Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. We are so grateful
Speaker 1: that you are here with us again. We continue our
Speaker 1: study of the Book of Job today. If you want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and turn there, we'll be in Job
Speaker 1: chapter thirteen. My name is Rick Burgess and I have
Speaker 1: been teaching this Wednesday Bible Study for about a decade now.
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Speaker 1: so let's pray and then let's jump into Job chapter thirteen. Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you for today, Thank you for the lessons that
Speaker 1: wait on us, and Lord, thank you for the lessons
Speaker 1: already teaching us. Help us, Lord to see all that
Speaker 1: you are revealing through the power of the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: through Job and his friends and the study of your
Speaker 1: Holy Word. It's in your name, we pray, Amen. All right,
Speaker 1: So we know that we're continuing. Job has already you know,
Speaker 1: we heard from from so far, we've heard from Bill Dad,
Speaker 1: you know this is We've heard from three of the friends.
Speaker 1: And now Job is responding again. He responded last week
Speaker 1: in the study in twelve. But this is still him responding.
Speaker 1: As we get into Job thirteen, well, here's some different things.
Speaker 1: Some themes are continuing. But what you're going to get
Speaker 1: pretty clear this week is that Job, early the first
Speaker 1: few verses of the first half of the chapter, Job
Speaker 1: is going to express in very clear terms his resentment
Speaker 1: for the unkindness of his friends. That he's now going
Speaker 1: as far as to say, this is hurtful to me
Speaker 1: and I'm offended by it, and you're going to hear
Speaker 1: him talk about that pretty quick. So in verses one
Speaker 1: and two, here's the first thing that he says to them.
Speaker 1: He says, behold, my eye has seen all this. That
Speaker 1: means everything he's been told by his friends. My ear
Speaker 1: has heard and understood it. What you know, I also
Speaker 1: know I'm not inferior to you. And what Job is
Speaker 1: saying to his friends is I've set here in the
Speaker 1: misery that I'm in, and all y'all have brought to
Speaker 1: the table are things I already know. And you've just
Speaker 1: repeated these same things that I already know. I've heard
Speaker 1: these things, I've applied these things. I know these things.
Speaker 1: So what he's saying is and I started thinking about
Speaker 1: this when I was studying this chapter, and I started thinking, well,
Speaker 1: what is the what's the application there? It seems pretty simple.
Speaker 1: But I started thinking to myself, maybe the guys in
Speaker 1: the room y'all are like me. Maybe some of you
Speaker 1: men and women out there. I don't really benefit from
Speaker 1: people that I know everything they know. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't mind them. But I'm talking as far as
Speaker 1: me benefiting. If you're gonna come into my life and
Speaker 1: say I'd like to teach you something, and then I
Speaker 1: soon discover that you don't know anything I don't know,
Speaker 1: then I don't know what I'm supposed to learn. You
Speaker 1: didn't you didn't bring anything. You don't have any more
Speaker 1: wisdom than I've already been taught. I've had teachers teach
Speaker 1: me what you're already teaching me. So he's really saying that,
Speaker 1: So here, you guys came, I'm in this misery, and
Speaker 1: you really have not brought a whole lot to the table.
Speaker 1: The things that you say I already know. So look
Speaker 1: what he says in three. So I think I'll just
Speaker 1: go to the source. I don't think y'all gonna be
Speaker 1: the source anymore, but I would speak to the Almighty.
Speaker 1: I desire to argue my case with God. Well, you
Speaker 1: can see we're gonna head to a real, big, big
Speaker 1: I mean this, it's still further away, but this is
Speaker 1: the time when Job now says, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for God to come in here, and I
Speaker 1: want to face him. I want to argue my case
Speaker 1: directly to the source, meaning what he knows where it's
Speaker 1: coming from. One of the things I found interesting in
Speaker 1: the in the last few weeks. Do you realize And
Speaker 1: I'll hit it again at the end, I'm yet to
Speaker 1: hear Job even remotely mentioned Satan. There's there's not a
Speaker 1: point in here that I've seen so far that Job
Speaker 1: thinks this is being done by Satan. He knows it's
Speaker 1: being done by God. He doesn't understand why, but he
Speaker 1: never you know, I see people all the time. To me,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite of the way we are now, the
Speaker 1: way we seemed to be now. Is everything Satan's fault.
Speaker 1: Everything I'm going through. If it's bad, it's Satan. If
Speaker 1: it's good, its God. And it's certainly it's my fault.
Speaker 1: It's not my sin nature. I didn't have anything to
Speaker 1: I've become a target of Satan himself. Which is quite
Speaker 1: a lofty suggestion, or maybe even demonic forces, because a
Speaker 1: third of the angels that's a lot. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you like me, I faced
Speaker 1: demonic forces before. But but we we never It's almost
Speaker 1: like we just we just can't quite even though we
Speaker 1: know more than joebn you at the time. Now we
Speaker 1: don't seem to go to God as quick and say
Speaker 1: why are you doing this? And I was watching a
Speaker 1: great sermon by Robbie Galaity out of the Nashville area,
Speaker 1: and Rich Wingo, one of my dearest friends, sent it
Speaker 1: to me, and he said, this guy got it. And
Speaker 1: of course my wife's book on suffering has all this
Speaker 1: in it too, But it was so great to hear
Speaker 1: this coming from the pulpit when Robbie Gallaty said, I've
Speaker 1: looked through scripture and I haven't seen anybody in scripture
Speaker 1: that God used in a mighty way that he didn't hurt.
Speaker 1: He broke them down. They had difficult they had difficult
Speaker 1: He always brought difficulty on. There's not anybody he used
Speaker 1: that was not hurt deeply at some point by God
Speaker 1: to to make them ready so that they could be
Speaker 1: powerful for him, so so so he's ready, he says,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't I don't have any you know, like
Speaker 1: like Mick Jagger who rarely makes a Bible study. What
Speaker 1: what what you hear right now from job? As he said,
Speaker 1: I've looked to you guys, and I got no satisfaction.
Speaker 1: I got no satisfaction uh in talking to you there.
Speaker 1: I don't see any benefit in this at all. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's God's hand that's on me. You know what,
Speaker 1: it's it's not you. Y'all are not the ones that
Speaker 1: have the right to judge me. And so y'all y'all
Speaker 1: told me is I need to get right with God.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, then I'll just talk to him
Speaker 1: about it. I can understand that. Of course, you got
Speaker 1: to be careful because sometimes God will say okay, and
Speaker 1: you'll start kind of trying to take that back. But
Speaker 1: there's times when it's a beautiful thing because you just say, God,
Speaker 1: I love you, and I just show me what you're
Speaker 1: teaching me. I want to learn what you're teaching me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to miss this. And that's certainly okay.
Speaker 1: Now to come before God and wave your finger at him. Now,
Speaker 1: that's different. So fur as for you, you whitewash with lies.
Speaker 1: Worthless physicians? Are you all your faults that accuse me?
Speaker 1: You tell lies about me? You misrepresented God by the way.
Speaker 1: You think you have diagnosed me correctly, but you have not.
Speaker 1: You have prescribed for me the wrong thing. You're worthless physicians.
Speaker 1: I'm sick and you ever had that before? Have you
Speaker 1: ever dealt with with a physician? And you're like, you
Speaker 1: not do me any good. I'll tell you something funny
Speaker 1: humorous about my dad. Greg and I talked about this
Speaker 1: yesterday and I'll have to give a bit of an
Speaker 1: edited version of it. But he Greg was at the
Speaker 1: doctor with Dad, and you know, when Dad had Alzheimer's,
Speaker 1: he he never knew where why we were where we were,
Speaker 1: And so the doctor pulled Mom out of the room
Speaker 1: to talk to her privately. So Greg's sitting there in
Speaker 1: the in the room with him, and he looked at
Speaker 1: me and said, now what do we do it? And
Speaker 1: he said, Dad, we're at the doctor. What kind of
Speaker 1: what do we do with doctor? He said, this is
Speaker 1: the doctor that's trying to help you with your memory.
Speaker 1: And he's trying to help you with your memory he
Speaker 1: goes this is the guy that's supposed to be helping
Speaker 1: me with my memory, and Greg said, yes, sir, he said,
Speaker 1: we ain't worth a crap because this thing seems to
Speaker 1: keep skidding. So anyway, so that's kind of that's kind
Speaker 1: of what the uh what what job is saying? You guys?
Speaker 1: You guys are are not doing any good? Uh? If
Speaker 1: you if you're physicians, I'd like to have another one.
Speaker 1: So so then he goes on and he says, oh
Speaker 1: that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom.
Speaker 1: I tell how you can help me right now? Is
Speaker 1: shut up? You know it? Right now? At this point,
Speaker 1: I just would rather not hear anything else from y'all.
Speaker 1: It'd be wonderful to just hear the sound of nothing
Speaker 1: from you. That would be wisdom. So six, hear now
Speaker 1: my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Speaker 1: Give me a patient hearing. Hear me now my reasoning,
Speaker 1: because up to this point, apparently y'all are not listening
Speaker 1: to me. I keep responding to your accusations, I keep
Speaker 1: answering it, and y'all just start saying the same things again.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever ever ever been there? Anybody how many folks
Speaker 1: who got married in here. I know they could still
Speaker 1: be watching, but we're alone for a moment. Have you
Speaker 1: ever like tried to head off getting in trouble with
Speaker 1: your spouse by owning the situation and explaining that what
Speaker 1: they think happened didn't quite happen. And you've got the answer,
Speaker 1: and you still got the speech anyway. It's like they
Speaker 1: had this great speech prepared and no matter what your
Speaker 1: response was, you still were gonna get it. And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, you gave me the speech anyway. I
Speaker 1: just answered that before I thought I was avoiding that.
Speaker 1: And so what job is saying is, I don't know
Speaker 1: why y'all keep getting on me the very thing you're
Speaker 1: getting on me about. I have already tried to refute
Speaker 1: and say that didn't happen. I don't have secret sin,
Speaker 1: I haven't done something that I need to tell y'all about.
Speaker 1: And then y'all just say it again. So what he's
Speaker 1: saying now, I wish that you would just be silent,
Speaker 1: and I wish you could we try one more time
Speaker 1: for you to listen to what I have to say.
Speaker 1: And then he says, and because you won't listen, look
Speaker 1: at seven, will you speak falsely for God and speak
Speaker 1: deceitfully for him? Right? Uh? Now, this was not a
Speaker 1: God situation. But have you ever been around, let's face it,
Speaker 1: some of the people. And we started a new podcast
Speaker 1: it's out now called Strange Encounters, and it's about spiritual warfare.
Speaker 1: And so if you if you've ever been around some
Speaker 1: of the signs and wonders people, they can be a
Speaker 1: little weird, okay, but you know they're they're always looking
Speaker 1: for some and I think they're in a dangerous place
Speaker 1: when you're obsessed over signs and wonders because the adversary
Speaker 1: and the demons can do them too. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to discern the actual sign
Speaker 1: and the wonder on the source. And so we were
Speaker 1: in a contract negotiation. This has been years and years ago,
Speaker 1: and this guy had he was he could be a
Speaker 1: little that we were dealing with in the negotiation. He
Speaker 1: could be a little odd in the spiritual rem and
Speaker 1: he always claimed to have some kind of word, you know,
Speaker 1: from God, and some kind of word that he had
Speaker 1: been given. And and so we were in the negotiation.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was the guy representing the company and
Speaker 1: he said, he had the contract in front of us,
Speaker 1: and he said, I've really really prayed over this, and
Speaker 1: I got a word from God that this is this
Speaker 1: is the number. And uh, he slid it over to
Speaker 1: me and I said, I'd go back to God because
Speaker 1: that that that didn't come from God, because that that
Speaker 1: that number won't work. So whoever whoever told you that
Speaker 1: that was not God? Okay? So so so he is
Speaker 1: he is saying to them, He is saying to them,
Speaker 1: the things you're saying are not true. And you keep
Speaker 1: claiming that you're representing God. Well, if you're representing God,
Speaker 1: then you are claiming that God doesn't know something that
Speaker 1: he of course knows. He knows. I'm innocent. Now, I
Speaker 1: haven't figured out why he's doing this to me yet,
Speaker 1: but he knows. It's not why you say it. But
Speaker 1: yet you keep claiming that you know what God sees
Speaker 1: and you don't. Right, only God sees the heart. Now,
Speaker 1: we can, we have every right and should to talk
Speaker 1: about fruit that we see or actions that we see.
Speaker 1: But Job has not really ever shown them an action
Speaker 1: that would legitimize their claim. They're just assuming something's wrong.
Speaker 1: And he says, be careful because you're saying you know something,
Speaker 1: you're speaking for God. And if you're going to speak
Speaker 1: for God, get an amen. You better be right right boy,
Speaker 1: you talk about people that I think are going to
Speaker 1: be held accountable when you look at scripture. Are people
Speaker 1: who claim to be representing God and they're spouting off faults?
Speaker 1: Are bad theology these people because deceiving the sheep. It
Speaker 1: doesn't farewell in scripture. If you're going to start claiming
Speaker 1: you're speaking for God, your standard just went way up
Speaker 1: that you're held to way up. And so now in
Speaker 1: eight he says, will you show partiality toward him? Will
Speaker 1: you plead the case for God? So? Will you contend
Speaker 1: for God? You think God needs a lawyer? He needs
Speaker 1: somebody say I'm representing God today? He says, do you
Speaker 1: think he needs you to be his advocate? Do you think,
Speaker 1: I mean, how pious can you be that you've placed
Speaker 1: yourself in the position of God's mouth piece? You ever
Speaker 1: thought about that? That is quite that's quite a standard
Speaker 1: when we start claiming that, Now, what's a better way
Speaker 1: to say it? And they don't do this is according
Speaker 1: to the scriptures that we've read that are inspired by God.
Speaker 1: We want to try to work this out with you.
Speaker 1: Let's go to scripture and let's talk about it as
Speaker 1: opposed to well, I just think this must be It
Speaker 1: must be the case, and that's what he's say. And
Speaker 1: be real careful, you're treading on dangerous grounding, and Job
Speaker 1: is right about that. He says in verse nine, Will
Speaker 1: it be well with you when he searches you out?
Speaker 1: Or can you deceive him as one deceives a man?
Speaker 1: So let me let me ask you this, three friends. Okay,
Speaker 1: what if God searched you out right? Now? What would
Speaker 1: he find? Can you give God a good account for
Speaker 1: what you have said and done? So? Do you think
Speaker 1: God is looking at your motivation for the things you've
Speaker 1: said to me? He can look at your heart and
Speaker 1: hear the things you're saying and what you've said and done.
Speaker 1: And you expect me to deal with you as if
Speaker 1: you're a god? I mean, do you think you can
Speaker 1: deceive him as one deceives a man? So? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it your wrath? Or is it God's wrath? Because
Speaker 1: you can't fool him? Do you think you pulled the
Speaker 1: one over on him? And look, I not on not
Speaker 1: this specific example, but you've heard me say before I think.
Speaker 1: One of the dumbest things that I do is to
Speaker 1: know that God is all knowing, all seeing, and still
Speaker 1: do things sometimes like he didn't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I know he knows what I'm doing. That makes when
Speaker 1: I rebel against him all that much more heinous. I'm
Speaker 1: not ignorant that he knows what I'm doing for some reason.
Speaker 1: You can convince yourself for this moment, he doesn't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I do that, but but he
Speaker 1: I know that he sees. And here's everything that I
Speaker 1: do and say, but still make mistakes sometimes. And so
Speaker 1: what he's saying is be careful. I want to remind
Speaker 1: y'all of who God is, since y'all keep wanting to
Speaker 1: remind me who is. Do y'all think y'all are deceiving him?
Speaker 1: So ten? He will surely rebuke you if in secret
Speaker 1: you show partiality. What does he mean by that? He
Speaker 1: knows your heart? Y'all better check your motivation for the
Speaker 1: way you're speaking to me. Is your motivation because you
Speaker 1: want to help me? Is your motivation loving me enough
Speaker 1: to tell me the truth? Nothing wrong with that. I've
Speaker 1: got people that do that and their heart's in the
Speaker 1: right place. I can tell you that I've even had
Speaker 1: emails that were holding me accountable. Even if I thought
Speaker 1: they had something wrong, I could acknowledge and I would
Speaker 1: come and say, well, here's where I think that I
Speaker 1: disagree with you. But the thing, if it's done this way,
Speaker 1: I will always start out and say, I really appreciate
Speaker 1: the email and the spirit in which it was intended,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times these people aren't they're not
Speaker 1: being unreasonable, they're honest, they are trying to help me.
Speaker 1: And sometimes there are one hundred percent right, and I
Speaker 1: thank them for it. Sometimes they're partially right, and I'll
Speaker 1: correct the part that's not, but I will acknowledge that
Speaker 1: their heart's in the right place. But then there's people
Speaker 1: that I know their heart's not writing up to the
Speaker 1: right place. And that's what he said. Their motivation is
Speaker 1: they just don't like me. Their motivation is they just
Speaker 1: want to tear me down. Their motivation is they just
Speaker 1: love to catch something where they couldnt have to acknowledge anything,
Speaker 1: and they could go out to the world to scream
Speaker 1: Rick Burgess as a fake. And of course it's be
Speaker 1: important to get the information right if you're going to
Speaker 1: do that, And that's kind of what Job is saying.
Speaker 1: God knows the motivation and his thought is the motivation
Speaker 1: that you have for this isn't because you love me
Speaker 1: right now? I think, deep down in secret places, because
Speaker 1: of the blameless and the upright reputation that Job had,
Speaker 1: you're loving this. You love that someone who has such
Speaker 1: a great reputation appears to have done something and you
Speaker 1: can't wait to find out what it is. And that's
Speaker 1: the wrong motivation. Have you gotten to the point in
Speaker 1: your walk with Christ? Are you far enough along as
Speaker 1: has your maturation and your sanctification gone to the point
Speaker 1: to where God can go as far as to say,
Speaker 1: we've taken care of the one hundred level stuff in
Speaker 1: your life, the two hundred level stuff. Now let's get
Speaker 1: into the three hundred and four hundred level stuff, like
Speaker 1: what's your motivation? What do you mean, Lord, I lead
Speaker 1: a son to sue class? Yeah? But why but to
Speaker 1: teach your word? Really? Do you love these people? Do
Speaker 1: you love the word? Are you starting to kind of
Speaker 1: like your position a little bit? Do you like being
Speaker 1: the being important? Do you like to be did it
Speaker 1: bother you that the pastor hasn't recognized the great work
Speaker 1: that you've done in the church. You know, when you
Speaker 1: start getting into that kind of stuff, Well, that gets
Speaker 1: down to the marrow, doesn't it. You know? So this
Speaker 1: is what he's saying is you're doing this. You're presenting
Speaker 1: yourself as my friends who just want to help me.
Speaker 1: But God knows what your partiality is and secret, he
Speaker 1: knows your motivation, and you know what, He's going to
Speaker 1: rebuke you for it. And he does, by the way,
Speaker 1: But that's later than the story. So let's go to eleven.
Speaker 1: Will not his majesty terrify you and the dread of
Speaker 1: him fall upon you? You say, how job's turning it?
Speaker 1: You claim to know so much about God, but you
Speaker 1: don't seem to be trembling at his majesty? How can
Speaker 1: you know as much about God as you think as
Speaker 1: you say you do and be so careless right now? Right?
Speaker 1: We should be very careful about making false accusations about people,
Speaker 1: you know, we should be. I mean, that made the ten.
Speaker 1: That's in the Big ten. You don't bear false witness
Speaker 1: about people, okay, And and sometimes we don't even stop.
Speaker 1: We don't even hit the brakes even when we're trying
Speaker 1: to call somebody out by by walking it very humbly
Speaker 1: and saying, I don't know all the information, but I've
Speaker 1: heard something that concerns me. I'd love to hear your
Speaker 1: side of the story. What a concept before I drop
Speaker 1: my gavel? Okay, And so he said, y'all haven't really
Speaker 1: done that, and you're doing it so reckless and so careless.
Speaker 1: It makes me wonder that can you know this much
Speaker 1: about God and not fear him more of doing this
Speaker 1: the wrong way? He says, Are you're pretty reckless right now?
Speaker 1: Considering you claim to represent God? Are you not afraid?
Speaker 1: Great point? Your maxims are proverbs of ashes. Your defense
Speaker 1: are defenses of clay. You're nothing compared to God. Your
Speaker 1: words and instruction that they're they're just ashes, your whole
Speaker 1: Even the bodies that you're regurgitating this out of their
Speaker 1: bodies of clay. And you don't seem to be concerned
Speaker 1: at all about angering God, and compared to him, you're
Speaker 1: nothing but clay and ashes. You think more how you
Speaker 1: and I've seen this a lot, and of course I've
Speaker 1: been guilty of this in my life. You seem to
Speaker 1: be so enamored with self, and you seem to think
Speaker 1: so little of God strong point fourteen. I'm sorry thirteen.
Speaker 1: Let me have silence and I will speak, and let
Speaker 1: come on me. What may I'm done with you? Just
Speaker 1: leave me alone. I'll deal with God myself. I'll speak
Speaker 1: for me. You don't speak for me, and you know
Speaker 1: what he's saying here. Let whatever's gonna happen happen. But
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm not gonna dependent to be
Speaker 1: dependent on y'all. This one. I'm gonna go it alone.
Speaker 1: Have you ever felt that way? Just leave me alone.
Speaker 1: I'll deal with God myself. Why should I this is fourteen?
Speaker 1: Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and
Speaker 1: put my life in my hand? Why would I do that?
Speaker 1: I want to know why I'm in such misery, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm miserable. And all I got is you do in
Speaker 1: all these monologues. I mean, another day of this is
Speaker 1: just more misery for me, and I'm gonna find out.
Speaker 1: I want to know why I'm in all this misery.
Speaker 1: Fifteen very very well well known part of job, even
Speaker 1: if you haven't studied the whole stuff. I was talking
Speaker 1: to people even over the weekend, uh and over the
Speaker 1: and in the last few days that have talked about
Speaker 1: being involved in the study, and and they said, you know,
Speaker 1: I've I've knew bits and pieces of Job. I've never
Speaker 1: studied Job this way before. And there's talking about how
Speaker 1: much and I'm the same way. It's it's opening up
Speaker 1: our eyes. But this one you've probably heard of. It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty well known. When Job says, though he slay me,
Speaker 1: I will hope in him. Yet I will argue my
Speaker 1: ways to his face. I will speak my own case.
Speaker 1: I have walked upright before God and he knows this,
Speaker 1: and I trust him. He's not going to be unjust
Speaker 1: with me. So even if it is that he slays me,
Speaker 1: he's still the only hope I got. And I will
Speaker 1: argue my case before him, and whatever he decides, my
Speaker 1: hope is still in him. Job is headed this way.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know everything yet, but he's starting to show
Speaker 1: you why he was called blameless and upright, why God
Speaker 1: chose him for this test. Is he's already starting to
Speaker 1: build that foundation that whatever God does is right. Are
Speaker 1: you there? Whatever God does is right? Now? They're actually
Speaker 1: when I studied a lot of commentaries on this, and
Speaker 1: I thought I pretty much had this verse down, and
Speaker 1: I still think what I just said is the more
Speaker 1: accurate interpretation. There are some that say, if you look
Speaker 1: at the Hebrew here, that he is, Yes, he's acknowledging that,
Speaker 1: but he's also we got kind of a foregone conclusion
Speaker 1: that he thinks God is gonna slay it, that he's
Speaker 1: not going to be delivered from it. Maybe it stoodn't
Speaker 1: change the fact that he's saying whatever he does is right,
Speaker 1: but there's a little bit of he's kind of lost
Speaker 1: hope that God is going to deliver him from this,
Speaker 1: that this is his plight, that God is about to
Speaker 1: let him suffer and die. But that doesn't take away
Speaker 1: from the greater point, whoever's right on that he has
Speaker 1: already decided that he is going to be stick with
Speaker 1: God and have his hope in God, no matter what.
Speaker 1: Cs Lewis said. Something beautiful, you know, he said many
Speaker 1: things beautiful, he says, and I want y'all think about this.
Speaker 1: I laughed, and I remember CS Lewis saying this, but
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten it. He says, to argue with God is
Speaker 1: to argue with the very power that makes it possible
Speaker 1: to argue at all, not what you think about that.
Speaker 1: So you're about to go argue with the source of argue.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't even be able to argue if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for the one you're about to argue with. He created argue.
Speaker 1: You're in a bye there. I mean that you know
Speaker 1: that you don't have much of a chance there. But
Speaker 1: I think that I just know because He gave us
Speaker 1: a sense of humor, so there must be something to
Speaker 1: a sense of humor. I know we can take it
Speaker 1: that like we can anything. He created it and corrupted
Speaker 1: and people do. But but don't you think sometimes when
Speaker 1: God is watching all this and we get we think
Speaker 1: we're about to go stand before him, that he has
Speaker 1: to kind of chuckle. I mean just kind of like, here,
Speaker 1: look at this, I mean, and He's going to work
Speaker 1: it out. But verse sixteen, this will be this is
Speaker 1: good here foreshadow, this will be my salvation, that the
Speaker 1: godless will not come before him. I know that I'm
Speaker 1: right with God, so I can come before him, and
Speaker 1: I do have access to him because he's my salvation. Foreshadow,
Speaker 1: meaning even if he decides that my earthly body dies,
Speaker 1: he will save me and and you know what he said,
Speaker 1: the godless can't do that. So when things we we talked,
Speaker 1: the godless can't come before God. Right, we've talked about
Speaker 1: this is the thing that you know, I think often
Speaker 1: is misunderstood, even sometimes in the church, where we become
Speaker 1: so careless and cavalier with sin and and we kind
Speaker 1: of get this kind of attitude and I have you
Speaker 1: ever have you ever? Have you ever gone? I don't
Speaker 1: want to be Have you ever gone? And some got
Speaker 1: up to speak, and by the time they're done, the
Speaker 1: message seems to be, I'm going to go to heaven.
Speaker 1: But nothing's ever really changed. It seems like they still
Speaker 1: have the same struggles they've always had. Nothing's improved. They
Speaker 1: still keep doing the same old things they've always done.
Speaker 1: Now I look, I'm still making mistakes, but I ain't
Speaker 1: making the same mistakes I've always made. I go and
Speaker 1: invent new ones. But I'm talking about the things that
Speaker 1: I was struggling with when I was delivered. I don't
Speaker 1: struggle with those anymore. And now I still struggle, but
Speaker 1: I don't struggle with that. And sometimes I go and
Speaker 1: hear people give a testimony that the things they've struggled
Speaker 1: with they continue to struggle with and continue to commit
Speaker 1: these same sins, and nothing's ever really changed. And it
Speaker 1: worries me because I think somebody might walk in and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: if I say a prayer a certain way, then I'm
Speaker 1: going to go to heaven. But nothing in my life
Speaker 1: really changes. I'm here to tell you that there's people.
Speaker 1: I was just texting with a friend of mine a
Speaker 1: minute ago, and he gave an amen. Back. I said,
Speaker 1: there are people that are red today that discovered that
Speaker 1: Jesus and his power of transformation is real, simply because
Speaker 1: they knew me before Jesus and they've known me after Jesus,
Speaker 1: and they say that can't be anything but supernatural. Now
Speaker 1: I'm not glorified. I'm being sanctified. I've been justified, but
Speaker 1: my sanctification actually is moving on down the road. You
Speaker 1: ever have people use the excuse for some kind of deliberate,
Speaker 1: perpetual sin stood in their life, and they say, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just a work in progress. I wonder sometimes if
Speaker 1: we know what the word progress means. No, it doesn't
Speaker 1: look there's any progress at all. This is the same
Speaker 1: old stuff you've always done, you know. So Jesus isn't
Speaker 1: stronger than that, so we have to be careful with that.
Speaker 1: And so what he is saying is he understands job
Speaker 1: does when Jesus said in the Gospels, and I just
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it was like to be there
Speaker 1: the day that Jesus making the point for himself. He
Speaker 1: was setting it up because he hadn't gone to the
Speaker 1: cross yet when he calls out says, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you have to be perfect as my Father is perfect.
Speaker 1: What did he say? I think he said we have
Speaker 1: to be perfect and didn't catch you math for well,
Speaker 1: how were we gonna be terror perfect? And Jesus said, no,
Speaker 1: that's the standard. What he was doing is saying, so
Speaker 1: you'll understand the gospel. The only way you're ever gonna
Speaker 1: be made fully righteous and perfect before my Father is
Speaker 1: through me. So I'm gonna go give you the road
Speaker 1: to perfection in him. But sometimes I think we think
Speaker 1: we could just strut in front of God without Jesus. No,
Speaker 1: if we do that, we're gonna he'll kill us. And
Speaker 1: the godless certainly can't do it. They can't strut in
Speaker 1: front of Holy, Holy Holy without Jesus. And so that's
Speaker 1: what job is saying. He says, I know he's the
Speaker 1: key to salvation. I know that I have my salvation
Speaker 1: in him. Now this is under a different covenant, but
Speaker 1: he's saying, I know that I can stand before God
Speaker 1: and I can talk to him, but the godless can't.
Speaker 1: Now let me be clear, because I got in a
Speaker 1: little bit of this in the first episode of Strange Encounters.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that God doesn't hear the cry of
Speaker 1: the godless. He hears them cry out to Him in repentance,
Speaker 1: of course, and then suddenly they can be redeemed, just
Speaker 1: like anybody else. We all were godless before we were redeemed.
Speaker 1: So that's not what I'm saying. But if you decide
Speaker 1: you're going to strut into the presence of God without repentance,
Speaker 1: without crying out and leaving faith in yourself and putting
Speaker 1: your faith in Jesus, you cannot walk into his presence.
Speaker 1: Our God's holiness will kill you because the standard is
Speaker 1: perfection and you don't have Jesus. So you didn't achieve it.
Speaker 1: You didn't meet standard. But Joe believes that he can't.
Speaker 1: So let's go to seventeen. Keep listening to my words
Speaker 1: and let my declaration be in your ears. How about this.
Speaker 1: I know that I'm right with God. I know that
Speaker 1: I can come before him. And then seventeen Listen to me,
Speaker 1: don't forget take in what I'm saying. By the way,
Speaker 1: when I say what I want to say to God,
Speaker 1: y'all be listening. You're gonna want to know this too.
Speaker 1: I want y'all to get it too. Verse eighteen. Behold,
Speaker 1: I have prepared my case. I know that I shall
Speaker 1: be in the right. I'm confident. I'm confident that I
Speaker 1: will be vindicated. Now hang on to this if you
Speaker 1: want to just put a little note out by the side.
Speaker 1: Down the road, somebody's gonna show up, called Allai who
Speaker 1: and a liai? Who is going to come in? Or
Speaker 1: lie Hugh? And he's going to circle back to this
Speaker 1: statement from Joe. So remember that I'm confident that i
Speaker 1: will be vindicated. I'm gonna make my case and I
Speaker 1: know that I'm in the right. Nineteen Who is there
Speaker 1: who will contend with me? For then I would be
Speaker 1: silent and die? He said, So I'm looking at you three.
Speaker 1: Can any of y'all really bring a case against me?
Speaker 1: You haven't done anything but talk about things you think
Speaker 1: may be wrong. You haven't cited one thing. By the way,
Speaker 1: I've been living this right here for five months. Okay,
Speaker 1: is you're claiming I've done something wrong, but you haven't
Speaker 1: brought a case against me. You won't point to what
Speaker 1: I've done. You just know I've done something. You could
Speaker 1: just ask. And when I kept telling you that I
Speaker 1: don't know of anything that hasn't been good enough for you,
Speaker 1: but he says, I want you to understand that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be vindicated, and you know, and and if
Speaker 1: I didn't believe this, and I didn't think that I
Speaker 1: was in the right, you might even remember my own
Speaker 1: wife said, just curse God and die. That's what I
Speaker 1: would have done. I would have just shut my mouth
Speaker 1: and died. I wouldn't be I wouldn't be fighting like
Speaker 1: this if I didn't believe that I was in the right,
Speaker 1: What what use would it be? Right? Because sometimes you
Speaker 1: kind of have this this attitude. I remember when before
Speaker 1: being redeemed, that sometimes I would I would be in
Speaker 1: trouble with various authorities, and sometimes it would just all
Speaker 1: get around you, and finally you just say, I gotta
Speaker 1: come on out. Y'all got me Okay, I'm busted. Now
Speaker 1: let me see if I can see if I can
Speaker 1: get some grace. Okay, I can no longer deny that
Speaker 1: that that I didn't do what y'all said I did.
Speaker 1: You know I did it. I know I did it.
Speaker 1: Y'all got the evidence. I'm done. Let's let's get on
Speaker 1: with it, okay, and see if we can't get to
Speaker 1: the other side of it. He said, if I knew
Speaker 1: what was going on here, I just shut up and die.
Speaker 1: So and he says, so, I want you guys to
Speaker 1: understand that y'all have no right to bring an accusation
Speaker 1: to me. And oh, by the way, you haven't said
Speaker 1: anything other than you assume. So then we get to
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty eight to end this week, and now
Speaker 1: he's done with them. He's going to turn around and
Speaker 1: address God. Now, okay, So he goes in, goes to
Speaker 1: twenty and he's now talking to God. Only grant me
Speaker 1: two things, God, not the friends. Then I will not
Speaker 1: hide myself from your face. I want two things. Grant
Speaker 1: me these two things. I won't hide from you. I'll
Speaker 1: face you, but I need two things. Twenty one, withdraw
Speaker 1: your hand far from me and let not dread of
Speaker 1: you terrify me. Hey lord, please ease up, take your
Speaker 1: hand off of me, Remove this affliction, remove your terror
Speaker 1: you are you are terrorizing me. I am miserable, and
Speaker 1: I am afraid. And I would ask for you to
Speaker 1: give me a break. Let's talk this out. But I
Speaker 1: gotta have a break right now. Have you ever been
Speaker 1: to that point where you just go, hey, I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't do any more of this. I got I
Speaker 1: gotta have a break. You ever you ever been trying
Speaker 1: to fight with the pain. I remember my wife, she
Speaker 1: had the It seems like the whole world it has.
Speaker 1: At some point, I think I'm about to have it.
Speaker 1: The rotator cuff surgery. Apparently that's part of life now
Speaker 1: at some point, and and and and she did not
Speaker 1: want to deal with any kind of pain medicine. And
Speaker 1: I kept saying, baby, I I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a I mean, well, I just I
Speaker 1: just want I don't want to. I really rather not
Speaker 1: do that. I think I'll just use you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you just take a lot of is it? What is it?
Speaker 1: I'll be profen or whatever. They have these real high
Speaker 1: dosages of it. If you've been in a lot of pain.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get on these opioids. Okay, I
Speaker 1: understand the danger of opods, seeing it, seeing it destroy
Speaker 1: many lives. Baby, I don't think you're gonna become an
Speaker 1: opioid addict, you know, just getting through surgery on rotator cup.
Speaker 1: And of course she what after the surgery, she feeling
Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean, it's none you know, everything's fine.
Speaker 1: And so we go to the first physical therapy time
Speaker 1: to move it. And I was standing there and I
Speaker 1: mean they took her arm, they didn't move it just
Speaker 1: a few inches, and I saw tears start coming down
Speaker 1: her face. And I said, babe, you want to go to
Speaker 1: call in the meds, and and she goes and she
Speaker 1: starts shaking, and I said, well, now we're chasing, you know,
Speaker 1: but I mean, but it's which is not good. But
Speaker 1: but we eventually got there. But what it was at
Speaker 1: that point she said, Okay, right now, I realize this
Speaker 1: is got to stop. You know, if we can get
Speaker 1: this settled down, now we can go. I want to recover.
Speaker 1: And so that that's what Job is saying. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I want to face you. Could
Speaker 1: you just give me a break. Can you stop the affliction?
Speaker 1: Can you stop terrorizing me? Okay? And so, and he asks,
Speaker 1: I want these two things, and then he says, in
Speaker 1: twenty two, then call and I want answer or let
Speaker 1: me speak, and you reply to me. Now, Job careful here.
Speaker 1: You call on me and I'll answer. Okay, but I
Speaker 1: got to have a break. Do these things for me.
Speaker 1: I got enough with the terror, enough with the afflictions.
Speaker 1: Then call and I'll answer or let me speak, and
Speaker 1: then you reply to me. Now, he's gonna get this wish.
Speaker 1: It's coming. And when it comes, I hate to give
Speaker 1: away the story. He's gonna try to get God. I
Speaker 1: got it. He's going to God. God has a very
Speaker 1: impressive speech and resume planned and it's so powerful that
Speaker 1: Job tries to stop it. And God said, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you asked for this. You're gonna hear the whole thing. Okay. Yeah, so, hey,
Speaker 1: I got it. No, no, no, we're not done. So
Speaker 1: he's setting that up. So then he says, in twenty three,
Speaker 1: how many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me
Speaker 1: know my transgression and my sin. I want to know.
Speaker 1: I want to know. Okay, And you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: You're gonna listen. This is bigger here. This is a
Speaker 1: huge verse in Joe. It's huge because remember I keep saying,
Speaker 1: I love when we start seeing that his theology is changing,
Speaker 1: the theology of the day is changing. If you look
Speaker 1: at these Hebrew words, it's not as simple as it
Speaker 1: sounds in English. Here's what he's saying. He's not really
Speaker 1: asked sking to know why he's suffering. Okay, that's not it.
Speaker 1: This is gonna get deeper deeper here. He wants to
Speaker 1: know the new theology. What he's saying is, hey, reveal
Speaker 1: to me something. Am I just suffering for your sake?
Speaker 1: Can you answer that question for me? Because this is
Speaker 1: what I'm starting to think right If you can't find
Speaker 1: a reason for it, as far as the easy reason,
Speaker 1: I'm bad, God's mad, You're going that's not it. I
Speaker 1: haven't sinned against you as far as unrepented sin, I'm blameless.
Speaker 1: I'm upright now. Remember God said that, the gods who
Speaker 1: said that about him? So am I just doing this
Speaker 1: for your sake? Are you doing this for your glory?
Speaker 1: He understands glory, worry, but is it for you? Are
Speaker 1: you just letting me suffer for some reason about you. See,
Speaker 1: the theology is starting to change. Now now comes the
Speaker 1: why in twenty four, why do you hide your face
Speaker 1: and count me as an enemy? Now here comes a why?
Speaker 1: Now this is a why. I don't it feels like
Speaker 1: you're hiding from me. I can't get you to respond
Speaker 1: to me. I can't get an answer from you, and
Speaker 1: it seems like you've made me your enemy. Why why? Well,
Speaker 1: we always want to know the why, don't we have?
Speaker 1: Have you ever just got to the point where you've
Speaker 1: said something which isn't always true, but it's something that
Speaker 1: you go If I could, if I just knew why,
Speaker 1: then I'd be okay. Sometimes when we find out why,
Speaker 1: it makes it even more difficult. Oh that's why I
Speaker 1: wish I hadn't asked. But he is saying that, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just shouting out at you and you're
Speaker 1: not answering me. It even feels like we're there's a
Speaker 1: distance between us, which we know there was because God
Speaker 1: has allowed Satan to go after him under the boundaries
Speaker 1: that he set, and he even changed the boundaries a
Speaker 1: few times to make it worse. Let's just deal with it, okay,
Speaker 1: and right now it's like Job is looking for God
Speaker 1: and all he sees are bad friends and he doesn't
Speaker 1: realize it. But there's also the darkness of those who
Speaker 1: oppose God, and he can feel that he can. Are
Speaker 1: you hearing me? No, we know God does, but he
Speaker 1: feels like he doesn't, and he wants to get some clarification.
Speaker 1: And of course the bigger one. Am I your enemy?
Speaker 1: And if I'm your enemy? I really want to know why?
Speaker 1: So twenty five will you frighten a driven leaf and
Speaker 1: pursue dry shafe? You know what you're saying? What am
Speaker 1: I worth it? I'm getting all this attention. I'm a
Speaker 1: worthless human being compared to you. Nothing. I'm worth nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm useless. I'm worthless. Why in the world are you
Speaker 1: interested in me? Why would Almighty take time to do
Speaker 1: this to Job? For what reason? Why do you even care?
Speaker 1: What are you trying to get me to do? You
Speaker 1: don't need me. Why would you need me to glorify you?
Speaker 1: Why would you need me to suffer for you? For
Speaker 1: what reason? I'm nothing? Twenty six? For you write bitter
Speaker 1: things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of
Speaker 1: my youth. This is back to this I hear did
Speaker 1: you ordain this is really the word in Hebrew? Did
Speaker 1: you ordain me to suffer? Did you create me for this?
Speaker 1: Did you make me for this moment? And now what
Speaker 1: he's saying is, and I've been here before. Have you
Speaker 1: ever had your own sin nature or some wicked evil
Speaker 1: demon representing lucifer sin? You know you repented up sin,
Speaker 1: you know you dealt with but it was bad. And
Speaker 1: how many times have you heard the little voice you
Speaker 1: remember when you did that? There's no ways over that,
Speaker 1: that that that's going to keep you down for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Don't don't, don't let that happen.
Speaker 1: I never understood how dis respetful that was to Jesus
Speaker 1: to somehow keep hanging on to something that he bled
Speaker 1: and died and was crucified to rid me of. And
Speaker 1: how dare me to keep going back with my poor, poor,
Speaker 1: pitiful I remember one time, you remember that those years
Speaker 1: of my life, you know, I did some terrible things,
Speaker 1: some horrible things, And so I'm gonna use that as
Speaker 1: an excuse for the rest of my life to never
Speaker 1: be useful for God. And you know what the demons
Speaker 1: think that sounds good does that's what we were hoping
Speaker 1: to accomplish. And then Jesus is sitting there going it
Speaker 1: is finished, you know, and you find this a lot
Speaker 1: And I think that hopefully this will help somebody, because
Speaker 1: it certainly helped me. People who who come to redemption.
Speaker 1: And there's so many different sins, but I'm just going
Speaker 1: to use this one because it's one that is prevalent.
Speaker 1: You didn't know Jesus, or you rejected Jesus. Are you
Speaker 1: just one astray and you compromise your sexual purity and
Speaker 1: then you finally meet this wonderful person that you want
Speaker 1: to marry, and you think I've ruined it. I've I've
Speaker 1: ruined my wedding day. But what you have to understand
Speaker 1: that in God's eyes, if He's looking at your sexuality
Speaker 1: and your purity through the lens of Jesus, oh, you
Speaker 1: stand on your wedding day pure. You stand on your
Speaker 1: wedding day as white as snow. Now, if you're not redeemed,
Speaker 1: that's different. But if you've been redeemed, you don't let
Speaker 1: that get in the way of God's holy matrimony. If
Speaker 1: everybody involved has been redeemed, he will present you to
Speaker 1: himself holy and without a spot of sin, and you
Speaker 1: can go and enjoy the intimacy of your marriage without
Speaker 1: all that baggage. Let it go. And don't you ever
Speaker 1: hold these kind of things over somebody's head that have
Speaker 1: been redeemed because it gives you some sort of power
Speaker 1: over them. I saw one of the worst examples of
Speaker 1: an abuse in a marriage one time. The husband came
Speaker 1: into the marriage pure and the wife didn't, and she
Speaker 1: was redeemed woman of God. And come to find out
Speaker 1: when they got into counseling, that husband, whenever he wanted
Speaker 1: the upper hand, would remind her that she was not
Speaker 1: pure when they got married, but he was. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's wicked, and it eventually destroyed the marriage. And so
Speaker 1: this is what you have to understand that if something
Speaker 1: has happened and God has forgiven you and you have
Speaker 1: been redeemed, then you have to understand that you stand
Speaker 1: before him and you're not his enemy anymore. Okay, that's over,
Speaker 1: and here's job going. Are you holding stuff against me
Speaker 1: that I thought I repented of? Am I in trouble
Speaker 1: for stuff I did when I was young? He ever
Speaker 1: felt that way? God, you knew I was stupid? You knew. I.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gonna hold that against me the rest
Speaker 1: of my life and the enterest No, not if you've repented,
Speaker 1: not if you've been redeemed. And so if it's still
Speaker 1: being held against you, it's not by God resting that. Okay.
Speaker 1: So you see, Joe's just grabbing for anything. I did
Speaker 1: some things when I was young I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 1: Is that what this is? And so he says, twenty seven,
Speaker 1: you put my feet in the stocks and watch all
Speaker 1: my paths. You set a limit for the soles of
Speaker 1: my feet. You know what, he says. I can't escape
Speaker 1: the path and direction you have laid out for me.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do what you want to do, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing I can do about it. So let's get on
Speaker 1: with it. I'm a limit by your sovereignty, right. I
Speaker 1: can sit here and jump up and down, and I
Speaker 1: can complain, and I can even say I don't want
Speaker 1: to go down this road, but we're going. So let's go.
Speaker 1: You've got me, you guide me. There's nothing I can
Speaker 1: do about it. I'm limited by your sovereignty. But there's
Speaker 1: also peace in that. Twenty eight man waste away like
Speaker 1: a rotten thing like a garment that is moth eaten.
Speaker 1: You know what he's saying right here, and everybody in
Speaker 1: the room's in the same position that I don't want
Speaker 1: to be Debbie Downer, because if you're redeemed, it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be nothing but better. This is bad as it's
Speaker 1: ever gonna be if you've been redeemed. But can I
Speaker 1: break it to you. We're all dying, and he says,
Speaker 1: you know what, I've just come to the conclusion we're
Speaker 1: not living, We're dying, and we're going to ride away.
Speaker 1: But again, you know what he says, never once look
Speaker 1: at all this, I mean, guys, especially twenty to twenty eight,
Speaker 1: this is all addressing God. We do not see anywhere
Speaker 1: that job who has no idea the conversation between God
Speaker 1: and Satan, of his own relationship with God and his
Speaker 1: limited understanding of this new theology. He knows God's doing it.
Speaker 1: He has not cried out after Satan one time. He
Speaker 1: almost acts like he's not even aware of Satan. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know he must be, but I mean he's not
Speaker 1: mentioning him. And I see us doing the opposite. Like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, we always think it's Satan. Job never did.
Speaker 1: He just wants to know why God's doing it, and
Speaker 1: he's asking for the answer. And as he continues to
Speaker 1: seek that answer, in God's timing, he's going to get it.
Speaker 1: Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today. Thank you for
Speaker 1: this time together with the brothers always. It is the
Speaker 1: highlight of my week. And Lord, thank you for those
Speaker 1: that are all over the world that also are watching
Speaker 1: and listening to this Bible study with us. You know, Lord,
Speaker 1: just watching this, even this is ministered to me today
Speaker 1: and the answer that's coming for Job before we're done
Speaker 1: with all this many weeks from today, we're already living,
Speaker 1: and we're thankful that you showed us who you are,
Speaker 1: even even in die or suffering through the journey and
Speaker 1: the difficulty that Job went through. I don't know about
Speaker 1: you guys in the room and those of you out there,
Speaker 1: men and women. I look forward to meeting Job. I
Speaker 1: look forward to going over to him say to your Job. Yeah, Wow.
Speaker 1: People talked about you a lot. You were used by
Speaker 1: God in a mighty way. I can't imagine what it
Speaker 1: must have been like for Job when the suffering was
Speaker 1: finally over and he was there in the presence of God,
Speaker 1: and he had all the answers. As Paul told us,
Speaker 1: right now, Lord, we don't understand everything. You know. We're
Speaker 1: seeing you kind of, you know, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit foggy, but there comes a day when we'll
Speaker 1: see you clearly. But thank you for allowing us to
Speaker 1: see you as in a way as much you give
Speaker 1: yourself to us, as much as we can handle in
Speaker 1: our limited state. Glory b do you God, and may
Speaker 1: we find rest in the limits of your sovereignty. In
Speaker 1: your name, we pray, Amen.