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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. We're so thankful that

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Speaker 1: you are here with us again this week. My name

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Speaker 1: We don't want you obsessing over it. But sadly, when

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Speaker 1: So we're continuing now our study through the Book of Job.

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Speaker 1: Today will be in Job chapter twenty three, read a

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Speaker 1: very provocative book of the Bible. We are learning a

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Speaker 1: lot and today we will continue that study. If you've

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Speaker 1: missed any of it, go back and get the archives

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Speaker 1: at Themanchurch dot com. You'll see a little drop down

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Speaker 1: You can also access Bible studies pasted over the last

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Speaker 1: a word of prayer, Lord, thank you for today help

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Speaker 1: us to properly discern the power of your Holy Word,

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Speaker 1: through the power of the Holy Spirit, as we walk

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Speaker 1: through this next chapter in this historical interaction between you

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Speaker 1: may we learn from it in your holy name, we

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Speaker 1: pray Amen. All Right, So we're gonna Last week Elafhaz

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Speaker 1: you've been here, and what you're going to find now

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Speaker 1: and now you will find throughout scripture. I'm thinking of Jeremiah,

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Speaker 1: acquitted because I am innocent. Do you ever ever feel

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Speaker 1: that way? I can't find him. I'm searching, I'm crying out,

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Speaker 1: I'm pursuing. I can't find God. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: he is. Will always know if you are redeemed, he

429
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Speaker 1: is not abandon you, you know, just just his presence.

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Speaker 1: You've got to trust that he's there. He even tells

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Speaker 1: us that he's near to the broken hearted. So if

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't know. Apparently Job didn't

433
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Speaker 1: didn't have Ps. Thirty four or eighteen, But we do,

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Speaker 1: uh and and we know that he's near to the

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Speaker 1: broken hearted. So if you're hurting and you're struggling, you

436
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Speaker 1: know what, you can bank on that he is near.

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Speaker 1: He may not have revealed himself to you, you know

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Speaker 1: what I would like to suggest, coming from someone who

439
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Speaker 1: makes this mistake all the time, So don't sometimes just

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Speaker 1: shut up, stop pleading, start, stop crying out, and just

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Speaker 1: rest and be still and know that he is God.

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Speaker 1: That's right out of scripture too, you know. I remember this.

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Speaker 1: This is when when we we we did something that

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Speaker 1: I you know, I don't talk about it as much

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Speaker 1: when I'm preaching, and maybe I should because it's such

446
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Speaker 1: a wonderful moment. It's one of the things, you know,

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Speaker 1: that we dealt with at you know, with the death

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Speaker 1: of our youngest son, was that he died in the

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Speaker 1: swimming pool on our property at our house. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I still see it every day. I went to that

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Speaker 1: same pool yesterday and backwashed and wrenched it and go

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Speaker 1: out there and scoop stuff out of it all the time.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't bother me. And the reason why it

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Speaker 1: doesn't bother me is that that pool don't belong to

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Speaker 1: the devils as much as he is. He he thought

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Speaker 1: it would that pool's not going to represent death. So

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Speaker 1: one of the things that we did, because we trust

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Speaker 1: the Lord, is we when when Brodie decided and fully

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Speaker 1: understood about repentance and decided to follow Jesus and was redeemed,

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Speaker 1: is that we decided that he'd be baptized in the

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Speaker 1: very pool where his brother died. We're gonna take that back.

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Speaker 1: So when I go out there, I don't just see

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Speaker 1: the death of one of my children. I also see

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Speaker 1: the saving of another one. And ultimately, I mean, even

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Speaker 1: Brauner left that place right into the presence of the Lord.

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Speaker 1: And so when Sherry decided to do that, she took

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Speaker 1: all these balloons and they were white, and she worked

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Speaker 1: even within the she's allergic even two balloons, but she

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Speaker 1: didn't care. And she put a Bible verse in every

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Speaker 1: one of them, and there was healing put in them.

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Speaker 1: And then when after he was baptized, we released these

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Speaker 1: different promises of God. Well they they all went except one.

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Speaker 1: And one of them popped when she was trying to

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Speaker 1: get them set up, and it popped, and she was like,

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Speaker 1: well that one popped, and she looked and the verse

476
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Speaker 1: was laying there, and she picked it up. And it

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Speaker 1: was the verse of God saying I will fight your

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Speaker 1: battle for you. Just be still and know that I'm

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Speaker 1: that I am God. And she just said, well, there

480
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Speaker 1: it is again. And so this is one of those

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Speaker 1: things that when you say you can't find God, that

482
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Speaker 1: just isn't true. You may not be getting the sign

483
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Speaker 1: you're looking for. But he is not a bandaging He

484
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Speaker 1: has not abandoned, he's not gone. He is in the

485
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Speaker 1: middle of all this, right in the middle of it,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. So so then we get to ten,

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Speaker 1: and now Job's going to double down on his innocence,

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Speaker 1: and he says after eight and nine that he goes forward,

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Speaker 1: he's not there nine on the left hand when he

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Speaker 1: is working, I do not behold him. He turns to

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Speaker 1: the right hand, but I do not see him. That's

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Speaker 1: that north south east west ten. But he knows the

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Speaker 1: way that I take. When he has tried me, I

494
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Speaker 1: shall come out as gold. You know, I still believe

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Speaker 1: even though I can't seem to find him and I

496
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Speaker 1: can't seem to hear from him, I still believe that

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Speaker 1: he can see me and he knows the truth. Can

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Speaker 1: I ask you this? And it's been one of the

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Speaker 1: hardest things for me this year. This has been a

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Speaker 1: terrible year. On this. Is God knowing the truth enough

501
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Speaker 1: for you? Or do you just have to be vindicated before? Man?

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Speaker 1: What if God said to you, I know that you're

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Speaker 1: right in the conflict that you're in. I know what

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Speaker 1: people say about you is not true, But it is

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Speaker 1: me knowing that enough for you. What if I told

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Speaker 1: you that you're going to be misunderstood by these people.

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Speaker 1: There'll never be a moment on earth where you have

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Speaker 1: your glorious vindication and all the people that have said

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Speaker 1: bad things about you, and all the people you've been

510
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Speaker 1: in conflict, they never on this side of heaven are

511
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Speaker 1: ever proven wrong, and you never get to have your day.

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Speaker 1: But I know the truth? Is that enough you? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I have struggled with that for seven full months and

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Speaker 1: some change. Is that enough? I'll have to get back

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Speaker 1: to you on that. I'm working on that. But but

516
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Speaker 1: but that that's that's really job is like you almost

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Speaker 1: you almost said, but I want everybody this accused me

518
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Speaker 1: to know. But I know that God knows. So I

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Speaker 1: know that if I had this trial, that God's gonna

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Speaker 1: say that I was innocent, that this this suffering that

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Speaker 1: he's causing is for some other reason, not because I'm wicked,

522
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Speaker 1: I know that, But you know what he's thinking. I

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Speaker 1: just kind of wanted to be said out loud. I

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Speaker 1: want I want God to speak for me, and and

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Speaker 1: he wants that moment. And he's saying, look at this,

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Speaker 1: this is faith though he is showing a tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: of faith right here. Here's the three things he's saying.

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Speaker 1: God knows my situation. God is testing me, and I

529
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Speaker 1: will emerge a better man. He knows the way that

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Speaker 1: I take. When he has tried me, I shall come

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Speaker 1: out as gold. Now hang on, hang on, all right,

532
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Speaker 1: and you boy, y'all going to say a lot of

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Speaker 1: you who have known me for a long time, you

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Speaker 1: know exactly where I'm headed. Because you're like, if he

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Speaker 1: reads First Peter one one more time, But I am

536
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Speaker 1: going to because did you hear him using the gold

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Speaker 1: I come out as gold and all that? So one

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Speaker 1: Peter Chapter one, This use the first verse I send

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Speaker 1: people when they're crying out, why am I in this

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Speaker 1: difficult situation? Peter? Remembering First Peter, he's talking about persecution

541
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Speaker 1: of the church. Second Peter out for false teachers. The

542
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: first Peter is, hey, the outside world, they're coming after us.

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Speaker 1: And remember when we study this, literally was happening to

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Speaker 1: the church when you had you know the Romans, I

545
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Speaker 1: mean you got, I mean you got. It's just complete

546
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Speaker 1: all out persecution. Nero is a madman. Okay, he's rounding

547
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Speaker 1: them up and he's killing them. He's lighting his streets

548
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Speaker 1: with the bodies of Christians. You're sitting in your house

549
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: like right now. And first Peter, we'd be sitting just

550
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Speaker 1: like this and hoping we didn't hear this, and a

551
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: knock on that door could be they're gonna kill all

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Speaker 1: of us. And so here's what here's what Peter said

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Speaker 1: in this You rejoice though now for a little while,

554
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Speaker 1: if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so

555
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Speaker 1: that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold,

556
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: may perry, though it be tested by fire, may be

557
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: found a result in the praise and the glory and

558
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: the honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. And here

559
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: we are in the Old Testament, sitting here with Job

560
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: and his words are But he knows the way that

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Speaker 1: I take. When he has tried me, I shall come

562
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Speaker 1: out as gold. Can you say God knows my situation.

563
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: God is testing me and the harder one. I will

564
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Speaker 1: emerge a better man, I will emerge a better woman.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the case may be, I'll be better for it.

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Speaker 1: I'm better for it. I know some of the difficulties

567
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Speaker 1: that everybody in this room has been through. Those of

568
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Speaker 1: you that emerge from it, you're better. I would say

569
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Speaker 1: that you're more devoted to Jesus than you were before it.

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00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: Me too, So eleven, look, let me just tell you

571
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,280
Speaker 1: hard truth. Okay, just take it with you. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I wish this wasn't the case. The reason why God

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Speaker 1: keeps using suffering is it works. It's effective, It gets

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00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: the job done. We are too stubborn and too sinful

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Speaker 1: to just get in line without discipline, without correction, without difficulty,

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Speaker 1: without refinement. You know, I was talking to somebody just

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Speaker 1: the other day. I'll be very vague, but it was

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Speaker 1: beautiful and this person had been through a very difficult

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Speaker 1: thing in their marriage, very difficult and clear attack. Well,

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00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: now the marriage is flourished. I mean, it's more powerful

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Speaker 1: than ever, not better than anything they've ever known. And

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Speaker 1: we were we were discussing this at one point and

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Speaker 1: we both agreed. I said, you know, Satan had been

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Speaker 1: better off he just left your marriage alone. It really

585
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: wasn't all that great, y'all. Both were apathetic, just going

586
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Speaker 1: through the motions. And he's so stupid that he got

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Speaker 1: played again by God by being allowed to attack your marriage,

588
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: and it saved it. If you just left you alone,

589
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't have made it. That's why. That's why

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00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: it works the church. And when you know, when the

591
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: church is the least effective, when it's not being persecuted,

592
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: it becomes a social, spiritual social club where people just

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Speaker 1: out of meander around, get to see each other again. Here,

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00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: here are things they've probably heard before from the preaching.

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00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: And then the small groups glad to see each other

596
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: and they worry about where they're going to lunch, and

597
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 1: they checked that off the list. But now if it

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Speaker 1: comes into persecution, go back to nine to eleven, go

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Speaker 1: back to the pandemic. When you start being told you

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Speaker 1: may not get to go to church. Well, suddenly we

601
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Speaker 1: all became real devoted to the church, didn't we. And

602
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: we were we were, we were, we were, we were

603
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Speaker 1: aimening like we hadn't before. We were we were on

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Speaker 1: fire by golly, we'll stand up. But then you just

605
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: kind of let us have easy times. Before you know it,

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Speaker 1: I remember, I saw something careful. Rick. If you've ever

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Speaker 1: been in a situation where you have tried to put

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Speaker 1: the work in to study the Word of God and

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00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: be prepared to teach it, it gets really aggravating when

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Speaker 1: the people that you are going to teach don't seem

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Speaker 1: to care. They drag into the class of eight, not

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00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: because of anything important, just because they hung around and

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00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: drank coffee a little longer, peddled around out in the lobby,

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Speaker 1: and you've sitting there and you've prepared this message and

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Speaker 1: you've got you've got thirty minutes to teach it, and

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Speaker 1: they walk in about fifteen minutes into it, as if

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Speaker 1: who cares, cup coffee in hand took time to stop

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Speaker 1: and get that you knew the running late. And can

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Speaker 1: I say, as a teacher, that infuriates me because I'm like,

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Speaker 1: how can you care so little about the unpacking of

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Speaker 1: the holy Word of God and the hours that the

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00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: teacher has spent preparing this to teach it to you,

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Speaker 1: And that's your attitude about it. That's why when I

624
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: look around this room and I see these faces that

625
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: come here week after week after week. I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about vacation. I'm not talking work. I'm not talking about

627
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Speaker 1: being sick, being injured. Ninety percent of this room unless

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Speaker 1: it is a legitimate excuse, you're here. And I see that,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate that, and I can't tell you how

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Speaker 1: much that encourages me. I know when y'all miss, there's

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Speaker 1: a reason nobody I will say, I would say almost

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent now of the people that are devoted

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Speaker 1: to this every Wednesday, if they miss it was legitimate,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't because they were just piddling around. And I

635
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: really appreciate that. So here is that's why suffering works,

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Speaker 1: because I promise you, mister, I'm piddling around at the

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Speaker 1: coffee shop or where they serve coffee and donuts out

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Speaker 1: in the lobby, when when if those people were in calamity,

639
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Speaker 1: they'd be sitting ready to go right when the Bible

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Speaker 1: studies start hoping to hear from the Lord. I promise

641
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Speaker 1: you that you be on time. So so let's go

642
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Speaker 1: to eleven. My foot has held fast to his steps.

643
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Speaker 1: I have kept his way and have not turned aside.

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Speaker 1: Look notice steps in way this is what you see,

645
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Speaker 1: you know, make watch your steps, be in his way.

646
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Speaker 1: You know the part of the Bible, the wisdom literature,

647
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm about, the Proverbs and tom the wisdom literature.

648
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Speaker 1: You'll find these words a lot there, you know, watch

649
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Speaker 1: your steps, be sure you're going his way. It speaks

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Speaker 1: to God's steps, God's way. Like we said about obedience,

651
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Speaker 1: which is what doing God's will, God's way. Job is

652
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Speaker 1: saying I've walked in his ways and I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: a step further. I haven't just sometimes walked in his ways.

654
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Speaker 1: I haven't wavered. He's now throwing his resume. Look, my

655
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Speaker 1: foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept

656
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Speaker 1: his way, and I have not turned aside. Man, can

657
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Speaker 1: I say that about myself? I can't. You know what

658
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: I hope to be able to. I've had moments in

659
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Speaker 1: my life that I could say that. But do I

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Speaker 1: consistently do that every day of my life? No? You know,

661
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Speaker 1: sometimes I find myself going I know we all think

662
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Speaker 1: a long life is a blessing. I'm not so sure

663
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Speaker 1: because you have to stay consistent a lot longer, you know,

664
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Speaker 1: and and you know, and it made it easier, you know,

665
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Speaker 1: I was. I was so glad to be done with

666
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Speaker 1: the hormones of a young man. Thank goodness. You know

667
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Speaker 1: that's why one thing I like about being older. I mean, hey,

668
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: it's still there, but it don't run me like it

669
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Speaker 1: used to. You know what I mean. I mean, it's

670
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: like I found a little bit of victory over you

671
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: know what, good gracious? I mean, you're young man. You

672
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: think what the world's going on with me? And if

673
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: Satan wants to get me, I know how he's gonna

674
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Speaker 1: get me. So Verse twelve. I have not departed from

675
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Speaker 1: the commandments of his lips. I have treasured the words

676
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Speaker 1: of his mouth more than my portion of food. How

677
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: about this, I haven't just I haven't just you know,

678
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: followed his steps. I haven't just followed his way. I've

679
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: consumed his commandments. I've eaten his word. I've been nourished

680
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Speaker 1: by the very words of God. That's what sustains me.

681
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Speaker 1: How about you don't don't you love when you finally

682
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: get in the word of God? And I just get

683
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Speaker 1: so frustrated with the years of my life that I

684
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: wasn't when I finally fell in love with the word

685
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Speaker 1: of God. I felt so silly that I was ever

686
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Speaker 1: interested in anything else to that level. How could I

687
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: have been as interested in stupid things as I now

688
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: am as interested in the Bible. Those things didn't hold

689
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: an ounce of what this is. Those things are fine,

690
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: but please don't equate them in your life to be

691
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Speaker 1: as important as the word of God. God sent me

692
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: an email this week, wanted me to talk about on

693
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Speaker 1: the show. On these we do emails on the show,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about pastors that never make their time?

695
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: They're always going over their time. It just frustrates me.

696
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: We got plans and things are supposed to do. They

697
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: always go over their time. And I said, you be

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Speaker 1: real careful. I can't believe you care about that that much.

699
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Speaker 1: I wonder, whatever it is, would you be upset if

700
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Speaker 1: somebody said they've added another SEC game this year now

701
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: there's going to be nine? Probably not, but yet you,

702
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Speaker 1: I said, you have? You got the clock on the

703
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Speaker 1: pastors of that level. Now, Look, I do think that

704
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,360
Speaker 1: we should be good stewards of people's time. Like I

705
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: don't want to tell y'all good luck getting back to

706
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Speaker 1: work today. We're going two hours, okay. I think that

707
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Speaker 1: we need to be a good steward of people's time.

708
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: But if you're nitpicking the pastor over ten minutes, you know,

709
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Speaker 1: five minutes here, fifteen minutes there on the Lord's Day

710
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Speaker 1: that you know, God forbid. It's kind of like like

711
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Speaker 1: I say about you know, when we started celebrating the

712
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Speaker 1: entire month of June, we started selling break sexual deviancy,

713
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Speaker 1: and we give the men and women who have died

714
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Speaker 1: for the freedoms we have. They get a Monday. I mean,

715
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: they get a Monday, Okay, I mean. And so during

716
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Speaker 1: the week, you know, you've had all this time to

717
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 1: do whatever you want to do. You've been running around.

718
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Speaker 1: The Lord said, could I get a couple of hours

719
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Speaker 1: from you on Sunday? And most of the time I

720
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: was this way, you ain't getting two hours. I'm either

721
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Speaker 1: you gonna go to Sunday school or'm gonna go to worship.

722
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Speaker 1: We ain't doing both, you know what I mean. Well, look,

723
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Speaker 1: keep in mind, this is a guy writing this email

724
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Speaker 1: and the time that Sunday Night service is gone. You know,

725
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Speaker 1: Sunday night services all died because nobody will go, you know,

726
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 1: so so and here's a guy going there's no more

727
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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, you know, and that's Sunday morning, and I'm

728
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Speaker 1: on complain because I keep noticing the pastor doesn't hit

729
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Speaker 1: his time. I told you all when Jack, remember Jack

730
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Speaker 1: that was here. Now he's had to move for work.

731
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Speaker 1: But do you remember Jack came to Christ in this class? Okay?

732
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: You remember that brand new had nothing, didn't know anything

733
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: about the faith. Nothing was not cultural Christian at all,

734
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: was a redeemed real thing. His first experience with Jesus

735
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: was hearing the show, ended up in this Bible study

736
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Speaker 1: and coming to church with us. Okay, I baptized it.

737
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: I'll never forget he used to sit by me at

738
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Speaker 1: every service, and I'll never forget when our pastor would go,

739
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Speaker 1: I know I'm going over my time and he looks down.

740
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Speaker 1: I wanted to cover that. Well, let me just do that,

741
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: and he really know to me. He goes, why is

742
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Speaker 1: he Why is he not getting to finish his message?

743
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: And I said, what do you mean? He goes, well,

744
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Speaker 1: didn't he prepare all week for this man? This is

745
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: got nothing. He's figured it out. He's only been following

746
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Speaker 1: Jesus for a week. Okay, And he goes, I don't

747
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,720
Speaker 1: understand why he's worried about Why don't he just finish.

748
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to say to him because we

749
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Speaker 1: got to get out of here. I don't know what

750
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Speaker 1: to you, Jack, I don't know, you know, He's like,

751
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Speaker 1: where we were going, I like to eat, to be honest,

752
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean, and uh and and I hope we beat

753
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Speaker 1: the Methodists. You know, it's hard to beat them to

754
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: the early lunch and and he uh, but but I

755
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: mean he really could not. He was not trying to

756
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: be provocative. He truly didn't understand it. Listen to the

757
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: logic of this. He said, I figure, if the preacher

758
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: has prepared a message, shouldn't he just finish it? So

759
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 1: we're not going to get the whole message. He's cutting

760
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: it short. And here he was trying to learn everything.

761
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: He's like, this is something I don't know. You may

762
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: be thinking he's gonna say something you've heard a hundred times.

763
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: He didn't say this, but I'm just I'm now paraphrasing.

764
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Speaker 1: I guess that's what he's thinking. That y'all may not

765
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: care if you don't hear the whole message. I really

766
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: would like to hear it. And again, I'm not talking

767
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: about Look, we got some people, I mean, they can

768
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 1: pray to the point that you forgot you even praying,

769
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: you know you you can quence the Holy Spirit. You know.

770
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: I've gone to Men's events before where the praise and

771
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: worship team did nine songs nine with Men nine and

772
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: all I can think about is what I'm saying tonight

773
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: is over. I mean, these men left us about three

774
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: songs ago, you know, and then you got to get it.

775
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: So you do need There's nothing wrong with being strategic

776
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: and being wise and understanding how human beings work. But

777
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: if you're clocking the pastor on five to fifteen minutes

778
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: a little over on his message, that that's nitpicky, especially

779
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: when you wouldn't do that on the things you really love,

780
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I mean, if your wife said

781
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 1: we're going to have some good evenings together this week,

782
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a bunch of them, I doubt he

783
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Speaker 1: would say, nonh, I cut it short, you know what

784
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: I mean. So so you know what I mean. It's like,

785
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Speaker 1: this is the most important thing in the world, and

786
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: you want to be sure that you don't get too

787
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: much of this. I don't need to have too much

788
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: of this Bible study. So this is what Job is saying.

789
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: I have consumed your words. I am nourished by your words,

790
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: and now he's getting frustrated thirteen. But he is unchangeable,

791
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: and who can turn him back what he desires? That

792
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: he does? You know, he's realizing I don't even know

793
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: why I'm arguing about this. God's gonna do whatever he's

794
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: gonna do. That actually brings me peace, right. I don't

795
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: want it to be on me. I mean, I don't

796
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: want God. Can you imagine for God to go? I'm

797
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: not really sure where to go here. Let's ask Rick,

798
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Speaker 1: what do you think I should do? You know? I

799
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: mean I don't want that kind of responsibility. I'm flawed. Yes,

800
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: I understand it might be frustrating sometimes that you feel

801
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: like I can't get God to change. I want to say,

802
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: let's sleep in the peace that God's not gonna change that.

803
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: God does what he does, because that means what he

804
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: does is right. He actually knows more than us. I

805
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: know some of us can't wait to tell him what

806
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: to do, you know, but he knows more than us.

807
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: Who was that that said that? I remember hearing one

808
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: time that you know, when we get to heaven, some

809
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: people are actually gonna try to tell God what to do.

810
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: I should think that was outrageous. Who was it? Was

811
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Speaker 1: it Steve? I can't remember who said that. He goes.

812
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Speaker 1: The longer I live, I started thinking, I think that

813
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: may happen, you know, by watch away people. I think

814
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: there's some people think they're really going to say, hey,

815
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: now that I've gotten, now that I'm here, i'd like

816
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: to I'd like to correct you in a few things. So,

817
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 1: but he says he's gonna do what he's gonna do,

818
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: no matter, no matter what I say, you know, and

819
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 1: and and even the fact that he's apathetic is what

820
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: job thinks. He's not answering me right now. Well, he's

821
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: not answering me, and there's no way for me to

822
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: make him answer me. That's true fourteen. For he will

823
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Speaker 1: complete what he appoints for me, and many such things

824
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: are in his mind. God's decree, my suffering against me

825
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: is gonna be completed. And here's what he's realizing, and

826
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Speaker 1: we need to realize it too. He's gonna end it

827
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Speaker 1: whenever he ends it. I remember that when on my

828
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Speaker 1: dad's last day on earth, I remember the doctor trying

829
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Speaker 1: to tell me exactly when he was gonna go and

830
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Speaker 1: I said, we'll see, he's gonna go whenever the Lord

831
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Speaker 1: releases him and draws him to him, he's not gonna

832
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Speaker 1: go because when you say he's gonna go, when God says,

833
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Speaker 1: And of course he told me he'd be gone in

834
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Speaker 1: two hours, and he was gone in about fourteen hours.

835
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Speaker 1: So because I knew that something's gonna hang on until

836
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Speaker 1: everybody got there, and he did, uh so fifteen Therefore,

837
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Speaker 1: I'm terrified at his presence. There you go, when I

838
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Speaker 1: consider I'm in dread of him? Doesn't this feel like

839
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: a wake up call? You ever were randed on and

840
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: on and really randed and al so you stopped and said,

841
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I think I'm I want I want

842
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Speaker 1: to take a step back. Now. I'm really starting to

843
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: think about if God said to me, okay, hoss, come

844
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Speaker 1: face me. And now I'm kind of terrified to thought

845
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Speaker 1: of that. Maybe I shouldn't be asking for that. I'm

846
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Speaker 1: dreading facing him. And you know, we're going to get

847
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Speaker 1: those who don't know the rest of job. Mister. I'mad

848
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Speaker 1: at God is going to hear the voice of the

849
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Speaker 1: Great I am say, now, who is it that's questioning me?

850
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Speaker 1: I'm good? Sorry about that you know what I mean?

851
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Speaker 1: You ever, Yeah, that's uh yeah. I remember one time

852
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Speaker 1: my little brother he was really really really wearing Daddy

853
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: out one time, I mean wearing him out, and didn't

854
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Speaker 1: know that Dad was following him. He thought when he

855
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 1: left the room that Dad was still in the room,

856
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: and Dad followed him all the way back there into

857
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Speaker 1: the bedroom. And about that time, my brother heard the

858
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: voice gregor you finished now, And he turned around and

859
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: saw Dad and heard everything he said. And I just

860
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 1: kind of did that where you start trying to back out,

861
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: you know, the room. I said, I think I'm gonna

862
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: leave you with him, But I remember seeing Greg's face.

863
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:02,919
Speaker 1: That's kind of how Joe. Right now, sixteen, God has

864
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me. Frustration

865
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: this is what happened. Look rasee hand of this ever

866
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:17,439
Speaker 1: happened to you. Frustration made you bold, too bold. He's

867
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: so frustrated, so frustrated that it has produced a boldness

868
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: that is not wisdom. And now he's realizing I have

869
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: just stood here and openly demanded God to face me.

870
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: Don't do that, okay, don't demand answers from God, because

871
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 1: you may get them right It's one of the things

872
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: that you learn anytime you ever sit down with people

873
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: and want to get their opinion of you. Remember, if

874
00:52:54,080 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: you decide to ask people questions, they're going to answer them,

875
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: So be careful what you ask. Right seventeen Yet, I'm

876
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness

877
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: covers my face. I feel like I'm in the dark.

878
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: I don't understand any of this. But then he comes

879
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: back after you know he's considered it all now, and

880
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: he basically says, this situation is so bad, I'm not

881
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 1: going to be silent. I want to know. I'm mad

882
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: that you want to answer me. I'm terrified that I

883
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: just told you to answer me. But it's so bad,

884
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay with it. I want to know. I

885
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: want you to tell me what you're doing. I want

886
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 1: to hear what's going on. You ever had anybody come

887
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: sit down and tell you you don't have to know,

888
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: this is everything's gonna work itself out. Do you want

889
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: to know? You ever been in one of those situations?

890
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: Do you really want to know? Be careful when you

891
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: answer that question. Have you ever found out something you

892
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: wish you had never known? Have you ever been afraid

893
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: to ask your kids something because you're afraid they're gonna

894
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: answer you honestly and you're afraid of what they're gonna say.

895
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: I actually had a situation like this happened in the

896
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: last few year where I was talking and I said, look,

897
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: it's not gonna change the outcome of anything. There's no

898
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 1: need for you to hear this, the details of all this,

899
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,839
Speaker 1: the goriness of it. And the person said I want

900
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: to know, and I said, you really don't, You really don't.

901
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: Let's just it's not gonna change the outcome. The outcome

902
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: is gonna be the same once you get to the

903
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: outcome without without going through that hurt. You don't want

904
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: to know that. And he said I want to know.

905
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, I'll set the meeting up, and

906
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: we did, and I had to sit there and watch

907
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: them know, and I think about a quarter of the

908
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: way into it, they started thinking, I wish I had

909
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: just listened and not not had this meeting, so you

910
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: can you can trust and say whatever you do is

911
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: write and I know that you're doing this for my

912
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 1: own good. And you know, I thought that, I mean,

913
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: I think about the boldness of Paul. I mean, you know,

914
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: it's actually quite humble to admit that you're conceded, you know.

915
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:07,479
Speaker 1: And Paul said that this thorn that I begged God

916
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: to remove from my flesh. If I remember this from

917
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: our study of Second Corinthians, Paul actually knows why God

918
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: won't do it. He said, He's doing this because it

919
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: keeps me from becoming conceited. You know, that's a lot

920
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: to deal with when you've seen God work through you

921
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,959
Speaker 1: the way he was working through Paul, and you even

922
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,959
Speaker 1: got to see that the third Heaven. You went into

923
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: the presence of God and saw heaven, and you've seen

924
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: people be healed by your jacket. And you're leading almost

925
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: single handedly the entire redemption of the Gentiles, preaching the

926
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,240
Speaker 1: New Covenant to them. You're certainly still dealing with the Hebrews,

927
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: but you're pretty much the only one going after the Gentiles.

928
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: It was a success, tessful ministry, frustrating, but Paul had

929
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: been carried through so many things, and how about this,

930
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: here's a big one. Even after he ascended, he came

931
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:15,439
Speaker 1: back and appeared to me face to face, terrifying. That's

932
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 1: pretty big, you know. So he knew that it was

933
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: for his own good. So maybe sometimes it's better for

934
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: us to come to our own conclusion that this is

935
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: best for us, as opposed to keep asking God to

936
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: show us why we need this, because He may just

937
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 1: tell you or show you and you might not have

938
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: wanted to know. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today.

939
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: Thank you for this very honest and all of us

940
00:57:55,680 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: can understand the pleading of job. We can. We're excited

941
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: to learn even more. Thank you, Lord for just tolerating us.

942
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: That's the mystery. That you tolerate us, that you're so merciful,

943
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 1: and you're so gracious, your judgment, your wrath, worthy of

944
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: our fear, that we understand. That makes all the sense

945
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: in the world. It's this mercy and grace and you

946
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: continue to refine us and teach us and mold us

947
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: through this sanctification process, that you just continue to be

948
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: there with us. That's what is mind boggling. We're so

949
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: thankful for it. Show us your ways. Lord, We trust

950
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: you and only you. Thank you, Lord for seeing us

951
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: through the difficulties of life and using those to teach

952
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: us to make us better. And your holy name, we

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00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: pray Amen.