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

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Speaker 1: that you are here with us again. We continue our

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Speaker 1: study of the Book of Job today. If you want

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Speaker 1: to go ahead and turn there, we'll be in Job

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Speaker 1: chapter thirteen. My name is Rick Burgess and I have

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Speaker 1: been teaching this Wednesday Bible Study for about a decade now.

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Speaker 1: or go to Themanchurch dot com. You'll see June fourteenth

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Speaker 1: under events. You'll see the link right there. All right,

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Speaker 1: so let's pray and then let's jump into Job chapter thirteen. Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for today, Thank you for the lessons that

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Speaker 1: wait on us, and Lord, thank you for the lessons

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Speaker 1: already teaching us. Help us, Lord to see all that

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Speaker 1: you are revealing through the power of the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 1: So we know that we're continuing. Job has already you know,

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Speaker 1: And now Job is responding again. He responded last week

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Speaker 1: As we get into Job thirteen, well, here's some different things.

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Speaker 1: never you know, I see people all the time. To me,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you like me, I faced

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Speaker 1: why are you doing this? And I was watching a

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Speaker 1: of course my wife's book on suffering has all this

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Speaker 1: that God used in a mighty way that he didn't hurt.

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Speaker 1: I'm I don't I don't have any you know, like

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Speaker 1: like Mick Jagger who rarely makes a Bible study. What

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Speaker 1: what what you hear right now from job? As he said,

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Speaker 1: I don't see any benefit in this at all. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's God's hand that's on me. You know what,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not you. Y'all are not the ones that

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Speaker 1: Now to come before God and wave your finger at him. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's different. So fur as for you, you whitewash with lies.

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Speaker 1: Worthless physicians? Are you all your faults that accuse me?

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Speaker 1: You tell lies about me? You misrepresented God by the way.

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Speaker 1: You think you have diagnosed me correctly, but you have not.

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Speaker 1: You have prescribed for me the wrong thing. You're worthless physicians.

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Speaker 1: I'm sick and you ever had that before? Have you

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Speaker 1: ever dealt with with a physician? And you're like, you

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Speaker 1: not do me any good. I'll tell you something funny

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Speaker 1: humorous about my dad. Greg and I talked about this

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Speaker 1: doctor with Dad, and you know, when Dad had Alzheimer's,

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Speaker 1: he he never knew where why we were where we were,

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Speaker 1: me with my memory, and Greg said, yes, sir, he said,

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Speaker 1: of what the uh what what job is saying? You guys?

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Speaker 1: words and instruction that they're they're just ashes, your whole

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Speaker 1: Even the bodies that you're regurgitating this out of their

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Speaker 1: bodies of clay. And you don't seem to be concerned

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Speaker 1: at all about angering God, and compared to him, you're

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Speaker 1: nothing but clay and ashes. You think more how you

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Speaker 1: and I've seen this a lot, and of course I've

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Speaker 1: been guilty of this in my life. You seem to

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Speaker 1: be so enamored with self, and you seem to think

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Speaker 1: so little of God strong point fourteen. I'm sorry thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Let me have silence and I will speak, and let

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Speaker 1: come on me. What may I'm done with you? Just

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Speaker 1: leave me alone. I'll deal with God myself. I'll speak

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Speaker 1: for me. You don't speak for me, and you know

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Speaker 1: what he's saying here. Let whatever's gonna happen happen. But

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Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm not gonna dependent to be

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Speaker 1: dependent on y'all. This one. I'm gonna go it alone.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt that way? Just leave me alone.

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Speaker 1: I'll deal with God myself. Why should I this is fourteen?

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Speaker 1: Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and

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Speaker 1: put my life in my hand? Why would I do that?

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Speaker 1: I want to know why I'm in such misery, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. That's why

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Speaker 1: I'm miserable. And all I got is you do in

449
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Speaker 1: all these monologues. I mean, another day of this is

450
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Speaker 1: just more misery for me, and I'm gonna find out.

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Speaker 1: I want to know why I'm in all this misery.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen very very well well known part of job, even

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Speaker 1: if you haven't studied the whole stuff. I was talking

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Speaker 1: to people even over the weekend, uh and over the

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Speaker 1: and in the last few days that have talked about

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Speaker 1: being involved in the study, and and they said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've I've knew bits and pieces of Job. I've never

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Speaker 1: studied Job this way before. And there's talking about how

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Speaker 1: much and I'm the same way. It's it's opening up

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Speaker 1: our eyes. But this one you've probably heard of. It's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty well known. When Job says, though he slay me,

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Speaker 1: I will hope in him. Yet I will argue my

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Speaker 1: ways to his face. I will speak my own case.

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Speaker 1: I have walked upright before God and he knows this,

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Speaker 1: and I trust him. He's not going to be unjust

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Speaker 1: with me. So even if it is that he slays me,

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Speaker 1: he's still the only hope I got. And I will

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Speaker 1: argue my case before him, and whatever he decides, my

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Speaker 1: hope is still in him. Job is headed this way.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know everything yet, but he's starting to show

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Speaker 1: you why he was called blameless and upright, why God

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Speaker 1: chose him for this test. Is he's already starting to

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Speaker 1: build that foundation that whatever God does is right. Are

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Speaker 1: you there? Whatever God does is right? Now? They're actually

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Speaker 1: when I studied a lot of commentaries on this, and

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Speaker 1: I thought I pretty much had this verse down, and

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Speaker 1: I still think what I just said is the more

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Speaker 1: accurate interpretation. There are some that say, if you look

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Speaker 1: at the Hebrew here, that he is, Yes, he's acknowledging that,

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Speaker 1: but he's also we got kind of a foregone conclusion

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Speaker 1: that he thinks God is gonna slay it, that he's

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Speaker 1: not going to be delivered from it. Maybe it stoodn't

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Speaker 1: change the fact that he's saying whatever he does is right,

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Speaker 1: but there's a little bit of he's kind of lost

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Speaker 1: hope that God is going to deliver him from this,

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Speaker 1: that this is his plight, that God is about to

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Speaker 1: let him suffer and die. But that doesn't take away

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Speaker 1: from the greater point, whoever's right on that he has

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Speaker 1: already decided that he is going to be stick with

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Speaker 1: God and have his hope in God, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Cs Lewis said. Something beautiful, you know, he said many

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Speaker 1: things beautiful, he says, and I want y'all think about this.

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Speaker 1: I laughed, and I remember CS Lewis saying this, but

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Speaker 1: I'd forgotten it. He says, to argue with God is

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Speaker 1: to argue with the very power that makes it possible

496
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Speaker 1: to argue at all, not what you think about that.

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Speaker 1: So you're about to go argue with the source of argue.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't even be able to argue if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: for the one you're about to argue with. He created argue.

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Speaker 1: You're in a bye there. I mean that you know

501
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Speaker 1: that you don't have much of a chance there. But

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Speaker 1: I think that I just know because He gave us

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Speaker 1: a sense of humor, so there must be something to

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Speaker 1: a sense of humor. I know we can take it

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Speaker 1: that like we can anything. He created it and corrupted

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Speaker 1: and people do. But but don't you think sometimes when

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Speaker 1: God is watching all this and we get we think

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Speaker 1: we're about to go stand before him, that he has

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Speaker 1: to kind of chuckle. I mean just kind of like, here,

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Speaker 1: look at this, I mean, and He's going to work

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Speaker 1: it out. But verse sixteen, this will be this is

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Speaker 1: good here foreshadow, this will be my salvation, that the

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Speaker 1: godless will not come before him. I know that I'm

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Speaker 1: right with God, so I can come before him, and

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Speaker 1: I do have access to him because he's my salvation. Foreshadow,

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Speaker 1: meaning even if he decides that my earthly body dies,

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Speaker 1: he will save me and and you know what he said,

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Speaker 1: the godless can't do that. So when things we we talked,

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Speaker 1: the godless can't come before God. Right, we've talked about

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Speaker 1: this is the thing that you know, I think often

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Speaker 1: is misunderstood, even sometimes in the church, where we become

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Speaker 1: so careless and cavalier with sin and and we kind

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Speaker 1: of get this kind of attitude and I have you

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Speaker 1: ever have you ever? Have you ever gone? I don't

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Speaker 1: want to be Have you ever gone? And some got

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Speaker 1: up to speak, and by the time they're done, the

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00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: message seems to be, I'm going to go to heaven.

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Speaker 1: But nothing's ever really changed. It seems like they still

529
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Speaker 1: have the same struggles they've always had. Nothing's improved. They

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Speaker 1: still keep doing the same old things they've always done.

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Speaker 1: Now I look, I'm still making mistakes, but I ain't

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Speaker 1: making the same mistakes I've always made. I go and

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Speaker 1: invent new ones. But I'm talking about the things that

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Speaker 1: I was struggling with when I was delivered. I don't

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Speaker 1: struggle with those anymore. And now I still struggle, but

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Speaker 1: I don't struggle with that. And sometimes I go and

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Speaker 1: hear people give a testimony that the things they've struggled

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Speaker 1: with they continue to struggle with and continue to commit

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Speaker 1: these same sins, and nothing's ever really changed. And it

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Speaker 1: worries me because I think somebody might walk in and say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if I say a prayer a certain way, then I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go to heaven. But nothing in my life

543
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Speaker 1: really changes. I'm here to tell you that there's people.

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Speaker 1: I was just texting with a friend of mine a

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Speaker 1: minute ago, and he gave an amen. Back. I said,

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Speaker 1: there are people that are red today that discovered that

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00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: Jesus and his power of transformation is real, simply because

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Speaker 1: they knew me before Jesus and they've known me after Jesus,

549
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Speaker 1: and they say that can't be anything but supernatural. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm not glorified. I'm being sanctified. I've been justified, but

551
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: my sanctification actually is moving on down the road. You

552
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Speaker 1: ever have people use the excuse for some kind of deliberate,

553
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Speaker 1: perpetual sin stood in their life, and they say, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just a work in progress. I wonder sometimes if

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Speaker 1: we know what the word progress means. No, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: look there's any progress at all. This is the same

557
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: old stuff you've always done, you know. So Jesus isn't

558
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Speaker 1: stronger than that, so we have to be careful with that.

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Speaker 1: And so what he is saying is he understands job

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Speaker 1: does when Jesus said in the Gospels, and I just

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it was like to be there

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Speaker 1: the day that Jesus making the point for himself. He

563
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: was setting it up because he hadn't gone to the

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Speaker 1: cross yet when he calls out says, oh, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you have to be perfect as my Father is perfect.

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Speaker 1: What did he say? I think he said we have

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Speaker 1: to be perfect and didn't catch you math for well,

568
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: how were we gonna be terror perfect? And Jesus said, no,

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Speaker 1: that's the standard. What he was doing is saying, so

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Speaker 1: you'll understand the gospel. The only way you're ever gonna

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Speaker 1: be made fully righteous and perfect before my Father is

572
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Speaker 1: through me. So I'm gonna go give you the road

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Speaker 1: to perfection in him. But sometimes I think we think

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Speaker 1: we could just strut in front of God without Jesus. No,

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Speaker 1: if we do that, we're gonna he'll kill us. And

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Speaker 1: the godless certainly can't do it. They can't strut in

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Speaker 1: front of Holy, Holy Holy without Jesus. And so that's

578
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Speaker 1: what job is saying. He says, I know he's the

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Speaker 1: key to salvation. I know that I have my salvation

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Speaker 1: in him. Now this is under a different covenant, but

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Speaker 1: he's saying, I know that I can stand before God

582
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Speaker 1: and I can talk to him, but the godless can't.

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Speaker 1: Now let me be clear, because I got in a

584
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Speaker 1: little bit of this in the first episode of Strange Encounters.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that God doesn't hear the cry of

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Speaker 1: the godless. He hears them cry out to Him in repentance,

587
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: of course, and then suddenly they can be redeemed, just

588
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Speaker 1: like anybody else. We all were godless before we were redeemed.

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00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: So that's not what I'm saying. But if you decide

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Speaker 1: you're going to strut into the presence of God without repentance,

591
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,720
Speaker 1: without crying out and leaving faith in yourself and putting

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00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: your faith in Jesus, you cannot walk into his presence.

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Speaker 1: Our God's holiness will kill you because the standard is

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Speaker 1: perfection and you don't have Jesus. So you didn't achieve it.

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00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: You didn't meet standard. But Joe believes that he can't.

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Speaker 1: So let's go to seventeen. Keep listening to my words

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Speaker 1: and let my declaration be in your ears. How about this.

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Speaker 1: I know that I'm right with God. I know that

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Speaker 1: I can come before him. And then seventeen Listen to me,

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Speaker 1: don't forget take in what I'm saying. By the way,

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Speaker 1: when I say what I want to say to God,

602
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Speaker 1: y'all be listening. You're gonna want to know this too.

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00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: I want y'all to get it too. Verse eighteen. Behold,

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Speaker 1: I have prepared my case. I know that I shall

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Speaker 1: be in the right. I'm confident. I'm confident that I

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Speaker 1: will be vindicated. Now hang on to this if you

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00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: want to just put a little note out by the side.

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Speaker 1: Down the road, somebody's gonna show up, called Allai who

609
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: and a liai? Who is going to come in? Or

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00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: lie Hugh? And he's going to circle back to this

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00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: statement from Joe. So remember that I'm confident that i

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Speaker 1: will be vindicated. I'm gonna make my case and I

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00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: know that I'm in the right. Nineteen Who is there

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Speaker 1: who will contend with me? For then I would be

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00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: silent and die? He said, So I'm looking at you three.

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Speaker 1: Can any of y'all really bring a case against me?

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Speaker 1: You haven't done anything but talk about things you think

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Speaker 1: may be wrong. You haven't cited one thing. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I've been living this right here for five months. Okay,

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00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: is you're claiming I've done something wrong, but you haven't

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Speaker 1: brought a case against me. You won't point to what

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Speaker 1: I've done. You just know I've done something. You could

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Speaker 1: just ask. And when I kept telling you that I

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00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: don't know of anything that hasn't been good enough for you,

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00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: but he says, I want you to understand that I'm

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00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: going to be vindicated, and you know, and and if

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Speaker 1: I didn't believe this, and I didn't think that I

628
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: was in the right, you might even remember my own

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Speaker 1: wife said, just curse God and die. That's what I

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Speaker 1: would have done. I would have just shut my mouth

631
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Speaker 1: and died. I wouldn't be I wouldn't be fighting like

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Speaker 1: this if I didn't believe that I was in the right,

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Speaker 1: What what use would it be? Right? Because sometimes you

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Speaker 1: kind of have this this attitude. I remember when before

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Speaker 1: being redeemed, that sometimes I would I would be in

636
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: trouble with various authorities, and sometimes it would just all

637
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,479
Speaker 1: get around you, and finally you just say, I gotta

638
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: come on out. Y'all got me Okay, I'm busted. Now

639
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 1: let me see if I can see if I can

640
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: get some grace. Okay, I can no longer deny that

641
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: that that I didn't do what y'all said I did.

642
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: You know I did it. I know I did it.

643
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: Y'all got the evidence. I'm done. Let's let's get on

644
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: with it, okay, and see if we can't get to

645
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: the other side of it. He said, if I knew

646
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: what was going on here, I just shut up and die.

647
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: So and he says, so, I want you guys to

648
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: understand that y'all have no right to bring an accusation

649
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: to me. And oh, by the way, you haven't said

650
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: anything other than you assume. So then we get to

651
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty eight to end this week, and now

652
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: he's done with them. He's going to turn around and

653
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: address God. Now, okay, So he goes in, goes to

654
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: twenty and he's now talking to God. Only grant me

655
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: two things, God, not the friends. Then I will not

656
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: hide myself from your face. I want two things. Grant

657
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 1: me these two things. I won't hide from you. I'll

658
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: face you, but I need two things. Twenty one, withdraw

659
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: your hand far from me and let not dread of

660
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: you terrify me. Hey lord, please ease up, take your

661
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: hand off of me, Remove this affliction, remove your terror

662
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 1: you are you are terrorizing me. I am miserable, and

663
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: I am afraid. And I would ask for you to

664
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: give me a break. Let's talk this out. But I

665
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: gotta have a break right now. Have you ever been

666
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: to that point where you just go, hey, I can't,

667
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: I can't do any more of this. I got I

668
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: gotta have a break. You ever you ever been trying

669
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: to fight with the pain. I remember my wife, she

670
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: had the It seems like the whole world it has.

671
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: At some point, I think I'm about to have it.

672
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: The rotator cuff surgery. Apparently that's part of life now

673
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: at some point, and and and and she did not

674
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: want to deal with any kind of pain medicine. And

675
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: I kept saying, baby, I I don't know about that.

676
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's a I mean, well, I just I

677
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: just want I don't want to. I really rather not

678
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: do that. I think I'll just use you know, sometimes

679
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: you just take a lot of is it? What is it?

680
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: I'll be profen or whatever. They have these real high

681
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: dosages of it. If you've been in a lot of pain.

682
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to get on these opioids. Okay, I

683
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: understand the danger of opods, seeing it, seeing it destroy

684
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: many lives. Baby, I don't think you're gonna become an

685
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: opioid addict, you know, just getting through surgery on rotator cup.

686
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: And of course she what after the surgery, she feeling

687
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean, it's none you know, everything's fine.

688
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: And so we go to the first physical therapy time

689
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: to move it. And I was standing there and I

690
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: mean they took her arm, they didn't move it just

691
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: a few inches, and I saw tears start coming down

692
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: her face. And I said, babe, you want to go to

693
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: call in the meds, and and she goes and she

694
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: starts shaking, and I said, well, now we're chasing, you know,

695
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: but I mean, but it's which is not good. But

696
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: but we eventually got there. But what it was at

697
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: that point she said, Okay, right now, I realize this

698
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: is got to stop. You know, if we can get

699
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: this settled down, now we can go. I want to recover.

700
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: And so that that's what Job is saying. I want

701
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I want to face you. Could

702
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: you just give me a break. Can you stop the affliction?

703
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: Can you stop terrorizing me? Okay? And so, and he asks,

704
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: I want these two things, and then he says, in

705
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: twenty two, then call and I want answer or let

706
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 1: me speak, and you reply to me. Now, Job careful here.

707
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: You call on me and I'll answer. Okay, but I

708
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: got to have a break. Do these things for me.

709
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: I got enough with the terror, enough with the afflictions.

710
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: Then call and I'll answer or let me speak, and

711
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: then you reply to me. Now, he's gonna get this wish.

712
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: It's coming. And when it comes, I hate to give

713
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: away the story. He's gonna try to get God. I

714
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: got it. He's going to God. God has a very

715
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: impressive speech and resume planned and it's so powerful that

716
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: Job tries to stop it. And God said, no, no, no, no,

717
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: you asked for this. You're gonna hear the whole thing. Okay. Yeah, so, hey,

718
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: I got it. No, no, no, we're not done. So

719
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 1: he's setting that up. So then he says, in twenty three,

720
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: how many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me

721
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 1: know my transgression and my sin. I want to know.

722
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: I want to know. Okay, And you're gonna you're gonna

723
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: You're gonna listen. This is bigger here. This is a

724
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: huge verse in Joe. It's huge because remember I keep saying,

725
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: I love when we start seeing that his theology is changing,

726
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: the theology of the day is changing. If you look

727
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: at these Hebrew words, it's not as simple as it

728
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: sounds in English. Here's what he's saying. He's not really

729
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: asked sking to know why he's suffering. Okay, that's not it.

730
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: This is gonna get deeper deeper here. He wants to

731
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: know the new theology. What he's saying is, hey, reveal

732
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: to me something. Am I just suffering for your sake?

733
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: Can you answer that question for me? Because this is

734
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: what I'm starting to think right If you can't find

735
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: a reason for it, as far as the easy reason,

736
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: I'm bad, God's mad, You're going that's not it. I

737
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: haven't sinned against you as far as unrepented sin, I'm blameless.

738
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: I'm upright now. Remember God said that, the gods who

739
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: said that about him? So am I just doing this

740
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: for your sake? Are you doing this for your glory?

741
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: He understands glory, worry, but is it for you? Are

742
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: you just letting me suffer for some reason about you. See,

743
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: the theology is starting to change. Now now comes the

744
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: why in twenty four, why do you hide your face

745
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: and count me as an enemy? Now here comes a why?

746
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: Now this is a why. I don't it feels like

747
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: you're hiding from me. I can't get you to respond

748
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: to me. I can't get an answer from you, and

749
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: it seems like you've made me your enemy. Why why? Well,

750
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: we always want to know the why, don't we have?

751
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: Have you ever just got to the point where you've

752
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: said something which isn't always true, but it's something that

753
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,760
Speaker 1: you go If I could, if I just knew why,

754
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,879
Speaker 1: then I'd be okay. Sometimes when we find out why,

755
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: it makes it even more difficult. Oh that's why I

756
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: wish I hadn't asked. But he is saying that, I

757
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just shouting out at you and you're

758
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: not answering me. It even feels like we're there's a

759
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 1: distance between us, which we know there was because God

760
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: has allowed Satan to go after him under the boundaries

761
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: that he set, and he even changed the boundaries a

762
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: few times to make it worse. Let's just deal with it, okay,

763
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: and right now it's like Job is looking for God

764
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: and all he sees are bad friends and he doesn't

765
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: realize it. But there's also the darkness of those who

766
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: oppose God, and he can feel that he can. Are

767
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: you hearing me? No, we know God does, but he

768
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: feels like he doesn't, and he wants to get some clarification.

769
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: And of course the bigger one. Am I your enemy?

770
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 1: And if I'm your enemy? I really want to know why?

771
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: So twenty five will you frighten a driven leaf and

772
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: pursue dry shafe? You know what you're saying? What am

773
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: I worth it? I'm getting all this attention. I'm a

774
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: worthless human being compared to you. Nothing. I'm worth nothing.

775
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm useless. I'm worthless. Why in the world are you

776
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: interested in me? Why would Almighty take time to do

777
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 1: this to Job? For what reason? Why do you even care?

778
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: What are you trying to get me to do? You

779
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: don't need me. Why would you need me to glorify you?

780
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: Why would you need me to suffer for you? For

781
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: what reason? I'm nothing? Twenty six? For you write bitter

782
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of

783
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: my youth. This is back to this I hear did

784
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: you ordain this is really the word in Hebrew? Did

785
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: you ordain me to suffer? Did you create me for this?

786
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: Did you make me for this moment? And now what

787
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: he's saying is, and I've been here before. Have you

788
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: ever had your own sin nature or some wicked evil

789
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: demon representing lucifer sin? You know you repented up sin,

790
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: you know you dealt with but it was bad. And

791
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: how many times have you heard the little voice you

792
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: remember when you did that? There's no ways over that,

793
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: that that that's going to keep you down for the

794
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,240
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Don't don't, don't let that happen.

795
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: I never understood how dis respetful that was to Jesus

796
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: to somehow keep hanging on to something that he bled

797
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: and died and was crucified to rid me of. And

798
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: how dare me to keep going back with my poor, poor,

799
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: pitiful I remember one time, you remember that those years

800
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,760
Speaker 1: of my life, you know, I did some terrible things,

801
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: some horrible things, And so I'm gonna use that as

802
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: an excuse for the rest of my life to never

803
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: be useful for God. And you know what the demons

804
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: think that sounds good does that's what we were hoping

805
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: to accomplish. And then Jesus is sitting there going it

806
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: is finished, you know, and you find this a lot

807
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: And I think that hopefully this will help somebody, because

808
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: it certainly helped me. People who who come to redemption.

809
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: And there's so many different sins, but I'm just going

810
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: to use this one because it's one that is prevalent.

811
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: You didn't know Jesus, or you rejected Jesus. Are you

812
00:49:54,920 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: just one astray and you compromise your sexual purity and

813
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 1: then you finally meet this wonderful person that you want

814
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: to marry, and you think I've ruined it. I've I've

815
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: ruined my wedding day. But what you have to understand

816
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: that in God's eyes, if He's looking at your sexuality

817
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: and your purity through the lens of Jesus, oh, you

818
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: stand on your wedding day pure. You stand on your

819
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: wedding day as white as snow. Now, if you're not redeemed,

820
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: that's different. But if you've been redeemed, you don't let

821
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: that get in the way of God's holy matrimony. If

822
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: everybody involved has been redeemed, he will present you to

823
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: himself holy and without a spot of sin, and you

824
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: can go and enjoy the intimacy of your marriage without

825
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: all that baggage. Let it go. And don't you ever

826
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: hold these kind of things over somebody's head that have

827
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: been redeemed because it gives you some sort of power

828
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: over them. I saw one of the worst examples of

829
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: an abuse in a marriage one time. The husband came

830
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: into the marriage pure and the wife didn't, and she

831
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: was redeemed woman of God. And come to find out

832
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 1: when they got into counseling, that husband, whenever he wanted

833
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: the upper hand, would remind her that she was not

834
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: pure when they got married, but he was. I mean,

835
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: that's wicked, and it eventually destroyed the marriage. And so

836
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: this is what you have to understand that if something

837
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: has happened and God has forgiven you and you have

838
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: been redeemed, then you have to understand that you stand

839
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:56,919
Speaker 1: before him and you're not his enemy anymore. Okay, that's over,

840
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: and here's job going. Are you holding stuff against me

841
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: that I thought I repented of? Am I in trouble

842
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: for stuff I did when I was young? He ever

843
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: felt that way? God, you knew I was stupid? You knew. I.

844
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you gonna hold that against me the rest

845
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: of my life and the enterest No, not if you've repented,

846
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:17,919
Speaker 1: not if you've been redeemed. And so if it's still

847
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: being held against you, it's not by God resting that. Okay.

848
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: So you see, Joe's just grabbing for anything. I did

849
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: some things when I was young I shouldn't have done that.

850
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: Is that what this is? And so he says, twenty seven,

851
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: you put my feet in the stocks and watch all

852
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: my paths. You set a limit for the soles of

853
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: my feet. You know what, he says. I can't escape

854
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: the path and direction you have laid out for me.

855
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna do what you want to do, and there's

856
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: nothing I can do about it. So let's get on

857
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: with it. I'm a limit by your sovereignty, right. I

858
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: can sit here and jump up and down, and I

859
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: can complain, and I can even say I don't want

860
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: to go down this road, but we're going. So let's go.

861
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 1: You've got me, you guide me. There's nothing I can

862
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 1: do about it. I'm limited by your sovereignty. But there's

863
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: also peace in that. Twenty eight man waste away like

864
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: a rotten thing like a garment that is moth eaten.

865
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: You know what he's saying right here, and everybody in

866
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: the room's in the same position that I don't want

867
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: to be Debbie Downer, because if you're redeemed, it ain't

868
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna be nothing but better. This is bad as it's

869
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: ever gonna be if you've been redeemed. But can I

870
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: break it to you. We're all dying, and he says,

871
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: you know what, I've just come to the conclusion we're

872
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: not living, We're dying, and we're going to ride away.

873
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: But again, you know what he says, never once look

874
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: at all this, I mean, guys, especially twenty to twenty eight,

875
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 1: this is all addressing God. We do not see anywhere

876
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: that job who has no idea the conversation between God

877
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: and Satan, of his own relationship with God and his

878
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: limited understanding of this new theology. He knows God's doing it.

879
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: He has not cried out after Satan one time. He

880
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: almost acts like he's not even aware of Satan. I mean,

881
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: I know he must be, but I mean he's not

882
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 1: mentioning him. And I see us doing the opposite. Like

883
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: I said earlier, we always think it's Satan. Job never did.

884
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: He just wants to know why God's doing it, and

885
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: he's asking for the answer. And as he continues to

886
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: seek that answer, in God's timing, he's going to get it.

887
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Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today. Thank you for

888
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: this time together with the brothers always. It is the

889
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: highlight of my week. And Lord, thank you for those

890
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: that are all over the world that also are watching

891
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: and listening to this Bible study with us. You know, Lord,

892
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: just watching this, even this is ministered to me today

893
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: and the answer that's coming for Job before we're done

894
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 1: with all this many weeks from today, we're already living,

895
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 1: and we're thankful that you showed us who you are,

896
00:55:54,520 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: even even in die or suffering through the journey and

897
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: the difficulty that Job went through. I don't know about

898
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: you guys in the room and those of you out there,

899
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: men and women. I look forward to meeting Job. I

900
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: look forward to going over to him say to your Job. Yeah, Wow.

901
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: People talked about you a lot. You were used by

902
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: God in a mighty way. I can't imagine what it

903
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: must have been like for Job when the suffering was

904
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,399
Speaker 1: finally over and he was there in the presence of God,

905
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: and he had all the answers. As Paul told us,

906
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 1: right now, Lord, we don't understand everything. You know. We're

907
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: seeing you kind of, you know, it's kind of a

908
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: little bit foggy, but there comes a day when we'll

909
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 1: see you clearly. But thank you for allowing us to

910
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: see you as in a way as much you give

911
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: yourself to us, as much as we can handle in

912
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: our limited state. Glory b do you God, and may

913
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: we find rest in the limits of your sovereignty. In

914
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Speaker 1: your name, we pray, Amen.