651
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: in a way that is not correct. We know that God,

652
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Speaker 1: if you know scripture, is working out all things for

653
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: good for those who love Him. Now, if you have

654
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: rejected God, you're just in the middle of a bunch

655
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: of calambity and chaos that God really has no parting. Now,

656
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: he might be allowing something to get you to come

657
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: to him, Okay, but you don't really have the assurance

658
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: that everything's working out for good because you are not

659
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Speaker 1: with God. I mean, we just studied the end of

660
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Speaker 1: all time in the Tribulation. For those people, these things

661
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: aren't working out for good, it's working out to their destruction.

662
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Speaker 1: But for those that love God and for those that

663
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: have been redeemed, we are assured that whatever he's working out,

664
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Speaker 1: he's working it out for our good. We were taught

665
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: that by Joseph early on. You meant this for bad

666
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: against me, but God had a plan that I'd be

667
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: sitting here ready to save y'all. He worked me all

668
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: into one of the most powerful people in Egypt, right

669
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: when y'all needed me. Okay, so we know these things,

670
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: but remember God is merciful. He is compassionate, and when

671
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Speaker 1: he's disciplining us, it's like a parent that hates that

672
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Speaker 1: he has to discipline his children, but he's doing it

673
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: because he loves them. We studied this in Hebrews, and

674
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: he is realizing that this is what's best for you.

675
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: And you're going to see before we're done, job is

676
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: actually being refined by God and is being taught by God.

677
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: It is going to go to a place with God

678
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: where he's not right now, and God's going to use

679
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: this to get him there. Now Satan doesn't know that.

680
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,840
Speaker 1: Satan has no idea what God's doing. He can't believe

681
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: he's been allowed to do it, so he's just doing it.

682
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: He's trying to kill still and destroy. But remember, go

683
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: back to Jesus in the storm of Galilee. What does

684
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: it say to you in the storm of Galilee? When

685
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: we're studying about this, we hear the term that when

686
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,919
Speaker 1: you remember this, don't you even care? Don't you even

687
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: care about us? Don't you see all this? Now? He

688
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: does two things here. He shows them he's God because

689
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: they knew that. The Psalmist said that God tells the

690
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Speaker 1: wind what to do. God tells the weather what to do,

691
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: and the weather does it. They knew that, so he

692
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: is showing them once again, I am God. Watch this.

693
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: But what did he do to the wind? He rebuked it?

694
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: Now that's important. Why doesn't it say he controlled it?

695
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: He rebuked it. Why did he rebuke it? Because it

696
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 1: was Satan himself that was bringing the storm on the boat.

697
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: But he had control over Satan, who at the moment

698
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Speaker 1: had controlled over the wind. That's important. That'll change your

699
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: whole look at everything. What you should be saying when

700
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: that tornado is coming for your house. Rebuke it, Lord,

701
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: But Satan's driving that Tornada towards your house, I promise you.

702
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: And God has decided whether he's gonna let hit you

703
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: or not. Why do I know that he allows it

704
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: because he sure could stop it. So maybe we need

705
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: to have God rebuke what's happening to us because Satan's

706
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: initiating it. But God allows the boundaries that already give

707
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,439
Speaker 1: you a whole new look at everything. But that look,

708
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: I want you to be comforted by this, not distraught

709
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: about it. Okay. And then comes the response I think

710
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: about first. Peter Sherry unpacts this first incredibly in her book.

711
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: You know, when people ask me about on this topic

712
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: of suffering and they're asking me about what commentaries I'm

713
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: using all that, and I'm happy to share that with you.

714
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: But I will say, one of the God inspired, most

715
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: powerful resources on this topic, and it's all what God

716
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: has said, not what Shery has said, is her book.

717
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: It's as good as anything you ever read or listen

718
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: to if you want to do audio. It really really

719
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: Sherry was like, I want God to tell me everything

720
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: about this. I want to search everything about this. I

721
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: want to know exactly what God's doing and all this

722
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: and you know what she found it. He's never been

723
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Speaker 1: silent on this. Now, remember what first Peter says in this,

724
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Speaker 1: This is chapter one, verse six and seven. In this

725
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: you rejoice the so now for a little while, if necessary.

726
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: All that's crucial. Say those words again in this you

727
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: rejoice though now for a little while if necessary. You

728
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: have been grieved by various trials, So Peter says, sometimes

729
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: it's necessary, and God makes that call. But why are

730
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: we rejoicing? Because you must understand that most of the

731
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: time he's testing the genuineness of your faith. He doesn't

732
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: tempt us, but he does test us. And then Peter says,

733
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Speaker 1: and what is the hope is is that your faith

734
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Speaker 1: will pass the test because it's more precious than gold.

735
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: And gold can't handle the fire. Peter says, it doesn't

736
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: make it through fire, but your faith can. And when

737
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: it does, it results at the revelation and the glorification

738
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: of Jesus. And guess who passes test number one? Job?

739
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 1: And you know what, God, I can just see God

740
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: sitting there. Satan is convinced that Job is about to

741
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: rebuke God. He's convinced that Job is about to turn

742
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: on God. But remember what we were told in the

743
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: first part of the chapter that Job was blameless and

744
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: upright and his piety was not exaggerated. Look at this response.

745
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: Look at this response in verse twenty. Then Job, what

746
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: has he just heard? All ten of your children are dead,

747
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: not one. I've buried one. I can't imagine bearing ten.

748
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: You know we can all. You don't have to look

749
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: too far as you can find. Somebody, says hell, try

750
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: to try to end. Okay, So when we do our

751
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 1: poor poor Pito for me, there's always somebody that's got

752
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: worse than you do every time. Okay. We certainly don't

753
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: have the corner market on pain and suffering, as a

754
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: lot of it going on with a lot of people. Okay,

755
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: so now we hear that he goes into action. These

756
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: are all listen to these verbs. Okay, he goes. Then

757
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: Job arose, He stands up Torre's robe, shaved, his head,

758
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: fell on the ground, and worshiped. Maybe this wasn't an

759
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: exaggeration about Job. And you know who knew who was

760
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: gonna do that, the one and only living God. You

761
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: know who didn't know, Lucifer. So I want you to

762
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: that he got up. Okay. Remember five of the nine

763
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: Hebrew words in this verse are verbs, and job is

764
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: the subject of all five. Got up, tore, shaved, fell worship. Now,

765
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: tearing and shaving was always a sign of grief, so

766
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: he is grieving rightfully. So okay, so this this was

767
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: a standard for that culture. Now you notice we don't

768
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: see any sackcloth yet. We'll see that later. We don't

769
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: see that right now. That's not there. That would have

770
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: been the other thing that would have been normal, but

771
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: that's not there yet, But that's going to come. He

772
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: tore his it would be his outer garment. Okay. The

773
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: tearing and the shaving were expected. Okay, Now keep in

774
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: mind that you know, have you heard that before? Well?

775
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: I expected that. What you do you expect a father

776
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: to grieve that his ten children are dead? So that

777
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: was expected. Oh but what's next was unexpected? Tearing the clothes,

778
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: shaving the head. Kind we thought that's what the messenger's

779
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: standing like, that's what we thought we'd see. But they

780
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: don't expect what's next. And I want to ask you

781
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: and me this question. Okay, when we're going through calamity,

782
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: when we're going through difficulty, is our reaction always about

783
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: what would be expected, or is our reaction always includes

784
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: something that was unexpected that maybe shows a supernatural power,

785
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: maybe shows a devotion to God that proves that our

786
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: faith is actually genuine. Well, the next things he did,

787
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: they did not expect him to fall down and worship.

788
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: That was unexpected. What about you and me? Do we

789
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: respond the way everybody goes? Well, Well, they're upset, they're angry,

790
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: they're grieving. Nothing wrong with that, but that's expected. Is

791
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: there anything happening in the difficulty of our lives that

792
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: looks unexpected? Well, I'm going to tell you something. It's

793
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: only the unexpected stuff that it gets anybody's attention. The

794
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: other stuff just has people going, which is fine. I

795
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: feel so bad for them. Man, that's bad, that's awful.

796
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: But what about unexpected Like when we were standing at

797
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: the memorial service and people, you know, not one person,

798
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Speaker 1: not one person, ever said to me, you know, I

799
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 1: saw your wife crying. Man, I was really moved by

800
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: her crying. I was really moved by her grief. They

801
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: might have been heartbroken by it, but they weren't moved

802
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: by it. You know what every one of them said

803
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: when she reached her hand up and started grabbing for God.

804
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that she began to praise and worship

805
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,879
Speaker 1: the one and only live in God. And I'll never

806
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: forget that that was the turning point for people that

807
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: on that memorial service. I can't remember the exact number,

808
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: but it was high, two hundreds into three hundreds, something

809
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: like that. I know there were thousands that were there,

810
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,879
Speaker 1: but there were hundreds of people that that was their day.

811
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: And I assure you, the crying is not what brought

812
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: them to Jesus. It might have broke their hearts, but

813
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: it didn't bring them to Jesus. It was the worship

814
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: of the God that could have saved the boy, that

815
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: changed everything. It was unexpected, so falling down in worship

816
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: was unexpected. You know what they thought, they'd say, A

817
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: fist in the air. That's what Lucifer. He couldn't wait.

818
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: He couldn't wait for Job to put his fist in

819
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 1: the air and say, how have you done this to me?

820
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: That's what he was hoping for. And you know what,

821
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: if you did it, you know what a human being

822
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: would say. That's perfectly natural, perfectly normal. And that's why

823
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: it's wrong because it ain't supernatural, and it's just the

824
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 1: way sinful people would act. There's nothing special about it.

825
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: It's mediocre. It's normal. And nobody comes to the Lord

826
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 1: because you shook your fist at heaven and cried out,

827
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: why did you do this to me? Why me? Doesn't

828
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: really draw anybody to Jesus. Now worship the God that

829
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: was in control. That's different because you know what that says.

830
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: Whatever you're doing is right. I stand with you, God,

831
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 1: and that's what we're seeing. No, why me, Lord, he's

832
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: bowing to God? And what is he bowing to? Here?

833
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: It is? What is he bowing to God's sovereign will?

834
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: Here will be done? Y'all heard me tell that story

835
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 1: a thousand times. Say, in the hospital, watching them try

836
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: to bring our little boy back to life, and all

837
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: of a sudden, out of nowhere, she's super naturally begin

838
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: to pray a different prayer. She'd been praying for him

839
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 1: to be revived, revived, revived, perfectly natural. But she said,

840
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: then something supernatural happened, unexpected. She said, I heard my

841
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: voice saying, not mine will be done, but your will

842
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: be done. Lord. And she said, there's no way I

843
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: could pray that Romans chapter eight for the Redeemed. Sometimes

844
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit intervenes and groans we cannot understand, and

845
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: he changes our prayer and corrects it. And the Holy

846
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: Spirit corrected Sherry's prayer. And that's what you see job doing.

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Speaker 1: I am submitting to your will, not mine. That was unexpected.

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Speaker 1: And then listen to what he says next. And he said,

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Speaker 1: naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I

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Speaker 1: shall return. I was born with nothing. You don't owe

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Speaker 1: me anything, and I'll die with nothing. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to break that to y'all. Y'all may have a

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Speaker 1: lot of nice, cool stuff I do, it ain't going

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Speaker 1: with us, okay, you know. And as long as you're

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Speaker 1: doing it like this and you're saying, thank you, Lord

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Speaker 1: for allowing me to have it for a little while

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Speaker 1: before you take it away with open hands, you go

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Speaker 1: enjoy the blessings of God. Now, don't worship it, and

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Speaker 1: don't have so much stuff that you can't be part

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Speaker 1: of his kingdom. But if he allows you to have

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Speaker 1: stuff and you're responsible what he gave you, enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: But I assure you, when you're dead, it ain't gonna

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Speaker 1: mean anything. And that's what Job said. When I was born,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have anything, and when I die, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna have anything. And then he goes on and says,

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Speaker 1: remember he's submitting to God's sovereign will. The Lord gave,

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Speaker 1: and the Lord has taken. He knows who's in charge

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Speaker 1: of this. Do you hear him say in this? Are

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Speaker 1: you ready? Do you hear him say? The Lord gave

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Speaker 1: and Satan took it away. Satan just ran in here

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Speaker 1: and just did whatever he wanted to do, and God

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Speaker 1: couldn't do anything about it, and he took it away

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Speaker 1: from me. You don't live in that world. I don't

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Speaker 1: live in that world. He can't do anything to us

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Speaker 1: that God doesn't allow. He said, the Lord gave this

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Speaker 1: to me. I didn't earn it. The Lord gave it

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Speaker 1: to me. It's his and he has every right to

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Speaker 1: take it away. And then the next thing he says

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Speaker 1: is blessed be the name of the Lord. He's saying,

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Speaker 1: blessed be the name of the Lord that allowed his

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Speaker 1: children to be killed. Yes, that allowed all of his

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Speaker 1: livestock to be taken. Yes, so he's now poor, He

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Speaker 1: now has nothing, and his chill dren are dead, and

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Speaker 1: he's saying, blessed be the name of the Lord. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I hope, brothers and sisters that are out there, I

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Speaker 1: hope that our devotion to the Lord isn't solely based

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Speaker 1: on what he does for us. The cross is plenty,

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Speaker 1: It's plenty if he didn't do anything else. Like I say,

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Speaker 1: I've gotten to the point where I'm so thankful that

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Speaker 1: I'm allowed to even function. He should have killed me

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. And as I've said many times,

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by his judgment. I'm surprised by his

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Speaker 1: mercy and his grace. I'm not surprised by his refinement.

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Speaker 1: I need it. I'm surprised by how little he refines me,

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Speaker 1: how many good days he allows me to have versus difficult.

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Speaker 1: That's what amazes me, because what I deserve is constant difficulty,

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Speaker 1: constant calamity. That's what I deserve. But he's been gracious

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Speaker 1: and merciful. So when the time comes along that he

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Speaker 1: thinks I need some refinement, Blessed be the name of

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Speaker 1: the Lord. I trust him. And that's what Job is saying.

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Speaker 1: And look at twenty two and all this Job did

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Speaker 1: not sin our charge God with wrong. If he had

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Speaker 1: charged God with wrong, what would everybody say? Understandable? Understand

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Speaker 1: he's angry with God right now? Do you know? That's

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Speaker 1: the question that I dread the most anytime somebody wants

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Speaker 1: to hear our story about this calamity. And it's not

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Speaker 1: the only calamity we've ever been through. It's the one

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Speaker 1: that is most prominent ever. Angry rick with the Lord?

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Speaker 1: Were you and sure? Angry with the Lord? No? No,

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Speaker 1: not a minute, because of how merciful and gracious he

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Speaker 1: has been to us both. I have no case against

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Speaker 1: the Lord. Now the adversary tries to make a case

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Speaker 1: against me, and he's got a lot to work with.

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Speaker 1: But Jesus stands up and said I made him fully righteous,

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Speaker 1: and Lucifer says he didn't deserve that, and jessaid, you're right,

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Speaker 1: But he repented with a sincere heart, and he asked

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Speaker 1: me to forgive him and said only I could, so

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Speaker 1: I did. That's why Lucifer hates us, because God has

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Speaker 1: told him he's to be punished and be destroyed and

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Speaker 1: he did not get that deal, but we did. And

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Speaker 1: how Daris abuse it? And how Daris accuse God? And

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Speaker 1: how Daris ever be angry with God. After all he's

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Speaker 1: done for us. If he never did another thing, redemption

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Speaker 1: was more than any of us deserved. May we have

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Speaker 1: the same heart that when things are tough, that that

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Speaker 1: toughness doesn't cause us to enter into sin or to

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Speaker 1: charge the one and only living God. And a short time,

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Speaker 1: Job went from the greatest of the men to the

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Speaker 1: least of the men. And see, this is the part

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Speaker 1: that I'll close on. We know how this ends. Job,

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Speaker 1: didn't we know something he didn't know. He doesn't know

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Speaker 1: about this conversation between God and Satan. He knows none

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Speaker 1: of this. We know that we know that he was

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Speaker 1: a chosen test case. He doesn't know that. We can't

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Speaker 1: really enter his sorrow because he doesn't know how this ends.

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Speaker 1: He's just believing by faith. And here's what we'll close with.

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Speaker 1: Why was Job chosen for this trial because of his godliness?

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Speaker 1: He thinks I've been I've done everything right exactly, so

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Speaker 1: he was perfect, perfect for the trial because he could

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

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Speaker 1: you for this powerful message. My goodness. We just rest

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Speaker 1: in you. Lord. Thank you for being so kind and

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Speaker 1: so gracious, and thank you for teaching us so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for loving us, thank you for refining us,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for disciplining us because you love us. May

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Speaker 1: we not fail the test and your name we pray Amen,