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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study. So grateful that you

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Speaker 1: are here with us. We are continuing our study of

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Speaker 1: the Book of Job.

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Speaker 2: If you are.

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Speaker 1: Joining us for the first time, or you've been with

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Speaker 1: us and you just don't know where we are, go

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Speaker 1: ahead and turn to Job chapter thirty one. My Bible

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Speaker 1: has above it Job's final Appeal, So we're going to

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Speaker 1: hear Job's Final Appeal today.

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Speaker 2: We'll work through that.

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Speaker 1: If you've missed any part of this, just go back

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Speaker 1: to the archives that we have available to you. You

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Speaker 1: can go to Themanchurch dot com. You'll see the media

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Speaker 1: watch or listen to the archive not only of the

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Speaker 1: study of Job, but a decade of studies that we

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Speaker 1: have done. And I get a lot of emails from

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Speaker 1: you that are I mean, you're studying things that we unpacked,

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Speaker 1: you know, six seven years ago, which great.

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Speaker 2: Go go enjoy that. So also, as we.

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Speaker 1: Begin to kind of wind down over the next month

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Speaker 1: or so, we'll be thinking about what do we want

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Speaker 1: to do next, and I've been getting feedback from you.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome to email me Rick at Burgessministries dot com

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Speaker 1: say hey, i'd like to see you unpack this book.

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Speaker 1: If you consider maybe doing this series, be thrilled to

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Speaker 1: But check those archives and those are all there. A

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Speaker 1: to Rick burgesshow dot com. So let's pray and let's jump.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about some events since the last time

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Speaker 1: the room, and then we'll jump into job thirty one. Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for today guide us with the power of

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit as we discern your powerful word, help

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Speaker 1: us to discern as the teacher correctly, but also prepare

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Speaker 1: all the hearts here to hear exactly what.

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Speaker 2: You've called us to learn today. And your holy name.

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Speaker 1: So some of you since the last time we were together,

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Speaker 1: We finished Job chapter thirty, and while we were studying

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Speaker 1: with Charlie Kirk? Could he have made that bullet, Miss Charlie?

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Speaker 1: Did James do something wrong and Peter do something right?

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Speaker 1: But then we also worked Jesus was told Peter, what

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Speaker 1: Peter walked around in the New Testament, is the only

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Speaker 1: they can't They get you yardage on it every time,

437
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 1: and you just think, well, maybe they won't run it again.

438
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: I hope they think we figured it out, but we

439
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: have it. Well, that's the way it is in spiritual warfare.

440
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 1: So many times a man thinks he's doing pretty good,

441
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: and sometimes I think the adversary is just laughing. So

442
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: this guy thinks he's going to defeat me this time

443
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,719
Speaker 1: on sexual sin, and you he I know he's not

444
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,679
Speaker 1: going to. He knows he's not going to. He's just

445
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: hoping I won't come after him. And about the time

446
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 1: he gets a little bit of credibility here I come.

447
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: How many ministries have been destroyed by sexual sin? How

448
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: many marriages have been destroyed by sexual sin? I mean,

449
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: you realize, if we would do what God said to

450
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: do with this wonderful gift that he has for us,

451
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: there wouldn't be unwanted babies, There wouldn't.

452
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 2: Be all these diseases and things like that.

453
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: There wouldn't be all this shame on wedding days, all

454
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 1: this stuff that you know is always in the back

455
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: of your mind.

456
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 2: And this stuff is so so serious.

457
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 1: As I have told y'all before, I couldn't have been

458
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 1: more than nine years old, ten at the oldest, and

459
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: some older boys back in the woods behind our house

460
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: had a dirty magazine, And as I sit here at sixty,

461
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: I can still see it.

462
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 2: I still have to pray it out of my mind.

463
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: That's how powerful it is. Okay, So this is the

464
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 2: stuff that Job is saying.

465
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: He said, So, I've made a covenant, He said, so,

466
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: So if why, what would be my portion from God

467
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? He said, so,

468
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: So if I had, if I had not followed this,

469
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: what would God have done to me?

470
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 2: What?

471
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: What would I deserve if I'd actually done this? And

472
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: then he goes on and he says, it's not calamity

473
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: for the unrighteous and disaster for the workers of iniquity,

474
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: the fear of punishment. And listen, this is why we

475
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: this is why you read in Job already and then

476
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: Solomon later at Ecclesiastes that all wisdom comes from the

477
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: fear of God. Cause, so let me tell what Job

478
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: is saying. Right here, he's saying it more eloquent, But

479
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: this is what he's saying. The fear of God's wrath

480
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: is a better motivator than the promise of God's reward. Right,

481
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: if all you had was one day I'll be rewarded

482
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: for my obedience, Versus if I get on the wrong

483
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: side of God, he's gonna wipe me out.

484
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,439
Speaker 2: Which one's a better motivator. I'll buy you some candy

485
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 2: when you get home, or I'm gonna tear you up.

486
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 2: Which one's a better motivator. Sometimes I ain't in the

487
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: mood for candy, but I never want to get I

488
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: never want to get any kind of punishment, you know what.

489
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 2: So so there we go. So that's what he say.

490
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: He said, you think I would I would be so

491
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 1: cavalier about all this. You think I wouldn't fear God

492
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: on this. You think I would go out and live

493
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: this way knowing what he could do to me. He's

494
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: setting them up again, that this theology we have isn't right.

495
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: So then he says, four, does he not see my

496
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: ways and number all my steps? Doesn't he know what

497
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm doing? I mean, I mean, doesn't he know this?

498
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: I mean?

499
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: Is there's no falsehood in me? I disavow many fault shoods.

500
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: He's I have to go through all of them. If

501
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: it doesn't God see everything, how many of you Rick's

502
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: hands going up have said a thousand times that you

503
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: know that God is omnipotent, that he sees everything we do.

504
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: Raise your hands. If you believe that? How many of

505
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 2: you live your life like you can't see what you're doing.

506
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: We'll even say we believe something and still not adhere

507
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: to it. And it's like you know, you saying, I

508
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: know that if I try to step on this ladder,

509
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fall through it, and you tell the whole

510
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: world if I step up there, I'm gonna fall right

511
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: through that ladder, I know I will. And then you

512
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: just keep trying to climb the ladder and you go,

513
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: did you expect it to hold you?

514
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: I didn't? Why do you keep getting on it?

515
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: So the question is do we really believe it? It's

516
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: really kind of weird, isn't it for us to like? I?

517
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: Just like I talked about with sexual sin, the turning

518
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: point for me is when I, instead of just saying it,

519
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: I begin to believe that if I put trash in

520
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: front of me, I'm putting in front of Jesus. That's

521
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: why Paul says flee sexual sin.

522
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: He didn't. He didn't.

523
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: There's no you know you ever sit down and go

524
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: I like for you to tell me how to work

525
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: through this. Hey, just don't go near You got to

526
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: get out of there. No, no, But what should I do?

527
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: I just told you don't.

528
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 2: You don't even get in that battle.

529
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: It's when the few sins you hear that, just don't

530
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: just leave. I've done that before. Have you ever just said, hey,

531
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: I got to leave a situation. I wasn't going to

532
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: do anything physically. I know I'm capable of it if

533
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: I if I walk out from under authority of God,

534
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: I know that I'm capable of anything.

535
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 2: But I've literally before been like sitting.

536
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: And it was actually I was going to work out

537
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: at a gym on one time and I and and

538
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: I thought I knew everybody in the class, and somebody

539
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: knew came to the class and uh and and I

540
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: was pulling my car and this new person got out

541
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: to go in, and I said, I just got to leave.

542
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that person decided not to wear a whole

543
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: lot of clothing and they can pull it off. I'm

544
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: out because I knew it was gonna be a problem,

545
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: So I just left. Uh instead of going there and say,

546
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: well let's see how I do.

547
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: You know, that's just stupid and uh and and so

548
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 2: so anyway he goes.

549
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: Now, he says, I'm going to disavow falsehoods about myself.

550
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: This is gonna be verses five through eight. So so

551
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: look at five, he says, if I've walked with falsehood

552
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: and my foot has hastened to deceit, if that's what

553
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: I've done, look at six, let me be weighed in

554
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: just balance and let God know my integrity. I'm gonna

555
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: tell you right now, it may God strike me dead

556
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: if I've done the things he said. If I if

557
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: I've walked in these falsehoods because he wants what he

558
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: wants to be defended by God. I'll tell you He'll

559
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: tell you once and for all whether whether these things

560
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: y'all say about me are true. And that's gonna be God,

561
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: and let him tell the truth. Because I know my integrity.

562
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: I don't fear his assessment of me. Now he's he's

563
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: going to hear some things that he wasn't expecting. But

564
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: right now he said, I have not been false, I

565
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: have not been deceitful. I'm I'm I'll take an honest

566
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: assessment of my life, and I'll tell you this, God'll

567
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: balance that correctly.

568
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 2: Because y'all sure have not.

569
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: Okay, So then he goes on and and he's saying

570
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: when he when you get to verse six, when he

571
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: says it's let me be weighed, he says, I want

572
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: to be weighed with honest scales, and only God has those.

573
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: Seven.

574
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: If my step has turned aside from from the way,

575
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if

576
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: any spot has stuck to my hands, then let me

577
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: sow and and and eat, and let what.

578
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 2: Grows for me be rooted out. That's verses seven and eight.

579
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: Notice he uses feet, heart, hands in verse seven. You know,

580
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: and this work, this phrase he's using here, he says,

581
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: you know, if I have, if I have clung to defilement.

582
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 2: But I haven't, I'm clean.

583
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: And he says, but if I have, if I've clung

584
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: to defilement, if my feet have gone after sin, if

585
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: my heart is deceitful, if my hands have done anything

586
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: that is sinful, then may my lands be cursed.

587
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: Verse nine.

588
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: If my heart has enticed toward a woman, now comes adultery.

589
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Now this is I know, we got some young folks

590
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: in here. It gets a little job does not. Well,

591
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: I'll let's just read it all right. So here we go,

592
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: He said, if my heart has been enticed toward a woman,

593
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: and I have lane laye in wait at my neighbor's door,

594
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: just saying he's saying right here, he said, if I

595
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: have desired a woman outside of my marriage or another

596
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: man's wife, he said, if that's what I've done, ten

597
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: then let my wife grind for another and let others

598
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: bow down on her.

599
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 2: Anybody need me to walk out out for you? Everybody good?

600
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: He basically says, made the same thing happen to me,

601
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: And I'll leave it at that. But can you imagine

602
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: that when he says that, I remember this because he's

603
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: just avowing adults right now. I remember this back to

604
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: me telling you about me being a little boy and

605
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: the things I saw, this kind of stuff right here,

606
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: because he's talking about that. I've counseled people that they've

607
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: had infidelity in the marriage, and it's what even Jesus says,

608
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: this is so difficult.

609
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: A marriage may not can survive it.

610
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: You should seek reconciliation if both parties are willing, certainly

611
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: that can be redeemed. And just like anything traumatic in

612
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: your life. And I was dealing with a couple and

613
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: this had happened, and it had been the wife who

614
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: had been unfaithful.

615
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: And everything's just going great. Everything's just going great. And

616
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 2: then I had my one on one.

617
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: With just the husband. After it was over. He didn't

618
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: say it from his wife. He said, I'm going to

619
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: forgive my wife. I said, Praise God for that.

620
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 2: Man. I truly believe she has repented. I really really do.

621
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 2: I believe this can be repaired. Raise God. He said.

622
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: But I got one thing I need to ask you.

623
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: How do I get the image out of images out

624
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 1: of my mind? Another man laying on my wife? I said,

625
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: I guess that's just gonna have to be supernatural over time.

626
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have an answer for that. But

627
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: I understand because he knew that was going to be

628
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: a weapon used against him the rest of his time.

629
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: Anytime Satan thought it was going well or demons that

630
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: that was gonna come back to it. And I but

631
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: I can say this, not that particular trauma, but trauma

632
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: of people who saw horrible events. I will tell you

633
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: that the Lord has taken them away over time. Too

634
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: much prayer that that can be removed, any anything like

635
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: that can be removed. The PTSD from these kind of

636
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: things on. It can be healed by God, It truly

637
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: can so.

638
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: But I unders stood.

639
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: You know, all he could think about was I think

640
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: I got this except for this. I'm concerned about that

641
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: legitimate concern. So here's job saying. Put me in that situation.

642
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: If I've done that to anybody else, let me deal

643
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: with that. Quite a commitment. So then he goes on

644
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: to say in verse eleven, for that would be a

645
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: heinous crime. Yes it would, and that would be an

646
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:32,479
Speaker 1: iniquity to be punished by the judges. Remember the culture there,

647
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: Remember the culture even in the pagan societies a little

648
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: different what we got now where you just go, hey,

649
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 1: we all messed up, we messed our marriage up. I'm

650
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: chasing after this person. I'm chasing after this person.

651
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 2: Get some lawyers in here, and let's work this out.

652
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Speaker 2: In those days, you committed adultery, they kill you, you

653
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 2: be killed.

654
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: The capital punishment, and if you messed with somebody's marriage,

655
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: capital punishment, that second one.

656
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 2: I mind getting back to, uh, but the people people.

657
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: But anyway, so he said, so if I this crime,

658
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: if I did this would be so bad. Let me

659
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: stand before the judges and let them condemn me.

660
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 2: Uh. You know what's interesting about that? He was a

661
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,479
Speaker 2: judge and uh.

662
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: And then look at verse twelve, For that would be

663
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: a fire that consumes as far as a badden, and

664
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: it would burn to the root of all my increase.

665
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: Remember what we said about a baden? Does that always

666
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: stand for a destruction? He says, this sexual sin is

667
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,760
Speaker 1: like a fire. It just seems to engulf and burn everything.

668
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: A badden is always that was the god of destruction.

669
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: And he said, he said, the bottom line is when

670
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: sexual sin enters into a marriage, it destroys everything.

671
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 2: And it certainly does. Uh. Let's get in thirteen.

672
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: If I rejected the cause of my man, my man

673
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,720
Speaker 1: servant or my maid servant when they brought a complaint

674
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: against me, you know, he says, right, then, ask anybody

675
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: I disavow any injustice, Ask anybody ever worked for me

676
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: if I wouldn't good to it.

677
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 2: And you know what, if I wasn't good to him?

678
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: And then he says this in fourteen, what then shall

679
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: I do when God rises up, when he makes in

680
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: queer about this, what shall I answer him? You know

681
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: what he's saying is, my workers have not complained against me,

682
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: And how about this, I refuse. I never refused them

683
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: access to me. My door was always open. I didn't

684
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: think I was better than them. And how about this?

685
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 2: What will God do?

686
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: Can I answer him? You know what his answer is

687
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 1: to that rhetorical question. Yes I can, Yes I can.

688
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of that question from God because I

689
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: know how I've treated fifteen. Did not he who made

690
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: me in the womb make him and did not one

691
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: fashion us in the womb?

692
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 2: This is beautiful. This is way ahead of his time,

693
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 2: way ahead of his time.

694
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: You know he's saying this, They're all equal to me,

695
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 1: We're all I'm not better than them. The same God

696
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: that made me made the people that worked for me.

697
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm not some superior human to them. We're all equal

698
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: as far as God. Everybody God made is of the

699
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: same value. And that's way ahead of his time because

700
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: that was not the culture that he lived in. This

701
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: kind of shows you why he was considered to be

702
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: in such high regard. I am equal to anyone that

703
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 1: was made by God, and I treated everybody that way.

704
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: I did not treat them. He understood a quality long

705
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: before the world ever started dealing with it.

706
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 2: So now he disavows any lack of charity.

707
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: Sixteen through twenty three, he said, if I've withheld anything

708
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of

709
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: the widow to fail, or have eaten my morsel alone,

710
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: and the fatherless has not eaten of it. You know

711
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: what he's saying is have I refused the poor? Have

712
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: I refused the widow? Have I kept all my food

713
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: for myself? Have I denied it to orphans? No?

714
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 2: I happened.

715
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: Eighteen same theme, For from my youth the fatherless grew

716
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: up with me as with a father, and from my

717
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: mother's my mother's womb, I guided the widow. You know what,

718
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: since the day I was born, I have lived my life.

719
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: This is not something that just happened. I have consistently

720
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: supported those who lacked a man in the house. If

721
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: there were homes that did not have a man, I

722
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 1: would be that man for those children.

723
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: I would be that man for those widows.

724
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: As far as a male influence in leadership now now,

725
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: verse nineteen is a little shot at Eliphaz. If you

726
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: remember Elafaz and some of the accusations he made. If

727
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing or

728
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: the needy without covering. You know, Elafaz says he had

729
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: stripped men of their clothing and left them naked, and

730
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, that's just that's just hogwash.

731
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: I've never denied any clothing or covering to people that

732
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: didn't have it. You think Eliphas is lazy, and that

733
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: is directed you, sir so verse twenty if his body

734
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed

735
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: with the fleece of my sheep, he said, you know what,

736
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: any of those that didn't have any shelter, didn't have

737
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: any clothes. I was blessed to take care of people's needs,

738
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: and you know what, I would share my wealth. I

739
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: would take the woolf from the sheep that I had.

740
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: I'd make sure you had something to keep you warm.

741
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: I didn't deny my stuff to anyone. Verse twenty one.

742
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: I have raised my hand. If I have raised my

743
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: hand against the fatherless because I saw my help in

744
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: the gate, this is have I.

745
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 2: Used my position of authority?

746
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen me use my position of authority

747
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: as being on high standing at the gates, being able

748
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: to judge situation. Did you ever see anybody come before me.

749
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: Do you ever see the fatherless an orphan show up?

750
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: And there I was making a ruling on what they needed.

751
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: Would you ever see me deny them anything? See me

752
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: raise my hand of authority against them? Did I use

753
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: my authority in any sinful way? Did I abuse my position?

754
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: And he's asking that question, which of course he knows

755
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: the answer to. He said, well, then if I have,

756
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and

757
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: let my arm be broken from its socket. So he said,

758
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: let the punishment fit the crime. So he said, raise

759
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: his hand, Let the punishment fit the crime. Break my shoulder,

760
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: break my arm if I ever raised it against anyone unfairly.

761
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: And that's a little eye for an eye there for us.

762
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: For I was in terror. Here it is again his

763
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: fear of God. Look, for I was in terror verse

764
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: twenty three. For I was in terror of calamity from God,

765
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: and I could not have faced his majesty. And he said, hey, fellas,

766
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: what y'all accused me of? See if we can say

767
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: the same thing about ourselves, Hey, fellas, what y'all accused

768
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: me of?

769
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 2: I fear God too much to do these things. If

770
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 2: there was no other reason I didn't do them.

771
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: It's because I fear God too much to do that.

772
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 2: That's how we're supposed to see our sin. Were supposed

773
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 2: to fear God.

774
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: So much, we just wouldn't do it to him because

775
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: we fear his response to our blasphemy of him. He's

776
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: watching everything I do. I've made that clear, and maybe

777
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: y'all have forgotten that I'm not gonna do these things

778
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: because of my fear of him. And then he goes

779
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 1: to verses twenty four through twenty eight, disavowing materialism, disavowing paganism.

780
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: All is twenty four through twenty eight. If I've made gold,

781
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: my trust are called fine gold, my confidence. If I

782
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: rejoiced because of my wealth was abundant, or because my

783
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: hand had found much. How about this? This is directed

784
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: at Eliphaz again because he said Job would abandon, would

785
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: abandon people for his gold. And he's saying, you know what,

786
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't make gold my God, even though

787
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: Eliphast says I do. I don't. I've never worshiped my wealth.

788
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: I've never I've never put my trust in things. I'm

789
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: thankful that I've been begiving these things, but I don't

790
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: put my trust in that. Can we say that, Can

791
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: we say right now that that the way we live

792
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: our lives? How important are things and our stuff to

793
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:34,760
Speaker 1: us our pursuit of having more. I've said this before

794
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: and I and it drives me nuts, and even the

795
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: point that we have to do it from time to time.

796
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: Do you know one of the businesses that is booming

797
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: right now? Storage buildings?

798
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 2: I mean they there's a storage building location showing up everywhere.

799
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 2: You know why there's a demand.

800
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: We got so much stuff we don't even have houses

801
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: big enough to hold it. We got storage buildings everywhere,

802
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: storage buildings we we haven't opened in years, but we

803
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: still got it to now. If you're saving it for

804
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: a kid or that's fine, I'm not saying that, And

805
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: if there's a reason for it to have function, that's fine.

806
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: But but what about this stuff we just keeping and

807
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: I we don't even know why we're keeping it?

808
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:21,280
Speaker 2: For what reason?

809
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: If it's not gonna be for somebody else and I'm

810
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: not ever gonna use it, what is it?

811
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: What is it?

812
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: Give it to somebody, my goodness, if you're struggling for

813
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 1: some money, sell it. I don't know why we're clean,

814
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: why we're still hanging.

815
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 2: On to it. I'm seriously of course. My wife said, well,

816
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 2: you're the opposite then if if if I didn't stand

817
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: in the way, we would we would have anything. You

818
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 2: give everything away. I mean, I can't stand clutter. I

819
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: have made drives me crazy. I can't. I can't stand it.

820
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 2: You talk about somebody that I'd let it. Look as

821
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 2: soon as I.

822
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: Took over this place and I didn't have to answer

823
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: anybody anymore, and I was it was my decision, you know,

824
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: within what adler what maybe a week I had the

825
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: one ane hundred junk people up here, and I said,

826
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: take all this stuff out of here. I don't know

827
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: why any world we've been keeping this stuff in the storagroom.

828
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: Of all this stuff, this is all a bunch of junk.

829
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 2: Take it out. It was gone. Felt good too. I

830
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 2: walk in that storage room sometimes, just kind of standing

831
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 2: in there and look at how empty it is. I

832
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 2: feel so good.

833
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: So anyway, but he's saying I wasn't that way. I

834
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: didn't worship my wealth twenty five. If I have rejoiced

835
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: because my wealth was abundant or because my hand found much,

836
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: because I didn't do that twenty six if I've looked

837
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving

838
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:41,280
Speaker 1: in splendor.

839
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 2: Now, what is that about paganism?

840
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: They worshiped the moon, they worshiped the sun, they offered

841
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: he said. He said, I didn't. I didn't look at

842
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,879
Speaker 1: the sun in the moon and worship it. I didn't

843
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 1: defile myself with paganism. Twenty seven And my heart has

844
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: been and my heart has been secretly enticed, and in

845
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: my mouth has kissed my hand. Now this one, boy,

846
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: there was a lot of work on this one.

847
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 2: He said, it was I enticed in my heart to

848
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: elevate myself, elevate myself. Some some say he's talking about

849
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 2: and I think this one, in my opinion, based on

850
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 2: this narrative, it fits. You know, what would they.

851
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: Do with people that were royalty whatever they you know,

852
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: to offer their hand to you. And what he's saying

853
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: is he did I kiss my own hand, you know,

854
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: worship myself. Some people think he's that it interprets to

855
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 1: blow in a kiss to somebody.

856
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 2: I don't. To me, it doesn't fit the narrative.

857
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: He's already covered adultery, and he's already covered you know,

858
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: fornication and lust. Right now, he's talking about being full

859
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: of himself. I think it makes more sense that he's

860
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:47,280
Speaker 1: talking about I didn't kiss.

861
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 2: My own hand like I was royalty.

862
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: I think that makes more sense there, And so that's

863
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: that's the one I tend to go with. Either way,

864
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: he's saying I didn't do anything that was sinful. It's

865
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: an ongoing narrative, but he seems to be with categories.

866
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 1: So I think it is the one about being full

867
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: of yourself twenty eight And also would be iniquity to

868
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 1: be punished by the judges for I have been false

869
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: to God. Above he said, See if I had done

870
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: all this, I deserve to be punished. If I'd been

871
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: worshiping false gods according to the one and only living God,

872
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: who says that I would have no gods before him.

873
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how he knows that already, but he does.

874
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: He says, my heart would not be truly devoted to God,

875
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: so I would. I would deserve punishment for that. But

876
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: my heart is not unfaithful to God. It hasn't been

877
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: unfaithful to my wife. It hasn't been unfaithful to somebody else,

878
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: my friend over their wife. It hasn't been I haven't

879
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: put my heart in my belongings. I don't worship myself

880
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,959
Speaker 1: and my heart belongs to God. So anything that makes

881
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: my heart not true to God or devoted to God,

882
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: I haven't done. And if I have, I deserve the punishment.

883
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: He's setting them up for this theology to really fall apart,

884
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: and then twenty nine through thirty one he'll disavow that

885
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: he's been mean to people, that he mistreats people, or

886
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: he has secret sin. Look at look at twenty nine.

887
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: If I rejoice at the ruin of him who hated me,

888
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: are exalted when evil overtook him, He goes, I wasn't

889
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 1: that guy. I didn't have a vengeful spirit. I don't

890
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: celebrate the downfall of my enemy. Ooh, we could use

891
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: some of that today, couldn't we. I think we're probably

892
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: seeing this in a way that I've never seen.

893
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 2: In my lifetime. We rejoice at the downfall of people.

894
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: I mean, with this social media and we can go

895
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: out there and we can just celebrate the downfall there's people.

896
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: I mean, I actually thought there was a time back

897
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: to the Charlie Kirk thing that was happening in this

898
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 1: time in history. I understand that people didn't agree with

899
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: him politically or spiritually. Totally understand that, but I kind

900
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: of thought that we all agreed that gunning somebody down

901
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: in cold blood while they're having a conversation with people,

902
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: none of us would think that was good behavior.

903
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 2: We certainly wouldn't celebrate it.

904
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: But yet we say we see it being celebrated. Why

905
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 1: I don't like him, Well, that's really not liking somebody.

906
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 1: I'm glad that they were murdered in front of their

907
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: wife and children.

908
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 2: That's how much I don't like them.

909
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you can have a disagreement, you don't have

910
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: to support it, but my goodness, jumping up and celebrating that,

911
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: I would. I hope that we would not delight in

912
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: the person that we disagreed with the most. If that

913
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: were to happen to him, I hope our anger would

914
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: be pointed at the person that did it. And Joe said,

915
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: I never celebrated the downfall of my enemies. And if

916
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: I have not let my mouth sin, have I not

917
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: let my mouth sin by asking for his life with

918
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 1: a curse, I would try to put on curses on anybody.

919
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: I don't wish anybody dead. How about this, I didn't.

920
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: I didn't voice disparaging things against a against people. Thirty

921
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: one if the men of my tent have not said,

922
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: who is there that has not been filled with his meat?

923
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: He goes the men of my house, they've all said

924
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:11,760
Speaker 1: that they've been fed by my food.

925
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: You know, you won't find anybody that works for me that.

926
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 1: You know they come into my tent where I'm eating

927
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: that I said, hey, don't come in here that you

928
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: can't eat in here. He said, if you worked for

929
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 1: me and I sat down for lunch, we all had lunch.

930
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: I didn't elevate myself above you. I didn't withhold my

931
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: food from you.

932
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 2: The people that work for me, they were fed well.

933
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: Thirty two the sojourner has not lodged in the street.

934
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: Have I opened my doors to the traveler? That was

935
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. When people were coming through, they didn't have

936
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: me where to stay. I didn'tell them to go find

937
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: them a hotel somewhere. I just told them to come

938
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: on in. I've opened my home to strangers they were

939
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: passing through.

940
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 2: Come on in, you can have a place to stay.

941
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 2: Thirty three. If I have concealed my transgress as others do,

942
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 2: my hiding by hiding my iniquity in my heart. I

943
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 2: don't have secret sin. I don't have any secret sin.

944
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 2: Thirty four.

945
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: And the reason why I would have secret sin is

946
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and

947
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: the contempt of families terrified me so that I kept

948
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: silent and did not go out of the doors. How

949
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: about this, I didn't keep a secret sin because I

950
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: feared people. There was no peer pressure on me at

951
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: all to have a secret. Send withhold my sin. I'm blameless.

952
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: I have been opened about anything I've ever done wrong.

953
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: I haven't kept this. I don't fear people. I fear God.

954
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 2: Thirty five through thirty seven. Conclusion.

955
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not going to get all into this. There's

956
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: some big that for some reason. He concludes everything, then

957
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,319
Speaker 1: comes back and add something else. You would think this

958
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: part right here, thirty five through thirty seven would be

959
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: the last three verses, but it's not. And I don't

960
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: pretend to know why. I'm just telling you this is

961
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: how it's laid out. Okay, So he says, oh that

962
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: I had one to hear me, here is my signature.

963
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: Let the Almighty answer me. Oh that I had the

964
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: indictment written by my adversary. Surely I would carry it

965
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: on my shoulder, and I would bind it on me

966
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: as a crown. I would give him an account of

967
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: all my steps. Like a prince. I would approach him here,

968
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his wish on this one. I wish

969
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 1: they would just be someone who would hear me, Not

970
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: this bunch, not these friends. I would now sign my

971
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: defense before God. I would take what I just said.

972
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: I'd sign it, and i'd slide it over in front.

973
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 2: Of him, say I don't fear you saying what you

974
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:45,839
Speaker 2: got to say about that.

975
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: I'll make that deal right now. As a matter of fact,

976
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: I'm so confident i'd wear it like a crown. I'd

977
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,360
Speaker 1: carr it on my shoulder. I would walk around publicly saying,

978
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: this is what I declare, this is my integrity.

979
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 2: I'm not hiding it. I'll stand before God. I don't

980
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 2: have anything to hide. I would approach God like a prince,

981
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 2: with nothing to fear, with no misgivings. Well, that's a

982
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 2: nice thought, and I understand his desire for his integrity

983
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 2: to be intact. And I think we all sometimes, like

984
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: we said many times, think well, I just would love

985
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 2: to have a conversation with the Great I am.

986
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: I've had enough of this. I'm going straight to him,

987
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: and I want to talk to him about what he's doing.

988
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: Be careful, be careful, because he just might show up

989
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,959
Speaker 1: like he's about to. All right, So then here comes

990
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: that part that's kind of odd. I mean, it seems

991
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: like that are to be it right, that's the mic drop,

992
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: you think, Then he just throws a few more things

993
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: in there, thirty eight through forty. If my land has

994
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: cried out against me, and it's and its furrows have

995
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: wept together, if I have eaten it shield without payment

996
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: and made its owners breathe their last, let thorns grow

997
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,360
Speaker 1: instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.

998
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 2: Who's he talking about here? Sharecroppers?

999
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: You know he would let people farm on his land.

1000
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: He would let And what he's saying is, look, when

1001
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 1: when I had people out here that I haven't I

1002
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: haven't treated my tenants bad.

1003
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,320
Speaker 2: I was a good landlord.

1004
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: I didn't go out there and to the sharecroppers and

1005
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: the people that were tenants on my land. I didn't

1006
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: show up and abuse them. I didn't show up and

1007
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 1: scare them. I didn't let them do the work, didn't

1008
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: take what they did. I didn't do any of that,

1009
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: he said. I haven't taken their crops without payment. If

1010
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: I needed some extra, I would give them money for

1011
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,839
Speaker 1: what I took, I would pay it. I haven't killed

1012
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: them off, you know, because I didn't want to pay them.

1013
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: I haven't snuffed them out and didn't get the mob.

1014
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: To go get them. He had enough authority if he

1015
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 2: if he wanted to say, they're done with this, I

1016
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,840
Speaker 2: think I'm just gonna take that crop. He could, but

1017
00:54:58,920 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 2: he didn't.

1018
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: Again, I didn't abuse my authority, and he said, and

1019
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: if I have, if I've done any of that, may

1020
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: my land be cursed. Let the punishment fit the crime.

1021
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 1: Let the punishment fit the crime. Interesting what is after that?

1022
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,240
Speaker 1: The words of Job are ended?

1023
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 2: What a statement? So the reader now can judge.

1024
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: We've had his full case on whether Job did or

1025
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: did not sin. Do we believe what he said in

1026
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: chapter one, verse ten? So if you go through all

1027
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: these twenty eight chapters, the writer tilts toward acquittal. Even

1028
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:54,800
Speaker 1: after these twenty eight chapters of debate, anger, frustration, charges,

1029
00:55:54,960 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: counter charges, neither his grievous circumstances, nor his unsympathetic friends

1030
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: with their tightly knit orthodox theology of retribution, could persuade

1031
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: job the Man from us that he was anything other

1032
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: than a righteous man. He has stuck to that, hasn't he?

1033
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: How about us?

1034
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 2: Have we lived a life of so much integrity that

1035
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 2: we could truly take Because keep in mind, this is

1036
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 2: the beauty and this is the key. What have we

1037
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 2: said a thousand times, a thousand times? This is an

1038
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 2: old truth, but it's a powerful truth. What we say

1039
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 2: doesn't really mean anything. I can say all kinds of things.

1040
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: I can say that if I flap my arms, I

1041
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: can fly, but the truth of that would be whether

1042
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,280
Speaker 1: I flapped him right now I start flying around the room.

1043
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:07,919
Speaker 2: So I wonder can we say I'm a godly man

1044
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 2: out there, I'm a godly woman, I'm right with God.

1045
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 2: We can say it, but I wonder.

1046
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: If we could roll out this kind of resume to

1047
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: prove it, because what we say is not what we

1048
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: truly believe. I can say one thing and do another.

1049
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: What's the truth about us is not what we say,

1050
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: that's what we actually do. So I can say I'm

1051
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: a godly man, but if I don't live like a

1052
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: godly man.

1053
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 2: That's a lie. I'm not talking about perfection. I mean

1054
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 2: we all make mistakes.

1055
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, have we lived our lives as men

1056
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: of God with such integrity? If all of a sudden

1057
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 1: we were pulled into a court like this, and God

1058
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 1: put us into posysician.

1059
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: Where he looked at us.

1060
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: Knowing everything, by the way, and there was a jury

1061
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: of our peers, and he would say, so, you claim

1062
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: you're a righteous man, let's hear your case.

1063
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 2: Would you be found guilty of being righteous? Or would

1064
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 2: the judge and the jury say, we find no evidence

1065
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 2: to convict him of being righteous. Let's pray, Lord, thank

1066
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 2: you for today, thank you for this difficult but powerful message. Lord.

1067
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: We just thank you for all you've done. And we

1068
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: do continue to pray for those that are hurting. And

1069
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: what I pray for our society right now, which is just.

1070
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 2: Raging against you. But oh, what a wonderful, wonderful opportunity.

1071
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 2: As throughout time, when your people are persecuted and hated

1072
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:10,439
Speaker 2: and revolved and killed and martyred, that's always the same

1073
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 2: mistake that the adversary has made, and he keeps making

1074
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 2: it over and over again. He always miscalculates the resolve

1075
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 2: of those that are redeemed in the power of the

1076
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit. He will never learn that he'd probably be

1077
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 2: better off and more successful if he just left your

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Speaker 2: people alone. We struggle with apathy much more than we

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Speaker 2: do persecution. Persecution only solidifies the church by purging it

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Speaker 2: of those that shouldn't be there to be in with

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Speaker 2: and your holy name, we pray Amen.