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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. Hello, I'm Rick Burgess.

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Speaker 1: I'll be working through this lesson again today we are

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Speaker 1: in the Study of Job.

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Speaker 2: We're getting toward the end.

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Speaker 1: We've got today and then the next time we gather

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Speaker 1: Lord Willing, that'll be next week, we will finish the

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Speaker 1: Book of Job. If you want to go ahead and

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Speaker 1: and turn to job chapter forty one. Let's open up

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Speaker 1: in a word of prayer, and let's jump into this

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Speaker 1: very very intriguing description of the one and only living

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Speaker 1: God of something that he has created and all the

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Speaker 1: different theories that go with it.

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Speaker 2: Today we take on love.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Thank you Lord for the opportunity to jump into

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Speaker 1: this again today. Lord, thank you for allowing yourself you know,

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Speaker 1: or to be, to be salt and found. You said,

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Speaker 1: if we seek you, we'll find you. Uh, And we

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Speaker 1: consider again today. You know there's such a chasm between

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Speaker 1: you the creator, and us the created. We are so

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Speaker 1: grateful that you came to us when we could not

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Speaker 1: come to you, took on human flesh and paid the

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Speaker 1: price for the sin that separated us from you, to

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Speaker 1: by you through the blood of your son as fully

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Speaker 1: righteous and meeting the standard and not lowering the standard.

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Speaker 1: The standard's perfection. And it's only found in your son, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: and your name. We pray Amen. I love Oswald Chambers.

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Speaker 1: I do you know I'm about to end another year

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Speaker 1: of going through his daily devotional. I should say his

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Speaker 1: wife's daily devotional. She put all his sermons together as

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Speaker 1: he died in his forties. But really, really incredible teacher.

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Speaker 1: And I was just reading this week and I thought

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Speaker 1: about Job when and I won't give you the whole

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Speaker 1: we think that God should never bruise us, when God

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Speaker 1: himself bruised his own son, So so he can bruise

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Speaker 1: But today Job is going to be presented something else

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Speaker 2: Actually in his presences.

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Speaker 1: Go now, now, run this Leviathan thing by me. Uh

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Speaker 1: to understand, which I thought very interesting, behemoth we only

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Speaker 1: Job's even mentioned Leviathan earlier in chapter three, verse eight.

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Speaker 1: it's actually Satan. He's he's talking about Lucifer. He's talking

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Speaker 1: seem that it's Uh, there's a lot of many more

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Speaker 2: Uh. It's temperament, its habits. Uh. The bottom line.

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Speaker 1: That we need to take away today is that God

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Speaker 1: You're not going to go out with you fishing hook

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Speaker 1: We've just come out of Behemoth. And then God says, oh,

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Speaker 1: want to ask you something else. Job, can you draw

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Speaker 1: But honestly, if all of us were to say, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't football. The most time we spent with dad

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Speaker 1: was fishing and hunting. He loved that. That was his escape,

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Speaker 1: That's what he loved. And so I started laughing. And

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Speaker 1: of course my granddaddy also was a big fisherman, not

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Speaker 1: as much of a hunter's dad, but a big fisherman.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very familiar with these things that he's talking about.

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Speaker 1: The first verse says, let me ask you this. I'm

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Speaker 1: you some sort of fishing arrangement. Throw a hook in him,

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Speaker 1: bring him in and put him on your stringer. You

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Speaker 1: Now our pierce his jaw with a hook. This is

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Speaker 1: all fishing analogies. You think you can go out and

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Speaker 1: this is the focal point. No one is so fierce

430
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Speaker 1: job humans that they would dare to go against levi Athon.

431
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 1: You wouldn't dare do that, and you're gonna go against me?

432
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: Think about that. Would you look at Leviathan and say,

433
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole. So

434
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,360
Speaker 1: you have fear of what I've created, but you got

435
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,239
Speaker 1: no fear of me who created it. By the way,

436
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: we can all take a note on that. I promise

437
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: you if that door opened up and I don't have

438
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: this planned, would won't be one of the greatest teaching

439
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 1: visuals of all time. But if I were to open

440
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: that door and something that's just in our world, okay,

441
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: if I opened up that door and just let a

442
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: wolf in here, a wolf, everybody in here would go bonkers.

443
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: And if that thing all of a sudden, no offense

444
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: took out, gym right here, took key out, and then

445
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he goes down and he starts

446
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: to get we'd all be I mean, I you know,

447
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: this is where we find out who would throw each

448
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: other in front of them, you know, to save themselves.

449
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: Of course, you know I'm the teacher, so of course

450
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: i'd have to leave because I have to teach next

451
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: week all of the rest of you. But anyway, you

452
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 1: know that's my service to you to be sure I

453
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: can teach you again next week. But I'm talking about

454
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: if we let anything up. You know, a lion in here,

455
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: a wolf, you know, which is not as intimidating as

456
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: a line, A bear came in here freaking have it,

457
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 1: we'd be terrified. Yet God visits with us every week.

458
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 1: We're not afraid of him, and he created all these things.

459
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: These animals are nothing to him. We're terrified of his creation,

460
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: but we're not terrified of the Creator. And that's exactly.

461
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: And you're saying, well, what are you talking about, Rick,

462
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 1: We don't do this kind of stuff. I mean, Job's

463
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: just saying he he doesn't agree with God's tactics.

464
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 2: Right now, We we did, We didn't.

465
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Speaker 1: We you've talked. We know about suffering. You know, we

466
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't question that. But yet we look around at the

467
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: world we live in, and God has a clear definition

468
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: of marriage. And you know what we say to the Creator,

469
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: we think we could have done better than that. We'll

470
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: we'll interpret our own version of that. He's created gender.

471
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: We've rejected that he's created sexual purity. We want no

472
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: part of that. That w one hurt a little closer,

473
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: didn't it. Everybody was saying, I don't have a gender problem.

474
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have a redefinition of marriage problem.

475
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: And he hates fornication too. Yeah, he hates porn. He

476
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: hates anything that corrupts how he designed intimacy.

477
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 2: And you know what we do.

478
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,239
Speaker 1: We stand in front of him and say we think

479
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: we got a better way to do it, and we're

480
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: not afraid of you. We'll do it right in front

481
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: of you.

482
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: I told you.

483
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: Look, I've been guilty of all this too. This's not me,

484
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: I'm I'm talking about us. I'm not talking about you,

485
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: but I will tell you and to see the whole

486
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff gets on us and the lack

487
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: of fear. And I've seen it firsthand counseling people. I've

488
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: seen it in my own life. I mean I have

489
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: sat down and looked in the eyes of men that

490
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: were committing adultery, fornication, you name it, and just making

491
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: sure that they understood as I had to understand you

492
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 1: are doing this to God. And I've seen him weep,

493
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: I've seen him cry, I've seen him well, and I

494
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: have gone home to my wife and said, went great today,

495
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: I think he got it. This guy's going to change,

496
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: and him go right back to her.

497
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 2: After knowing what he was doing.

498
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: Because his flesh was so strong and his love of

499
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: sin so mighty, he was more afraid of not satisfying

500
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: his flesh than he was the judgment of God. So

501
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: be careful when you start saying that we don't tell

502
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: the Creator that we're not afraid of him. I've spent

503
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: too much of my life acting like I wasn't afraid

504
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: of him, and I was a fool and and.

505
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: God forbid.

506
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: That we make the same foolish decision, especially after we

507
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: know better. And he says to job in ten, you

508
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: sure about this job? You can't control creation, and you

509
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 1: can stand before me and question the Creator verse eleven,

510
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: who has first given to me that I should repay him.

511
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. I own

512
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: it all. Joe, what what bargaining chip do you have

513
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: with me? Are you going to come here and bargain

514
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: with me that that what do you have to bring me?

515
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: Remember that, you know, I know that we've talked about

516
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: in here uncomfortably for some people. You got to be

517
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,719
Speaker 1: real careful with some messages that flow around right now

518
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: in places called church. And you've got to be real

519
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: careful if you start hearing theology build and it's always subtle.

520
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: Anything needs to build in a praise and worship song

521
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: or in a message somebody that somehow God should be

522
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: thrilled with us. You hear sometimes it's almost like wait, manute,

523
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: are y'all saying God's worshiping me? Well, he wants you

524
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 1: to have your best life? Now? Where is that? In scripture?

525
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: He says he is the life, he is the way.

526
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: He says that that that the true life is found

527
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: only in me. That is your best life. You know

528
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: that that he's he's he's running after us. He's frantically

529
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: coming after us. What I see is come near to

530
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: God and He'll come near to you. That's right out

531
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: of the scripture. I see seek me and you will

532
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: find me. Now do I see him saying I won't

533
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: give up on you. I've paid the price, of course, absolutely,

534
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: But do I think that God is wringing his hands, saying, boy,

535
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: I tell you I got to go run down Rick today.

536
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: I'm just enambored with him. And I will tell you

537
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: this too. Don't ever have the audacity. There's something that

538
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: God has assigned you to do, and maybe he's enabled

539
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: you to do it well, and somehow you start thinking

540
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: this thing can't win without me. God can't get this

541
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: done without me. Good night, look at me, because let

542
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: me tell you something. And we've had a long talk

543
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: about this in some inner circles over the last couple

544
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: of weeks. He's very clear he will not share his

545
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: glory with anyone. He is he is worthy of worship

546
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: or not. Nothing wrong with encouraging, nothing wrong with patent

547
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: and some on the back saying, man, I appreciate that

548
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: man speaking from experience. That feels good. We need to

549
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 1: encourage people, but.

550
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 2: When we start elevating.

551
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm always leery of any church I go to they

552
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: talk more about their pastor than they do God, you know,

553
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: and they start talking about he did this, and he

554
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: did that, and he did this and he did that.

555
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with.

556
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: Liking you, pastor, but don't worship him because God's not

557
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: gonna share his glory with him, and anything that pastor

558
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: does well came from God.

559
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 2: God's on display, not that person.

560
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: So now we go to twelve, as God says that

561
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: if Joe wanted to in eleven, you want to present

562
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: your claim if you dare, But remember I'm over all creation.

563
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: And you know what God saying in verse eleven. Don't

564
00:31:52,400 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: you ever forget who you're dealing with now twelve, I

565
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 1: will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength,

566
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: or his goodly framed You.

567
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 2: Know what God said.

568
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: I know I've gone over here and talked about something else.

569
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: Don't think I forgotten about Leviathan. I'm coming back to him,

570
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: and I'm not done talking about him. I'm gonna keep

571
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: on about Leviathan. I got more to say about him.

572
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: Thirteen.

573
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come

574
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: near him with a bridle? This is hilarious. Now he's

575
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: moving on to the can you questions to job, which

576
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: God seems to really enjoy. He said, you know, he's

577
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: got a pretty tough hide. It would be impossible if

578
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: you take your bridle and run over to him. He

579
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: has an untamable temper, So I would caution you Job,

580
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: if you're gonna take your bridle and decide you're gonna

581
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: ride the Leviathon, you're gonna break him.

582
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: And then he goes on.

583
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: He says, fourteen, who can open the doors of his

584
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: face around his teeth is terror? You know he's taking

585
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: a look at He's showing the teeth of Leviathan. And

586
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: you know he's saying to Job, you think you can

587
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: take those teeth on. So you probably think there's some

588
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: way to get close enough to him somehow. You think

589
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: his mouth might be a place he's susceptible. You want

590
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: to you take something, throw it down there on his

591
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: throat or something. So, Job, I want to get you

592
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: a look here. If you'll look, these teeth are terrifying.

593
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,959
Speaker 1: Would you even approach that mouth? Now?

594
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 2: See this is where some of you crocodile people start.

595
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: But we got a problem.

596
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: I've seen a crocodile and an alligator be brought under

597
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: control with duct tape.

598
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 2: Okay.

599
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: I've seen a big fat guy jump on his back,

600
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: hold his mouth shut, and somebody puts duct tape on

601
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: it and he's over.

602
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 2: He's harmless.

603
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: That's not levi Athan. You think you're gonna duct tape

604
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: Leviathan or jump on his back.

605
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: How about this.

606
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: You may be saying, Rick, Rick, that's future man, job's

607
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: living in a time. Maybe that wasn't possible. I'm sorry,

608
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: that's not going to stand up either. Did some research

609
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: on that. You know what they found in bodies that

610
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: they found alligators and crocodiles that were on the nile

611
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: that the Egyptians had killed. Guess what they found inside

612
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,479
Speaker 1: of them hooks. Even the Egyptians could get them under control.

613
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: Love Athan's is presented as something that cannot be controlled.

614
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: The Egyptians controlled the crocodiles, they called them, they killed them,

615
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: They were able to conquer them. So this is not

616
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: a crocodile.

617
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: It can't be right.

618
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I've gone to shows and watch people get

619
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: alligators and crocodiles under control. I mean, I'm sitting in

620
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: the bleachers eating popcorn. Okay, I guarantee you.

621
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 2: If you win.

622
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: If the irv Irwin family, i mean, you know, decided

623
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: that they're going to continue with their daddy's legacy and

624
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: they're going to say, come see our show today, we

625
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: will tame levi Athan. I'm telling you that it would

626
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 1: be a show not to miss. But I'd like to

627
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: watch it on TV because I don't want to be there,

628
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: you know, because this thing is indestructible.

629
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 2: Do you all agree with me? It can't be a crocodile.

630
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: It just can't, because we have been able to conquer them,

631
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: and apparently human beings have been able to conquer them

632
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: for a long time. Are they scary, yeah, are they devastating, sure?

633
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: But can they be conquered by humans? Yes? And apparently,

634
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: as I said, for a very very long time. So

635
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: I do not. I will not accept crocodile. Now, if

636
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: I get there and God says it was a crocodile,

637
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: I'll say, okay, I just that sounds like I don't

638
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: know I missed that, but I just don't think it is.

639
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: So he goes on and he keeps moving, and he says,

640
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: in thirteen, I mean sorry. In fifteen, his back is

641
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: made of rows of shields. Shut up closely, as with

642
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: the seal.

643
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: You can see this.

644
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: This is where I think it's more in that dinosaur world.

645
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: It's got back rows of shields and there's no soft spot.

646
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: What he's saying is, you know, even if you're looking

647
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: for a place, he'd be susceptible. You're not gonna find it.

648
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: The way he's designed that you can't even get into there.

649
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: There is no soft spot sixteen. One is so near

650
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: to the other no air can come between them. He's

651
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,879
Speaker 1: talking about him being air tight or water tight. There

652
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: is nowhere to penetrate him with some spear or javelin

653
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: which you'll talk about here in a minute. And he

654
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: says that they are joined one to another, they clasp

655
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: each other and cannot be separated. He's continuing with this,

656
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: you can't penetrate it. This is These details also are

657
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,760
Speaker 1: another reason I just don't think it's a mythical creature.

658
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would spend so much time

659
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: in so many details on a mythical symbolic creature. It's

660
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: not necessary, you know, we'd say it's terrifying. We got it.

661
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 1: But he's getting down to exactly how the different not scales,

662
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: because it's not true scales.

663
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm talking about. You've seen reptiles

664
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 2: and the way.

665
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: They have these plates, and he's saying, look, they're so

666
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: stacked together on him, there's no place to even get

667
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: anything to stick in. It's like armor is all over him.

668
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 1: Now here's where things get real interesting, I mean real interesting.

669
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: I even have in my notes on eighteen and nineteen

670
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: and on, I mean I wrote that, what are we

671
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: talking about here? His sneezings flash forth light, and his

672
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. His eyes

673
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 1: are red like the rising sun. Look at nineteen. Out

674
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: of his mouth go flaming torches, sparks of fire leap forth.

675
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: Are we talking about the fire breathing dragon? Here? You

676
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: see them throughout world history. They seem to be depicted

677
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: quite a bit where they hear at one time? Is

678
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: this something mythical? Is this something that actually was here?

679
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. Don't think that

680
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: the original language is gonna make this any better, the

681
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: original language still talking about fire coming out of his mouth.

682
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you. That's just what

683
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 2: God said.

684
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: Uh.

685
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 2: And then he goes on to say this.

686
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: He says, out of his nostrils come forth smoke as

687
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: from a boiling pot and burning rushes. Again, it sounds

688
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: it sounds a lot like a dragon. That that that's

689
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: what it sounds like, and it seems to be a

690
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: menacing force. So now let's go to twenty one his

691
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.

692
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: Now let me see if let me gets a psalm psalm.

693
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: I think it's eighteen. So let's let's let me look

694
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: at this because this is something that we have to

695
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: understand right here, because this this picture that is being

696
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: shown right now. I'm going to Psalm eighteen and I'm

697
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: gonna look at verses eight and nine. Smoke went up

698
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth. Glowing

699
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: coals flamed forth from him. He bowed the heavens and

700
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. So when

701
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: you look at this, what is the Psalmis talking about?

702
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: This is David who wrote this one. He is saying

703
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 1: that he called upon the Lord. Look at verse six,

704
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: to my God, I cried for help from his temple.

705
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: He heard my voice, and my cry reached his ears.

706
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 2: Talking about God.

707
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: Then the earth rilled and rocked, and the foundations also

708
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 1: of the mountains trembled and quaked because God was angry.

709
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: Now we get to eight.

710
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,479
Speaker 1: Smoke went up from his nostrils, devouring fire from his mouth,

711
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: Glowing cold flamed forth from him. Well, levi Athan, certainly

712
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: isn't God. But these are things that apparently David had

713
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: visions of God looking like. So is it possible that

714
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: God the Creator is showing that some of his characteristics

715
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: and power he's certainly put in creation, because we've seen

716
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: that too. So Job is no match for Leviathan. But

717
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: notice the theme, and you'll see it in the other places,

718
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: in some psalms where it talks about Leviathan.

719
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 2: What you see here is Job. This may be a

720
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 2: big deal for you, but it's nothing to me. I

721
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 2: control Levithan.

722
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: You can't. I created him. I control him, I can

723
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: devour him. I have power over him. Once again, this

724
00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: is the running theme. Is I created all there is?

725
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: I am above creation. I am over creation. If you

726
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: think creation is strong and overwhelming, you need to realize

727
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: that me to creator in order to be the one

728
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: who created it. I am more powerful than what I created.

729
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: And look how overwhelming what I created is. And look

730
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: at your place human being in the middle of all this.

731
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: It is interesting, isn't it? It is interesting. It's one

732
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: of the things that Scripture says. Even the angels kind

733
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: of tilt their head about what is this redemption thing

734
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: with God and these humans? They really seem kind of pathetic.

735
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some things that we've done that show

736
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: that God gave brilliance to humans. Don't misunderstand me. He

737
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: is on display in human beings too. I mean that's

738
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: one of the things when I when if you ever

739
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: get to the point, like if you hear someone that

740
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: can really really sing.

741
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 2: That always just is worshipful to me.

742
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: And it's always sad when someone who's so gifted takes

743
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: those gifts and goes away from God with them, because

744
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: there's just something beautiful of worship to watch a human

745
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: use the incredible talent that is showing us our creator

746
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: bring glory to him, not to themselves, just to see

747
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: what God can do. Even an incredible athlete to be

748
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 1: able to say, man, look at God on display. You

749
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: know someone who's a brilliant scientist, that is. Can you

750
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: imagine the person who says, I think I can take

751
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: the heart out, I think I can repair it and

752
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: put it back in. I mean, can you imagine being

753
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: there for that pitch? You'll be like, what, But God

754
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: enabled human beings to figure that kind of stuff out.

755
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 2: Go into the moon. For those of you that don't question.

756
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: That, we went and and you know, and just the

757
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: incredible advancements that we've seen human beings make. But that's

758
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: not to glorify the brilliance of human beings. It's to

759
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: show the creation and the creator how wonderful he is.

760
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 2: And when we miss that.

761
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: But even with all that he's enabled human beings to do,

762
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: He's saying, but you couldn't take on levi athen, you

763
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: can't take on the things I've created.

764
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: How about this?

765
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: Without me, you can't really take on anything. Think about

766
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: Jesus talking about that in John fifteen. What do you say,

767
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: Apart from me, you can do nothing. So this is

768
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:32,720
Speaker 1: the lesson that Job is being taught. And he's using

769
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: this as something for Job to get the message.

770
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: It's a visual.

771
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 1: You know you ever seen people get up and say,

772
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: let me show you a vision. Oh I love a visual. Well,

773
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: here's a good one. Twenty two in his neck abide

774
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: strength and terror dances before him. That's quite an analogy

775
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: from God that there's so much strength at his neck.

776
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: And how about this Dismay literally dances before him the

777
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: most terrifying thing you can think of. Job would stand

778
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: before Leviathan and dance in front of it. If it

779
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 1: would please Levithan the most thing. Do you think of terror?

780
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: This guy sees as dancing. Twenty three The folds of

781
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.

782
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: We're seeing an indestructible creature here. You know, even some

783
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: animals or creatures might have a soft spot. Leviathan does

784
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: not appear to have any. He's immovable. You can't stop him.

785
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: Twenty four His heart, his heart as stone hard as

786
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: the lower Millstone. Commentary disagrees a little bit here. Some

787
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 1: are saying, is he talking about the attitude of the creature.

788
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 2: He's heartless? He'll destroy everybody?

789
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: Maybe, but more likely, since he's talking about him being indestructible,

790
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: I think what's more plausible is that even if you

791
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: thought you could get a spear in there somewhere, because

792
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: most of us, I just did it this past weekend.

793
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: And I will tell you I love our culture in

794
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: the South. So we killed some deer this past weekend.

795
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: And where do we try to shoot them? We try

796
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: to shoot them through the heart because it kills them instantly,

797
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 1: and there's an area on the deer that you're supposed

798
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: to aim for that will collapse their lungs and burst

799
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: their heart and they die instantly. They don't suffer, and

800
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: then you take them into the processor. I go into

801
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: the processor only in my sweet home Alabama, steak. Would

802
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: you see this?

803
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 2: I walk in the processor.

804
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: There deer hanging everywhere, okay, and there is a female

805
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: in full camo standing there, just blood and stuff all around.

806
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: Her where they're processing these deer.

807
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: And she shouts to the hanging deer to the men

808
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: that are processing them and says, any of them still

809
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: got a heart intact? And the guy said, yeah, this

810
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: one over here does. She said, cut that out for me.

811
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: I'm taking that home with me.

812
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 2: I love deep the heart of them.

813
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, you don't hear that anywhere

814
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: but to Alabama, you know what, I thought. Even our

815
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: women are eating the hearts out of the deer, you know.

816
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: And then she looks at me, she goes, you don't

817
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: eat the heart. I said, no, I usually don't know.

818
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 2: And we'll let me cook it for you.

819
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: You'll eat it, I said, you know what, I think

820
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: I'm good. There's so many, so many other things on

821
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: the deer that are so tasty. I think I'll stick

822
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: with that tender loin. But I appreciate that, thank you.

823
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: But so what he's saying is, even if you thought

824
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: you could get a kill shot on Leviathan, his heart

825
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: is so powerful and hard it would just his heart

826
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: would just deflect it. So it could be one of

827
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: those two. I think the latter, probably because that seems

828
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: to be what he's describing. But I'll take it as

829
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: attitude too. That's not too bad. He's heartless, he's destructive.

830
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 2: Twenty five.

831
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid at

832
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: the crashing.

833
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 2: They are beside themselves.

834
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 1: Now hang on to this. Now we're getting into the

835
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: water a little bit, he says. The mighty hunters people

836
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: who go out, and I mean that's what some people

837
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: also said. Well, this is a whal.

838
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We've harpooned whales. We've killed them too.

839
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: Okay, there's been plenty of mighty hunters that have gone

840
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: out long ago and went out and taken on a whale.

841
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: Now they're incredible and unbelievable, the largest ones their size,

842
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: but they've been harpooned, they've been brought in.

843
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: Okay, so not a whale.

844
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: But he's saying, if you went out to harpoon him,

845
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: you would have your hands full, and even the most

846
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: mighty of the hunters would not dare go after him,

847
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: because once they see him crashing around in the sea,

848
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: they don't want anything to do with him. Now look

849
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: at this twenty six. Though the sword reaches him, it

850
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 1: does not avail nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

851
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 1: He gives you a lot of things here. A sword's

852
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: not gonna hurt him. A spear's not gonna hurt him.

853
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: A dart's not gonna hurt him. The javelin's not gonna

854
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: hurt it. Look at this, he says, here he is

855
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: twenty seven. He counts iron job as straw, and bronze

856
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: is rotten wood. You can't get him with even some

857
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: precious metals. You could have the most incredible spear, the

858
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: most incredible javelin. It could be made of iron, It

859
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: could be made of bronze. It would hit him like

860
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: an old, rotten piece of wood, shattering into pieces. Or

861
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: how about this iron is like straw hitting him, indestructible.

862
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 2: Twenty eight.

863
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: The arrow cannot make him flee for him. Sling stones

864
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: are turned to stubble. It is interesting that God, after

865
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: all these, he says, even if you decided for some

866
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: reason you're gonna pull a goliathe move on him. You're

867
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: gonna take the sling out and hit him at the

868
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: right spot with that rock. It's gonna be just like stubble.

869
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: Your arrows they're a joke, he said. They don't make

870
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: him flee. He's not even afraid of them. And then

871
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna try to club him to death. Look at

872
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: twenty nine clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at

873
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: the rattle of javelins. Thirty His underparts are like sharp

874
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: post herds. He spreads himself like threshing sledge on the mire.

875
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: So he's really really creating a visual here of this

876
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: very very intimidating creature. And when you look at some

877
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: of the stuff that he's saying, he's talking about the

878
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: weapons won't won't hurt him. He's talking about his underbelly.

879
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: It leaves a trail. That's what he's talking about.

880
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: In thirty.

881
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: Here, his underparts are like sharp post herds. Have you

882
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,320
Speaker 1: ever seen like an alligator or something that moves and

883
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,439
Speaker 1: you can see where it is in the mud. He said,

884
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: this thing is so big and so strong, he said,

885
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: if you saw him slide through an area, sa he

886
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: came through a little mud right here, it would look

887
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 1: like somebody that brought a tractor through here. It would

888
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: have like somebody just came in here and and and

889
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: and came through here with the biggest blade of all that.

890
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: He stirs up when he comes through. Look at thirty one.

891
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: He makes the deep boil like a pot. He makes

892
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: the sea like a pot of ointment. He agitates the

893
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: entire pool or any body of water around him. Can

894
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: you imagine the sheer size? Can you see the water

895
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: stirring up around this incredible creature? He said, Even the

896
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: sea looks like a pot of ointment compared to him.

897
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: How he's stirring the water up behind him, He leaves

898
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: a shining wake. One would think the deep to be

899
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:15,720
Speaker 1: white haired.

900
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: There's so much of it.

901
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,959
Speaker 1: You can't even see now where there's so much white

902
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: water being stirred up with his incredible size and his

903
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: incredible strength.

904
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 2: That job.

905
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: You would look down and go where what happened to

906
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: the sea. It looks like all of it's white now.

907
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: He's stirred up so much white water.

908
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 2: On earth.

909
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: There's none, there's not his like he's a creature without fear. Hey, Job,

910
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: there's nothing on earth to equal of athen Who do

911
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: you think he's also including in that list, including you?

912
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: Thirty four? He sees everything that is high. He is

913
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: king over the sons of Pride. He has an exalted

914
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: view of himself. Job. He gazes on the other created creatures.

915
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: He sees himself king of them all. Hey, Job, do

916
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: you have control over all these things I've given you?

917
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: You can't control any of the things I presented, and

918
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: you certainly can't control Behemoth, and you can't control Leviathan.

919
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: But I can't. I can control all these things. You know.

920
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: I told you that Leviathan was mentioned, you know, six

921
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,479
Speaker 1: times in the Old Testament, two of them and Job.

922
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: But Isaiah, we've already listened to what he has to say.

923
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: But I want to go to Psalms to close, because

924
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: it's also mentioned in more than one Psalm seventy four

925
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: or fourteen. Levithan is not specifically talked about. But the

926
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 1: key of what Job is being taught is it says

927
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 1: in seventy four verse fourteen. Yeah, that's it. It says

928
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: you crushed the heads of Levithan. You gave him as

929
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: food for the creatures of the wilderness. Now look up

930
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: at twelve. Who's he talking about? Yet, God, my king,

931
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: is from old working salvation in the midst of the earth.

932
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: You God, divided the sea by your might. You broke

933
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. They

934
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: get thirteen and then fourteen. You crushed the heads of Levithan.

935
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

936
00:52:54,960 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: Interesting this is in the Psalmister saying, even by the

937
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,640
Speaker 1: time these are written, the Psalmist knows about Leviathan.

938
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 2: Did he learn it from the book of Job.

939
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: Maybe he certainly was aware of it, But he makes

940
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: the point that Job needs to learn Levithann to you, Lord,

941
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: you could divide him up and feed him to the

942
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: rest of creation. He's nothing compared to you. Go to

943
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: psimn one O four some one O four twenty six.

944
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: This is what makes him a little unique. We don't

945
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 1: see other parts of the Bible talking about Behemoth, but

946
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: we do Levithan verse twenty six, Psalm one O four.

947
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: There go the ships and Levithan, which you formed to

948
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: play in it talking about the sea. Look at twenty five.

949
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: Here is the sea great and wide, which teams with creatures,

950
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: innumerable living things, both small and great. There go the

951
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: ships and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

952
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: I just think it's a creature. I because unlike Behemoth,

953
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: we've got other scriptures referring to this, and never once

954
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: is it referred to as something symbolic, something mythical. It's

955
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 1: referred to as a creature. They're even saying it was

956
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: in the sea, but that's really not the point. It's interesting,

957
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,439
Speaker 1: and I will I think, after the time I've spent

958
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: studying it, I'm going to land that it is a creature.

959
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: I don't know when it was here, but I know

960
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: that God put it in his resume, and he put

961
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: it in his resume last.

962
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 2: And you could see him.

963
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: Building all the way when he was talking about and

964
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: the very last thing he talks about is Leviathan. I

965
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: think for us, if you want to go symbolic, it's

966
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: certainly okay for us to take it and make it

967
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:11,760
Speaker 1: symbolic now since we don't have this creature thankfully around anymore,

968
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: but in everyone's life, and I've seen it up close

969
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: and personal, and I know a lot of you have

970
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: to you either faced Leviathan in your life and with

971
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: something representing something that was insurmountable. I can't I can't

972
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:39,280
Speaker 1: defeat this, but God can. Some of you are facing

973
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: Leviathan in your life right now. There's something that you

974
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: think I can't defeat this. You're right, so stop and

975
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,959
Speaker 1: just remember that God can. And then I got news

976
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: for some of you. There's a Leviathan waiting on you,

977
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: and it's coming and it's going to be insurmountable, more

978
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 1: than you can handle. Remember that whatever it is, God

979
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 1: is greater. God is stronger. God has never left control

980
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: of the situation. And from someone who has been foolish

981
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: enough to go into the ring and fight to exhaustion,

982
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:34,240
Speaker 1: where I'm laying there on the mat, breathing, sighing, sobbing,

983
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: saying I can't beat it, God so lovingly just stands

984
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: there in my corner and says, are you ready for

985
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: me to try? Why don't you just give it to me?

986
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: Have you exhausted yourself trying to do it your way,

987
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: trying to defeat it your way? Understand it's insurmountable to you,

988
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: but not to me. Let's pray Lord, thank you for today,

989
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: thank you for the wonderful, wonderful reminder of who you are.

990
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea what Lebithan is. Lord, I'm

991
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: just looking at your description, and that's good enough for me.

992
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: It is something that human beings have no chance against.

993
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: And you're just reminding job and reminding us of our

994
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: place in the world. Do you deem us of value? Yes,

995
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: the Redemption story tells us that. But are we greater

996
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 1: than the creation? We are not, and we certainly aren't

997
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: greater than you. Thank you for the reminder today of

998
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: your greatness, greater than anything that creation has ever produced.

999
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: We will stop being in awe of the creation and

1000
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: forget give us for worshiping creation. As we have developed

1001
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: our own religion, and it's been going on since the fall.

1002
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: May we be maybe not as impressed with creation, and

1003
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: maybe today we are in all of the Creator, and

1004
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: maybe we'll stop making much of creation and much of ourselves,

1005
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: and maybe we should make much of you. Forgive us

1006
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: for the times that we've made much of everything but you.

1007
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: As we become less, you become more. As creation in

1008
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: its fallen state is just you showing us what you

1009
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: can do. But even what we see before us now

1010
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: within the most beautiful animal, the most beautiful sunset, the

1011
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: most beautiful, breathtaking view. This is all your throwaway. We

1012
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: can't even comprehend what this was like before the fall,

1013
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: and we anxiously await the day. As Paul tells us

1014
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 1: in The Romans chapter eight, that even the fallen earth

1015
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: is groaning for you to make it right. And our

1016
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: hope remains in that day, that it will come when

1017
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: you make everything right. And remembering today that only you

1018
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: can do it, we can. In your name, we pray amen.

1019
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys,