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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. Excited to once again

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Speaker 1: open the Word of God. Today, we'll be continuing our

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Speaker 1: series through the book of Job. Today we turn to

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Speaker 1: Job chapter ten, Job Chapter ten if you want to

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Speaker 1: and let's start in Job chapter ten. Lord, thank you

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Speaker 1: for today. Lord be with us as we unpack your

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: May we learn this provocative book of the Bible, the

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Speaker 1: story of You and Job. There's so much to take

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Speaker 1: away from it, and Lord, it is just coming alive

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Speaker 1: again for those of us that may have read it

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Speaker 1: this that maybe we could we could not handle earlier

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Speaker 1: in our sanctification. So help us to grow today, Lord

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Speaker 2: In your name, we pray. Amen.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's go to Job chapter ten. So

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Speaker 1: last week Job has heard from Bill Dad, he's responded

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Speaker 1: After complaining to his friends and to the readers to us,

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Speaker 1: Job now will turn to God. He is going to

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Speaker 1: Now this is not exactly a prayer, but it's kind

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Speaker 1: telling God, why don't you tell me? Have you ever

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Speaker 2: So what am I missing? He doesn't know what we know?

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Speaker 1: Remember that chapter three, And I see people that now

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Speaker 2: These questions on suffering. But Job is not. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: every time when you're dealing with difficulty with someone who

434
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Speaker 1: is a member of the church, someone who is also redeemed,

435
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: it's always comforting to remind that person in this moment

436
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: where you're a little bit confused, you're a little bit rattled,

437
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: you're a little bit shook, cling to the promises of God,

438
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: cling to what you know, and just keep uttering those

439
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: things out, keep saying them out loud. Don't forget who

440
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 1: he is. Because what we can't do is every time

441
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: we get in difficulties, suddenly we just forget every time

442
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 1: God was there for us, and you know, and just

443
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: remember if.

444
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 2: You you have always been there for me. See what

445
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: Job should have been doing.

446
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,239
Speaker 1: Here is not saying what happened, but be reminded you

447
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: must be in this. You are going to take care

448
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: of me. You'll see me through this. Now he's not

449
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: there yet. What he wants to know is where did

450
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 1: you go? When did you stop taking care of me?

451
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: When did you start mistreating me? But what good theology

452
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: would be is I know you're going to see me

453
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: through this. I know this is not how it will

454
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: always be. You're going to teach me something in this.

455
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: You're going to be glorified in this. You haven't left me.

456
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I feel closer to you

457
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: right now than I've ever been because I can't breathe

458
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: without you.

459
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 2: But that's not where job is yet. But that's where

460
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 2: we got to be.

461
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 1: Okay, thirteen, Yet these things you hid in your heart,

462
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Speaker 1: I know that this was your purpose. Well, well, at

463
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: least he's acknowledging right now you're doing something.

464
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,239
Speaker 2: I just wish you'd let me in on it.

465
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: Anybody ever said that, Hey man, the quicker you can

466
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: show me what the purpose of this is that I

467
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: sure would love it.

468
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 2: I know we're going to get there, but today would

469
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 2: be great. Okay.

470
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Speaker 1: So he seems to know that God is in this

471
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 1: because why he knows who God is. You're doing something,

472
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: and I know that this was your purpose because you

473
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: know what job is realizing. And I know sometimes this

474
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: is hard, and we've talked about this before, but it's important.

475
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 1: He's saying, I know that this was your purpose. I

476
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: know you're in it. Why because I know you could

477
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: have stopped it.

478
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 2: Right.

479
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: We don't live our lives going well. I hope God

480
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: can stop this. I mean everything that we experience God

481
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: could stop.

482
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 2: Now.

483
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: Some of it we bring on ourselves, no question, some

484
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: of its repercussion for bad behavior. But uh but again

485
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: even that is allowed, and and that may be like

486
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: we do with our kids sometimes.

487
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 2: And I think it's one of the hardest things you

488
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 2: do as a parent. Do You'll agree with me.

489
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Speaker 1: One of the hardest things you do as a parent

490
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: is to say I'm gonna let you suffer the consequences.

491
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: For your bad decisions. That's a hard one. You want so.

492
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 1: Bad to jump in there and keep it from happening,

493
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: But sometimes they just won't learn until they've had the

494
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: win knocked out of them, and then they go, oh, wow,

495
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: everything you told me what happened has happened now. And

496
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: of course that's not the time to do and I

497
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 1: told you so, it's the time to say, learn from it.

498
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 2: Okay. So the even though I've admit I've done and

499
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 2: I told you so before. Uh, but the I had

500
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Speaker 2: I had one of my one of mine one time.

501
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Speaker 1: I won't get into details because they they've learned from

502
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: it and there's no need for that. But I had,

503
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 1: I had told one of mine that if you, if you,

504
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 1: if you do this, and you don't do.

505
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 2: This, this is what's gonna happen.

506
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: And they listen, and they were adult, so you know,

507
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: they were paying their own bills, and uh, I said,

508
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you how this is gonna go. And

509
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: they didn't listen, and and they did it. Uh, And

510
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: it went just like I said it would. And and

511
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: they they suffered some consequences for that.

512
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:17,959
Speaker 2: Uh.

513
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: And this particular child of mine set me down in

514
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 1: despair about the consequences of the decision that I said.

515
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,680
Speaker 2: Not to make. And uh.

516
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: And when the child asked me what I was gonna

517
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: do to get them out of it.

518
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: I said, I I'm not gonna do anything. And the

519
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: child looked at me and said what. He said, Well,

520
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 2: you know I've got this problem. I said, well, you

521
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: sure do. And he says, he says, he says, and

522
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: I got to do this, this or that. Mm hmm.

523
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 2: He said that that's that's not good. I said, no,

524
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: it's not. Sounds terrible and uh.

525
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 1: He said this this is a rough situation, man, I said,

526
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 1: sounds like it. And he said, well, what am I

527
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: gonna do? I said, figure it out? Do you think

528
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: I wanna step in and take care of this? No, way,

529
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: you take care of it. And once you go through

530
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: what you got to do to work this out, I

531
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: bet you'll learn not to do it again. He said,

532
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: So you're not gonna you're not gonna handle this. I said,

533
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: I am not, because I told you better and you

534
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: didn't listen. So some of the consequences for what you did,

535
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: and and and and involved one thing he was gonna

536
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: have to pay for. And he said, well, where am

537
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: I gonna find that money? I said, I don't know,

538
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: but not for me.

539
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 2: And I said, I guess you'll just run the rest

540
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: of your life, or you'll find that money, you know,

541
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,479
Speaker 2: I mean, but uh, and eventually he worked it out.

542
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 2: I don't even know how he worked it out, by

543
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: the way. I never found out. He just did. Uh.

544
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: So so that and and he doesn't seem to do

545
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: that anymore, uh like like we all do. But uh

546
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: but not perfect. But he's certainly not doing that anymore,

547
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: all right, So verse fourteen. And that was a very

548
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: hard situation. I mean, we're laughing. I wanted so bad

549
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: just to make it go away, I really did, but

550
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: I knew that wasn't the thing to do. I loved

551
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: him too much to do that. So if I sin,

552
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: you watch me and do not equip me, equip me

553
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: of my iniquity.

554
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 2: Okay, So he's even understanding that. He he says, you

555
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: watch me. But here's where he's been a little bit

556
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 2: of a smart eleic.

557
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: This is not like surveillance from God that he's embracing

558
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: and celebrating. He's a little annoyed by it. It's almost

559
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: like an undesired surveillance. And he says, so you watch me.

560
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: This is almost like you since you know everything and

561
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: you know everything I do, could you make the case

562
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: that I've committed some sin, some unrepentant sin, some issue

563
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,479
Speaker 1: between you and me. You watch everything I do. You

564
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: know what I do? You know I haven't done anything.

565
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: You're not unaware of my innocence. He's back to that again,

566
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: because you you, you're surveillance. It's just twenty four seven.

567
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: Remember we made We've made that joke before, haven't we

568
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: All of us talk about how God is all knowing

569
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: and is omniscient and omnipresent and omnipotent, and then we

570
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: live our lives like he has no idea what we're doing,

571
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: you know, like we can go sneak away somewhere well

572
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: even quote.

573
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: The verse, nowhere can I hide from you?

574
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: And then you can do something stupid going Maybe God

575
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: didn't know about this, you know, maybe he didn't know

576
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: what I'm watching.

577
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 2: He don't know what I'm doing. And then we'll sing

578
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 2: songs that says what you know everything, I'll do it, uh,

579
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 2: and then live like we don't believe it. I guess.

580
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: Or maybe sometimes sin is just so intriguing that we

581
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: love it more than we do him. So he wants

582
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: to know what is the condition that has brought this fifteen?

583
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: If I'm guilty. Woe to me.

584
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: If I am in the right, I cannot lift up

585
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look

586
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,239
Speaker 1: on my affliction. If I'm guilty, then I deserve it.

587
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: At this point, it comes a little bit of a

588
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: poor por pillow for me. At this point, even if

589
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm right, you have you have shamed me so much

590
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: I can't even lift my head. I'm just you know what,

591
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lay low at this point, my innocence.

592
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: You've shamed me so much, and I have been so

593
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: much disgrace that even proving my innocence at this point

594
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: is not gonna not gonna take away the shame that

595
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: I feel. So even if you eventually will even tell

596
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: me you agree that I'm right, you've done so much

597
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: damage and I am so embarrassed, and I have had

598
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: so much disgrace that I won't even lift my head

599
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: because of how repulsive I am right now my affliction.

600
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: You've done too much damage. So I'm just gonna lay low.

601
00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: Sixteen And where my head lifted up, you would hunt

602
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: me like a lion, and again work wonders against me.

603
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: Well, I feel trapped, is what he's saying.

604
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: Even if I could overcome the shame and disgrace and

605
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: lift my head.

606
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: You would just deviour me like a lion hunting its prey.

607
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: What good is it gonna do If I raise my

608
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: head back up again, you just gonna knock me back

609
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: down seventeen. You renew your witness against me and increase

610
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: your vexation toward me. You bring fresh troops against me.

611
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: You know, we're saying to God right here, I mean,

612
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: the way this thing is going, it just seems like

613
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: you keep getting more and more angry. You increase the attack.

614
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: I make it through a day, and you just make

615
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: the next day even harder. It uses an analogy of war.

616
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: You know, if you looked up and you're like, all right.

617
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 2: We beat back that that bunch.

618
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: Here comes another troop, and here comes another troop, and

619
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: here it could keep increasing.

620
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: Your You're this war you're waging against me.

621
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: I get through a day, I think I've made it,

622
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow will be a better day. And then all

623
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I realize that when I when I

624
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: face this day, my goodness, you've even got more troops

625
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,719
Speaker 1: against me. It just keeps getting worse. There's no defeating

626
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: you because of how overwhelmingly powerful you are. Give me

627
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: a break. I have a friend that is that could

628
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: could pass any day the horrors of one of these

629
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: horrible diseases.

630
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 2: And I was talking with.

631
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: One of our friends yesterday who has seen him since

632
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: I have, and of course I'm asking how he's doing.

633
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, he says, he's kind to

634
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: the point now he's made his peace with his family.

635
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: They've all reassured him they're fine. He's certainly redeemed and

636
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: is gonna hear a well done when God decides that

637
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: the body is done. And he said, and he can't

638
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: really communicate now, but this was in the last few

639
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: days that he could sort of communicate, and he said,

640
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: to my friend, he said, my redemption. I felt like

641
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: that God was knocking on the door of my heart,

642
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: waiting on me to open to him, he said.

643
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 2: And now as I begin to yearn for death, I'm

644
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 2: ready to die. I'm ready for this to be over.

645
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm knocking on his door and he's

646
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 2: not answering it yet. I want in, I want into Heaven,

647
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 2: I want into his presence, and I'm just knocking at

648
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 2: the door saying I'm ready to go. And he goes,

649
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: every day I.

650
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: Wake up, he said, I'm getting to the point where

651
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Speaker 1: waking up is not something that I celebrate when I

652
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Speaker 1: wake up.

653
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Speaker 2: Now I'm disappointed. I'm ready to die.

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Speaker 1: And so so you see where he's saying. Even making

655
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Speaker 1: it through a day now just means there's more trouble

656
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: waiting on me. And that's the way that Job is feeling.

657
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Speaker 1: And then he says, now here comes this is kind

658
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Speaker 1: of be like Chapter three again. Job is going to

659
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Speaker 1: start wishing he was dead again. And that kind of

660
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: ties into what I was just talking about eighteen Why

661
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Speaker 1: did you bring me out from the womb?

662
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Speaker 2: What that I had died before any I had seen me.

663
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Speaker 1: I mean, if I knew this how my life was

664
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Speaker 1: gonna be and I was gonna get to this point,

665
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Speaker 1: I wish you just never brought me out of the womb.

666
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Speaker 1: I don't know why would you bring me out of

667
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Speaker 1: the womb for this? Now, I want you to think

668
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: about how little Job knows. Right here, it is those

669
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: of you that listen and watch this stuff at different times.

670
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Speaker 2: We're doing this Bible study.

671
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Speaker 1: In the year twenty twenty five, in the month of April,

672
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Speaker 1: it is twenty twenty five.

673
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Speaker 2: And we are studying and learning from Job and he

674
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Speaker 2: can't figure out why he was ever even born.

675
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: And we're learning who God isfficulty through his story.

676
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: But he didn't know why I was ever born.

677
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Speaker 1: Let's see, don't ever get the attitude because life's hard

678
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Speaker 1: that you can't figure out that makes God out to

679
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: be so simple. He's so much more complex than that

680
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: some of us. He brings into this world and he

681
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Speaker 1: takes us through difficulty, not because our life should have

682
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: never been lived, but He had this to live for

683
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Speaker 1: the very purpose of the difficulty we're going through for

684
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Speaker 1: the good that it has brought us as an individual,

685
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: it always does, but the good for other people, the impact.

686
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Speaker 1: Think about the impact of people's lives. I remember Elizabeth

687
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Speaker 1: Elliott talking about her husband Jim, who died young, you know,

688
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Speaker 1: being killed by the very people he was trying to

689
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Speaker 1: reach for Christ and then of course the ministry that

690
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Speaker 1: launched from that. And Elizabeth Elliot said that she knew

691
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Speaker 1: even when she married Jim, he just never had the

692
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Speaker 1: attitude that he wanted to have a long life. He

693
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Speaker 1: didn't think he really would. She said, he wanted to

694
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Speaker 1: have an impactful life. He wasn't looking for a life

695
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: that didn't have difficulty. He was looking for a life

696
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Speaker 1: that had impact, period, and he felt that that's why

697
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Speaker 1: he was born. So the length of his life was

698
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Speaker 1: really no concern to him. What he was more concerned

699
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Speaker 1: with is what was the impact.

700
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Speaker 2: Of his life.

701
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Speaker 1: And if he was doing what God called him to do,

702
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: then whatever God decided on the number of his days

703
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: was good with him as long as he could say

704
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Speaker 1: I was obedient to you. And sometimes some of us

705
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: have to get speared so that the Gospel will go

706
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Speaker 1: on from our getting speared. And we see this all

707
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Speaker 1: over scripture. Now, you don't want to be the person

708
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Speaker 1: to get spared, None of us want to sign up

709
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Speaker 1: for that. But the fact of the matter is some

710
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: of us get speared for the benefit of the advancement

711
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: of the Gospel. And if we're right with God, then

712
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: who cares how long our life is? You know, sometimes

713
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 1: I think to myself, think of the things that you

714
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: would not have had to gone through if God had

715
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: taken you home a little sooner. If you're redeemed. Now,

716
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: if you're not redeemed yet, you keep going. You want

717
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: more time on the clock. But if you're redeemed. You

718
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: say I'm here, and you get to where the apostle

719
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Speaker 1: Paul got, which is the secret to life, to live

720
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Speaker 1: as Christ to Die's game. So but here's Job saying

721
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 1: I wish I had not been allowed to live if

722
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: this was part of it. Now, once again, what is

723
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: Job forgetting? He has no idea about the impact of

724
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: his life. But what else is he forgetting? How good

725
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: God's been to it?

726
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 2: His life been.

727
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: Pretty good up to this point. He's forgetting all that.

728
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't have got any of that either if

729
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Speaker 1: you were never born. You know, we always say, well,

730
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Speaker 1: if I hadn't been born, I would avoided the difficulty,

731
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: but you would have missed the blessing. My goodness, I

732
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: think I'm writing a Garth Brook song. So verse nineteen.

733
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Speaker 1: And whereas though I had not been carried from the

734
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Speaker 1: womb to the grave, here is just saying I wish

735
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Speaker 1: I had gone straight from.

736
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Speaker 2: The womb to the tomb.

737
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Speaker 1: If I could have just been born for a few

738
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Speaker 1: minutes and died, that had been great too. Are still

739
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Speaker 1: born or something like that? From the womb to the tomb?

740
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: Verse twenty are not my day's few? Then cease and

741
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Speaker 1: leave me alone that I might find a little cheer.

742
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 2: Wow.

743
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: Now here, Lucifer's got to be getting excited. I mean,

744
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: he's getting excited now. He wish God would just leave

745
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 1: him along. He thinks that if God would leave him along,

746
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: he would be happier because he knows God's doing this

747
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: to him. That's what I was hoping is that he

748
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: would realize ultimately God's doing this to him and I

749
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: want him to turn on God. I want him to

750
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Speaker 1: renounce God. I want him to reject God. And he's

751
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: moving in right now. He's telling God to leave him alone.

752
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: He said, I don't have a whole lot of life left,

753
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: that's obvious. I could die any day. Leave me alone

754
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 1: so I can find some joy.

755
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: Wow. You know what he's saying to God, Hey, give

756
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Speaker 2: me a break. Ease up.

757
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Speaker 1: You ever been there? Lord, Come on now, just ease

758
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Speaker 1: up on me, Give me a break. I don't know

759
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Speaker 1: how much more of this I can take now. He

760
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: at this point, though, you know how you look for,

761
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing, and he's always so many

762
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Speaker 1: steps ahead of the adversary.

763
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Speaker 2: See. The adversary sees this.

764
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Speaker 1: As he's about to renounce God because he wants God

765
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Speaker 1: to leave him alone, which means he realizes that God's.

766
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Speaker 2: Doing this to him.

767
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Speaker 1: You know what, God saying, He's finally realizing I'm doing

768
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Speaker 1: this to him. He's exactly where God wants him. Lucifer's

769
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Speaker 1: convinced is exactly where he wants it. God's always ahead,

770
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Speaker 1: he always counters see because God can't teach him this

771
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: new theology if he can't grasp that God's actually doing it.

772
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: And I see this a lot of times in suffering,

773
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: and it concerns me. There are some people, and I

774
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: have some friends of mine that we have to have

775
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: these discussions. They just don't like this truth. They want

776
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: to they they and this is their theology and it's flawed,

777
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: and you know, it doesn't take long to trip it

778
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: up a little bit. They want to say that everything

779
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: that bad, bad that happens in their life is of Satan,

780
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: and everything good that happens in their life is of God.

781
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 2: Now, first of all, it'scording how you define bad.

782
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: But but that isn't true, and they don't like that.

783
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: You can get them almost to God allows things. They're

784
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: okay there, but if you go to God causes things,

785
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: they'll push back that don't anything to do with that.

786
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: Now to me, that that that that's a little bit

787
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: of a that bothers me a little bit because it's

788
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: it's limiting our faith a little bit. Are you saying

789
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: that if God causes some of this, you don't worship him,

790
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: you don't have faith in him, You don't trust him.

791
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: You can only trust him if Satan's doing it and

792
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: God's allowing it. Sometimes, well, first of all, does anybody

793
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: think Satan can do what they want, whatever he wants

794
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: to do to us? I take great comfort in that

795
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: he can't, so if God's allowing it. I mean when

796
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: you look at Paul, he says that, you know, I've

797
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: asked you three times to remove this thorn whatever it was,

798
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: from my flesh, which apparently was miserable, because he says

799
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: it's so bad that Lucifer has even sent he sent

800
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: a demon to me to harass me about this, and

801
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: it just won't ease up. And I've asked you to

802
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: remove it and you won't remove it. Meaning what, you're

803
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: the one that put it there because it keeps me

804
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: from being conceited. Paul knows why it's there, he still

805
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: doesn't like it. He wants it to go and be

806
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: better without it. But he knows that God has decided

807
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 1: that that particular amount of suffering in his life keeps

808
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: Paul from being full of himself. It keeps him conceited,

809
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: It keeps him from being conceded, It keeps him humble.

810
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: Why do we know this? Paul tells us that, which

811
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: means God has revealed that to it. Right, it's not

812
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 1: our speculation, we're told that, He says, what So he

813
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: celebrates it because he says, I know that when I'm weak,

814
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: then I'm actually strong. But I can't be weak if

815
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: you don't. If you took this flesh away from me,

816
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: then suddenly I would be strong again. And you know,

817
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: Paul goes through all kinds of difficulty and suffering. So

818
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: but but right here Job is beginning to realize that

819
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: all because what Job has done, he says, kind of

820
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: going through everything he knows about God, and he's saying,

821
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: you know what, you're doing this to me?

822
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 2: And here's what I'm saying.

823
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: If you're the one doing this to me, cut it out,

824
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: give me a break, Ease up on me.

825
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: A little bit.

826
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: Let me have a little bit of cheer here in

827
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: my final days. Twenty one before I go, and I

828
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: shall not return to the land of darkness and deep shadow.

829
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: Now he's totally.

830
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 2: Wrong about this.

831
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Speaker 1: He is saying, when I go from here, I'm never

832
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: going to be able to go back to the life

833
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: I had. It's over, you know.

834
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Speaker 2: Whatever happens to me now, whatever I had before is

835
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 2: this Now, I'll never returned to that.

836
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: And he's wrong those of us that know how this ends.

837
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: He is going to return, even on earth, to something

838
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: beyond the life that he had before. And he says

839
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: that for me now, there'll never be anything like that again.

840
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: It's just going to be darkness and deep shadows. That's

841
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: all it's going to be. Twenty two, the land of gloom,

842
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: like thick darkness, like deep shadow, without any order, where

843
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: light is as thick as darkness. It's all darkness now.

844
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: Job says, it's to the grave that I go. And

845
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: this is the part where he is completely wrong. The

846
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: image that he's creating here in twenty two, brothers and

847
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: sisters who are out there, the image he's here is

848
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: where he is completely wrong. He is suggesting that all

849
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: of this that God's doing, as far as he can see,

850
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: is a bunch of meaningless chaos.

851
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 2: There's no real meaning to all this.

852
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: I can't seem to figure this out, and I guess

853
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: just the rest of my days, I'm just gonna be downtrodden.

854
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be gloomy. I'm gonna be in this darkness.

855
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have this deep shadow of me over me.

856
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: And here's where he messes up without any order. He's

857
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: completely wrong about that, because we know that we serve

858
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: a God of order. God is completely in control of

859
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 1: this and nothing is happening to Job that he isn't

860
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: causing and allowing. But Job doesn't see it. He's getting there,

861
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: he's getting close. So I want you to, just as

862
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: we close this week, don't ever lose sight, don't get

863
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: to the point.

864
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 2: Don't let that.

865
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Speaker 1: God is who he is, trouble you when it comes

866
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: to difficulty. Let it bring you peace. Now, look, we've

867
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: all been in a situation where we fully understand what's

868
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: going on. Let's go let's go to something not as important,

869
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: but let's go into those.

870
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 2: That in your life.

871
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: If you've ever been involved in anything where it might

872
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: be military, it might be sports, it might be whatever.

873
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: You might be training for a marathon and what you

874
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: know is that everything you're doing is very difficult and

875
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: it's not pleasant, and you even know it's for your

876
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: own good, but you still do get to the point

877
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: where you're like, I'm kind of ready for it to

878
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: be over. I understand this particular situation. I'm in this

879
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: particular training, say, for military boot camp. I know that

880
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: this is for my own good, and I even understand

881
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: it's for my own good. I'm just kind of ready

882
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: for boot camp to be over. It's miserable, I'm struggling.

883
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm ready for this run to be over, even though

884
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: I know why I have to do it. I'm ready

885
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: for this workout to be over, even though I know

886
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,240
Speaker 1: this why I'm having.

887
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: To do it.

888
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: I want this practice in this training to be over.

889
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: I want this refining and discipline to be over. I

890
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: know I'm benefiting from it, but I still want it

891
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: to be over. It's okay to not like the situation.

892
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: It's okay to wish it was over. But what's not

893
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: okay is to act like it has no meaning and

894
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: that it's a bunch of chaos.

895
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 2: And God's abandon you.

896
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: Now, what we have to know is that what we're

897
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: going through is far our own good. It's okay to

898
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: wish it would end. It's okay to pray that it

899
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: would end, But I hope you can get to the point.

900
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: And I learned this from one of my dearest friends

901
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: when he was in Some of you already know this one,

902
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: but there's new people here. I mean, I'll never forget.

903
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 1: And this is the proper way to view suffering. I mean,

904
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: it is theologically sound. Is the dearest friend of mine

905
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: who was in a horrible situation, physically struggling, and I

906
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: went to pray for him, uh, and he had all

907
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: kinds of issues going on, and he asked me what

908
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: I was going to pray, and I told him I

909
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: was going to pray for God to heal him, to

910
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: release him, and to stop this. And he stopped me, saying,

911
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: they don't pray for me. Then I said, well, what

912
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: would you like for me to pray? I want you

913
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: to pray that he releases me. When he's done. I

914
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: don't want to do this again. Tell him not to

915
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: release me until I learn everything he's teaching me.

916
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: Don't let me out too soon.

917
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: That's that's hard to pray for someone that you that

918
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: there's a friend of yours or a family member.

919
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: It's even hard to pray for yourself. I mean, can

920
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 2: any of us say this is horrible? Leave me here.

921
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: Until I'm refined, leave me here till you're done, don't

922
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 1: let me miss anything.

923
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 2: But you know that.

924
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: But then there's kind of the logical say, because I

925
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: don't want to do it again.

926
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let this be a one time through. Okay.

927
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: One of the hardest prayers you ever pray is Lord,

928
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: do whatever you have to do to get me where

929
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: you want me to be. Be careful with that because

930
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: he'll answer that one, especially if you're sincere. So remember

931
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: the benefits of it, even in the difficulty of it.

932
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: But it's God does understand that the difficulty of it's real.

933
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: That's the reason why we hear that he's near to

934
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,399
Speaker 1: the broken hearted. He doesn't leave us when you say

935
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: I can't make it without you.

936
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 2: He provides what you need. He'll always see you through it.

937
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: But he's trying to take us beyond our ability to

938
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: do it without him. It's the reason why people misinterpreted

939
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 1: that misinterpret that garbage thing of God.

940
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 2: Never give us more than we handle.

941
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: If y'all want me to just run through that wall.

942
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: Let somebody say, that's not what Paul's talking about. Of course,

943
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: God gives us more than we can handle. He gives

944
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: us more than we can handle because that sometimes that's

945
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 1: the only way that we actually submit to Him, when

946
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: we stop depending on ourselves. Paul's talking about, don't make

947
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: excuses for sin. God stronger than any sin in your life.

948
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: There's no temptation that is too strong. He's not talking

949
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: about difficulty. And then, of course you get to the

950
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: other one. What I can do all things through Christ,

951
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: who strengthens me. That is not this is how make

952
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: an a on the test or how I win the

953
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: ball game. Paul is saying, this is so difficult when

954
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: I'm in right now. You've got me to the point

955
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: in this Philippi in jail and the misery of where

956
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: I'm at right now, that it's only your strength that's

957
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: going to see me through it. It's a verse about suffering.

958
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: I can endure anything because of Christ. Not I can

959
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: accomplish anything because of Christ. I can endure anything because

960
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: of Christ. Joe's not there yet, but God's gonna get

961
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: him there. Let's pray Lord, thank you thank you for today,

962
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: thank you for the truth. Thank you for loving us

963
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: enough to discipline us. We don't go looking for trouble.

964
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: That's not whi well, we know that trouble always is

965
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: around every corner. We live in a falling creation. We're

966
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 1: a sinful people. And you love us enough to refine

967
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: us and to break our love of this fallen.

968
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 2: Dying place.

969
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: And you love us enough to do whatever it'll take

970
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: to break that love and make us less dependent on self,

971
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: make sin less desirable, and make us more dependent and

972
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: in love with the wonder that is you.

973
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 2: We love you, Lord.

974
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: Thank you for never leaving us and seeing us through

975
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: the trials and tribulations of this earth in our own sin.

976
00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: At times, you have overcome the world. And that is

977
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 1: a piece that you promised to all who are redeemed.

978
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,720
Speaker 1: May we cling to it in those moments where everything

979
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: seems to be wrong. In your name, we pray Amen.