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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. We are in the

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Speaker 1: Book of Job. My name is Rick Burgess. How are

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Speaker 1: you If you want to join us and find out

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Speaker 1: where we are, We're going to actually be in Job

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Speaker 1: thirty five today. It's not as long as some of

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Speaker 1: the others, but so we may may not be phill

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Speaker 1: up the entire hour this week, but we might because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to discuss even in these few verses.

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Speaker 1: So we thank you for being with us. It's an

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Speaker 1: ongoing Bible study of the Book of Job. If you

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Speaker 1: Men and women are equal, no doubt about that, but

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Speaker 1: a word of prayer, and like I say, we will

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Speaker 1: be in a Job chapter thirty five today. Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the opportunity to unpack your Holy Word. We

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Speaker 1: I pray Lord that the power of the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: are teaching through this incredible account of Job and the

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Speaker 1: We pray Amen. So we are getting closer. We are

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Speaker 1: And the Psalmist says in Psalm five, for you are

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Speaker 1: not a god who delights in wickedness. Evil may not

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Speaker 1: dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes.

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Speaker 1: You hate all evil doers, You destroy those who speak lies.

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Speaker 1: The Lord abhors the blood thirsty and a deceitful man. Okay,

439
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Speaker 1: I mean, yet, so you do need to repeent. But

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Speaker 1: the point that allaih who is missing is that God

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Speaker 1: is listening to Job, because God is the one who

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Speaker 1: has set this whole thing up and has allowed Satan

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Speaker 1: to come in and torture Job to test the genuineness

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Speaker 1: of his faith and to teach Job something that he's

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Speaker 1: going to teach him. And when we hear God's interaction

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Speaker 1: with Job, and Alliah, who can't imagine in his mind

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Speaker 1: that God would do this to someone who hasn't already repented,

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Speaker 1: but we know that's true. Now, Allia who doesn't he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the New Covenant, ali who doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: entire canonized word of God. He doesn't. We can think

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Speaker 1: of example after example. I mean of the apostle Paul

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Speaker 1: and the suffering he went through. My goodness, all of

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Speaker 1: the apostles.

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Speaker 2: I mean that we know.

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Speaker 1: They went through difficulty even after they repented. But he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have that reference point. He is still saying people

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Speaker 1: who repent shouldn't be in this kind of bond. But

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Speaker 1: that is actually incorrect. Suffering is in difficulty is used

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Speaker 1: for all kinds of things by God, even with those

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Speaker 1: that are already redeemed. And again, if you've been in

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Speaker 1: here we have driven that point home. I wouldn't lie

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Speaker 1: to you. Spent time with us, he would already know

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Speaker 1: verse thirteen. Surely God does not hear an empty cry,

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Speaker 1: nor does the Almighty regard it. God pays no attention

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Speaker 1: to the cries of the unrepented. He regards that of

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Speaker 1: zero value. Well, he's right about that. It's just not

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Speaker 1: the situation that job is in, because you know, you

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Speaker 1: take this and go to Romans ten, nine and ten,

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Speaker 1: and you know this is one of those things that

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Speaker 1: you know, I just can't get through these Bible studies

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Speaker 1: with you all without getting myself in trouble. And it's

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Speaker 1: like that, you know what, I guess, if I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be a follower of Jesus and expect not to ever

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Speaker 1: have to get any debates, I'm kind of naive, aren't

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Speaker 1: a But a lot of you know this, and and

476
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Speaker 1: this is one of those things. A lie who's very

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Speaker 1: very simple with what he's saying, and there's truth in

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Speaker 1: what he's saying, but he's missing a key element. And

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Speaker 1: I would I would take this point when he's talking about, well,

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Speaker 1: if you're not truly repented, God doesn't hear it, and

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Speaker 1: he doesn't redeem it that that is true. But sometimes

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Speaker 1: there's an assumption like that, like we can know that,

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Speaker 1: like he can know whether Job's repentance is sincere or not.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't know that God does. Right.

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Speaker 1: This is the same thing which has become so mad

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Speaker 1: uh in the Western Church. And I hear it, and

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Speaker 1: I love when people say it, like they're the first

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Speaker 1: ones that's ever come up with it. You're not saved

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Speaker 1: by some prayer, and anybody that tells you you've been

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Speaker 1: say you can get saved by prayer and the sinner

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Speaker 1: prayers not in the Bible, and you know, and they

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Speaker 1: start all this, and I always have I always enjoy

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Speaker 1: this because if you ever want to throw people off

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Speaker 1: of do that, ask them how you redeemed?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so how are you redeemed by the sincerity of

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Speaker 2: your heart and repentance?

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Speaker 1: Really, you talk about kind of like Romans ten, nine

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Speaker 1: and ten, what sounds an awful lot like what we

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Speaker 1: talk about at times of response. So you're saying that

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Speaker 1: we should repent, which Peter said in the Bible. You're

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Speaker 1: saying that we should believe in our hearts right, that

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Speaker 1: we should have a saving faith. Right, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: Paul said, like in Romans ten nine and ten, and

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Speaker 1: you say that we need to confess Jesus's Lord, right,

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Speaker 1: like it says in Romans ten nine and ten. Right,

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Speaker 1: Because with the heart one believes and it's justified, and

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Speaker 1: with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

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Speaker 2: Is that what you're talking about?

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Speaker 1: So you're really saying the thing that we call people

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Speaker 1: to a time of response. Every bit of it's in

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Speaker 1: the Bible. It's not called the sinner's prayer. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you that, but it's in the Bible. And we know

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Speaker 1: that if I read Romans ten ninety ten, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: save me, and if I repeat it, it doesn't save me.

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Speaker 1: We know if I say I need to repent, but

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Speaker 1: I don't repent, then it doesn't save me. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's true that words don't save us. But it's not

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Speaker 1: true that the concepts of what we're telling people how

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Speaker 1: to be justified or not in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: That's not true. You're going too far with it.

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Speaker 1: You're taking and you're throwing out this prayer as if

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Speaker 1: we think that's what redeems people. No one's ever thought

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Speaker 1: that what we're saying is, here's what Scripture says one

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Speaker 1: must do to be redeemed that because I have no

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Speaker 1: way of knowing the sincerity of someone's heart, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to deny them the opportunity to respond. The

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Speaker 1: Gospel demands a response. God redeems people.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm told to give them a chance to respond to Him,

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Speaker 1: not to me. So what we're doing because we want

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Speaker 1: to be the person that says a sinner's prayer didn't

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Speaker 1: save anybody. We want to take the time response and

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Speaker 1: do away with it completely. And that's not in scripture.

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Speaker 1: Peter didn't do away with it. He gave him a response.

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Speaker 1: You talking about the first time he ever got it right. Well,

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Speaker 1: I would think that'd be a good example. We even

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Speaker 1: know how many people responded. There was a number, They

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Speaker 1: even counted them. I mean, so should we go to

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Speaker 1: Peter and say God didn't care about them numbers?

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Speaker 2: Why did y'all grab them numbers?

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Speaker 1: I guess I guess he thought that's what he should do,

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Speaker 1: because that's what he did. We have the number. So

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to apologize for me coming back from

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Speaker 1: a place where I offered a response. Go and I'll

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Speaker 1: always add the Billy Sunday, Rick, how did he go? Well,

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Speaker 1: we sat down and we talked to some guys. There

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Speaker 1: was about seventeen of them. They said that they wanted

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Speaker 1: to come forward and they wanted to repent. I don't

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Speaker 1: know whether they did or they didn't. They said that

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Speaker 1: they wanted to confess to Jesus Christ as their lord

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Speaker 1: and leave their own authority. They said they left faith

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Speaker 1: in themselves and put their faith in Christ.

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Speaker 2: Do you think they really did? I don't know. Well,

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Speaker 2: why did you count them? Because Peter did.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if all those people that responded that

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Speaker 1: day turned out to be sincere. They might have just

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Speaker 1: been scared.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. But the numbers there so Rick, how

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Speaker 2: many men came forward, I know seventeen came forward. How

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Speaker 2: many were relegit God only knows that.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: So did seventeen people get redeemed tonight? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We'll see. I'll know by whether their life changes or not.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not going to sit there and stop having

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Speaker 1: a time of response because somebody thinks they become sanctimonious

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Speaker 1: about the sinner's prayer and try to tell me it's

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Speaker 1: not in the Bible. The concepts are in the Bible

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Speaker 1: one percent. Don't let nobody ever tell you that most

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Speaker 1: of the time. Can I just tell you this here

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Speaker 1: it is, here I go. We're going all in. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm going all in, and if you're upset with me,

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Speaker 1: you email me today Speedy at the Rickburgers Show dot com.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going all in. Some of this is because

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Speaker 1: we have some people. Don't use that word Rick, that's

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Speaker 1: not the right word to use. We have some people

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Speaker 1: that have lost confidence in the gospel. There it is,

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Speaker 1: I'll say it that way. That that's the right way

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Speaker 1: to say it. They've lost confidence in the Gospel and

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Speaker 1: they'd rather not have a time of response because they're

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Speaker 1: too proud to stand.

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Speaker 2: There and nobody respond. So this is just their way out.

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Speaker 2: That's how I see it, because it's certainly in the Bible. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So so anyway, I saw a spattering of amen's, but

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Speaker 1: not a lot of them. Y'all don't want to be

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Speaker 1: It's like people saying, I ain't going with him on

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Speaker 1: this one. I'm not taking that one, and that's right.

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Speaker 1: I do have Danny Wood's email if anybody needs it.

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Speaker 1: But any now, you don't have to do that anymore, dude. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So anyway, So Alia, who is saying something that is true.

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Speaker 1: The problem he has that God doesn't hear the unrepentant.

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Speaker 1: He's right about that, But Alia, who doesn't know who

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Speaker 1: has really repented or not. None of us know that

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Speaker 1: God does, and he's right about that. But it's not

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Speaker 1: our call to say it.

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Speaker 2: Now. We can see somebody five years from that.

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Speaker 1: Day and go, well, they really went the other way,

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Speaker 1: and we can make a ruling on the fruit doesn't

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Speaker 1: look real good. But again, at the end of it all,

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Speaker 1: only God knows if someone was truly repented they're not,

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Speaker 1: and only God knows if they had a saving faith.

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Speaker 2: They're not. We don't. But we are supposed to go in.

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Speaker 1: All from that opportunity because that's exactly what the apostles

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Speaker 1: did once they got the Holy Spirit and they start

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Speaker 1: doing what Jesus told them to do.

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Speaker 2: That's what they did.

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Speaker 1: So then we get into thirteen. Surely God does not

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Speaker 1: hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard at

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Speaker 1: fourteen how much less when you say that you do

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Speaker 1: not see him, that the case is before him and.

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Speaker 2: You're waiting on him. Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Are you Job, Are you saying that you have have

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Speaker 1: you you don't see him? You're saying you have stated

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Speaker 1: your case before him, and do we have this right? Job,

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Speaker 1: You're waiting on God to respond to you.

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Speaker 2: You expect God.

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Speaker 1: To show up and and and have a public form

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Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, and it's gonna happen. Now a lie

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Speaker 1: who cannot believe that he thinks this is gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: You gotta be kidding me.

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Speaker 1: You think God You're so Are you sitting here saying

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Speaker 1: I'm done with I have nothing else to say. I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting on God now. And you think God's gonna respond

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Speaker 1: to that? How about he does? Well, I would take

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Speaker 1: a note of that. I don't know that God's ever

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Speaker 1: gonna come down to any of us and give his resume.

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons why he didn't have to give

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Speaker 1: us his resume anymore because he already has. See before

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Speaker 1: he talked to Job, he'd not done that before.

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Speaker 2: We have it. We have what he said to Job,

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Speaker 2: so there's no need for him to have to repeat it.

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Speaker 1: Uh. And his resume is all through the Holy Word

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Speaker 1: of God.

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Speaker 2: So if you ever want to say, well, God has

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Speaker 2: never visited in me. Oh, yes he has.

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Speaker 1: You may not have have read it, but he's visited

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Speaker 1: with you. You realize how incredible it is that we

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Speaker 1: have this, you know, and and I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of you say, but what about the Book of Enich.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't care less about the Book of Enick. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I've made that clear this week. Please start with the

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Speaker 1: Book of Enich.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 1: This is the new thing that young people a getting

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Speaker 1: obsessed with. It's not scripture. And know in the Bible

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Speaker 1: when this says, well they referred to Enich. That yeah,

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Speaker 1: they referred to the person Enich, not the book of Innich.

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Speaker 1: The Book of Inenich wasn't even written by Enik. They've

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Speaker 1: already proven that not to be possible. Okay, So enough

649
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: with this kind of stuff. We have all we need

650
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: right here. All this stuff is just distraction. But if

651
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: you want God's resume, read his resume in his Holy Word.

652
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: Now does God interact with us? You better believe he does.

653
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: And I know all of you who have been redeemed

654
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: have experienced that, and it's a wonderful feeling. And he says,

655
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: I'll in the New Covenant, he said, I'll never leave

656
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: you if you're with me. My presence is always with you,

657
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: which sometimes is comforting and sometimes it's convicted, but I

658
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: hope it's more comforting than convicting. So now we go

659
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: to fifteen. And now, because his anger does not punish

660
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: and he does not take much note of transgression, so

661
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: you're saying that he just turned a blind eye. It's

662
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: like he doesn't know. And Job did say that in

663
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: chapter nine, verse twenty four. He also said it in

664
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: chapter twenty one, verse seventeen. So you told us also

665
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: what we call chapter twelve, verse six, and I already

666
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: mentioned twenty one to seventeen. You're trying to convince us

667
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: that we're supposed to look around and we see examples

668
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: that God's overlooking wickedness. That's one of the things you said, Joe,

669
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: and Joe was he said, well, I mean, as far

670
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: as this theology that he punishes the wicked and he

671
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: rewards the righteous, I see some pretty wicked people that

672
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: right now God's not punishing them at all, and a

673
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: lot who's taking that as soon. So you just think

674
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: he overlooks it because he's not doing anything. Well, I

675
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: don't know what to think about it. I'm just telling

676
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: you that this I see some wicked people doing pretty good,

677
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: and we could say that even in our lives now, right,

678
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that God doesn't care about it,

679
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: or that he doesn't know it.

680
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 2: He's not overlooking it. They're just.

681
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: Us in this falling creation and the redemption plan that

682
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: God's working out. The day is coming when all who

683
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: have not repented and all who oppose him. The wickedness

684
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: is not being overlooked. It just hasn't been.

685
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: Dealt with yet, but it will be dealt with.

686
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: Some of it gets dealt with in the plan he's

687
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: working out now, but ultimately it all gets dealt with.

688
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: And and so Eli who is is taking it too far?

689
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: That Joe suggesting that God doesn't care about wickedness, That's

690
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: not what he's saying. He said, I'm not sure that

691
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: this theology we have is right, because I'm telling you

692
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, I'm not I'm not unrepentant, and I'm

693
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: not practicing sin. I'm blameless. I'm not, I'm not, I'm

694
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: not perfect, but I'm I'm are sinless, but i am blameless.

695
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: Uh And and I don't know why this has happened

696
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 2: to me.

697
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: And I've seen wicked people that God's not doing what

698
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: he's doing to me to them, true, Ali who wants

699
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: to say, I just want to be sure I have

700
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: that right. Well, to wrap up this part of his speech,

701
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: he's now going to insult Job, and sadly sounds a

702
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: lot like the other three sixteen. Job opens his mouth

703
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: in empty talk. He multiplies words without knowledge. Sadly, this

704
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 1: sounds a lot like the other friends and their accusations.

705
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: In chapter eight verse two, Chapter eleven, verse three, Chapter fifteen,

706
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: verse two, Chapter eighteen, verse two, Job said that those

707
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: accusations that they made against him was meaningless talk. It

708
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: was empty talk. He said that in twenty seven to twelve,

709
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: Ali who sadly is now taking Job's very phrase and

710
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,479
Speaker 1: he's turning it on him. You say that everybody else

711
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: bibbles on and everybody else has empty talk. I'm here

712
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: to tell you what you've been rambling on about its

713
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: empty talk. I think you're talking like you have all

714
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: this knowledge. It doesn't sound like you've got knowledge at all.

715
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: That had to be hard to hear. I can't imagine.

716
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever been in that situation

717
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: or people just keep running you down. I mean they

718
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: just keep on and they keep piling on. And you know, nowadays,

719
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: with the wonderful platform of social media and public forums,

720
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: people from anywhere can pile on, you can. I can

721
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: tell you that there have been times that I have

722
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 1: walked into my home and I've just told my wife,

723
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: please don't read it, do not do not go on Facebook,

724
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: do not go to this, don't do not read it,

725
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,959
Speaker 1: because you know, unlike the days when it was hard

726
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: enough for job or somebody to sit there, and people

727
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 1: actually face you and one after another continue to run

728
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: you down. That's bad, but at least you have an

729
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: opportunity to respond. I think he's so worre down now

730
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: he's not responding anymore. Because you know, we used to

731
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: have this phrase. It was very deep and highly educated

732
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: in Calhoun County, Alabama, where if you reach the point

733
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 1: where you were done and you just had, you weren't

734
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: gonna argue anymore, and you say, that's just gonna have.

735
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 2: To be with you.

736
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what that where we came up with that,

737
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: but everybody in Calhoun County knew what that meant. That

738
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: that meant, well, then you're just gonna have to feel

739
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: that way. I mean you're just gonna that's just gonna

740
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: have to be with you, because I'm not gonna. I'm

741
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: done with this discussion. But now people that you don't

742
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: even know who they are and never identify themselves can

743
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: start some sort of tearing down of you, and everybody

744
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: start jumping in and it can go on and own

745
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: and own, and I'm just going to tell you what, especially,

746
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: watch out if you have children and grandchildren, really keep

747
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: an eye on them, because you can protect them physically

748
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: all you want to and keep them out of bad

749
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: groups and bad, bad surroundings. But they go flipping on

750
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: that social media and put a picture of themselves up

751
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 1: or something, something innocent they want to share with their friends,

752
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: and before they know it, I mean, people are commenting

753
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 1: on their hair and commenting on their weight and commenting

754
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: on whatever, and they just and these cowards just are

755
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: so vicious because they have no accountability, and it can

756
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: weigh on people. It really can. I don't care how

757
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: strong you think you are. It's a hard thing. I

758
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: consider myself pretty thick skinned. But it gets to you,

759
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: especially when it starts just compounding over and over and

760
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: before you know it, this false narrative about you just

761
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: takes off and starts running and you can't get it back.

762
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: And you know, I think if we could get them

763
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: to understand, like I just went through something like.

764
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 2: That this year, that it's not near as real as

765
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 2: it seems, you know.

766
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes something feels like it's a thousand people

767
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: and it's really like ten, you know, but but it

768
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: feels so big when ten people are on you, you know,

769
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: or something like that. And so just watch after them.

770
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: Because social media can do some great things. It can

771
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: even help spread the gospel and promote things that we're

772
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 1: doing and get people there. But boy, just like everything else,

773
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:25,919
Speaker 1: Satan has a plan with it too, and it can

774
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: be a weapon of destruction, it really really can. So

775
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: be aware of what your kids and your grandkids are

776
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: watching and what's in front of them. And those of

777
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: us who adults, we're just gonna have to be careful

778
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: what we allow ourselves to be involved in.

779
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 2: I can tell you some of the things.

780
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 1: The best thing you can do because that it offers

781
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: this And if Joe could do this right now, he would,

782
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: but he can't because it's not available. It's just block them,

783
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: just be done with them, No more interaction with you can't.

784
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: You can't interact with me, and I'm not going to

785
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: interact with you. I'm done, I'm blocking you.

786
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: You're out. You can do that.

787
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: Clean that stuff out of here, because you're never going

788
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: to going to convince them of anything other because if

789
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: someone won't sit down and talk to you, you'll never

790
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: get your narrative out and then hear their narrative because

791
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: these these platforms are not designed for conversation.

792
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 2: They're designed for one way, and and and and of

793
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 2: course the anonymative, the anonymous part of it is awful.

794
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: Uh So then finally Job has said nothing that we

795
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: can document since a LII who's starts speaking. Uh. Do

796
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: you realize that Ali, who has already cranked out one

797
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: hundred verses for us, he's rolling Uh, and we've heard

798
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 1: nothing from Job. Sadly a LII who is starting to

799
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: show himself to be of the same mold of the

800
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 1: other three.

801
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 2: Uh.

802
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: Now, he did not charge Job with any social crimes

803
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: like the others did, but he is saying that Job's

804
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: attitude and the way that he's watched him act is

805
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: sent and he's going as far as to say, not

806
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,879
Speaker 1: only is the way you've been acting sinful. I think

807
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 1: it's the reason why you're being punished because we see

808
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: your your heart so again, I think you got to

809
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: take away there. It does matter how we respond. And

810
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: even though Job apparently is not sinning in what he's doing,

811
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: he he is not giving the best presentation right now.

812
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: Of it's almost like, you know, Sherry and I were

813
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: talking about this, and I remember.

814
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 2: Exactly what.

815
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: I'd heard with the difference between a sprint and a marathon.

816
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: You know, for a sprinter, and my wife was a sprinter,

817
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: the blocks are everything. I mean, how you come out

818
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: of the blocks. I mean, you can lose out of

819
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: the blocks because you didn't come out.

820
00:45:59,080 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 2: Of the blocks right.

821
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: Every little millisecond of advantage matters. But in a marathon,

822
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: the really how you start is meaningless. I mean I

823
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: remember talking to the person about the marathon and they

824
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: were so far back. People were still drinking coffee and

825
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: it had already started, you know, and they were so

826
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: back on the I don't know if it was the

827
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: New York Marathon or the Boston it was one of those,

828
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: and they said they were so far back they literally

829
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: were still sitting in a coffee shop and it had started,

830
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: and they finished off their coffee and said, okay, what's

831
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: time for us.

832
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 2: To join in?

833
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: And uh, and so that's how little the start matters

834
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: on a marathon. And I think what you found here

835
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: is is that job. When his suffering started, he was

836
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: he had a sprinter's attitude.

837
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 2: Uh, this is.

838
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: Gonna be quick. He did everything right in the beginning.

839
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: But as this thing is drug on and most of

840
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: the commentators think maybe four months this is drug on,

841
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: he began understandably, don't don't hear me acting like that,

842
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: this is a reasonable. My goodness, can you imagine the

843
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: kind of misery he's in And how long four months

844
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: must feel. Anybody ever been sick for a long period

845
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 1: of time. It feels even longer than it actually is,

846
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: because every minute and every you know, and if you're

847
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: not asleep, I mean those seconds dragged by. And so

848
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: he is. He's in that mode. But I think what

849
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: happens here is you know that when he went after

850
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: his suffering, Because I was talking to Sherry about this

851
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: because she does run some distances now and I know

852
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: other people in here that do as well, and she said,

853
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: one of the things that people make the mistake on

854
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: and this happened to me. And I'm comparing this to

855
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: life is I actually I know this may shock you.

856
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: I was filled events in track. I was not one

857
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: of the runners, so I was shot put.

858
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:52,959
Speaker 2: You know this guy.

859
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: And so one time, this was junior high. This was

860
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 1: not a major ordeal. Wouldn't happen on a high school

861
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: team or a college team or something. But anyway, and

862
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: certainly not the Olympics. Didn't make it to the Olympics.

863
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Speaker 1: But we just had the you know, the the you know,

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Speaker 1: who gets the junior high track team. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: it's one of three or four jobs this guy's doing,

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Speaker 1: you know, at the school. Nobody wants to be the

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Speaker 1: junior high track team coach. I mean he's already coaching basketball.

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Speaker 1: He's coaching you know, he does something for the football team.

869
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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, we need you to you know,

870
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Speaker 1: you're not involved in baseball.

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Speaker 2: So you've got junior high track.

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Speaker 1: And so we get down one day we're I feel

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Speaker 1: who we're competing against and it might even be in

874
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Speaker 1: the county deal and he said, we don't are Our

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Speaker 1: eight hundred runner is hurt.

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Speaker 2: We have no one to run the eight hundred. So

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Speaker 2: I say are. We called it the eight to eighty.

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Speaker 1: Then I said how far is that? He said, what's

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Speaker 1: two laps? I said two laps? I said, I do that,

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Speaker 1: I can do to that, and he goes. He goes,

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Speaker 1: so shot put guy's gonna run the eight hundred, And

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, yeah, if it's just two laps. And

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Speaker 1: then I think to myself, you know, being a foot

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Speaker 1: ball player, you know, I was the only true athlete

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Speaker 1: out there anyway, and I thought, well, how I'm athletic

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Speaker 1: enough to run two laps against these people?

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Speaker 2: I mean, how hard can this be?

888
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Speaker 1: And so so we started and I'm smoking them.

889
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Speaker 2: I mean it ain't even close.

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Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, people, they're not even the same

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Speaker 1: league with me. I mean, look at me as a

892
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Speaker 1: defensive tackle winning the Junior High County eight hundred.

893
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm way out in front. I mean I'm thinking.

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Speaker 1: And then I realized, all right, it's just starting to

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Speaker 1: get harder and this is getting difficult. I basically took

896
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Speaker 1: off like I was a sprinter, and this is two lapses,

897
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Speaker 1: a lot further than I thought it was at this pace,

898
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Speaker 1: and what they had done since they ran this all

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Speaker 1: the time they were running the proper pace of the

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Speaker 1: eight hundred.

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Speaker 2: I was running the proper pace of the two.

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Speaker 1: Twenty and which we did running football, and and so

903
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Speaker 1: for about half the track, I was smoking okay, and

904
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Speaker 1: then about three quarters of the track, they're getting closer,

905
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Speaker 1: but I'm still winning. After a completion of lap one

906
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Speaker 1: into lap two, they completely caught me at this point

907
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Speaker 1: and I didn't not only didn't finish first, I finished

908
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Speaker 1: completely last, way behind because they went off and left

909
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Speaker 1: me because they were running the proper pace. I was

910
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Speaker 1: not running the correct pace for that race. And I

911
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Speaker 1: think and Shery and I actually talked about this this

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Speaker 1: past past weekend. Is I think that we got to

913
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Speaker 1: understand when we get into difficulty, you better take on

914
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Speaker 1: the marathon mindset, the distance runner mindset, because if you

915
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Speaker 1: get the attitude of I'm gonna do everything right. As

916
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Speaker 1: long as this doesn't last too long, you're going to

917
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Speaker 1: be ending up everybody passing you. You're going to be

918
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: understanding that I didn't run at the right pace. And

919
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Speaker 1: and so I think what Job is doing here is

920
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Speaker 1: he completely knows what he believes, and he's right on

921
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Speaker 1: what he believes, but his attitude is starting to wane.

922
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Speaker 2: Because he thinks it would.

923
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Speaker 1: He thought it would be over by now, and that

924
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Speaker 1: God would have already answered him, and God would have

925
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Speaker 1: already showed up. And as we know, God may not

926
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Speaker 1: be on our time, but he's never lated. And what

927
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Speaker 1: God was trying to get Job to do is depend

928
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Speaker 1: on him. I've been there self reliance one of my

929
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Speaker 1: worst sins. And what has happened is until we get

930
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Speaker 1: to where we are complet completely dependent on him, He'll

931
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Speaker 1: let it go until we.

932
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Speaker 2: Get there, and Job does get there.

933
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Speaker 1: So I would suggest that we learn from all this

934
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Speaker 1: that when difficulty comes our way, take the attitude of

935
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Speaker 1: a marathon runner, not a sprinter, and just buckle down

936
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Speaker 1: suffer at the right pace. Let's pray, Lord, thank you,

937
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Speaker 1: thank you for today. I pray Lord that you'll help

938
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Speaker 1: us take away everything that you're teaching.

939
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Speaker 2: I pray that this.

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Speaker 1: All be applied to our lives today and the examples

941
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Speaker 1: that we discussed, but also just in the conversation of

942
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Speaker 1: Alihu and Job, who's listening with the other three friends.

943
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Speaker 1: I do pray Lord that if there's anyone that's watching

944
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Speaker 1: and listening to this, and maybe they heard our discussion

945
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: of this sinner's prayer, which really we're just talking about

946
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: the concepts that you talked about in scripture. And maybe

947
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: they've never repented of their sin and they feel like

948
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: you're from them. But today's the day they say, I

949
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: want to repent, I want to turn from my sin,

950
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Speaker 1: and I want to turn to you. And maybe today

951
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Speaker 1: they said, oh, I think I do just have faith

952
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Speaker 1: in myself and my ability to be good, and that

953
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Speaker 1: hasn't served me well. So I'm going to leave faith

954
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Speaker 1: in myself, and today, Lord, I'm going to place my

955
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Speaker 1: faith in you. I know that I am a sinner.

956
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Speaker 1: I know I need to be forgiven, and I have

957
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Speaker 1: no way to make myself righteous. But only you, Jesus,

958
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: can make me righteous. You've already paid the price that

959
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Speaker 1: I should pay. So I leave faith in myself and

960
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: I put my faith in you, repenting of sin and

961
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Speaker 1: asking you, and only you to make me fully righteous

962
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Speaker 1: because only you can. And you know, today I heard, well,

963
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Speaker 1: maybe I need to stop being under my own authority,

964
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Speaker 1: and maybe it's time for me to the under the

965
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Speaker 1: authority of Jesus. I've tried, I've tried to make him savior,

966
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Speaker 1: but I've never I've never made him Lord, As a

967
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I've really never even made him savior.

968
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Speaker 1: I've just simply believed in him. But today he's savior

969
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: because I know that he can save me. But today

970
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Speaker 1: he's Lord because I leave my own authority and I

971
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Speaker 1: say I want to follow you. I confess you right now,

972
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Speaker 1: you may even say it. I confess you as my Lord.

973
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Speaker 2: Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know the sincerity of your heart. Already

975
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Speaker 1: talked about that, but God does. And if you're sincere,

976
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Speaker 1: he'll hear that prayer and he'll redeem you. He'll forgive you,

977
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Speaker 1: and you'll always have access to him and he'll never

978
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Speaker 1: leave you. And if today's your a day, then let

979
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Speaker 1: me know if you need me to help you, Rick

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00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: at Burgessministries dot com. And it's in your holy name,

981
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: we pray Amen.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys,