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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Wednesday Bible study. Good to be

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Speaker 1: back together again. What a huge response to this study

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Speaker 1: of the Book of Job. But it always intrigues people,

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Speaker 1: and there's so much going on here and I love

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Speaker 1: if you have a question or comment, you can always

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Speaker 1: reach out to me too, Rick at Burgessministries dot com.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and turn to chapter three. We'll get all

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Speaker 1: that in today's It is an intriguing chapter. We'll unpack

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Speaker 1: the details of that today. I might be able to

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Speaker 1: get you out a little early today, we'll see, because

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into four because we will

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Speaker 1: the unity they represent. It just has been so encouraging

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Speaker 1: to hear all that. So if we can help you,

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Speaker 1: we're ready at the Manchurch dot Com. Let's open up

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Speaker 1: job chapter three. Lord, thank you for today. And you

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Speaker 1: There are times where we kind of we're kind of

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Speaker 1: about right here, he's talking about elegant burials. Now, there's

427
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Speaker 1: a lot of indication that Joe was some sort of royalty,

428
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Speaker 1: that he was in, either some sort of governor or

429
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: some sort of something because of his wealth, the staff

430
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: that he had, and the way he was revered and respected.

431
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: You hear him talk about, you know, they would be

432
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: waiting on the gates. He would be at the gates.

433
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: And now he's saying, if I could have died before

434
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Speaker 1: this calamity happened, this is how it could have been.

435
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: So what he's saying is he thinks now because he's

436
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: gonna he's going this is not just him being a baby. Now,

437
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: what he's saying is I've ruined my reputation. Now, if

438
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Speaker 1: I could have died before this calamity, I would get

439
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Speaker 1: this elegant, incredible burial. And he's comparing himself to some

440
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: pretty high ranking people, which he must be in that lot.

441
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: He said, I would have been celebrated at this wonderful

442
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: man who was what blameless, upright well respected. If God

443
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: had just let me die before this, my barrel would

444
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: have been a good one. But now that this calamity

445
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: has come, the adversary is allowing Joke to think I've

446
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: I've lost all that respect and now I'm just going

447
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: to be somebody that they're going to dig a hole

448
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: for and throw dirt on because I am an embarrassment.

449
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: I have no standing now. My family, my children are dead,

450
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: I've lost my wealth, and he's going to find out

451
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,959
Speaker 1: in a minute that his worst fears are true. People

452
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: think that I must be a terrible person or this

453
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't be happening to me. I wish I'd just died

454
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Speaker 1: before this happened. So then he goes on to say,

455
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Speaker 1: in sixteen, I just wish I'd been a stillborn or

456
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: why was I not as a hidden stillborn child? As

457
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Speaker 1: infants who never see the light. He said, if I

458
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Speaker 1: had been born stillborn, I would have been unknown. I

459
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: would have not been a big deal and frankly, no

460
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: one would have cared what happened to me. And in

461
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: this moment, he thinks that's better because he's lost everything

462
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: and now he's a spectacle, and he's saying that would

463
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Speaker 1: be better. Now, he says, even the wicked look at this.

464
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Speaker 1: What he says next, there the wicked cease from troubling,

465
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Speaker 1: and they're the weary are at rest. They're the prisoners

466
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Speaker 1: are at ease together and they hear not the voice

467
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: of the task master. You hear what he's saying, don't you.

468
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: They're released from all their troubles when they die. Of course, now,

469
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: if you haven't repented and you die, wicked, I don't

470
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 1: know that you You just got you headed the eternal trouble.

471
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Speaker 1: But his point is whatever was bothering them, he says, prisoners,

472
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Speaker 1: these prisoners, they got a terrible life. You don't think

473
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Speaker 1: death is sweet? For them, the task masters not telling

474
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: they're not out there grinding. Now, they're not out there,

475
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: you know, breaking rocks anymore. They're punished in prison is

476
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: over the wicked and all they brought on themselves. It

477
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: finally ends that when they just die. See that's that again.

478
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see this is important. Listen, don't get there, Hey, nothing,

479
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: nothing is this. I don't care. I have look at

480
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: we have friends right now. I have friends right now

481
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: that it's it's physical destruction. And I do pray, Lord,

482
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: please show mercy, just let them go. But that's not

483
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: my call. That's not their call for whatever God is doing,

484
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: letting them live another day. In that moment, I will say,

485
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: especially the person I'm thinking of right now has been

486
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: nothing but a godly man, and the way he is

487
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: dying is just continue to bring more and more people

488
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: to Jesus. But I find myself going cut him some slack,

489
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: let him go, cut his family some slack, let him go.

490
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: But that's not my call. But I understand where you

491
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: can start looking at death saying sometimes death is better.

492
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: But that's not call. That's a lack of trust of God.

493
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: God said in the Psalm one thirty nine thirteen through sixteen.

494
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: He said, I have written every one of them and

495
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: the number of your days in my book before you've

496
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: ever lived one. I decide, like I told you, even

497
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: with my little boy. One of the things that God

498
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: taught Sherry and me. If you've ever read her book,

499
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: she tells you exactly all the things that God showed

500
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: us that our son's life was complete. It wasn't incomplete.

501
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: Oh he died so young. And God's like, where'd you

502
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: come up with that? I said, two and a half years.

503
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: That was my call. I find it perfect. And I

504
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: sure have seen a lot of people get redeemed to it,

505
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: and some of y'all. Let hang around for seventy years,

506
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: y'all aready done anything? I did more with a two

507
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: and a half year old little boy than I seem

508
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: to be able to do with you. When are y'all

509
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: gonna do something? So? God didn't sit there and go

510
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: that little boy he only lived two and a half years.

511
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: Now that the minute that he wore him together and

512
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: Sherry's William, he said, two and a half years is

513
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect. You believe that it's important that you

514
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: do because that is what the Bible says, and so

515
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: in this particular case, you find Job starting to kind

516
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: of think, I'd like to see God. Now he's not

517
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: gonna we don't see him take his own life, but

518
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: he is kind of telling God, this part of my

519
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: life I'd rather not seen. If I needed to not

520
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: be born, or be still born, whatever it would have taken,

521
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: or if you could have just killed me before I

522
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: got to this, that had been a nice burial for me.

523
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like this plan at all, and

524
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: I'm starting to kind of want it to be over completely.

525
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: I understand that, but be careful because that is not

526
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: that is not of God. So then he gets to

527
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: nineteen and this he's right about the small and the

528
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: greater there and the slave is free from his master.

529
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: You know, he says, death kind of levels us all,

530
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: doesn't it. I say this all the time on my

531
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: day job on the show. Anytime someone lofty and wealthy

532
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: and somebody of the world kind of worships and desires

533
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: to be anytime I come on the air and they

534
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: finally die, I'll list all the things they had and did,

535
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: and then I'll say, and they die just like everybody else,

536
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: and none of it went with them. Death kind of

537
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 1: levels us all. The most wealthiest man in the world's

538
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: gonna die just like the poorest. And when he dies,

539
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: he's just as dead as the poor man. He's not

540
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: special dead, he just dead, Okay, And so that's what

541
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: that's what job is talking about. Remind me to tell

542
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: you all about a book that was given to me

543
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: as a gift that I'm reading right now that I

544
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: want to remind y'all. I can't think of the name

545
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 1: of it today, but remind me to remember that Ricky

546
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: just read it last night, buddy, I know I still

547
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: can't remember it. But anyway, so in twenty I mean,

548
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: I literally read the book and didn't take the time

549
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: to know the title. I can tell you the theme

550
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: of it, but anyway, it's about not wasting your life.

551
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: But anyway, so twenty why is light given to him

552
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: who is in misery? And life to the bitter and soul?

553
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: And we're saying there, misery and bitterness is really no

554
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: life at all? Why even call this life? Why would

555
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 1: you give anybody life and you say your life is

556
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: bitterness and misery? Why do we even call this life?

557
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: Well we all know the answer to that is when

558
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: you're miserable, try not to let it make you bitter.

559
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: Because when we're miserable, as long as we're learning from

560
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: it and we're benefiting from it, then it isn't good.

561
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: It's it's not a preferred life, but it's a it's

562
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: an effective life. That's a better way to put it.

563
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: But you let that bitterness creep in. I mean, I've

564
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: got people right now they're so bitter against me, and

565
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: I pray for them every day because I hate to

566
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: break it to them. Their bitterness isn't bothering me, but

567
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna kill them. And I pray Lord that you

568
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: would take that bitterness from them, because it's destroying their lives.

569
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: Take it from them because I do care about these

570
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: people and I want them to be Okay. I'm sorry

571
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 1: they're upset with me, but you know what, I can

572
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: handle that. But I know what it's going to do

573
00:36:53,239 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: to them. So misery start making you bitter, and now

574
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: you're not even benefiting from it. You're literally letting it

575
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: destroy you because you've let bitterness creep in. Twenty one

576
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: who long for death but it comes not and dig

577
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: for it more than for hidden treasures. You see that miserable.

578
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: People long for death, and what makes them miserable is

579
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: they've got so focused on wanting to die and they

580
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: can't quite seem to die. That's not the way to handle.

581
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: What we need to be focused on is why am

582
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: I breathing yet another day? Maybe this day has hope

583
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: in it, maybe it all changes today. Not Oh no,

584
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 1: another day is here? Keep longing for death that'll never come.

585
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: How about this death's gonna come soon enough. I promise

586
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: you one of the things that I think everybody in here.

587
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: You don't know it yet, but you'll see one of

588
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: the things that we can say and enjoy every moment

589
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: of it. Young man, but with all of us hear

590
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: that a little bit older. Let me tell you what

591
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: we can tell you. Life is short. It's not very

592
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: long at all. It's short, and so we need to

593
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: not long for it to end until God decides that

594
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: it ends, because whenever it ends, it's still gonna be

595
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 1: short compared to eternity, and I prefer eternity. But also

596
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: I've seen that the Lord has told me to make

597
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: this life. He's given me count for no other reason

598
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: to be grateful. Can you imagine if you were God

599
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: and you breathed life into somebody and never got to

600
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: thank you. Have you ever have you ever tried? Let's

601
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: just get real and it shouldn't be our motivation. Have

602
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: you ever like really done something for somebody and they

603
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: just won't ever be grateful for it? This is this

604
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: is one thing I've had. I've grumbled this before. Total repentance.

605
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: I've grumbled it before. My wife's heard it. It ain't

606
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: never enough, is it? No matter what I do for

607
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: so and so is never enough. And now that's a

608
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: bad attitude. But I'm going to tell you I've said

609
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: that before. I can't imagine God looking down saying I've

610
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: given you life and no thank you. All you've done

611
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: is complained about it. And you know what he can say.

612
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: I actually had y'all set up, y'all shose sin. I

613
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: had you set up. I had your life that you

614
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: would have never wanted to be in, and you blew it.

615
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: And now I've been gracious enough to give it back

616
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: to you. And all I ask you to do in

617
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: the meantime is see if you can't draw some other

618
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: people to me and use this life and the results

619
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: of your sin, because sin always matters. I've overcome it,

620
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: and I'm going to actually make this right and could

621
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: just could you just be faithful till then? But Job's

622
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: being real. This is one of those moments. You know

623
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,479
Speaker 1: if you look at this, and I want to caution

624
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: you here, when you look at this, you kind of

625
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: find yourself being disappointed in Joe. At times I find

626
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: him a little whiny, but I don't know the misery

627
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: that he's in. I can't even fathom the misery that

628
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: he's in. But let me tell you this what you

629
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: need to understand. This verse actually makes him more impressive

630
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: in my mind. Now, let me walk that out. How

631
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: many of you in here have ever gone through the

632
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: man church curriculum, the real men of the Bible. Do

633
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: you remember John the Baptist? When when I propose that

634
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: we do five sessions on John the Baptist, at first

635
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: I was denied, we can't include John the Baptist and

636
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: real men by we have so many other men to

637
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: choose from. We're only gonna do eight. You're gonna John

638
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: the Baptist's gonna be eight? I said, I'm telling you,

639
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: no man born of a woman is greater than John.

640
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: He already be in there. Uh. And They're like, how

641
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: are you gonna do five sessions? Or we don't even

642
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: know that much about him? And I said, I can't wait.

643
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: I want to find everything I'll find out about him.

644
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: So there comes a moment, as we all know this

645
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: jub chapter three moment in John's life. Who's a horse?

646
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: But when he's about to get his head cut off,

647
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: he said a little to Scrundle that Jesus doesn't come

648
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: get him. Remember his followers coming back to Jesus, Hey John,

649
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: send us back. Now John had already made these incredible

650
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: procuations about Jesus. Behold the lamb of God. He doesn't

651
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: seem like he's doubting that who comes to take the

652
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: away the sin of the world, repent the Kingdom of

653
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: God is at hand. All of a sudden, he's in

654
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: jail and he's like, you are who I said, you

655
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: were right? And I remember discussing it, and somebody says,

656
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: is that disappoints you? I said, no, I didn't disappoint

657
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: at all. I said, that actually makes me respect John

658
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: even more. And the person said why is that. I said,

659
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: because it shows you he's just a man. That makes

660
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: him even more impressive. Because sometimes I can get to

661
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: John the Baptist folks and think they got hold of

662
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: something I don't have. I could never be John the

663
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: Baptist might they got treated differently, They got more of

664
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: God than I did. No, because what he showed me

665
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: that human side said, you could come get me out

666
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: of jail if you wanted to. Anybody think Jesus couldn't

667
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: go get him, But he didn't because he said, what John,

668
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: he does his job. Go tell him I'm here. All

669
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: the things that are happening should be happening. But he

670
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: didn't say and tell him I'll be there in a

671
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: minute to pull the jail down and walk him out

672
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: of there. You know what he said, see you on

673
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: the other side. So I'm gonna get my head cut off.

674
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: That is correct. Why I thought I did everything you

675
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: told me to do. You did. I'm even gonna tell

676
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: people there's no man born of a woman greater than you. However,

677
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: there's something coming bigger than that. I'm about to make

678
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: myself fully available to everybody, and the least in the

679
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is gonna be greater than you. You

680
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 1: did your job, And remember Jesus wouldn't even speak when

681
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: Herod wanted to talk about John. The batter is he

682
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: gave him nothing because Jesus didn't like what Harod did,

683
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: but he knew it was part of the plan. Why

684
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: John made the mistake of saying something very true, didn't

685
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: he I must have become less and Jesus must become more. Well,

686
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: i'll tell you one way we'll do that. You're gone, okay,

687
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: so be careful. Making all these proclamations and God goes

688
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: sounds good to me. So here's job. And this tells me.

689
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: This misery in the way he's responded to it just

690
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: tells me he's a man. He may be blameless and

691
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: upright compared to other people, but at the end of

692
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: it all, he's just a man. I understand him being upset.

693
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: This sounds pretty miserable to me, and by ready to

694
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: say this wasn't so bad. It's bad, and I understand

695
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: his reaction sounds normal to me. He's done some supernatural things,

696
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: praise God, But right now he sounds a little typical.

697
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: Other than he never blames God. Say don't miss that.

698
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: Don't get hung up on what he's doing wrong and

699
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: miss what he's doing right. He is not blaming God.

700
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: He thinks he must be the problem. Twenty two talking

701
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: about those that long for death, who rejoice exceedingly, exceedingly

702
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: and are glad when they find the grave. Why is

703
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: light given to a man whose way is hidden? Oh

704
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: look at this word, remember this one whom God has

705
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: hedged in? Watch it? Watch it? Now that's big right there,

706
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: miserable people long for death, We got it. Then we

707
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: get to twenty three. Hedge, Now that's big. He's saying

708
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 1: that God is in control of all this, and he's

709
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: got me hedged in, and whatever God decides is going

710
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: to happen. Does anybody remember the accusation from Satan? He

711
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: loves you because you've put a hedge of protection around him.

712
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: Now right here, Job is seeing the hedge is negative.

713
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: Watch out, But Satan saw the hedge as a positive.

714
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: Why Because Satan says, it's really up to you what

715
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: does and doesn't happen. And right now you're not allowing

716
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: anything bad to happen. But it is your call, and

717
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: that's why he loves you. So now you see Job

718
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: being reminded, it is God who has me hedged in.

719
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: Are you okay to find some comfort? Right there? Find

720
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: some comfort right there? Because if it's God who has

721
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: you hedged in, somebody may have bad plans for you today,

722
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: death may have bad plans for you, But if God

723
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 1: doesn't allow, it's not gonna happen. That's actually a protective hedge.

724
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: And Satan's already called it that earlier. Okay, so now

725
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: we conclude, for my sighing comes instead of my bread

726
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: and my groanings are poured out like water. For the

727
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: thing that I fear has come upon me, and what

728
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: I dread befalls me. I am not at ease. Underline that,

729
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: nor am I quiet. I have no rest, but trouble comes. Well,

730
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: now he's going to take his depression to the extremes. Now,

731
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: what he's saying in twenty four here he says, anything

732
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: good that I had when I used to have plenty

733
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: of food, you know, back when when I had everything

734
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: that I needed, Now all those things have been replaced

735
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: by turmoil. And what he's saying is now I've almost

736
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:12,479
Speaker 1: lost my appetite because now there's so much misery. That's

737
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:17,399
Speaker 1: what I'm eating on now. And this is this is

738
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: this is important. Be careful here that no matter how

739
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: bad it gets, we don't need to lose our appetite

740
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: for the things that only God provides, no matter how

741
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: bad it gets. Don't lose the appetite for the bread,

742
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: the bread of life. Don't get into so much despair

743
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: that you give up on God and say I don't

744
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: even desire you anymore. I don't even desire to be

745
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: taken care of by you anymore. Don't ever get there.

746
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,439
Speaker 1: I don't care how bad it is. You keep on saying, Lord,

747
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: don't forsake me, don't leave me, give me what I

748
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: need just to get through now. And just like the

749
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: manner that we saw back in the Old Covenant, what

750
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: were they told, don't gather a bunch of them, put

751
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: it up, it'll spoil. Why was God doing that? Why

752
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: can't we gather something that seems like I'd be better

753
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: for you too? You keep having to do this every

754
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 1: day because He wanted them to be totally dependent on him,

755
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: that he would provide what was needed for the day.

756
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: Faith the most peaceful place you can get in all

757
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: this is saying, if you desire to take me out

758
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: of this, I'm coming out of it. If you desire

759
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: that this is the end of my life, then so

760
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: be it. Either way, you God are right. See me

761
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: through it. Don't let me embarrass you. See me through it.

762
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: I have not lost my appetite for you. As a

763
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: matter of fact, suffering many times will take away our

764
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 1: appetite for everything but God, which is its purpose. I

765
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 1: know it has from me, and I'm sure it has

766
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: for you. Twenty five for the thing that I fear

767
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: comes upon me. I know what he's talking about there.

768
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: I don't think because he was blameless or upright, he's

769
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 1: talking about the losses of his livestock and his money.

770
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,720
Speaker 1: I really don't. I don't think that's what he feared.

771
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: I think he's probably like most parents, don't let my

772
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: kid die. I've been there. Hey, do anything you need to,

773
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: but but don't let my kid die. Don't let me

774
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: bury a kid. And I've had many parents tell me

775
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: that's the thing I fear the most. And you know what,

776
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: Job says, The thing I feared the most has happened.

777
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 1: I've had to bury all ten of them. And now

778
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: my wife has turned on you and me that the

779
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: I feared the most has happened. I've lost my family,

780
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: and he says, and what I dread has befallen me.

781
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: It's happened. I remember going through that with with Sherry.

782
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 1: There was a moment where we were like, I can't

783
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: believe this has happened. I know some of you and

784
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: here have been through the same thing. Yeah, I can't

785
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: believe this has happened. I kept thinking this was going

786
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: to be all right. I can't believe this happened. It's

787
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: actually happened. And so Job is saying that, and then

788
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: he says, because of that, what I've lost my peace.

789
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: I've inherited turmoil and calamity. I've lost my children and

790
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: I've inherited in their place turmoil, calamity. And every time

791
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: I just wanted to stop, more trouble comes. You ever

792
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,959
Speaker 1: been there, I just it's just seemed to be getting better.

793
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: I keep waiting for it to make a turn. It's

794
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: not making a turn. It keeps getting worse. But he

795
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: said he's lost his peace, and that always, every time

796
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 1: will take me to John sixteen thirty three. Every single

797
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: time I say this, so that you have peace, even

798
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: all the way back to Job. Because the next thing

799
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: Jesus said is because of sin and because we live

800
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: in a fallen state. Jesus Christ said that tribulation will come, not,

801
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: it might, it will. It's just part of living in

802
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: a fallen Christion. Different levels of tribulation, but they're there,

803
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: and Jesus says, don't lose your peace because I have

804
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: overcome the world. In this world, tribulation is part of it.

805
00:51:55,239 --> 00:52:00,080
Speaker 1: But I have resolved this by the Cross and the resurrection.

806
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: So no matter how bad it is, if you are redeemed,

807
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: there should be a joy that never leaves your heart.

808
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: There should be a hope that never quite leaves. There

809
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: should be a peace that people can't even imagine. As

810
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: that watch you, because you're remembering what I told you,

811
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: that you say, even though today I can't quite this

812
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: seem to see the other side. Jesus, I know because

813
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: of you, whatever is waiting on me, you have overcome it.

814
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: The worst thing that could happen to me is that

815
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,280
Speaker 1: I finally die, and then I'm just in your presence.

816
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: And if I die, or even when you think about

817
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: people that I love that have died, if I know

818
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: that they were redeemed, I can find a place to say,

819
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 1: everything really is going to be all right. As my

820
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: lovely wife has said many times to those that are

821
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: weeping and crying, this is not how it will always be.

822
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: This is not God's final plan, not for job, not

823
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: for you. His final plan is perfection, His final plan

824
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,960
Speaker 1: is true rest. His final plan is death, and sickness

825
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: and mourning and suffering will be no more. But the

826
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: hard news is we're not there yet. But maybe today

827
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: we cling to it because it's all we got. Let's

828
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: pray Lord, thank you for today, thank you for the lessons,

829
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: thank you for the promises, thank you for the reminders.

830
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe some of you are out there

831
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: and you're in this place. Don't don't, don't. Don't. Don't

832
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: let the demons talk you into taking your own life.

833
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: Don't let your sin nature talk you into ending your

834
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: ending your own life. Don't listen to those words. God

835
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: will decide when it ends. And if he hasn't decided

836
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: that yet, there's still purpose in it. God is right.

837
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: The voice in your head for you to take your

838
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: own life, that voice is wrong. Never listen to that.

839
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: And if you need help, call me. I'm easy to

840
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: find my contact right there on the website, or you

841
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: can email me at Rick Atburgessministries dot com. Trust me,

842
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: because of Jesus, you can't have that peace and it's

843
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: in his holy name. We pray Amen, thanks for being

844
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 1: with us.