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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. We're excited to once

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Speaker 1: again have a chance to open the Holy Word of God.

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Speaker 1: We are in the Book of Job. If you want

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Speaker 1: to go ahead and turn where we are today. We

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Speaker 1: are in Job chapter nine. If you've missed any of

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

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Speaker 1: jump right into job chapter nine. Lord, Thank you, Thank

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Speaker 1: you for the gathering today in this room. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for these men always, I mean just so loyal to

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Speaker 1: sitting down and saying let's unpack the Holy Word of God.

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Speaker 1: It's clearly a priority in their lives. Thank You for

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Speaker 1: the blessing they are to me. Thank You for Chris

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Speaker 1: Adler and all the hard work Lord that he does

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Speaker 1: by you to help people grow all over the world.

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Speaker 1: So today, Lord, take our efforts, and may that advance

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Speaker 1: your kingdom and give us a more clear understanding as

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Speaker 1: you reveal yourself to us in bites that we can handle.

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Speaker 1: And your holy name, we pray on this wonderful Holy

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Speaker 1: week when we remember your grace and your mercy, when

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Speaker 1: you took on human flesh and you poured your wrath

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Speaker 1: out on your own son. So those who are willing

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Speaker 1: to repent and be redeemed by the fully righteousness of

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Speaker 1: out and satisfied. And the peace of knowing because of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: in his name we pray Amen. All right. So we

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Speaker 1: in nine. You know, Bill Dad, the beutle, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be Job's response. And I have been

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Speaker 1: so intrigued by what we're discovering in this part of

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Speaker 1: So the problem can't be with God. So this seems

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Speaker 1: And so Job is now speaking. You see that in

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Speaker 1: that it is so Bill, Dad, you're right, But how

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Speaker 1: think all of our theology is inadequate. Man is sinful

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Speaker 1: So he's not going to be questioned by us. We

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Speaker 1: we know the answer to that is no. One. Five

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Speaker 1: know what else he's saying, But where is he? I

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Speaker 1: know how powerful he is. All I see in my

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Speaker 1: can't figure it out. And I know he's perfectly capable

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Speaker 1: deal for him to simply tell me what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: whatever type of experience I'm having in the heavens, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: that's his call. He decides this kind of stuff. You know.

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Speaker 1: of this is showing God's control. God has control over everything.

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Speaker 1: all knowing, he may be all present. But how about this?

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Speaker 1: I acknowledges all these things, but I don't see it.

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Speaker 1: You're Holy. Uh, in this and in this beautiful song,

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Speaker 1: Lord You're Holy. And it was in a time of

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Speaker 1: And this one was the trial of of the death

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Speaker 1: doing here? And it's that resume And Lord, You're holy,

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Speaker 1: and you know you're you're omnipotent, You're omniscient. You're omni present,

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Speaker 1: few things I want to ask God. You're not going

425
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Speaker 1: to be asking God anything, Adrian Rogers said, it may

426
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Speaker 1: be a thousand years before you lift your head up

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Speaker 1: and stop saying Holy. Let me tell you something. None

428
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: of us have stepped in the presence of God, we

429
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Speaker 1: have no chance. And Job knows this, and he says,

430
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Speaker 1: no matter what I try to do. Let's say I

431
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: try to go to war with him, well, he's going

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Speaker 1: to overwhelm me. I'm no match for him. Verse twenty.

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Speaker 1: Though I am in the right, I'd underline that again.

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Speaker 1: Do you see Job thinks he's he thinks this is

435
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: this isn't fair. There's something wrong here. Though I'm in

436
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: the right, my own mouth would condemn me. And I say,

437
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Right there, he said, I know I am innocent.

438
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: I think I'm still a blameless man. But because God

439
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: is doing this, there's something I don't know. If I

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00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: went in, he does know enough about God. If I

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00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: went in and I would try to make some case

442
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: of my innocence, because of who I'm making the case

443
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: to prosecutor and judge, I'm still gonna end up condemned

444
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: and guilty. My own mouth will end up condemning me. Somewhere.

445
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run off course because He's perfect and I'm not.

446
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: So if I go mouthing off, eventually, I'm just gonna

447
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: condemn myself. That's where this is gonna go. God seems

448
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: seems distant God seems unconcerned. This is where he gets

449
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 1: in the next few verses twenty one through twenty four.

450
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Speaker 1: Job is angry and he's bitter here and under and

451
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: get ready for this, because this is really where we

452
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,479
Speaker 1: need to really lean in and think about what Lucier

453
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: is trying to get him to do. Right here, Job

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Speaker 1: is more angry and bitter than anywhere else in the

455
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Speaker 1: book of Job. He really goes downhill right here. I'm blameless.

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Speaker 1: I regard not myself. I loathe my life. See once

457
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: again he comes pretty close. Here again he comes pretty

458
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Speaker 1: close to charging God with what injustice? God will remember

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00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: this one, you know, I think about in the Oh,

460
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: what bunch was it? I don't know why I do

461
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: these things if I'm not gonna include them, And I

462
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna I'm gonna sit here and riff a

463
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: little bit because I can't remember. It was one of

464
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: the bunch. They were always harassing Israel, one of the Iights.

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Speaker 1: And you remember that Moses needed passage through where they

466
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Speaker 1: were and they wouldn't give him passage, and they made

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Speaker 1: the trip harder when they were trying to get to Canaan,

468
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: and they harassed them and all of that, and Scripture said,

469
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: and God took note of that, and if you remember,

470
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Speaker 1: it goes all the way to David, and he comes

471
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Speaker 1: back to Dave and he says, I'm gonna pay them

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Speaker 1: back for what they did to Moses. He took a note.

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Speaker 1: Now he didn't do it immediately, y'all go to destroy them.

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00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: Now it's payback. And so what's happening here is this

475
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: little fit that Job's pitching right here. When God answers

476
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: later in Job, God's gonna deal with this. So Job's

477
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: gonna get his moment, and he's gonna wish he never

478
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: brought it up. I'm blameless. I regard not myself. I

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00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: loathe my life. And in the second line here where

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Speaker 1: he says I loathe my I regard not myself, it

481
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: really it really means if you look at the word deeper,

482
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Speaker 1: I do not know my soul, you know what is

483
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: our soul. Our souls are awardeness of who we are.

484
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: And Job is at the point going, I'm blameless, I'm

485
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Speaker 1: being punished. I don't I don't I don't know myself.

486
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Speaker 1: I don't know my I don't know my own soul.

487
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Speaker 1: And he's unsure of himself, and then I loathe me?

488
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: Is what that translates. I loathed my life. And this

489
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: may this may support exactly what he's saying, is there's

490
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: something about me I must not understand. If I've caused this,

491
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: then I loathe myself. But I don't know. Why have

492
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: you ever gotten to the point where you're you're you're

493
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: you're in your life and you're you're like, what is

494
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: wrong with me? Why am I acting the way I'm acting?

495
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: Why did I respond that way? I thought I knew

496
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: myself well enough to know how I would handle every situation,

497
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: and I just got in a situation that I did

498
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Speaker 1: something I didn't expect. I realized I don't really know

499
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: myself that well. I need to know myself better than that.

500
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: And uh, and I will say this, and job is

501
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: figuring this out too, even though God has a bigger plan.

502
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: This is why you've got to have accountability in your life.

503
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: If anybody in this room, including the teacher, thinks you

504
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: know yourself your delusion, and you're certain of the way

505
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: you come across and you're certain of how everybody sees you,

506
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: you're wrong. We're all delusional to some degree. Now, some

507
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: people are more delusional than others, but we're all delusional

508
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: to a degree. You truly don't know yourself, and that's

509
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: the reason why you got to have other people that

510
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: you give permission to speak into your life. How many

511
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: times have you had a person you trusted say hey,

512
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: that really and you're in your mind going, did it

513
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: come across that way? Oh? Yes, I didn't see it.

514
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: I missed it. I'm so sorry. I need to go

515
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: clear that up. Yeah, I think you do, so, I really, really, honestly,

516
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: I didn't handle that right. I don't think you did.

517
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: And then, and of course they have to make the case.

518
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: They can't just say it. But if they go, when

519
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: you did said this or did that and whatever, and

520
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: they make the case, have you ever had friends do

521
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: that too? You and you went, I'll mess that up? Yeah,

522
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: I could have handled that better. So twenty two the

523
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: problem is right now, the three guys that should be

524
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: holding job accountable, they can't really point to what he did.

525
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: They just know he did something. See now that's not helpful.

526
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: You got to be able to point it out. So

527
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: twenty two it is all one. Therefore, I say, he

528
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: destroys both the blameless and the wicked. Now here we go.

529
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: Now we're starting to see the theology change that Job

530
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: is going to be taunt now these two. Job presents

531
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Speaker 1: these two as opposites, that is, the blameless and the wicked.

532
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: But what he's thinking in his mind right now, I

533
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: see those two as being opposites. Does God see them

534
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: as one? Is it possible that God would actually allow

535
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: both the wicked and the innocent to suffer? You see

536
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: he's starting to He's starting to get it now and

537
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: answers yes. Job hasn't figured this out yet. This is

538
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: not the theology of his day. See, he doesn't have

539
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: Jesus talking about you know, the two men that one

540
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 1: built on the rock and one built on the sand.

541
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: And the one who heard what I say but didn't

542
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: do what I said is like the one who built

543
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: his house on the sand. The one who hears my

544
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: words and does them is like the wise man who

545
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: built his house upon the rock. And the storms came

546
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: and beat against both houses. One stood, one didn't, but

547
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: neither one of them were exempt from the storm. Now,

548
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: Job doesn't know all this, but he's learning because he's

549
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: starting to reason this out in his mind. Now, so

550
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: it's all one to him, he destroys both the blameless

551
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: and the wicked. He's starting to think this out, so

552
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: punished the wicked. All four of us would agree with that,

553
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 1: But job In the four of these men, stands alone

554
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: on his own island when he's suggesting that maybe, for

555
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: whatever reason, he might at times treat both groups alike

556
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: when it comes to difficulty, not when it comes to justification,

557
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: but difficulty. Now keep in mind, that's not going to

558
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: go over with these other three guys. They don't buy

559
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: this at all. So twenty three, when disaster brings sudden death,

560
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. Now see

561
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: the word mock here. Mack is just a Hebrew for

562
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: he's uncertain, But it means death comes for both groups

563
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: just because you are innocent. Put that in quotes. When

564
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: calamity comes something God does not deliver. Sometimes God does

565
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: not deliver even the innocent from the earthly results. He

566
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: says of this falling creation, neither group is certain that

567
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: they can escape death. Apparently both groups die. Now where

568
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: he's a little off is we know that Scripture tells

569
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: us in Psalm one thirty four that God is actually

570
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: near to the broken hearted that God, we had Jesus

571
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: weeping over Jerusalem. We had Jesus weeping with Lazarus family.

572
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: So no, when calamity comes to the innocent and we're

573
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: being used to advance the Kingdom of God or being

574
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: used for us to be refined, just like any parent,

575
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: the discipline may be out of love, and the discipline

576
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: may be necessary, and it may be exactly what we need.

577
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: But in no circumstance do we see God not sharing

578
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: and caring about us and the difficulty we're going through.

579
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: He does care. He may still allow it or even

580
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: call it for our own good. I don't know if

581
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: you have children. I discimined my children. I didn't enjoy it,

582
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: but I did do it because I loved it. But

583
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: it was I didn't sit there and mocked them and

584
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: you know, not care about them or be aloof about

585
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: it that it bothered them or it broke their little

586
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: spirit or it you know, it hurt their little heinee

587
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I did care about that, and

588
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy doing it. I did it because I

589
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: knew that was the best thing. And he's trying to

590
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: say that God not only allows it. I think at

591
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: time he just mocks us. But that is that's we

592
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: know that part's not true. So so anyway, twenty four

593
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: the earth is given into the hand of the wicked.

594
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: He covers the faces of its judges. If it is

595
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 1: not he, who then is it Job? Almost cursed God

596
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: again but not quite Wicked people, Job says, seem to

597
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 1: get away with stuff. It appears to me, why why

598
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: in the world would God let the wicked get away

599
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: with things? He isn't charging God with wrong. But what

600
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: he is doing is he's asking a question. That's different.

601
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: He's not declaring it. He's just asking a question, and

602
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: he's saying that life is brief. And it looks like

603
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: to me, the innocent can't win. The earth seems to

604
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: be run by the wicked. It seems like when they

605
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: need to be punished, sometimes God hides the faces of

606
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: the judges and they get away with it. Well, I mean,

607
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: let's talk about the world that we're living in. I've

608
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: seen people get away with murder. Now, They're not going

609
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: to get away with it if they if they don't repent,

610
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: and they're not justified in eternity. But they got away

611
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: with it here. They never went to jail for it.

612
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: They never got punished for it. We see we could

613
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: people get away with stuff all the time. And and

614
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: Joe's looking at this and he's like, so here I

615
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: am innocent. I'm going through all this. I know people

616
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: that are as wicked and dark as they can be,

617
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: They're not in a situation I'm in. I just don't

618
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: know that here on this falling creation, if there's anything

619
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: for the innocent, we don't really seem to be set

620
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: up in a really good way here. Now he's conveniently

621
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: forgetting all of his years where God was blessing him

622
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: and giving him an easy life, and he's forgetting all that.

623
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: That's how we do, don't We We get into difficulty

624
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: and suddenly we start forgetting everything that God's done for us.

625
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: And all we're thinking about is this moment. Where is

626
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: he right here? Have you? Have you ever had somebody

627
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: that forgot that you were kind of kind to them

628
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: and treated them well because you did one thing they

629
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 1: didn't like, and suddenly everything you ever did is thrown away,

630
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: and that's all there is now. Human beings tend to

631
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: do that next twenty five. Through the rest of this chapter,

632
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: life is passing quickly. Job is going to say, with

633
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: no hint of improvement, and even though I'm innocent, God's

634
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: just going to declare me guilty. Anyway, I got no hope.

635
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: He says, My days are swifter than a runner. They

636
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: flee away. They see no good here. The analogies a

637
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: runner meaning his days are short and miserable. What is

638
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: he forgetting? They haven't always been this way, but now

639
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: he's just acting like his whole lives this way. Another thing,

640
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: These are just more analogies. They go by like skiffs

641
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: of a reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

642
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 1: Both of the both of these just mean that life

643
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: is it is short, and it just it just God,

644
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: he just swoops down on you like it's nothing. It's

645
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: it's a quick process. Our lives are short and they're miserable,

646
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: just like an eagle coming down on the prey, like

647
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: one of these reeds bending over twenty seven. If I

648
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 1: say I will forget my complaint, I will put off

649
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: my sad face and be of good cheer. So now

650
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: he's saying, now, if I decided to have a batter

651
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: at attitude about all this, let's say I decided to

652
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: do that and be of good cheer. Let's say, I

653
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: stop all this wine, and I stop all this accusation.

654
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: Y'all want me just put on a happy face with

655
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: my festering wounds and my dead children, and I've lost everything,

656
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting here miserable. My body's just hanging on.

657
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: I was when y'all saw me. I'm so sick and

658
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm so miserable. You didn't even recognize me. It shocked

659
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: you to see me this way. So I'll just take

660
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: all this and put it aside, and I'll put on

661
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: a happy face and I'll stop all this. What is

662
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 1: it going to change? It won't change anything. He's in

663
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: a bad place right here. What good will it do?

664
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: Twenty eight? I become afraid of all my suffering, for

665
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: I know you will not hold me innocent. And who's

666
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: he talking to? He's talking to God. You are going

667
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: to find me guilty anyway. So you tell me what

668
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: good it is for me to decide to grin and

669
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,760
Speaker 1: bear it. The end result is going to be the same,

670
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: grinning and bearing it, putting on a happy face. That's

671
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: not gonna make you all of a sudden decide I'm innocent.

672
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: I won't be found guilty either way. Twenty nine. I

673
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 1: shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

674
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: Why bother? It's a parent I'm condemned. Well, let's don't

675
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: ever let ourselves get there? Why bother? No, what we

676
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: need to do? Of course we know things. Joe doesn't

677
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: know what we need to do when we're going through

678
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: these difficulties, and we understand that because of God, who

679
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: is He's allowing it or causing it. How you get

680
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: through these things you keep searching for is don't let

681
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: me miss what you're teaching me. No, it does matter

682
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: what we do. It does matter how we respond. It

683
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 1: will change. Let me say the one thing it will change.

684
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: It'll change whether we pass the test or not. Job

685
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,919
Speaker 1: seems to not be concerned about that at all, because

686
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: he doesn't know he's being tested. See, if we understand

687
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: the testing, you go, my attitude is me passing the test.

688
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: Me learning? Is me passing the test. Me not denouncing

689
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: God is me passing the test. Me using my difficulty

690
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: to glorify God and to point people to God. That's

691
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: me passing the test. So yes, how our respond to suffering,

692
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: it actually does matter quite a bit. It does matter

693
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: because that's what the test is all about. There is

694
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: no platform, and I don't wish it on anybody, But

695
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: there is no platform that's more powerful that for a

696
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 1: man or a woman, or a man and a woman

697
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: to stand glorifying God, resolute, praising his holy name while

698
00:43:54,040 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: they suffer. I don't like it, I don't wish it,

699
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: and I don't want to have to do it again.

700
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: But I cannot argue, as my wife said, with the

701
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: results of suffering, they're always there Verse thirty. If I

702
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lie,

703
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: no effort on my part can make me clean in

704
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: your eyes. Oh there it is again. Here comes another

705
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: foreshadowing underline that fellas, don't let them get by ladies

706
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: out there. That's a foreshadowing right there. You know what

707
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: job saying, I can't make myself clean. We sure can't.

708
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: Can we think about it? Think how far removed we

709
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: are from being able to stand in front of a

710
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: holy God and him see us as sinless. All the

711
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:52,720
Speaker 1: soap in the world cannot make us fully righteous before God.

712
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 1: It's a foreshadowing of the New Covenant when we finally

713
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: read everything Jesus is teaching you remember when Jesus was

714
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: telling everybody. Can you imagine the day he said that

715
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: you must be perfect? Is my father is perfect? What

716
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: do he say? He said we had to be perfect? What?

717
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: Who's perfect? None of us? What is he talking about?

718
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: So the standard is perfection? Yes it is. My father

719
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: is perfect, So you must be perfect? But what's Jesus

720
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: doing there? He's setting up while we need him. He's

721
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: now setting up saying this is the standard, but only

722
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 1: I can get you to the standard. Well, you see

723
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: job starting to think right now, I can't do anything

724
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: to make myself right with God, not perfection thirty one

725
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: Yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my

726
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: own clothes will abhor me, dirty pit, slime pot. I'll

727
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: just be dead, and I'll be rotting in my rotting

728
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: dead body that you've thrown in the pit, and will

729
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: just become repulsive to my lothing, my clothes. Wondn't even

730
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: want to be on such a nasty body. What's not

731
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: a happy scene, is it? And then he finishes out

732
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: and says, and then we'll get into ten one. Then

733
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: leave it because ten one kind of finishes this thought.

734
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: Negotiation is impossible. I can't negotiate myself out of this,

735
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: for he is not a man as I am, that

736
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: I might answer him that we should come to trial together.

737
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: God can't be brought to arbitration. We're never gonna take

738
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: you know, you ever signed these things like when you

739
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: buy a car, whatever, there's all kinds of deals you

740
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: get in. If you look at the fine print, you've

741
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: agreed to arbitration. You know, if you're upset, then we

742
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: all agree we're going to an arbitrator. You know what

743
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: Job is saying, we're gonna take God to an arbitrator.

744
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna take him to the table and we're

745
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: gonna work out some deal. He said, I can't do that.

746
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: I can't take him to court thirty three. There is

747
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: no arbitrator between us who might lay his hand on

748
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: us both. Ooh, foreshadow again. There's another big foreshadow underline

749
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: that one too. You know what Job saying I need

750
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 1: an arbitrator. I need an arbitrator that would actually pass

751
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: the test to be able to stand between me and God,

752
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: stand between me and God and actually work this thing

753
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 1: out for me. Where's that arbitrator? What's his name? Jesus?

754
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: And you know what job saying we need an arbitrator.

755
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: You know what we would say if you were presenting

756
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: the Gospel to a little child or you in some

757
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: third world country. How many you've ever drawn the diagram

758
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: the chasm between sinful man and holy God? You ever

759
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 1: drawn that diagram? And then the cross becomes the bridge

760
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: across the chasm to make us right with God and

761
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: usher us into the presence of God under the blood

762
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: of Jesus, making us fully righteous. You know what that is,

763
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: don't you. That is a perfect holy arbitrator. He makes

764
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: the case when God looks down and say says, well,

765
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing. Burde has done this and that,

766
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: and what have we heard it? Jesus looks to the

767
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: Holy Father and says, he's with me. I'll make his case,

768
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: and God accepts us. And here is job realizing if

769
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: I just had an arbitrator between me and God, who

770
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: might lay his hand on us both? Who is that?

771
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: What is the God man? And he is to come

772
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: underline that one. That's a big foreshadow right there. I

773
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: need an arbitrator. I need an advocate who can remove

774
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: God's rod and terror from me. What does Paul tell

775
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: us the redeemed will not face the wrath of God.

776
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: We will not face the wrath of God. We might

777
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: face difficulty here in a falling creation, but when it

778
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: comes to the wrath of God being poured out on

779
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: all those that he rejects, not the redeemed. Just to

780
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: just picture of God's wrath being like a tidal wave,

781
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: and standing between us and the tidal wave of God's

782
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: holy wrath is Jesus, and it hits him, and he

783
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: just takes it in his chest and not even a

784
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: drop of water hits us. He took the wrath of God.

785
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: He is the perfect advocate. He is the perfect arbitrator. Hey,

786
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: out there in here, do you have the arbitrator? Have

787
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: you been redeemed by Jesus? This is man, This is

788
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: the week he did it. I mean we're literally in

789
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 1: the middle when this Bible study was done live. I

790
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: know a lot of you here at different times. This

791
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: is Holy Week. I mean, we're looking to the arbitrator

792
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: who went to the cross this coming Friday, who went

793
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 1: to that cross. And again, everything that Jesus went through

794
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: he had to go through to pay the price for

795
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: sinful man. Okay, don't try to take any of that out.

796
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: When he's in the garden and he's stressed to his

797
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: cap pilarias are bursting and sweat mixed with blood. Let

798
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,879
Speaker 1: this cup pass, do not. You got to understand what's

799
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: in that cup. And if you don't know, I'll tell you.

800
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 1: What's in that cup is the wrath of God. That's

801
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: the cup. And Jesus saying, is there another way for

802
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: your wrath to be diverted without it coming on me?

803
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: And of course the Father gave no other option than

804
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: the Son was resolute to the cross. But don't ever

805
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: get the gospel wrong and start thinking that God's wrath

806
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,919
Speaker 1: was put in some account and he did not pour

807
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: out his wrath. And the wrath of God was not

808
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: poured out. Yes, it was poured out. It was even

809
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: poured out for the Redeemed. It was just poured out

810
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 1: on Jesus, not the Redeemed, but it was poured out.

811
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: That's why everything Jesus went through was so awful. That's

812
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: how much God hates sin. And the Son took that

813
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 1: on for you, and he took it on for me.

814
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: So how about a little gratitude, How about a life

815
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: of gratitude? And you see job searching for that advocate

816
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: and that arbitrator that we have. Praise God for that

817
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: thirty four. I need that arbitrator. Let him take his

818
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: rod away from me, and let not dread of him

819
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: terrify me. There it is, That's it. The wrath of

820
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: God will not be poured out on the redeemed. And

821
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: you see Job, he's searching for that thirty five. Then

822
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: I would speak without fear of him, for I'm not

823
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: so in myself. If I just had the arbitrator, if

824
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: I just had the advocate, then I would live my

825
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: life without fear, because I would know that God's accusation

826
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: of me had been satisfied. I'd live my life different

827
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: if I had that kind of hope. I'd live my

828
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: life different if I could just have that kind of peace.

829
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: And here we are on the other side of the

830
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: New Covenant, and we've got access to everything Job was

831
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:14,439
Speaker 1: looking for. Ten to one and then we'll be done.

832
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 1: I loathe my life. I will give free utterance to

833
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

834
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: I've complained that sets up next week. I've complained to

835
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: my friends, that's what we've heard. Now I'm going to

836
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: complain to God directly. Well, job still got to work

837
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: some stuff out, and we'll hear the rest of that,

838
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: Lord willing if we get back together next week, and

839
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: I look forward to that. But you're going to see

840
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: him now, go from this case you just heard today,

841
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: he's kind of talking about God, but he's talking to

842
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: his friends, and then he says, so I've made that complaint.

843
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm still bitter. So now I'm going directly to God

844
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: and tell him what I think about it, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about that when we come back next week. But

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Speaker 1: I think our takeaway this week. Do you realize I

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Speaker 1: just want you to think about that. Do you realize

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Speaker 1: that these Bible studies, like I tell people all the time,

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Speaker 1: anytime I have the opportunity to speak at a gathering

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Speaker 1: or an event, because I know this to be true

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Speaker 1: about God, I will tell every person in the room.

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Speaker 1: If you think that you're here today by happenstance, you're

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Speaker 1: completely wrong. You were going to be sitting in this

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Speaker 1: room at this moment when God wove you together in

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Speaker 1: your mother's womb. Now I don't know why He has

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Speaker 1: you here, but I hope by the time we're done today,

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Speaker 1: you'll know well. I will tell you this. Y'all know

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Speaker 1: me that those of you know me well enough, you

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Speaker 1: know that I do not organize these things. And me

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Speaker 1: and I'm savvy enough to go. I tell what I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do. I'm going to design this thing laid

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Speaker 1: out so that we do job chapter nine on the

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Speaker 1: week that we the crucifixion of the resurrection. That'd be neat.

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Speaker 1: I just sit there and threw this thing out. And

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Speaker 1: I've been going one week after another, and this realization

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Speaker 1: of job fell on the exact week that Jesus redeemed

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Speaker 1: the world. I didn't have anything to do with that.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know who needed to be reminded of that.

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Speaker 1: We all need to be reminded of it. But somebody somewhere,

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Speaker 1: this is your day. I get excited when I know

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Speaker 1: it's somebody's day. This is your day. And if you're

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Speaker 1: out there and you're thinking, gosh, I know exactly how

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Speaker 1: job feels. I feel hopeless. I wish I had an advocate.

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Speaker 1: I wish I have an arbitrator. I feel like God's

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Speaker 1: distant from me. I don't know how to talk to God.

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Speaker 1: I wish someone would plead my case to God. I

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Speaker 1: want to be forgiven, I want to be right with God. Well,

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Speaker 1: his name is Jesus. And this is the very weak

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Speaker 1: in world history that he offered that redemption to anyone

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Speaker 1: who's willing to repent and turn from your sin, and say,

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Speaker 1: I'm a sinner and I need an advocate. I can't

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Speaker 1: get across the chasm between me and a holy God,

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Speaker 1: and I need somebody to provide that bridge. Well, Jesus

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Speaker 1: has provided it. The son of God. When he went

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Speaker 1: to the cross, he paid the price that you and

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Speaker 1: I we all deserved. And if you're willing to repent

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Speaker 1: and turn from your sin, if you're willing to leave

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Speaker 1: faith in yourself and place your faith in Jesus, if

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Speaker 1: you're willing to confess him as your lord, your new authority,

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Speaker 1: and just say, Jesus, change me, make me right with

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Speaker 1: your Father, make me right, make me righteous, forgive me.

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Speaker 1: And I know that only you can do it. Only

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Speaker 1: you have the power to do that. And I trust

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Speaker 1: and place my faith and only you. If you've done

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Speaker 1: that for the first time, or maybe the first time

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Speaker 1: you've ever meant it or understood it, then the angels

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Speaker 1: are celebrating your redemption and you now have an arbitrator

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Speaker 1: who will plead your case with the one and only

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Speaker 1: living God, who is holy, Holy, Holy, and you will

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Speaker 1: be found innocent. If I can help you in any way,

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Speaker 1: just reach out to me Rick at Burgessmistries dot com.

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

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Speaker 1: this message of the gospel found in Job. May we

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Speaker 1: apply it to our lives today and may we never

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Speaker 1: be the same. In your holy name, we pray Amen.