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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. I'm Rick Burgess, Thanks

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Speaker 1: and we did mention this and talk about it and

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Speaker 1: just think about the incredible legacy of John MacArthur. A

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Speaker 1: what a powerful man of God. Of course, the only

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Speaker 1: thing good about him was the power were of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: his devoted Lord and Savior. Uh. But we we all

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Speaker 1: have been impacted greatly by the ministry that God has

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Speaker 1: had through him, and that will continue on his legacy

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Speaker 1: certainly getting a well done. But there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: things you can say about John MacArthur. He's been a

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Speaker 1: great influence on my life obviously, and so many other men.

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Speaker 1: But one of my favorite things he ever said when

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Speaker 1: Joel Ostein put out the ridiculous book Your Best Life Now,

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Speaker 1: and I remember MacArthur, you know he pulled no punches.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, the only thing wrong with that title,

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Speaker 1: he said, the only people that are living their best

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Speaker 1: let's open up in a word of prayer. We'll continue

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Speaker 1: that family. But when someone lives a life like John MacArthur,

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Speaker 1: for good reason. Lord, Thank you for today we do

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Speaker 1: the boldness you gave him, Thank you for his unwavering

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Speaker 1: who will lead them now, and with his family as

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Speaker 1: they grieve today. Lord, help us to open up this wonderful,

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Speaker 1: wonderful lesson today that continues through your servant Job. Help

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Speaker 1: pray Amen. Okay, So Elifas is going to have his

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Speaker 1: got news for you. Good deeds don't impress God at all.

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Speaker 1: I've been searching the scriptures. I don't see anywhere where

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Speaker 1: with the new revelation for all of us. Maybe I

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Speaker 1: And and and this this continues. He says, God isn't

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Speaker 1: God's justice is what he's gonna talk about. Next, Eliphas

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Speaker 1: but you want me to answer for you? Why? I

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Speaker 1: think God, that's what you keep saying. If God's punishing you, why,

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Speaker 1: Well I'll tell you why. I number one Piet uh So,

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Speaker 1: So what he's really saying here is if you fear

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Speaker 1: So then then we get to five, and he says,

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Speaker 1: he can see and he knows exactly what you've been doing.

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Speaker 1: So Eliphaz is getting a little bit of problem now

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Speaker 1: he's starting to kind of he's kind of all over

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Speaker 1: the road. Fourteen, thick clouds veil him so that he

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Speaker 1: does not see and he walks on the vault of

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Speaker 1: heaven and he says, yes, maybe maybe you know. I

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Speaker 1: alluded to a veil of clouds. But I never said

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Speaker 1: that God couldn't see. Okay, he's trying to say that

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Speaker 1: because Job used these examples. You're saying that Job that

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Speaker 1: God couldn't see, Job would count us. I never said that.

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Speaker 1: I said I feel like there's distance between us, that

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Speaker 1: I'm separated from God. I never said he can't see me.

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Speaker 1: Elafast that we Oh, you one said that about the veil.

436
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Speaker 1: You're the one said that about the clouds, like he

437
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Speaker 1: can't see through them. But Joe never said that meant

438
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Speaker 1: that God didn't know what he was doing. But you

439
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Speaker 1: see elapas man, he's trying. He's throwing up some hell

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Speaker 1: Mary's In fifteen, he says, will you keep to the

441
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Speaker 1: old way that wicked men have trod? Are you gonna

442
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Speaker 1: stick with this? Are we gonna hear this again about

443
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Speaker 1: the wicked people? Are you gonna stick with this narrative?

444
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Speaker 1: And that you're innocent? And you're innocent because wicked people

445
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Speaker 1: don't all seem to be suffering? Are we just gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to hear this? Is? Is this gonna be the

447
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Speaker 1: narrative that you're gonna stick with? And then he goes

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Speaker 1: into sixteen and he says they were snatched away before

449
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Speaker 1: their time, their foundation was washed away. Here we go

450
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Speaker 1: get I can't even imagine. I can't even imagine when

451
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Speaker 1: when I thought about this, I thought about the times.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever just known something was true? Somebody keeps

453
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Speaker 1: trying to tell you it's not true, but you know

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Speaker 1: it's true because you saw it with your own eyes,

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Speaker 1: and they keep this happened many many, many years ago.

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Speaker 1: So there was I'm trying to think how I can

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Speaker 1: word this? All right, So the guys in the room, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the guys there that are in the room, that y'all

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Speaker 1: this will be easy for y'all. Sorry if you're just

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Speaker 1: listening to this. But look, I'm looking toward a production

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Speaker 1: studio across all the men in the room, and you can,

462
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Speaker 1: y'all see there's windows you can see through, so that

463
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Speaker 1: there's a window here so I can see into that room.

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Speaker 1: You could shut that door and I could still see

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Speaker 1: in that because there's a window. Well, I was working

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Speaker 1: at the time, and there was something that somebody working

467
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Speaker 1: with me wasn't supposed to be doing in a production room,

468
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Speaker 1: just like that during the live show. And so I said, hey,

469
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Speaker 1: so and so is in there doing to another the

470
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Speaker 1: team what I said not to do during the show.

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Speaker 1: And I was told that he wasn't doing it. But

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Speaker 1: I could see it. I could see right through the window.

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Speaker 1: And I got at the end of my rope and

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Speaker 1: I stood up. I said, I can see it. Don't

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Speaker 1: tell me he's not doing it. I see it. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's doing that. I'm looking at him.

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Speaker 1: He's doing it. And so, so this is really what

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine how Joe feels when Elafast just goes

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Speaker 1: right back. You know what, They die young. I just

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Speaker 1: told you that I've seen wicked people live and see

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Speaker 1: their grandchildren. I just told you that I've seen that

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Speaker 1: with my own eyes. Well, Ela Fast goes right back

483
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Speaker 1: to it. I'll tell you what happens to the wicked.

484
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: God punishes them and he snatches them away before their time.

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Speaker 1: Their foundations washed away, and he's back to They die young,

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Speaker 1: and flood come and take away all their stuff, and

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Speaker 1: Job just said, that's not what I've observed. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it happens to some of them, but I've seen as

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Speaker 1: a real Like we said last week, it's a lot

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Speaker 1: more arbitrary than y'all are making. Y'all are saying, don't

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Speaker 1: we see that? Even today? I see sometimes people pay

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Speaker 1: a horrible price for what they're doing. And sometimes now

493
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Speaker 1: they're going to pay a price if they don't fix

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Speaker 1: it before they stand before the final judgment. But as

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Speaker 1: far as here, in this falling creation, with falling people,

496
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Speaker 1: like I said, there's nothing fair. I know, wicked people

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Speaker 1: that are doing great from from a from a worldly standpoint.

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Speaker 1: And so he's just been told that he didn't see

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Speaker 1: what he saw, and I bet that feels great. They said,

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Speaker 1: to God, depart from us, and what can the Almighty

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Speaker 1: do to us? And you know what Jobe should have

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Speaker 1: siti over here, that's what I said. I said, they

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Speaker 1: said those same things, but they seem not to be

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Speaker 1: being punished by God. You're using my thing, that's my thing,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's like the great commercial. Yeah, but when

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Speaker 1: I said it, I did my hand like that, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like you're using my words

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Speaker 1: and acting like I told you that they say these

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Speaker 1: things to God and he doesn't punish them immediately on earth.

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Speaker 1: You're back to saying he does, and I told you

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Speaker 1: that I saw that he didn't. I can't imagine the

512
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Speaker 1: frustration of this right now. So Lafas just keeps on

513
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Speaker 1: going and says the same thing that Job has already said.

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Speaker 1: It's a direct quote from Job, and then eighteen Yet

515
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Speaker 1: he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel

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Speaker 1: of the wicked is far from me. Now it sounds like,

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Speaker 1: right here, he's agreeing with Job for just a minute,

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Speaker 1: but then he uses Job's words to actually repudiate the

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Speaker 1: statement that he made last week in twenty one sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Job said this in chapter twelve six, and he's almost

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Speaker 1: agreeing with that. But what Job just said in twenty

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Speaker 1: one sixteen. He's rejecting that the wicked are not a

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Speaker 1: counsel to be considered. Certainly agreeing there, but he's saying

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Speaker 1: this mockingly to Job when Job's like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I have seen that they actually are doing pretty well.

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Speaker 1: Now Eliphaz is still saying no, they're not, and he says,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to use your own words. God doesn't tolerate

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Speaker 1: wicked people. That that's not what I said. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: take counsel from them, and they don't take cancel from him.

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Speaker 1: But but I'm telling you I've seen them still do

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Speaker 1: quite well. So now he's gonna Elafas is going to

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Speaker 1: go into in nineteen and twenty. The righteous will react

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Speaker 1: to the sinners. Ruin nineteen the righteous see it and

534
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Speaker 1: are glad. The innocent one monks at them gloating over

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Speaker 1: the wicked's demise. Now, let me be clear, you got

536
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Speaker 1: to be on the right timeline with scripture on this,

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Speaker 1: because the first thing you would say is that what

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Speaker 1: Eliphaz is saying is contrary to Proverbs twenty four seventeen,

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Speaker 1: because it is when it says, do not gloat when

540
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Speaker 1: your enemy falls, when he stumbles, do not let your

541
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Speaker 1: heart rejoice. So Eliphas considers himself righteous and innocent, and

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Speaker 1: so he's saying, I'm so righteous and I'm so innocent.

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Speaker 1: You're going to get what you deserve. And I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be glad because God's finally going to have justice,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to rejoice over this because that's what

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Speaker 1: righteous people should do. When the wicked are punished. It

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Speaker 1: sounds contrary what it iss, But there will be a

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Speaker 1: time forward in the Revelation when the new Heaven and

549
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Speaker 1: the New Earth are being established, and all the redeemed

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Speaker 1: are there, and we will rejoice. Remember we covered this

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Speaker 1: in the Study of Revelation. We will rejoice at the

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Speaker 1: wicked's demise and their destruction, because we'll be so enamored

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Speaker 1: with the glory of the glorified Christ, and we will

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Speaker 1: worship him in such a way that we've never experienced

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Speaker 1: before in our lives, and will be glorified, and our

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Speaker 1: sin nature and any love of our sin nature will

557
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Speaker 1: be completely gone. And we will begin to rejoice at

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Speaker 1: the destruction of anyone supernatural or human that opposes our

559
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Speaker 1: glorious Savior. Now, that will happen. But here Eliphast is

560
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Speaker 1: probably more in the Proverbs situation than he is that

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Speaker 1: because we're we're not there yet so anyway, But but

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Speaker 1: I don't ever want to say that we'll that will

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Speaker 1: never gloat over the destruction of the wicked, because we

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Speaker 1: will one day. It won't be gloating, but it will

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Speaker 1: be a celebration, all right. So let's go to twenty saying,

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Speaker 1: surely our adversaries are cut off and what they left

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Speaker 1: the fire has consumed. You know, he's not talking about

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Speaker 1: an actual physical war between the two, but ultimately it's

569
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Speaker 1: the obvious result that that when the wicked go down,

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Speaker 1: because they're not really at war with these pagans, so

571
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Speaker 1: it's not an actual war. But what he is saying

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Speaker 1: here as far as adversaries, he means those that are

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Speaker 1: wicked opposed to those that are righteous, not in a

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Speaker 1: real physical war, but in a in you know, a

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Speaker 1: chasm between the two views of God. He said, ultimately

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Speaker 1: they are going to be destroyed, and ultimately it's going

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Speaker 1: to be God that destroys them. Okay, now, and I

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Speaker 1: want you just imagine this because now Elafaz is gonna

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Speaker 1: talk to Job as if Job doesn't know these things,

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna say, if you want to hear a

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Speaker 1: little advice from me, Now, I think Job told us

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Speaker 1: last week at the end, I'm done with advice from y'all.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever told someone you didn't want their advice

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Speaker 1: and they just gave it to you anyway? Well, well

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Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna get here. Now. Let me say this,

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Speaker 1: if I were preparing to preach, I get a chance

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Speaker 1: to why this is happening in real time. I do

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Speaker 1: get a chance to preach again this Sunday night. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing. I could take this piece

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Speaker 1: of paper right here, and I got myself a sermon.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful sermon. It's just being given to the

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Speaker 1: wrong person. But Elafas does get this right. He's saying

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Speaker 1: in twenty one, agree with God and be at peace.

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Speaker 1: Thereby goodwill will come to you. So what's the message there?

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Speaker 1: Got to submit to God. You got to stop trying

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Speaker 1: to do things your own way. You got to quit

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Speaker 1: using your own standards. You got to go back to God,

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Speaker 1: and you got to be at peace with God, and

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Speaker 1: you have to agree with him about what your sinfulness. Well,

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00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: that's actually correct that that's that's the new covenant that's

601
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: coming right because and I've noticed this, and this has

602
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Speaker 1: been sadly absent in the Western Church in many places.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully none of us are in churches like that. Repentance

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00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: has just like left the building. There's no discussion of

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Speaker 1: repentance whatsoever. You you're hearing things being taught now that

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Speaker 1: that is that God has just just met you right

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Speaker 1: where you are, and he just hangs out with sinners.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't call anybody your repentance, you know, he he

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Speaker 1: he has listen. This is the truth. Did Jesus spend

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Speaker 1: time with sinners absolutely and do what call them to repentance?

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Speaker 1: And when he left the company of sinners, he was

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Speaker 1: not more like them. They were more like him. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but uh but so so this is true in order

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Speaker 1: for me to be redeemed. And where we're all from

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Speaker 1: a lot of you out there and listening y'all from

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Speaker 1: different places. Let me tell you there's nothing that's easier

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Speaker 1: than preaching the gospel where everybody knows they're lost. You

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00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: ought to try to preach the gospel where we live,

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Speaker 1: where everybody thinks they're saved. Uh, I said. One of

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Speaker 1: the biggest, the biggest mountains you'll climb doing ministry in

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Speaker 1: the Bible belt is convincing people they're they're they're lost,

622
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Speaker 1: so you then can convince them they need to be saved.

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Speaker 1: Because just about everybody that you encounter thinks they're all

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Speaker 1: going to heaven because they believe the right things, or

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Speaker 1: were raised in something or went to church a few times,

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Speaker 1: and so so that But what he's saying is you

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00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: got to acknowledge that you're sinful, and you got to

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Speaker 1: agree with God about his holiness and your sinfulness. If

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Speaker 1: you're gonna make peace with God, that's correct. Jobs is

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Speaker 1: not in that situation. He has recognized his sinfulness. He's blameless.

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Speaker 1: He's upright. Eliphaz isn't buying it. What did he say? So? So,

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Speaker 1: if I was doing a sermon, you know what I'd say.

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Speaker 1: Zero point one. Submit yourself to God under his authority,

634
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: acknowledge your sinfulness and repent. All right, here we go

635
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: number two. Receive instruction from his mouth and lay up

636
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: his words in your heart. You gotta be You gotta

637
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: accept God's standard. You got to do things the way

638
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: God says to do. What do we say what is

639
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: true obedience? Remember this, let's review it again. This is

640
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: not obedience. I'm gonna do God's I'm gonna do God's

641
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: will my way, and I'm gonna see if I can

642
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: get God to do his will my way. That's not obedience.

643
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: It's doing God's will God's way. Right. It's just like today,

644
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: I was talking about the thing that happened, you know,

645
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: with the sin of homosexuality, and I had somebody send me,

646
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: you know, the loving texts where they would ever talk

647
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: to me to my face. You know this the world

648
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: today of social media and people being to a same

649
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: thing to you, to you, they want to anonymously. It

650
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: has just been it is a wonderful, fruitful soil for

651
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: coywards and so so. Anyway, the person said, I don't

652
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: want to sit here and hear you talk about the Bible.

653
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: I said, I've not asked you to listen to me,

654
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: but you might want to look at the Bible and

655
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: see what God says about it. I'm just pointing you

656
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: to the standard. I'm not the standard. You're right about that,

657
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: but let me tell you who is, and let me

658
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: tell you how he sees it. I have not found

659
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: anywhere in scripture that He's evolved on this. Now it is.

660
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: It is absolutely true that homosexuality is not some special

661
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: sin that requires extra repentance. But it's also not a

662
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: special sin, meaning God's evolved on it and now he

663
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: gives it a pass. The fornicator of the adulter, they're

664
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: in the same bind if they don't repent. Sexual sin

665
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: is sexual sin. However, it's not special and God has

666
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: decided that he's good with it. Now we can find

667
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: that nowhere. And this is where human beings have a problem.

668
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: I actually was confronted with that one time, face to face,

669
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 1: and I said, where do you get the authority that

670
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: God has evolved on marriage, on gender, on intimacy? You

671
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 1: know what? The person said, I've just observed it. Well,

672
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: I've observed all kinds of things. I mean, is that it?

673
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: So if I just observed something and say, well, you

674
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: know what, the fact that people seem to be doing that,

675
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: they seem to be perfectly happy, and they seem to

676
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: be getting long, they seem to love each other, I

677
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: guess God's okay with that. Raise your hand. If there

678
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: were all kinds of things that you loved and were

679
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: perfectly satisfied with them the short term that God still

680
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: hated Okay. Yeah, So that's no indication of God evolving.

681
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: That's human beings satisfying their flesh is all that is.

682
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 1: And so but again, we you got to be careful.

683
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: Sometimes we can really get on our soapbox about homosexuality,

684
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: and we're real quiet about fornication, adultery, pouring things like that.

685
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: It's God hates all of it, and and and homosexuals

686
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 1: do not have some sort of repentance that's beyond what

687
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: everybody has, they can be transformed forgiven. I've seen it

688
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: many times. I've seen incredible, powerful men and women of

689
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: God that at one time struggled with that sin and

690
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: God delivered them from it, and and and I'm talking

691
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: about devoted to their Lord and Savior and completely transformed.

692
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 1: So so now he says, so you've got to submit

693
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: to God. You've got to accept his standards. And then

694
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: then he goes into verse twenty three and he says,

695
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: if you return to the Almighty, you'll be built up.

696
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: You got to return to God. You got to return

697
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: and be restored to God. You gotta turn What does

698
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: that sound like? You got to turn from from whatever

699
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: you're doing. And there's repentance again, and you've got to

700
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 1: go to God. He's absolutely right. That that is that

701
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: that's that's a truth. So if I was preaching, I'd

702
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: be talking about submitting to his authority. I'd be talking

703
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: about accepting his standard and right there, I'd be talking

704
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: about repenting and turning from your sand. I got me

705
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: a pretty good message going. Uh So, the only problem

706
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: is he's sitting there preaching this to somebody who agrees

707
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: with all this and says, that's what I've done my

708
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: whole life. So now we get to to his next point.

709
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: This one's a little a little deeper, and he's talking

710
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: about resigning or abandoning the things you have. Okay, twenty

711
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: four if you lay gold in the dust and you

712
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: and gold with you mayber We talked about this where

713
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: they would go and find gold, these these gold stones

714
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: there on the on the bed of this one river. Uh,

715
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 1: it's it's o fur or o fire ofer among the

716
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: stones of the torrent bed. Now what he's saying here,

717
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 1: tell what you did to do, Joe and twenty five,

718
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: same thing, all going down and then the almighty will

719
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: be your gold and your precious silver. You got to

720
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: get rid of all you wealth. You got, you got

721
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: to you got to just this. This is almost like

722
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: what Jesus told the young rich ruler. Hey, if it's wealth,

723
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: it keeps calling you trub causing you trouble job. You

724
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: got to get rid of all of it. You know

725
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: what you need you get. You got to stop finding

726
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: your you know standard, you got to start finding your

727
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: your peace. You got to stop finding satisfaction and material

728
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: things your gold and your silver, where they rule you.

729
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: They're too important to you. You got to get rid

730
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: of them. And how about this. Let God be the gold,

731
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: Let God be the silver, Let him be your wealth.

732
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: Well this must be really really interesting for Job right now,

733
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: because you think Job here kind of wants to point

734
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: to the obvious. Why don't have any of that anymore? Uh,

735
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: God's already taken all that away. That that that's all gone.

736
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: So if that was the problem, God's already resolved that.

737
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: But yet here I stand and I haven't heard from him.

738
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: I keep trying to hear from him. So the next

739
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 1: thing that we go into to twenty six to thirty.

740
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: So that's the speech as he's telling him what you

741
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: can expect if you'll do these things. Here's the benefits

742
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: that you should expect. Don't miss that. Eliphaz is preaching

743
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: to Job about righteousness. Okay, And because he just hasn't

744
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: heard anything that Job has said, apparently, he says, for

745
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift

746
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: up your face to God. Now remember in these times

747
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: lifting your face to God? Was they use that as

748
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: an analogy for you? To be in shame, to be

749
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: in defeat, and finally give in, lift your face to God,

750
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: just finally own it and lift your face to the

751
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: Almighty and acknowledge your defeat, acknowledge your shame, and maybe

752
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: this suffering will end twenty seven. You will make the

753
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: prayer to him and he will hear you, and you

754
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: will pay your vowels. Now, now let me tell you something.

755
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:15,479
Speaker 1: This one, this one had to hit Job hard. Don't

756
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: you know that Job? And I know, look, maybe you've

757
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,439
Speaker 1: been there before, but you got to keep trusting. Maybe

758
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: you're there right now. You've got to keep trusting. I

759
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: just can't imagine Job hearing this, don't you know? He

760
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 1: just wants to scream and plead and say, I've been praying,

761
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: I've been crying out to God. I have kept my

762
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: vows to him. I have. I haven't betrayed my vowels.

763
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: I haven't betrayed my commitment to him. I've done nothing

764
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: but cry out to him. And I don't hear anything.

765
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt that way, or maybe maybe you

766
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: feel that way now you Have you ever gone back

767
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: to something? I've got things in my life right now

768
00:44:54,680 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: that I completely have faith in God, and I pray

769
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:06,959
Speaker 1: about them every single day, every day, and he still

770
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: hasn't moved every day, and I know that he will.

771
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that was tough for me,

772
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 1: and we talked about this, I think several lessons back

773
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: is I finally have gotten to the point and it

774
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because God's gonna do what God's gonna do,

775
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: and the way God does it is gonna be right.

776
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: And then there's that whole tension of God's sovereignty being

777
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: sovereign and human beings will and I'm all knowing that

778
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: tension of yes, I will do it, but yes people,

779
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm allowing decisions to be made inside of all this sovereignty.

780
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: It's a tough things. A lot of tension there is

781
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: that I finally have resigned myself to these things that

782
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: I hope come to completion. But I was just had

783
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: to be honest. I wanted to be here to see it.

784
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: And I finally have just resolved to God, I know

785
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna do it. I know it's gonna be on

786
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: your time. I don't have to be here to see it.

787
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: And if that's sinful on my part trying to put

788
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: some sort of and now look, I want you to

789
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: do it, but I want to see it. Uh and uh,

790
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm with you when this happens, I'm

791
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: not gonna care anyway. I'll celebrate it right there with you.

792
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: But God does not. We don't tell him what to do.

793
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: But job has been praying and he has kept his

794
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: vows that that had to be hard to hear. Well,

795
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: I just you all got does just start praying to him.

796
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: I've been praying to him and I'm waiting on his answer,

797
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: and I don't have it yet. Verse twenty eight. You

798
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: will decide on a matter, and it will be established

799
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: for you, and light will shine on your way. These

800
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: are wonderful things. But Eliphaz is exaggerating job Sin. Now

801
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: keep in mind, he's exaggerating job Sin. We don't even

802
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: think these accusations he made or have any truth to

803
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: them at all. But he's he's also looking Remember he

804
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: b what I said a min ago. He's exaggerating job

805
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 1: Sin to try to make his his place where he's standing,

806
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: make him look better. I mean, God should wipe you

807
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: off the face of the earth. And he's saying, so,

808
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: what a wonderful day it's going to be when you

809
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: finally decide, and and and it's going to be established

810
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: for you and all the light that's going to shine

811
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: on your ways because you're so bad that it's going

812
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 1: to be so wonderful that God finally takes this away.

813
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: He's he's inflating his sin to also inflate his advantage,

814
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: you know, on on saying that he must repent, and

815
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: how that's gonna look twenty nine For when they are humbled,

816
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: you say it is because of pride, But he saves

817
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: the lowly. If you speaking pride, God will humble you.

818
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: He only saves the lowly. They keep in mind with

819
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: this accusation, is you're prideful, Job, No, wonder God's not

820
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: answering you. When you decide to be hunting. He's gonna

821
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: lay you low either way. Stop fighting it. He he

822
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: only forgives the lowly. He you said that if you're humbled, well,

823
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: if you've got to be humbled, that means you're prideful.

824
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: And yet we agree he saves the lowly. Well, if

825
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: you need to be lowly, that means you must be prideful.

826
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: Because that's the counter and Job is not saying that, No,

827
00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: that's not what I've been saying at all. I'm not

828
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: saying that I'm prideful and I need to be humbled

829
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: and I need to be lowly. I'm saying that I'm

830
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: humbled and I'm lowly, and I still don't see God

831
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: boo it, and I know he's humbled me. You know,

832
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: have you ever been through difficulty in your life? I

833
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: tell you one thing it'll do, it'll humble you. Right,

834
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: So Job said, already there, already there. So now we're

835
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: coming down in twenty and thirty he delivers even the

836
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through

837
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: the cleanness of your hands. So again the guilty are delivered,

838
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:49,799
Speaker 1: but only only when they acknowledge their sin and they

839
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: were pented. True, absolutely true. The only problem is none

840
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: of this applies to Job, and and Job has had

841
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: to sit and listen to this go on and on

842
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: and on. And now he's already said he's done with

843
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Speaker 1: their counsel. Okay, and you're going to see Job. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna start getting shorter and shorter. Bill, Dad's gonna have

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Speaker 1: one little short comment back to him. Job is going

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Speaker 1: to take the center stage, and it's going to be

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Speaker 1: directed at God and he's going to continue to try

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Speaker 1: to defend himself. We're actually going to have a young

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Speaker 1: fellow show up and he's going to set the three

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Speaker 1: friends straight and he's going to basically acknowledge what we've

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Speaker 1: all been seeing and say, well, y'all are not really

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Speaker 1: good friends at all. And then we'll get to God,

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Speaker 1: and then y'all know that God does come on the

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Speaker 1: scene before we're done. So let's take what is said

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Speaker 1: by Elafass, even though you know, God's been using for

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Speaker 1: a long long time, really really flawed people, even people

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Speaker 1: that don't even know they're being used by God. But

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Speaker 1: the last thing that Eliphaz has said that that completes

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Speaker 1: this little sermon is maybe something that we do need

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Speaker 1: to think about. Maybe, unlike Job, maybe when we hear

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Speaker 1: these things we realize that that does apply to me.

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Speaker 1: And it is true that he delivers the one who's

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Speaker 1: not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of

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Speaker 1: your hands. You know, some of us are sitting here

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Speaker 1: with dirty hands. Some of us are out there and

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Speaker 1: there's sin that we have not repented of their sin,

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Speaker 1: we have not acknowledged. And maybe Job doesn't need to

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Speaker 1: do that, but maybe we do. That was one things

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Speaker 1: that one of things I took away is this assessing

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Speaker 1: myself with these with these truths though even so, even

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Speaker 1: though they're being directed by an arrogant friend who has

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Speaker 1: no sympathy for his friend at all, but the truth

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Speaker 1: that he's throwing out there should be heard, and they

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Speaker 1: should they should be applied. And it goes back to

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Speaker 1: the analogy that God has really put on my heart

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Speaker 1: about Jesus and true repentance and how we kind of

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Speaker 1: keep this little bag with a few things in it

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Speaker 1: when Jesus says true repentance has given me the whole bag,

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Speaker 1: and we go, well, we're giving you most of the bag,

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Speaker 1: but I still got a few things here that I

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Speaker 1: still hanging on to because they bring me satisfaction, they

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Speaker 1: bring me some sort of jolly. And I'm justifying the

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Speaker 1: sin or I'm treating it like it's no big deal.

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Speaker 1: And maybe today's today for you or me to look

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Speaker 1: to Jesus and say, you know what, I'm just going

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Speaker 1: to give you the bag. I truly trust you. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's any sin that I need. I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's anything that's better than you. These things may

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Speaker 1: give me moments of flesh satisfaction or even moments of

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Speaker 1: you know, satisfaction in my mind, or whatever the case

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Speaker 1: may be. But they're in conflict with you. And my

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Speaker 1: hands are mostly clean, but they're not completely clean. Maybe

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Speaker 1: today you just need to repent of that. That's how

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Speaker 1: I'm done with it. You'll never regret it. But I

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Speaker 1: know it's tough. I know it's tough living in this

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Speaker 1: falling creation, which is why Peter told us and tewond

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Speaker 1: Peter make every effort to supplement these things to your faith,

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Speaker 1: because though you've been redeemed, you still have a sin

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Speaker 1: nature and you still live in a sinful world. We're

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Speaker 1: still playing on the road, boys, We're not in our

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

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Speaker 1: you for this message, thank you for the example we

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Speaker 1: find throughout this incredible documentation of the life of job. Lord.

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Speaker 1: I pray that you continue tor modius into something that

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Speaker 1: you're more comfortable with. Then we'll stop the sin of

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Speaker 1: trying to make you something we're more comfortable with. You

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Speaker 1: are here, You are who you are, and there's nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing that comes close to the perfection and the satisfaction

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Speaker 1: and the piece that comes with being right with you. Lord.

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Speaker 1: I pray that you will forgive us of our sins,

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Speaker 1: draw us closer to you, Lord, transform us into the

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Speaker 1: people that you desire. For our own good, sure, but

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Speaker 1: also for your glory and your holy name. We pray Amen.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys,