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Speaker 1: our podcast channel. Today we'll be in Job chapter thirty four,

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Speaker 1: Job Chapter thirty four. We're staying with Thelai who Alaiah,

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Speaker 1: So let's pray and let's open up in a word

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Speaker 1: of prayer. Lord, thank you for today, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: these men that are here in the room. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for the men and women that are listening to this

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Speaker 1: all around the world. Today. Lord, help us to grab

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Speaker 1: what you intend for us to. We just beg for

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Speaker 1: the discernment, the perfect filter that is the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: your presence in our life. Lord. We pray for those

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Speaker 1: that are not redeemed, that are they've been brought here

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Speaker 1: today by You drawing them to You, that maybe today's

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Speaker 1: their day, that they'll repent and decide to leave faith

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Speaker 1: in themselves and submit to your authority while repenting of

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Speaker 1: all sin and your name. We pray. Amen. So Ali,

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Speaker 1: who has the floor, He's going to continue for a while.

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Speaker 1: He's called Job to repent. Job's heard that before. That's

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Speaker 1: that's not new. He's quoted Jobs. He thinks he's answered

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Speaker 1: He's gonna remind Job of that. Not there's no indication

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Speaker 1: always beneficial, right when we as as brothers and sisters

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Speaker 1: But I tend to lean a little more confident than

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Speaker 1: have you ever been that way before? You had something

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Speaker 1: But but sometimes you go, I think I have this right,

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Speaker 1: It's It's one of the things that I've dealt with

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Speaker 1: I've said this before. There's people that I think all

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Speaker 1: try to mutually search for justice. Let's reason this out together. Boy,

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Speaker 1: we could use some of that in our society today,

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Speaker 1: couldn't we? As opposed to Let's see who can win,

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Speaker 1: he said, he's also stating again what his purpose is.

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Speaker 1: That's always important anytime you're gonna hold somebody accountable, anytime

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Speaker 1: Here's the reason why I'm going to say what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: for this. So he's saying, I'm just looking for justice

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Speaker 1: So let's start in verse five for this part. For

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Speaker 1: He says in verse five, Job claims he's innocent. And

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Speaker 1: That helps a lot. Job said he's innocent in chapter nine,

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Speaker 1: who's got that right? Chapter fourteen, verse thirteen, Chapter nineteen,

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Speaker 1: you will find Job making this point. So now we

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Speaker 1: get into seven. What man is like Job? Who drinks

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Speaker 1: People have tried to unpack this. What is the lie

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Speaker 1: who's suggesting? Here? Is he lumping job in with those

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Speaker 1: Do you see how that question goes up? There? Is

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Speaker 1: talk about his sovereign justice sixteen through twenty. If you

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Speaker 1: have understanding, hear this and listen to what I say.

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Speaker 1: Once again, if you have understanding, then you are to listen,

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Speaker 1: And to not listen is to lack of understanding. It's

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Speaker 1: what lie who's saying right here. So Apparently he still

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Speaker 1: thinks what he's got to say is well thought out.

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Speaker 1: He's well educated on all this, and for us not

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Speaker 1: to listen to him, we're going to miss something. Seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Shall one who hates justice govern, will you condemn him

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Speaker 1: who is righteous and mighty? So God's rules are somehow unjust?

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Speaker 1: Are you going to make an accusation? You can't say

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Speaker 1: on one hand that God is wonderful and God is

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Speaker 1: all knowing, and God is never wrong, and everything God

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Speaker 1: does is just, and then turn right around and claim

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Speaker 1: he's unjust. These things are mutually exclusive. You know, you can't.

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Speaker 1: You can't say that, you, you know, hate the one

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Speaker 1: who governs perfectly, you can't condemn the one who's righteous

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Speaker 1: and mighty. And I would also turn that around. He

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Speaker 1: is making another point here. God wouldn't do that either.

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Speaker 1: So once again, all these claims you're making, God's doing

444
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Speaker 1: this to you, But yet you're righteous. Well, the answer

445
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Speaker 1: is yes, blameless is a better word. But he's made

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Speaker 1: righteous by God's mercy verse eighteen, who says to a

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Speaker 1: king worthless one and to nobles wicked man, God actually

448
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Speaker 1: does have the authority to question anyone. He's overall including

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Speaker 1: kings and nobles. He's saying, there's only one person who

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Speaker 1: can say to a king that he's worthless, and say

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Speaker 1: to a noble that he's wicked, and that's God and

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Speaker 1: get away with it. If you tried that dealing with

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Speaker 1: kings and nobles of the day and you were a commoner,

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Speaker 1: well I hope you enjoyed it, because that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: your last. You ain't gonna be alive very much longer.

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Speaker 1: But he says God, I can call him out, and

457
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Speaker 1: there's nothing happened to him because he's even above them nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich

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Speaker 1: more than the poor, for they're all the work of

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Speaker 1: his hands. No one put God in power, so he

461
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Speaker 1: is beholden to no one. All are created by him

462
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Speaker 1: and stand in equal need of his protection, and equal

463
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Speaker 1: need of his mercy, and equal need of his grace.

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Speaker 1: As we've said in this Bible study for a decade,

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Speaker 1: I don't care who you think you are. Everybody's equal

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Speaker 1: at the foot of the cross. There's no one that

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Speaker 1: is gonna strut into heaven saying, you know, when I

468
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Speaker 1: was on earth, I was a big deal. Everybody's gonna come.

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Speaker 1: You talk about a quality, You're gonna see the poorest

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Speaker 1: person you have ever known on this earth that has

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Speaker 1: that barely has a roof over their head, and a

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Speaker 1: guy who's got five houses and one hundred cars. If

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Speaker 1: he's redeemed and this person's redeemed at the foot of

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Speaker 1: the cross, they're gonna be completely equal in need of redemption.

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Speaker 1: This stuff that we think is such a big deal

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Speaker 1: that we sometimes covet and wish we had, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything on the day of judgment. You're not gonna say,

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Speaker 1: to the beginning and the end, you know, I was

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Speaker 1: quite influential on earth. I was a pretty big deal.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna be impressed. So and everybody is equally

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Speaker 1: his eyes. And you know what, I love, he said.

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Speaker 1: And he's the only one that sees everybody equal because

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Speaker 1: he created everyone. We have a hard time doing that.

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Speaker 1: As human beings. We do not pull that off. Then

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Speaker 1: we get into verse twenty. In a moment they die

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Speaker 1: at midnight, the people are shaking and pass away, and

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Speaker 1: the mighty are taken away by no human hand. He's sovereign.

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Speaker 1: He controls life and death. Hell, he has control over

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Speaker 1: all human life. If he determines that your life is

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Speaker 1: over again, your standing in society will have no bearing.

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Speaker 1: You'll die just like everybody else. You ever notice that

492
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Speaker 1: how many people just in the last year that we

493
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Speaker 1: hear all these wonderful things about, and they had all

494
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Speaker 1: this stuff on earth, they died just like everybody else.

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Speaker 1: Steve Jobs dead, died just like everybody else. And where's

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Speaker 1: all this wealth? Now? Somebody else has got it. And

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Speaker 1: when he stood before God, if he stood there without Jesus,

498
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Speaker 1: he was condemned and he didn't say, please don't see

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Speaker 1: me to Hell, I invented some really cool stuff. He

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Speaker 1: stood before the Great I am, and I hope he

501
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Speaker 1: had Jesus with him. If he didn't, that iPhone ain't

502
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Speaker 1: gonna mean anything. So now twenty one for his eyes

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Speaker 1: are on the ways of a man, and he sees

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Speaker 1: all his steps, he sees everything. He's now moving into

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Speaker 1: God's punishment. He sees everything. He's not missing any point.

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Speaker 1: I've been guilty of this. You've heard me mention this

507
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Speaker 1: many times. I'm gonna rep you on this one because

508
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: it's something that I need to deal with and we

509
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Speaker 1: all do. I will sing and I will praise that

510
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Speaker 1: God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, and then at times

511
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Speaker 1: I live my life like he can't see me. You know,

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Speaker 1: you have a bad moment, you know, I hope God

513
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Speaker 1: didn't see that. Well, I got news for you. He

514
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Speaker 1: absolutely knows, and this is what he's being reminded of.

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Speaker 1: Look job, I mean, if you may fool us, but

516
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna fool God. Right, we all know this

517
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Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those things when we stand

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Speaker 1: before you know, we stand before God. There'll be no lawyers.

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Speaker 1: We'll have a Thank goodness, we do have an advocate

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Speaker 1: in Jesus. But God doesn't need the case presented to

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Speaker 1: you to me him. He's already seen it. Now, let

522
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Speaker 1: me tell you what happened, God goes, I was there.

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Speaker 1: I've known everything, you know, because then you think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I had a version of the story that's much better

525
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Speaker 1: than what actually happened, you know, and God's going to say, no,

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Speaker 1: I saw exactly how it happened. And you know what,

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Speaker 1: I knew the intent of your heart. How many times, though,

528
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Speaker 1: are you comforted sometimes that God knows the intent of

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Speaker 1: your heart? Because I get misunderstood a lot of times

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Speaker 1: and then there's times where I wish he didn't know it,

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Speaker 1: but he does. But sometimes him knowing the intention of

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Speaker 1: your heart is actually a comfort because the world may

533
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Speaker 1: misunderstand you, and he goes, I knew what you were

534
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Speaker 1: trying to do. I knew that you were you loved me.

535
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Speaker 1: I knew you were doing that for the right reason.

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Speaker 1: So that's always comforting too, because you may not be

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Speaker 1: able to plead your case to human beings, but God,

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Speaker 1: God knows the answer even when you're innocent, which I love,

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Speaker 1: all right. So twenty two there is no gloom or

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Speaker 1: deep darkness. Well, evil doers may hide themselves. That's straightforward.

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Speaker 1: You don't need any commentary for that. He's just saying

542
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Speaker 1: he sees everything. He's not missing any point. Evil doers

543
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Speaker 1: have nowhere to hide. There is no cover. You're not

544
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Speaker 1: going to go down, you know, some alley and hide

545
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Speaker 1: from God and do something awful. He's going to see

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Speaker 1: everything that people are doing. Nobody's going to get away

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Speaker 1: with anything. Twenty three. For God has no need to

548
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Speaker 1: consider a man further than he should go before God

549
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: in judgment, really no need for a trial. All men

550
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Speaker 1: are guilty compared to the holiness and perfection of God.

551
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: That godless are guilty. But that's the point we have

552
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Speaker 1: to understand, is that if there was no Jesus and

553
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Speaker 1: there was no redemption Jesus, you've even seen in this chapter,

554
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Speaker 1: this very old book, most believe, the oldest book of

555
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Speaker 1: the Bible. They're looking for that advocate. They're looking for

556
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Speaker 1: somebody to pay that rants. And why do you think

557
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: they are. Everybody's guilty. Everybody's guilty. If God stood there

558
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Speaker 1: and never ever offered redemption, everybody's doing nobody makes it so,

559
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Speaker 1: He says, so if you, if you reject his mercy

560
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Speaker 1: and you reject redemption, there is no way for you

561
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Speaker 1: to stand before him and be innocent. So the godless

562
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Speaker 1: don't get away with it. Not in the end. It

563
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Speaker 1: may feel like they're getting away with it, they just don't.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four. He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets

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Speaker 1: others in their place. We see this all throughout scripture,

566
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Speaker 1: don't we No matter? Right now? In this world the

567
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: most powerful people were set up by God, some for blessings,

568
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Speaker 1: some for protection, some for punishment. But he can set

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Speaker 1: them up and tear them down. As we've learned in

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Speaker 1: the scriptures. I love that comparison. It be like me

571
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Speaker 1: sticking my finger in a glass of iced tea and

572
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: just move in the cubes around. That's how easy it

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Speaker 1: is for him to raise up a nation and destroy

574
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Speaker 1: a nation, raise up a leader, destroy a leader. He

575
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Speaker 1: does it all the time. And so what we're hearing

576
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Speaker 1: from this speech is powerful people. He investigates with no

577
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Speaker 1: apology whatsoever, and rules on them just like he does

578
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Speaker 1: everybody twenty five, Thus knowing their works, he overturns them

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Speaker 1: in the night, and they are crushed. He need not

580
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: ask questions because he already knows the answers. And every

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Speaker 1: time he rules, he rules fully informed, fully informed. There's

582
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Speaker 1: nothing that God goes now. I didn't know that. I've

583
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Speaker 1: sometimes been thinking something and finally new information shows up.

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Speaker 1: Look think about this, Think about how many times we've

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Speaker 1: even heard It's horrible that we've had one just recently

586
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Speaker 1: where somebody was completely exonerated for what they were accused

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Speaker 1: of doing, but unfortunately the man had already killed himself. Now,

588
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: the former LSU football player, he kept being accused of

589
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: vehicular homicide, and new information came out. Somebody finally had

590
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: footage that he was over twenty feet behind that vehicle.

591
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: He knew it was innocent, and by the time everybody

592
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Speaker 1: found out, he'd already killed himself. So sometimes, you know,

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Speaker 1: we as human beings go, you know what, we didn't

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Speaker 1: have that information. God's never in that position, has all

595
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Speaker 1: the information, so he rules perfectly. Twenty six. He strikes

596
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Speaker 1: them for their wickedness in a place for all to see.

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00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: The godless may try to hide, but they will all

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Speaker 1: be punished, and they will be punished for all to

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00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: see in the final judgment twenty seven because they turned

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Speaker 1: aside from following him, had no regard for any of

601
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Speaker 1: his ways. The godless turn away from following the one

602
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Speaker 1: and only living God. They do not obey God, and

603
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Speaker 1: they do not choose the wise way. This is back

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Speaker 1: to what all wisdom comes from, fear of God. If

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Speaker 1: you're out there and you've decided that God's ways are unreasonable,

606
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Speaker 1: God's ways are to be questioned, you're not quite sure

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Speaker 1: that he is right, then you have, as Jesus even

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Speaker 1: talked about in Matthew seven, you've looked over here at

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Speaker 1: these two gates, and you said, I think I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take this wide and easy one. Here we don't have

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Speaker 1: to deal with all God's commands, And I don't have

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Speaker 1: to give up my sin and repent, and I don't

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Speaker 1: have to leave faith in myself. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to. And you know what Jesus said in that

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Speaker 1: one right there is so wide and so easy that

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Speaker 1: many are going that way. But that's the road to destruction.

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Speaker 1: He said, over here, we're entering a narrow gate. It's

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Speaker 1: God's way. And he said that's hard, he said, and

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Speaker 1: only if you ever find it? Why, because it's cost

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Speaker 1: What does it cost us? It could it cost us

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Speaker 1: our life, maybe, what it cost us our job? Possibly?

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Speaker 1: Is it cost us family? Could cost you your friend maybe?

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Speaker 1: And that that's a little bit daunting. But most of

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Speaker 1: the time, the reason why we don't enter the narrow

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Speaker 1: gate is because it cost us our sin. Because that's

626
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Speaker 1: going to be the cost to everybody. I've been guilty

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Speaker 1: of that most of my life before redemption. I knew

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Speaker 1: about the narrow gate. Do you know why I didn't

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Speaker 1: go to church for thirteen years? Because I knew what

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Speaker 1: they were gonna say. How was it ignorant to the gospel?

631
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Speaker 1: I wasn't ignorant to the teachings of God. I just

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Speaker 1: didn't want them. I didn't want to do things the

633
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Speaker 1: way God wanted to do. I even knew what he expected,

634
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Speaker 1: and I didn't want it. So you think I'm gonna

635
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Speaker 1: go in there. I really don't understand people that go

636
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Speaker 1: to church when they're living a rebellious life. What a

637
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Speaker 1: miserable was it? How you get it? How are you

638
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: surviving there? I mean, it's like, how about it? I

639
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 1: didn't go there because I knew what they were gonna say,

640
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: and I said it. Until I'm ready to hear it again,

641
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: I ain't going back. I already know what they're gonna preach.

642
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: And when I finally came under a conviction by going

643
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: just to try to get married by a pastor who

644
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: loved me enough to tell me the truth, the next

645
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: time I went back into church, I went back in

646
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: seeking God, which is a whole different way to go

647
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: than I found him, because he said, if you'll seek me,

648
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: you'll find me. And I realized that his ways were

649
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: not burdensome, that his yoke was actually easy. It is

650
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Speaker 1: a yoke, though, which means he does God me, and

651
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Speaker 1: he does have parameters, and it is a narrow gate.

652
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Speaker 1: But the narrow gate, though it may be hard, it's

653
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Speaker 1: better because it leads to life. So this is the

654
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Speaker 1: point that a lie who is making long before Jesus

655
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: was walking this earth twenty eight, so that they caused

656
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: the cry of the poor to come to him, and

657
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: he heard the cry. They afflicted. They abuse people, They

658
00:41:54,719 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: mistreated the poor, they mistreated the sick. And you know what, God,

659
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: here's these prayers. He here's the cries of the mistreated.

660
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,399
Speaker 1: Now the problem here is Job says he never did

661
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Speaker 1: those kind of things. I didn't mistreat the poor. I

662
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: didn't mistreat the sick. I did not abandon the widows.

663
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Speaker 1: I remember him saying, men who were dying were comforted

664
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Speaker 1: to know I was there because they knew their family

665
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Speaker 1: be taken care of. But again, Ali, who is saying,

666
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Speaker 1: if you're not telling the truth about this God, here's it.

667
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: He knows the truth, and this must be I just

668
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: feel like now Joe's just like, okay, whatever, just roll on.

669
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Speaker 1: And then twenty nine. When he is quiet, who can condemn?

670
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether

671
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Speaker 1: it be a nation or a man. God treats individuals

672
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: and nations alike. He judges them both correctly. And I

673
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: know the lot of us think, because we're in the

674
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: us of a that somehow God's not judging us. But

675
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: he is and he will. And you know it's almost

676
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: like you go, well, God judges individuals, but he wasn't

677
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: judge nation. He'd been judging nations for a long time,

678
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 1: and he loves his people enough to judge them harshly.

679
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: Sometimes it seems more harsh than those that reject him,

680
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Speaker 1: because he's calling us to something, even as a nation.

681
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: And may we not forget what was the whole issue

682
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Speaker 1: with Jesus crying over Jerusalem is he's crying over Jerusalem

683
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: because he said, I came to you the Hebrew. First.

684
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Speaker 1: Your job was to take me to the rest of

685
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: the world. You were supposed to go preach the gospel.

686
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Speaker 1: Accept me, and now you be a light to the gentiles.

687
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: And you rejected me. And now all these horrible things

688
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: to this day are still going to come upon you

689
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: until the day you know that you see me and

690
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: you weep over the fact that you crucified me. We

691
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: know one hundred and forty four thousand of them will

692
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: finally go to work in the tribulation and do what

693
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Speaker 1: they should have done the first time. And he says, so,

694
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: now what he pivots to the gentiles secondly, to take

695
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: the light of the Gospel to the world until the

696
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: number of the gentiles come in. And if we the

697
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: gentiles decide we're going to reject it too, and we're

698
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Speaker 1: going to not do what we were told to do,

699
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: and we're going to take all this freedom and all

700
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: this wealth and all this ability to take the Gospel

701
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: anywhere we wanted to go and not do it. Well,

702
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: then he's going to discipline us too, and has and will.

703
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,239
Speaker 1: So he says he's been doing this. Apparently this has

704
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: been well known about God for a long time Verse thirty,

705
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: that a godless man should not reign, that he should

706
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: not ensnare the people now here this is problematic. He's

707
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: wrong about this. He's claiming that God doesn't allow godless

708
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: men to rule. Is he not aware of how many

709
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: bad kings there had been? Is he not aware of

710
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: how many evil people, unjust judges, wicked kings, deceitful leaders.

711
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: They've been around for a long time. So a lot

712
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: who's wrong on this one. God does allow godless people

713
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: to get into places of power. Usually it's a punishment.

714
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes Cyrus he used pagans to be a blessing to

715
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: his people. He's done that too, So that's just bad

716
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: theology on a lie. Who's part Now, if he wants

717
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: to say, whoever comes into power God allows for all

718
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: kinds of reasons, and that he he places them there,

719
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: he'd be right about that. But he's saying he only

720
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: places good people there. But that's just not true. And

721
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: I wonder, surely Ali who knows this? So it's one

722
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: of these things. It's kind of like when Joe was

723
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: pointing out, have y'all not noticed that sometimes the wicked

724
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: do quite well? You know, I'm surely they had seen it,

725
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 1: So Ali who kind of he misses it? On verse

726
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Speaker 1: thirty thirty one, For has anyone said to God I

727
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: have born punishment? I will not offend anymore? This is

728
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: his challenge for job to repent verse one, the next

729
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: thirty one, thirty two, and thirty three do this just

730
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: say that you're guilty. Has anyone said to God I

731
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: have born punishment, I will not offend anymore? And then

732
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: he says thirty two teach me what I do not see?

733
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Speaker 1: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.

734
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Speaker 1: Why don't you just say to God that you're guilty?

735
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: And then in thirty two he kind off, there's a

736
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: model prayer. Want you to say this, Teach me what

737
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: I don't see. If you don't see it, ask God

738
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: to show it to you, And he says, and if

739
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: I've done iniquity, I will do it no more. Won't

740
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: you just do that? And he doesn't get any response.

741
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: Then thirty three will he then make repayment to suit

742
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: you because you reject it? Hey, you got to choose Job.

743
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: I can't I can't ask answer this for you. Just

744
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: say it. Just say to God if you don't see it,

745
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: ask him to show it to you. And when he

746
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: shows it to you, tell him you won't do it anymore.

747
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: Repent Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's

748
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: not there. Ask God to clarify it. By the way,

749
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: Job has where has he been? Job has been asking this?

750
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: But you know what we get from Job here? No answer? Well,

751
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: now a lie who's not going to like that because

752
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't get an answer, So now he's going to

753
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: them Job for not repenting. Thirty four to the end,

754
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: Men of understanding, will say to me, and the wise

755
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: men who hears me will say, he starts out, he

756
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: turns to the three friends or anyone who would listen

757
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: to him to affirm the guilty verdict. Job, you are

758
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: arrogant toward God. We all wise men know the truth. Job.

759
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 1: We all know thirty five. Job speaks without knowledge. His

760
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: words are without insight. Job isn't wise like us because

761
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: he can't see what we can clearly see. He doesn't

762
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: see it. We all see it plainly. Job does not.

763
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: Thirty six would that Job were tried to the end

764
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 1: because he answers like wicked men, he will continue to suffer.

765
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why, because he's failed to repent.

766
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: This is just going to continue. Y'all heard me. I tried.

767
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: I tried. I've been through this before where I've had

768
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: people make horrible accusations about me and I've said the

769
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: same thing. But if I said it more like Calhoun

770
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: County and I will reach out to them and they

771
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: won't talk to me. I will say, I'll answer the

772
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: question and they won't have the conversation. And the last

773
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: thing I use to email them and text them is

774
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: I tried. Now I'm done. I tried. You made accusations,

775
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: I told you I would answer them. You ask questions,

776
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: I told y'all would answer them. Now let's have a conversation,

777
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: and they won't do it, and then you just turn

778
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: around say I tried. So that's kind of what a

779
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: li who is doing. I tried to get him to repent,

780
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do it. We go to thirty seven, for

781
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hand

782
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: among us and multiplies his words against God. Job, apparently,

783
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: according to Elihu, has doubled down. He now multiplies his

784
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: words against God. And of course I don't know where

785
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: he's getting this because Job hasn't spoken quite a while.

786
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: But now, what what you kind of you kind of

787
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: don't like with Allaihu right now is as we get

788
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: down to the end, he's becoming almost as confrontational and

789
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: cruel as the other three. And he claims that Job's

790
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: lack of response is just him doubling down. He's gonna

791
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: stick with his narrative. Now, you would think at this

792
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,360
Speaker 1: point that Elaihu would would give up, but he does it.

793
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna hear continue to hear from him

794
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty six, and thirty seven, So he's going

795
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: to continue on. And I know, if you ever been

796
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: in the situation when somebody's really wearing you out, it's

797
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: always wonderful when you go we've hit an ending point

798
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: about four or five times here, and you're still going.

799
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: You've heard somebody saying, I just say I'm done with it. Now,

800
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: I got one more thing to say, and uh, okay,

801
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: that's that's the opposite of being done with it. So

802
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: this is a tough situation. But this this there's starting

803
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: to be some tension here because some of what Ali

804
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: who has said is true, but then there's parts where

805
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: he seems to not be as informed as he thinks

806
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: he is. No one knows why Job is not interjecting

807
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: anything answering some of these questions. Uh. Some of the

808
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: commentaries say he's just so sick and so weak. He

809
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: just may be he just are are he? You know,

810
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: have you ever got to the point where you just say,

811
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: I don't have anything else to add. I've made my case.

812
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: I've said it over and over again. Nobody's believing me.

813
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: Everybody continues on the same narrative, and you just say,

814
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: I don't have anything to add. I don't know. But

815
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: he does not answer again. We won't hear from Job

816
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: again until he finally answers God when God comes on

817
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:21,720
Speaker 1: the scene, which we're getting very close, very close once again.

818
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: As we study this, I think we got to keep

819
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: doing what we've been doing. Let's be Job in this situation.

820
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: Let's also be Allahu. Let's be both. But ultimately, let's

821
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 1: cling to the things that we know to be true

822
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: about God when everything seems confusing, cling to the things

823
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: that we know about God, no matter how difficult it

824
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: may be, no matter how much you may think it's

825
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: your job to get to the bottom of something. God

826
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: will do the right thing, and what He does is

827
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 1: always right, and we have to learn that it's not

828
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: just right, it's also beneficial. It's for our own good.

829
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for

830
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: this ongoing study. I pray you be with all the

831
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: men here in the room. May your hand be upon them.

832
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 1: And I pray, Lord Jesus, that you be with those

833
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: out there that are listening and watching this Bible study.

834
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: Be with them. Lord, draw them to you, let them

835
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 1: apply what they've heard about you today, even though a

836
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: lie who is flawed in some of it, his reminders

837
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: of who you are are worth our attention and application.

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Speaker 1: In your holy name, we pray Amen. Thank you, guys,