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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with us. I am your teacher today, as is the norm.

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Speaker 1: Rick Burgess also a host of the Rick Burgess Show.

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Speaker 1: That's my day job. If you'd like to find out

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Speaker 1: more about that, go to Rick burgesshow dot com. All

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Speaker 1: the details are there. This is the Wednesday Bible Study.

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Speaker 1: We've been at this about a decade. We are currently

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Speaker 1: in the book of job. I'm gonna run down a

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Speaker 1: couple of things I've gotten better over the last few

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Speaker 1: years of trying not to date too much these these

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Speaker 1: Bible studies because of the archives. I mean, we have

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Speaker 1: people that are listening to things that we did, you know,

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Speaker 1: nine years ago, seven years ago. But it's just it's

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Speaker 1: too much of an opportunity because a lot of you

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Speaker 1: you'll contact me and you'll contact our team and you're like,

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Speaker 1: I really want to plug in to the manchurch dot com.

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Speaker 1: Are there churches around me that are that are doing

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Speaker 1: the strategy? How how do I become part of this?

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Speaker 1: I will tell you Because if you're some of you

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Speaker 1: are not that familiar with the church culture, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that can be a blessing. But in the church culture,

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Speaker 1: a lot of churches treat the new year as September.

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Speaker 1: That's that's when the year starts. Fall is kind of

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Speaker 1: when the church starts its new year, and so that

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Speaker 1: means a lot of churches are implementing the strategy in

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Speaker 1: the month of August. So the month of August is

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Speaker 1: packed with man churches of people you know, starting it,

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Speaker 1: starting a new curriculum, maybe their second year, third year,

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Speaker 1: first year. So there's probably seven opportunities just in the

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Speaker 1: month of August in different states if you would like

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Speaker 1: to plug in. So I won't give you all those details.

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Speaker 1: I will get better about that. Just go to themanchurch

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Speaker 1: dot com and look under events. So I just want

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Speaker 1: you to know if you are catching this Bible study

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Speaker 1: and the month of August twenty twenty five is still

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Speaker 1: in play. Really, any August of any year great opportunity

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Speaker 1: to to plug in because there's a lot of churches

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Speaker 1: that are starting something new, a new curriculum. Now we

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Speaker 1: do have a new curriculum coming out in August called

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Speaker 1: the Standard, So our churches that are going into their

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Speaker 1: sixth year of our strategy will be now implementing that

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Speaker 1: brand new curriculum because they've been waiting on it. So

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Speaker 1: the standard is a brand new curriculum. We have a

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Speaker 1: six different forty week curriculum for men. If we can

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Speaker 1: help you in any way. This Bible study is part

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Speaker 1: of a bigger strategy and you can find all the details.

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Speaker 1: You can go to the website and just kind of

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Speaker 1: walk through it and figure it out at themanchurch dot com.

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Speaker 1: If we can help you in form of curriculum, in

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Speaker 1: form of individual resources, in form of speakers to come

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Speaker 1: to your gatherings, even conferences, all that you can find

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Speaker 1: at the manchurch dot com. A couple of things you

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Speaker 1: need to be aware of. I will be on vacation

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Speaker 1: starting on Saturday of this week that I'm doing the

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Speaker 1: study coming up next week. Okay, so that will be

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Speaker 1: August the what six? So there will not be a

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Speaker 1: do with that? Oh? What an opportunity it is, because

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Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm just gonna guess that some of

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Speaker 1: you have missed and some of you don't have every

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Speaker 1: single Bible studying the Book of Job. You have not

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Speaker 1: seen it, you have not heard it. You've missed a few,

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Speaker 1: so this is a great opportunity for you to go

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Speaker 1: find all those by going to Themanchurch dot com. You'll

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Speaker 1: see a little drop down menu. You can watch those

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Speaker 1: it's pretty easy to maneuver. Okay, so catch up. Another opportunity.

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Speaker 1: We have a brand new podcast called Strange Encounters. It's

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Speaker 1: about spiritual warfare. If you have heard about it and

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Speaker 1: you want to to kind of check that out, great

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Speaker 1: find Strange Encounters wherever you get podcasts, so that'd be

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Speaker 1: great to do that. Maybe you're thinking, I haven't read

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Speaker 1: the new book Men Don't Run in the Rain, Well,

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's open up in a word of prayer.

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Speaker 1: Today will be in Job Chapter twenty four, Job Chapter

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Lord, thank you for these men. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for the entire team everybody with the Manchurch dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Rick Burgess Show. I'm so blessed to work

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Speaker 1: it right off its mother's breast and just take it

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Speaker 1: for themselves. Uh. And so you see that. It almost

428
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Speaker 1: feels like to me when when Job was in this

429
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Speaker 1: particular monologue, it's like he keeps thinking, what have I

430
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Speaker 1: got to say to get you to understand my point?

431
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Speaker 1: Have you ever been telling somebody something about something happened

432
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: and you realize they're not really and then you go, well,

433
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 1: let me see if I can't give you more gruesome

434
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Speaker 1: details and see if I can get your attention. Because

435
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: he's tried this before, but he kind of kept it

436
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: a little more general. Now he wants to get real

437
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: specific about these sins and the victims of these sins.

438
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Speaker 1: And he says, the wicked, you know, has made a pledge.

439
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Speaker 1: What does you mean by that? He said, It's almost

440
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Speaker 1: like it's not just that they are you know. It's

441
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Speaker 1: one thing for me to say, I'm aloof I see

442
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: the poor around, I just didn't pay attention, and that's

443
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: not good. We need to be aware of people. But

444
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Speaker 1: Joe says, no, no, no, these people are worse. They've made

445
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Speaker 1: a pledge. They are directly and intentionally hating the poor.

446
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,959
Speaker 1: They hate them. It seems like they've made a pledge

447
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: against them, like this is something that they want to do.

448
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: They're doing on purpose. It's not just they're being aloof

449
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Speaker 1: and they miss something. They've made a pledge. They're intentionally

450
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Speaker 1: doing this, and they hate the poor. They have no

451
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 1: regard for what happens to these people. So then he

452
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Speaker 1: goes into verse ten. They go about naked, without clothing, hungry,

453
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Speaker 1: and they carry the sheaves. Now, see you say, he's

454
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Speaker 1: repeating himself. Here, we'll hear this. He says, in the

455
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Speaker 1: midst of plenty, all around them is plenty, they do without.

456
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Speaker 1: And now he's getting into the oppressed worker. They do

457
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Speaker 1: the work. They gather sheaves, which is a bundle of

458
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Speaker 1: grain stalks. And here's what he's saying. The wicked people

459
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Speaker 1: are benefiting from the hard work of these people, and

460
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Speaker 1: they have no regard for it. They make sure that

461
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Speaker 1: these people bring all their food and all their wine

462
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Speaker 1: in and all the things they need, and then they

463
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Speaker 1: make sure they have nothing. They oppress the people that work. Now,

464
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Speaker 1: remember this was an accusation that was made about him,

465
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Speaker 1: and he's coming back saying, no, no, the wicked do that.

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Speaker 1: But I don't do that. I've never done that. There

467
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Speaker 1: was never any evidence that I did that. So there's

468
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Speaker 1: some defense of himself here too. He's like, I think

469
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Speaker 1: he may be saying for his friends that this is

470
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Speaker 1: speculation that he may be saying to his friends too.

471
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Speaker 1: I'm going to include some accusations. Y'all meet against me,

472
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Speaker 1: and I will tell you something I've seen the wicked

473
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Speaker 1: do this. Don't compare me to them. There's never been

474
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Speaker 1: an accusation that I did these kind of things. So

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Speaker 1: he wants there to be a distinction between him and

476
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Speaker 1: wicked people because he's sick and tired of being told

477
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Speaker 1: that he's suffering because he's wicked, and he's making the

478
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Speaker 1: case do I look like these people? So remember this

479
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 1: is at God, but it's also for everybody to hear

480
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 1: that he's making this point about himself as well. He says,

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Speaker 1: among the olive rows of the wicked, they make oil,

482
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Speaker 1: they tread the wine press, but suffer thirst. They do

483
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Speaker 1: the work, they do the grind the grain, they do

484
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Speaker 1: the wine. It's all around, all around them. There's plenty

485
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: of food, and there's plenty to drink, and they get

486
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Speaker 1: none of it. There are pressed workers. Even the animals

487
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Speaker 1: in the Law of Moses were allowed to eat what

488
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Speaker 1: they were working. And he said, these wicked people don't

489
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Speaker 1: even let these people eat. The animals get to eat

490
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Speaker 1: while they're out there doing their work, but they don't

491
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Speaker 1: even let the people eat anything that falls to the ground.

492
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Speaker 1: They take it all. And he says that the people

493
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Speaker 1: are being treated worse than animals and beasts of burden

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Speaker 1: Verse twelve. From out of the city, the dying, grown

495
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Speaker 1: and the soul of the wounded Christ for help. Here

496
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Speaker 1: we go. Be careful right here, job, Yet God charges

497
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Speaker 1: no one was wrong. Job's got to be careful right here.

498
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Speaker 1: So this is this is that point I was telling

499
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Speaker 1: you about in the beginning. This is this is a

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Speaker 1: real close I mean if blasphemy, you know, was was

501
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Speaker 1: what I mean, it's close, and he kind of he

502
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Speaker 1: drives by it. He doesn't touch it, but he drives

503
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Speaker 1: by it. And this is real similar if you remember,

504
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Speaker 1: and you want to jot this down to go back

505
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Speaker 1: and look, we had a similar situation in chapter nine,

506
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Speaker 1: verses twenty two through twenty four, Because what Job is saying.

507
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Speaker 1: God is oblivious to all this evil, and you know what,

508
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: he seems to let him get away with it. Well, again,

509
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: that's that's Job trying to be God a little bit,

510
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: which God is no fan of. And he doesn't understand

511
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Speaker 1: the bigger picture here. He wants to understand it. He

512
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: wants to be told, but he right here. This is

513
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: almost like when you're trying to get somebody to fight

514
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Speaker 1: with you and you push him, you know you're thinking,

515
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Speaker 1: I got to if I can say something, or maybe

516
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Speaker 1: I put my hands on you, I'll finally get some

517
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: sort of reaction from you, because I'm ready to I'm

518
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: ready to work this out. Now, he's he is asking

519
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: for a fight that he does not want and and

520
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: it is coming for him on God's time. If you

521
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Speaker 1: think that we're going to demand God get in the

522
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Speaker 1: ring with us, God does not respond to our demands,

523
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Speaker 1: and for us to think that he can or should

524
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Speaker 1: is all sorts of arrogance. But again, he's in a

525
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Speaker 1: bad place right now. He's in a really really bad place,

526
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Speaker 1: and God knows that. And so he's he's he's talking

527
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Speaker 1: about we're about to get more into more specific. He said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about murderers. I'm gonna talk about adulterers,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about burglars. I'm gonna I'm gonna really

530
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Speaker 1: get specific right now because I want you to understand God,

531
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Speaker 1: the people I'm talking about. And so now he's going

532
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Speaker 1: to get more specific. So again close to blaspheming God,

533
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Speaker 1: I mean I could. Can't you just see Lucifer right

534
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Speaker 1: here going, Oh this is gonna be good, And and

535
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Speaker 1: and and and you know, we're hey, we're we're here,

536
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Speaker 1: He's finally gonna do it, and then he just kind

537
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Speaker 1: of stopped short. Now you're saying, well, why why do

538
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Speaker 1: you why do you think he's stopping short here? Because

539
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Speaker 1: he's not saying that God does this. He's saying it

540
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Speaker 1: seems that's the way it feels to me. You know,

541
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Speaker 1: as long as we, you know, don't go around saying

542
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Speaker 1: blasphemous things about God, we can cry out that we

543
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Speaker 1: don't understand. Help me to understand. I have faith in

544
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Speaker 1: that You're always doing what's right. I'm confused right here.

545
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: Here's how this this, this is what it seems to me.

546
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Speaker 1: Right now, clarify yourself. We're okay right there. It's still

547
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: dangerous ground, but we're okay right there. So now he's

548
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Speaker 1: going to go into getting real specific about who he's

549
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Speaker 1: talking about, starting in verse thirteen. There are those who

550
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Speaker 1: rebel against the lights, who are not acquainted with its

551
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Speaker 1: ways and do not stay in its path. So now

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Speaker 1: he says, let me tell you the kind of people

553
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Speaker 1: I'm about to I'm about to list here. Light always

554
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: represents right. I'm the light of the world. Okay, that's

555
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: what's right. Darkness always represents what's wrong. Okay, So what

556
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: he's saying is, here's who I want to talk about now.

557
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: I want to get real specific about some categories, but

558
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: all of them go into one category. They're all here's

559
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: the heading, and then I'll get to the subheadings. But

560
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: the heading is, these are people that don't seem to

561
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Speaker 1: know right from wrong. They don't seem to care what's

562
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Speaker 1: right and what's wrong. And we have people living today

563
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Speaker 1: as our society grows more and more depraved. There's no

564
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Speaker 1: question about it. One thing that I see in the

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Speaker 1: in the sixty years I've been on this earth, the

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Speaker 1: sixty years i've been on this earth, the earth has

567
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 1: got more wicked. People have gotten not smarter, they've gotten dumber.

568
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Speaker 1: Mental illness is on the rise. Never seen mental illness

569
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: at the level it is right now. I mean, it's

570
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: completely through the roof. A lot of that has to

571
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Speaker 1: do with all sorts of addictions, of drug addictions and

572
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Speaker 1: abuse and alcohol and all these things. But the society

573
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: I'm living in right now, people can't walk out a narrative.

574
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: People can't communicate people, people can't you can't reason with people.

575
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: Jesus told us to look for that. People becoming more

576
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Speaker 1: and more unreasonable. No matter how many times you answer

577
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Speaker 1: the question, they just say the same thing back. And

578
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: rare is the moment that you have a conversation that

579
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: seems to go anywhere. Rare. Most people are just staring

580
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: at their phones. Nobody's reading a book. We just we're

581
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Speaker 1: not all that impressive as a society. And excellence is

582
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Speaker 1: it's hard to find, it really is. I I've told

583
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Speaker 1: all my kids that are adults now, I'm like, you

584
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: are to be able to do anything you want to

585
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Speaker 1: do right now, because you're in a weak division. If

586
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: you can, if you can't, if you can't win this conference,

587
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: I said, I said, if if you if you're just

588
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Speaker 1: willing to be somewhat responsible and show up on time,

589
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: you you're gonna you're gonna beat just about everyboy of

590
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Speaker 1: a job. Okay, I mean it's the standard is pretty

591
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: low right now. Uh So, so he he's saying, I

592
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: want to run this down for you, and he starts

593
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Speaker 1: with murderers. He says, the murderer rises before it is light,

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Speaker 1: that he may kill the poor and needy, and in

595
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Speaker 1: the nights like and he's he's like a thief. He says, Look,

596
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: let me tell you the murder it does. They're wicked people.

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Speaker 1: And what they want to do is they want to

598
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Speaker 1: get it. They want to start doing their business before

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Speaker 1: the life. They want to do it in the darkness,

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Speaker 1: which is true. And they and here's who they want

601
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: to kill. Innocent people, weak people who are easy to kill.

602
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: Back to my predator analogy. Okay, he says, here's the thing,

603
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Speaker 1: the little bit of light that they allow. They kill

604
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Speaker 1: by day and they rob by night. That he said,

605
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Speaker 1: he said, these are the kind of people that I

606
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: see out there and I don't know why. It seems

607
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: like they kill people and get away with it. It

608
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: seems like they rob people and they get away with it.

609
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt that way going? Is somebody gonna

610
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: be brought to justice? And look, it's not a given anymore.

611
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: It's not a given anymore. I mean, I mean, how

612
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: many times do you think I'll tell you one thing,

613
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: this person's gonna pay price, and the next thing you know,

614
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, they got away with it. Now they're

615
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: not gonna get away with it in eternity if if

616
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: they don't, if they're not redeemed. But it just seems

617
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Speaker 1: that they get away with it. Now, killing people in

618
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Speaker 1: cold blood, killing innocent people is pretty much something that

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Speaker 1: most every society frowns on. Okay, he's not coming up

620
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Speaker 1: with obscure things. I wouldn't know. In some cultures, if

621
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Speaker 1: you kill somebody for no reason, they're good with it. Now,

622
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: there are a lot of cultures where a lot of

623
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Speaker 1: murder takes place, but rarely is it applauded. And so

624
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Speaker 1: then he gets into another one fifteen and he says

625
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Speaker 1: the eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,

626
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Speaker 1: saying no eye will see me, and he veils his face. Adultery.

627
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: Adultery is so bad looking at some of the commentary.

628
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Speaker 1: There is no ancient society that has a law that

629
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:43,919
Speaker 1: allows for adultery, none that have ever existed. Jesus understood

630
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: in the Sermon on the Mount when he's talking about divorce,

631
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Speaker 1: this is how horrible adultery is. When talking about divorce,

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00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: Jesus said that, you know, divorce is a sin, and

633
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Speaker 1: then he says, except when there's infid Now, infidelity is

634
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: not a get out of marriage free card. I know

635
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: many marriages who have overcome it, and they have thrived

636
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: because one salt forgiveness and repented of the sin, and

637
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: the other was willing to give that forgiveness. And that

638
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: is always option one. But there are some marriages where

639
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: adultery and reason why Jesus said this is adultery is

640
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: such an insult to the intimacy of marriage. Some marriages

641
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: can't survive it. It's just too much, it's too overwhelming.

642
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. If you're out there,

643
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: if you're listening, we always talk about which that's fine.

644
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: The offender inside the marriage, certainly that should be talked about.

645
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: But I'm going to tell you who God is just

646
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: as furious with as whoever it was that tampered with

647
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: that marriage. You people that go out there and you

648
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: start tampering with somebody's marriage, you start flirting with somebody's spouse,

649
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: start coming into the sanctity of the intimacy of marriage.

650
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You are on the wrong

651
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,760
Speaker 1: side of God. God loves marriage, he has deemed it holy.

652
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: And if you go around messing with somebody's marriage, you're

653
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: a wicked person that's wicked, manipulating somebody's spouse, getting into

654
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: somebody's marriage. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, and

655
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: so God will hold that person accountable, and he'll hold

656
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: the offender accountable if they do not repent. And this

657
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: is such I mean, I can't tell you how many

658
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: times that I set down counseling. And you know the

659
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: thing we always know. Just so all y'all know out there,

660
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: those of us that get put in positions of counseling,

661
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: would you save us the step of pretending that you're

662
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: not physically intimate with somebody else. None of us believe

663
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: you when you start talking to us you say, well,

664
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: there's nothing intimate really going on. I'm just having an

665
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: emotional fair. We all know your life. We all know

666
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: you're sleeping with them. Okay, we know it, So save

667
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: us that. Okay, uh, let's get down to what's really

668
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: going on. Okay, and listen, and let's stop it and listen. Listen.

669
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: I have sat down before, and I know that all

670
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: of you have been in this position too, and you're

671
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: saying the things that we should say. Let's try to

672
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: reconcile this, Let's try to save this marriage. Let's work

673
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: on you guys. Reconcile and let's get you in with

674
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: some counseling. Let's pray together, let's try to repair this

675
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: and the one who's had the insult done to them.

676
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times when I've said

677
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: all the things the Bible says and the person's in

678
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: total agreement with me. They're part of the church, they

679
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: agree with me. This is not foreign concepts to them.

680
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: And they're like, yes, my spouse wants forgiveness. Yes, I

681
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: know I need to forgive. But let me ask you

682
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: one thing. How do I get these visions out of

683
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 1: my mind of what this person did with my spouse?

684
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: Can you help me with that? And I always say

685
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: the same thing. That's going to require supernatural intervention by God.

686
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: But I know he can take it away. But I

687
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: know today it's still there. See, even when the act's

688
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: over and everybody says, whoop, sorry, I shouldn't have done that.

689
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: I guess that got away from me. You weren't give

690
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: me enough attention. You know. I just felt like that.

691
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 1: You know, my best days were behind me and I

692
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: had some kind of midlife crisis. You know. The thing

693
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: about adultery, Adultery is not I had a bad moment

694
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry I said something mean to you. Today.

695
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:51,760
Speaker 1: Adultery is such an insult. You have wounded somebody deep,

696
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: so deep that Jesus says, sometimes you can't get past it.

697
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: And I understand that's how bad it is. And this

698
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: society treats it so it's horrible, it's wicked, it's evil,

699
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: and it hurts. I mean, it hurts the most godly

700
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,399
Speaker 1: people you've ever known, that are always willing to try

701
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: to do the right thing. And so this is something

702
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: that Joe points at, and he says, these adulters look

703
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: at them, and they're so wicked that they want to

704
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: do it by the cover of darkness. They think nobody

705
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: sees what I'm doing. Is they come in and they

706
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: manipulate someone. They try to destroy somebody's marriage, or they're

707
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: in the marriage and they try to slip around and

708
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: go go find somebody else on the side. They're wicked people,

709
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: And how can I be lumped in with them? If

710
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: my friends are right, I've been lumped in with them.

711
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: So and he knows that's not yet, but he's like

712
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: going back and checking again. He's talking about dark is preferred.

713
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: Look at Proverbs seven, eight and nine talks about this.

714
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: I will speak to that. I'll be transparent to you

715
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: when I was a wicked man, and of course, compared

716
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: to God, I'm still wicked. But I'm talking when I

717
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: was intentionally and perpetually in sin. These verses I understand completely.

718
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: This is completely true. I'm ashamed to say it. I'm

719
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 1: ashamed to say it, and I've watched my redemption completely

720
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: change this completely by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit.

721
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lord for your grace and mercy. Thank you

722
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: for changing me. Thank you for transforming me. But when

723
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: I was outside and I rejected God and I was wicked,

724
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: I loved nighttime. The darkness was much preferred. I usually

725
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: try to sleep through the day, stay stay out everything.

726
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: I didn't like to go out in the day, and

727
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: I can honestly say that when I was transformed, I'm

728
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: completely the opposite. Now I hate the night and I

729
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: love the day. There's nothing I remember thinking, who in

730
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: the world wants to be up in the morning? Who

731
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: I want to sleep till noon if I can, and

732
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: then eat something and then nap and then wait for

733
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: it get dark where I can get back on the

734
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: prow and go to where the party is, go to

735
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: where the bar is, go to where the action is,

736
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: stay out all night but now there's I mean, just

737
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: this past weekend, Cherry and I just went to the

738
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: farm and that sun coming up and going out ter

739
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: on that porch and getting that cup of coffee and

740
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: getting the word of God out and just sitting there

741
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: talking about Jesus and just spending time in the light.

742
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: I much prefer day overnight now, But I wasn't always

743
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: that way. If you think this is just an analogy,

744
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: it's literal too. The wicked prefer the night, and so

745
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: there you go. So then we get into sixteen. In

746
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: the dark they digged through houses. Here comes the thieves

747
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: by day. They shut themselves up. They do not know

748
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: the light. That's exactly what I just told you about

749
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: thieves by night, hidden away during the day, that want

750
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: any part of the day. Why because what the scriptures say,

751
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: you can see their deeds in the light. Why do

752
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: you think See we think that all these wicked people

753
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: do things at night because it's scarier and you're easy

754
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 1: to sneak up on. There's some truth to that, but

755
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,919
Speaker 1: it's also because they themselves don't want to be seen.

756
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: That there's something innate in the sin nature that says

757
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: I want to be in the dark, I don't want

758
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: to be in the light. Don't pull me into the light.

759
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: What does Jesus call himself? The light? So he says,

760
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: and the light this always represents the truth, right, that's

761
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 1: the reason why wicked people don't want to come into

762
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: the light. Why because we see the truth about ourselves.

763
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: They didn't feel that way in the dark. Why do

764
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: you think that places where wicked people go are always

765
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: it's always poorly lighted. You ever went into a bar

766
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: that was really lit up? They're not. They're dimly lit,

767
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: aren't they. There's a reason for that. When they take

768
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: into these casinos, you ever notice no windows? That's by design.

769
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: They don't want you to know what time it is.

770
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: They don't want you to know what's going on outside.

771
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 1: They want you trapped inside that world. This is all

772
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: by design. And then in verse seventeen, for deep darkness

773
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: is morning to all of them. See, that's their morning.

774
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: They want deep darkness. When I talk about highlight, to

775
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: go out there and the sun be coming up and

776
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: it'd be morning. They say, well, let me tell what

777
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: The same feeling they have is about deep darkness. They say,

778
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: the darker the better. True, they are friends with terrors,

779
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: of deep darkness. They prefer darkness over the light. Pretty

780
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: clear picture. Now here's where we get into something. I

781
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: told you we're going to have something a little bit

782
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: interesting today. Now you can go and talk to people

783
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 1: and try to be sharp. So well, have you ever

784
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: noticed that verse eighteen through twenty five. In twenty four

785
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of debate about this. Again. It

786
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: could just be that Job is miserable, he's struggling, But

787
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: right now these verses don't seem to sound like Job.

788
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: Job ends his description of the wicked, whom God seems

789
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: to allow to go unpunished, and now that there's going

790
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: to be a discussion about how it cursed the wicked

791
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: are But people have debated. There's been huge debate. Is

792
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: this still Job? Is he still talking? Does someone else

793
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: take over here? There's even thought so far doesn't get

794
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: to speak three times? Is this that's not crediting him?

795
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: Was it? With his third speech? Is the writer of

796
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,959
Speaker 1: Job Moses, whoever it is, is the writer of Job

797
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: weighing in and reminding Job, Hey, you know, they don't

798
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: they don't get away with it. I don't think so

799
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: far as likely are one of his friends, because I

800
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: don't think they would join in. Maybe they would because

801
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: he's saying they'll get away with it. So there's that's

802
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,479
Speaker 1: one thought. Probably the likely truth is it's still Job.

803
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: He just sounds like he's all over the road a

804
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: little bit. Okay, nobody knows. There is a debate about it.

805
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: But look, here's here's the cannon. It was put in here.

806
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: Did you know? There wasn't attempt to put it somewhere

807
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 1: else these verses, but but but the final the final

808
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: decision was we think this is the continuation of twenty four. Okay,

809
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: and it's still Job. So he says, you say swift,

810
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: see you see that's why they confu there's you say,

811
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: what are they saying? Job said that you say swift?

812
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: Are they on the face of the waters? Their portion

813
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: is cursed in the land, No treader turns toward their vineyards.

814
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: So he wants them punished, and he wants them punished

815
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: by God because he hates these people and he doesn't

816
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: want them to be getting away with this. So we

817
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 1: go from crimes of the wicked to their punishment here

818
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: in eighteen the wicked will not endure. And this word

819
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: here that you see where he's talking about swift. Are

820
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: they on the face of the water. Some of your

821
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: translations will call it the foam of the water. You

822
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: can I tell you. What he's really talking about is

823
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: there's scum. You ever heard that term before, there's scum. Well,

824
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: that was the stuff on top of the water, the dirt,

825
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: the foam, And so he's saying, their scum is what

826
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: they are. There's no need to go to the vineyard

827
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: because they can keep this vineyard all they want to.

828
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: The way they got the vineyard, that vineyard's gonna be cursed. Okay,

829
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: you ever heard that ill gotten gains? Yeah, that's what

830
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: he's talking about. It won't be blessed. He goes to

831
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: nineteen drought and heat snatch away the snow waters. And then,

832
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: of course, he says, and so does she owl those

833
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: who have sinned. Now that's the place of the dead.

834
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: We talked about both the redeemed and the unredeemed, and

835
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: then the redeemed, of course, are are brought out of that.

836
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 1: So he says that she owl that snatches away sinners,

837
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: and he says, snow waters gets snatched away by heat.

838
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: He's really telling these wicked people, you ain't got a

839
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: snowballs chance in hell that that this is gonna work

840
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: out for you. So so he's telling them that. So

841
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: then he says in twenty the womb forgets them, the

842
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: worm finds them, sweet, thank you Job for this or whoever,

843
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: and they are no longer remembered. So wickedness is broken

844
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: like a tree. Do you see where the dilemma is?

845
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: That Job seems to be a little quick to say

846
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: they're not going to get away with it when he's

847
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: been saying they're getting away with it. So that's that's

848
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: where that there's the tension. But I don't have the

849
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: answer to that. So I just want you to know

850
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: that's the that's the discussion. Let's just concentrate on what

851
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: is true. So, so what what he's saying there is,

852
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: you know, when we're all born, we start out in

853
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: our mother's womb. Well that's our home. Okay, that's the

854
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: home for all of us. But the wicked they're going

855
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: to start out with the womb being their home. But

856
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: in the end of their life, evil people aren't going

857
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: to be remembered. They'll go from that womb being their

858
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,240
Speaker 1: home and then the worm is going to be their companion.

859
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 1: That's how it's going to end, and so they won't

860
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,879
Speaker 1: be remembered, their names will not be something that will

861
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: be celebrated, even though he has said in other places

862
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: he seen the wicked be celebrated when they die. So

863
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: just remind you of the tension that's going on here.

864
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: So in twenty one, they wrong the baron childless woman,

865
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: and they do no good to the widow. The weakest

866
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 1: members of our society are preyed upon by these wicked people.

867
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: He's covered that before and this seems to be getting

868
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: covered again. So in twenty two, yet now back to

869
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: sounding more like Joe. Okay, Yet God prolongs the life

870
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: of the mighty by his power, they rise up when

871
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: they despair of life. The wicked will eventually pay for

872
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Even though it looks like that God

873
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: is prolonging their life, this life, no matter how long

874
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: he maybe he's beginning to entertain maybe he's being patient

875
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,759
Speaker 1: with them by giving them a longer life. But at

876
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: the end of it all, whatever life they've been given,

877
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna matter because what's coming is gonna be

878
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: worse than any extension of the life they got. Everybody

879
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: with me, So twenty three. He gives them security and

880
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: they are supported and his eyes are upon their ways.

881
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: They get a brief momentary reprieve from God. But God

882
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: sees what they are doing, not a blessing, you know,

883
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: like God sees what I'm doing. What a blessing? He goes, No, no, no,

884
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: you need to see this like surveillance. How many of

885
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: you I've said this before. I'm gonna set again. My

886
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: hand is up. Sing songs about how God knows everything

887
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: we're doing. Then live your life like he has no

888
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 1: idea what you're doing. Okay, right, so yeah, I've been there.

889
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: But he's reminding them that nothing is hidden from God.

890
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:16,919
Speaker 1: Remember Solomon talking about this Ecclesiastes twelve fourteen. He knows

891
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: everything we're doing. There's nothing we're doing that he doesn't

892
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: know what we're doing. Nothing is hidden from God. By

893
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:26,439
Speaker 1: the way, let's remember that today verse twenty four. They're

894
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: exalted a little while, and then they're gone. They are

895
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: brought low and gathered up like all the others. Yes,

896
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:35,919
Speaker 1: it may look like they're secure, and they may very

897
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: well be secure for a little while, but they will

898
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: face their judgment. Can you just be at peace? Two

899
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: things your herd. Okay, two things are hard. It is hard,

900
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: as we talked about a little bit last week, to

901
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: rest in the fact that God will handle all this.

902
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what's harder. This is harder to

903
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: truly pray that these wicked people will repent and not

904
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: face the wrath of God. They're going to face the

905
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: wrath of God. Now that sounds good. Would you be

906
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: willing to pray that they don't receive the wrath of God? Though,

907
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: that they be redeemed just like you were? Yes, as

908
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: long as they didn't do it to me? No, I

909
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: mean that's harder, isn't it. The room I mean, the

910
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 1: whole countenance of the room changes in. We were all

911
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: loving that they're not gonna get away with it, and

912
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: I was right with you, And then you start thinking,

913
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 1: but I really should be praying that they're redeemed just

914
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: like I was. We really shouldn't be wishing God's wrath

915
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: to fall on anyone, no matter how bad they've treated us.

916
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: I know I'm saying the right thing. I'm not quite

917
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: feeling it yet, but I'm saying it. And if I

918
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: say it enough and keep praying, I think I can

919
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: get there. You know, I think I can get there.

920
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's how about this, Rick, Do you

921
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: pray that everybody who's ever wronged you will be forgiven

922
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: most everybody? And I'm won't get to everybody. Yeah, no,

923
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: I can say that. So so yes, I wouldn't wish

924
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: that on my worst enemy. I really wouldn't. But when

925
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 1: I think about people that do these things like to

926
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: babies and stuff, that's a tough one. Now. I got

927
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: a hard time with that. I think we all do.

928
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: But anyway, so let's go to twenty four. They are

929
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: exalted a little while and then they're gone. They're brought

930
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: low and gathered up like all the others. They are

931
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: cut off like the heads of grain. And so that's

932
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,839
Speaker 1: the end part. You know, they will face judgment now

933
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 1: twenty five. If it is not so, who would prove

934
00:53:56,480 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: me a liar and show that there is nothing in

935
00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: what I say? And I see that sounds like joke, right,

936
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: I mean, because but but what is he saying that about.

937
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: Is he saying that about that they seemed to be

938
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: getting away with it, or is he saying that about

939
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: they're going to get it in the end, or is

940
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: he just saying it about both likely both, I would think.

941
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: Now some people think this last line was directly back

942
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,399
Speaker 1: at Elafas where he's you know, because Elafas has made

943
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: this accusation again and he said, I've just made my

944
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: case about wicked people. You say I'm wicked. I've made

945
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: my case I'm not like them. And based on the

946
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,720
Speaker 1: facts that I just presented to you, can you honestly

947
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,720
Speaker 1: sit there and call me a liar? Can you honestly

948
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: say what I just said isn't true? You ever been there?

949
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: You finally get your chance to make your case, and

950
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: you stick with things that are not up for debate,

951
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: You talk about things that seem quite obvious, and and

952
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: then you just almost want to say, now I'm done.

953
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: Now call me a liar. Tell me that it's different

954
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: than what I just said, and that's really what he's saying,

955
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: and he saying, prove me wrong. Now, We'll never know

956
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: how many people wish that every now and then in

957
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: this whoever wrote this, inspired by God, would it have

958
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: hurt you just to let us hear some response from

959
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: his friends on this kind of stuff. But they don't

960
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: document that for us. We don't really know how they respond.

961
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: But I'm will tell you Job's not done yet, and

962
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: we'll come back after vacation and we'll pick that up.

963
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: Bill Dad's gonna jump back in there for just a

964
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: quick run. So when we come back, I'm gonna do

965
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: twenty five and twenty six together, because you're gonna get

966
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: a little Bill Dad, a little short Bill Dad response,

967
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: then a Job response again about God. But we're if

968
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: we were on the train right now, we are rolling

969
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: down the track, and we are rolling to this incredible

970
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: part of this book where it starts out with the

971
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: words and God answered, that is coming. And I think

972
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: if we were honest, maybe we might want to learn

973
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: and we will learn it before we're done. To have

974
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: faith in God, to believe that he knows what he's doing.

975
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: And when we start demanding for God to answer us,

976
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 1: I'd be real careful with that because he just might

977
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: and you may not want to hear what he has

978
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: to say. It might be better off just to say

979
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: I'm imperfect and I'm flawed and you are not. And

980
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: I know it's difficult. I do, man, I've been there.

981
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 1: I know it's difficult. I think that's saving faith. One

982
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: of the most difficult parts of a saving faith, the

983
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: mercy part I think is pretty easy for us. We

984
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: all want mercy, we all want grace. It's it's that

985
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: tension of obedience and trust that we struggle with. But

986
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: true obedience. I mean, if you look at the at

987
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: the response to redemption, it really is two words trust

988
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: and obey, and those two can be difficult. But this

989
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 1: is trust. Whatever you're doing, Lord, and the moment of

990
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 1: it all comfort me. But ultimately, as I was taught

991
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: by my Lord the Savior, I pray that your will

992
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: be done. I want to be in the middle of

993
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: your will. And if whatever you're doing, I can't tie

994
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: it into something stupid that I've done. Sometimes we just

995
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: pay a price for making a dumb decision. But you're

996
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: like Job. You're living your life. You're under the authority

997
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: of God. You're doing what you think He's called you

998
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: to do. None of us perfect, but but you can't

999
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: like like like a like job, not sinless but blameless.

1000
00:57:52,720 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: But yet things are going horrible and you're suffered to

1001
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: be able to say, I trust God so much that

1002
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: whatever he's doing right now is right. And it's for

1003
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: two things, my own good and or the benefit for others.

1004
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 1: For the advancement of his kingdom for his glory, Because

1005
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, when he allows us getting this difficult

1006
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: stuff and we are steadfast and we stand with him

1007
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: and he empowers us to do it, people notice. And

1008
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: he is glorified in difficulty in a way that is

1009
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: unlike anything else if we're willing to trust him. Let's pray, Lord,

1010
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: thank you for today, thank you for this opportunity to

1011
00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: unpack this incredible with what happened with job. Be with us. Lords,

1012
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: now we step out. I just once again want to say,

1013
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 1: as I've been trying to say to these men, how

1014
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: thankful I am for them, and what an encouragement they

1015
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: are to me and to those that are everywhere watching

1016
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: and listening to this and the testimonies. We continue to

1017
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: see of the power of you working through your word

1018
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: to go with us, Lord and guide us, sanctify us,

1019
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: grow us, and your holy name. We pray Amen.