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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. We are grateful that

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Speaker 1: you are here and taking time with us. My name

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Speaker 1: is Rick Burgess. If we have never met, what a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to meet you. I actually not only do this

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Speaker 1: on that. So this is the Wednesday Bible Study. It

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Speaker 1: is something that started as part of a strategy for

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Speaker 1: reaching the discipleing men in the room. It's all men,

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Speaker 1: but all across the country, it's men and women on

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Speaker 1: been doing it for about a decade. And if you'd

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Speaker 1: like to find these other Bible studies that what's funny

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Speaker 1: is we've been going so long now. I actually talked

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Speaker 1: study of Matthew and I don't know where it is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've gotten rid of it. And

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Speaker 1: I said, well, there's not one because we've never done Matthew.

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Speaker 1: So so maybe that's God saying we should do Matthew.

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Speaker 1: So let's open up in a word, of prayer, and

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Speaker 1: let's jump right into Job chapter thirty. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being with us today, Lord, Thank you for your presence.

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Speaker 1: May your Holy spirit overwhelm this place. May it be

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Speaker 1: everywhere as we study your holy word, so obvious to see. Lord,

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Speaker 1: in the times that we're living, in the spiritual warfare

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Speaker 1: your grace and your mercy and redemption that you offer

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Speaker 1: to all who are willing to repent and turn from

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Speaker 1: I pray Today's we historical events of this man Job,

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Speaker 1: all that you're teaching him. We at the same time say,

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Speaker 1: we're getting closer and closer to Job's encounter with God.

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Speaker 1: But right now he's still in this monologue that he's

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Speaker 1: I remember all this. But now in chapter thirty, he says,

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Speaker 1: has been plunged into this. I know some of these things.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes truth is hard. Some some commentators have used this phrase.

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Speaker 1: and he says, but now they laugh at me. Men

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Speaker 1: at last week at these esteemed men. There are men

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Speaker 1: like these gangsters. They're like animals, and they're and they're forging, uh,

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Speaker 1: being harassed by a bunch of banished outcasts. Can you

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Speaker 1: on a public platform, anonymous with a cartoon face instead

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Speaker 1: of just reaching out to me directly. Makes me wonder.

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Speaker 1: You know, all you doing is playing the role of

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Speaker 1: the devil. That's all you do it. You know, what

428
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Speaker 1: about your character makes me wonder that you would anonymously

429
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Speaker 1: say something about somebody makes me wonder about you. If

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Speaker 1: you want to talk to me, you can contact me directly,

431
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Speaker 1: but you're too gutless to do it because you're a coward.

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Speaker 1: You hide, you hide behind these things. Well, He's like,

433
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Speaker 1: these are the kind of people I'm dealing with. He

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Speaker 1: was dealing with this law and before we ever dealt

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Speaker 1: with it. So verse ten. Yeah, this atmosphere we have today,

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Speaker 1: it is a fruitful soil for cowards. This is the

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Speaker 1: greatest moment for cowards there's ever been. They can sit

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Speaker 1: there behind a shroud and say anything about you they

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Speaker 1: want to, and never have to face you. But God

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Speaker 1: knows and and and they'll answer for it one day

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Speaker 1: if they don't repent. Uh. Verse ten. They abhor me.

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Speaker 1: They they they, they keep aloof from me. They do

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Speaker 1: not hesitate to spit in the sight of me. I'm

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Speaker 1: disgusting to them. They keep their distance because I'm so

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Speaker 1: diseased when they see me. God has allowed me to

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Speaker 1: be so repulsive. I used to find them repulsive. They

447
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Speaker 1: find me repulsive. The sight of me makes them want

448
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Speaker 1: to spit. I'm so disgusting, and of course they'll do it.

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Speaker 1: And uh and then look at verse eleven because God, Ah,

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Speaker 1: there it is again. I'd underline that because God has

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Speaker 1: loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off

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Speaker 1: restraint in my presence. Well, look at verse eleven. So

453
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Speaker 1: who's he saying has allowedness to go on? God? Satan

454
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Speaker 1: can't even get a mention in job other than the

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Speaker 1: very beginning of it because Joe's never never, Joe's not

456
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Speaker 1: blaming the Savan for anything. Now Satan may be the tool,

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Speaker 1: which that's true, you know, it's the time that I

458
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Speaker 1: was having a bit of a theological debate. And we've

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Speaker 1: discussed this before about this allowing and causing and Satan's

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Speaker 1: doing it. First of all, can we all just come

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Speaker 1: off that we're so important to the kingdom that Lucifer

462
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Speaker 1: himself has assigned himself to us when he's not omnipresent.

463
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Speaker 1: He's not omnipotent. Okay, he's not omniscient. And we really

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Speaker 1: think that Lucifer has said, I tell you what, I

465
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Speaker 1: got an issue in Birmingham, Alabama that Rick Burgess. I'm

466
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Speaker 1: going after him. Now. Have I Are there enough demons

467
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Speaker 1: that I've encountered that I certainly have? Do I battle

468
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Speaker 1: the biggest enemy though my sin nature? Yes, much more

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Speaker 1: than I battle demons, even though it's important to know

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Speaker 1: about demons. James kind of kind of gave us a

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Speaker 1: little bit of humbling there when he says a lot

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Speaker 1: of your problems just your own sin nature. Yeah, the

473
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Speaker 1: battle between my sin nature is probably the hardest battle

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Speaker 1: I fight, beyond anything else. But Job did rank Satan

475
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Speaker 1: because we know that Satan talked to God about it,

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Speaker 1: so we do know that. But he's never blaming Satan,

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Speaker 1: even though Satan is the instrument what he knows, and

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Speaker 1: this is something really incredible that here's job this long

479
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Speaker 1: ago and he understands that God's in control. He gets it.

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Speaker 1: And somebody says, yeah, but Satan's the one doing this

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Speaker 1: stuff to him. But who drew the boundaries? Remember the

482
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Speaker 1: analogy of the pitbull? You know, I come in here

483
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Speaker 1: and I've got a chain, and I've got this crazy

484
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Speaker 1: dog and he's ready to go after any of y'all

485
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Speaker 1: that I let him go after. But I'm I have

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Speaker 1: the chain, and if I go, sorry Steve, if I

487
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: go go get Steve, I let enough change chain for Steve.

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Speaker 1: And then over here, you know, we're I'm sitting there

489
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Speaker 1: and there's there's Greg, and Greg's like, boy, I hope

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Speaker 1: he doesn't put him over here. And all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: he starts going over toward Greg, and I just pulled

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Speaker 1: the chain back of what he starts marking about halfway here.

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Speaker 1: But I won't let him get Greg. Who's in control?

494
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Speaker 1: But who's biting people? The dog? I'm not biting people,

495
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Speaker 1: but the dog. The dog can't bite anybody. I don't

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Speaker 1: let him bite. You know, I got the chain. Well,

497
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: we saw God tell Satan exactly what he couldn't do,

498
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Speaker 1: and we saw Satan go back and ask for a

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Speaker 1: little more chain and God gave him a few more.

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Speaker 1: So how this shows the faith of job. This shows

501
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Speaker 1: you Now he's confused and he's upset, and he feels abandoned.

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Speaker 1: But you gotta love the fact that he knows that

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Speaker 1: God has allowed this to happen to it to me,

504
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Speaker 1: he was way ahead of his time. You know, it's

505
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Speaker 1: almost like we all just can't face the fact that

506
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Speaker 1: the person that we need to get right with is God.

507
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: God's the one that you know. And and sometimes, as

508
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Speaker 1: we've said many times in here, what's difficult because you've

509
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Speaker 1: got to be careful because you don't want to turn

510
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Speaker 1: into arrogance and pride is to sometimes think, Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for finding me worthy of the suffering. Now be

512
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Speaker 1: careful because that you can get in a bad place.

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Speaker 1: Don't get prideful about that. But there's a certain I

514
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Speaker 1: hope confidence not arrogance. A certain confidence. You know, have

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Speaker 1: you ever had like there's nothing bigger than having the

516
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Speaker 1: approval of God. But you know, we all have had

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Speaker 1: these people in our life that if they came over

518
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Speaker 1: to you and said, I knew I could trust you

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Speaker 1: with that. Feels pretty good, doesn't it. Well? What about

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Speaker 1: when God says I can trust you with that? See God,

521
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: job's in goods standing with God? And you're like, Rick,

522
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Speaker 1: is this what good's standing with God looks like? Sometimes? Sometimes?

523
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Speaker 1: And so he says, but God has loosed my cord.

524
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Speaker 1: God has humbled me. Now he's getting that because I

525
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Speaker 1: will tell you that many times. There's all kinds of

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Speaker 1: reasons that God allows pain and suffering. I'll tell you

527
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Speaker 1: when that's up there at the front, humbling us. Even

528
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Speaker 1: Paul said he had to be humbled by the thorn

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Speaker 1: of his flesh. He said, that's why it's there. Whatever

530
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Speaker 1: it was keep me from being conceited. I was allowed

531
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Speaker 1: to see the third Heaven. I was a pretty big deal.

532
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: God used me to go out and plant church after

533
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Speaker 1: church after church after church. But then he lists for

534
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Speaker 1: us what and look at all the suffering I had

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Speaker 1: to do for all this, and all this is just

536
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Speaker 1: to keep me humble. The apostle Paul, you know what

537
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Speaker 1: he said, if I had done everything I did for

538
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Speaker 1: the kingdom, even after persecuting the church and being delivered

539
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Speaker 1: from that, he said, my ministry was so powerful that

540
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Speaker 1: if God didn't allow me to suffer, I would have

541
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: been too arrogant. I couldn't have handled it. How about

542
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: that That's one way to keep us from taking God's glory,

543
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: isn't it is? We're so broken down we ain't got

544
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Speaker 1: time to right so. And by the way, he's not

545
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: gonna share his glory with anybody, not with the Apostle Paul,

546
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Speaker 1: not with the greatest heroes of the Bible. He's not

547
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: gonna share it with anybody. He's certainly not gonna share

548
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: it with us. Okay, and so Joven it seems to

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Speaker 1: understand this, he said, they've cast off restraint in my

550
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: presence because they see they think I love this, They

551
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: think God's left me. I know God's allowing it, but

552
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: it's you know what it's done. He's down right now.

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Speaker 1: You ever had people that didn't like you and all

554
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Speaker 1: they could think is, man, if I ever get him down?

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00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: Do you remember, young men, we love sports analogies. What

556
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: we always told, if you had the opponent down, don't

557
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: let up, don't let up. And you know what they said,

558
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Speaker 1: We've been waiting on you to be in this situation.

559
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: You used to think you were see really something. You know,

560
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: you looked at us down here, scurrying around. We got

561
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: nowhere to lay our heads. We're all a bunch of scoundrels,

562
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: our daddies. They are a bunch of idiots. We have

563
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Speaker 1: no standing. But look at you now. You know what

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Speaker 1: he said. God has humbled me so much. They don't

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Speaker 1: even have restraint. They don't fear me at all. Picture

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Speaker 1: that twelve on my right hand, the rabble rise, they

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Speaker 1: push away my feet, they cast up against me. They're

568
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Speaker 1: ways of destruction. What he's saying here, he says, they

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Speaker 1: build their path of destruction against me. They plan an

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Speaker 1: attack against me again because they don't fear me. Thirteen

571
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Speaker 1: they break up my path. They promote my calamity. They

572
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Speaker 1: need no one to help them. I am this, I

573
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: am easy to defeat. Now, I'm an easy foe for

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00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: the enemy. And don't miss this one. Just what I

575
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: talked about a minute ago. Look at the second part.

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00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: Look at thirteen second. They promote my calamity, back to

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Speaker 1: what I said a minute ago. Not only do they

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00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: love it, they make sure everybody else knows it too.

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00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: They're celebrating my downfall. They promoted they let everybody you

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00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: see what happened to job. Now, I know that never

581
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: happens in our society. There's somebody that we didn't like.

582
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: You know what do we love the most? Let's just

583
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: call it people that convict us. And we think they're

584
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: more devoted than we are, and their faith makes ours

585
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,720
Speaker 1: look bad. Oh if they could just have a moral failure.

586
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: I can't wait to tell everybody. Well, you know you

587
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: heard their marriage just having some trouble. Everybody thinks their

588
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: marriage is so wonderful. I heard they're having some trouble.

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00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: As a matter of what, I'm gonna make sure everybody

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Speaker 1: knows it. I'm gonna I tell you what. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do it. What the running joke? Oh, here's how I'm

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00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: gonna promote it. I'm gonna promote their calamity. How with

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00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: a prayer? Quick? We need to be praying for so

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00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: and so. I heard their marriages in trouble. Please don't

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00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: tell anybody right on my Facebook post. So they're promoting

596
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: my calamity. They want everybody to know. And how about this,

597
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: he says, But my calamity is so well known they

598
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 1: don't need anybody to help them with this. It's so obvious.

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00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: Fourteen as through a wide breach they come amid the crash,

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00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: they roll in. This is all military language. Here. The wall.

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00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 1: What we know about a wall usually is around the city.

602
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: Wall protects, he said, the wall that protected me. At

603
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: one time I was hedged in by God. But now

604
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: that wall has such a gaping hole in it. I mean,

605
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: I can't even protect myself against everybody this attacking me.

606
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: I'm wide open for attack now, and they know it.

607
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: Ever felt that way, terrors are turned upon me. My

608
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity

609
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: has passed away like a cloud. Let me just sum

610
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: up what he's saying right here in Calhoun County. I

611
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: have no dignity, I have no hope, I have no safety,

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00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: I have no prosperity. Everything that at one time was

613
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: a blessing to me, they're all gone. Everything I had

614
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: is gone. I'm not respected, I've lost all hope. I'm

615
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: not safe from attacks verbally or physically. And I've lost

616
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: all my prosperity. I've lost all my money, all my land,

617
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:50,479
Speaker 1: all my kids. I've lost it all. Now comes the turn.

618
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: I pointed out that these people have no standing that

619
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Speaker 1: are against me. The lowest of the low hate me.

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00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: I told you the way they're treating me. Now I'd

621
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: like to talk about something else. I'm being abused by God.

622
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: So he says this of verses sixteen through nineteen. And

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Speaker 1: now my soul is poured out within me. Days of

624
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: affliction have taken hold of me. Now what does all

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00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: that mean. It's very poetic, but let me just simplify

626
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: that for you. I'm convinced I'm dying, okay, and now

627
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: my soul is poured out within me. I'm dying. Days

628
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: of affliction have taken hold of me. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to physically survive this. That's what he thinks. Now he's wrong,

630
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: but that's what he thinks. Let me put a point

631
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Speaker 1: out again, He's wrong, but that's what he thinks. Don't

632
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: ever lose hope, you know. You know what. The beautiful

633
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: thing that you got to love about this is if

634
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Speaker 1: you're if you're in a bond and you feel like

635
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: you're dying, and some of you have been there, take

636
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: solace in the fact that you your life is not

637
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: going to be shut down to God allows it. You say, well,

638
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I'm going to die. You know what

639
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: you should say, May the lords will be done. If

640
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: he wills me to come out of here, I'll come

641
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: out of here wide open with a great testimony, ready

642
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: to talk. If he says this is the end, then

643
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in his presence like Paul taught us,

644
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,479
Speaker 1: and that'll be all right too. See. Did you feel

645
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: that calm come over you just saying I've had that

646
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: situation had before? You know, you remember that all daring

647
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: the pandemic. We were all terrified that that, you know,

648
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: and you know, and it did bother you. I mean

649
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: I lost people in the pandemic their earthly life, and

650
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: some of them I didn't expect. Now, some of them

651
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: I knew were in trouble if they got it, they

652
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: had compromised immune systems and things like that. But I

653
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: mean I saw some pretty healthy people go down. You're right, yeah,

654
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: And I was like when that happened, I had a

655
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: whole new attitude. I was like, that person's healthier than me,

656
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, And so I thought so really, me thinking

657
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: there's no way it could be trouble. And then you

658
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: hear in the phone the first time I remember the

659
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: doctor when he said that. He said, hey, you're positive,

660
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: and I thought, okay, And then all of a sudden,

661
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 1: I just remember, I went, well, if the Lord wants

662
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,720
Speaker 1: to this before we knew all the things we knew,

663
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: I said, if the Lord says this is it, that's fine.

664
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing I can really I'll do everything

665
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: He's got around me. And then if if this is

666
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: not my day to go Psalms one thirty nine thirteen

667
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: through sixteen. There's nothing this disease can do to me.

668
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: It can humble me, put me through a tough time,

669
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: it can give me time to consider things and all

670
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: they can serve that purpose. But it can't kill me

671
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: unless God allows it to kill me. So mayyor will

672
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: be done. I'll either have no issue with this, I

673
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: have a somewhat of an issue with it, or it'll

674
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: take me. And it turned out that I didn't have

675
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: any issue with it, and it wasn't any big deal.

676
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: But the time you don't know, you know, and we're

677
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: still seeing things that it caused because the problem with

678
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: that horrible, clearly manufactured virus is even though the only

679
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: thing that that happened to me was a loss of

680
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: smelling taste, for a little while. That's the central nervous system.

681
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: Still a pretty big deal. You know, you don't really

682
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: want your central nervous system to take a hit. But

683
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: if you couldn't smell or taste it, did you know? So?

684
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: And who knows long term, but there you go. So

685
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: and then the only thing worse than that is actually

686
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: taking the vaccine. Apparently so so now he talks about that,

687
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: But then you get into to seventeen seventeen. He says,

688
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: the night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws

689
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: me takes no rest. Anybody ever been there. My body's

690
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: torturing me. I can't even sleep. I mean, I'm in

691
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: so much pain to me. To me, that's one that's

692
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: a biggie for me. If I can go to sleep.

693
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: The reason why I'm not having rotator cuff surgery right

694
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: now is I can still go to sleep. Okay, when

695
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: it gets to where I can't go to sleep, I'll

696
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: go get it fixed. But until then I'm not going

697
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: to because the rest of it's not that big a deal. Okay,

698
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: And it gets me out a lot of movie I

699
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: can't know, you know, people say I can't uh so

700
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: uh but the uh but but yeah right, But I mean,

701
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: aren't you that way? As long as I don't know

702
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: what it is, as long as I can sleep, I

703
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: won't fix anything. You know. Now you start taking my

704
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: sleep away from me, and I'm going to see everybody.

705
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: Something's got to change. So uh so anyway, and I

706
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: figured out, look, I can go half the night this way.

707
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: I get it up like that, and I go half

708
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: the night over here and up this way back this way.

709
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 1: And as long as I keep doing that, I won't

710
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: have that urger, you know what. So so uh so anyway,

711
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: but he says for him, it's not that way. He said,

712
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: I I can't. I can't. My body is all over me.

713
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: I can't move without something hurting, and I surely can't sleep.

714
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: Sleep deprivation gets really on you. Oh you know, it's

715
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: one of the worst things that can happen to us.

716
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: Uh as far as your on going health. You know,

717
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: we you got to sleep. If you're not getting sleep, guys,

718
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: you gotta get sleep. Okay. I know that sounds like

719
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: the pot calling the kettle black. Just then, sorry about that.

720
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 1: Uh in eighteen with great force, my garments. My garment

721
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: is disfigured. It binds me about the collar of my tunic. Now,

722
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: this is a visual that really gives us an idea

723
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: of where job is physically. He said, it takes incredible

724
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: effort for me to even change my clothing, and the

725
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: neck of my tunic will now fit around my waist. Ooh,

726
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: he's lost a lot of weight. I mean he's a skeleton, okay,

727
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: and he's letting us know that's how bad it is.

728
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: Verse nineteen. God has cast me into the mire, and

729
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:44,240
Speaker 1: I have become like dust and ashes. Underline this one. Okay.

730
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: If where y'all with me, and you got the word

731
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: of God with you underline, put brackets around that, do

732
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: something with that. Anybody know why? Anybe I ever read

733
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: Joe before, Well, trust me, this is coming back right

734
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: here at the end when he finally understands what this

735
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: is all about, These dust and ashes are coming back,

736
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: and he says, right now, I've become like dust and ashes.

737
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: That'll be in chapter forty two, verse six, if you

738
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and look at it today. This

739
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: is gonna be the words that he uses when repentance comes. Now,

740
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: God has cast me here, and I don't know why.

741
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm in the mire, why is

742
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,879
Speaker 1: he put me here? But he knows that God put

743
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: him there. But this is going to come back and

744
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 1: be similar words he uses when he finally understands what

745
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: this has all been about. So now he wants to

746
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: go and address God. Nice little segue since this is

747
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 1: something he's going to say when he finally sees God.

748
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to address God, Verses twenty through twenty three.

749
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: I cry for your help, and you do not answer me.

750
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: Let's let that sit amentue. You ever been there? Yeah,

751
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,760
Speaker 1: I've I've got some things on my on my table

752
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 1: right now that I pray about, and I pray about,

753
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: and you know, I've learned. Even though Job says you

754
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: haven't answered me. No, even when we say we're not

755
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: being answered, that is the answer. It's a it's a

756
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 1: not yet, but it is an answer. I no answer

757
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: is an answer. Why Why hasn't this happened yet? Do

758
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: you hear me? Anybody dowt he hears us? That's the

759
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: thing gets me right? You ever start trying to use

760
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 1: different words, I'm gonna phrase this prayer request a little

761
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: different today. Lord. Maybe there's some breakdown in my language.

762
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't speak Calhoun County. I'm gonna try to

763
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: be more eloquent this time. You ever prayed more eloquent

764
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: to try to get an answer? Let me try. I'm

765
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: gonna try this little more elquent this time. I'm gonna

766
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 1: see if I can't be like Oswald Chambers, you know.

767
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: And uh and no. The deal is he hears it,

768
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: and he's going to do what he's going to do,

769
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: and that will be the answer and and it will

770
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: be the hardest part is when you get to the

771
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 1: part that you love God so much, you're just so

772
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: you're just so intimate with him that you're like, he

773
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: just does what's right? Are you disappointed? Rick? I am,

774
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: just because I'm flawed, but he's not. So I have

775
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: peace in the fact that he's right. That door shut,

776
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: didn't it? Sure did? I guess I should celebrate that

777
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: since he's always right. That's one of that That was

778
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: one of the biggest when I realized I was stepping

779
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: forward as I used to just thank God for open doors,

780
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: and I learned you might want to thank him for

781
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 1: a closed door. Oh really, so, but I really wanted that. Yeah,

782
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: but you didn't. You didn't need it, you know, you

783
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: ever said that I prayed about that, though. What I

784
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: prayed is that here's a good when I've had this

785
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: many times with and just people that I know. I

786
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: want to get this job. I need this promotion, I

787
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: need this job, I need this to come through. Hey,

788
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: I'm up for this. I'm up for this. Let's all pray,

789
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: let's repent, let's petition the Lord. Let's stand before him. Lord,

790
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: this is what we want. Jesus said, pray his will

791
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: be done, right, But we don't really mean that. But

792
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: we'll say it, your will be done. And then when

793
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: he does this will we're like, well, that's not what

794
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: I wanted. I thought you said my will be done. Yeah,

795
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: but I didn't mean that. I just knew I was

796
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: supposed to say it. Now, when you get to where

797
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: you mean it, not just say it. And if you

798
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: can get to the point that you think about this,

799
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: let's go something really radical. If I got that job,

800
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: my income would have increased one hundred thousand dollars. Did

801
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: you get it? I did not. Well, then that one

802
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars was gonna be trouble. What God didn't

803
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: think you needed that, He didn't think you could handle it,

804
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: or he didn't think he needed it. That job was

805
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: a disaster. Be glad you didn't get it. Now, if

806
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: you don't pray and you just kind of making life

807
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: up as you go. Now, I don't know whether it's

808
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: good or bad. But if I know this, that the

809
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: Lord God Almighty said his will will be done. And

810
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: if you petition before him and he hears your prayer

811
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: and he even says, yeah, talk to me. I'm the

812
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,399
Speaker 1: great I am. I'd like to hear from you. That's

813
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: amazing to me. So I can talk to you. You

814
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: sure can. You're redeemed by my son. You come right here,

815
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,879
Speaker 1: talk to me. I'd really like to have this job.

816
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: No what I thought you said you trusted me. That

817
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: job was gonna be a disaster for you, or that

818
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 1: job wasn't gonna serve my purpose. I wasn't gonna be

819
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: glorified in that job. You were gonna be distracted by

820
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: that job. I was gonna lose your attention. I like

821
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: you more dependent on me. Sudden you get one hundred

822
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, you think you don't need me. I like

823
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: kind of keeping you where you know you need me.

824
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: That's the best thing for you. Okay, Wow, so start

825
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: celebrating those closed doors too, because they're God's hand protecting us.

826
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: You know, you ever got a job and then after

827
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: you got to see what happened, you're like, well, I'm

828
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 1: glad that didn't happen. Yeah, I mean I've I remember

829
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: like having a situation I won't get too detailed where

830
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: I thought we need to move in that direction. And

831
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,240
Speaker 1: I felt really good about that direction, and it didn't happen,

832
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: and it wasn't long after that that company went under.

833
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: I thought, so I would have had a moment that

834
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: this would have felt good until I went down with him,

835
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: and then I've been back with nothing. You know, sometimes

836
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: it can be something as simple as that. You know, hey,

837
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: can can can we all admit we don't know what

838
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: God knows anybody? Okay, you ever tried to do it

839
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: your way? Right? Yeah? I have to. I've messed it

840
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: up pretty bad. So so here he is say, I

841
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: feel like that you don't answer me, but God will

842
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: answer him. Job's gonna learn be careful what you pray for.

843
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: Job could have just said, whenever you're done with this,

844
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: be done with it, but he demanded to have a

845
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 1: meeting one on one with God. Be careful when you

846
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: start getting up in God's face saying you come out

847
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: from behind it and you face me, because he just

848
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: might and you don't want that, you know. I go

849
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: back to Adrian Rogers, who's already there. He said this

850
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: Q and a thing that everybody keeps talking about. I

851
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if we just dropped on our face

852
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 1: when we saw him and just said, holy for a

853
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: thousand years, and then maybe we can get up. Guys,

854
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: when we stand in his presence, everything's gonna change. I mean,

855
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: Paul said, even I only see it dimly, but one

856
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: day I will see it clearly. And when we see

857
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: it clearly, I mean, if the apostle, Paul will come back.

858
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: Right now, he goes, you don't know how spot on

859
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: I was about that. What I thought I knew was

860
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: nothing compared to what I know now. And one day

861
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: we'll all be there if you're redeemed. So let's go

862
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: now to twenty two. I'm sorry, twenty one? What am I? Damn?

863
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 1: I'm the wrong plassroom? You just man? Where am I?

864
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:31,800
Speaker 1: Twenty two or twenty one? Twenty one? Twenty one? He says,

865
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: you have turned cruel to me with the might of

866
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: your hand, you persecute me. So he knows this is

867
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: coming from God. And you know what he says, I

868
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: think you're overdoing it. I think you're being cruel. Have

869
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: you ever been there? There's some hard things in life

870
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: that you have to know God allowed because he could

871
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: have stopped him. Have you ever thought, I think you

872
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: went too far. I remember one of the most blasphemous

873
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: things I saw. Uh it was and it was a

874
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: good book. I'm mis understand, but this person was not redeemed.

875
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: Have you Have you ever read Tuesdays with Maury I

876
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 1: forget the sports writer's name, Mitch. Yeah, and it's a

877
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: fine book. But there was a man that he went

878
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: to see all the time, and the man was a

879
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: Jewish man, and they got talking about Job, and he

880
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,439
Speaker 1: asked Mary what he thought about the story of Job,

881
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: and he said, I think God went too far. I

882
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: think God was cruel so right here. And I didn't

883
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:40,240
Speaker 1: care for that, because I see that's that thing again,

884
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,439
Speaker 1: when we get into that deal about what we think

885
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: we deserve as opposed to what we really deserve. We're

886
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: delusional about ourselves, me as much as anybody. Because a guy,

887
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: a guy called up when we were talking about this

888
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: thing about the woman, and y'all know that the mercy

889
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: and grace thing for me I have to really be.

890
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: I can be hard nosed and sometimes I need this

891
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: be softer than I am sometimes. And so we were

892
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: talking about the thing I talked about about the woman

893
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: getting destroyed by the world on social media, and the

894
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: God called. He said, well, I'm gonna tell you what, though,

895
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: and look at the things she was doing. She's been

896
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: held accountable, said my preacher was talking about we're all

897
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: gonna be held accountable one day for the things we do.

898
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: She's just being held accountable for the things that we do.

899
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: And I said, well, now hold on it. Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

900
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: I said. So, let me ask you this. When you

901
00:52:33,040 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: stand before the throne of God, are you hoping to

902
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: get what you deserve? I said, because the last time

903
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 1: I checked, I almost stand before a holy God and

904
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: deserve to be destroyed by his holiness and thrown into

905
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: an eternal lack of fire. But because he showed me

906
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 1: mercy and grace to his son Jesus, I'll actually stand

907
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: there and not get what I deserve. Now does it

908
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: matter what I did after redemption. And apparently because he

909
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: says give and takeaway, we're talking about treasures now, we're

910
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: not talking about me getting the eternal death penalty I deserve.

911
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: If it gets down till we should all be held

912
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: accountable for what we do. Then everybody ought to go

913
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: to hell, everybody. And I said, but what God is

914
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: gonna say to me is I'm gonna show you mercy

915
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: and grace because my son paid the price Rick that

916
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: you should have paid. And oh, by the way, don't

917
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: deny that same mercy and grace to people that I

918
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: didn't deny to you. That's actually the gospel. And the

919
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: phone line went silent, and I noticed that the narrative

920
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: was about getting cranked up on the text line. All

921
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: that kind of went away. Say we're forgot for a minute,

922
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: we get a little bit of full of ourself, and

923
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: we're ready to go out there and tell everybody that

924
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: they're gonna get theirs, and we forget. Wait a minute,

925
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get mine. I knailed Jesus to the

926
00:53:55,320 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: cross that should have been me, and the debt that

927
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:09,280
Speaker 1: was paid for me was enormous. So maybe it's actually

928
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: something we should celebrate and remember this when we're ready

929
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: to get our torches out and burn somebody else's life down.

930
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: The got you was gracious to me. Now, it doesn't

931
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: mean that when people have bad behavior, it doesn't matter.

932
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: You can't call it bad behavior. I don't mean that.

933
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: I mean this thirst for blood and guts and destruction

934
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: of people because they were mean to a kid about

935
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: a baseball. I mean it's a little we're a little

936
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 1: full of ourselves, and maybe there's a time to remember

937
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: what we deserve, and maybe we can just maybe calmly

938
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: correct somebody or disagree with somebody, but not wish them

939
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: to be destroyed and quartered in front of us, or

940
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: beheaded to the gallows with them. All right, So the

941
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: next thing he said in twenty two, he is saying

942
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: that God's doing this to him. He knows that. But

943
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: now twenty two, he said, you lift me up on

944
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: the wind, you made me ride on it, and you

945
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: tossed me about in the roar of the storm. This

946
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: is interesting, he said, because you kind of there was

947
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: a storm coming and you have me in the storm

948
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: and you're tossing me around like a storm. We know

949
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: that Satan was allowed to use a storm to kill

950
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: his children. And he's saying, you know it's coming, and

951
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: this moment with God is coming. And what does God

952
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: appear to Job in a storm? And Job says, you

953
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: got me in the storm in here. I mean, yeah,

954
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 1: I'm tossing around in here in this storm. You brought

955
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: the storm. You put me in the storm. You won't

956
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: get me out of the storm. Suddenly God says, I

957
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,080
Speaker 1: think I'll show up in a storm. How you like that?

958
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: You want to see a storm? I got one for

959
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: you twenty three for I know that you will bring

960
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: me to death and to the House appointed for all

961
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: the living. I understand that I'm deserving of this. Job

962
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: is broken. He's cried for help, and it's distress. He said,

963
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: God isn't answering, and I know that I'm going to

964
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: get what I deserve. I'm going to die, just like

965
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: everybody else is going to die. And then he gets

966
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: into to twenty four, yet does not one in a

967
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 1: heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and then his

968
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: disaster cry for help. You can't blame me. I'm broken.

969
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm crying out for help. Is that so unreasonable? Don't

970
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: most people when it's rough cry for help, my help

971
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,880
Speaker 1: that I need, me asking for it. That's not unreasonable.

972
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 1: I'm not being unreasonable with God. Twenty five? Did I

973
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: not weep for him whose days was hard? Was not

974
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 1: my soul grieved for the needy? What's he doing now?

975
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: Now job's running his resume? Was I not a good man?

976
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: You ever heard anybody say that before? I don't understand

977
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: why these things have He was such a good man,

978
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: not compared to God. He wasn't right compared to other

979
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: people he was, which is what we're gonna find out

980
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: about job. Right. But when I hope for good, evil came.

981
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: This is twenty six. When I waited for light, darkness came.

982
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: I was. I lived in the light the way I

983
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: was supposed to live. And you know what my reward

984
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: for living in the light was darkness. I thought I

985
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: lived in the light so I would get light. I

986
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: lived in the light. Now I get darkness. I don't

987
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: understand this. Twenty seven. My inward parts are in turmoil,

988
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: and never still, days of affliction come to meet me.

989
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: I am suffering. Things are not improving. I assume more

990
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: of this is to come. I guess, because you won't

991
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: stop it. How about this it's I'm not getting any better.

992
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: You ever been there, I'm struggling and it doesn't I'm

993
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: not getting any better. When is this gonna stop? When

994
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: is this gonna be over? I'm not improving. And then

995
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: he goes on and he says in twenty eight, I

996
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: go about darkened, but not by the sun. I stand

997
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: up in the assembly and I cry for help. Let

998
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I was looking for sympathy. I

999
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: wanted a sympathetic audience, but I cannot find one. Nobody

1000
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 1: shows me sympathy. Twenty nine. I'm a brother of jackals

1001
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: and a companion of ostriches. Ostriches, I live like these animals,

1002
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: which he could see there. I'm more like them than human. Now,

1003
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: my goodness, I'm just like these animals. I'm not even

1004
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: human anymore. I become so bad. Thirty My skin turns

1005
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: black and fall me wow, and my bones burn with heat.

1006
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: This is that skin disease, the bones referring to I malnourished.

1007
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: My skin is literally falling off of me. It's rotting.

1008
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: Thirty one. My lyres turned to mourning, my pipe to

1009
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: the voice of those who weep, all musical instruments, and

1010
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: you know what he says, these musical instruments that once

1011
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: played songs of joy, that once played songs of celebration.

1012
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: The only music I can make now, the only music

1013
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: I hear is the music of mourning, like at a funeral.

1014
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: This is the kind of music we play for those

1015
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 1: who weep. Tough situation, tough situation. Does God hear him? Yes?

1016
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: Is God going to deliver him? Yes? Is he gonna

1017
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: be told by Job or any human what the timeline

1018
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: should be. No. When we come back next week, Job

1019
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 1: will make one final appeal, one final appeal. He's looking

1020
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: for an answer, and he is going to get it.

1021
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for this today. Thank you

1022
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: for our time together. Thank you for these men that

1023
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: are so loyal and come in and encourage me. Lord,

1024
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: thank you for Adler and all the hard work he

1025
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: puts in. And everywhere Lord you allow me to go,

1026
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: people come up and say, this Bible study matters. It's

1027
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: this hard work that Adler puts in, and how y'all

1028
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: make this available? It matters? And I know this one

1029
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: in the study of Job is some of the more

1030
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: difficult questions that people ask. Thank you for the fruit

1031
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: that it is producing, and thank you for trusting us

1032
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: with it, and thank you for the encouragement of those

1033
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: who listen and watch, and especially for the encouragement of

1034
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: those that are in the room. And your name we

1035
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: pray Amen. Thank you,