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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study.

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Speaker 2: It is so good to be together again and opening

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Speaker 2: up the Holy Word of God and just hearing what

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Speaker 2: He has to say. The one and only Living God,

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Speaker 2: the beginning, the end, Holy, Holy, Holy, the Great i

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Speaker 2: Am has allowed us to hear directly from Him and

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Speaker 2: He knows each one of us individually and knows what

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Speaker 2: each one of us needs. Today as we open up

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Speaker 2: the Word of God, we're going to be in the

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Speaker 2: Book of Job. We have finished the first chapter. We

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Speaker 2: will now move into chapter two today. So if you

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Speaker 2: want to go ahead and turn there. My name is

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Speaker 2: Rick Burgess in case we've never met, and I am

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Speaker 2: the director of Themanchurch dot Com and also have a

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Speaker 2: day job called the Rick Burgess Show, which is a

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Speaker 2: show that runs on various platforms radio stations, YouTube channel, podcasts,

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Speaker 2: can get all those details at Rick burgesshow dot com.

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Speaker 2: But today we're more focused on Themanchurch dot Com. This

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Speaker 2: is a men's discipleship strategy. This Bible study that is

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Speaker 2: going on inside the studio is part of that strategy.

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Speaker 2: Men meeting together in small groups going through books of

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Speaker 2: the Bible, going through.

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Speaker 1: Maybe our forty week curriculum. We have five of those.

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Speaker 2: We have a number six we're working on now, Adler,

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Speaker 2: what are we halfway through that?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: We are officially halfway through it. It'll be coming out

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Speaker 2: in the fall. Also, we have multiple individual resources for

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Speaker 2: men to study the Holy Word of God via devotionals

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Speaker 2: and books. You can find those at the Manchurch dot com.

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Speaker 2: And we'll even send speakers and teachers to speak at

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Speaker 2: your men's gatherings as part of the High Challenge part

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Speaker 2: including conferences. And we have one more left this year.

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Speaker 2: It'll be in Atlanta, Georgia, home of the world's busiest airport.

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Speaker 2: And of course you can watch out a scrum might

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Speaker 2: breakout over ETCE. But anyway, so if you want to

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Speaker 2: join us in Atlanta, there are still tickets available. You

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Speaker 2: can get those at the Manchurch dot com. That's actually

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Speaker 2: coming up February twenty eighth through March one. All those

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Speaker 2: details are at the Manchurch dot com two and you

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Speaker 2: can find a man Church near you. So let's open

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Speaker 2: up in a word of prayer and jump right into

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Speaker 2: our study of Job chapter two. Lord, thank you for

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Speaker 2: today you are just worthy of our praise and our

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Speaker 2: worship and our gratitude. Thank you, Lord for your kindness,

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Speaker 2: thank you for your steadfast love and your grace.

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Speaker 1: And your mercy. Lord.

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Speaker 2: Of course we realize that you are the standard, though,

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Speaker 2: but also part of your character, which is perfect, also

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Speaker 2: features judgment and wrath. And because we are not afraid

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Speaker 2: to understand that that fear of you actually makes us

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Speaker 2: even more grateful for the mercy and the grace and

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Speaker 2: the love that you have afforded us. To just disregard

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Speaker 2: that part of you to cheapen your grace, may that

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Speaker 2: never take place and refine us as we unpack your

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Speaker 2: word today and your holy name, we pray Amen. Good

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Speaker 2: to be back in the room with the guys here,

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Speaker 2: and good to be, you know, not as personal talking

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Speaker 2: to all of you that are out there, either listening

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Speaker 2: to the podcast archive, maybe watching live on the YouTube channel,

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Speaker 2: or catching that archive.

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Speaker 1: Job. We've gone through chapter one.

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Speaker 2: If you're joining the study, you're only we're only in

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Speaker 2: the third Bible studying, so you're not that far behind you.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't have any trouble catching up. So we're going

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Speaker 2: to see some things get repeated. When we left Job,

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Speaker 2: it was a sad, sad day Job had been attacked

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Speaker 2: by Satan. He's lost his wealth, he's lost all ten

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Speaker 2: The final things last week is that when all of

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Speaker 2: is crystal clear. Parameters were set, but allowed by God,

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Speaker 2: two same thing again, And the Lord said to Satan,

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Speaker 2: We're seeing. Apparently this is something that keeps happening. There's

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Speaker 2: any of that. But apparently the angels come and stand

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Speaker 2: now our accuser. He is the devil because he is

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Speaker 2: a deceiver and so, but Lucifer is his original creation.

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Speaker 2: He was an angel created by God. So here comes

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Speaker 2: said to Satan have you considered my servant Job. There's

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Speaker 2: none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright

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Speaker 2: man who fears God and turns away from evil. He

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Speaker 2: still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against

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Speaker 2: him to destroy him without reason. Very very interesting conversation

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Speaker 2: here this word insight. I allowed you to incite me

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Speaker 2: First Chronicles twenty one, Pint one, when Satan tricked David

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Speaker 2: as we know, never moves for nothing or there's always

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Speaker 2: good reason. But I noticed that God said to Satan.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: You passed the test, right, I mean you tried he

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Speaker 2: we don't see that Satan ever brought that up. I

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Speaker 2: mean you would think that Satan would come on up

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Speaker 2: going to make sure that he acknowledges. Well, I guess

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Speaker 2: you saw the integrity of Job, who I told you

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Speaker 2: really didn't have any reason to be allowed to go out.

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Speaker 2: we need to resonate right there. Don't miss this because

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Speaker 2: you're going to see Job's friends in a minute. Not today,

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Speaker 2: but when we get when we get come back, you're

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Speaker 2: going to start seeing one of the worst attacks on Job.

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Speaker 2: You think, well, worse than his kids. Well, it's you

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Speaker 2: can't compare these things. What I'm saying is, if you

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Speaker 2: want to really really feel down, go through burying your

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Speaker 2: that's a double whammy. Okay, and that's coming next week,

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Speaker 2: been called to do to examine in our and ourselves

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Speaker 2: and to the world and to the church, we got

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Speaker 2: to stop acting like we don't understand suffering. We may

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Speaker 2: may not know every intricate detail, but God has not

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Speaker 2: acting like he has been. Okay, we know for sure,

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Speaker 2: by God's own words, Job did not bring this on himself. Okay,

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Speaker 2: now we know he's not perfect, but this is not

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Speaker 2: a punishment from God on Job. You know, there's there's all.

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Speaker 2: There's a little underlying and you'll see this later with

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Speaker 2: his friends. I'll tell you one thing. You saw what

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Speaker 2: take place with his own friends. But God said, that's

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Speaker 2: not the case. I'm not punishing anybody. I'm testing so

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Speaker 2: I can be glorified, but I'm not punishing. So suffering

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Speaker 2: Sure we've seen that too, But even that punishment is

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Speaker 2: always what to bring you back to God.

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Speaker 2: So in this case, though job is being tested by God,

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Speaker 2: he did not bring it on himself. God brought it

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Speaker 2: on him. Okay, because I've had people that don't even

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Speaker 2: like you know, they're real. They never really want to go.

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Speaker 2: You can kind of get them to go, God allowed,

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Speaker 2: but they just can never quite say. God calls but

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. He does both, Okay, But it's never for

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Speaker 2: no reason. Now, that's the part you got to get.

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Speaker 2: It's not some just well what's wrong with him? He's

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Speaker 2: always got a reason. And before we're done, many weeks

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Speaker 2: from now, you're gonna see the reason if you don't

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Speaker 2: already know the end, okay, so and most of you

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Speaker 2: to four. So that's what's going on there. Then Satan

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Speaker 2: answered the Lord and says, skin for skin. So what's happening? Now,

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Speaker 2: let's double Let's try something harder. Now I want you

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Speaker 2: to think about what is harder. Then you've lost everything

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Speaker 2: that you own and you've lost all your children. But

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Speaker 2: but so so so Satan's like, I, you know, I

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Speaker 2: want to go skin for skin. Now, he says, all

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Speaker 2: the man has he will give for his life.

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Speaker 1: So skin for skin? Why is this?

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Speaker 2: Why is this phrase being used here? Job has more

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Speaker 2: references uh to to skin than than other than Exodus

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Speaker 2: and Leviticus when you get into all the different laws

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Speaker 2: and rituals. But other than those two books, you're gonna

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Speaker 2: see skin more in the in the book of of

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Speaker 2: Job and and then and when you hear it, it

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Speaker 2: sounds a little bit like what I for eye, tooth

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Speaker 2: But he says, well, you go after him now, and

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Speaker 2: saying should be stretched out against Joe? Both times God's hand.

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Speaker 2: Ugly flesh and bones. What Satan wants. I want you

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Speaker 2: And and I remember when that started, that ivy started,

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Speaker 1: What if I could do this every time? Now?

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Speaker 2: Now, eventually it's gonna kill me because if you overuse them,

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Speaker 2: But boy, in that first moment feels pretty good, especially

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Speaker 2: I mean, and and so he's got that going on.

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Speaker 2: People have there's been all kinds of theories on what

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Speaker 2: his children. Now he's just he just he just sits

434
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Speaker 2: down with pieces of pottery, just trying to get any

435
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 2: kind of relief from this horrow.

436
00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: And here comes his wife.

437
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna go a little different with the wife

438
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 2: because I've heard this be taught before. And look, none

439
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 2: of us like what the wife's about to do. And

440
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: this is a really difficult blow. I don't know how

441
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 2: many of you in this Bible study that are in

442
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 2: the room are married, but if you're out there and

443
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 2: you're married, and it works both ways, husband or wife.

444
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 2: But I will say, because you know, wives have kind

445
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 2: of an maternal thing that men don't have. You know, men,

446
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 2: sometimes we can struggle being comforting, but for women, this

447
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 2: is part of who they are. And I will tell

448
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 2: you that there's husband's. Every husband, if they were truthful,

449
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 2: would say when I'm hurting and I'm struggling and I'm

450
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 2: down and out, I need her.

451
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: I need my wife.

452
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 2: I've gone as far as to say this, and I

453
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: think some of y'all agree. If everything between my wife

454
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Speaker 2: and I is okay, if she's supporting me, if she's

455
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,959
Speaker 2: encouraging me, if she's taking care of me, I'm really good.

456
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Speaker 1: I don't really care what anybody else does.

457
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 2: But I can have the opposite everybody else taking care

458
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 2: of me and she be against me, and it messes

459
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Speaker 2: it all up. That's how much power and influence a

460
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 2: wife has over a husband. There's a reason why God

461
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 2: said it is not good that man is alone, and

462
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Speaker 2: I will now make for him.

463
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Speaker 1: The perfect helper, the perfect partner.

464
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Speaker 2: And when they're not, there are there against you. If

465
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Speaker 2: my wife's upset with me and it's unresolved, that's all

466
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 2: I can think about until I get that resolved. I mean,

467
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: I have to get that resolved. And so I want

468
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: you to imagine you're in this misery, you've already passed

469
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 2: one test of spiritual integrity, and you look up and

470
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: here comes your number one earthly priority.

471
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: Who for that woman? You should also.

472
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Speaker 2: Be the number one earthly priority. Here comes the comforter,

473
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: Here comes the human form of the Holy Spirit. The

474
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: God has used this wife to comfort me over and

475
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: over again, and she does it now before we're too

476
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: tough on her, even though this is an attack on

477
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 2: Satan too. Don't ever forget that. Throughout this entire book,

478
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: there's never a mention that job had multiple wives.

479
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: No mention.

480
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Speaker 2: Remember he was blameless, he was upright. This is the

481
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 2: only wife we ever hear about. So we can deduce

482
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 2: from that that she's the mother of all ten of

483
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: these children. Okay, her babies are dead. I know they're adults,

484
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 2: but all of her children are dead. Don't don't don't

485
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 2: go through this and take that out that Job's the.

486
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: Only one who has ten earthly dead children.

487
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Speaker 2: She does too, And I've seen this up and personal,

488
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 2: and sadly some of you have too. There is a

489
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 2: mourning that comes from mama's womb that the dad's not

490
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 2: in on. It's a different kind of morning. It's a pain,

491
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 2: it's hurt, it's a yearning. Now, there's no doubt it's

492
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: devastating to a father too. I'm not minimizing that, but

493
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 2: I do want you to know that there is a

494
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: God gave them a womb to carry children, and when

495
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: their children die before them, there is a groaning that

496
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 2: comes from that womb that it isn't like anything a

497
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: man experiences. So I want you to I want you

498
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: to hang on to that. Let's give her a little

499
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 2: bit of grace on that.

500
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: Now.

501
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean what she did is right, okay, because

502
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: it's not. But we got to understand the background. She's

503
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 2: not just rolling up on some sunny day saying get

504
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 2: over it.

505
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: Okay. So she's been through she's mourning too.

506
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 2: So anyway, but now you've got to get back to

507
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 2: the how this feels to Job in this time.

508
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: So here we go.

509
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 2: For the first time, we hear from his wife in

510
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 2: nine Then his wife said to him, do you still

511
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 2: hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die? Probably not

512
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: what you wanted to hear right there from your wife.

513
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: So there is Satan again going, how do you like that?

514
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 2: Because he's behind it. I mean, there's no doubt he's

515
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 2: behind it. And so for the first time we hear

516
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: from her, we know that her children and her wealth

517
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: have also been taken. And now she looks up. I'm

518
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 2: not excusing the comment, but we do have to take

519
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 2: every detail. Imagine you're her all your wealth is gone. Fine,

520
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: we can replace that. Her husband's pretty savvy. Maybe she

521
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: was too. All my children are dead. You could just

522
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 2: stop right there and I'll walk up after already being

523
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: angry about this apparently, and he's killing my husband too.

524
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 2: She thinks her husband's dying. She sees his misery, and

525
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: she's like, so, now you're gonna do this to my husband,

526
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 2: the one that's supposed to be comforting me.

527
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: Now he's in this condition.

528
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 2: I'm not excusing what she said, but I'm starting to

529
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: understand it a little more. Now she doesn't pass the test. Thankfully,

530
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 2: her husband will help her pass the test, which, by

531
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 2: the way is our job. So she at this point

532
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 2: just being frank here, she is angry with God. She

533
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 2: seems to think God has forsaken them. She absolutely does

534
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 2: not see God as loving, good or.

535
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: Just right now.

536
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 2: And you have to understand that when you're comforting people

537
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: sometimes you're going to encounter that. Not everybody will have

538
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: the reaction. Well, you know, I'm clinging to everything I

539
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 2: know about God right now. It doesn't happen that way

540
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 2: every time I have ever seen I've seen this. I

541
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 2: know the pastors in the room, you' all seen it.

542
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: I mean it's not always we all know what's going on,

543
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: we all know what to say. Sometimes people are angry

544
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: and you have to talk them off the ledge a

545
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: little bit. And so the wife is now being used

546
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 2: by Satan to try to convince Job to do exactly

547
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: what Satan wants, and she literally speaks the words of Satan.

548
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: She might as well be a puppet and he the

549
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 2: puppeteer because she uses his phrase curse God and die,

550
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: because Satan's fine with him dying. If he'll just curse

551
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: God first, then he has accomplished what he wanted to

552
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 2: and that would be the end of the game. You know,

553
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 2: and so he's kind of pulling that would be the

554
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: great ending for him, and he's using the wife to

555
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,959
Speaker 2: do this. Now, this sometimes can be real difficult because

556
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 2: at this point it'd be real easy for poor, poor

557
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: pitiful me, real easy for job to think and now

558
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: my wife has also abandoned me. Wives, if you're watching this,

559
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: I know a lot of you do out there. If

560
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 2: you just understood how much influence you have over your

561
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 2: husband and when the wife is not when you're not

562
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 2: in sync with God.

563
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: You're a powerful weapon.

564
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 2: If we were all honest, Sometimes the hardest thing to

565
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 2: do is to tell you you're wrong.

566
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: That's really hard. It's no fun to have to do it.

567
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 2: But we have to love our wives enough that when

568
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: they are out of God's will, we have to love

569
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: them enough to gently, which you'll see here, rebuke them.

570
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: It's our job now as a spiritual leader, to say

571
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 2: we're not going down this road.

572
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: Okay, I saw this.

573
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: Even though Cherry was never to the point that she

574
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 2: was angry with God or cursing God, not at all,

575
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 2: nothing like that. But she was wanting and pleading to

576
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: understand everything that was going on when our son died

577
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: in earthly death, and she, frankly most of the early

578
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 2: parts of our marriage, was the spiritual leader of the

579
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 2: home because.

580
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing my job.

581
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: Now I had been redeemed, but I was still just

582
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 2: so elementary, and I was using all those excuses about

583
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 2: I don't like to read and I don't.

584
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: Like to study. This is your thing, you know.

585
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: I know that I've been justified, and I'm picking up

586
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: stuff where I can. And she was just She was

587
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: just taking a word of God and just eating the

588
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 2: bread of life and just consuming it hours on end

589
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 2: and knowing it forward and backward. And so finally, through

590
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 2: her helping me, I had come around, and by the

591
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 2: grace of Almighty God, had begun to learn. And I

592
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 2: realized that, as y'all heard me say, it many a

593
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 2: men's vent. So for some of you this is repetitive,

594
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 2: or some of you may be first. What I discovered

595
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: fellas that are watching this that use the same excuse

596
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 2: I did. I discovered that I was actually an expert

597
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: on everything I deemed a value. Somehow I developed a

598
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 2: study habit for deer hunting and fishing and football and

599
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 2: my team and my job and how to make a profit.

600
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: Somehow mister.

601
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: No study habits had figured all that out. And what

602
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 2: happened was I found a way to learn the way

603
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: I learned solely because these things I loved, these things

604
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 2: were of value. And the only reason why I didn't

605
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 2: know the Word of God was not that Sherry was

606
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 2: a better reader or had better study habits than me.

607
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 2: I didn't know this as well as she did for

608
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: a while because she loved it and I didn't.

609
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: That's what it was.

610
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 2: Because everything that I loved I was an expert on

611
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: and I now love the Word of God, so I

612
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: know it. You know, it's supernatural. You can't make any

613
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 2: excuse for not knowing it. So, by the grace of

614
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: Almighty God, that had taken place. Because what happened is

615
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 2: I kind of was naive as Job may have been here, because.

616
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure his wife was solid if he was.

617
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 2: I kind of was naive that Sherry had all the

618
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: answers and really didn't need me, and I was wrong

619
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 2: about that. She might have known them, but she needed

620
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: to be reminded of them. And I remember, you know,

621
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 2: even because you know, guys, we're always like, okay, we're

622
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: there now, right, we know everything? We got it now

623
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 2: we're going now, we're going work, and I would come home.

624
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 2: I'd gone back to work, maybe quicker than I should have.

625
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: And I came home and she was in the floor

626
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 2: the kitchen, just weeping and wailing, as you can imagine.

627
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 2: And it was only, you know, maybe three or four

628
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: weeks after the incident, and she just looked up at me,

629
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 2: this powerful woman of God who knows the Bible from

630
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 2: the beginning to the end. If you've never read her

631
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 2: writings or never seen her Bible studies, I mean she

632
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 2: writes curriculum now even for our church. She knows the

633
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 2: word of God. But she looked up in her moment

634
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 2: of mourning and anguish and said, tell me again why

635
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 2: this happened. Tell me what God is doing. And I'm like, well,

636
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 2: she knows that. And I foolishly said, you know that,

637
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 2: we've been through this, you know it, and I've told

638
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: you to it. He replied, but then you tell me again,

639
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 2: and you may have to tell me again and again

640
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: and again, tell me again.

641
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: You know what that was. Do your job.

642
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: And so we went through it again and as many

643
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 2: times as it takes. And so here job is kind

644
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: of expecting that, and he doesn't get it. I mean,

645
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 2: what if I'd come home that day and looked at Sherry,

646
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 2: Imagine how she would have felt him. I said, I'd

647
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: tell you, well, why don't we just curse God and

648
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 2: die about this? Do you think that's what she was

649
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 2: looking for that day? No, And that wasn't what he

650
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 2: was looking for either, because Sherry has come back and

651
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 2: ministered to me when I needed it. You know, it's

652
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: back and forth, back and forth. And so you know,

653
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 2: like I say, do y'all not just I just want

654
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 2: to just scream when people.

655
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: Say, you know, marriage is fifty to fifty.

656
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 2: It's not fifty to fifty. Some days it's ninety ten.

657
00:37:55,520 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 2: Some days it's eighty, twenty, seventy, thirty, sixty forty. It's

658
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: rarely ever fifty to fifty. Somebody is picking the other

659
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 2: one up most of the time. You know, we don't

660
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 2: share it equally. We both come through for each other

661
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 2: when the other one needs it, Okay, And so in

662
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 2: this case, it's it's not happening.

663
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: Now.

664
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: Remember right here, when you hear what Job's response is,

665
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 2: don't misunderstand him, because he has a word here that

666
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: all of us as men should take a note of okay,

667
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: if you ever find ourselves in this situation. But Tien,

668
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: he said to her, you speak as one of the

669
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 2: foolish women. Not you're a foolish woman. What you're saying

670
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 2: it should only be said by a foolish woman, which

671
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 2: you're not very smart of job right here, Okay, don't

672
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 2: ever read this that he calls his wife a foolish woman.

673
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: He doesn't.

674
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 2: He says, what you're saying would only be said by

675
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 2: foolish woman. You sound like a foolish woman, not that you.

676
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: You are a foolish woman. You sound like one. Okay,

677
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: So he says that you speak as one of the

678
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: foolish women would speak, not that. See, this is not

679
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: like you. This is not you. You don't talk like this.

680
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 2: That's crucial. Shall we receive good from God? And shall

681
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 2: we not receive evil? And here it comes again, and

682
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 2: all this Job did not sin.

683
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: With his lips.

684
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 2: So you speak like a foolish woman would not that

685
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: you are a foolish woman.

686
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: That's a big difference. Then he reminds her of what

687
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: the faith that she once embraced. Remember, don't ever forget,

688
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: don't ever be afraid to do that.

689
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 2: A wait a minute, Now, I thought we were always

690
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: God is always faithful. I thought we always said that.

691
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 2: You know, we can't just praise God for when he's good,

692
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 2: we define it as good. He's always being good, whether

693
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 2: we think he is or not. But how when he

694
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 2: does something we don't like? So now we're going to

695
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 2: abandon him. I thought we always agreed. That wasn't what

696
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 2: we did. He's reminding her. He's reminding her of the

697
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: faith that she probably has. She's just in a bad

698
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: space right now, and he's trying to get her back

699
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 2: to it. Don't forget what we say about God, don't

700
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: forget what we know. You ever do that, you ever

701
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: have to go back and go No, wait a minute.

702
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 2: I know that you're good, You've proven your good. Why

703
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 2: am I for a moment thinking suddenly you've changed your character,

704
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 2: You've changed your integrity. You're still the same God. I

705
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 2: know who you are, I know your character, I know

706
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 2: your integrity, I know everything about you. So you must

707
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 2: be doing this for my good. So show me what

708
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 2: you're doing. I don't like it, but I don't want

709
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: to waste it. I want to learn that's been me

710
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 2: every time I struggle. I'm at Lord Let's learn it.

711
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 2: I don't want to have to go back and do

712
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 2: this again. Let's learn. And so that's what he's reminding

713
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 2: her of, that God is in this and look at

714
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 2: this and all this job did not sin with his lips.

715
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 2: And you know what he says, And boy, this flies

716
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 2: in the face of the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel,

717
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 2: which you know I'm a big fan of.

718
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: You know what he's saying.

719
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 2: Don't be fooled into believing things about God that aren't true.

720
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 2: That's all right, now, don't be fooled into believing things

721
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 2: about God that we know aren't true. So is God

722
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: supposed to make me healthy and wealthy? Is God supposed

723
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 2: to always provide for me pleasure and happiness?

724
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: Has that ever really been the goal? No? Now, I'm

725
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: thankful when He does that.

726
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 2: I'm thankful when I am blessed, and I'm thankful when

727
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: things go well, and I'm thankful when I have a

728
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 2: good day. But has God ever promised me that every

729
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 2: day will be good? As a matter of fact, I mean,

730
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 2: we are lives because of sin. Our lives are automobiles,

731
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 2: and what do we know about an automobile. I'm thankful

732
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 2: for all of you out there in the car business.

733
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 2: But I'm just going to say something that we know

734
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 2: to be true. The minute I drive off the lot,

735
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 2: that car is not worth the money I paid for it.

736
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 2: It's in decline. When we're born, as soon as we

737
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 2: start living a few days, we are now in decline.

738
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: We are all dying, every one of us, and some

739
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 2: of us can feel it. And you know, so, He's like,

740
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 2: that was never promised to me that I'd never be sick,

741
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 2: that i'd never die, that I would never physically have difficulty,

742
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 2: that I was never It was never promised me that

743
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 2: I'd always be wealthy. It was never promised to me

744
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 2: i'd always have my kids. God never promised any of this.

745
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: God's really said, I'm willing to forgive you, I'm willing

746
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 2: to show grace. I'm willing to show mercy and not

747
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 2: hold it against you for eternity. But all this other

748
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: stuff is not promised. It's not part of the deal.

749
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 2: God is God no matter what he does, and he's

750
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 2: worthy of praise because of what he's ultimately done. He's

751
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 2: overcome sin and death that we all deserve. What beef

752
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 2: do we have with him? Can you imagine running up

753
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: to God and say I didn't like the way it

754
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 2: went with that job interview today, And God says, you

755
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: do realize you were supposed to go to hell, right?

756
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 2: And I took on human flesh and was a mockery

757
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 2: for you. Suck it up, we'll find another job. What

758
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 2: beef do you have with me? I have no beef

759
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 2: with him. You've heard me say it before. I'm surprised

760
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 2: how gracious he's.

761
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: Been to me.

762
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 2: His wrath makes perfect sense to me. If I was

763
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 2: writing a script, it'd be all wrath. What I'm perplexed

764
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 2: by is is grace and mercy, And job is reminding

765
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: you wife of that.

766
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: Well, here come to friends, and boy, they're about to

767
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: be the star of the show. Here in a minute.

768
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 2: He thinks it's been bad now, but they start off good.

769
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 2: So let's look. He's in the middle of misery physically, emotionally, spiritually,

770
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 2: and he reaffirms his faith. Shall we accept good from

771
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 2: God and not trouble? So we only thank God and

772
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: love him when we get our way. Love what he

773
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: says right here, whose accusation was that Satan's? He quotes

774
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: against Satan's accusation. Satan said he only loves you because

775
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 2: you take care of him. Job comes back and says.

776
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: Do we just love him when he takes care of us?

777
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 2: He takes Satan's words and put him right back in

778
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 2: his face. This is the accusation that Satan made. Now

779
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 2: you think Satan's gonna say, well, you got me. No,

780
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 2: he's relentless. So now he he gives Satan's words back

781
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 2: to him. Now, keep in mind, don't ever lose sight

782
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 2: of this when you're studying the Book of Job, because

783
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 2: it is crucial. You can't study the Book of Job

784
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,720
Speaker 2: thinking Job knows what we know. He doesn't. He doesn't

785
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 2: know about these meetings. He doesn't know about these conversations.

786
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 2: He doesn't know about these accusations. He's passing the test

787
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 2: knowing none of this. He didn't know he was giving

788
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 2: Satan's words back to him. He don't know what Satan said.

789
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: He's not in on all this. That's crucial to understand

790
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 2: when you're studying this. Okay, he never knew the accusation

791
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 2: was even made. He did not sin with his lips,

792
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 2: He did not curse God. So right now, those of

793
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 2: us that love a little sport, job too, Satan zero. Okay,

794
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: but now what some have said in its own way,

795
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 2: probably emotionally, I don't know.

796
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: The wife's pretty strong.

797
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 2: But the most devastating assault is about to be set

798
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 2: because he has three friends that show up. We think

799
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 2: these are likely three of his closest friends, and they

800
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 2: heard of the trouble.

801
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: We don't know how. Now when Job's.

802
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 2: Three friends, this is verse eleven, heard all of this evil,

803
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: we don't know how they heard it. They had come

804
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 2: upon him. They came each from his own place. We've

805
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 2: got Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bill Dad, the shoe height and

806
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 2: so far the Namathite.

807
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: Now these three characters.

808
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: Are we don't really know much about them except Elephas.

809
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 2: We think that he came from the area of Edom,

810
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 2: southeast of the Dead Sea, about one hundred mile journey.

811
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 2: It's a long way for him to get there. So

812
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 2: this kind of gives you some idea. Maybe this has

813
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,399
Speaker 2: been going on a while. And then we we see

814
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 2: where Bill Dad came from. But nowhere else in scripture

815
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 2: do we see shuah uh we it's unknown, so far

816
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 2: nameth we we really it's unique to the book of

817
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: Job two. It's it's it's unknown. But this word means

818
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 2: pleasant must have been a nice place, So these places

819
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 2: obviously got named something different later. We don't really know

820
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 2: where those two are or where they would be modern

821
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 2: day we we we do know where uh Tammon is

822
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 2: uh and and and eat them. So they seem to

823
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 2: meet together by almost like an appointment, that they all

824
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 2: arrived together. Uh three three things they seem to want

825
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 2: to do uh and And the good news is it

826
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 2: looks like they start off pretty good. Says they made

827
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 2: an appointment together, so we have that to come to

828
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,479
Speaker 2: show him sympathy and comfort him. So we that that's

829
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 2: their goal, to show him sympathy and comfort him. And

830
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 2: when they saw him from a distance, they did not

831
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 2: recognize him.

832
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: That's how bad he looked.

833
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 2: And they raised their voices, and they wept, and they

834
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.

835
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 2: And they sat down with him on the ground seven

836
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 2: days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word

837
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 2: to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

838
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 2: So sympathy and comfort seems to be why they were coming.

839
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 2: They all agreed to get there at the same time.

840
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:30,959
Speaker 1: Verse twelve.

841
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 2: They couldn't recognize him and it was so horrifying to

842
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 2: see him and shocking that they lifted their voices and

843
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 2: they wept, They tore their robes and sprinkled dust on

844
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: their heads. All of this represents grief. And then another

845
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 2: thing in thirteen that they sat with him that's important.

846
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 2: Sitting shows humility and sorrow. Sitting with him is significant.

847
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 2: They just were there for him seven days of morning.

848
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: They didn't say anything. There were no words, that they

849
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: were just with him.

850
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 2: And unfortunately they're going to break that silence when we

851
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 2: get back, and you'll kind of wish they would just

852
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 2: be quiet again. But right now, let's just concentrate on now.

853
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 2: What they're doing right now is good. I hope you

854
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: have these kind of friends. I have friends like this

855
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 2: that in time of trouble, you're going to see them.

856
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 2: And sometimes I don't know, if you've ever been in

857
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,439
Speaker 2: a situation where there's people that you thought you would

858
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 2: see and you never did. If you want to find

859
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 2: out where your friends are go through calamity, sometimes it's

860
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 2: too difficult for people and they and they shy away

861
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 2: from it. I remember, I can think in my mind

862
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 2: right now easily the closest friends that I have and

863
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: and sometimes you know, a calamity happens that that that's public.

864
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 1: So then you really.

865
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 2: See a lot of different aspects and I've had those,

866
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 2: I'm sure you all have to. And then you have

867
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 2: sometimes a calamity that only these friends know about, the

868
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 2: closest of the close. And it was one of the

869
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 2: coolest things I saw in something that happened in the

870
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 2: last couple of years. And it was not a public thing,

871
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,439
Speaker 2: it was not some big announcement, but it was extremely

872
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 2: difficult and I did I didn't want it to be.

873
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: Public or anything like that. Sometimes there's you can't.

874
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 2: Help it, and it was difficult, and I wasn't sure

875
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 2: how it was going to end. And I got I

876
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 2: came home and one of my closest, dearest brothers was

877
00:50:56,200 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 2: in my driveway, but there was more. He had a

878
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 2: suitcase and he said, I won't leave until this is resolved,

879
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 2: or you tell me to leave. My wife knows I

880
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: won't be coming back until this is resolved. I'm gonna

881
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 2: sit with you. And I thought, Wow, what a blessing

882
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 2: to have a friend like that. And he just said,

883
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: whatever I need to do, if nothing else, just knowing

884
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 2: that I'm here and if that's all I do, that's

885
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 2: all I do, and that's what's happening here. These guys

886
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 2: came from a long way. In the first seven days,

887
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 2: they just said, we'll just sit with you, and we'll

888
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 2: mourn with you, and we'll weep with you. And I

889
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 2: hope you have those kind of friends. So many times

890
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,800
Speaker 2: there are the hands and feet of that wonderful psalm

891
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 2: when it says God is near to the broken hearted.

892
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 2: So many times you certainly feel his presence, but He

893
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 2: also does it through physical people, and sometimes you just

894
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 2: need to be with people. I struggle with that sometimes

895
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 2: because I tend to want to try to get to

896
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 2: the bottom of it, and sometimes I just need to

897
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 2: be quite quiet and just sit a minute and let's

898
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 2: just be with each other, and there'll be time enough

899
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 2: for us trying to work it out.

900
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: So he's got that right now.

901
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 2: Now, these guys are going to mess up, and there's

902
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 2: going to be an attack coming when there's silence breaks,

903
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 2: and it's going to be heartbreaking. But why don't we

904
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 2: just end this week with them in the right place,

905
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 2: and let's learn for what they're doing right this week,

906
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 2: and then we'll start unpacking what they did wrong coming

907
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 2: up in the weeks ahead. So just know though at

908
00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 2: this time, that Joe continues to pass the test, and

909
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 2: now he's going to be allowed another test that when

910
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 2: I look at it, I even wonder sometimes, and I've

911
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 2: been through Job a number of times, being taught to

912
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 2: me and then studying it, I wonder if what they're

913
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 2: about to do they even needed Satan. I don't even

914
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:32,920
Speaker 2: know how much he's involved this next part. They may

915
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 2: just fumble this.

916
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: On their own.

917
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 2: And you've ever been like, want something to happen, and

918
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 2: you're like, wow, I didn't even have that plan that

919
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 2: kind of fell in place for me.

920
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: We'll study and see what we think about that.

921
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 2: But at this time, let's just remember that Job is

922
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 2: an example of being correct in the response to suffering.

923
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: He is correct in the response to a wife that

924
00:53:58,040 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 1: needs some help.

925
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 2: And right now his friends are correct and showing up

926
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 2: and all getting together saying Job needs us, and being

927
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 2: there for him and sitting with him during his time

928
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 2: of struggle.

929
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: So let's take those three and let's close.

930
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: Lord, thank you for today, thank you for your incredible word,

931
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: thank you for this example, thank you for so much

932
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 2: that you're teaching right now. And some of these things

933
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 2: are difficult, but thank you for because of who you are,

934
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: the difficulty just kind of seems to dissipate in how

935
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 2: wonderful you are and that comfort that you haven't left us,

936
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 2: and you are near to the broken heart and you

937
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 2: haven't gone anywhere.

938
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: You're right in the middle of it.

939
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 2: And I pray Lord that we apply that to the lives,

940
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 2: because I know in this room right here, there's a

941
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 2: lot of people been I know. I see their faces,

942
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 2: I know their stories. They've been through a lot, and

943
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 2: you can see them nod and going yep. This is

944
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 2: the same God that I know. And if you're out

945
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 2: there right now and you're hurting, you're struggling, and maybe

946
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 2: you don't have those the kind of friends that say

947
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 2: I'm just here. You've got a friend in Jesus. I

948
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 2: promise you. You've got a friend in the Holy Spirit.

949
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 2: I promise you. You've got a friend in God the Father.

950
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 2: I promise you, and they'll never leave you. And it's

951
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,920
Speaker 2: in the Holy name of God we pray Amen.