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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. My name's Rick Burgess,

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Speaker 1: glad to be with you today. We are continuing our

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

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Speaker 1: Job chapter seven. This has been a very intriguing study,

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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 in to Job Chapter seven. Lord, thank you

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Speaker 1: for today. May you be with us, May you guide

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Speaker 1: us today. We saw last week what it was like

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Speaker 1: for Job to address his friends. We've seen what it

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Speaker 1: was like for at least one of his friends to

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Speaker 1: address him. We, of course, of course, studying this, are

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Speaker 1: aware of things that Job at the time was not

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Speaker 1: aware of. Today Job does something that it's daunting, but

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Speaker 1: it is part of difficulty. And today Job will address

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Speaker 1: you Lord, and Lord God is through this as we

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Speaker 1: take away what is happening here but also what is

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Speaker 1: not And may we learn in your holy name, we

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Speaker 1: pray Amen. So yeah, we saw last week. We Eliphaz

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Speaker 1: first one to weigh in. After a time of silence

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Speaker 1: and grieving Job and his friends. Job has no idea.

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Speaker 1: You can never forget this when you're studying Job. He

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Speaker 1: has no idea what's going on between Lucifer and God

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Speaker 1: and the conversations they're having. What Satan has been allowed

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Speaker 1: to do, what Satan's trying to accomplish. God's faith is

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Speaker 1: in Job. Uh. He knows Jo Job better than Lucifer

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Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. So Elafhaz has already stepped

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Speaker 1: brought this on yourself. He's a little more eloquent. He

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Speaker 1: we had, we had Job kind of address elephas. He's

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Speaker 1: But now Job still talking, still holding court, still has

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Speaker 1: a lack of faith. Is this something that is forbidden? Well,

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Speaker 1: we know that Job is considered to be a man

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Speaker 1: You know, you've heard me talk about this before. The

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Speaker 1: this book out. It's complicated, it's it's got a lot

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Speaker 1: and we'll unpack that a little bit. But the first

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Speaker 1: me tell Job's a good writer. He puts you there.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, Job starts out and says, has not man

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Speaker 1: is this question important? Well, it's Job letting us know.

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Speaker 1: And my analogy, my analogy is I'm going to start

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Speaker 1: don't even see the hope of a hired hand. I

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Speaker 1: don't even see the hope of a slave. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: I never will forget. One time, just a physical deal

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Speaker 1: some kind of personal training, or you're putting people through

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Speaker 1: When I lie down, I say, when shall I arise?

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Speaker 1: But the night is long? And I am full of

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Speaker 1: tossing till the dawn. I can't find any rest. Anybody

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Speaker 1: And they're that terrible feeling, especially those of us that

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Speaker 1: there's God's purpose. Job is not aware of either one yet. Okay,

426
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: let's run what Satan's trying to do to Job, and

427
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: it may be what he's trying to do to you. Okay.

428
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: He's going to attack Job's physical body because he was

429
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: allowed to so the pain, and he's there to torment

430
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: Job's body. That's one of his purposes. The other to

431
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: use his friends to torment Job's soul. We've talked about

432
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: this before, but there's a third now. And I pondered

433
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 1: on this one a while studying this because I think

434
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: you probably have been there. We kind of understand Satan's tormented,

435
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: tormenting Job physically. We're beginning to understand he's going after

436
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: his soul, who he is, his very essence through the

437
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: disappointing comments of his friends, and they've only begun. But

438
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: then there's another one. It's an assault on Job's spirit

439
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 1: to break his faith, and what weapon is he using

440
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: to break Job's spirit and break his faith. God's silence, Oh,

441
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 1: he loves that. We better understand God's silence. We better

442
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: understand that God's silence is not abandonment, because he told

443
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: us he's near to the broken hearted some one, thirty

444
00:25:55,080 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 1: four eighteen. I think. So, if God has told us

445
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: that he's near to us, but we sense that he's not,

446
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 1: that's just not true. Okay, that's important to get that

447
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: because if you don't know that the demons, you're sin nature,

448
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: or maybe you rank Lucifer himself, He's going to whirl

449
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: up to you and say, what's up? Why's God not

450
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: answering you? You're asking him right, and he'm not telling you.

451
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: He's a he's abandoned you. So the physical part, I

452
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,479
Speaker 1: think most of us, honestly, there's some tough people here.

453
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: I think we can. I don't want to do that.

454
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: It's no fun. But I you know, I don't know

455
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: that that's where we bail our friends. They hurt you feelings,

456
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: but then that will get me to bail God's silence. Hey,

457
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm not hearing from you. I've been waiting and I

458
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: got nothing, and you hear job. Now, part of this

459
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: crying out is you're gonna see before we're done, tell

460
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: me what I've done? What is this all about? What

461
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: have I done to you? But God, can we get

462
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: to the point the length of our suffering? God assign

463
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: and is perfect. He is there with us when our

464
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: friends are flawed. Okay, but this is a tougher one.

465
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: If God decides to tell you nothing for whatever amount

466
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: of time, are we faithful to enough to say even

467
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: that's correct too? Don't answer me too soon. Whenever you

468
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 1: answer me, then that's the right time. But you will

469
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: eventually on your time. I know we're all nodding, but

470
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: that is a tougher one sometimes because man, you start going, Man,

471
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: give me something, and sometimes He does give us something

472
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: and we miss it. Have you ever heard that happen?

473
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: You go back, look, go ooh. He was trying to

474
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: come from me right there, and I missed it. So

475
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 1: God has two purposes. Now let's get to God's purposes. Okay,

476
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: those were satans. Attack his body, attack his soul, attack

477
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: his spirit, and what is his ultimate go so he

478
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: will break his faith in God. Saw somebody own social

479
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: media denouncing God. You know why they denounced God. He

480
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: never answered him my prayers, did you see that? And

481
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: this runs a list. I prayed about this, I prayed

482
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: about this. I prayed about this. I prayed about this.

483
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: I prayed about this. He never answered one. And he said,

484
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: so all this faith I put in Jesus was a

485
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: monumental waste of time. So he put it on social media.

486
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: Now you see how dumb he is and how little

487
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: he knows about God and how litly he knows about

488
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: the scripture because the things he's saying are not true. True.

489
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: What he's saying is God didn't do what I wanted

490
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: him to do. That's really what he says. And you know,

491
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: and a lot of people were called him on that,

492
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: but so but you see how Satan worked with him.

493
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: Though Satan got it done, but this one now hopefully

494
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: that won't be how this man's life ends. But that's

495
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: where he is right now. So we know Satan's purposes

496
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: for suffering. Now let's get to God. God has two

497
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: purposes here with Job, and we know that because we

498
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: know how this all ends. Trial and pain are being

499
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: used by God to teach Job some truths he has

500
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: never grasped before. He's always teaching you thought you know me,

501
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: You thought you knew me, You think you're pretty well

502
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: versed on me. You don't know me as deep as

503
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: you could. And I'm only used pain and suffering to

504
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: teach you deep truths about me that you don't know yet.

505
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: That's one of God's things. There's no doubt he'll do it.

506
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: He's helping Job deepen his theology, and he's going to

507
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: help Job to know and understand God in a more

508
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: real and profound way. Can anybody say that happen in

509
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: your life through suffering? I can, And if it hasn't

510
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: happened yet, it can. You know. It's just one of

511
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: the things that we were just talking about. We were

512
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: talking about yesterday, back and forth in the text. Now

513
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: is the time you cling to the things about God

514
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: you already know. But then he says, now there's things

515
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: I remember. I thought it was a very profound statement

516
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: from Well. I can't think of his name now. Christian

517
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: Singer went around a long time, been around forever and ever, Oh,

518
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: I can't think of his name. He also had the

519
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: child that died, yes Steve Stephen Curtis Chapman. I remember

520
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: the most real thing that he wrote in songs after

521
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: the death of his the earthly death, and one of

522
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: the things he wrote was, Oh, and I'm paraphrasing, I thought,

523
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: I knew you. I didn't know this side of you.

524
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: This is all new to me because what he had seen,

525
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: he'd seen blessings and protection and this and that and that,

526
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: and he knew God through that. For you know, that's great.

527
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: You can see God and all that too. But I

528
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: remember Stephen Curtis Chapman and we got to have some

529
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: conversations and all that. And his wife, you know, she

530
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: also wrote a book too. But the thing and that

531
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: was good. But the thing that I saw in Stephen's

532
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: writing after that was a whole new depth. His his

533
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: depth of even singing about God went to a whole

534
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: new level, a whole another level. Why he was forced

535
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: to depend on God in a way and never had before.

536
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: So you see that, and I experienced in my own

537
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 1: life too. So here's the other one. What's the same?

538
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: Second purpose? Now this one, y'all may be ahead of me.

539
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna prove Satan wrong. That's his second purpose. My

540
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: guy's gonna pass the test. I'm gonna show Satan that

541
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: what he thinks about Job, and he thinks about these people.

542
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: He's wrong. So he's going to teach Job a deeper,

543
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: deeper truth about him. He's gonna understand God in a

544
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: more real, profound way. And then he wants Satan and

545
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: all of the principalities that rejected God with Lucifer. He

546
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: wants Satan himself and all those demons to watch Job

547
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: pass the test. He's gonna make them watch it. I

548
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: want you to see it. Cool cool story. I heard

549
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: about a missionary's child, and I can't remember the missionary's name,

550
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: but I'll never forget. The story had a child that

551
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: was terrified and told the daddy, I have demons that

552
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: are after me. They're coming into my room and they're

553
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: scaring me, and I want you to come, and I

554
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: want you to pray with me because I'm afraid. I

555
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: forget what part of the world they were serving in,

556
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: but it was a lot of black magic and a

557
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: lot of really rough stuff. So the dad goes in,

558
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: prays over the child. Child goes to sleep. Next morning, breakfast,

559
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: child bounces out for breakfast and the dad says, well,

560
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: how did you sleep, And the child said, slept great, Dad,

561
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: Thank you so he said, so, did the demons finally

562
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: leave you along? And the child said no that. I said,

563
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: what do you mean, Well, I mean they didn't bother me,

564
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: but they didn't leave, And he said are they gone? Now?

565
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: He's yeah, But why didn't you call me to come back?

566
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: Because God told me not to? What did God tell you?

567
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,719
Speaker 1: God told me to lay down to sleep and let

568
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: those demons watch me sleep sound because they can't touch me.

569
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: He wanted the demons to watch me sleep, knowing that

570
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: they couldn't. They couldn't scare me, they couldn't do it.

571
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: They can't touch him. So that's one of the purposes

572
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: you also see God. So in eleven eleven, I don't know.

573
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: I chuckled studying this this week? Getting ready guys, how

574
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: about this job? Says I will complain? How about this?

575
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: I'm going to complain? And then in twelve he says,

576
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm not a monster that needs to be guarded. Look

577
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: at twelve? Am I the sea or a sea monster

578
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: that you set guard over me? What do you think?

579
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: I'm some monster? Am I some problem? Why do you?

580
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: Why do I have to be put through this? I

581
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: don't have to be tamed. I don't have to be

582
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: pulled under control. And you know he's using you know,

583
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: these were myths of the day to these sea creatures,

584
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: and he already mentioned some of the others and all

585
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: of that, and you'll see later where this god even

586
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: throws into his resume some of these creatures. And he says,

587
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: I don't understand why I'm being treated like a monster

588
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: that has to be guarded. Why you ever had that?

589
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: Why am I having to do with this? What have

590
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: I done? Do you think I'm an issue? Am I

591
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: a problem? Can I let all of you know? Yes,

592
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: we're all a problem. We are our biggest problem. Now.

593
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: Rick is my biggest obstacle. Every day. I can handle

594
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: some of this other stuff. It's me. I keep getting

595
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: beat by, you know, doing just like come on, I

596
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: mean so thirteen. Then he says, when I say my

597
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint?

598
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: This is back to that again. You know, he says,

599
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: bedtime ain't no place for solace. I will complain. I'm

600
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: not some monster that has to be guarded, and I

601
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: know that there's no solace for me even at bedtime.

602
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,479
Speaker 1: The couch doesn't give me any comfort. The bed doesn't

603
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: give me any comfort. I can't be comforted. Then he

604
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: goes to fourteen. Then you scare me with dreams and

605
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 1: terrify me with visions. Now commentators kind of run around here.

606
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: We're getting a little bit of a fuss here. Some

607
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: people say, well, maybe job was seeing visions that were

608
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: terrifying him because of the lack of sleep and insomnia

609
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: and and you know, you ever had that you start

610
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: seeing things and have you ever been like this is dangerous?

611
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: Need to pull over and stop? You ever been driving?

612
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: You think you almost ran something to ran across the road,

613
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, and really you're just getting tired. You need

614
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: to stop. They don't know whether it's that or this.

615
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: Maybe he leaves talking to God and looks over at

616
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: Eliphas and said, now you come up with a scary

617
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: dream you had and trying to terrify me with that

618
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: God told you something that that wasn't from God. So

619
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: we don't know if this is directed at Eliphaz because

620
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: Elaphas did say, what I had a dream about you

621
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: and all this, and whether he's now mad, you know,

622
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: and you're no help with your scary dream about me,

623
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: or he's just seeing dreams himself too. Because he's coming

624
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: crazed with fatigue, so it could be either. So fifteen,

625
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: he said, so that I would choose strangling and death

626
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: rather than my bones. Hey, I would choose right now

627
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 1: to be strangled to death rather than the way my

628
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:27,839
Speaker 1: body feels right now. My essence is at its end.

629
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: You know, strangling would almost be a comfort for me

630
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: compared to how I feel, pretty vivid visual right there.

631
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: This is kind of back to that death would probably

632
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: be better. But you know, this time though, it's a

633
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: little different. He's not choosing an easy death. He's saying

634
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 1: that even if somebody would strangle me, at least I

635
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: take my mind off how bad my body feels. All right,

636
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: So let's get to sixteen. I loathe my life. I

637
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: would not live forever. Leave me alone from days are breath.

638
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: This is good here. Forever sounds great to the healthy.

639
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: And when I was healthy and I was happy, Yeah,

640
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: I wanted to live forever. But I got news for you.

641
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: Those of us who are sick and miserable and I'm

642
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: nothing but skin and bones, Forever don't sound too good

643
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: to me. I'd read this end and of breath. You

644
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: ever been that way? Man? I wish I could live forever.

645
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: Everything's going great, and then all of a sudden, there's

646
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: those days. You're going, man, how much longer is life

647
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: going to go on? You know? And and I and

648
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: I've told some of you this before, I remember that

649
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: after after my son went to heaven, you know, just uh,

650
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there and you're you know, you're dealing

651
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: with the obvious, but then you're also dealing with children

652
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: who are still alive, four of them. And we were

653
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: climbing aboard a flight a year after Broner had gone

654
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: to Heaven to go to Israel. Sherry just did not

655
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: want to be on the one year anniversary anywhere near

656
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: anything familiar. And she said, I want to go to

657
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: the place that I believe is the closest place I

658
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: could be to God and Broner. I want to go

659
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: where it all happened. So we did, and so we

660
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: were going, and we got on the airplane and it

661
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: was this interesting moment with a seven year old little boy,

662
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: and we're on the plane and Sherry started reassuring everybody,

663
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: don't be afraid of this long flight, don't be whatever.

664
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: And she said, I'm issued the plane is not going

665
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: to crash, and the seven year old looked up and

666
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: smiledness said, but it might. What he was saying is,

667
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: if we all were to die and go to where

668
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: Bronner is, that wouldn't be so bad. So there really

669
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: wasn't a desire at that point to live a long

670
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: time because they realized, and God's done great healing. But

671
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: if everything's riding on happiness, happiness is over. Our family

672
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: will never be whole again. Happiness is over on this

673
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: side of eternity. Now there's hope that the beauty is

674
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: that keeps us going on what's to come. But you

675
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: kind of find yourself a little more Heaven focused and

676
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: a little less Earth earth, a little less Earth focused

677
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: through things like that, which is one of the things

678
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: God accomplishes. But it was interesting that even a little

679
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: boy saw the hard side of life and thought to himself,

680
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: if we were all to go at the same time,

681
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: then we'd all be together again. So if the plain

682
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: lands great, but if it doesn't, sounds good too. So

683
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: this is kind of where job is. And then in

684
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: seventeen listen to this. This is another thing where I

685
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: found myself kind of nodding with Job going Yeah, man,

686
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: I hear you, He says, to God, what is man

687
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: that you make so much of him and that you

688
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: set your heart on him? Why are you even funneling

689
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: with us? Well? Of what value are we to you?

690
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: Why would you desire to be so involved in me?

691
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: He saying, why are you bothering me? Why are you

692
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: doing this to me? What do I matter in the

693
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: grand scheme of you? You ever felt that way? Why

694
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: are you so intrigued with us? He's certainly, he's certain

695
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: he's not enamored with us, But why are you intrigued

696
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: with this? What? Why do you care so much? Why

697
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: would you even want to fool with us? You make

698
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: and I love this, you know, he's said. You go

699
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: back and look at the words and the original meaning.

700
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: Why do you make so much of us that you

701
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: give us all this twenty four to seven surveillance? Why

702
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: you always got y'all on us? Why you always knowing

703
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: what's going on with this? What is this unforgiving and

704
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: never ending scrutiny we keep having to go through? Why

705
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: you keep scrutinizing us? What do you even care what

706
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: we do? Have you ever wondered that it does seem

707
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: like he's got more important things to do than worry

708
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: about what I'm doing. And that's what Joe wants to know.

709
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: Why would you even take time to do this if

710
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,200
Speaker 1: you're the one doing it. I don't even know why.

711
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: You're a fool with me? Of what? What is? What

712
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: do I matter right now? Couldn't you just left me

713
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: the way I was? See? We if? Can you get

714
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: to the point where you think to yourself? And I

715
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: don't want to. I don't want to go down and

716
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: try to be some massacres or something, because Lord, hear me,

717
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for trouble. There's enough trouble without me

718
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: looking for it. Okay, I've learned. Please, you've taught. I'm good,

719
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: I'm learning. Thank you for all that you've you've done.

720
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: I don't need to be taught these lessons an I

721
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: don't want to go back and have to learn this again.

722
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: That's why I say, don't waste suffering. I don't have

723
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: to learn that kind of stuff again. But have you

724
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 1: ever thought to yourself? Hmm, this is how much God

725
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: loves me. He loves me enough that he's willing to

726
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: discipline me. You how many of you, how many have

727
00:43:55,920 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: worked with young people kids before who's in the saddest kid.

728
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: You know, kids that their parents don't discipline them at all.

729
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: You know why, because they know that their parents don't

730
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: love them. It's too much a hassle to discipline them.

731
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: It's better just to let them do whatever they want

732
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: to do. I remember that's one of the things my

733
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: mother always struggled with, and she told me that that

734
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: was one of the things that she thought that my

735
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: dad was sending into her life because she was raised

736
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: and a home that she said really didn't care what

737
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: I did. I don't even know that half the time

738
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: they even knew where I was. And your Dad's family

739
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: was different, and it kind of gave me structure, And

740
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: it always deep down bothered me that my parents didn't

741
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: seem to care what I was doing. So what you

742
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: see here is really the opposite. What Joe will learn

743
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: is that the reason why God is making so much

744
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: of you job, but why he cares about the details

745
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: of of your life, is you're that valuable to him.

746
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: He wants you to pass the test, he wants you

747
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: to be steadfast, he wants you to grow. He's doing

748
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: this because he loves you, not because he hates you.

749
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: And he loves you enough that you are worth his discipline? Nineteen?

750
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: How long will you not look away from me or

751
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 1: leave me alone? Until I swallow my spit? Hey? If

752
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: this is the result of you watching me, how about

753
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 1: stop watching me? How long are you gonna keep watching me?

754
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: Is this what it looks like to be under your hand?

755
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: Is this what it looks like to be at the

756
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: center of your attention? How much long are you gonna do?

757
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: How long you keep staring at me? Keep watching me?

758
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: What do I finally just spit? So I can't even

759
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: I can't do anything. He really wants God to answer

760
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: these questions, and then comes the final two verses, And

761
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: we're getting to the heart of it. Now, what is

762
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: this all about? You ever done that? Lord? What are

763
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: we doing? What do we I don't I know that

764
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: you do? Everything you do is right? I don't follow

765
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: this at all? What are we doing here? What is

766
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: going on here? And he says if I have sin?

767
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: If I sin? What do to you? What do I

768
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: do to you? You watcher of mankind? What have you made?

769
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: Why have you made me your mark? Why have I

770
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: become a burden to you? This is now We're down

771
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: to it. Hey, if I sin? What do I do

772
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: to you? You watcher of mankind? A little smart? He?

773
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: Look you there? If you know everything and you say everything,

774
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: how come you want? What have I done to you?

775
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: Tell me what I've done? Why have you made me

776
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: your mark? Why am I in your crosshairs right now?

777
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: For what reason? Have I become a burden to you? Then?

778
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: What is that burden? What have I done to bring

779
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: what he thinks is his wrath down on him? Tell

780
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: me what's going on here? You ever had that? I mean,

781
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: right now, this is Joe kind of realizes here for

782
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: a lot of us what it feels like to be married.

783
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: Why don't you just tell me what I've done? This

784
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: upset you? Well? You should know. If I knew, I

785
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: would have already owned you. I don't know. We're playing

786
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: a game here. Just tell me what have I done?

787
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: This upset you? That's what he wants to know. I mean,

788
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: if I've committed some sin and it's and now here

789
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: you are, I'm in your crosshairs and I'm some burden?

790
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: Do you tell me what's caused it? And then we

791
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: get to twenty one? Why do you not pardon my

792
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: transgression and take away my iniquity oo, foreshadowing to the

793
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: New Covenant. For now I shall lie in the earth.

794
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: You'll seek me that I shall not be. He's saying

795
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: to God, I'll repent. Just show me what it is.

796
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: I'll repent. Aren't you thankful that we have the fullness

797
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: of God? Now, the Holy Spirit, I don't know about you.

798
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit clears up real quick for me what

799
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: I've done? Right? Have you ever even tried to did you?

800
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: Have you ever debated the Holy Spirit? You're making a

801
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: big deal out of this, But it's not that big

802
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: a deal. And then the Holy Spirit just he just

803
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: won't let you off. No, it's a big deal. You

804
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: need to correct this. Don't know why you're anxious to

805
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: us about this? And uh, and the Holy Spirit always

806
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: wins at the end of that because he's just too powerful.

807
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: But but here, Job, we're not on the other side

808
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: of the resurrection now. So but look at Job, looking

809
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: to what's going to happen on the cross. Why do

810
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity?

811
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: And what did Jesus come to do take away our iniquity?

812
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: You know, Job is crying through scripture. Is there some

813
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: way that you could just resolve by transgressions, take away

814
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: my iniquity, and the answers yes, and how fortunate are

815
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: we that Jesus has fulfilled this. But at this time

816
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: Job's looking and then he says, he gets a little

817
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: poor por pillow for me here. I may never make

818
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: it to this court of yours because I'm gonna be

819
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: dead if you keep putting this off. We ain't never

820
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: gonna have that day. You're gonna look to finally tell

821
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,359
Speaker 1: me and I'm gonna be dead and gone. Of course

822
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: he's dealing with God here, which makes this a little

823
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: bit silly, but the bottom line is that we also

824
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: need to write down here here's one thing we know

825
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: to end on. Job has no idea what he's done,

826
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: because if not, he figured dad and said, I don't

827
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: know what it is. Got no idea why this is happening.

828
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, why don't you just tell me? Apparently you're

829
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: upset with me and I don't know why. Now, see

830
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: what we know, and this is the part we don't like,

831
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: which makes this book where there's many things that make

832
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: it profound, but here's one of them. He hasn't done anything. See,

833
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: we're kind of like We're kind of like Joe's friends.

834
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: We like this to be simple. You do bad things,

835
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: God punishes you for it. You do good things, He'll

836
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: leave you alone. That is not good theology. How about

837
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: this Job hasn't done anything. He's been picked for a test.

838
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: One Peter, Chapter one, verse six and seven. Peter talking

839
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: to the persecuted church Nero's people knocking on the door.

840
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: When they knock, it's over. Nero's people never really showed

841
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: up and drug you off and said, oh, will bring

842
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: them back in a minute. And they're terrified. They're all

843
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: hiding in their houses. And Peter says, hey, in this

844
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 1: you rejoice though now for a little while, if necessary.

845
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:20,839
Speaker 1: You've been grieved by various trials to test the genuineness

846
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:24,919
Speaker 1: of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes when

847
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: it is tried by fire, but that your faith may

848
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:32,640
Speaker 1: result in the glorification and the revelation of Jesus Christ.

849
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: So Rick, why am I suffering to glorify God? I've

850
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: told people many times, even recent times, and you know,

851
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: this is the thing that seems to help. There's so

852
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: many other ways to suffer. But I'm talking about grieving

853
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: parents with children because Job is in this boat ten times.

854
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: Is I've even talked to tow especially daddies that you

855
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: kind of harden, and they're mad, They're really mad at God.

856
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: They're furious, and you can just about see them ready

857
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: to start doing some of this. Well, I'll tell you

858
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: what I can't, sir. And then I said, hey, let

859
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: me stop you, if for no other reason, right now,

860
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: if for no other reason, please don't taint your child's legacy.

861
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: And every time that stops, my cop my son, my daughter,

862
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: my child. Yeah, you focused on God. We'll get to that, Okay,

863
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: So you really want your child's legacy to be My

864
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: daddy hated God and turned away from God. Because I died,

865
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: there's the legacy. So where were gonna, Where were gonna.

866
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna put that on. We're gonna we're gonna build

867
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: a ministry around that, a memorial, whether your daughter or

868
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: son's name tied to it. The legacy of my child

869
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: who died was our family turning away from God and

870
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: doing nothing for the kingdom. That's the legacy you want

871
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: for your child. What about listening to God right now

872
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: and letting your child's legacy be that This was the

873
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: moment that my mama and Daddy ran to God in

874
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: a way they never had before, and my short life

875
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: was used to draw them closer to God. And my

876
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: life was used to glorify God and advance the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: of God. Now that's a better legacy, and that's exactly

878
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: what Peter is talking about. Rejoice though, now for a

879
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: little while if necessary, because you're giving you right now.

880
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: You're given a shot to test the genuineness of your

881
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: faith and show the world who God is. Because frankly,

882
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 1: they listen more. C. S. Lewis again God's megaphone. Pain

883
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: and suffering, God's megaphone to a sleeping world. I know

884
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,879
Speaker 1: it frustrates me too. I wish it wouldn't that way.

885
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: I wish I wouldn't that way. But God continues to

886
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: use this because it works, and Job hasn't done anything.

887
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 1: God's not angry with Job. God is pleased with Job.

888
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: Job doesn't know it and he's struggling. But this is

889
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: not where the story ends, and it let it not

890
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: be where the story ends. And our suffering that we're

891
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: just complaining to God, we're upset about this, we don't

892
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: understand show us because we don't have the confusion that

893
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: Job had and Job didn't have it anymore. He doesn't

894
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:46,399
Speaker 1: see things that we can now see and we I'm

895
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: just sick and tired of it. And I don't want

896
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 1: us as a church any longer to act like we

897
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 1: don't understand suffering. I don't know how much more God

898
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: can teach us about suffering if we don't understand it.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know why God does it. We just

900
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: haven't taken time to get the answers that He has provided.

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00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: Exactly what Sherry said when she started out writing the

902
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: book five years she said, everybody wants me to go

903
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 1: into these sometimes we just don't understand. And you know

904
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Speaker 1: what she says, Well, I'm gonna go find everything that

905
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: I do understand because He's revealed a lot of it,

906
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:23,479
Speaker 1: and I'm won't get as much of it as I can.

907
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: Everything he's told me about this, I'm gonna know, and

908
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: he actually says quite a bit about it. So let's

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00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 1: pray Lord, thank you for today, thank you for this

910
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: incredible ongoing series. This has just been It was daunting,

911
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: but thank you Lord for making sure it was done.

912
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: And continue to teach us as we roll through this

913
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: incredible narrative and all that you're teaching all of us,

914
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Speaker 1: and your holy name. We pray Amen.