1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. Hello there, I'm Rick Burgess. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us, whether you are here 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: in the room. Hello to all the men that are 4 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: always here with us. And then those of you men 5 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: and women who are out there, either live or are 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 1: catching an archive. We are studying the Book of Job. 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: We have been hanging out in the studio of my 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 1: day job for about a decade. Now. I am the 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: host of the Rick Burgess Show, and that's my day 10 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: job Monday through Friday. 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Today we're going to 55 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: be in Job chapter thirty seven, and we'll tell you 56 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: exactly what this entails after we say a word to 57 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: the Lord to join us. Lord, thank you for today, 58 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: Thank you again for everybody who's made this a priority 59 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: to join together to study your Holy Word. May the 60 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit be with us. May your 61 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: discernment be the filter that we view this through today. 62 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: Help us to apply it to our own lives, Lord, 63 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: and to be able to use this to also help 64 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: others to know more about who you are and your 65 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: holy name. We pray Amen. Well, so I got to 66 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: I get texts a lot from you guys, in questions 67 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: and emails, and so this is one of my dear friends. 68 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: I won't give his name. We have known each other 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: for over forty years. And he doesn't live close enough 70 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: to be able to come here. He lives far away, 71 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: but he gets the Bible study every single week on Monday. 72 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: The following text from him. So, I'm getting tired of 73 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: Big Hugh a lot starting to get on my nerves, 74 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: and but you're making me stay with it, really enjoying 75 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: the study. Thank you for the job you're doing. I 76 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: know a lot of you probably share that. I'm getting 77 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: kind of tired of these guys they have they've been 78 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: rattling on with job now a lie who's been rattling 79 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: on and and we're all getting a little tired of them. 80 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: So I have good news. We're done with them today. 81 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: So this this will be the last speech from the 82 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: so called friends. But as we said last week, we're 83 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: continuing with the lie WHU this week. What he was saying, 84 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: we didn't have time to get all that in in 85 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: one hour last week. But what he is doing without 86 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: I think being conscious of it. He is setting up 87 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 1: the arrival of God, which comes next week. So if 88 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: the Lord allows us to get together next week, to 89 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: me in my Bible and a lot of you, a 90 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: lot of you ask this my preference as far as studying, 91 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: I like the ESV. I know that I may be 92 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: behind the times. We've got a lot of people have 93 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: moved on to the new American standard. And there's nothing 94 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: wrong with that. King James perfectly find the new King 95 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: James perfectly fine. N I V. Be careful with that 96 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 1: a little bit, be sure. It's one of the later 97 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: interpretations of the NIV. But you know, and the message 98 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: is is a is a paraphrase. It's not a study Bible, 99 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: but it can be a beneficial resource. But ESV is 100 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: the one I like because I learned I'm more of 101 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: a literal learner, even though it's not as poetic and 102 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: not as beautiful. I like the This is the Hebrew, 103 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: this is the Greek, this is the English, and it 104 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: still has its you know, sometimes it can get a 105 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: little a little clunky, but it is my my favorite 106 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: English translation. So anyway, one thing that my Bible says 107 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: about next week, and it just it gives me chills 108 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: to read. It is chapter thirty eight above it mine 109 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: says the Lord answers Joe. That's that's a big deal. 110 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: So that so that's coming up and that'll be the 111 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: rest of our study until we're done. I have also 112 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: decided what we're gonna do next. So thank you for 113 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: all your feedback. Uh and I have prayed over this, 114 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: and I really since you know, we've done a lot 115 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: of Old Testament, which I love, I really feel the 116 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: Lord calling us back to the New Testament for the 117 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: next round, and the powerful letters from the apostle Paul, 118 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: but the ones that he wrote while he was incarcerated. 119 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: So we're going to do Paul's letters from jail, and 120 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: we're just going to go through all of them over 121 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: the next couple of years. So uh so we'll I'll 122 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: let you know which one we'll start with as we 123 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: get to the end of this. I mean, just the 124 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: Die of Ephesians alone is going to just be meedy, 125 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: so uh so we'll, uh we'll we'll talk about that 126 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: a little bit later on. So today we have a 127 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: lie who that is going to continue to proclaim to 128 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: job God's majesty. Last week he talked about God's greatness. 129 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: Now this is going to be more about the majesty 130 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: of God. Don't don't you see this? Job? Don't you 131 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: know this? And a lot of what he said last 132 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: week and a lot of what he's going to say 133 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: this week are some of the very things that God's 134 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: going to say about himself. And when he questions job 135 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: or answers job coming up next week. So remember when 136 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: we left last week, the analogy of storms show you 137 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: how powerful God is. Well, this just kind of continues on. 138 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: This is all one speech. It continues on into thirty 139 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: seven and Ali who says and this referring back to 140 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: the storm analogy, right, okay, remember back to last week. 141 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: At this the storm analogy, also my heart trembles and 142 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: leaps out of its place. So remember that's finishing what 143 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: he said in thirty three of thirty six. He was 144 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: talking about the crashing of the storm declares God's presence. 145 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: The cattle also declared that he rises, meaning not only 146 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: do they represent the animal kingdom which God is going 147 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: to talk about, they also react to a storm. If 148 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: you've ever seen livestock do that. And then a lie 149 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: who says, not only does does does does live stock 150 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: respond to the trembling at the sound of one of 151 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: these storms, My heart himself also trembles and leaps out 152 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: of its place. Storms can be frightening. Anybody ever been 153 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: in one of those? Hey storms? They can be frightening, 154 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: you know, he said, Humans including me and animals alike, 155 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: jump when with their hearts pounding at an approaching storm. 156 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: If you've ever been in a show enough storm, and 157 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: like I say, as of us recording this, when this 158 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: happened or when we did it live? You know, a 159 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: Category five hurricane has ripped through Jamaica and going on 160 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: to Cuba and even did some damage and killed some 161 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: people in the Dominican And if you want to really 162 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: know your place as a human being, just face a storm. 163 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: You feel pretty insignificant. Uh. You really don't have a 164 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: whole lot of recourse other than take shelter and hope. 165 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: And if you've ever been in anything like a hurricane, 166 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: or have you ever been in a tornado, which I have, 167 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: it is unforgettable. Uh, And I can I can still 168 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: remember the tornado that I was in. I can still 169 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: remember it. I can still remember watching I was in 170 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: a civic center. Uh, and watching the lights begin to 171 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: shake like this, and feeling the pressure in my ear 172 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: and just watching the side of it come off and 173 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: and and the rains start coming in on top of everybody. 174 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,719 Speaker 1: And I remember seeing and and there was like a 175 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: shed that was behind the civic center that had tractors 176 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: and you know, lawn equipment and all this stuff in it. 177 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: And it was just that storm took it and just 178 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: tossed it like it was nothing. And uh, and you realize, 179 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: and you know, if you've ever seen, you know, pine 180 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: needles go through trees because of the force of the winds, 181 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 1: you know that us compared to whether we have no 182 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: recourse other than take shelter and to be in awe 183 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: of its power. So this is exactly what Ali who 184 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 1: is talking about. So he goes on in verse two. 185 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the 186 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: rumbling that comes from his mouth. Listen to his power job, 187 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: Listen to his voice, Listen to the rumbling that's following 188 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: the original clap of thunder. Just rumbles you ever heard of, 189 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: just rumble and rumble on, almost like there's something falling 190 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: down steps or something. And it almost sounds like, you 191 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: can see how some of the people that didn't believe 192 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: in God, the Pagans, thought it was something going on 193 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: in the heavens above them, things falling, things rolling, And 194 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 1: it really does sound like that. And so this is 195 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: Ali who's saying. The bottom line is he's trying to say, Job, 196 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: you got to be real careful with this questioning of God. 197 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: Who are you to question him? Which God will say 198 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: himself Verse three. Under the whole heaven, he lets it 199 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: go and is lightning to the corners of the earth, 200 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: heaven and earth. These storms seem to extend to the 201 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: ends of the earth. It's an impressive sight. Job, just 202 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: look at his majesty. If you can overcome the fear 203 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: that you get when you have a storm, if you 204 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: can just get the fear out and stand and just look, 205 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: you have to be in awe of what he creates. 206 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: And I remember my dad was that way. My dad 207 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 1: was always somebody that like, if we were at the 208 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: beach and a storm was coming, he was gonna go 209 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: out and look at it. He wanted to watch it. 210 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: And you know, if you can ever feel safe and 211 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: be far enough away, the beach is a great place 212 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 1: to do it. Because you got you're not in so 213 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: much danger, but you can still see it. Some of 214 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:55,959 Speaker 1: y'all that live or are watching listen to this. You 215 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: live in different places where we live. If you're not 216 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: at the Gulf coast. Uh, it's hard to see them. 217 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: We have so many hills and so many trees, and 218 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: it's a little bit daunting because it's all around us. 219 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes we can't lay eyes on it because of the 220 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: the topocryphy and and and the landscape. But but those 221 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: of you that can see for a long way, you 222 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: a lot of times can sit and watch them. Uh, 223 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: and it's it's impressive. And so this is a lit 224 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 1: who's saying, if you can overcome the fear, just just 225 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: notice what what is going on here? Uh. And then 226 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: and then he says, you know, for it's the same 227 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: thing after it his his voice roars, he thunders with 228 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,719 Speaker 1: the his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the 229 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: lightning when his voice is heard. You know, I did 230 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: some some research on this because this is all about weather, 231 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,719 Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of surprising how much they do 232 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: seem to know about weather. But they were talking about 233 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: lightning because you know, when Alla who is writing this. 234 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: They don't know the things that we know now about weather. However, 235 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: did you know even now? And I didn't know this, Uh, 236 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 1: But I studied this to find out that even though 237 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:09,599 Speaker 1: we know how thunder and lightning is created in you know, 238 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: in general, we still have found that there's a randomness 239 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: to it. We can't quite still pinpoint when it's going 240 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: to lightning and where it's going to lightning. Still can't 241 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,719 Speaker 1: quite figure that out. Uh. And so this is what 242 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: Ali who is talking about. He said, you know, He's 243 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: going to decide where it goes. Uh. And he's going 244 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: to be the one ultimately that God's you know what 245 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: happens with these storms. And it gets back to a 246 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: deeper point, guys and ladies out there, a deeper point, 247 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: back to the death of Job's children. It was a 248 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: storm that killed them. It was God who drew the lines, 249 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: and it was Satan that said, I'm gonna work within 250 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: the boundaries that you give me, including killing his children. 251 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: And we know that the scriptures, and it seems like 252 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: these people were aware of this talk about God's control 253 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 1: of the weather. Uh. And you start thinking, okay, so 254 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: it is Satan able to take the weather if allowed 255 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: by God and do destructive things with it? Are as 256 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: God doing destructive things with it? For certainly he can 257 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: stop it. You know, is what what what exactly happened there? 258 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: What was it God that said part of my removal 259 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: of a boundary is that I will create a storm 260 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: that will kill Job's children? Are is Satan also able 261 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: to take hold of weather if allowed by God and 262 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: do terrible things with it? We know God's sovereign. We're 263 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: going to get into that more. But uh, and it's 264 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: certainly what we're talking about is semantics to a degree, 265 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: but it is it's incredibly interesting to think of that. 266 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: We know that you know that that Lucifer has supernatural power. 267 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: We know that as the highest ranking angel, a big 268 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: gap between between him and the God that created him. 269 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: But there's no doubt there's a supernatural nature to him. 270 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: There's no doubt that when he was trying to give 271 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: Jesus things that of course Jesus already had, but at 272 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: the time he had the ability to do things if 273 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: Jesus would ever fall for the temptation. So it's a 274 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: it's an interesting dynamic. So but you can imagine the 275 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: way Job must be feeling. Uh And This is just 276 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: me speculating. But again, it's all right to speculate when 277 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: you teach the Bible, as long as you tell everybody 278 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: you're speculating. What it must feel like for Allihu to 279 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: be using storms in his analogy, when a storm killed 280 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: all of Job's children. This must be a difficult thing 281 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: to keep hearing, because what Joe, what what Elihu is 282 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: ultimately saying is God did this to you because you're 283 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: holding something you're not telling us. So he continues on, 284 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: I don't think he just grabbed this randomly, And then 285 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: of course we get into five. God thunders wondrously with 286 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: his voice. He does great things that we cannot comprehend. 287 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: He does incredible, wonderful things. Job, his majesty is so 288 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: very evident. Just look at creation, at the power of God. 289 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: And I want to get specific. Job. I don't want 290 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: you just to look at all the creation right now. 291 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: I want you to look at a storm. I want 292 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: you to see it. I want you to know that 293 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: he does that. Again. This must be a difficult conversation, 294 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: and Job at this point appears to be pretty beat 295 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 1: down because he isn't responding anymore and hasn't responded in 296 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: a while. Verse six, And this is interesting that we 297 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: go winter weather now. He's going to transition now and 298 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: he's going to move to winter, snow and rain, all 299 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: being controlled by God. He says that. For to the snow, 300 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: he says, fall on the earth. Likewise to the downpour, 301 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: his mighty downpour. He's saying, Look, if it rains or 302 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: it snows, God's the one that creates it. God's the 303 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: one that tells it where to go, and it does 304 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: whatever he says. And the only thing, back to what 305 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,159 Speaker 1: I said at the beginning, we can do is seek shelter. 306 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: Look at this in verse seven, he seals up the 307 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: hand of every man, that all men whom he made 308 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 1: may know it. He's so powerful. If he sends weather 309 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: that is so powerful, humans can't do anything about it 310 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 1: but take cover. They need shelter. They've got to. They 311 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: can't stop what he's doing. They can only take shelter 312 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: against it. Can anybody in here stop? I mean those 313 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: of us, Keep in mind those out there in different places. 314 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,160 Speaker 1: I'm talking to a bunch of Southerners. You talk about 315 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 1: some people that freak out there and winter weather. It's 316 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: a freak show in here. We don't know what to 317 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: do with it. Okay, we don't know how to drive 318 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: in it. We don't have we don't have any equipment 319 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: for it. And you can take winter weather and you 320 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: can shut our whole society down with very little of it. 321 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: But the reason why is there's nothing we can do 322 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: to stop it. I mean, have any of you ever 323 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: ever had a storm or weather ruined your plans? Were 324 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: you able to just say, well, I can't have a 325 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: snowstorm this weekend, we got plans. I can't take rain 326 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: today because I've got plans, So I'm just gonna I'm 327 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: gonna stop it from raining so we can do our thing. Now, 328 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: what do you do? You either cancel it or if 329 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: it's rain, you find a way to be sheltered from it. Right, 330 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: my wife has an ideal with the world's greatest pergola 331 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: that we're going to do Thanksgiving outdoors. And you know 332 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: what I said, we'll see because you know, if God 333 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: decides not going outdoors, there's nothing we can really do 334 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: about it. So this is the point. And then he 335 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: just doubles down and said animals are in the same place. 336 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: That's all This next verse says, then the beasts go 337 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: into their layers and remain in their dens. Even the 338 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: animals go, we just got to go take cover till 339 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: this weather's over. There's nothing we can really do about it. 340 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: So God controls weather animals and humans can't, showing that 341 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: the difference between the two using this analogy verse nine, 342 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the 343 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: scattering winds now. Verse nine is interesting, isn't it? So 344 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: look over at chapter thirty eight. I'm gonna let you cheat. 345 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: Look ahead the next week. Look at verse one. When 346 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: God arrives. Then the Lord answered, job out of the whirlwind, 347 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: So he says, look, it's chamber. From its chamber comes 348 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. Wind and cold, 349 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: driving winds, scattering winds. All of these things show God's power. 350 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: Do you remember Jesus even talking to Nicodemus about the 351 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 1: wind when he was trying to ask about how about 352 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: being born again? And he's talking about all these things. 353 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: He goes, well, you know, you feel the wind, but 354 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: you don't see it. He's talking about the spirit of God. 355 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: When the wind comes, you feel it, but you can't 356 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: see it. Where does it come from? How's it created. 357 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: And so he's saying, all this wind, all this cold, 358 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: any of this is showing the power of God. Verse ten. 359 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: By the breath of God, ice is given and the 360 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: broad waters are frozen fast. God freezes rain if he 361 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 1: wants to, He freezes water. And what does he have 362 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: to do if he wants to freeze an entire lake? 363 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: What he do? He just got to use his breath 364 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: if he wants to take rain and say, right now 365 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: that rains ice, it's just his breath. That's how easy 366 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: that is to him. Weather is nothing for him. He 367 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: can change it, he can create it. Verse eleven. He 368 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: loads the thick cloud with moisture. The clouds scatter his lightning. 369 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: Water evaporates loading the clouds, the clouds carry lightning, et cetera. 370 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: There's two things clouds do at his command, and they 371 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: either create They either fill up with water are are 372 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: are lightning. And that's the thing that science can't figure out. 373 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: Science says, I can tell you how rain is made. Yeah, 374 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: but can you tell us who started the system? Well, 375 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: water evaporates into the clouds. How who gave it the 376 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: power to a app? Who created evaporation? You know, it's 377 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: kind of like these people say, well, everything had to 378 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: have a beginning. Well, yeah, he's what was he called himself. 379 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: I'm the beginning and I'm the end. So where did 380 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 1: everything begin? God? Granddaddy, Daddy who created God? No one, Well, 381 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: there has to be beginning. He is the beginning. You know, 382 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: everything has to have a creator. Yeah, that's who he is. 383 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: All things are created from him. So no matter what 384 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: we know about science and science at one time when 385 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: we all had some sense, until we all got too 386 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: smart for our own good. At one time even scientists 387 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: were just pursuing God revealing how he did things in nature. 388 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: And then suddenly it became maud, if you are a 389 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: true scientist, you have to believe God is not doing 390 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: any of this. Which that was the decision we all 391 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,160 Speaker 1: made to say, instead of showing how enlightened we could 392 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: be by looking for God and what he will reveal, 393 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: we said, no, let's change that, and let's show how 394 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: stupid we can be and know everything we know about 395 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 1: science and say that actually said there isn't a God. 396 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: But at one time we had enough wisdom to know 397 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,680 Speaker 1: it shows us there is a God. Then we decided 398 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: to throw all that wisdom out and show how stupid. 399 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: We could be and say that science and God do 400 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: not coexist, which is completely incorrect. So anyway, so then 401 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: he's going to talk about God being sovereign over the weather. 402 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: Look at twelve. They turn around and around by his 403 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: guidance to accomplish all that he commands them on the 404 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: face of the habit of world. So wherever people can live, 405 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: wherever people can have habitat, no matter where. That is 406 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: everything that's going on. God is sovereign over weather. By implication, 407 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: he moves weather to do whatever he pleases. So when 408 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: and keep that in mind, because this is this is 409 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: sometimes that rub, that tension that you know, we would 410 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: call it the rub where I'm from, but if you're 411 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: in the seminary, they'd call it tension. This is that 412 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: tension that if God controls weather even you know, because 413 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: what we tend to do is say, oh, praise God, 414 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: the tornado passes by, and and then you find yourself going, well, 415 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: you don't think anybod had faith that prayed for it 416 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: as well and it didn't pass them by. Do you 417 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: think you have more faith than them? So your prayer 418 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 1: moved God, but their prayer didn't. Now we should pray 419 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: and like I say, even in the very week that 420 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: I speak to you, in the last seventy two hours, 421 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: I watched God move in a supernatural way involving my 422 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: prayer life in the last seventy two hours, So he 423 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,959 Speaker 1: certainly does. I just want us to understand that if 424 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: God's sovereign over the weather, there is an uncomfortable question 425 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: that you have to ask if you're willing to be 426 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: bold enough to have this kind of faith and have 427 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: it tested. As Scripture tells us that whatever happened with 428 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: me involving weather, God was sovereign over it because he 429 00:24:53,960 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: could stop it. So if he doesn't, then he allowed 430 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: out it or he even caused it, So then it's 431 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: more important to go. I want now let's learn to 432 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 1: see if I can learn why, because there's always He's 433 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 1: not just doing it randomly, and there's many reasons it 434 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:18,159 Speaker 1: could be. So, So anyway, should we pray? Absolutely? Can 435 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: God be gracious and merciful to our pleadings? Yes? Does 436 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: he want us to bring our petitions to him? Absolutely? 437 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: There's Jesus for the Redeemed that he said he even 438 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 1: you know, is an advocate before our needs, before the Father. 439 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: So all that's important. But we also must have the 440 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: faith and understand that the truths of God are still 441 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: the same. Even if it doesn't go the way that 442 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: we wanted it to go. That doesn't change him and 443 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: make him any less great. So next he's gonna shift 444 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 1: and say, now, Job, this is the application to you. 445 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is here's how it applies to you, 446 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: Job fourteen through eighteen. He comes back and he says, 447 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: on the sovereign part, let's hit that real quick in 448 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: thirteen because I skipped it. Whether for correction or for 449 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: his land or for love, he causes it to happen, everybody, Okay, 450 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: what causes? Everybody? Okay? What causes for whatever reason, Joe, 451 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: whether it can be a curse or a blessing, whether 452 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: it can show his love or it could show his wrath. 453 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: And I would ask all of you to uncomfortably, if 454 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: it bothers you, to underline the word causes there, because 455 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: I think sometimes we're okay with allow, we're a little 456 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: more uncomfortable with causes. But right here, the best word 457 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: in English is causes. He causes it to happen, whether 458 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: for correction or for his land, are for love, he 459 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: causes it to happen and learn these things because Job's 460 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: got a lesson coming that he's gonna learn. Just because 461 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 1: you're blameless doesn't mean that you've learned everything that God 462 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: doesn't have more to teach you. Verses fourteen through eighteen. 463 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: Now here's that application. Hear this old Job. He's just 464 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: gonna call him out directly. He's gonna speak directly to Job. 465 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: He's been doing this all along, but in a special way. 466 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: He wants Job to know that these verses will be 467 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: one last effort to move Job to acknowledge the sovereignty 468 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 1: of God, which we've just had to do. This is 469 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: a lot like God's speech that's coming. Acknowledge my sovereignty 470 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: over all that I have made in all that I do. 471 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: I think we're okay. I think most of us. This 472 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: is me. I'm talking us together. I'm not talking at you. 473 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: I'm talking with you. I'm in this struggle with you. Okay. 474 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,360 Speaker 1: I still have a sin nature. I'm still being sanctified. 475 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: Yes I'm justified. I'm not yet glorified. So I'm still 476 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 1: fighting this battle with you. I'm feeling the tension along 477 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: with you. I think it's pretty easy for the redeemed 478 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 1: to say, I will acknowledge your sovereignty over everything you've created. 479 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: I'm in Are you gonna acknowledge my sovereignty over everything 480 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: that I do? I'm not there yet because some of 481 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: the things you do I don't like. Some of the 482 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: things you do I don't agree with. Of course he's perfect, 483 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: we're not. That's an arrogant statement, but it's honest. He's 484 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: not afraid to hear it because he knows it anyway. Right, 485 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: he knows it anyway. But we've got to get to 486 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: the point to where it's not just I love that 487 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: you're sovereign over everything you've made. I'm also at peace 488 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: that you're solid and over everything that you do. That's 489 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: a different things, and it is a more difficult thing. 490 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: I acknowledge that. I think you've heard me mention this 491 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: from my wife many times. I think probably the most 492 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: honest way to say it is I don't always like 493 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: how you do things. I just can't argue against the 494 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: results it produces. I acknowledge that what you're doing works. 495 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: I just didn't enjoy it. That's all right, you know, 496 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,719 Speaker 1: But but praise to you because you're doing the right 497 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: thing and it's for my own good because you discipline 498 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: and you refine the people you love because we need it. 499 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: I know I need it. You ever just get so 500 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: sick at your stomach that everything that God has taught you, 501 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: and everything that God has done for you, and the 502 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: times that He has been gracious and merciful to you 503 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: over and over again, and the times that he's taught 504 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: you don't touch that's hot. I've taught you that over 505 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: and over again, and you still do it. If if 506 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: you're a parent or a grandparent, you're in touch with 507 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: that emotion, you kind of know how that feels. But 508 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: what if you were perfect, Say, you know, my kids 509 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: didn't do everything perfectly, but they also didn't have a 510 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: perfect dad, and don't have a perfect dad. We do, ultimately, 511 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: we have a perfect father, and we still won't adhere 512 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: to his teachings. And he still comes back and says, 513 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: let's try that again. Now, one day, all that's going 514 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: to be over and he's going to be done with 515 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: let's try that again, and the church age will be 516 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: over and it'll be time for judgment and it'll be 517 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: time for glorification, which I'm looking forward to because this 518 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: fight between my sin nature and my redeemed former dead 519 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: spirit is quite an exhausting battle. But just remember, guys, 520 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,719 Speaker 1: the simplest thing I can teach you is the one 521 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 1: you've feed, is the one that use the winds. So 522 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: feed the spirit, don't feed the flesh. So anyway, here 523 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: is a lie who's saying, come on, Job, I want 524 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: you to hear this. Stop and consider the wondrous works 525 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 1: of God. Pay attention, Job, stay with me. Consider God's wonders. 526 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: Enough with speeches, consider the wonders. I think he's even saying, Look, 527 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: I know you've heard all the speeches you need to hear. 528 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: I just want you to focus on God. Listen to me. 529 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: Do you think as miserable as Job is, and as 530 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: beat down as he is, and as sick as he is, 531 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: do you think it's possible that a lie who, after 532 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: as long as he's been talking, has to look over 533 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: and say, hey, stay with me. Now, I'm almost done. 534 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: How many of you some of you are gonna laugh 535 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: because you've heard me do it. How many of you 536 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: have ever heard the preacher before? Are the teachers saying, 537 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: now I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna be done, 538 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: and they need to repent of lying. You know what 539 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: I mean, because you weren't done. Okay. You told us 540 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: to hang with you, that you were going to wrap up, 541 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: and this was your last point. You've made two more okay. 542 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: And you know it goes back to the old joke 543 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: with the little boy and his daddy, doesn't he daddy? 544 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: What does it mean when the pastor keeps looking at 545 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: his watch and the daddy said absolutely nothing? All right? 546 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: So so let's look now next fifteen? Do you know 547 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: how God lays his command upon them and causes the 548 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: lightning of his cloud? These are all rhetorical questions. Now 549 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: sounds an awful lot about God's resume coming up, because 550 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: God will say things like that, So did you tell 551 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: the water work to stop? Job? Did you do that? 552 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: Because I did? And you know you think that's impressive, 553 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: you know. So he is asking job, So Joe, can 554 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 1: you explain how he creates lightning? Let's hear from you 555 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: right here. Even though we know more now, we still 556 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: don't quite have lightning, and like I said, in this 557 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: randomness figured out, we still can't predict where it's going 558 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: to be. And so he's asking job, can you can 559 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: you just tell us how God did that. These are 560 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: all rhetorical questions. Now and then he says, do you 561 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 1: know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of 562 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: Him who is perfect in knowledge? Do you know? Can 563 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: I ask you this, Job? Do you know how God 564 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: orchestrates all this and the cosmos? Do you do you 565 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: know how He's perfect in knowledge? And are you perfect 566 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: in knowledge? Because you know we keep hearing from you 567 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: at your blameless Are you so close to God that 568 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: maybe you could explain these things to us? Or maybe 569 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,680 Speaker 1: there's some things you still need to learn? And Job 570 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: just must be sitting there just shaking his head. Now, 571 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,960 Speaker 1: he says, you whose garments are hot when the earth 572 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: is still because of the south wind? You, I mean, 573 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: can you explain how he handles temperature? Now? Of course, 574 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: you're just a human being, because when he turns the 575 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: heat up us on us, don't your garments get hot 576 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: just like the rest of us when you're miserable in 577 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: the heat? Can you tell us why we're all hot? 578 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: Are you just like the rest of us? You have 579 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 1: no answer for it either, which, by the way, being 580 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: hot is one of my least favorites. Can you like him? 581 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: Spread out the skies hard as a cast metal mirror. 582 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: What an analogy from Elihua? And what the sky looks like? 583 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: Can you turn up the heat? Can you do anything 584 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: about the brazen skies? Spread out? Look at it, Job, 585 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,800 Speaker 1: if you can lift your head, look at it. I 586 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,360 Speaker 1: mean it's just laid out like a metal mirror. I mean, 587 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: look look at the beauty of that horizon. Look at 588 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: the sky, Joe, can you do that? Can you tell 589 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,920 Speaker 1: us how that's done? I mean, he's literally setting up 590 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,800 Speaker 1: God's speech for him, even though I don't think he 591 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: knows that. So after he's done this, he now says, 592 00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an inconclusive conclusion. It will 593 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: actually be a conclusion that is inconclusive. So then he 594 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:11,840 Speaker 1: looks to Job and he's gonna tell him that a 595 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: confrontation with God. Job, that's ill advised. That this is 596 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: kind of my theme. Job, I'm gonna tell you, if 597 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: you choose to do this, it will be suicide. Just 598 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: be reverent, Just fear God, Just trust God. Just be gracious, 599 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,040 Speaker 1: respond in a way, submit to the one who is 600 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: truly wise. This is what you should do. Don't pick 601 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: a battle with God. Anybody gonna apply that application day 602 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: because a lot Who's got a great point here, So 603 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: don't pick a fight with God. It is it is 604 00:35:52,120 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: a suicidal mission. He's right about that. But he's not 605 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: right about is that Job is not going to compromise 606 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: in his integrity, like I say, just to get these 607 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: people to be satisfied. So verse nineteen, teach us what 608 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 1: we shall say to him? We cannot draw up our 609 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: case because of darkness? Joe, why don't you tell us 610 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: what you're gonna say to God? Tell us what tell 611 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: us about about this? Now, keep in mind when he 612 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: uses darkness here, I want you to understand what he means. 613 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: You go back to the original language here. What he 614 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: means here when he says darkness. What he's talking about 615 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,479 Speaker 1: is ignorance. He said, teach us of what we shall 616 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: say to him. We cannot draw up our case because 617 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: of our ignorance, because of how dark we are as 618 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 1: human beings. We're ignorant. So we're just too stupid. Job, 619 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: Why don't you tell us tell us exactly what you're 620 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,719 Speaker 1: gonna say to God? After everything I've said to you, 621 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,120 Speaker 1: all the things you know about God, tell us now 622 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 1: us we're so ignorant? What you're gonna say, verse twenty, 623 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: shall it be told him that I would speak? Did 624 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,839 Speaker 1: a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up? 625 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,520 Speaker 1: You go against God? It's death, Joe. It's no one 626 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 1: remember what he's clinging to. This is something that tells us. 627 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: Again speculating, but this is something that tells us. They 628 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 1: must know already know to some degree what scripture said 629 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: in the Old Covenant that anyone who saw God it 630 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: would kill them. Write these down, you can go look 631 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,799 Speaker 1: at them later on your own time. Exodus thirty three, 632 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: twenty Deuteronomy five, twenty six, Judges six, twenty two, and 633 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 1: twenty three. All of these are places in scripture that 634 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,960 Speaker 1: says to look upon God as a man unfiltered is 635 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 1: to die. You can't look upon the glory of God 636 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: and survive it. So twenty one and now, no one 637 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, 638 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: when the wind has passed and cleared them. Now say, 639 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 1: he's using this analogy for what I just said. So, Job, 640 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 1: we can't even look at the sun without cloud cover. 641 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: We gotta have some kind of filter. They didn't have 642 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 1: sunglasses yet. We gotta have some kind of filter for 643 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: us to even look upon the sun. You can't look 644 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: at God without some filter. True, I mean, what are 645 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 1: you thinking You're going to try to look directly into 646 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 1: the sun with no cloud cover? Twenty two out of 647 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 1: the north comes golden splendor. God is clothed with awesome majesty. 648 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,440 Speaker 1: It is coming. Job is about to be humbled by 649 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:08,200 Speaker 1: God's awesome splendor, no doubt about that. But what Alaihu 650 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: is doing here with his analogy, many think he's using 651 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: the analogy of a rising or setting sun. Look at 652 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: that sun, Look how it sets, Look how it rises. 653 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,239 Speaker 1: What it's showing you is the wonderful splendor of the 654 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: one and only living God. There's nothing quite like a 655 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:33,399 Speaker 1: sunrise or sunset? Is there anybody tired of those? Yet? Man? 656 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 1: It's something, isn't it. It's this little farm that we have. 657 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 1: It's one of the things that there are times when 658 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: we will be there and we'll be resting, and you 659 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,080 Speaker 1: see it. Here it comes and we have this pasture 660 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: that goes out, and it's this beautiful rising green with 661 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,200 Speaker 1: little slight heels in it. The pasture that goes out, 662 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,720 Speaker 1: and right over here to the west, we'll be sitting 663 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,879 Speaker 1: here watching it and you can just watch that sun, 664 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: just as the pasture is now turning into some trees 665 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,719 Speaker 1: and some wooded areas. That just watched that sun. I 666 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,960 Speaker 1: probably I looked at this the other day preparing for 667 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: this less lesson, and I'm almost I was surprised the 668 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,719 Speaker 1: number of times I've had this farm for since two 669 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,480 Speaker 1: thousand and seven of October two thousand and seven, so 670 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: eighteen years. And I have so many pictures of the 671 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,880 Speaker 1: exact same thing. I got to take a picture of 672 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,280 Speaker 1: it again. I gotta look at it again. I find 673 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,640 Speaker 1: myself on the other end of it. I find myself 674 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,439 Speaker 1: and I don't even like to get up early, which 675 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 1: is God's sense of humor what I do for a living. 676 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,439 Speaker 1: I remember the first time they approached me and said 677 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 1: they were giving me a promotion and moving me to 678 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,600 Speaker 1: do morning radio. And I said, who in the world 679 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,879 Speaker 1: listens to the radio in the morning. And they looked 680 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 1: at me and said normal people, and uh. And so 681 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: I was like, so nobody, everybody else doesn't get to 682 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,960 Speaker 1: work at one pm. And they're like, no, no, most 683 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: people go to work much earlier than that, and and so. 684 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,200 Speaker 1: But at the farm, even though I can sleep as 685 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 1: long as I want, I find myself disappointed if I 686 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,759 Speaker 1: miss the sunrise. I'm hoping I'll wake up and go. 687 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,760 Speaker 1: I don't go as far as a set a clock, 688 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: but I almost like if I wake up and I 689 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,400 Speaker 1: see it hasn't happened yet, I get excited. And what 690 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,960 Speaker 1: do you do? You go get that coffee, and you 691 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,799 Speaker 1: go get ready for that sunrise. And it's a it's 692 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,439 Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful thing. And and and raise your hand 693 00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,080 Speaker 1: that when every time you see when you don't feel 694 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,759 Speaker 1: closer to God. Yeah, and so so a I who's 695 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,239 Speaker 1: using this analogy to say, look at his splendor. You 696 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,719 Speaker 1: don't want to face this and be out of line 697 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,160 Speaker 1: with him. You just need to repent. He's going to 698 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,240 Speaker 1: be clothed in his awesome majesty, which is all true. 699 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: Twenty three the Almighty we cannot find him. He is 700 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:23,800 Speaker 1: great in power, justice, and abundant righteousness. He will not violate. 701 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,200 Speaker 1: Now when you look at twenty three, stay with us, 702 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:36,279 Speaker 1: because he says, Joe, I understand that you are going 703 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: against the theology that we have all known for our 704 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 1: whole lots, and we can't quite reconcile your statements of 705 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: being blameless with our theology, So we're just hitting what 706 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,239 Speaker 1: we know. We know he's just, we know he's right, 707 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: we know he does not oppress. We know. Listen to 708 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,360 Speaker 1: this cause it sounds like he's getting on job and 709 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 1: there's a little bit there. But I don't want you 710 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,399 Speaker 1: to miss something else. It's a beautiful truth, a lie 711 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:10,360 Speaker 1: who is also submitting to the truth. I don't know 712 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,480 Speaker 1: what God's going to do to you, but I know 713 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:17,320 Speaker 1: he'll get it right. I don't feel good about this, 714 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,400 Speaker 1: not with what I know, not with the theology that 715 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 1: I have known my entire life. What you're saying doesn't 716 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 1: reconcile with that. But here's what I'm going to do. 717 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,919 Speaker 1: And this is member I've given this advice many times 718 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 1: because it's been given to me when you're just not 719 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 1: quite sure. Cling to the things about God, you know, 720 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,520 Speaker 1: the things that you absolutely know to be true. And 721 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,319 Speaker 1: this is what a lie who is doing. He is saying, 722 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,000 Speaker 1: here's what I know about the Almighty. We can't comprehend him. 723 00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,360 Speaker 1: His power is too great. But here's what I know. 724 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:55,279 Speaker 1: I know he's just. I know that he is abundant righteousness, 725 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,520 Speaker 1: and I know that he's not going to violate his 726 00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,520 Speaker 1: righteousness by getting it wrong. He's not going to aviolate 727 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,680 Speaker 1: things in his character. His character will always be the same, 728 00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:12,200 Speaker 1: which is very comforting. And so then here we go 729 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:19,640 Speaker 1: with wrapping it up so a lot who says, therefore 730 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:25,719 Speaker 1: men fear him. He does not regard any who are 731 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:33,319 Speaker 1: wise in their own conceit. Well, this, this sounds an 732 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:39,280 Speaker 1: awful lot less like Ecclesiastes. This is this is Solomon, 733 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 1: you know. And where I go to church right now, 734 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,880 Speaker 1: our pastor has taken us through Ecclesiastes, and and you know, 735 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,640 Speaker 1: and it's very impressive, and he knows a lot about it, 736 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,440 Speaker 1: and it's fun. But but there's there's that side of 737 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,880 Speaker 1: me that says, well, I know how this ends, and 738 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,799 Speaker 1: and I know it ends. And we have Solomon giving 739 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,319 Speaker 1: us all these things about him, looking for to try 740 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 1: everything the earth has ever allowed, anything his flesh desires 741 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,560 Speaker 1: to a level that no one other than him had 742 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,400 Speaker 1: the finances to do it at the level he did it. 743 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 1: And at the end in chapter twelve, we hear Solomon 744 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,080 Speaker 1: say the same thing, the end of the matter all 745 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,880 Speaker 1: has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for 746 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:34,319 Speaker 1: this is the whole duty of man. That's it now. 747 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,719 Speaker 1: I I want you to miss that because I mean, 748 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:42,399 Speaker 1: I want you to keep coming back. But that's hitting 749 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:47,279 Speaker 1: a nutshell. That's life. You know. If you can leave 750 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,360 Speaker 1: today and say, you know what, birds reminded me that 751 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:54,680 Speaker 1: I actually know how life works. Everything hinges on that. 752 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,840 Speaker 1: Just fear God and do what he says. Now, that 753 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,279 Speaker 1: is simple to hear, but what's hard to apply to 754 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,160 Speaker 1: you everyday life, day after day after day after day. 755 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:10,360 Speaker 1: And he is telling job this, feary, don't regard yourself 756 00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,840 Speaker 1: as being wise compared to him, and don't be conceded. 757 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,360 Speaker 1: The conclusion of the matter is, now, does this tell us, 758 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,600 Speaker 1: like we were talking, emailing and texting back and forth, 759 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,560 Speaker 1: we've already seen him use the analogy of rain, so 760 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,160 Speaker 1: we know that if you try to figure out, and 761 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,560 Speaker 1: this has been ongoing debate, when was this book written, 762 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,799 Speaker 1: when did this happen? Well, most of what we read 763 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,799 Speaker 1: is that rain was not readily known and seen till 764 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: after the flood because they up to that point there 765 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,040 Speaker 1: was like a almost like a greenhouse effect. There was 766 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,480 Speaker 1: a dew that kept everything moist. And when the flood 767 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,640 Speaker 1: came and all this pouring rain starts, they had never 768 00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,439 Speaker 1: seen that before. What's obvious A lie who has seen 769 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:01,399 Speaker 1: that before, it's not new to him. So this would 770 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,239 Speaker 1: have to put it after the flood. It's not before 771 00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:08,960 Speaker 1: the flood, because how would he know these analogies? So 772 00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:17,279 Speaker 1: so does he also know what Solomon said? Could just 773 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,840 Speaker 1: be parallel thinking. I wouldn't think so did Solomon know 774 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:27,200 Speaker 1: what he said? It's interesting, but they both say the 775 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: same thing. But it may just be they both say 776 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,399 Speaker 1: the same thing just because it's true. Is therefore men 777 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,120 Speaker 1: fear him? He does not regard any who are wise 778 00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:41,080 Speaker 1: in their own conceit. God isn't going to decide this 779 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,480 Speaker 1: based on your attempt at defending your own integrity. Job. 780 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 1: He's also not going to reject a blameless man. He's 781 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:58,279 Speaker 1: going to look with favor on all those who have integrity. 782 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,080 Speaker 1: So a lot who says, I don't know how this 783 00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,080 Speaker 1: is gonna go. I don't think this is wise. I 784 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,399 Speaker 1: don't think you should ask for disappointment. I don't think 785 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,239 Speaker 1: you should face him. I don't know what in the 786 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:16,279 Speaker 1: world you're gonna say. But then he does acknowledge. But 787 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,640 Speaker 1: God's going to get it right. So that's the one 788 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,160 Speaker 1: thing that you should do is just fear him, to 789 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 1: be on the wrong side of him and do what 790 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:36,360 Speaker 1: he says. And when we come back next week, you 791 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,040 Speaker 1: talk about how we You know, in my business, you 792 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,520 Speaker 1: do a lot of marketing and you try to do 793 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,480 Speaker 1: these teasers and the trailer for what's to come. Well 794 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,360 Speaker 1: next week the Lord answers job. And if I was 795 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,279 Speaker 1: doing this as a promo, the first thing you would 796 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,520 Speaker 1: see is next week the Lord answers job. Out of 797 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:57,759 Speaker 1: the whirl win, don't miss it. Let's pray, Lord, thank 798 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,160 Speaker 1: you for today. I thank you for or this opportunity 799 00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,440 Speaker 1: to get together and to ponder these incredible things about you. 800 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,080 Speaker 1: Be reminded of who you are. And also today be 801 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,640 Speaker 1: reminded that ultimately we just need to fear you. We 802 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,840 Speaker 1: need to be in all of you. We need to 803 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,360 Speaker 1: want to be right with you, not to earn redemption, 804 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,800 Speaker 1: because it's impossible. We can never be holy, holy, holy, 805 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:27,040 Speaker 1: but we can be holy if our holiness comes from 806 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:32,719 Speaker 1: our redemption and justification in You. We stand in fear 807 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,320 Speaker 1: of your wrath, we stand in fear of your judgment, 808 00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:41,680 Speaker 1: we stand in fear of your awesome presence, and we 809 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,320 Speaker 1: just have hearts of gratitude for the mercy and the 810 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:49,960 Speaker 1: grace and the love that are also part of your character. 811 00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:56,120 Speaker 1: So we receive you as you are, not as we 812 00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:00,399 Speaker 1: might prefer you to be, because that's a savor. Faith. 813 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,320 Speaker 1: I have faith into who you say you are, not 814 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,839 Speaker 1: who I say you are. And may that be enough. 815 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,480 Speaker 1: In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray Amen.