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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Grateful that you are

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Speaker 1: to where we're going to be, we'll be in Job

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Speaker 1: chapter twenty nine today, Job Chapter twenty nine. If you're

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Speaker 1: just joining this Wednesday Bible Study, we are working our

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Speaker 1: way through the Book of Job, word for word and

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Speaker 1: Still a good bit left in the journey, but if

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Speaker 1: Job twenty nine. Lord, thank you for today, thank you

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Speaker 1: for the encouragement that we continue to receive. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for you know, forgive us, I would say, for being

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Speaker 1: surprised when we see transformation, when your word clearly says

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Speaker 1: those that truly abide in You will be transformed. And

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Speaker 1: so we know this is the power, this is the source.

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Speaker 1: It comes from you. Lord. May we approach it today

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Speaker 1: And for those out there that have yet to begin

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Speaker 1: of salvation and your holy name, we pray. Amen. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So what is job twenty nine all about? Now? Jobs

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Speaker 1: answer is the same for all who seek wisdom. But

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Speaker 1: it was an interesting conversation. You know, it's the Book

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Speaker 1: of Job is an enigma. Uh. There's a lot to

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Speaker 1: going to now, how many of you have ever you know,

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Speaker 1: not many Bible studies will ever use commentary from Bob Seger?

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Speaker 1: He's reminiscing on the good old days? Man. I was

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Speaker 1: seventy five. I was something to see. Y'all missed it.

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Speaker 1: I did, and and on good days I have now

429
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Speaker 1: I still enjoyed them. But you know, there's been so

430
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Speaker 1: many things that have happened in my life. Now I

431
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: no longer hold them in high regard because I know

432
00:24:52,280 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: they're just moments. And as Solomon taught us, it's just vapors.

433
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: It's that it's not what last, but they can be blessings.

434
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: So certainly enjoy it. Now he's going to talk about

435
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: he had also a place of honor before all this was.

436
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: He was held in high regard in the community. And look,

437
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: he says, here when I went out to the gate

438
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 1: of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square.

439
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: Now understand Job had. We've learned a lot, and we're

440
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: gonna learn more today. I mean a lot. Job was

441
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: a very big deal in his community. He was the god.

442
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: Don't picture him as just a guy who was wealthy

443
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: and whatever. It was more than that. I mean, if Job,

444
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: You'll see, if Job walked into the room, he would

445
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: come command the floor. We'll see how Job feels about it.

446
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: So he was not a influential guy. He was the

447
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: influential guy in his community. And when you talk about

448
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: and you know, if you had a place at the

449
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: gates of the city, that meant that you served on

450
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: a court that made decisions. This was a position of

451
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: honor and prestige to have a seat at the city gate.

452
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: Not everybody had a seat at the gate, but Job did.

453
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: And you're gonna find out that even when he got

454
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: in with the bunch that had the seats at the gate,

455
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: he was the most important person at the gate. And

456
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: he says, I remember that, look what he says, an ate.

457
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: The young man saw me and withdrew, and the aged

458
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 1: rose and stood. Well. So if you were some young

459
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: whipper snapper and you thought you were really something, and

460
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: when Job walked into the room and you're like, hey,

461
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: let me ease over here to my seat, Job, don't

462
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: think I'm trying to take your spot. He was revered

463
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: by the aged, and he was feared by the young.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to be on the wrong side of Job,

465
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: you know, if if you ever it always loved to

466
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: watch these young bulks when they think there's something. And

467
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: then some some older aged guy comes in there and

468
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: kind of puts them in their place. Feels good, doesn't he?

469
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: I like watching that? And you know they they kind

470
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: of you say it out in the in the in

471
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: the wild. You ever seen you ever seen that young line.

472
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: And he thought he was ready to take to take

473
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: the leader of the pack. He did, he thought he

474
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: was ready. He thought he'd got there. And the old

475
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: man just whips him so bad. And then what does

476
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 1: he do. He just takes his head, He puts his

477
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: head down and goes, hey, I don't want any more

478
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: of this. And he'll ease back over in his spot

479
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: in the pack and say sorry about that. That's on me.

480
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: I thought I was ready, and and so this is

481
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,239
Speaker 1: he said. Young men treated me like that. They did,

482
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: they didn't want they didn't think they were ready for me.

483
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: And and and the aged that. When I now think

484
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: about this, it's one thing to say that young people

485
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: respected you. The older men respected I mean they they

486
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 1: stood when he when he came in. So that that

487
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: remember what I'm telling you, He's not just a guy

488
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: who was influential in a group. He was likely the

489
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 1: most influential of the influential. Young and old respected him

490
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: and they stood in the honor of my presence, or

491
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: they withdrew in the honor of my presence. And I

492
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: remember that, and I miss that. I miss that prestige.

493
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: I miss that honor. Nine the princes refrained from talking

494
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: and laid their hands on their mouth. Wow, even the

495
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: nobles wouldn't say anything bad about me. They would rather

496
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: cover their mouths than to speak ill to Job. And

497
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: he says, you know, they wouldn't say a bad word

498
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: against my character, and they wouldn't say an unkind thing

499
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: about me. Even the nobles respected me. So really, you

500
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: can't find anybody in the community that didn't respect Job.

501
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: And now here's what he's saying in front of his friends.

502
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: And now here I am listen to y'all bad mouthed

503
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: me and run me down. And now I'm nothing in

504
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: this community. I'm a wretch. And I miss the good

505
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: old days. I miss those. Now, let me caution us again,

506
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: don't waste time that you could be learning about the

507
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: situation you're in reminiscing about the good old days. You

508
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: know that this is not a good example, you understand it,

509
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: But you gotta deal with what you're in right now.

510
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: And I also don't want us to fall victim to thinking,

511
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: especially in this room, because of the time of the

512
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: day we do it. Most everybody in here we're a

513
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: little bit older. We've got a few exceptions, but the

514
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: majority of us are as old as me or older. Okay.

515
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: And where we got to be careful is not to

516
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: get so caught up in this good old days thing

517
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: that we think we're done. Everything I could do for

518
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: the Lord is in the past. No, it really how

519
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: you finish and what you're doing now. I would go

520
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: as far as to say, if you've got your mental

521
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: and physical health, you got more freedom now than you've

522
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: had at any period of your life, and you ought

523
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: to be. With all this gray hair in here, we

524
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: are to be smarter than we used to be. We

525
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 1: are to have more wisdom than we once had. We

526
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: have more to bring to the table now than we've

527
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: ever had. No offense to the young people, y'all are coming, okay,

528
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: But but just just by the years that we've been here, now,

529
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: I've I've been around some pretty old men that that

530
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: I'm shocked at how stupid they still are. But but, but, but,

531
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: but what I'm saying is we've we've you know what.

532
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: What does the farmer's insurance guys say, we know a

533
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: thing of two because we've seen a thing or two. Right, So,

534
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: so there's something to that. And and and I think

535
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,719
Speaker 1: we should learn from that. Now. I admit that I

536
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: think that a lot of this wisdom has been disrupted

537
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: by the invention of things like viagra. I think that

538
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: just just when we finally got to the point that

539
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: we had our wits about us, somebody goes and get

540
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: some medication and cranks a bunch of old men up.

541
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: And now they're out doing stupid things in their old

542
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: age when they finally had some peace, you know what.

543
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: And so so I but but but I will tell

544
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: you there's a reason that some of that stuff starts

545
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: winding down, so we won't be so stupid, you know.

546
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 1: And and so I mean it don't it don't run

547
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: us like it once did, right, okay? And and so

548
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: so there there's that there's a lot of wisdom that

549
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 1: comes with a lot of clarity. I mean, I'm not

550
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: even joking, there really is. And and and so don't

551
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: squander looking back on the good old days when God

552
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: said I got something I want you to do right now,

553
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: Even in the diffaul culty, I'll let you be in

554
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: so verse ten, the voice of the nobles was hushed,

555
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouth.

556
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: Their silence honored him. Sometimes he walked in there where

557
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: a bunch of nobles were, and they would just be

558
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: quiet because of honoring him. And he said it was

559
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: as if they couldn't even speak when I came into

560
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: the room. Do you all agree that he's not just

561
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: one of the influential, He may be the most in

562
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: this particular area. When the ear heard it, called me blessed,

563
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: and when the eyes saw it approved. Man. Let me

564
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: tell you something, I was in good standing with everyone.

565
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: My name when people heard it was a blessing. And

566
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: when people saw me, they approved of the way I lived.

567
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: If you heard my name, they wouldn't have a bad

568
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: things said about me, And if you saw me walk

569
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: into a room, you would say, that's a good man

570
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: right there. Remember I talked about a lot we do

571
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: this with the man church, the term god fearing man.

572
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: Do you remember that said that this room's got enough

573
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: ag in it that you probably did hear the term

574
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: that's a god fearing man. And there was no greater

575
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: compliment than any man in the community you could ever

576
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: be given. Hey, son, you see mister so and so

577
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: over there, that's a god fearing man right there. Job said,

578
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: everybody saw me as a god fearing man. They saw

579
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: me as a man of high character. I wonder now

580
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: if we have a generation that is even cares to

581
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: be called a god fearing man? Is this a term

582
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: we even use anymore? Because that was one of the

583
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: things that if it was said about you, it meant

584
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: you had wisdom enough to fear God. You had wisdom

585
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: enough to be right with God, and you weren't stupid,

586
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: and you didn't lack wisdom. You lived a life that

587
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: was honoring to God. I don't even hear that phrase anymore.

588
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: Maybe we should bring it back. And how many god

589
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: fearing people do we even know? Not god believing, god

590
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: fearing I know a lot of God believing people, but

591
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: I only know a few god fearing people. And Job

592
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 1: obviously passed that test and of public scrutiny verse twelve,

593
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: because I now he's gonna talk about why he was

594
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: honored because I delivered the poor who cried for help

595
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: and the fabulous who had none to help him. You

596
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: know why I was honored because I took care of people.

597
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: I didn't just keep it for myself. I didn't just

598
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: take all these the wealth that I didn't take all

599
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: of this. I used my influence for good. I didn't

600
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: usually just to blow myself up. You know, when there

601
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: were orphans, I took care of them. When they were widows,

602
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: I took care of them. Everybody did just honor me

603
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: because of my wealth. They honored me because of my actions,

604
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: because of the way I actually lived. And you know,

605
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 1: like we've said a thousand times, but it's worth repeating again,

606
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: what we really believe is what we actually do. James

607
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: talks about this. It's not about earning redemption. It's just

608
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: saying that there's no way for you to truly experience

609
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 1: redemption and fruit and not be flowing. Works not be flowing.

610
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: It's the proof of redemption. And so, you know, like

611
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: I've said a hundred times, but it's worth saying again

612
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 1: because it's been a while. If I told y'all, I

613
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: was concerned that this bottle was going to fill me

614
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: with microplastics, And every time you see me, I'm drinking

615
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: one of them. I don't think I really fear that

616
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: or or believe that, because if I believe that this

617
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: bottle of water was going to kill me, you wouldn't

618
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: see me sitting here drinking it. So I might tell

619
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: you I believe it's going to kill me, But you say,

620
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: but I watched the way you live. You don't really

621
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: believe it because you drink bottle of water all the time.

622
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: So I think sometimes people say, well, I hear you

623
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: talking about that you believe in God, and I hear

624
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: you talking about that you fear God, and I hear

625
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: you saying you're a follower of Jesus, and I hear

626
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: you talk about how you have some reverence for the

627
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: teachings of Jesus, but I don't ever see you live

628
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: them out. So I don't think you really believe it,

629
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: because if you believed that, you would actually do it. Right.

630
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: Remember my famous example of the guy about the mission

631
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: trip and who was saying that he didn't have to

632
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: go to the ends of the earth to do the

633
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: work of God, he could do it right here in

634
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: his own city. You remember that, which he's right, He's

635
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: one hundred cent right, And he pointed across the highway

636
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: at the apartment complex y'all remember that one. And so

637
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: I made the mistake of asking him what he was

638
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: going to do for the apartment complex, what his game

639
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: plan was, and he didn't. He didn't have one. He

640
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: wasn't going to take care of the apartment complex. He

641
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: was diverting and making excuse for not doing ministry. What

642
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: he didn't want to do is do ministry. Said he

643
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: didn't want to travel to the ends of the earth

644
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: and he wasn't required to, which is not And he said,

645
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: I told my kids, you know, we ain't gonna pay

646
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: for that trip. We can go right over here and

647
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: minister this apartment complex. And I said, so tell me

648
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: how you did it. What's your plan. We're gonna do

649
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: a block party. We're going to door to door. He

650
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: had no plan, and listen to this, and he never

651
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: did it. So he didn't really believe that because he

652
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: didn't do it. He didn't do anything. And that's what

653
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: he really wanted to do, was nothing. So this is

654
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: the same thing we see here. He said, I didn't

655
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: just you know, have good a good reputation. There's a

656
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: reason I had good reputation because I didn't just say

657
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: somebody should take care of those widows, and somebody should

658
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 1: take care of those orphans, and somebody needs to do this,

659
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: and somebody needs to do that. I actually did it.

660
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: So these things people were saying about me, they were

661
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: actually true. So but by the way I lived my life,

662
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, Jesus even tells us that. And that's the

663
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: Matthew seven. You know we always said, oh no, Matthew seven.

664
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: But really all he's saying is, if you want to

665
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: know who's with me, just watch them. If they're not

666
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: obeying my father, they're not with me. They say anything,

667
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: say they're doing this in my name, and they've done

668
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: all this in my name, and this is going on.

669
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: But if you don't see them obeying the will of

670
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: my father, they're not mine. All kinds of people talk

671
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: about me, watch what they do, and then you'll know.

672
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: So he says, I've done this, and then and then

673
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: look at thirteen. The blessing of him who was about

674
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: to perish, came upon me, and I caused the widow's

675
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: heart to sing for joy. When men were dying, they

676
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: came to me, and you know what, I said, your

677
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: family will be taken care of. I was a comfort

678
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: to the dying and I assured them before they died

679
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: that their wives and their children would not be left

680
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: with nothing. Because you realize in the culture here we're

681
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: talking about, even though Job is not a Hebrew, you know,

682
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: Job is a gentile, but even in this culture, it

683
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: still was pretty common that women didn't really have any standing.

684
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: If you don't have a husband and you don't have sons,

685
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: you got nothing. And so when these men were dying,

686
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: what would they say, just like us now with life

687
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: insurance or you know, a will, what we want to

688
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: know that if we die first, that our wives and

689
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: children are going to be all right. You know what?

690
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: Job said. They would come to me because I gave

691
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,959
Speaker 1: them peace, that they could die in peace. Their family

692
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: be fine. I'll take care of them. Fourteen. I put

693
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was like

694
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: a robe and a turban. He was clothed in righteousness.

695
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: What did that mean? You know what it meant if

696
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: you came to him on a deal or your case

697
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: came before him. He always was fair, he said, you know,

698
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything that wasn't just. I didn't do

699
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: anything that wasn't fair. I treated people fairly based on

700
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: the situation I was always just in whatever my ruling was,

701
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: I was fair to everyone. I didn't tilt the scale

702
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: toward people of influence versus people that maybe didn't have

703
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: as much influence, or our family versus another family. I

704
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: was always just. I was always fair, and righteousness flowed

705
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: from me. It was all I always judged correctly, inspired

706
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: by God. And then fifteen he said, I was eyes

707
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: to the blind and feet to the lame. I took

708
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: care of those who were blind and lame. I guided them,

709
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 1: and I gave them support. What's one of the things

710
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: the foreshadowing Jesus said to look for? He said, I

711
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 1: want to look for how you treat the least of these?

712
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: What about people that are blind and lame? Do you

713
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: just disregard them? Do you notice them? Do you help them?

714
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: Because the way you treat them is the way you

715
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: treat me. You know what, Job said. I was always

716
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: there to help those that needed help. If they had

717
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: physical elements, I'd be their eyes. If they couldn't walk,

718
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: I'd be the person to take them where they needed

719
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: to go. I provided what they needed. So then he

720
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: goes and he says, I was a father to the needy,

721
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: and I searched out the cause of him who I

722
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,240
Speaker 1: did not know. How about that I was a father

723
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: to the fatherless. Number one, I was a father to

724
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 1: the fatherless, the father to the fatherless. You know what else?

725
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: He said, If you were a stranger and you were lost,

726
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: you don't know what's to doue, I'd help you. I'd

727
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: guide you. I'd help you get to where you were going.

728
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: Even if I didn't know you, I would still help you.

729
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: If you had a need, I'd guide you. So you

730
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: see the kind of man that job was. And so

731
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: you also can kind of understand why this has been

732
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: so difficult for him to hear from people that were

733
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: supposedly his friends and knew him. Well, he's really saying,

734
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: I long for the days when everybody believed this about me,

735
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 1: And I don't know why you don't believe it now,

736
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: and it's all been thrown away. And I yearned for

737
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: the day when all the things y'all should know about

738
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: me y'all agreed. But you don't anymore. You don't agree

739
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: with this anymore. And then he said, in seventeen, I

740
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop

741
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,479
Speaker 1: his prey from his teeth. What a visual, he said,

742
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: I rescued victims. If Job would have been seeing what

743
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: was going on with the human trafficking we see now,

744
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: Job would have had a ministry that went inside the

745
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: sex trade, and he'd be delivering people out of it,

746
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: those of you that that had become prey to the unrighteous.

747
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: I will make sure they drop you out of their teeth.

748
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: I'll rescue you from the unrighteous. I'll help you to

749
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: be just pray to the predators in our society. Pretty

750
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: good resume from Job. Then he goes on and he says,

751
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: I want to paint a picture of the rest of this,

752
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: but the bottom line, when we let's take this and

753
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: apply it to ourselves at the end of this list,

754
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: here's what we would say. Job was tender, he was generous,

755
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: he was a man of service, he was a man

756
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: of justice, and he was a man of bravery. That's

757
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: a good list. So now he says, and because of this,

758
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: I remember when I had an anticipation of a peaceful

759
00:43:54,280 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: death Verses eighteen through twenty. Then I thought, I I

760
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my

761
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: days as the sand. You know what I thought I

762
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: would live a really, really long life, and I thought

763
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: I would die peaceful death, and that doesn't seem to

764
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: be happening. I thought i'd have a lot of years,

765
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: and I thought i'd just kind of fade peacefully away.

766
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: And here I am apparently dying younger than he thought.

767
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: He thinks he's about to die, and it's not peaceful

768
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 1: at all. I'm dying sooner than I thought, and I'm

769
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: dying in a much worse way than I thought. I'm

770
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: suffering Verse nineteen. My roots spread out to the waters

771
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 1: with the dew all night on my branches. Thought I'd

772
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 1: be nourished, thought I'd be healthy. That's what these roots

773
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: are an example of. I really thought that I would

774
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: live a life that would be healthy. I wouldn't be sick,

775
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be decrepit. I wouldn't be sores all over me.

776
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be, you know, scratching myself with broken pieces

777
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: of pottery. I really thought that my roots would be

778
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: nourished all the way until the day of my death

779
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: Verse twenty. My glory fresh with me, and my bow

780
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: ever knew in my hand. I thought I would die

781
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: with honor, with my strength and my resilience until the

782
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: day I died. I did not think I would die

783
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: diseased and wasting away. You know, you remember even hearing

784
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: about Abraham, how Abraham seemed to have his vitality, you know,

785
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: all the way to the end, and job was like,

786
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 1: I kind of thought that would be me. I thought

787
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: I would have honor. I thought I would have strength.

788
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: I thought that I would be resilient until one night

789
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 1: when I went to sleep and the Lord would just

790
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: take me. But that's not what's happening. That's not what's happening.

791
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: And here's one thing that is gonna be tough. Now, guys,

792
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: now listen up, and ladies that are watching and listening,

793
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: here's where it gets a little tough. Are you starting

794
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: to think that you might be delusional about how you're

795
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: gonna die? Because I think I have I think I'm

796
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: gonna go. But God may say, well, that's not my

797
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: plan for you. Are Do you trust me enough that

798
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: however you go, that's good enough for me? Is that

799
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: good enough for you? I don't want to lay in

800
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: the bed and suffer and God may say, yeah, but

801
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: I need you to. I don't. I don't want to

802
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: be sick in the world say, but I need you

803
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: to Your sickness is how I'll be glorified. I don't

804
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: want to be in an accident. I don't want to

805
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: be paralyzed. Maybe I need you to be And see

806
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: what Job was saying? He said, I thought I knew

807
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: how this was gonna go, and I was wrong. Is

808
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: that good enough? I mean, we are we gonna cut

809
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: deals with God now and say that you know, I

810
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: don't know about you, But the way I have lived

811
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: before redemption, and even the way that I've taken redemption

812
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: at times and abused it, I can't think of any

813
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: case I could make to God that I don't deserve this.

814
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: I can't believe you did this to me, because I

815
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: could just hear Hi from the cross going, well, I

816
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: can't believe you did this to me. Good luck paying

817
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: that one back. So why don't you to serve me

818
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: to the end? However I need you to serve, and

819
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 1: however I need you to go. Nothing wrong with praying

820
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: against that. Don't misunderstand me, don't I mean I don't

821
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: want to go. I'm not going to go volunteer for that.

822
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'll take a horrible disease God,

823
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start praying for that. I'm not doing that,

824
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: but I am going to pray the way my Lord

825
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: told me to. But your will be done. I got

826
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: a meeting coming up after this Bible study today. I

827
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: don't know how it's going to go. It's a pretty

828
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: important meeting. Uh. But you know, I finally had to

829
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: get to the point today where I just said to

830
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: the Lord, you know what what I do for a

831
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 1: living is yours, it's not mine. So how about this?

832
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: You just do it whatever you want. I tend to

833
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: sometimes think that there's all these people between me and

834
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: what you want me to do, but they're not. If

835
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: you want me to continue doing what I'm doing the

836
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: way I'm doing it, then that's what you'll do. If

837
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: you have another plan for what you want me to do,

838
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: how about this, Even if you have a plan that

839
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 1: says I don't even want you to do this anymore,

840
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 1: I want you to do something else. Am I ready

841
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: to say, oh oh no, no, I just want to

842
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: keep doing this for you. I'm all in on doing

843
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: this for you, but don't take this from me. What

844
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: if he were to say, well that platform's done, I

845
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: want you to go and do something a little more obscure,

846
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: and I'm going to know it. A handful of other

847
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: people might know it. This big platform thing. I'm done

848
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: with that. I'm handing that to the next person. I

849
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: need you to do something else. In my prayer today

850
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: that I was I thinking, I was honest since I

851
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: knew hee my thoughts, well, you know that's not what

852
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: I want. And then I just up reading and I

853
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: kept praying and I kept saying, but I guess I

854
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: need to get more in sync with what you want,

855
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: because I'm flawed and you're not. And I tend to

856
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: clean to things that maybe you don't want me to

857
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: cling to. I don't know. I'm ready, So I just pray,

858
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: like Jesus told us to, I go ahead and make

859
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: my petition, cause we're supposed to do. And then we

860
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: were supposed to say at the end, but your will

861
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: be done, you will be done. And if I'm in

862
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: your will, that's good enough for me. But is it?

863
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: Or do we say that going as long as the

864
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: lines of what I want to do, That's that's a

865
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: tougher question, isn't it. Huh. I've already done a lot

866
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: of things I didn't want to do. He just made

867
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: me do. Yeah, right, and and I and I was

868
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: glad I did it because that because that glorified him.

869
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: Was it enjoyable all the time. Did I jump up

870
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: and down and say, Man, I'm glad that I'm here? No?

871
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: Was I comfortable? No? Not all the time. Was I

872
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: miserable at times? Yes? But was it wonderful in the

873
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: spiritual side of things? Sure was? It Sure was because

874
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: I saw God move, not just in the people they

875
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: had me serving, but in what he was doing to me.

876
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: He was changing me. So your will be done? Right,

877
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: and that's okay, let's get to where that brings us peace,

878
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: not angst. Now I'm not saying I'm there yet. I'm

879
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: just saying that's where we got to get. Saying your

880
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: will be done just got her to bring us peace.

881
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: You do what you know is right, and I'll follow.

882
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't quite get the peace just right then, but

883
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm but I'm getting there, you know, because I think

884
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: one of the things that I speaking for myself, I

885
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: don't want to speak for y'all. I benefit from him

886
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: stretching me, but I resist being stretched sometimes, and I'm

887
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: a little bit cautious about it. I don't enjoy being stretched.

888
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: I benefit from being stretched, but I don't go looking

889
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: for it, and I don't enjoy it, but I benefit

890
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: from it. And I got to get to the point

891
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: where that's enough. That's where we're going, that's where we're

892
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: trying to get. And you see Joe kind of wrestling

893
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: this out right now. Then next he said his well

894
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: received counsel. He said, there was a time, unlike y'all,

895
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: I actually had good counsel. Twenty one men listened to

896
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: me and waited and kept silent for my counsel. I mean,

897
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 1: my counsel was received. I've tried to counsel, y'all. Y'all

898
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: haven't given me good counsel, nor are you regarding my

899
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: counsel with any value. There was a time if I

900
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: had something to say, everybody took that as good advice.

901
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: Not now, but they did. Twenty two after I spoke,

902
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,959
Speaker 1: they did not speak again. And my word dropped upon them.

903
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: Who do you think he's directing this app the three

904
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: still sitting there. I tell you one thing. I mean,

905
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: that's not what's happened here. I keep trying to tell

906
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,240
Speaker 1: y'all that our theology is flawed, and ain't nobody listening

907
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: to me? I don't have unrepentance in and y'all keep

908
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,479
Speaker 1: saying I do. There was a time my word would

909
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: have been good enough, but it wasn't ever felt that

910
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: way before. Somebody you thought knew that your word was enough,

911
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: and you said something and they questioned it. You were like,

912
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 1: when did I lose that standing that I do something?

913
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: As if something happened? And he can't quite put his

914
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: finger on that. He said, y'all are sticking to this theology.

915
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: No matter how many times I keep pointing out the

916
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: obvious flaws in it, y'all keep sticking with it. But

917
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 1: there was a time I used to have the final

918
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: word and was respected by people, and they didn't sit

919
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: here and keep on arguing with me. I don't know

920
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: who you might be directing that. At twenty three, they

921
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: waited for me as for the rain, and they opened

922
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: their mouths as for the spring rain. They anticipated my counsel.

923
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: They appreciated my words, they loved it. But I guess

924
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: those days are gone. Twenty four. I smiled on them

925
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: when they had no confidence, and the light of my

926
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: face they did not cast down when I encouraged people.

927
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: They did not respond in a way that brought me displeasure.

928
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,479
Speaker 1: There was a time when I counseled somebody. They picked

929
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: their head back up. They listened and were encouraged by

930
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,919
Speaker 1: what I said. They didn't question it. They didn't bring

931
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 1: me displeasure. They didn't argue with me. They looked for

932
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: that encouragement. Twenty five. I chose their way and sad

933
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops,

934
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: like one who comforts mourners. Do you remember back to

935
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: the Bob Seger song when he says I was something

936
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: to see. I was like a rock. And remember sitting

937
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: there looking at the fireplace, and he says, where is

938
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: that gone? Well, Joe's doing the same thing, or something

939
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: much more important than the good old days. You know

940
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: what he's saying. There was a time when I was

941
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: the man around here. I was a chief among men

942
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: and was the person that everyone looked to for comfort.

943
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: They looked too for wisdom, they looked too for help,

944
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: they looked to for counsel. I was like a person

945
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: who went to people who mourn, and I was a

946
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 1: comfort to them. But now I'm a rich I'm despised.

947
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: I'm mocked. I'm not listening to at all, and I

948
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: yearned for the days when I was. And you know

949
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: what he's saying again, Oh that someone would defend me,

950
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: Oh that God would defend me. I wish that God

951
00:56:53,120 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: would put me back into a place of honor. If

952
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: you know the end of this historical life, it's coming.

953
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: I want to say that to all of you. It's coming,

954
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: no matter what the world says about you, if you

955
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: are following Jesus Christ and you are obeying what He's

956
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,919
Speaker 1: called you to do, no matter what the world thinks

957
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,439
Speaker 1: about you, no matter how difficult your life may look,

958
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: no matter how people may disregard you. Oh the day

959
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: that you stand before the King of Kings and the

960
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: Lord of lords, and he looks at you, and you're

961
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: not tired anymore, You're not worred down anymore. All the

962
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: frustrations of a fall in creation and your fallen flesh

963
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: is over, and he says, well done, well done, my

964
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: good and faithful servant. All that matters is what I

965
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: say about you. It's what I say about you, not

966
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: what the world says about you. So what would he

967
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: say about you? What would he say about me. Let's pray, Lord,

968
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: thank you for today, thank you for this word, thank

969
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: you for this message, thank you for the conviction, the refinement,

970
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: the challenge of it. And Lord, thank you for you know,

971
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: giving us a heart for job. You can just hear

972
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: in his in his words, how he yearns for the

973
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:39,840
Speaker 1: days when he was respected, when he was seeing of

974
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: a man of value. But Lord, our value is only

975
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: in you and the way you see us, and your

976
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: holy name. We pray Amen, thanks for being with us.