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Speaker 1: we're in the book of Job. We're already today in

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Speaker 1: Job eighteen, so if you missed the first seventeen chapters,

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Speaker 1: it is about spiritual warfare. So many times, I wish

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Speaker 1: this wasn't the rule. I wish it was the exception,

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Speaker 1: but and there are exceptions, but a lot of times,

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Speaker 1: especially in the Western Church, spiritual warfare is something that

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. The problem with that is it comes

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Speaker 1: with two extremes. We either obsess over angels and demons,

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Speaker 1: demons and the supernatural from a biblical worldview. We have

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Speaker 1: If you are catching the Bible Study on the same

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Speaker 1: week that it actually happened. All right, So let's turn

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Speaker 1: right now to job eighteen and open a word of prayer. Lord,

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Speaker 1: decided to do, prompted by You, the Holy Spirit, is

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Speaker 1: when we look at Job interacting with his friends, we

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Speaker 1: don't always put ourselves in the role of Job. We

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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, we pray Amen.

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Speaker 1: So here we are so we know that Job has

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Speaker 1: Then we will speak? He said, how much longer are

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Speaker 1: But he's also going to give us a great look

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Speaker 1: we don't do it, and you will not be sending

426
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: against your parents, certainly will be disappointed. You won't just

427
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: be sinning against yourself. Certainly you'll regret it. You're sinning

428
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: against the one and only living God. And if you

429
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: truly want to be right with God, you don't compromise

430
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:33,239
Speaker 1: your sexual purity because that's his standard. That's such a

431
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: better teaching that you're gonna get yourself pregnant, or you're

432
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: gonna get somebody pregnant, or you're gonna catch some disease.

433
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: Nobody listens to that. So so, and you think the

434
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 1: people who are committing sex before marriage, you think they

435
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 1: don't know that that that could happen. Of course they

436
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: know that it's just not enough. It's just not enough.

437
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: If that's all it took, everybody would be sexually pure, right,

438
00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 1: they would all wait to marriage, you know. But but

439
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: people know that's they already know that's out there. And

440
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: I knew the things I was doing could and likely

441
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 1: would get me in trouble. But let me tell what

442
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: the flesh says. But let's not worry about that today. Today,

443
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: let's just satisfy ourselves in the moment. Let's just do

444
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: what we want to do. But what's going to happen

445
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: after this? Hi? Who cares? And and you've been there,

446
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 1: I've been there. In the moment, you went all in

447
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: because all you cared about was satisfying your flesh. And

448
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: the minute the flesh you thought would be good, the

449
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: flesh comes back and says you shouldn't have done that.

450
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: And then then all of a sudden, just a minute,

451
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: you feel kind of bad about it. And what happens

452
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: just a little bit later, when we're gonna do it again,

453
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: it's just a never end of cycle. I've told you

454
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: all this years ago, but it's probably worth repeating. How

455
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 1: many of you have ever been around been in some

456
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: national park, which, by the way, can I just tell

457
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: all of you out there? How many more people got

458
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: to be gored by buffalo? How many more people got

459
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: to be run over? Stop trying to pet the buffaloes?

460
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Have we not learned this bison

461
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: thing yet? Don't go pet a bison. Every day on

462
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: the show we get videos of more people getting knocked

463
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 1: up in the air by bison. How many more people

464
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: have to be knocked up in the air for you

465
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: to go. I don't want to be knocked up in the

466
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: air by bison. I'm not going near it. But if

467
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: you've ever been in these parks and I'm dealing with bears, now,

468
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: what are we always seeing? Do not feed the bears?

469
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: Some of you are we going? I know this now,

470
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: Jerix using before? Don't feed the bears. Now, if you're

471
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 1: kind of one of these people that you know you're

472
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: a little too into animals, Okay, probably more than you

473
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 1: should be. Let's be good conservationist. Let's not worship animals.

474
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: You're probably thinking, oh, they do that for the bear.

475
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: They don't want the bear to have a bad diet.

476
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 1: Marshmallows and stuff are not good for bears. That has

477
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. The reason why they do

478
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 1: that is because the bear will never say, twelve marshmallows

479
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 1: are enough for me. I'm good. Hey, that water melon

480
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: was great, Take the rest of it home. Maybe I

481
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: don't put refrigerator. Y'all can have it tomorrow when you're

482
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: out of food. The bear says, where's the food? Well,

483
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: I gave you all the marshmallows I had. Do you

484
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: have more marshmallows? I don't. And then you know what

485
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: the bear says, Well, I guess I'll just eat you.

486
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: The bear never says I'm good. All that does is

487
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: bring a bear into your life demand who's on fire

488
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: for food. That's why you don't feed bears, because they're

489
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: never satisfied. That's why you're never going to satisfy your flesh.

490
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: I'm never going to satisfy mine never. I remember when

491
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: I was dealing with my weight and glutt me. I

492
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: remember people trying to talk about giving me things that

493
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: would help my appetite. I said, that doesn't do any

494
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: good that don't help me. And they said why, I said,

495
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: do you think I'm fat because I stop eating when

496
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: i'm full. I'm fat because I eat whether i'm full

497
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: or not. Anybody ever drank a milkshake cause you were hungry.

498
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: I drank a milk because it tastes good. I ate

499
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: the third piece of Poe, not because I was hungry.

500
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to taste the pie some more. So that

501
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You know, you got to have some sort

502
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: of self control where you realize I've got to be

503
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: able to say I shouldn't overeat. My flesh never says

504
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: we're good. The taste buds say can we get some

505
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: more of that? And I'm like, tastebuds, You've had plenty

506
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: of it, and taste bud say, I'd like to have

507
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: some more. But see, that's what's happening with the flesh. So, yes,

508
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: that's true what Bill Dad is saying. But the problem

509
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: is is that friend Job is not in that situation. Okay,

510
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: a nice warning and certainly true, but it's not what

511
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: Job's dealing with. And somewhere there's been a breakdown in

512
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: this relationship between these men and Job because Job's word

513
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: to them isn't good because they're blinded by bad theology.

514
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: But that sent a minute. So now we get into

515
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: the verse verse eleven terrors frighten him. This is talking

516
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: about the wicked and job on every side and chase

517
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,479
Speaker 1: him at his heels. Do you remember when did they

518
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: did the hunting And this is true too, they did

519
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: the hunting analogy. What's back? The wicked are constantly being harassed,

520
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: being pursued of. This is an analogy here of almost

521
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: like dogs chasing you. And let me tell you something

522
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: I've I've I've been in some bad situations. I've got

523
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: a friend of mine that he and I of course

524
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: didn't live very well. Uh And he said, and this

525
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: never happened to me. I will say, I'm thankful for this.

526
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: We did it on the when I was doing the

527
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: Rick and Bubba show. We did this with Speedy. We

528
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: had him attacked by a police dog in one of

529
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: the suits. And let me tell you something. They're serious there.

530
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: But I had a friend of mine that that actually

531
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: he got so out of hand one time in a

532
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: situation and he said, let me tell you something, Burgess.

533
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: He said, it's not a great feeling when all of

534
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 1: a sudden you hear them release that dog. He said,

535
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: I was running, He said, I was running down at

536
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: Alley's Heart. I could go and I could hear that

537
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: those dog feature and he said, you think to yourself,

538
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: oh no, they've let the dog go. And you know

539
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time too he jumps on you.

540
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: I mean, because you can't outrun him. And he said, hey,

541
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: that thing will knock you on the ground before you

542
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: know it. It's shaking you left and right. And he said,

543
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 1: so just go ahead if they say they're going to

544
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: release the dog, listen to him because there's no there's

545
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: no outrunning the dog. And so what he's saying here

546
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: to the wicked, he said, this is the life you live.

547
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I don't wantnybody to raise your hand.

548
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: I'll raise mine because I've been very frank about being

549
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: delivered from from a wicked, dark life. Again, Bill, Dad

550
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: is right, So let's use this when we have these moments.

551
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: Even though Job's not guilty of this, these are truths

552
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: as far as the wicked. Let me tell you something.

553
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: If you're out there right now and you're living a

554
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: wicked life and you've never repented, of your sin. You

555
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: haven't left faith in yourself and put your faith in Christ.

556
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: I've lived your life, and I know you don't ever

557
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: have peace. You're constantly worried about when when something's gonna

558
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: catch up to you. You can't remember who you lied to,

559
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: You can't remember who you double crossed. You can't remember

560
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: you know you know who that person actually had a

561
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: relationship with. And they're gonna find out that you were

562
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: sneaking around with them. How you took money you shouldn't

563
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: have taken. Hey, in a moment, you know, you decided

564
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: you did what you need to do to get through

565
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: the moment. You've wronged the wrong person. Now they're after you.

566
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: Let me tell you it's it's not a great life.

567
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: It's not a great life. Like I've told you all before.

568
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,239
Speaker 1: I remember, in the center of the darkest days of

569
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: my life, I was cutting grass at my house and

570
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: some yellow jackets flew up out of a hole in

571
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: the ground and hit me in the back of the calves.

572
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: And I never thought I was getting stung by yellow jackets.

573
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: I thought I'd been shot and I and I dove

574
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: on the ground. God they got me, and I start

575
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: rolling down the hill, and I start trying to get

576
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: behind something, and then and then all of a sudden,

577
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: how about this. This is how wicked I was. I

578
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,959
Speaker 1: was thankful it was yellowjackets. I was, Oh, thank god,

579
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: it's just yellowjackets. I mean, because I thought I thought

580
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: I'd been shot, and that was a possibility, because you

581
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 1: just you start running in these wrong circles and you

582
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: do one thing and that, and then that's not enough.

583
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Now I gotta get more wicked. Now, I gotta get

584
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: more daring. And let me try to do that. It's

585
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: never enough, and that flesh keeps going. Let's try something else,

586
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: for you know what you are, You with the wrong people,

587
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: and you don't want to be on the wrong side

588
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: of them. And in that world they play, they play

589
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: a serious game. And that's exactly what Bill Dad's talking about.

590
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: When you're living a life that's wicked. Let me tell

591
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: you the peace that you're looking for. And there's no

592
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: greater feeling, even though there's always gonna be earthly repercussion.

593
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: But if you'll just stop, at least they won't keep compounding.

594
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: Stop it right here, redeem Maybe you can go back

595
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: through there and fix some relationships I've been able to

596
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: fix most of them. Some of them I couldn't fix,

597
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: but I fixed all the dangerous ones. You know what

598
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: I mean. And and but you can start a new life,

599
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: you can be born again. There is a piece that

600
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: comes with finally going. I'm tired of running, I'm tired

601
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: of not being able to sleep. And I was talking

602
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: to some young guys one night and they were and

603
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: it was at an event where I spoke, and they

604
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: came up and they said, we want to know more

605
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: about this redemption and we want to know more about

606
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: this redemption. And and I told them, I said, well,

607
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 1: you heard me talk tonight. I'm not going to tell

608
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: you that your life's going to get easier, but your

609
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: life will get better. And they said, what do you

610
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: mean by that? I said, I've still had really hard days,

611
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: but when i'm my head hits up, pillow, I sleep

612
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: under the piece of redemption. And if even all you

613
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: got is that, that's better than anything you had before,

614
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: because I sure to remember not not being that way,

615
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that's over. And doesn't mean things have

616
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: been easy, but the things that matter have been resolved.

617
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: And there's a piece that comes with that. Amen And

618
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 1: I'm not running from the dogs anymore. So, so now

619
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: we go to twelve. His strength is famished and calamity

620
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: is ready for his stumbling. You know what, you used

621
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: to be a strong man? Job? Look at you? Now?

622
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: Look at you? Now? Where's that vigor that that we

623
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: were all so impressed with? It's turned into calamity, hadn't it.

624
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: How about this? You're stumbling on your very wickedness. You

625
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: don't look so strong, you don't look so blameless and

626
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: upright now all the bigger of Job has turned into

627
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: weakness and calamity. And then you know what Bill Dad's saying.

628
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: And that's about the way it is for the wicked.

629
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: So what other conclusion shall we come to? Job? Look

630
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: like a wicked person does thirteen? It consumes the parts

631
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 1: of his skin. The first born of death consumes his limbs. Now,

632
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: hang on a minute here, because this is a phrase

633
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: that we don't use anymore. And we're going to get

634
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: to his kids, don't They don't think Bill Dad's gonna

635
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: let that go because we know how kind and soft

636
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: hearted he can be. He's saying, look at your skin,

637
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: Look at you, Job. Your skin is just riddled with disease.

638
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: Now this death's first born. What they mean by that,

639
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: the first born of death is disease. And so they're

640
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: looking at him, and he says, look at you. You

641
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: are consumed. We can see it on your skin. You

642
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: are consumed with the firstborn of death. Look at your limbs.

643
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that God would do this

644
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: to you? Do you telling me that a righteous man,

645
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: a blameless, an upright man would be eat up with

646
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: all this disease? Is that what you want us to believe? Job,

647
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: does that sound like the laws of God and the

648
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: laws of the universe. Everything we've ever seen, everything we've

649
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: ever known, tells us otherwise. So God would just let

650
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 1: you be eat up with disease? Well, the answer is yes,

651
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: if that's what would serve him the best, and that's

652
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: what would serve you the best. But that's but they

653
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: don't know that that theology is not theirs. Job is

654
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna learn it, and they're gonna, they're gonna the're go,

655
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna all of these people, Remember, they're gonna be

656
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: dealt with. I know you're I's if you're watching this

657
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: movie for the first time, you're just screaming at the screen.

658
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: I hope these people get theirs. I hope this gets corrected.

659
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: Does it drive you crazy to watch a movie and

660
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: you're like, they don't have this information? Right? When is

661
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: somebody going to clear this up? Does that drive you crazy?

662
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: Like it does? But I can't stand that I'm watching

663
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: the whole time and somebody's thinking, I said, that's not

664
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: what happened. Somebody clear this up. You know the marriage

665
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: was legitimate. I hope they find the paperwork and and

666
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: so that's a movie I just saw. But anyway, so

667
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: he's saying that your body and the disease is another

668
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: thing that tells us about your situation. Now, listen, it's

669
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: important that we know that. Listen. Don't think that this

670
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: theology has gone away. Yeah, they're around. Some of them

671
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: are still around. If you're sick and unhealthy and you're

672
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: poor and you're broke and you're having a rough life,

673
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: it's because you're not right with God. Now they have

674
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: to ignore so much scriptures. I guess they didn't read

675
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: this at all. Okay, And of course if you're healthy

676
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: and wealthy, wow, those are the righteous. Those are the

677
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: ones that are right with God, because he puts out

678
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: blessings on those that are right with him, and he

679
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: punishes those who are not. I will tell you it's

680
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: difficult as this is, but it's important to say it,

681
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: and I think enough times pasted it. It's okay, highly sensitive.

682
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: When my youngest son died his earthly death, there were

683
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: a lot of health, wealth and prosperity folks that were

684
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: trying to pull Sherry and Eye into their world, and

685
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: we kept saying he got too many inconsistencies with scripture,

686
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: and they so wanted to be right. Now, I will

687
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: say this, they didn't. If they did it publicly, if

688
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: they did it privately, I don't know. They never did

689
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: it publicly. They had watched Sherry and Either the way

690
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: we lived our life, though not perfect, but they knew

691
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: that we were right with God. They had acknowledged that themselves,

692
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: and they honestly thought Bronner was going to live because

693
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: of that. I got a call that they were literally

694
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: down at the funeral home trying to get in and

695
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: they were going to raise him from the dead. And

696
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: I said, tell these idiots they got to go. Do

697
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: not let them anywhere near that child's body. And because

698
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: they couldn't let it go, they were still clinging to it.

699
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: And h and I will say not all of them,

700
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: but some of them left that theology after this, and

701
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: they came up to us and said, hey, we were wrong,

702
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: we had that wrong. But that's how that's how how

703
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,720
Speaker 1: much they were hanging on to it. So these things

704
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: are still around, and that's why. Don't don't just sit

705
00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: here and roll your eyes and say, well, I'm glad

706
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: none of this is around anymore. It still is okay,

707
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: even though this theology has been debunked so many times,

708
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: even in the life of Jesus, but for some reason,

709
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: they still cling to it. I guess it is an

710
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: easy sell. And I do believe that nine out of

711
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: ten times they're also being misled by Charlatans who know

712
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 1: it's not true, but they play on people for their gain.

713
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: Notice where the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel usually finds

714
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 1: itself in the poorest parts of town, in third world countries,

715
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: where it's an easy sale, you know, and then you

716
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: keep going, nothing's happening. I'm still sick, I'm still poor

717
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: because you don't have enough faith. If you had enough faith,

718
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: maybe you need to plan a seed with me, because

719
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: I'm a man or woman of God and show God

720
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 1: you're serious this. Think about how disrespectful to God that is.

721
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: We played some kind of game with him. So anyway,

722
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: know that some of that's still out there, and I'm

723
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: sure i'll hear from them today if somebody passes this

724
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: Bible study to them, because I don't think they're watching

725
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: it are listening to it. Let's go to verse fourteen.

726
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: He is torn from the tent which he trusted and

727
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: is brought to the King of Terrors. This is saying, hey, job,

728
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: you know what happens to the wicked. They eventually get arrested,

729
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: and they get carried away from their home, and they

730
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: get carried to their death, and they stand in front

731
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: of the executioner and they receive the death penalty. You

732
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: need to go ahead and confess this because that's what's

733
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: going to happen to you. Job. Now, look what's going

734
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: on in fifteen in his tent dwells that which none

735
00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 1: of his sulfur is scattered over his habitation. His house

736
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: is burned, is what they're saying. We know that he

737
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: had a house destroyed by the tornado. It's a fiery

738
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: lake of destruction. The wicked is headed to doom. The

739
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: very place you were so comfortable will now become a

740
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: lake of fire. Sixteen His roots dry up beneath, and

741
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: his branches whither above again another looking at creation. The

742
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: roots below your tree, they are rotting away, and the

743
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: earth brings up for the wicked, total destruction. It's not

744
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: going to be bringing you know, flowers, it's not going

745
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: to be bringing fruit. Those roots are destroyed. The earth

746
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 1: is nothing but destruction for the wicked. Seventeen His memory

747
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: perishes from the earth. He has no in the street. Now.

748
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind in the ancient Near East where

749
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: we think this is taking place, but even Ford and

750
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: even today to the modern hebrew there is no fate.

751
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: But this is a fate worse than death in the

752
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,760
Speaker 1: Near East, which was happening then and the Hebrews of today,

753
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: the only thing worse than death was for your name

754
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: to be forgotten. They they're they're huge on legacy. And

755
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: if somebody were to say to you, if you want

756
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: to just disrespect somebody in death, there's no greater way

757
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: to do it than to say we won't remember you anymore.

758
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: Your name's gone. Has it has no lasting value of

759
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: any kind to say that his name was going to

760
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: perish from the earth and that there would be nothing

761
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: named after him going forward was about as offensive thing

762
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: as you could say to someone in that culture and

763
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: in the modern Hebrew culture. Eighteen he is thrust from

764
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: the light into darkness and driven out of this world.

765
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: That one's pretty straightforward. There's the light and darkness analogy again.

766
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: This time he is thrust into darkness for his final punishment.

767
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: What Bill Dad is saying right here now, I want

768
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: you to think about this. This is like you looking

769
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: at some friend of yours and say, I thought you

770
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: were redeemed. You're going to help. That's what's about happen

771
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: to you. You're about to die, and you're going to

772
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: die forever. You're going to experience eternal death. Can you

773
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: imagine hearing that? Don't you start looking past these three

774
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: going is anybody else gonna show up? Did he just

775
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: tell me that he thinks that I am not right

776
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: with God to the point that I'm going to be

777
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 1: punished in the lake of fire. I'm going to die

778
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: eternally Verse nineteen. Now this is here comes Bill Dad.

779
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: He's going to the kids. He has no posterity or

780
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: progeny among his people, No survivor where he used to live. Well,

781
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: this is another low blow. See what happens as the

782
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: wicked job. You know what, you got no children. Our

783
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: life and the life of our children is taken away. Job.

784
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: You have no children, You are childless. You had ten children,

785
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: and now because of your wickedness, you got nothing, You

786
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: got zero. Your legacy dies right here. Your family don't

787
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 1: even continue. The kids are gone. And that's what happens

788
00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: to the wicked. I can't imagine him sitting there listening

789
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: to that, but he does. Can you imagine somebody coming

790
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: to mourn with you about the death of your child

791
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: or your children, and instead they walk in and say, well,

792
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: this is your fault. God killed them because your wickedness,

793
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 1: and they're probably wicked to the way they acted. Would

794
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: you want that person in your house as you were

795
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: sitting there weeping? Would that be what you'd want to hear?

796
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: That's what he's here in and he's heard it more

797
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 1: than once at this point verse twenty. They of the

798
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: West are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them

799
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: of the east. You know what he's saying there, everybody's

800
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: horrified by you. I mean, there's nowhere we wouldn't go

801
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: right now, that the name of Job wouldn't be bad,

802
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: East West doesn't matter. Everybody is horrified at the fate

803
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: of the wicked. No one feels good about the wicked.

804
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 1: You can't go anywhere where they celebrate the wicked. All this,

805
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm sure very comforting for Job. And then twenty one.

806
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous? Such is

807
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: the place of him who knows not God. Wow, I

808
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: kind of was getting the picture, you know, when you

809
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: were telling me basically that I was going to hell,

810
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: but you just went ahead and said it. So he's saying,

811
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: where you're going is where you deserve to go, and

812
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: that place is where all the ungodly go, and that's

813
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: where you belong. Now, I want you to think about this.

814
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: He has just described Job as as someone who is

815
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: un righteous, and he is looking for them to comfort him,

816
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: and he can't. He can't find it. This is a

817
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: this is a word that says you don't know God,

818
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: and the place where you should go is the place

819
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: of the ungodly. Mhm. And he's just looking at him.

820
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: And really what you're seeing here is he's talking about

821
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: how gaunt he looks how if you look at the

822
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: words here, he's emaciated, he's he's dying, and he looks scared,

823
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: he looks grotesque, and he's basically saying to job, you'll

824
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 1: never find comfort because you're unrighteous and you know not God.

825
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? I mean, have you ever had anyone

826
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: say that to You've ever had anyone say that? But yeah,

827
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: I know you claim to be redeemed, but I think

828
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: I think you're going to hell. I don't think you

829
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,439
Speaker 1: know God. You know. It's one thing for somebody to say, hey,

830
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: I didn't like something you did. I think it's something

831
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: you I may I disagree on something you said. But

832
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: what if somebody just looked at you and you said,

833
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: I think you're lost. All this time i've known you, you've

834
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: been a fraud, and I know that now because you're suffering.

835
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: I thought I thought you were right with God when

836
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: you were. You had all the riches, you had, all

837
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: these children, you had all this stuff. But it's obvious,

838
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 1: based on artheology, if all this has been taken away

839
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: from you and you're sitting here all gaunt and diseased

840
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: and ying, that God would not be doing that to

841
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: people that know him, he would not be doing that

842
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: to righteous people. You made a claim that you were righteous,

843
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: but all I see is the evidence of the unrighteous.

844
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: But the problem is their definition of righteous and unrighteous

845
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Speaker 1: is wrong, but they don't know it. This is where

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Speaker 1: you could just start screaming at the screen. You're in

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Speaker 1: the story. Somebody, somebody set this right. Well, Job's faith

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Speaker 1: is being tested like no other, and what he says

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Speaker 1: next is going to show while God trusted him, and

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Speaker 1: it's not going to get his friends to stop for

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Speaker 1: a while. I guess. I guess that when we look

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Speaker 1: at this, we have to say, no matter how much

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Speaker 1: people bang on us and beat on us and lie

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Speaker 1: about us and make accusations about us, we just can't

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Speaker 1: give in. We have to keep clinging to what we

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Speaker 1: know is true, and we keep having to go to

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Speaker 1: God and say, I wish you would clear this up,

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Speaker 1: but I have faith that at some point you will,

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Speaker 1: and whatever your timeline is is okay with me. Now Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask this before we close, and I'll

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Speaker 1: close this in prayer. I'm fine with us being job right.

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Speaker 1: Here a lot to learn, but we need to be

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Speaker 1: learning from Bill Dad too, because let's be Sure, let's

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Speaker 1: don't ever get to the point as we're growing spiritually. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is important, and I'm saying this to myself too.

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Speaker 1: Let's don't ever get to the point that we think

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Speaker 1: that we know it all. I've got God figured out,

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Speaker 1: I've learned it and know what the Bible says about everything.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you. But in my sanctification process,

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Speaker 1: I've had to go back and clean some things up

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Speaker 1: that I had wrong the more I studied the Bible.

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Speaker 1: It's also a challenge that if you're not studying the Bible,

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Speaker 1: you have a really good risk of being wrong. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you really don't need to be pontificating to somebody about

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Speaker 1: something you don't know what you're talking about. And so

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Speaker 1: we need to also make sure that we're not still

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Speaker 1: walking around with the things that we thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: from the flannel board at vacation Bible School, about these

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Speaker 1: historic moments in scripture. Sure, maybe as a grown man,

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Speaker 1: it's time for us to learn a little more about

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Speaker 1: it so that we don't go out and see things

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Speaker 1: that aren't true. Let's pray Lord, thank you for today,

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Speaker 1: thank You for the ongoing teaching and sanctification. None of

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Speaker 1: us have arrived. If the apostle Paul said he had

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Speaker 1: not arrived, then I think that would be kind of

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Speaker 1: lofty of any of us, any of us to think

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Speaker 1: we have. We've been Joe, but we've also been built

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Speaker 1: at and we need to assess ourselves to make sure

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Speaker 1: that we are ministering to our friends the way you

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Speaker 1: called us to do it, and approaching a fellow center

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Speaker 1: with that mindset. Hey, I'm just a beggar, and I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to help you define where the bread is not

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Speaker 1: the sanctimonious. I know it all, and because I know

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Speaker 1: so much, you must be wrong. We're not trying to

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Speaker 1: win arguments here. We're trying to all cling to good

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Speaker 1: theology through the discernment of the Holy Spirit. Teach us, Lord,

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Speaker 1: help us to be able to handle the word of

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Speaker 1: God appropriately as a weapon against evil, but not as

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Speaker 1: a weapon against our friends. May we approach them with

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Speaker 1: the right attitude, humble and willing to help. In your

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Speaker 1: Holy name, we pray Amen. Thanks guys,