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

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Speaker 1: Today we're focusing on studying the Word of God. And

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Speaker 1: so you're kind of updated. We're in the book of

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Speaker 1: Job right now. We're going to be in Job chapter

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Any of the archives in this study, or

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Speaker 1: into Job chapter twenty one. Lord, thank you for today. Lord,

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Speaker 1: Job and his friends are having to deal with bad theology. Lord,

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Speaker 1: I pray that you continue to reveal yourself to us

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Speaker 1: in your fullness. May we know everything that you will

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Speaker 1: fully still in this fallen state with our finite minds? No,

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Speaker 1: now when this when we're doing this Bible study, when

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Speaker 1: it's happening in real time once again on the day

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Speaker 1: job hosting The Rick Burgess Show, these questions are back again.

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Speaker 1: We've had calamity in the United States of America involving

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Speaker 1: people die from these disasters, it's always horrible when children die,

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Speaker 1: always be this way. This is not God's final plan.

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Speaker 1: As my wife wrote in her book about where is

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Speaker 1: God and this kind of stuff, and she is correct.

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Speaker 1: According to the script, I'll tell you where he is.

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Speaker 1: He's right in the middle of it. And there are

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Speaker 1: things that are gonna be done through this tragedy that

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Speaker 1: see people curse God? Yes we will. Peter tells us

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Speaker 1: really is. There's nothing that reveals truth quite like calamity.

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Speaker 1: And so, yes, these things are heartbreaking, Yes they bother us,

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Speaker 1: these people that it will be something that glorifies God.

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Speaker 1: go right to legacy. Please don't let this tragedy turn

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Speaker 1: So the legacy is going to be that your child died,

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Speaker 1: life be tied to God being glorified. For Daddy turned

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Speaker 1: Because he wants you to turn and look at him.

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Speaker 1: to submit to who God says he is. It sounds

425
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: an awful lot like things we hear. We don't like

426
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 1: your standard on this, and we don't like your standard

427
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 1: on that, And if you want to be around us,

428
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: then you have to become the God that we prefer.

429
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: That sounds but can y'all say this raise your hands?

430
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 1: I know people not personally, maybe some somewhat personally, but

431
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: we can all see the uber wealthy of our country right,

432
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: and the world the uber wealthy, would y'all agree, There's

433
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: some extremely wealthy people with a bunch of really big houses,

434
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: with a bunch of beautiful children that continue that everything

435
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: they do is a hit, and they say to God,

436
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: depart from me. Right, we don't anything to do to you.

437
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: We don't like your standard. We'll even say we don't

438
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 1: believe in you at all, and we certainly will take

439
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: your silly Bible and toss that out. But they're doing

440
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: great for a time. But they're doing great, right, So

441
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: this is what This is the kind of society apparently

442
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 1: that's been around since the fall. So when we get

443
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: to fifteen, he goes even further. What is the Almighty

444
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: that we should serve him? He's being the voice of

445
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: these people now, and what profit do we get if

446
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: we pray to him? He's saying, they see God as worthless.

447
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: They don't see him worthy of their serving him. They

448
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: don't see that prayer has any value, so they don't

449
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: do it. We know. Let me just look at them

450
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: together now, fourteen to fifteen. We know they say God,

451
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: depart from us. We know they don't desire his knowledge.

452
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: Are abide by his ways. We know they think that

453
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: he should not be served, and we know they think

454
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: there's no profit in praying to it. But yet they

455
00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: seem to be doing great by earthly standards. They seem

456
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 1: to be doing great. So now here we go. Now

457
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: comes the big testing of the theology. Behold, is not

458
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked

459
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: is far from me? Now, isn't God sovereign? Y'all said

460
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: that God goes around and bless his people. It's him

461
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: who does it, and he punishes people. That's what y'all said.

462
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 1: Is that not what we all believe? So they're doing well,

463
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: but yet they're wicked. So is God allowing that? Doesn't

464
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 1: God decide what they get to have? And they don't

465
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: get to have? And so he's allowing this? And he

466
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: said so. But yet we know that God says he

467
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: doesn't give counsel to the wicked, nor do we, So

468
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:15,479
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Seventeen? How often is it that

469
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their

470
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: calamity comes upon them, that God distributes pains in his anger?

471
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: How often does that happen? Now he's choosing this because

472
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: there's nothing more beautiful than for you to use people's

473
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: own words against them. Really right here, if we want

474
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: to take this down to Calhoun County. He's going around saying, now,

475
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: so far, Bill Dad, if I remember, trust me, you

476
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: made sure I was listening. If I remember, you said

477
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: that God punishes people like this all the time. Every time,

478
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: anytime people are wicked, God punish them. That's what you said.

479
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: It's what Zo far just said. It's what Bill Dad

480
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: you have said. But how do you explain this doesn't

481
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: look like they're getting punished? To me, you said all

482
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: the time. Do you do you remember? This reminds me

483
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: of a few good men. Do you remember the time

484
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: that the Jack Nokesen character and he said, no, no, no.

485
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: You said that if people if you gave an order,

486
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: people followed it all the time. Well you know sometimes

487
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: people he said no, no, no, you said, they would never

488
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: go against you. You remember that, barn Well, he's saying this now,

489
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: y'all didn't say sometimes, y'all said all the time. And

490
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: so y'all got a problem right now because I have

491
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: observed that that doesn't appear to be true. Eighteen. They

492
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: are like straw before the wind. They're like chafe that

493
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: the storm carries away. He's quoting here Psalms one four.

494
00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: Apparently they know this. The wicked are like chaf that

495
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: the wind blows away. Sure, sure, I've heard that be

496
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: said too, guys, But it don't look like it's happening.

497
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: Y'all quoting this stuff of me. But I don't see it,

498
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: you know. I think y'all may be interpreted that that

499
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: happens immediately, and here on earth maybe this happens eternally,

500
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: but it ain't happening right now. And he wants them

501
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: to take a hard look at this. You say, nineteen,

502
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: God stores up their iniquity for their children. Let him

503
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: pay it out to them that they may know it.

504
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: That's what you say. You say, God, even even if

505
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't punish the parents, if that ever happens, that

506
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: he'll punish the children. Well, I reject that. I don't

507
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: see that at all, you know. And by the way,

508
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, Job's never believed that. He's always talked about

509
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: that what happened to his children was not because of

510
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: what he did. But now y'all say that. But if

511
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,719
Speaker 1: y'all said, my wickedness caused my children to be killed.

512
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: Why hasn't their wickedness killed their children hasn't happened, So

513
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: now in twenty let their own eyes see their destruction

514
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty,

515
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: he says, let them see God's wrath. Now, I don't

516
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: want you to divert He's saying that to them, and

517
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: see what you're doing is and I'm gonna take that away.

518
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that one of you right now

519
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: is gonna say to me, well, we'll give in a

520
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: little that maybe what God's gonna do is pour out

521
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: his wrath on their kids. And he said, I'm not

522
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: gonna let you. That's not gonna be your fallback position,

523
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna have examples of that hadn't happened either. Okay,

524
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: I know y'all are looking for a way to fall back.

525
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: You've got to be thinking right now, we got to

526
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: refute this somehow. So let me go ahead and take

527
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: that one off the table. I don't want to hear

528
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: that they're getting away with and the God's going to

529
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 1: punish their kids later. I don't want to hear that

530
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: because I've already shown you that I see grandkids already, Okay,

531
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:15,239
Speaker 1: manhattan't happened, So so now twenty one for what do

532
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: they care for their houses after them when the number

533
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: of their months is cut off? So job is saying, ultimately,

534
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: why did these people care what happens to their children

535
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: as long as they can live it up? Hezekiah, do

536
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: you remember this? Do you remember? It? Was one of

537
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: the strangest things from Hezekiah, who Hezekiah was one of

538
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: those kings did pretty good, did pretty bad. He was

539
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: a little bit all over the road and the and

540
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: the and the fact that he vacillated a little bit.

541
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: He gave us manassa. But if you remember, because I

542
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: think I'd be really angry if I found out that

543
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: my dad went to God and says, I know you're

544
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: gonna wipe us out, but please don't do it. Why

545
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: I'm here and God gives in it, says, I tell you,

546
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna heal you. I'm gonna take this off of you,

547
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: but it's coming on your kids. Okay, So I won't

548
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: be here. No, okay, that's good with me now. And

549
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: he said, maybe, may I think if you think even

550
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: telling these wicked people that their kids are going to

551
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: get it one day. I don't think. I don't think

552
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: they care. I think as long as they can party

553
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: like it's nineteen ninety nine, I don't think they care.

554
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: As long as they get to live their life. They

555
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: couldn't care less. This isn't scaring them, So you might

556
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: want to save that argument. So really, what's happening here?

557
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: And I know, but we just got it. We got it.

558
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: We can't we can't step around it. And God is

559
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: a god of order, God is sovereign. We believe all

560
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: these things. But where you've got to be real careful

561
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: and this is what jobs. And you've heard me say

562
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: this before, but we got to say it again. Watch

563
00:33:53,760 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: out your sin nature, demons or if you're really Satan

564
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: himself will use what you believe about God against you.

565
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: That's why you got to be completely all in on

566
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: whatever God does is right. That's a saving faith. I

567
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: have turned over faith in myself and understanding. I have

568
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: put my faith in you. I have left my own authority.

569
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: You are my lord. I'm under your authority. You are

570
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: my king. And whatever you do is right, even if

571
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: in the moment I don't like it, I know you're

572
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: working out things for my own good. For those who

573
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: love him, not for people who reject him. But one

574
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: thing that's gonna feel confusing sometimes. Don't confuse the new

575
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: heaven and the new Earth and the current fallen state

576
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: of things. Back to what we said to start the

577
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: Bible study. Don't get those confused. Okay, some of this

578
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: stuff down here. You just got to have faith and

579
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: work through it with God. Because nothing's the way it's

580
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: supposed to be. It's going to be made right, but

581
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: it's not the way it's supposed to be right now. Okay,

582
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: So what he's saying is, I'm just telling you all

583
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: this we think we know about. God punishes wicked, blesses

584
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: the good. It's flawed. It looks a little more arbitrary

585
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: to me. It don't look that simple. Amen. It don't

586
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: look that simple, does it. It don't really work that way.

587
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: So now one problem we got, and the friends of

588
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: Job have got it, and mister Job is going to

589
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: learn it. Hate to give away the ending. Here's where

590
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: the flaw is. You're ready for the flaw. How many

591
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: people have heard this? Why the bad things happen to

592
00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: good people? Let me break it to you. There are

593
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: no good people. And you say, well, compared to a

594
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: serial killer. Yeah, sure. If I compare myself to wicked people,

595
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm less wicked, maybe still wicked. If I compare myself

596
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: to really sinful people, still sinful, maybe not as sinful,

597
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: but still simple. Because the comparison is not us compared

598
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: to other people. The comparison is us compared to a

599
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: holy God. And I got news for you, wake up

600
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: call compared to a holy God. We're all wicked, and

601
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: sometimes we get a little full of ourselves like we

602
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: somehow should not be picked for calamity. How dare us?

603
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: How could things be going not well for me? I've

604
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: been so good to forget all the times we ain't

605
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: been very good at all. Maybe nobody knew it because

606
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: we didn't act it out, but it was in our mind,

607
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: wasn't it. I thought horrible things, horrible things, even just

608
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: in traffic. I'm so glad I don't have missiles on

609
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: the front of my car. I'd be on death row

610
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: right now because I would push it, you know what.

611
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's how silly, that's how flawed we are.

612
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: Okay that the weekend just get furious about something like traffic. Look,

613
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: I nearly burned the airport down two weeks ago because

614
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: of everything that was happening. Sherry told me, she says,

615
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: you really got stirred up about this. Our flight's getting

616
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: delayed and us being stuck on the tarmac. And I said,

617
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: in your point, She goes, why were you so upset

618
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: about that? I said, why weren't you more upset? This

619
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: was misery. If they would just give me the commercial airlines,

620
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: I know I can fix it. I know I can

621
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: fix it. She goes, you were rushing a woman in

622
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: a wheelchair. I said, she should be ready to go

623
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: there first. How can she not be ready? Why do

624
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: we not have her in the chair ready to go?

625
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: Y'all don't know, have her boarding passed? Get it out

626
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: of the purse your first. None of us can go

627
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: until you go. So you say that, you see how

628
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: quickly something and look, that is one hund percent what

629
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: I was saying, and I meant every word of it.

630
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: See that's not good, you know what I mean. That's

631
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: not great, not compared to God, that's way off. Okay,

632
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: So did I have compassion? I didn't. I just wanted

633
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: to get them on the plane. Okay. I didn't like

634
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: that that they were stalling us. Did I stop and

635
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: think about, well, this poor woman, look at the state

636
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 1: she's in that they have to help her on the plane.

637
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: Not for a minute. All I thought about was can

638
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: I'll get her on the plane if y'all want, okay,

639
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: because until she gets on that plane, we are stuck

640
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: and and so so that's you gotta we got to

641
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: stop comparing ourselves to other people. I can find people

642
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 1: that make me look better. I can. Some of y'all

643
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: used me to make you look better. Okay, Seriously, that

644
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest disappointments of all my friends.

645
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: When I was redeemed. They thought, oh no, now, Rick,

646
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 1: we could if he really goes in on this, we're

647
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to feel better about how he looks.

648
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: Because I was always made people feel better. People would

649
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,240
Speaker 1: literally say not as bad as Rick, and most people

650
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: could say that, but that's not the standard. I'm still

651
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: struggling because of the holiness of God and the holiness

652
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: of God. If I'm not under the righteousness of Jesus,

653
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: I got no hope. I'm wretched compared to a holy God.

654
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: Still this far down the road on sanctification, I've been

655
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: working on sanctification since nineteen ninety six, and I'm not

656
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: there yet. I mean, if he called right now I

657
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: said it's over time for the test, I'd be like,

658
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 1: oh boy, I had a few more things I was

659
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 1: still working on. But see the beauty of is Jesus

660
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: doesn't say do do this? Do that? Do? He says done,

661
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: and then let my power sanctify you. Abide in me

662
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: and let me produce much fruit in you. I'm the

663
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: only way you can be transformed, not your best efforts,

664
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: never you ever tried the best efforts. How's that going? Terrible?

665
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: Because then we start what depended on ourselves. We put

666
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: Jesus on the side and say, oh, this was a

667
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: small thing. I don't need you for this, and then

668
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: you start messing up something small because you didn't bring

669
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: into that. I've looked, even on my best days, I

670
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: have at times benched to Jesus. We're good games in

671
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: hand right now. If we need you, we'll come get

672
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: you this stuff I got, And before I know it,

673
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking over the bench going wow, I should have

674
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: started you. This opponent was harder than I thought that

675
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: They're much more difficult than I thought. We need you,

676
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: We need Jesus for the smallest thing. We're not good

677
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: at any of it. And so that's really where Joe's

678
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: not there yet. He just doesn't understand why everybody thinks

679
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: he's wicked. When he says wicked, people seem to be

680
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: doing great. So there's something wrong with our theology. But

681
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: there is still a flaw in Job. He still thinks

682
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: he's good, and of course his friends they think they're great. Okay,

683
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: so that wake up call is still to come. So

684
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: stay with us, don't go off and leave this journey

685
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,479
Speaker 1: with Job, all right? So he goes on and talks

686
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: about how arbitrary it is now twenty two through twenty six.

687
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: He's going to say that it looks like people, whether

688
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: they're good or bad, seem to receive similar treatment. Here

689
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: he goes, He's going to start in twenty two with this. Okay,

690
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 1: he says, will any teach God knowledge? Seeing that he

691
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: judges those who are on high, No one can teach

692
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: God anything. I would want to say to you guys,

693
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna guess I need to say to me

694
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: who questions God? Now this is interesting. Is anybody ever

695
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: gone to the end of Joe before? Do you know

696
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: what is God going to say to Job? Who are

697
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: you to question me? Job's gonna get that. That's gonna

698
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: come back. He's gonna have to eat that one, okay,

699
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: because because God, has God ever reminded you of a

700
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: truth that you knew, but he played it against you.

701
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 1: I'll hear you talk about this a lot. Have you

702
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: ever applied to yourself? I have not. I like to

703
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: apply it to other people and then and then sometimes

704
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: God will say, let's apply it to you today, and

705
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, wow, so so that does apply to me.

706
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: Job is actually going to get that down the road.

707
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: He's literally gonna hear from Almighty God, who are you

708
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: to question me? So So anyway, so Job says that,

709
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: He says, hey, I don't know any of us got

710
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: has God got something he's got to learn from us?

711
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: And look at twenty three one dies and his full vigor.

712
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: But but holy, at ease and secure, he says, over here,

713
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: we got a healthy and wealthy man. They die too,

714
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, completely at ease and secure. I've seen healthy

715
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: and wealthy people die who were good. I've seen healthy

716
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: and wealthy people died that were bad. And then he

717
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: goes on to twenty four, his pails full of milk,

718
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: and his marrow and the marrow of his bones moist,

719
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 1: meaning fat and happy. You know, remember in those days,

720
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: if you had a lot of milk and you had

721
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: a little weight on you, that looked like you were prosperous.

722
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: And now you know, everybody keeps telling you to lose weight,

723
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: hire a personal trainer, and never have fun again. But

724
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: in those in those days, it was considered that this

725
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: was a sign that the person had a lot. If

726
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: you had enough to have some weight on you, you

727
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: doing pretty well because everybody, everybody was pretty much infit

728
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: just from the working through a day, he says. Then

729
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 1: you look over here, and he goes in twenty five,

730
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: and then I see the opposite. I see another one

731
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: dies in bitterness of soul, never tasting prosperity of all

732
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: at all, he says, And the word prosperity is even here.

733
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for those of y'all that love the health,

734
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: wealth and prosperity gospel. Job is saying, in the Holy

735
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: Word of God, this looks random to me. I've seen

736
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: good and bad people be healthy and wealthy, and I've

737
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: seen good and bad people be bitter and poor. It

738
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: does not seem to be lining up as simple as

739
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: y'all keep making it. Twenty six They lie down alike

740
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: in the dust and the worms cover them. Thank you

741
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 1: for that job. They both die. They return to dust,

742
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: and I got news for you. No matter who you are,

743
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: you just gonna be worm food one day. And I

744
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: haven't seen anybody beat that yet, no matter how wealthy, healthy, good, bad,

745
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: seems like everybody dies. And as we sit here right now,

746
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: I say it to you periodically, everybody in this room,

747
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: some of you closer than others if you just do

748
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: the numbers. But again, any of us could have something

749
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: happen catastrophic at any moment. However, everybody, we have this

750
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: in common. We are closer to our earthly death, are

751
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: the return of Jesus right now than we've ever been,

752
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: ever been. So now he turns to his friends and say,

753
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: by the way, I got a little quest for y'all. Behold,

754
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

755
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: I know where this is going. I want you to consider. Look,

756
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: I know you're going to try to counter. I know

757
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: you're going to start trying to give me examples now

758
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: of wicked people not doing well. I know you. I

759
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: know this, and certainly they exist. I acknowledge that you

760
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: ever heard that in a courtroom. We're gonna now say

761
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: that both sides, prosecution and the defense, here are the

762
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: things that no one disputes. I know you're going to

763
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: show me wicked people that haven't done well. I've already

764
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: acknowledged that I've seen both, and so I know how

765
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: this is going to go. Twenty eight for you say,

766
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: where is the house of the prince? Where is the

767
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: tent in which the wicked live? I know that there

768
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: are wealthy, evil people, and you know that are out there,

769
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: and I know you're going to show me some wicked

770
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: people that are living in intents you know. I mean,

771
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: this is kind of He flips at this time, like

772
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: different from what he had in verse eight twenty nine.

773
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: He says, have you not asked those who travel the

774
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: rose Nate? He's gonna a little bit of a smart

775
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: elic here, and do you not accept their testimony? You

776
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: know what he's saying. If y'all haven't seen this, you

777
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: don't get out much. You don't get out much. Ask

778
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 1: those of us that have been around. We've traveled a

779
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: lot we maybe covered a little more ground than y'all have.

780
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen this, you haven't been out much.

781
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 1: You haven't seen much those of us. And he says,

782
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: don't just ask me. Ask people that have traveled about

783
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: the same level I have. Ask them if they've seen

784
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: the same thing. So he's a little shot at them

785
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: there and then and then we get to thirty. The

786
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: evil man is spared in the day of calamity, and

787
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: he is rescued in the day of wrath. So he's

788
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: asking a question here. These same people will support my examples,

789
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: and they'll say to you, I've seen evil men spared

790
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 1: in the day of calamity. They seem to be doing great,

791
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: they seem to be rescued in the day of wrath.

792
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: You go ask these other people. They'll tell me they've

793
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: seen the same thing, even if y'all haven't. Don't y'all

794
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: since though that his friends probably have, and Joe knows

795
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: that they've seen this too, but he's preparing for them

796
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: to say, well, we haven't seen that. So he said,

797
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: we'll go ask other people see if they agree with me.

798
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: But I feel like they probably have seen this too,

799
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: And like we do, what do we always do. If

800
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 1: we get false theology, sometimes we'll believe in it so

801
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: much we'll just bend everything to it. You know. It's

802
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: one of the worst things in men's ministry. And I

803
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: don't mean to be disrespectful because I had the same

804
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: problem early on. We got to raise the standard on

805
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: people we bring in to teach. I like to see

806
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: your celebrity types as much as anybody. And I know

807
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: some that have played professional sports. They've been highly successful businessmen,

808
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: and they teach the Word of God. Coaches, they teach

809
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: it beautifully, so I'm not saying they don't. However, we've

810
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: all been to the men's gathering. I'm sure there's women's

811
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: versions of this too, especially now more than ever, and

812
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 1: we've really they've come to tell us a bunch of

813
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: football stories, and then they try to force those football

814
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: stories down on the message, as opposed to maybe letting

815
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: the football stories come from the message. They've got stories

816
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: they want to tell and it doesn't really make any

817
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: sense in the message, and they try to force it

818
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: down on there. Well, people do the same thing with theology.

819
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: This is what I want theology to be, and if

820
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: a verse contradicts it, I'll just I'll just bend it

821
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: and see if I can't make that work. What do

822
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: we call that? Biblical acrobatics? When you've got when you

823
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: got to do flips and jump and whatever. To make

824
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: a verse work, you've got to go back and look

825
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,319
Speaker 1: at it. You got you got to rethink it. And

826
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm still learning about God as I go. I don't

827
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: mean that in an arrogant statement. I've had to go

828
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: through that myself, so I know that to be true.

829
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: Thirty one who declares his way to his face, and

830
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: who repays him for what he's done. No one challenges

831
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: the arrogant, wicked people. No one holds them accountable. The evil,

832
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: the evil rich people are so powerful no one dares

833
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: to confront them. They know they'll pay a price, so

834
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: they live on. And you know what they think to

835
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 1: themselves because no one will confront them. No one holds

836
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: them accountable. They're too powerful. You know what they think.

837
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: No judgment's coming from me. I'm good, y'all know this.

838
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: You have you ever been around I heard people. Look,

839
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: this person's too powerful. You can't touch with them. If

840
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: you go after them. They got people. They'll keep you

841
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: from getting to them. You'll never get to them. They're

842
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: too powerful. They're untouchable. Now for us maybe, but not

843
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: for God. But thirty two, when he is carried to

844
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: the grave, Watch has kept over to me. He said, look,

845
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: I'm back to talking about the evil again. They aren't

846
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: carried off to some unknown place new. They get a

847
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: proper burial, They get one of those big funerals. Right

848
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 1: if we all see have have you ever seen a

849
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: wicked person that happened to have a lot of money

850
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: and you went to the ceremony and you honestly think

851
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: that we're talking about somebody else. You're like, who's in

852
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: the casket? Because this person that we're talking about is

853
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: not the person that I knew? And uh. And but

854
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: if you got enough money, you know, you can have

855
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: a lot going on at your memorial service and at

856
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: your funeral, and you know, everybody always is ready to

857
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: get up there and kind of polish over a few

858
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,479
Speaker 1: things for you. And before you know it, you leave

859
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: and this person that you was kind of a jerk

860
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: and not all that wonderful, before you know it, my goodness,

861
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 1: he is a he may be running heaven, you know.

862
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: And uh, And it's it's you know, sometimes it goes

863
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: a little far. I'm just kind of like, I don't

864
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 1: I don't know who we're talking about now. The beautiful

865
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: thing is those of you who know my friend and

866
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: y'all's friend too. Coming up Friday, you know we'll we'll

867
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: go and celebrate the life of Jordie Henson and we

868
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: won't have to do that now. Was is Jordie? Was

869
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,800
Speaker 1: Jordie perfect? No, that was he flawed at through of us. Yes,

870
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: But the things that will be said about Jordi on Friday,

871
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: they won't be embellishment. He lived it and it's so

872
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: good to go to a service like that. You don't

873
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,439
Speaker 1: mourn the same way. But boy, I've been to those

874
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,959
Speaker 1: where I thought, if we don't embellish, this is gonna

875
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: be the shortest funeral ever. Uh. And y'all heard me

876
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 1: talk about it. This happened. I mean, I was there

877
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 1: and I've used it in messages where I was asked

878
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: to speak at a funeral and I didn't really want

879
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: to because I didn't know what to say. So I

880
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: just I just focused on, let's talk about those of

881
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: you that are alive, and let's put the challenge in

882
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: front of us about what would happen to us and

883
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: we die. And y'all heard some of y'all heard me

884
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 1: say this when the worship leader that I will not name,

885
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 1: when he was there, I said this on the show

886
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: this week. We talked to the family and we were

887
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: trying to get things to say, and they walk off

888
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: and the worship leader looks at me and he says,

889
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: I guess I need to add some songs. And I said, yeah,

890
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have to feel some time. I don't.

891
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't have a whole lot to say about it.

892
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: And the thing, the things they just said, that's pathetic. Uh.

893
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: And uh. He loved his football team. Okay, he was

894
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: successful in business, helllujah. He could whistle Andy Griffith theme

895
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: all the way through Time's Up, you know, and uh,

896
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: you know it's it's like, uh, I mean, I don't

897
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: know what we're doing with this. I don't know where

898
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: to go and uh. And so the worship leader did

899
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: some great songs and and what we did is present

900
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: the gospel for those that were still a lot. That's

901
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: all you can do. No. I did same thing, disrespectful,

902
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 1: but I also didn't embellish. I hit the things that

903
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: were accurate and we moved on to the gospel. So,

904
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 1: so let me ask all of us today, since we're here,

905
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: how are we gonna bear you? So I'm I'm, I'm

906
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: one of us in here has to do your your

907
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: your funeral, okay, And here comes your family and we're

908
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: about to sit down with them, and they're gonna tell

909
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: me about you. Are we good? Is it gonna go well?

910
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:08,320
Speaker 1: Or do I need to add some songs? I mean, honestly,

911
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,720
Speaker 1: let's don't waste this. Let's think about it. We're still alive.

912
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: We got we got time to change, you know what.

913
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 1: We got time to make sure that that's that's a

914
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: better day. Right. We're not dead yet. I mean, let's

915
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: you know what if we get to talk about that

916
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of his life, well he went, Man,

917
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: it was incredible. You're not dead yet. Let's let's finish well, okay.

918
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: And and so I look, there's a lot of things.

919
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: I'm not done. I want to I want there to

920
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: be more. I haven't. I don't. I don't want me

921
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: to go. Well, I've done enough. If I died right now,

922
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: they've got enough to say about me that then now, now

923
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: you know what they have to say is they have to.

924
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: They have to get up, not talk about how apathetic

925
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: I got toward the end of my life. I don't

926
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 1: want to have to talk about that. So, uh, let's

927
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's let's hit the tape. War out right,

928
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: just leaning in, war out, I mean, face down. Birdess

929
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 1: didn't have anything left for the kingdom. He exhausted at all.

930
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: You know, Send me right, made a little Caleb attitude for

931
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: those of us that are older in here. I'm strong

932
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 1: today as I was forty years ago. Give me the

933
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: high country. Of course, I don't think I'm as strong

934
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: as Caleb was, but you know you can give me

935
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: the low country. I'll still do that, you know what,

936
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:26,359
Speaker 1: So with a slight limp. Okay, so so so then

937
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 1: thirty three the clods of the valley are sweet to him.

938
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 1: All mankind follows after him. All those who go before

939
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: him are innumerable. You know what he says, it's going

940
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: to be when this wicked god dies, You're gonna see

941
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: a lot of cars. They didn't have cars, then a

942
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: lot of horses whatever. You know, when you see a

943
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: funeral procession go by. Man, Look how many people loved him.

944
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,879
Speaker 1: He said, this thing's gonna be huge, and he's gonna

945
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: you're gonna think he has got it made. He's he's

946
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: got the sweetness of life. The soil won't him be

947
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: bad to him. He'll probably still have sweet soil on

948
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: his body, and there'll be a celebration, a procession for

949
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 1: him that'll be impossible to count. Now we get to

950
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: thirty four, how then will you comfort me with empty nothings?

951
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 1: There's nothing left of your answers but falsehood. Now this

952
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: is important because this is where we're gonna close Joe

953
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: in this thirty four, he's now denouncing his friends. Look

954
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: at thirty four, he's done with it. Okay, I'm done.

955
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: I can't reason with you. Joe finally gets to where

956
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: I got at sixty years old, that I was done

957
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: trying to reason with the unreasonable people. Y'all have offered

958
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: me no comfort. I'm gonna stop trying to expect it.

959
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: And you know what he's saying here. Our communication has

960
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: completely broke down. I will not be seeking counsel from

961
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,839
Speaker 1: you guys anymore. Now he's still gonna get one more run.

962
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna think to make one more run at him.

963
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: But he's not listening because it's it's just a bunch

964
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: of same godly goop. You know. It's interesting. In my

965
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: own personal life, I was talking with multiple Brothers of

966
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: Christ about a situation that I'm in and I told

967
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: them basically the same thing we get here. I said,

968
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: I have tried everything I know to try to have

969
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: a face to face conversation with this person and completely reconcile.

970
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: And they refuse to meet with me. They don't want

971
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with me. They won't even talk

972
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: to me on the phone. And I keep saying everything

973
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: I need to say, and I can't seem to get

974
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: closure on this. And after I presented everything that I

975
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 1: have tried and everything I have said, and I thank

976
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,240
Speaker 1: them for this, and these are people I have great,

977
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: great spiritual respect for, and I made sure it was

978
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,359
Speaker 1: more than one and they all have said the same thing.

979
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:04,359
Speaker 1: Move on, wipe your feet off. If the person ever

980
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: wants to come to you and talk to you, they will,

981
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: But you need to stop trying to make this happen.

982
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 1: Just move on with your life and be done with it,

983
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: because if you don't, the adversary is going to use

984
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: this feeling unresolved. And you want to have this conversation.

985
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: You want to say these things, even though you've already

986
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: said them. Some reason, you want to say them again, thinking, maye,

987
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: if I say it this way this time, I'll finally

988
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: get the acknowledgment that we both know this to be true,

989
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: all this garbage. And he said God knows the truth.

990
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: You know the truth. This person does know the truth.

991
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: But you can't make somebody have a conversation with you.

992
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 1: You can't make somebody sit down and iron this thing

993
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: out any further. And so you need to move on

994
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: with your life. You need to wipe your feet of

995
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: it because it's disrupting your peace, and you need to

996
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: get back to work and do what God's called you

997
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: to do. And then if he decides to prompt that

998
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: person to come to you, then you have that conversation.

999
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: But you need to stop trying to make it happen.

1000
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: And I need to hear that. And that's that's kind

1001
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: of where job is with these friends. He's like, all

1002
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: y'all do is repeat the same things back to me,

1003
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: even when I dispute it. And I know now that

1004
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: I've disputed this bad theology about as solid as you can.

1005
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: But you're not going to change. You're just gonna say

1006
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: the same things to me again. So I'm done seeking

1007
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:32,040
Speaker 1: comfort for you from you, he said. Our communication has

1008
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: broke down, so we'll come back next week, Lord willing,

1009
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: and we will have wonderful elafats after this wonderful thing.

1010
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: Tell Job his wickedness is great. Let's pray, Lord, thank

1011
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: you for today, thank you for thank you for just

1012
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: so much we gathered from today, and may we apply

1013
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: it to our lives. Thank you, Lord for reminding us

1014
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: that we are not in heaven yet. You have not

1015
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: resolved everything yet. But we also need to remember the

1016
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: reason why you haven't isn't because as we were told

1017
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,439
Speaker 1: by Peter. It's not because you can't figure this out

1018
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: or you keep extending it. You're extending it because you're gracious.

1019
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: And those of us that are redeemed and ready, we

1020
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: don't need to be selfish. We don't need to say

1021
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: I wish you'd go ahead and do this because of

1022
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: the number of people that would be condemned if you

1023
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: resolved it today. So we press on and we rest

1024
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: in the comfort of your sovereignty, and we know that

1025
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: you are good, and we know that you love us,

1026
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: and we know that you are in control and that's

1027
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: good enough for us. In your holy name, we pray Amen.