1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,200
Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study. Here we are once

2
00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,720
Speaker 1: again studying the Book of Job. If you want to

3
00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:07,320
Speaker 1: go ahead and turn, we're going to be in Job

4
00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,440
Speaker 1: chapter eleven today. If you'd like to go back and

5
00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,680
Speaker 1: pick up any of the other studies that we've done

6
00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,440
Speaker 1: on Job, obviously there's at least, you know, another ten weeks.

7
00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,560
Speaker 1: It's actually a little more than that. You can go

8
00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,680
Speaker 1: find those at the manchurch dot Com. There's a drop

9
00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,200
Speaker 1: down menu. You can use the media button so you

10
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,280
Speaker 1: can go back and watch the archives. You can go

11
00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,280
Speaker 1: back and listen to the archives. Things you miss now.

12
00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,040
Speaker 1: Not only the study of Job is available there all

13
00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,640
Speaker 1: the Bible studies that we've done. Hearkening way back so

14
00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:43,000
Speaker 1: at least a decade where we started as just a

15
00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,040
Speaker 1: you know, men at the local church getting together in

16
00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,600
Speaker 1: a small group Bible study, and that continued on for

17
00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,959
Speaker 1: many years and here we are again still still doing it.

18
00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,720
Speaker 1: We've grown here in the room, and we certainly have

19
00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,760
Speaker 1: grown out there as the thousands of people that join

20
00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,920
Speaker 1: us on the art archive every week and live on

21
00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,319
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. So we are Themanchurch dot Com. We

22
00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,840
Speaker 1: are a men's discipleship strategy. We launched that officially available

23
00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,640
Speaker 1: to everyone in twenty twenty. We have resources available for

24
00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,360
Speaker 1: your men's ministry in the form of forty week curricula.

25
00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,240
Speaker 1: We have five of those, number six coming out this fall.

26
00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,479
Speaker 1: We also have individual resources devotions and books that we

27
00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:28,400
Speaker 1: also recommend for you to study yourself or maybe even

28
00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,560
Speaker 1: in even smaller groups or maybe with your sons. And

29
00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,679
Speaker 1: we have a brand new one coming out on the

30
00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,520
Speaker 1: individual resource also on May the thirteenth of twenty twenty five.

31
00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,560
Speaker 1: You know, I had a guy email me this week saying, hey, man,

32
00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm back listening a long time ago. You're listing all

33
00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,560
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Is any way to edit all that out?

34
00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,240
Speaker 1: Stuff that's already passed. So we've tried to do better

35
00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,080
Speaker 1: about that. In some of the newer Bible studies, we

36
00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,760
Speaker 1: never imagine they would be out there and people be

37
00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,240
Speaker 1: watching and listening for years after they were already done.

38
00:01:58,640 --> 00:01:59,960
Speaker 1: So we're trying to do a little better about that.

39
00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,360
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's called Men Don't Run in the Rain

40
00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,400
Speaker 1: coming out on May the thirteenth. That'll be the next

41
00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,720
Speaker 1: resource for individuals that we have available, and you'll be

42
00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,080
Speaker 1: able to get it everywhere, not just the manchurch dot com.

43
00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,000
Speaker 1: So if we can help you in anyway, there's a

44
00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,640
Speaker 1: contact button at themanchurch dot com. We'll help you with resources,

45
00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,320
Speaker 1: we'll help you with speakers, we'll help you with your events.

46
00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,480
Speaker 1: We do conferences all that, and your source is themanchurch

47
00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,600
Speaker 1: dot com. So let's open up in a word of prayer. Lord,

48
00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,920
Speaker 1: thank you for today guide us as we go through

49
00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,240
Speaker 1: this study of job. Today we're back to those friends.

50
00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,120
Speaker 1: Here's one we haven't heard one heard from yet today, Lord,

51
00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,080
Speaker 1: and help us to look through the eyes of job

52
00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,120
Speaker 1: because he's hearing what Zofar is saying. But also, as

53
00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,800
Speaker 1: you have reminded us throughout this study, let's also not

54
00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,840
Speaker 1: be afraid to look through the eyes of Zofar and

55
00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,200
Speaker 1: ask ourselves some hard questions about how we are when

56
00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:59,160
Speaker 1: people are struggling and we are supposed to be their friend. Lord,

57
00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,120
Speaker 1: may you guide us to the power of the Holy Spirit.

58
00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,960
Speaker 1: In your name, we pray Amen. So, yeah, so far

59
00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,960
Speaker 1: is coming on the on on the scene. We haven't

60
00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,640
Speaker 1: heard from him yet. Most of the scholars believe that

61
00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,000
Speaker 1: he is likely the youngest uh that we've heard from

62
00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,520
Speaker 1: so far. Uh. He is also uh, he's not quite

63
00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,680
Speaker 1: Bill Dad but he's got a little bill dad to him.

64
00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,839
Speaker 1: He's he's direct, he's very direct. He is unsympathetic. Uh,

65
00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,200
Speaker 1: he can be tactless at time, or as my mama

66
00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,840
Speaker 1: would say, he didn't have any kuth. That was an

67
00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,600
Speaker 1: old word they used. If you didn't know how to

68
00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,000
Speaker 1: be appropriate socially, you lack kuth. I don't know if

69
00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,480
Speaker 1: you ever heard that before, but I heard that growing up. Uh.

70
00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,640
Speaker 1: He is going to be like the others too. He's

71
00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,560
Speaker 1: gonna accube accused Job of some of the same things

72
00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,000
Speaker 1: he's already been accused of. He's going to be accused

73
00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,400
Speaker 1: him of being wordy. Uh, he's gonna be accused of

74
00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:55,080
Speaker 1: being foolish, self righteous, arrogant. And again we're gonna see

75
00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,360
Speaker 1: this theme. Keep in mind, this was the theology of

76
00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,680
Speaker 1: the day. We're gonna see the same old theme. If

77
00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,160
Speaker 1: you're being punished, it's your own fault. You brought this

78
00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,120
Speaker 1: on yourself. So there's gonna be three themes. You're gonna

79
00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,800
Speaker 1: see so Far rebuke Job right out of the gate.

80
00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,240
Speaker 1: You're going to see comments on God's sovereign justice. And

81
00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,120
Speaker 1: then at the end you're going to see zo Far

82
00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,200
Speaker 1: say I got some advice for you. Okay, So that's

83
00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,800
Speaker 1: kind of how it's going to run. Verse one is

84
00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,559
Speaker 1: just going to, you know, just tell us as as

85
00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,080
Speaker 1: since we've had since the way back in chapter four.

86
00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:33,280
Speaker 1: It's just going to tell us we got to change

87
00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,480
Speaker 1: of speakers, so we have in verse one, then so

88
00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:43,159
Speaker 1: far the nahamaa fight nahamophyte, I've been working on saying that.

89
00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,520
Speaker 1: Nahamophyight have some fun with that one today. If you

90
00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,880
Speaker 1: want two men and he's going to ask four questions,

91
00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,159
Speaker 1: he answered you remember Job's been talking in verses nine

92
00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,520
Speaker 1: and ten, so so far is gonna say, I'd like

93
00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,800
Speaker 1: to respond Job to what you've said here. Uh. And

94
00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,160
Speaker 1: then he goes He's gonna ask him four questions right

95
00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,880
Speaker 1: out of the gate, and these are going to be harsh. Uh.

96
00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,680
Speaker 1: He starts in two, should a multitude of words go

97
00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:15,360
Speaker 1: unanswered and a man full of talk be judged? Right now?

98
00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,560
Speaker 1: These are kind of smart alec questions that they're asking.

99
00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,839
Speaker 1: And just like his other friends, he's attacking Job for

100
00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,520
Speaker 1: being full of words. And really what so far is

101
00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,040
Speaker 1: saying in verse one, and he is right about this

102
00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,240
Speaker 1: as far as what he's trying to say. Uh, I

103
00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,880
Speaker 1: know that for parts of my life. Sadly and embarrassingly,

104
00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,600
Speaker 1: I was passionately wrong. Uh. And what he's saying is

105
00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,000
Speaker 1: just because you're passionate, passionate, and just cause you got

106
00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,520
Speaker 1: a lot of words that didn't make you right right,

107
00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,479
Speaker 1: and and he's right about that. Uh. So he takes

108
00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,920
Speaker 1: that on first. Uh. And then in verse three, should

109
00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,520
Speaker 1: your babble silence men? And and when you and when

110
00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:01,039
Speaker 1: you mak should should no one shame you? So he says,

111
00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:06,640
Speaker 1: you think that you're smarter than those who rebuke you.

112
00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,160
Speaker 1: You you think you're smarter than us. Your your monologues

113
00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,719
Speaker 1: are are full of confidence, they're full of words. But

114
00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:20,599
Speaker 1: again he says, it doesn't silence our point of view.

115
00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,000
Speaker 1: You ever been one of these kind of debates before,

116
00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,880
Speaker 1: where everybody wants to debate, but no one ever stops

117
00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,520
Speaker 1: to hear the next person. Thinking I'm waiting to see

118
00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,880
Speaker 1: if anything changes my mind. It's just I'm never moving,

119
00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,960
Speaker 1: You're never moving. I'm gonna say the same thing again.

120
00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,640
Speaker 1: You're gonna respond the same way again. I'm gonna say

121
00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,960
Speaker 1: the same thing again. You're gonna respond the same way again.

122
00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,000
Speaker 1: That's what's going on here. Job keeps saying, Job keeps

123
00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,280
Speaker 1: saying he's innocent, and they keep saying you're not, and

124
00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,560
Speaker 1: nobody is changing their point of view, and so far

125
00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,839
Speaker 1: it's just basically saying, now it's my turn to say

126
00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,640
Speaker 1: what everybody else has already said. So we get the

127
00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,240
Speaker 1: verse for for you say my doctrine is pure and

128
00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,839
Speaker 1: I'm clean in God's eyes. And what he's saying there

129
00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,840
Speaker 1: is he doesn't agree with him. He just saying, are

130
00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,560
Speaker 1: you sure about that? Now? Now you may say your

131
00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,960
Speaker 1: doctrine's pure, and you may say that you're clean, and

132
00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,720
Speaker 1: you've made the point that God sees everything, and you've

133
00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,720
Speaker 1: told us we have no way to prove this that

134
00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,360
Speaker 1: God sees that your heart is clean. How do we

135
00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:33,120
Speaker 1: know that? Is this just something you assume? You have

136
00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,360
Speaker 1: no way to prove to us that God sees you clean.

137
00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,080
Speaker 1: That's just what you said. You say your doctrine is pure.

138
00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,560
Speaker 1: But just because you say it, remember this on the playground, Well,

139
00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,280
Speaker 1: just because you say it, don't make it drue. And

140
00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,040
Speaker 1: he's saying that that's the case. But here's one thing

141
00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,920
Speaker 1: that he is missing. He is not really saying what

142
00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,440
Speaker 1: so far is accusing him of saying. If you'll go

143
00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,200
Speaker 1: back to Job's words, he is saying to God, if

144
00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,120
Speaker 1: I miss this, I can't see it. So whatever it

145
00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,000
Speaker 1: is that you're mad about, show it to me. We

146
00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,400
Speaker 1: just talked about that last week. Well so far has

147
00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,800
Speaker 1: conveniently forgotten that. And what he's saying is, you think

148
00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,120
Speaker 1: you're right, and you think you're clean, and you're telling

149
00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,720
Speaker 1: God you're clean, and how can you be so sure? Well,

150
00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,480
Speaker 1: Job didn't seem to be so sure. He just said,

151
00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,640
Speaker 1: I can't figure it out, so show it to me.

152
00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,280
Speaker 1: I'm asking Job asked God to correct him and be

153
00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,640
Speaker 1: done with it. He wants it to be over. Let's

154
00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,000
Speaker 1: get this out in the open so that I can

155
00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,200
Speaker 1: deal with it. Have you ever i mean he's talking

156
00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,520
Speaker 1: about God here, but have you ever had that problem

157
00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,360
Speaker 1: with a friend or with a spouse? I mean, I

158
00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,199
Speaker 1: know I've said these words. I wish you just tell

159
00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,800
Speaker 1: me what you're mad about, tell me what's wrong, tell

160
00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,520
Speaker 1: me what you think I've done. And it's kind of

161
00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,480
Speaker 1: infuriating when people won't do it, because I certainly can. Well,

162
00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,840
Speaker 1: and that's the same thing. I'm just waiting on you

163
00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:01,440
Speaker 1: to figure it out on your own. Well, if I

164
00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,199
Speaker 1: could figure it out on my own, I've probably never

165
00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:09,280
Speaker 1: done it, whatever it is, so so anyway, he's he's

166
00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,800
Speaker 1: saying that that you think you that you're right, and

167
00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,400
Speaker 1: you're telling us this is all true, but we have

168
00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:16,960
Speaker 1: no way to do it. But so far is a

169
00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,360
Speaker 1: little off right there because Job is saying, as far

170
00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,640
Speaker 1: as he can see, he's clean, but he's asked God

171
00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,760
Speaker 1: to show him otherwise. So far kind of left that

172
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:31,040
Speaker 1: part out verse five. But oh, that God would speak

173
00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,880
Speaker 1: and open his lips to you, Well, I tell you,

174
00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:37,040
Speaker 1: I wish he'd answer you. He's gonna, I mean, you've

175
00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:41,920
Speaker 1: done too much talking, and I am just waiting on

176
00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,920
Speaker 1: when God will answer you and he'll finally deal with you.

177
00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:50,439
Speaker 1: I know, I've never felt that way about anybody you ever.

178
00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,800
Speaker 1: Just sit there and see God, I cannot wait to

179
00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:59,320
Speaker 1: you correct this all the day when you will finally

180
00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,800
Speaker 1: set everything right. And you have to be real careful

181
00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,640
Speaker 1: right there, because here it sounds like to me that

182
00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,400
Speaker 1: so far and the buddies just want to be proven right.

183
00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,079
Speaker 1: They've kind of lost. I want Job to be right

184
00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,840
Speaker 1: with God because that would be best for him and

185
00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,080
Speaker 1: and we can we're now getting into the point they

186
00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:23,000
Speaker 1: want to be right. They really what Zoe far Is saying,

187
00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,840
Speaker 1: is I can't wait for God to prove us right.

188
00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,720
Speaker 1: That's probably not the way to go. What we should

189
00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,800
Speaker 1: be saying to God is give me clarity so I

190
00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,200
Speaker 1: can check and see whether I'm right or wrong. I've

191
00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,200
Speaker 1: had God clarify for me before that I was wrong,

192
00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,120
Speaker 1: and I was certain that I was right, and uh

193
00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,559
Speaker 1: and so so that's not the attitude so far is

194
00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,040
Speaker 1: taking on. They all want to be they want to

195
00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,480
Speaker 1: be vindicated. They want they want to prove to Job

196
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,760
Speaker 1: that they're right. They're accusing Job of thinking he's right.

197
00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,040
Speaker 1: Why they themselves think they're right about their accusation of Job.

198
00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,160
Speaker 1: They both parties think they're right, but the friend just

199
00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,760
Speaker 1: think there is right, as Job thinks he's right. Okay,

200
00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,320
Speaker 1: so there's really nobody that's even remotely considering that they

201
00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,400
Speaker 1: may be wrong. The closest really is Job, because he's

202
00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,480
Speaker 1: asked God to correct him if he's on the wrong track.

203
00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,080
Speaker 1: Have you ever prayed that? That's always a in me?

204
00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,079
Speaker 1: Just a little bit of a little anks there, Lord,

205
00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,720
Speaker 1: I think I'm on the right track. If I'm not

206
00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,040
Speaker 1: on the right track, will you please correct me? I

207
00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,719
Speaker 1: want that, But sometimes you're thinking, well, I hope it's

208
00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,280
Speaker 1: what I think is right, and I hope God really

209
00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,600
Speaker 1: doesn't correct me. But we should always be sensitive to

210
00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,920
Speaker 1: correction from God and discernment. And if you don't have

211
00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,760
Speaker 1: a peace about something, brother or sister, if you're redeemed,

212
00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,080
Speaker 1: please don't be like I've been many times when God

213
00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,000
Speaker 1: could not have been clearer, the Holy Spirit could not

214
00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,760
Speaker 1: have been louder. It just wasn't what I wanted to hear.

215
00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,479
Speaker 1: And I never was at peace, I never was comfortable,

216
00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,320
Speaker 1: and when it finally got to the end of it,

217
00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, God was telling me not to do this

218
00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,120
Speaker 1: and I knew better, and I just didn't. You know,

219
00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,000
Speaker 1: don't ask for God's guidance and then ignore it, and

220
00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:05,760
Speaker 1: I certainly have done that. So I'm just letting you

221
00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,640
Speaker 1: know that it doesn't work out real well, he knows

222
00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,720
Speaker 1: what he's doing and he is always right verse six,

223
00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,080
Speaker 1: and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom.

224
00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,559
Speaker 1: I wish zo Far says here in six. I wish

225
00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,160
Speaker 1: God would show you that what he is doing is right,

226
00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,840
Speaker 1: and I wish he would reveal his plan because you

227
00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:33,360
Speaker 1: haven't heard his side of all this. And here is

228
00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,520
Speaker 1: one thing that is starting to inch a little bit

229
00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,240
Speaker 1: into what we now know to be sound doctrine about suffering.

230
00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:42,800
Speaker 1: I don't think so Far knows he's doing this, But

231
00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,760
Speaker 1: what he's really saying right here, I wish God would

232
00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,800
Speaker 1: show you how gracious he's being. And now he's coming

233
00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,400
Speaker 1: from the standpoint I want him to show you that

234
00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,079
Speaker 1: you've done something wrong, But he's almost kind of veering

235
00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:02,360
Speaker 1: into proper theology of sometimes God allowing us to suffer

236
00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,480
Speaker 1: is gracious because he's trying to teach us something that

237
00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,920
Speaker 1: we haven't learned yet. We know that is the case here.

238
00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,080
Speaker 1: I don't think so Far knows that. I think he's

239
00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,480
Speaker 1: thinking I just want it to be revealed to you.

240
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,840
Speaker 1: But he is saying, I wish God would show you

241
00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,400
Speaker 1: that he actually has a plan in all this. He's

242
00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,880
Speaker 1: right on that. So then he gets into these rhetorical

243
00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,360
Speaker 1: examination here the seven through twelve, and with all these

244
00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:33,120
Speaker 1: rhetorical scenarios and asking rhetorical questions that he knows Job

245
00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,120
Speaker 1: knows the answer to, because Job's already said some of

246
00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,360
Speaker 1: these things. So we get into to now verse seven

247
00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,920
Speaker 1: and seven through twelve will be these kind of questions.

248
00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,280
Speaker 1: So let me finish sixth. First, for he is manifold

249
00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,920
Speaker 1: and understanding and know that God exacts of you less

250
00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,080
Speaker 1: than your guilt deserves. That's him trying to say God

251
00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,240
Speaker 1: is probably being very merciful in all this, and so

252
00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,040
Speaker 1: far is right about that, but his motivation is not

253
00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:04,200
Speaker 1: quite so. Seven it's pretty straightforward. Can you find out

254
00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,520
Speaker 1: the deep things of God? Can you find out the

255
00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,120
Speaker 1: limit of the Almighty? So so, Job, let me ask you,

256
00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,120
Speaker 1: fellow human being, are you telling us that you can

257
00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:20,120
Speaker 1: truly search God? So you know God? You can figure

258
00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,480
Speaker 1: him out. It's impossible for you to know God. I

259
00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,200
Speaker 1: mean you can't. There is no limit to the Almighty.

260
00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,680
Speaker 1: But somehow, Job, you found it. You know what God

261
00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,200
Speaker 1: can and can't do. You know what God's doing, you

262
00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,360
Speaker 1: know how He's doing things. You know all things about God.

263
00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:43,240
Speaker 1: And this is once again kind of a kind of

264
00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,880
Speaker 1: a making fun of Job for the two speeches that

265
00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:47,760
Speaker 1: he's just given, and then of course the others he'd

266
00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:53,040
Speaker 1: given before that. Verse eight. It is higher than heaven?

267
00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,000
Speaker 1: What can you do? I mean it is it is

268
00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:03,880
Speaker 1: deeper than a se hole? What can you know? This

269
00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,680
Speaker 1: is very straightforward to it's impossible for you to speculate

270
00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,360
Speaker 1: about the great I am. Look, and he's what he's

271
00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:11,280
Speaker 1: showing on this one an eight, and he'll do something different.

272
00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,440
Speaker 1: In nine. He's given the height. You know that he's

273
00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,920
Speaker 1: given heaven as the height of what God knows, and

274
00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,840
Speaker 1: that it was the place of the dead. It's not

275
00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,400
Speaker 1: the final hell, but it's the hell that they they knew.

276
00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,200
Speaker 1: And he said, and you can you can go all

277
00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,760
Speaker 1: the way to the lowest low, and God can go

278
00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,160
Speaker 1: to the highest high. And you're telling me that that

279
00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,800
Speaker 1: his height and depth is something that you can actually grasp.

280
00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,280
Speaker 1: And of course the answer that's no. When Job knows

281
00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,400
Speaker 1: he can't do that. Now he's gonna go, uh, the

282
00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,120
Speaker 1: other way, and he's gonna do you know the h

283
00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna talk about width and length. And then he

284
00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:48,080
Speaker 1: gets into verse nine and he says its measure is

285
00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,760
Speaker 1: longer than the earth and broader than the sea. Again,

286
00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:57,200
Speaker 1: he's just showing how almost impossible to comprehend God and

287
00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,160
Speaker 1: his size. Uh. And there there is no there's no

288
00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:04,120
Speaker 1: depth that you can understand. There's no height you can understand,

289
00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,680
Speaker 1: there's no length you can understand, there's no width you

290
00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,600
Speaker 1: can understand. Really, if you think about this, if you

291
00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,000
Speaker 1: go to the original language. It's similar to the language

292
00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,720
Speaker 1: the apostle Paul uses in Ephesians three eighteen, when Paul

293
00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,600
Speaker 1: is saying, we can't even measure the love of Christ.

294
00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,320
Speaker 1: We can't measure you know here, isn't it interesting? You've

295
00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,520
Speaker 1: got so far. He's talking about, you can't measure, measure

296
00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,760
Speaker 1: the judgment of God, the wrath of God. And then

297
00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,720
Speaker 1: Paul goes on to the New Covenant saying, and you

298
00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,440
Speaker 1: can't measure the grace of God. It's impossible, And he

299
00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:42,840
Speaker 1: uses similar language in Ephesians three eighteen. And it's beautiful

300
00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,400
Speaker 1: news from Paul to the Ephesians verse ten. If he

301
00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,840
Speaker 1: passes through the imprisons and summons the court, who can

302
00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,560
Speaker 1: turn him back? And you know what he's saying to

303
00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,320
Speaker 1: Joe Job, I've been listening to Urant and Rave, and

304
00:16:58,360 --> 00:16:59,800
Speaker 1: I want you to know that you have no right

305
00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,880
Speaker 1: to question God. You have no right to oppose God.

306
00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,919
Speaker 1: His judgment is always correct. Now this part again so

307
00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,400
Speaker 1: far has right. Whatever he's doing and why he's doing it,

308
00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,520
Speaker 1: what he's doing is right. I mean, we've talked about that.

309
00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,959
Speaker 1: That's been one of the things I think we all

310
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,439
Speaker 1: struggle with the most when it comes to suffering, is

311
00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,679
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that whatever God is allowing, not things that

312
00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,040
Speaker 1: we cause by our decisions, but things that God, the

313
00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,520
Speaker 1: things that God allows to happen that are difficult. Is

314
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:36,560
Speaker 1: to get in the mindset that what He's doing is

315
00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:42,119
Speaker 1: always right, and that part so far is right on.

316
00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,840
Speaker 1: But what he's again, he's not seeing it that way.

317
00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,640
Speaker 1: He is seeing it that he's punishing you. So you've

318
00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,760
Speaker 1: done something wrong. And if he says you've done something wrong,

319
00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,520
Speaker 1: then he's right, no matter whether you can see it

320
00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:56,520
Speaker 1: or not. That's certainly true too. But that's we know

321
00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,520
Speaker 1: that God is doing something that so far doesn't understand

322
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,919
Speaker 1: yet does Job, but they will. So let's go to

323
00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:09,840
Speaker 1: verse eleven. For he knows worthless men. When he sees iniquity,

324
00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:14,560
Speaker 1: he will not consider it? Will he not consider it?

325
00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,720
Speaker 1: So God knows an evil man when he sees one. Job. Now,

326
00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,960
Speaker 1: when we get to chapter thirty four, you're going to

327
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,560
Speaker 1: see Alaho kind of elaborate on this a little bit.

328
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,400
Speaker 1: But when you get down to it again, so far

329
00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,639
Speaker 1: is saying something that Job really can't argue against. But

330
00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,159
Speaker 1: what is so far saying to Job, He's not just

331
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,239
Speaker 1: saying well, you know, God knows an evil man when

332
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,440
Speaker 1: he sees one. He's saying it like this, God knows

333
00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:47,240
Speaker 1: an evil man when he sees one. And you know

334
00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,520
Speaker 1: who I'm talking about. And again, I want you to

335
00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,840
Speaker 1: think about this. And I know we've talked about this,

336
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,280
Speaker 1: and I've even talked with some of you individually about this.

337
00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:00,760
Speaker 1: To me, the thing I can't get out of my

338
00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,840
Speaker 1: mind throughout this whole thing with these friends, and I've

339
00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,440
Speaker 1: said it before, but I'm gonna say it again because

340
00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,800
Speaker 1: I've been there before, is what must be the most

341
00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,000
Speaker 1: hurtful is that all of these men just what we know,

342
00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,120
Speaker 1: what they went through, how far they traveled, the things

343
00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,840
Speaker 1: that we've been told in the Book of Job. These

344
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,239
Speaker 1: are not acquaintances. Now, I know some of you. One

345
00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,240
Speaker 1: of the things I see in our society today, and

346
00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:28,600
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with all this

347
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,160
Speaker 1: social media and all that is I think that we've

348
00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,960
Speaker 1: all kind of lost the ability to discern the difference

349
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,760
Speaker 1: between an acquaintance and a friend. You have many acquaintances.

350
00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,399
Speaker 1: If you're lucky, it's wonderful. I love acquaintances. They can

351
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,919
Speaker 1: be there for you in a moment, and they can

352
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,800
Speaker 1: be fun to be around. But then you get to

353
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 1: friends and friends those are the people an acquaintance. If

354
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,879
Speaker 1: somebody asked your acquaintances about you, they may have some

355
00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,400
Speaker 1: idea who you are, but they mainly see you in light,

356
00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 1: inch deep, mild wide situations. They've never really been to

357
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,000
Speaker 1: battle with you. Uh, they've never cried with you, They've

358
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 1: never you know you just you know you by have

359
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,600
Speaker 1: the same kids on the same team, and hey, let's

360
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,199
Speaker 1: grab something to eat when the game's over. Or you know,

361
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,439
Speaker 1: they might be somebody that you your kids are in

362
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 1: school with, and hey, there's a school function, you see them, Hey,

363
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,399
Speaker 1: how are you? You know? You know you know them

364
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 1: by name. Sometimes you don't, you know, maybe you go

365
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,600
Speaker 1: to church with them, and that's the only time you

366
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 1: see them, uh, and you love seeing them there, and

367
00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,320
Speaker 1: they're very nice and and they're good people. But if

368
00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,359
Speaker 1: you if you ask for a character examination on you,

369
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,760
Speaker 1: they probably couldn't give one. They could say, he seems

370
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,080
Speaker 1: like a nice guy. Every time I'm around him, I

371
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,480
Speaker 1: seem to enjoy his company. H So, once your your

372
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,440
Speaker 1: kid was no longer in school with his kid and

373
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,080
Speaker 1: was no longer on any of the teams, have you

374
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 1: talked to him since no, I really hadn't how long

375
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,960
Speaker 1: has that been? I probably ten years. But if you

376
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 1: saw him at the grocery store, what would you say, Hey,

377
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 1: good to see how you doing? And uh, And so

378
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot. It might be somebody you work with

379
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 1: and you all hang out at work, but they don't

380
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,920
Speaker 1: really know your character. Well, these are not acquaintances. These

381
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 1: are the people that know things about you that nobody

382
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 1: else knows. Okay, they're the ones that they know the

383
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,199
Speaker 1: things you've been through, and they may have held you

384
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 1: up through some of those things, and they've watched your

385
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 1: character be tested time and time again, and they know

386
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 1: you and they're not giving him the benefit of the doubt.

387
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 1: But now there's some reason for that because they're also saying, well,

388
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: this is the only theology we know. But you would

389
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,920
Speaker 1: think somewhere in there they would say, Okay, God's doing

390
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,160
Speaker 1: something new because I know job and unless he tells

391
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: me different, and he's not. I just don't believe there's

392
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 1: an accusation against him. I don't believe that ACU. I

393
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: don't know what he would have done. Remember we talked

394
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: about if you really know somebody and you really love

395
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: somebody and you're really their friend. Now, sometimes you may

396
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: go to that friend and say, hey, and so said

397
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 1: the other day you did blankety blank and that just

398
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: didn't sound like you, and that's what I told him.

399
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 1: But I came to you, and you may get disappointed

400
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: and say, you know what I did, do that, I

401
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: should have done that. Oh okay, But you still gave

402
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: that person the benefit of the doubt because I didn't

403
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 1: sound like them. Sometimes I do things that don't sound

404
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: like me because I just had a bad moment. But

405
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt is always something that when

406
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 1: it's not given. I found it to be incredibly hurtful

407
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 1: because somebody claimed to be your friend, and they claimed

408
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,880
Speaker 1: to know you, and then they let somebody say something

409
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: about you that didn't sound right, and they didn't defend you.

410
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 1: And in this moment, what we should see here is

411
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,399
Speaker 1: these really close friends. That's who they seem to be

412
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 1: rallying around him, saying, let's try to find the answer.

413
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: Did you do anything Joe didn't not that I can

414
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: think of, And instead of them going you're lying, they

415
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: should have said okay. But then it's this let's try

416
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: to fix. We'll sit here with you, and we're gonna

417
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: pray and we'll join you. They should be saying the

418
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: same things that Job is saying to God, with him

419
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 1: not acting as his judge and jury when they don't

420
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: know the facts either. We got to get better in

421
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 1: our society. We look, we got to get back to this.

422
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: We got to stop talking about things when we don't

423
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: know the facts. If you don't know what you're talking about,

424
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: shut up, okay, if you don't know these facts, keep

425
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 1: your mouth shut, put down, get off the home keys,

426
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: stop typing, okay if you don't know what you're talking about,

427
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: and and and then and go find out. And so

428
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 1: this is what Job is facing right now. Everything they're saying,

429
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: they're acting like they're having a theological debate with him,

430
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: when really they're wanting God to prove them right. So

431
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: we go on to verse eleven. For he knows worseless,

432
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: worthless man, he sees iniquity, he will will not will

433
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: he not consider it, meaning he knows an evil man

434
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: when he sees one. God's always correct. And then we

435
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: get to twelve. But a stupid man will get understanding

436
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 1: when a wild donkey's colt is born. A man you

437
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: can't fix stupid and uh, a lot of truth to that.

438
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,000
Speaker 1: But now, basically Job has been told by his friend

439
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: he's stupid, he's bullheaded, he won't he won't listen, he's

440
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: not coachable. You can't get a stupid man to understand wisdom.

441
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: Will we never see the day when you can speak

442
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 1: wisdom to stupidity? Now again, so far has got making

443
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: some sense here. I don't know how many you've ever

444
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: tried to reason with unreasonable people, or maybe another way

445
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,719
Speaker 1: to say it is stupid people. It's it is an

446
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: uphill climb, it's a it's a difficulty, and y'all know this.

447
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: I've made this commitment, which is one that I actually

448
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: feel younger, I have more energy now, I sleep good.

449
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: Is when I finally decided that I will no longer

450
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: try to reason with unreasonable people. Uh. And and if

451
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: if I have come to you and we've discussed something

452
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: and we're all real clear where we are, and you're

453
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: not gonna change, and you're gonna keep on being drama

454
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna keep on being interrupted by your unwillingness

455
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: to change, uh, then I've enjoyed it, and I will

456
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: continue to pray for you. But you will no longer

457
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: suck the life out of me. Okay, you you you're

458
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: not gonna take time from me that I could be

459
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 1: devoting to someone who's coachable and someone who wants to

460
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: help me and let me help them. And I'm not.

461
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: I'm not here to deal with unreasonable people anymore. And honestly,

462
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 1: I've gotten to the point where I will remove them.

463
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: I will be done with them, and so but but

464
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: the problem is, though so Far's point is correct, Job

465
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: has not shown any signs that he's a stupid man

466
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: that is so stupid that he won't listen to wisdom

467
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: and he really doesn't know anything, and and I'll never

468
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: be able to get through your thick skull. I mean

469
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: that the bet there's better odds that a wild donkey

470
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: would be born a man. And another thing that if

471
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,239
Speaker 1: you go look at the original language here, you know

472
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 1: these these donkeys that were wild, I mean they were crazed,

473
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,239
Speaker 1: and as soon as one would be born, it'd be

474
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: just as wild. And really, so far is usually something

475
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: they were familiar with. It would be like he said

476
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: to me, facing you right now now, will be like

477
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: you telling me go it out there to a wild

478
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 1: donkey or they have another word that they used that

479
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: my dad used a lot because he said it was

480
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: in the Bible, in the King James version. But he

481
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: said you would go out, you guy as well go

482
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: out there and try to make a wild donkey be tame.

483
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: That that's about how much chance you got with trying

484
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: to get a stupid man to listen. And again, I

485
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: know this feels great in Joe's current situation. Okay, thank you,

486
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 1: so sore. You're not just saying I've done something that

487
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 1: I want to admit to. You're now saying I'm stupid.

488
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: This feels great and so now now I want you

489
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: to remember how many people believe you earned the right

490
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: to give advice. Okay, so far does not think that

491
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: he's now belittle Job. He's been hadn't been helpful at all.

492
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: And do you love when somebody who really has has

493
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: put you, I would think in a position where they're

494
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: angering you. I'm going to say, I think Job is

495
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: getting angry. Would you get angry if somebody was talking

496
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: to you like this? And what about when a person

497
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: who's infuriate you has called you all kinds of things,

498
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: has doubted your integrity, has and doubted everything says, Now,

499
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: if you'll listen, I'll give you some advice. You're like,

500
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: could I have a sub please? Could somebody else come

501
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: in for the advice part of this? Now, what so

502
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: far says is all true and his advice and his

503
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: advice is going to say, look, if you do certain things,

504
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: then certain things happen, conditions and results. If you do this,

505
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: the result will be this. And they're going to be

506
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: all true statements. The problem is they're coming from a

507
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: self righteous point of view. As a matter of fact,

508
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: those of you and I see a lot of you.

509
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you in here teach the

510
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: word of God. A lot of you have been preaching

511
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: for a long time. You still preach. If we took

512
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: and just took so far out and just we all

513
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: decided I'm gonna preach this Sunday on verses thirteen through twenty,

514
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: we would be solid. It's great preaching. It's a good sermon.

515
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: But see the sermon now is coming from somebody that

516
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess has lost the attention of the person

517
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: they want to hear it because they've infuriated them. But

518
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: here it goes and all this is true. It's just

519
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: boy the way it was set up was not very strategic.

520
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: Verse thirteen. If you prepare your heart, you will stretch

521
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: out your hands toward him. Now, let me talk to

522
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: you about that. Reaching out your hand at one time

523
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: in the early days, even in the Old Covenant and

524
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: even in the early days of the church, this is

525
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: a sign of repentance. You would reach your hand out

526
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: to God like reaching for him, begging for his forgiveness.

527
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: So don't miss that. And that's really what If you'll

528
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: prepare your heart, meaning go ahead and have a repentant hault,

529
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: and then you reach out to God in repentance, okay.

530
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: And fourteen, If iniquity is in your hand, that's the

531
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: reaching out, put it far away and let not injustice

532
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,719
Speaker 1: dwell in your tents. Okay, reaching out your hand at

533
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: one time, and was saying. He's really saying, get a

534
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: heart of repentance on your sin, and then you take

535
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: that sin and you repent of it, and then you

536
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: remove it from your life. That's all true, right, that's

537
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: what we should do. Well, what does repent mean? To

538
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: turn a one eighty from sin and go the other way?

539
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: This is sound. What he's saying is true. Fifteen surely then,

540
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: and don't forget too, don't let injustice dwell in your tents,

541
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: clean your house up, get your house in order. Okay fifteen.

542
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish,

543
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: and you will be secure, and you will not fear.

544
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: He's right. God will cleanse you, He will heal you. You

545
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: have nothing to fear anymore because you'll be right with God. Correct.

546
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: So far is preaching repentance quite well. And really, let's

547
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: not miss the things that he's saying, even though we

548
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: know job it's a different deal going on with God.

549
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: But let's not miss the opportunity to learn about sin

550
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: in our life. This is a beautiful picture that so

551
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 1: far has has has painted, and it is it is

552
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: theologically sound that if I have got a heart of

553
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: repentance verse thirteen, if I take the iniquity that is

554
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: in my life and I put it far away, I

555
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: turn from it, I won't let injustice dwell in my

556
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: in my tent, in my life. Then I will lift

557
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: up my face if I have repented before God in

558
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: any blemish sin that I once had. Now keep in

559
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: mind he's looking at a man's got sores all over him,

560
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: Then my face will be without blemish. And then this

561
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: is a beautiful thing that so far is saying about repentance. Again,

562
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: the situation with him and job is not great, but

563
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: what he's saying is great. You'll be secure and without fear.

564
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: Is there anything I hope that you have it? I

565
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: hope that no matter what's going on in your life,

566
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: if you are redeemed, if you have been redeemed by Jesus,

567
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: just like he said, there is a peace that nothing

568
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: can remove. As bad as it is, I've been redeemed,

569
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: as bad as it is. At one time I had

570
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: to cower before the one and only Living God. I

571
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: couldn't even be excited about his arrival because his arrival

572
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: would bring judgment on me, would bring wrath on me.

573
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: And thanks be to Jesus that because I am able

574
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: to repent, I can be presented before the one and

575
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: only living God, who is holy, holy, holy, and he

576
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: see me without blemish, He see me as fully righteous,

577
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: and the wrath that will be poured out on all

578
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: who oppose him will pass me by. That's that's a hallelujah, man,

579
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: I tell you. Some days, that's all that gets me through,

580
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: knowing that that is true. The biggest problem my life's

581
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: been solved. It's been solved, and he is telling Job

582
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: you can find that peace. He's right about that, But

583
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: Job doesn't know what he's supposed to present to God

584
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: because he doesn't know what he's done. And then he

585
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: says this, and this is true verse sixteen. You will

586
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: forget your misery and you will remember it as waters

587
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: that have passed you by. Job. If you want the

588
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: suffering to stop, get right with God. Now that's where

589
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: he's off again. You can be right with God and

590
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: the suffering not stop. I mean, there's so many examples

591
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: of this. The one, the one that just kind of

592
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: is almost shocking is Stephen in the Book of Acts.

593
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: My goodness, all we get up to Stephen Stoning is

594
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: just how fantastic he is and his devotion to Christ.

595
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: I mean, Stephen is presented is to be the elite

596
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: of the New Church. Elite. I mean, he's the only

597
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: one that that has like four attributes about him that

598
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: he was full of grace, he was full of power,

599
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: he was full of the Holy Spirit. I forget what

600
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:44,879
Speaker 1: the other one was full of the there was something else,

601
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: full of something else, but it was a grace, power,

602
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: holy spirit was the other one's strength, and that that

603
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: he was. He was full of strength and God. And

604
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 1: here he is. He's so with God. The people see

605
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: him as his face glowing. Okay, while he's preaching, no

606
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: one would say Steven's got to get wrong with God,

607
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: and if he would just turn from his sin, this

608
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: situation would pass him by. And he even looks up

609
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: and sees Jesus standing at the right hand of the Father.

610
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: And you're thinking, you know, in the after school special,

611
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: what happens. Steven is freed from all those that are

612
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: after him, and Jesus runs and grabs him, and nothing

613
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: bad ever happens to Steve. Steven's done nothing wrong. Jesus

614
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: is standing there saying, that's my guy. Look at him.

615
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: He's not backing down. He's preaching me boldly, be from

616
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: people who hate me. Their teeth are grinding, they're furious

617
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: with him. Some guy named Saul showed up. He's holding

618
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: everybody's jacket so they can throw harder at him. And

619
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: then the stony starts and Jesus doesn't stop it. So

620
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: see hard to know about that. He's saying, if you'll

621
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: just get right with God, the misery will stop. I'm

622
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and let you know something. Just because

623
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: you're right with God doesn't mean the misery on earth

624
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: is gonna stop. It might even turn up so you

625
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: can glorify him even more. And what did What did

626
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: Paul tell us He always remembered watching Stephen die, and

627
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: when Jesus came calling, you think he didn't remember Stephen.

628
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: He even tells us in one Corinthon's fifteen and I

629
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: think in Acts twenty that he was there for it.

630
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,720
Speaker 1: He remembered it, and he was even saying I shouldn't

631
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: have been impossible because of what I did. So Stephen

632
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: had impact on Paul's ministry by what suffering. It wasn't

633
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: the way Stephen lived that pointed Paul to Jesus. It

634
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: was the way he died. So anyway, so so far

635
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: doesn't quite have all that right. He but he but

636
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: he is saying, please just get right with God, and

637
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: all this year going through, he's going to release you

638
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: from it. He may not, you may see clarity on

639
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: why it's happening, but it doesn't mean it's gonna stop. Okay,

640
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: remember what we said about the famous two men who

641
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: built the houses on the rock in the sand. Jesus

642
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 1: went on to say, and the storm hit both houses.

643
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: One of them stood, one of them fell. There was

644
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: not a house in that scenario that was storm exempt

645
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: not there. Okay, So anyway, so so Far doesn't know

646
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: all that. And he said, but one thing he is

647
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: saying that is accurate. And do you all agree with this? Man?

648
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: I tell you what. Sometimes, even when you're struggling and

649
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: you see the Lord being close to the broken hearted

650
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: like he said he would be, and you're getting such

651
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: a you're getting such an intimate relationship with God because

652
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: you're suffering has made you depend on Him so much

653
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: in a way that you never have before. There is

654
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: a moment that the difficulty of it all just seems

655
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: to be less important than how wonderful He is. Now

656
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: that is true. So now seventeen and your life will

657
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: be brighter than the noonday. It's darkness will be like morning.

658
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: Joe has been telling them what, I feel like I'm

659
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: in darkness. I feel like I'm in darkness. And so

660
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: Far says, I tell you what, if you repent, the

661
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: light's going to return. He's somewhat right on that there's

662
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: a spiritual light that's going to return. There's a spiritual

663
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: piece that's going to return. But once again, he's telling

664
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: a man to repent who doesn't need to repent. Doesn't

665
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 1: mean he's sinless. What it means is he's blameless, which

666
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: means there's nothing between him and God. He hadn't dealt

667
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: with okay, so there's nothing new that needs to be

668
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: dealt with. He can't figure it so far, doesn't know

669
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: that and thinks that he's delusional to even think such

670
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: a thing. Eighteen And you will feel secure because there

671
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: is hope, and you will look around and take rest

672
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: in security. Ooh, there's a foreshadow. Hope will return. You know,

673
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 1: I've heard Scott Dawson, who's a good friend of mine,

674
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: who's the evangelist, he actually taught and our sundaysoit class

675
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: this past Sunday. We're in the same Sunday school class together.

676
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: And he's on the road a lot. But you know,

677
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: at least once every few months or so, he and

678
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: his wife Terror will teach. And I've heard, you know,

679
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: Scott say this many times. He said, we can live

680
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: days without food, we can live hours without water, but

681
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: you can't live a second without hope. And that's what

682
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 1: he's telling Job. If look, there's going to be hope,

683
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: if you can disco right with God, the hope that's

684
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: going to be given to you, that you'll rest, you'll

685
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: be secure, you won't be in such despair and dismay

686
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 1: like you are right now. That hope that you seem

687
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: to have lost, Job will be returned to you if

688
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: you'll just get right with God. And that's accurate. That

689
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: is accurate, And if you'll think about it. When we

690
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: get to the end of all this, Job is going

691
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: to get this security that SOO far is talking about.

692
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: But he's only going to get it when he finally

693
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: figures out this new theology of suffering. He didn't have

694
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: it yet. And then verse nineteen, you will lie down,

695
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: and none will make you afraid. Many will court your favor. Look,

696
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: this also could be a bit of a reference to

697
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: Job in ten sixteen when he said he felt like

698
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: a hunted man. You remember when he said that, I

699
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: feel like that I'm running from a lion, and no

700
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: matter what I do, that the attack just seems to increase.

701
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: I fear God's wrath. It's like everywhere our turn, it's

702
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: God's wrath, Like a lion that is hunting me, and

703
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: so far is remembering that. And he said, well, if

704
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: you want to lie down and not be afraid, well

705
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: then you got to get right with God, and this

706
00:40:53,680 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: attack will be over right, not right. Every time you

707
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: can be right with God, and the attack may not

708
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: be over Being right with God just means you'll survive it,

709
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean it's gonna go away. I don't

710
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: know if y'all know this, whether you liked it or

711
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: not when you woke up this morning, if you're redeemed,

712
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: you're in a war and you're being hunted, you may not.

713
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 1: You might have said, well, I don't want to do that. Well,

714
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: you don't have a choice. You know. You ever had

715
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: people say I don't want to participate in something, but

716
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: then you can't help it. I mean, it's it's like,

717
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 1: you know, it's like saying, Ia, I'm gonna jump into

718
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: some rushing water, but I don't want to deal with

719
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: the current. Well, you're gonna deal with the current whether

720
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: you want it to or not. And uh. And so

721
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: when you get up every day, we're going to war.

722
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: The sad part is a lot of us get up

723
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: every day and we don't prepare for war, and and

724
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: we're an easy target. And I will tell you this,

725
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: and some of you heard me say this. If you wanna,

726
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: if you want to change the way you see spiritual

727
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: warfare every day, let me tell you one person you

728
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: keep skipping, you better pray against your biggest enemy, yourself.

729
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm much more afraid of what I'm gonna do than

730
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: what Sating's gonna do to me, because there's quite a

731
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: gap between who who I serve and whoever's after me,

732
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: and whoever's after me didn't have a chance unless I

733
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: go over and give it some help, you know. So

734
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: we're our biggest problem and the quicker we realize that

735
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: and start praying that way, you will get power over

736
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: sin in your life. You really will, you know. You

737
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: know what I always say, protect me from something stupid.

738
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do today my biggest enemy. So then we

739
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: get to twenty so far says but the eyes of

740
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: the wicked will fail. All way of escape will be

741
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: lost to them, and their hope is to breed their

742
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: last So you know, you ever go back and say,

743
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: now here's what you need to do, and you give

744
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: all the things that will happen good if you do it. Now,

745
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: if you choose not to do it, I can't remember

746
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: my mom and Daddy is using this quite a bit. Now.

747
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,360
Speaker 1: If you choose to go the other way, you know

748
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: how to act. And if you choose not to act

749
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: that way, here, here's what's gonna happen. Uh. And they

750
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: always were really stuck to that contract. But so he says,

751
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: if you if you decide to not listen to me, Joe,

752
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: and not repent, and you decide not to turn to God,

753
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: then you'll join the wicked who oppose God, who are

754
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: lost and have no escape from the wrath of God.

755
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: They are as good as eternal dead. They're eternally dead,

756
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: and you'll start begging to take your last breath. So

757
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: there there's there's a difference here. And I and and

758
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: I think this is this how we'll close and may

759
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,479
Speaker 1: we'll close a few minutes early today again and this

760
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: this is our takeaway. There's a big difference between theology,

761
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: which we have to know, and just experiences of a

762
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: man are a human. People's experiences can be helpful, but

763
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: that's not theology. People's experiences can give you flawed advice.

764
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, especially on my experience. And so

765
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: you're hearing that, going, well, why would you be don't

766
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: be hard on that. No, no, there's some value to that,

767
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: but it's not theology. You know, sound theology trumps this

768
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: was my experience because experiences have things like flawed emotions

769
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: in it. And you know, just cause somebody did this

770
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: and here's what I did, don't mean it was the

771
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: right thing. And you know, we all know this, y'all

772
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: heard this. One of the toughest things in life is

773
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 1: what you know, bad to good is pretty easy, but

774
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: good to great that's the hard one, right, you've seen

775
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: the bumper sticker. The enemy of great is good and

776
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: so me making you know, decisions on bad and good

777
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: getting better at that. Still the tough ones for me

778
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 1: is going from good to best. And so theology versus

779
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: experience of a man. See, theology is taught by the spirit,

780
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: you know, and and and so you got to understand

781
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: that when you get sound theology, you know who God is.

782
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 1: But don't ever ever come up to someone who's hurting

783
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: and use theology in a way that's incorrect, even when

784
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: you get it right, when someone is suffering, make sure

785
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: that even though your theology may be sound. And remember,

786
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 1: these friends think they're using sound theology, and they're saying,

787
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 1: based on my experiences with this theology, here's what we think.

788
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 1: But what they're neglecting. They're coming to job with their

789
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: head only their heart's not involved. Okay. And so when

790
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: we come to people who are struggling, and I have

791
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: to work on this a lot, be be careful, lead

792
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: with compassion first, and then if it kind of earn

793
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: the right, if you get down to theologically, I'm going

794
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: to tell you in general what God's doing here. Here's

795
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: what we know in scripture. I have found that it's

796
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: very beneficial to go back and show people in scripture

797
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 1: what's going on when they're suffering. But that's not the

798
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: first thing you do. The first thing you do is say,

799
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm so heartbroken for you. Okay. I mean, look, Sherry

800
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: and I have gone to the depths of everything God

801
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 1: wanted to show us. But I still it doesn't matter

802
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: how much I know about what's going on. When I

803
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: walk in or get on the phone or return the

804
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: first email to a dad whose child has died and

805
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: sharing the same thing with mom, I do not lead

806
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: off with all my verses. I lead off with I

807
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: am broken hearted with you. I know this is devastating,

808
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: and I know right now you just feel like all

809
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: is lost. And right now, just know that we're praying

810
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: with you and that we're with you. We're right here now.

811
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: Do I eventually get to what scripture says about this,

812
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: of course, but it's not the first thing we do.

813
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: And so you got to be real careful about how

814
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: you use theology, even though it's superior to emotion. But

815
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we don't use compassion, because we

816
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: have to. You know, if they had just led with saying, hey,

817
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: you know, we love you a man, I see you,

818
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: I understand your struggle. Let's kind of let's talk about

819
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,439
Speaker 1: what we know about God. What do you think about this?

820
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: And you know, you know this is what we've been taught.

821
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: Do you think God's teaching you know? That should have

822
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: been the conversation versus We're gonna all be quiet, We're

823
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 1: gonna cry with you for a little while, and then baby,

824
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: here we come. And we're coming with all the head

825
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 1: and no heart. Because if you look in Romans twelve fifteen,

826
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: we are told that we should we should be compassionate,

827
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: and we're told in Romans twelve five. To be compassionate

828
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 1: is what Christ like. That's being like Jesus. So when

829
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: people are suffering, we always have to add a deeper

830
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 1: dimension compassion. There must be compassion. We're told in Romans

831
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen rejoice with those who rejoice, and mourn with

832
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: those who mourn. Suffering. People don't really need the first

833
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: thing that they hear from us to be let me

834
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: break down the theology of all this to you. They're

835
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: going to need that because they need those questions answered.

836
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: But that's not what we lead with. They really, in

837
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: the beginning want someone to say I'm here to listen,

838
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm here to cry with you, I'm here to pray

839
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: with you, and I'm here to love you. And then

840
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: you earn the right till they start going, why is

841
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: this happening? Where's God in all this? When? What do

842
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: the Bible? If they don't already know, what does the

843
00:48:56,520 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 1: Bible say about this? And you know, I have found

844
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: you know that one of the things that helps early

845
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: on when you're dealing with that. There's so many different

846
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: forms of suffering, but dealing with the one with children

847
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: I have found, especially with fathers, is to kind of

848
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: just discuss, you know, the legacy of the situation. I

849
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: don't even get into scripture. I'll just say, let me

850
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: ask you what would you want your child's legacy to be?

851
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: And they'll kind of they don't usually have an answer,

852
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: and I'll say, well, you don't want it to be

853
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: that the legacy of your child is that you turned

854
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: on God, right, I mean, you know, for your child's

855
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: death to mean that was the end of your faith

856
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: in God. And that's the legacy. My earthly death destroyed

857
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: my dad, destroyed my family. They all turned on God.

858
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 1: They went away and they just rebuked God. And they're

859
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: mad at God because God took me to himself on

860
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: this particular day before they were ready. And of course

861
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: every time they're like, well, no, I don't want that

862
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: to be the legacy. I said, well, now there's another legacy,

863
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: and that is that you glorify God do all this,

864
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 1: and that you lean on Him in a way you

865
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: never have, and that that child's name becomes associated with

866
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: the transformation of this family and maybe a ministry that

867
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,279
Speaker 1: spawns out of this and that child when the day

868
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: comes that you'll be rejoined with them. Will will hear

869
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: your Lord? And saviors saying to their daddy, well done,

870
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: good and faithful servant. I said, now, that's a legacy,

871
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: and that usually gets us headed in the right direction, because,

872
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, even though that's not a bunch of verses,

873
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: it's making it saying this person cares enough to talk

874
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: about this in a way that there is now a

875
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: concern that I don't want this to go south. You know,

876
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: I don't want this to be something that destroys you.

877
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: So let's start talking about how we can get on

878
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: our feet, and then we can go from there. So

879
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 1: you go from I'm just here with you, I'm praying

880
00:50:54,880 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: with you, I'm listening, I love you, I hurt with you,

881
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: I'm mourned with you. Then from there, where do you

882
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: want to go with this? Let's talk about how, how this,

883
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: what direction? This is? What? What? What are we going to?

884
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: What's our response to this? Then you get down to

885
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: the hey, let me share some scripture with you, and

886
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 1: then you go from there. And and honestly, because of

887
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: who God is, rare has been the time that I

888
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: have seen people not do well in that they used

889
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: to do. They do They usually do really well because

890
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: of the power of God, not because they come with

891
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: some strategy. This is just what Jesus thoughts. You know.

892
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: First of all, they wouldn't know whether you care or not.

893
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: And and it doesn't take much, especially if they if

894
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: they know that that all of us have got a

895
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: lot going on, that you take time with them, that

896
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: means the most. And and and in this situation, the

897
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: way Job's friends are handling this is not the way

898
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: we should handle the situation. Even though some of what

899
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: Zofar said is absolutely true. So let's take away two things.

900
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 1: Let's be reminded through the error of Zofar about repentance,

901
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: because everything you said about that's true. But let's also

902
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 1: learn how to be more strategic and how to be

903
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: more helpful and to be more beneficial to those who

904
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: are hurting when we have been given our opportunity to

905
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,879
Speaker 1: be the only representation of God that they can see

906
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: at that time. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today,

907
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: thank You for the opportunity to unpack your Holy word.

908
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 1: Thank you for this incredible study and the power of

909
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: this just incredible moment in time with Job and his

910
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: friends and the things that are ahead, including Lord. Eventually,

911
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: like all all of us, he'll eventually face you, and

912
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:08,959
Speaker 1: you will speak for yourself. We're so thankful that we're

913
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: holding in our hands right now your Holy Word. Things

914
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 1: that Job and his friends didn't have, but we have

915
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: everything about you, from beginning to future events and everything

916
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: in between. Thank you, Lord for revealing yourself to us,

917
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: not only through the power of the Holy Spirit, but

918
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: also through your written, Holy Spirit inspired word, your resume

919
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: about yourself. May we cling to it in are times

920
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: of despair and use it to help others the way

921
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 1: you came to us when we had no hope. May

922
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: we look like you, Jesus, to those who maybe have

923
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: lost hope and your name. We pray Amen. There we go.