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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible Study. I'm Rick Burgess, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here. We are working through the Book

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Speaker 1: of Job and this is a powerful book of the Bible,

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Speaker 1: as they all are, but this is one that generates

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Speaker 1: quite a few questions and conversations. But we're not afraid

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Speaker 1: of those. Neither is God. So we we have walked

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Speaker 1: through those unapologetically, and we are reading the scriptures and

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Speaker 1: we we you know, we kind of take the attitude

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Speaker 1: uh in all of this. Now, well, we're we've gone

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Speaker 1: through the part about the conversation between God and Lucifer

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Speaker 1: and Job and his wife and and all that he's

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Speaker 1: been through. Starting last week, we finally started hearing from

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Speaker 1: these friends that have been grieving with him, which we

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Speaker 1: commend them for that. But there when they start talking

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Speaker 1: to him, it seemed for a while. Now, if you

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Speaker 1: if you think Eliphaz is just this way, till we

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. So right now we're gonna finish

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Speaker 1: what Elafaz has said. We've done one chapter. Uh, in

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Speaker 1: chapter four, and now in chapter five, Lafaz continues, Now,

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Speaker 1: remember he's a little more indirect. Unlike our our next

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Speaker 1: But right now elfhas Is is kind of he's trying

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Speaker 1: to You're gonna see this chapter he's kind of doing

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Speaker 1: a balance. Now Elafas does go somewhere today. That is

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Speaker 1: a little shocking, but he does go there. Uh, And

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Speaker 1: we'll unpack that pretty good for you as we open

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Speaker 1: Let's open up in a word of prayer and we'll

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Speaker 1: jump right into job Chapter five. Lord, thank you for today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the men here in the room. I

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Speaker 1: just I probably don't tell them enough what an encouragement

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Speaker 1: for that and for these men that are so committed

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Speaker 1: you for your grace and your mercy. Thank you Lord

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Speaker 1: for your discernment through the power of you the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: And I pray Lord today that the Holy Spirit will

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Speaker 1: help us because a lot of this is application in

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Speaker 1: And we tested on that last week, didn't we. We said, now,

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Speaker 1: And here he says, you know that God killed your children,

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Speaker 1: hear that. I just felt in my spiritual need to

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Speaker 1: hear that. All right. So so he's talking to job

426
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Speaker 1: now in a bit of a different way. Look at

427
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Speaker 1: verse seven. Verse seven, he says, but a man is

428
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Speaker 1: born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. By the way,

429
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: this is true, Lafas. Now he's spitting a little truth.

430
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: He said, it's part of being in the world. Man

431
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: is born to trouble. But the trouble and this is

432
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: where he gets back at him just a little bit.

433
00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: You feel pretty good about it for a minute, but

434
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: what does he say? The trouble flies from the sores.

435
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: Let's see, Now that's that's a dig back at Joe again. Uh,

436
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: you just wish Ela Fast would just get to the point.

437
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: There's something about me I just loved. I just love

438
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 1: to take Elafas and put him in a headlock. But

439
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: now now I will tell you we're not gonna have

440
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: that problem with an ex friend. He doesn't beat around

441
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: the bush at all. They get right to it. Now. See,

442
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: I would be frustrated with Elafast. I'd fight build that.

443
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean, I'd be in all that

444
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 1: fight with him. So there's no way, I said there

445
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: to let him talk to me like that. But that's coming.

446
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to give that away either. So so

447
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: then you get to verse eight, it said, and he

448
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: says in verse eight, as for me, oh Ela Fast,

449
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: as well. Now as for me, you ever you ever

450
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,919
Speaker 1: had that so called friend, you do everything wrong, but

451
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: not me. I do everything right. It's for me. I

452
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: would seek God. That's what I would do, because I'm

453
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: assuming you're not doing that. And uh, and he said,

454
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Speaker 1: and and to God what I commit my cause if

455
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: I were you, I'd go ask God why he did

456
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: this to you? That's what I would do. You remember

457
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 1: last week and we laughed about the magazine. Guy, I

458
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,199
Speaker 1: don't know how many heard that. That to me, that

459
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: was great. Billy Graham's being punished. But my difficulties just

460
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: shows how important I am to the kingdom, you know

461
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: what I mean. So there's a lot of that out there,

462
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: isn't it too. It's like I say, we're all equal

463
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: at the foot of the cross. Whether some of our

464
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: fellow brothers and sisters know that or not. But he says,

465
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: so I would make my cause with God. Tell you

466
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: what i'd do, Job, Unlike what you just did a

467
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 1: minute ago. I wouldn't be complaining about it. Job. That's

468
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: what we just watched a minute ago, where you wish

469
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: you'd never been born and all this kind of stuff, Well,

470
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have been me. I would not have been

471
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: that big complainer. I would have just gone to God

472
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: and I would have sought what was wrong? Maybe you

473
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: might want to try that again. Not exactly what we're

474
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Speaker 1: looking for here. So then Ela fast as if Joe

475
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 1: doesn't know it, keep in mind, blameless, upright, well respected man.

476
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: He's gonna remind Job of God's resume because Job doesn't

477
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: know it. Anybody think that Job had lived his life

478
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: like he knew the attributes of God. So here we go.

479
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: In nine he said, I would go to God, who

480
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number. He

481
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: gives rain on the earth, and he sends water on

482
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: the fields. He sets on high those who are lowly,

483
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: and those who mourn are lifted to safety. Now here

484
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: we go. God gives, He gives God's resume. God does

485
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: great things. God he humbles people. He frustrates the devices

486
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: of the crafty. We keep going. In thirteen he catches

487
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of

488
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: the wily or brought to a quick end. Well, well,

489
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: now he's reminding them some things that you might want

490
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: to apply to you. If you've been trying to trick

491
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: God and pretend you were something you weren't. You can't

492
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: get this past him. Job, I bet this feels great.

493
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,959
Speaker 1: Keeping my miserable job is right now. He has a

494
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: wife who's turned on him, he's got children who are dead,

495
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: he's lost everything that he had as far as his

496
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: land and his wealth. He is miserable, physically, completely miserable,

497
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: and he's got to sit through this. So anyway, he

498
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: goes on to say, in fourteen, they meet with darkness

499
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: in the daytime and grope at noonday as the night.

500
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: Now in fourteen he's saying, the wicked ruined themselves by

501
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: their own behavior. God beats the wicked at their own game.

502
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: In thirteen they bring ruin to themselves. And then fifteen

503
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: God helps the poor those who can't help themselves. He

504
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and

505
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: from the hand of the mighty. And then he goes

506
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: in sixteen so the poor have hope, and injustice shuts

507
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: her mouth. He gives hope to the poor. What do

508
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: you think all this talk about the poor is because

509
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: Job's not one of those or he wasn't. And now

510
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: Eliphaz is starting to develop his own theory. Maybe you

511
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: weren't good to the poor. Now we know that he was,

512
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: But Eliphas says, maybe you didn't treat the poor right.

513
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: And now God's making you poor. He's giving you a

514
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: little taste of the verrible medicine. You gonna find out

515
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: what it's like to be poor, and you're gonna be

516
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: grappling for God, just like the poor do. And you

517
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: got so wealthy and arrogant, you've forgot about this. No

518
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: indication of that in Job's life. But it's awful nice

519
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: for these so called friends to say that's a possibility.

520
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: Because I will tell you this and I'm still kind

521
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: of going through it, went through it pretty intense there

522
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: for a while, and have been through it in the past.

523
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: If there's one thing and I don't want this to

524
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: be part of pride, and I've really tried to check

525
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: this to be sure my motivation is correct, maybe I

526
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: need to not get so angry about it. God will

527
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: deal with me. It really bothers me when people who

528
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: claim to know me. Now these are supposed to be

529
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: his three closest friends, don't miss that these are not

530
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: These are not people that are you know, I kind

531
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: of know them. We had kids on the same little

532
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: league team one year. These are not acquaintances. These are

533
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: supposed to be hit his inner three. These are the

534
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: people when they show up, you go, oh, finally here

535
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: comes comfort and you know what would would break my

536
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: heart the most, and it has broken my heart. He's

537
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: not getting benefit of the doubt. These people a supposed

538
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: to know him and know his character and know his integrity,

539
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: and their first thought he must not be what we

540
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: thought he was. They haven't searched any evidence yet. I

541
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with my friends hearing something about

542
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: me that doesn't seem to match up, investigating it, coming

543
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: to ask me about it, seeing if this is true,

544
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: and then if it turns out to be true, they

545
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: can be disappointed. But what I don't like is when

546
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: somebody claims to be your friend and somebody says something

547
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: about you, it makes an accusation about you, and they

548
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: don't give you the benefit of the doubt and they

549
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: don't come to you. Now. I don't like that. That hurts.

550
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: And I've had it happen, and usually when it happens,

551
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: I realize, okay, so that friend is I thought they

552
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: were in the inner circle, but they really aren't because

553
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: I've seen the ones that belong to the inner circle

554
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: and they didn't do that. Now they'll come to me

555
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: and say, walk this out for me. Here's what I heard,

556
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: Here's how I was told it went. Is that how

557
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: it went. I want to hear the truth. And if

558
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: I tell them the truth, you know what, I find

559
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 1: out pretty quick they had they had given me the

560
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt, and they weren't going to turn

561
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: on me or hope or or accuse me until they

562
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: heard from me first. Now, I'm imperfect, so sometimes I

563
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: may fail. You come and say I heard you failed,

564
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: and I go, yeah, I did, okay, well at least

565
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: you know. But what I don't like is that you

566
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: assume I failed when you haven't talked to me yet.

567
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,239
Speaker 1: You haven't heard whose story. It's the reason why you know.

568
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: You know this, We've all been this. If you're ever

569
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: counseling people that are at odds, get them both in

570
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: the same room. Never ever try to counsel one side

571
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: of a disagreement, because you can't get to the bottom

572
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: of it till you get both people in the room.

573
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: And I won't do that, you know. If if we're

574
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: going to get down to it, let's let's get everybody

575
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: in here and letting you and you'll find that pretty

576
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: quick that there's there's a story that neither one of

577
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: them are telling. You finally get to it. It's a

578
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: little bit what that one says, and it's a little

579
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: bit what the other says, and eventually you'll get down

580
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: to the middle of the road if you'll get them

581
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: both in there. And and you should do that with

582
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: your own friends. You should be you should go to

583
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: them and sit down and say, let's hear and if

584
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: somebody made an accusation against them, not something that's macro,

585
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: my my stuff. A lot of times with the public

586
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: platform will be macro. But if there's one person that

587
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: said that so and so did this, you take that

588
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: one person in the same room with that with with

589
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: your friend and say here's what they said. I want

590
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: to hear your side of it and make that other

591
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: person listen, because a lot of times you'll realize that

592
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: person ain't telling the truth and uh and then and

593
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: then it all starts coming apart pretty quick. And I've

594
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: had it happen before. I've been the I've been the

595
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: bad friend. I went one time and just really lit

596
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: into one of my friends one time, took them out

597
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: to lunch whatever, and come to find out what had

598
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: been said was not true now, but I was letting

599
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: them have it. And when it stopped and it hurt him,

600
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: he said, man, you really think I would do that?

601
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: And I thought, well, no, that's why I was disappointed.

602
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: He goes, you ever thought that maybe it was so

603
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: unlikely that it didn't happen, And I had to apologize,

604
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: and I went and found out that it had been exaggerated.

605
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: He really didn't do what he was accused to do it.

606
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: And so this is how Job is feeling right now,

607
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: because he's not getting the benefit of the doubts. And

608
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 1: then Eliaphas does talk about something that we see even

609
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: forward in the in the New Testament. In Hebrews, he

610
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: says in verse seventeen, behold, blessed is the one whom

611
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: God reproves. Okay, now we're making a little sense, okay,

612
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: And therefore despised not the discipline of the Almighty. Can

613
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: you believe that was in the book of Job, And

614
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: we studied it in the Book of Hebrews in that

615
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: wild that this point was this far back. So right

616
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: here Eliaphas is actually telling the truth right here. I

617
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: don't think he means it the way we understand it now,

618
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: but he's saying right here, he's in Hebrew truth. You know,

619
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: don't despise discipline. God disciplines those that he actually loves,

620
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: just as a earthly father disciplines his children. It's not

621
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: any fun while you're in the middle of it, but

622
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: it does you some good. And so here he kind

623
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: of shifts and says, I don't know if he's doing now.

624
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: It could be possible. I don't know what he's doing here,

625
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: that God is just disciplining you for your own good.

626
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: But I feel like based on everything else he's already said.

627
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: And commentator the commentaries I read, and Matthew Henry said

628
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing, and then with the other

629
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: guys kind of seemed to agree that Alifaz, I don't

630
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: think he understands it the way we understand it right now.

631
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: I think what he's basically telling job is you got

632
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: to deal with it. God's doing this, and he's got

633
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: a reason to do it, and he wouldn't be doing

634
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: and if he didn't have a reason. That's partially true,

635
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: but I think Eliphaz thinks it's in the negative. You know,

636
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: he's not doing this for because he is trying to

637
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: see if you'll pass the test, which we know the

638
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: end that is what this is about. Eliphas doesn't know that.

639
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: He almost veers into it right here, but I don't

640
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: think he understands it just based on what we've already heard. Okay,

641
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: now I'm not to find a word on that, but

642
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: it just feels like his narrative would not agree that

643
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: he has this right. I think he's still saying you

644
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: had this coming, okay, but I could be wrong. In

645
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: eighteen he says, for he wounds, but he binds up,

646
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: he shatters, but his hands healed. See now he's kind

647
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: of talking about God being thankful for discipline, because it's

648
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: like a father's love, is what we're told in Hebrews.

649
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: I don't know that Eliphas means it that way, but

650
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: he says, don't overlook. You know eighteen you know what

651
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: he basically said, and we know this is true. The

652
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: Potter and the clay, he said he builds up what

653
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: he first must break down. That's true, okay. And then

654
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: nineteen in famine, he will redeem you from death and

655
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: in war from the power of the sword. Has elaph

656
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: Has now uses himself again as an example. Uh that

657
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: that this really close to being correct. The statement simply means,

658
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:13,479
Speaker 1: you know, life features trouble and then after trouble comes relief. Hey,

659
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: we saw this. Those of you out there watching around

660
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: the country don't know this. We we had devastating tornadoes

661
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 1: just coming here and just turn people's lives upside down.

662
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: But wasn't it strange that the very next day it

663
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: was a beautiful, sunny, clear day. Isn't that weird? Well,

664
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: this is what Eliphaz is talking about. You know when

665
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: storms come that eventually it all clears out. He's starting

666
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,359
Speaker 1: to give Job a little bit of hope here. Hey,

667
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: we're gonna get You're gonna get to the other side

668
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: of this. Don't don't don't uh, don't disregard that. Now

669
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: again he's talking things here that are that are true.

670
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 1: Famine does come, but then before you know it, famine's over,

671
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: wars start for you know what, the war's over. Uh.

672
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: And then he gets to to so he gives him

673
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 1: a little hope there. Uh, this will stop eventually, is

674
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: what elafhas is saying. By I bet that that probably

675
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: felt sort of good. So then he gets to twenty one.

676
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue

677
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: and shall not fear destruction when it comes. Now, I bet,

678
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: I bet Joe had a hard time hearing that. One

679
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: people are gonna talk bad about you, and but it'll

680
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: have no lasting power over you. Do you think Job

681
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: is like, do you hear yourself? I mean, are you

682
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: trying to tell me don't worry about it that if

683
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: people are talking bad about me, it won't stick. You've

684
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: been talking bad about me for I mean, I mean you,

685
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 1: you've really been railing on me here of course again

686
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: bill A, dad's not listening apparently, I mean, but because

687
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: he can't wait, I mean, you need to see him

688
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: rot back out there, give me my shot at him.

689
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is true. Like I say, I just

690
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: went through this just recently, you know, with with my

691
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 1: day job, and I've had and still had a few

692
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: people just saying horrible, horrible things about me. But at

693
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 1: the end of it all, it's not gonna last, you know,

694
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: and you can already kind of see some of that,

695
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: you know if if if when you're in the middle

696
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: of it, you think, my goodness, this is never gonna

697
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: be over. These people are never gonna leave me alone. Uh.

698
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: But what I've noticed, if you just stand okay, let

699
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: me just go all this, because I mean you I've

700
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: all been there probably in your lives, and I've been

701
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: there in mine. I've had some of the most vile, wicked,

702
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: horrible things said about me. At times, I'll reach and

703
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 1: laugh a little bit at the great Charles Spurgeon who

704
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: when Spurgeon was asked, how does it feel when people

705
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: say terrible things about you? And Spurgeon said, I'm just

706
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: thankful they don't know how bad I really am, you know,

707
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: And uh so, I mean when you think about where

708
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: we are compared to God, I mean we're we're not

709
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: all that wonderful. I know you may think you're wonderful,

710
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,959
Speaker 1: We're really not. And uh but uh but I've found

711
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: if you'll just stand on your integrity and you'll just stand,

712
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: don't don't let them pull you in. It's so difficult,

713
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: you know. I told you I've been freed of no

714
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: longer trying to reason with unreasonable people. It's so freeing

715
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,240
Speaker 1: is that. Don't think you have to keep defending yourself

716
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: a lot of times. Just rest and pray and tell

717
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: the one and only living God who's redeemed you, will

718
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: you please protect me from my enemies. May all their

719
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: attempts at me they're hurting that may they just fall harmlessly,

720
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: harmlessly to the ground. And I have found sometimes not

721
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: on my timeline, but on his timeline, it just kind

722
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: of Vapor's what and that's what really Elaphas is trying

723
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: to say to him. But I wonder. See this is

724
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: Job is not as smarter like I am, because what

725
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: I would say is, oh, so what you're saying basically

726
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: all these horrible things you just said to me. Eventually

727
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: I'll forget about it. See I would have said that

728
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: right there. But Job is a better person than me,

729
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: so so anyway, So and then we get into twenty two.

730
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: At twenty two says at destruction and famine, you shall

731
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: laugh and shall not fear the beast of the earth.

732
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: People gonna talk bad about you. But you know what, Joe,

733
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: if you'll just stay the course, one day, you're going

734
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,479
Speaker 1: to laugh at all these troubles. One day all this

735
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 1: is going to pass. And you know, when I hear

736
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: this the first time I read this, and I looked

737
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: in some of the other commentaries we're talking about this too,

738
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: I thok about the Apostle Paul. I don't know how

739
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: many of you ever done a funeral before, but is

740
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: always so comforting to go to First Corinthians fifteen and

741
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: to let the Apostle Paul just roll out, Oh death,

742
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: where is your sting? All the things that once were

743
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: enemies of ours as dying people because of what the

744
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: Lord Jesus did that. He has taken the two things

745
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: that we fear the most, and that is what our sin,

746
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: and then the repercussion of that sin, which is death.

747
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: Because of sin, if if we are if our body

748
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: gives out before Jesus returns, we're all gonna die. But

749
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: it's only now because of Jesus our body that's gonna die.

750
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: We aren't. And and Paul starts trash talking death. He said, hey,

751
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: you got defeated. You don't have any any you don't

752
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: hold anything over us the redeemed. And here Eliphaz is

753
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: giving kind of a version of that. He's saying, Look,

754
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: because of of of God, you shall be. You know,

755
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: at one point you're not gonna fear famine anymore, or

756
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: you're not gonna fear destruction anymore. You're gonna laugh, and

757
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: you're not gonna fear the beast of the earth, all

758
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: all the dangers that are out there. That's kind of

759
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: his version of O death, Where is your sting. I'm

760
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: not sure you fully understand what he's saying, but it

761
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: does work. Now. Look at twenty three he says, for

762
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: you shall be in league with the stones of the

763
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: field and the beast of the field, shall be at

764
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: peace with you. He's saying, it looks like everything's against

765
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: you right now. Believe it or not, ELFs is saying,

766
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 1: truth God. I think God's gonna restore you. I think

767
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: now he's already said, if you get this worked out,

768
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: he still thinks there's a problem. If you get this

769
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: worked out, I think God's gonna restore you. I think

770
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna be gracious. I think that you're gonna have

771
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: it all back. I think all this is against you

772
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: right now won't be against you anymore. That's kind of

773
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: that feels pretty good, he said. I think I think

774
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: God's actually gonna bring you peace at some point twenty four.

775
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: You shall know that your tent is at peace, and

776
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. This is encouraging.

777
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: I believe that your home is gonna be at peace

778
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: one day. It's not right now now. Your children have

779
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: just died. Your wife's angry, she's against you, she's against God.

780
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: She's mad. But I don't think that's going to be

781
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: the way it's always going to be. I believe that

782
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: peace returns to your home. I believe that will be restored,

783
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: and I believe your prosperity will be restored. Okay, that's

784
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: pretty encouraging. Again though, that he thinks that's only going

785
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: to happen if Joe will just repent of whatever he's done,

786
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: that he won't to tell them what he did. Now,

787
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: that part's a struggle for Joe because there's conditions that

788
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: Elifas is placed. But we know the truth that is

789
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: true for all who do repent of sin. The issue

790
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: right now is Job can't figure out what he did wrong.

791
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,439
Speaker 1: You know why, because he didn't do anything wrong. He's

792
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: being tested and now he's going to learn things that

793
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't know yet. But I don't want give away

794
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: the ending of that either. But at the end of it,

795
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: there's a statement from Joe where we all go and

796
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: there it is, and there it is. But he doesn't

797
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: know that right now. But eliph As is saying he

798
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: thinks that the day's coming that things will be restored

799
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: to you, and he's right now look at this now,

800
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: remember he went after his kids, which was rough. But

801
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 1: he says, you shall know also that your offspring shall

802
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth,

803
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: turn back to God, and he's going to give you

804
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: more children. Now we know that Eliphaz is. What he's

805
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: saying about what God will do is true. It's just

806
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: he's got the conditions wrong. But we do know that

807
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: God does restore to job children. We know that in

808
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: case you had never read the end, and there's an

809
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: interesting point about the children. But I will make that

810
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: when we get there. Weeks from now, in twenty six,

811
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: you shall come to your grave in ripe old age,

812
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: like sheaf gathered up in its season. Job. I believe

813
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: that God has got more life left for you. I

814
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: believe that you will live to a ripe old age,

815
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: and I believe that eventually you'll die at peace. Encouraging.

816
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: It's all gonna work out. God's gonna resolve all this

817
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: in his time. I think there's more life left for you.

818
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: I don't think your life ends like this. That's good,

819
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: that's encouraging. Of course he's right. He doesn't know he's right,

820
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: but he's right. Can you say the same thing? Can

821
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: I say the same thing? If you were to die

822
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: right now, would you die at peace? What do you

823
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: do if you left anything undone is there? Are you

824
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: right with God? Or you right with everybody? That you

825
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: remember what Paul said, be at peace as much as

826
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: it as we can control. We can't control other people's

827
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: response to us, but we can control our response to them.

828
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: So I love what he's saying here again, foreshadow foreshadow

829
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: is And I just got I was talking to the

830
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: pastors about that in in uh, Mississippi. I had a

831
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: chance to encourage pastors, which I love. I don't get

832
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: to do that enough. I've only got to do it

833
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: a handful of times, but I love it every time

834
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: because they're tired people that wore out. You remember Paul

835
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: when we were going through Corinthians, and when he was

836
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:30,959
Speaker 1: talking about all was suffering, and all of a sudden

837
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 1: he just threw in there after these horrible physical things

838
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,360
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, taking care of these churches

839
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: is really hard, and uh and I mean he said

840
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: it was like it was part of his suffering and uh.

841
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,919
Speaker 1: And you can just see that they're many times discouraged,

842
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: they're they're getting tired and and and I felt that

843
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: to encourage them to press on that you're not done yet.

844
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: Talked about Philip. You know, he didn't sit around telling

845
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: the Unich story for the rest of his life. He

846
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: immediately went over to Cesarea and started going door to

847
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: door and continuing on, you're not finished because you're still alive.

848
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: And then I brought up went to the letters to Timothy.

849
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: I mean, there is there any greater feeling than for

850
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: Paul to realize his life is over. And he's not panicking.

851
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: He's not saying, ah, I left, so I left things undone. No,

852
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, he was so constrained by

853
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,919
Speaker 1: the spirit. Who I love that in Acts twenty constrained

854
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 1: by the Spirit. What does he mean by that? The

855
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: Ephesians didn't want him to go to Jerusalem. They were

856
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,959
Speaker 1: trying to talk him out of it, and they meant, well,

857
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: he said, oh yeah, the Holy Spirit has shown me

858
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: what wats for meale and Jerusalem. You know, we said

859
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: affliction and imprisonment. And they're like, well, no, don't go.

860
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: And he said, no, I have to go, becasse, the

861
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: Spirit is telling me to go. I love y'all. Y'all

862
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: mean well, but y'all right, now, are not hearing the spirit?

863
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: I am. I have to say no to that because

864
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm constrained by the spirit. But listen to how he's

865
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 1: getting to the end. He even looks at the Ephesians

866
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: and he says, I did my job. If y'all fade,

867
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: it ain't on me. Your blood will not be on

868
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: my hands. He's not goingsten. Let me tell you one

869
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: more thing, if we could have one more Bible study,

870
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: let me get something. You know what he says. If

871
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: y'all didn't listen, that's on you. I did everything God

872
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: told me to do, and now I got to go

873
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem where awaits me of Laka affliction and imprisonment.

874
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: So then he gets past that, I must go to Rome.

875
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: So all go to Rome. Then he goes to Rome,

876
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: where of course they kill him. Okay, but when he's

877
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: getting ready to die, it's what Eliphas is talking about here.

878
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: He has lived to a ripe old age. He's given

879
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: everything he needs to look for the Book of Acts.

880
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: He's written all his letters, okay, except for that second

881
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: one to the Corinthians that God knew better and he

882
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: hid it from us because that was maybe not Paul's

883
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: best moment, okay, because he's mad and so, but he

884
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: gets everything done that God told him to do. And

885
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: what does he say, I have run the race, I finished,

886
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: I fought the fight. I'll die soon. And you know

887
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: what Paul says, And that seems about right, because I'm done.

888
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: But he's at perfect peace, perfect peace. I actually, if

889
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: you've ever anybody here ever been to Rome before, I

890
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: was standing there at the Colosseum and had a Christian

891
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: who was guiding us, which that's crucial, and and he

892
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: could tell the things we would want to know. And

893
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: he said, because most of it, they tell you about

894
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: everything happened in the Colosseum, and that's interesting. But we

895
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: looked and he said, do you know what that is

896
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: right there? And it was outside the Colosseum. It was

897
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: this road. He said, pretty pretty sure. That's where the

898
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: guards walked Paul out to his death, right there. And

899
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: I thought he was walking in perfect peace. The guards

900
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: even loved him. They just more afraid of Nero than

901
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: they were of letting Paul escape. But he won them over. Now,

902
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: of course they still killed him, but I mean, but

903
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: he won them over. They were not at odds. He

904
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:20,959
Speaker 1: wasn't even at odds with the people that were gonna

905
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: kill him. And he said, perfect peace. And this is

906
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: what Elafasi is saying. Job, I think when you get

907
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: to a ripe old age, I believe you'll die in peace?

908
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: Are you living your life? Am I living my life

909
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,959
Speaker 1: right now? Am I on the road to be able

910
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: to lay it down at perfect peace? There's no other

911
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: way to live. And just start weeding this stuff out

912
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: of your life that doesn't matter, and start embracing and

913
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 1: immersing yourself and the things that matter, the things that

914
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,240
Speaker 1: when you stand before the one and only living God,

915
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: it's the only thing that's going to matter, and and

916
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: and prioritize them, and maybe they should take precedent over

917
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,720
Speaker 1: the things that aren't gonna matter. And I find myself

918
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: a lot of times not anymore. But I found myself

919
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: at a big portion of my life where I seem

920
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: to say, the things that matter will get done if

921
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: the things that don't matter don't get in the way.

922
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: I would take don't matter and prioritize what I can't

923
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: miss that trip, Well, would you like to go and

924
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: and advance the Kingdom of God with us in this thing?

925
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: I tell what I'll do that if the trip doesn't

926
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: work out. When what I should have said is, if

927
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: that doesn't work out, maybe I'll take a trip. Just

928
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: flip it right. You Remember, I don't know who said

929
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,760
Speaker 1: who do we credit with saying, one of the worst

930
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 1: things is to be very successful at things that don't matter.

931
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,720
Speaker 1: I don't know who said that, but that's a great statement.

932
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: You know I did. I did really well a bunch

933
00:52:55,360 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: of stuff that doesn't matter. Was that? Who said? Now?

934
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: I don't remember who said. It's a good statement, though,

935
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: very convicting. So twenty seven and then we'll be done.

936
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: Behold this, we have searched out. It is true here

937
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: and know it for your own good. Once again, Lafaz

938
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: is saying something to Job that he thinks Job didn't know.

939
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: He says all the things I just said about God

940
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: and all the things that we just ran down about him,

941
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: we all know this to be true. Now that's okay.

942
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: I don't really mind that. I know there's a side

943
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: that kind of says, who's this guy think he is?

944
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: But it's okay. I really don't have a problem with

945
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: my fellow brothers in Christ and my wife to tell

946
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: me things I already know. As a reminder, are we

947
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: going to get through this? Yes, Rick, We're going to

948
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: get through this. And you know this to be true.

949
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: Do you think God's abandoned us? No, he hasn't abandoned us.

950
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: And you know that to be true. It actually says

951
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: the Psalmus actually says in Psalm thirty four that he's

952
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: near I think verse eighteen, he's near to the broken hearted.

953
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,600
Speaker 1: So you know he hasn't abandoned you. He says he wouldn't,

954
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: so he hasn't, you know. I think the question that

955
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: when we get on this, when we start doing the poor, poor,

956
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: pitiful me, we know if you're redeemed that God has

957
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: not abandoned you. Where I think we need to be

958
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: a little bolder is to ask the question, have I

959
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: abandoned God? I find that to be the one that's

960
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: kind of in play because I know God didn't leave me.

961
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: Now have I tried to leave him? Yeah? Yes I have.

962
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: And I can't imagine. We're sitting here and we are

963
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: so angry, righteous, anger at the way Joe's being treated

964
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,879
Speaker 1: by people. You're really gonna get angry when you see

965
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: his next guy. Okay, but I want you to understand

966
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: the way God is teaching throughout the scriptures. We always

967
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: think we're job, but I want you to know to

968
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: make job Jesus. He's not. But I want you to

969
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: make job Jesus. Beaten, miserable, disrespected, spit on for our behalf,

970
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:30,399
Speaker 1: and imagine us treating Jesus the way job's being treated.

971
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: Where were you when I needed you? I thought you

972
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: said you be with me to the end of the

973
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: earth where we're I don't feel like you're with me now.

974
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you had gone to the cross

975
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: for me, and that was my attitude towards you, What

976
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: have you done for me lately? As opposed to thank

977
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: you for what you did? Period? I imagine that was

978
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: a tough night in the garden for Jesus. Can you

979
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: just pray with me? We're tired? Well? I think that

980
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: that kind of attitude, even though he loved them and

981
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: he restored them all back to him, I believe some

982
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: of that sent Jesus into that conversation with the Father.

983
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: Is there any way this cup can pass? I'm telling you,

984
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: in that moment, they represented all humanity. We didn't look

985
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: all that wonderful to go to the cross for, but

986
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: he did because what do you say, I'm here to

987
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: do the will of my father? Period? But he did

988
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: ask the one percent human side because the wrath of

989
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: God is not something to look forward to. And that

990
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: cup he's talking about we know from the prophets that's

991
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: the cup of God's wrath and it's going to be

992
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: poured out on his son, and that'll make your capularies

993
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: burst and sweat blood of it. But he was obedient,

994
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: as we're told over and over, even to the cross,

995
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: for you and for me, and we did not deserve it.

996
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: And how do we find fault with him? Maybe just

997
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: to thank you? Would do? Thank you. There's not a

998
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: thing we can ever do to repay you, but thank you.

999
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: And how about this if we're doing what he said?

1000
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: See he never Great leadership is never asking those that

1001
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: you've been given authority over to do things that you

1002
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: won't do. People resent that kind of leadership. I don't

1003
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 1: think Jesus when he said, if you love me, you'll

1004
00:57:54,920 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: obey me, Go and make disciples, be a disciple, teach

1005
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: them all I have commanded enter the narrow gate, deny self,

1006
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: count the costs, pick up your cross. I don't think

1007
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: based on what he did for us, any of us

1008
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: can look back and say that's unreasonable. How can you

1009
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: ask me to do? Oh wait a minute, you can't

1010
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: ask me of anything you didn't do. You you did it.

1011
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: You were my example I want you to serve those

1012
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 1: people that you're in charge of. Well, oh wait, you

1013
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: washed their feet, didn't you even Judas that's a tough

1014
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: foot wash right there. Can you imagine Jesus holding those

1015
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: feet wash and just looking at him, But he did it.

1016
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: I love that. When he gives the teaching about the

1017
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: eating the flesh and drinking the blood, meaning that you

1018
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: have to be abiding in me. Everybody hates this message.

1019
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: Everybody leaves. He turns to the twelve and he's like,

1020
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: what about you guys? And I love Peter because it

1021
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: was an honest answer. We had no idea what you're

1022
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: talking about. But where else are we gonna go? We

1023
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: see who you are, we see what you do. We

1024
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: ain't leaving you. He will not leave the Redeemed, but

1025
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: we got to decide whether we will leave him. And

1026
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: we are reminded of the last thing that Eliphaz said.

1027
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: We know all this to be true, and we do

1028
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:36,439
Speaker 1: need to hear and know that God is good. Let's pray, Lord,

1029
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: thank you for today. Thank you for this incredible reminder.

1030
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: Thank you for the power of your Holy Word. Thank

1031
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:47,439
Speaker 1: you for the example of job our brother and Lord.

1032
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: Thank you for his friends who also you are using

1033
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 1: to teach us how maybe not to comfort a friend.

1034
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: In your holy name, we pray Amen. Thank you very much,