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Speaker 1: right now to job eighteen and open a word of prayer. Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you for today guide us through the power of
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. So much to learn, so much to learn, Lord,
Speaker 1: and some of this just gets so frustrating, but it
Speaker 1: really prepares us. And one of the things that we've
Speaker 1: decided to do, prompted by You, the Holy Spirit, is
Speaker 1: when we look at Job interacting with his friends, we
Speaker 1: don't always put ourselves in the role of Job. We
Speaker 1: need to also look at ourselves and the role of
Speaker 1: the friend and learn both ways. So help us to
Speaker 1: unpack this correctly through the discernment and the power of You,
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, we pray Amen.
Speaker 1: So here we are so we know that Job has
Speaker 1: been defending himself, and he's gone as far as he's
Speaker 1: asking God to defend him in all the foreshadowing of
Speaker 1: him saying I wish I wish I had an advocate,
Speaker 1: you know, in heaven, and and I know that I'm
Speaker 1: not being punished by God for doing something wrong. I
Speaker 1: do know why I'm being punished by God. He seems
Speaker 1: to be fully aware of that. He's not sure why.
Speaker 1: Now that his friends, you'll you'll hear old Bill Dad today,
Speaker 1: Bill Dad, the brutal he He's he's not confused. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's not confused at all. Uh. He's he's gonna just
Speaker 1: keep doubling down. I know why you're being punished. You're
Speaker 1: being punished because you're wicked. Uh and uh, and so
Speaker 1: that that's not all that pleasant to hear that from
Speaker 1: somebody you thought were your friend. Uh. And you thought
Speaker 1: that he had arrived with your other friends to comfort
Speaker 1: you and to grieve with you. But really they they've
Speaker 1: they've come to accuse him of being with kid and
Speaker 1: sinful and what does he need to come clean about
Speaker 1: because they know and you'll see Bill Dad do that again.
Speaker 1: We know that the wicked are punished period. So in
Speaker 1: the second speech from Bill Dad, he's going to start
Speaker 1: in the first couple of verses pleading with Job to
Speaker 1: give up on this, give up on this, defending yourself,
Speaker 1: let this go, and you just need to realize that
Speaker 1: we're right and you're wrong. He's gonna he's also going
Speaker 1: to criticize Job. This time's different. The first time that
Speaker 1: we heard from Bill Dad, if you remember, he was
Speaker 1: cold hearted, he was to the point, but he was calm.
Speaker 1: This time he's not just cold. He's mad. He's angry,
Speaker 1: he is furious that Joe continues this narrative, and he's
Speaker 1: he's gonna ask Job a question here pretty quick, and
Speaker 1: he's going to base say, do you think we're stupid.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think we were dumb? And he's
Speaker 1: gonna call for Job to respect his friends and listen
Speaker 1: to them, so we know verse one is just showing
Speaker 1: us a change of speaker in chapter eighteen. We learned
Speaker 1: this back in chapter four verse one, that this would
Speaker 1: be how the book would always let us know when
Speaker 1: we have a new speaker. Then Bill, Dad the shoe height,
Speaker 1: answered and said, so now we get into what he's
Speaker 1: gonna say. That's who's saying it. Here's what he said,
Speaker 1: verse two, How long will you hunt for words? Consider?
Speaker 1: Then we will speak? He said, how much longer are
Speaker 1: you going to stick to this narrative? You need to
Speaker 1: be sensible now. By the way, when he tells him
Speaker 1: to be sensible here, this is not this is intended
Speaker 1: to be negative and an insult. It's not don't picture.
Speaker 1: This means something nice like, hey man, let's be calm,
Speaker 1: let's all be sensible. Well, he's if you ever just
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to just grab somebody by the collar
Speaker 1: and say be sensible, I mean, stop this man, You're
Speaker 1: you're out of your gord. Come come to your senses.
Speaker 1: It's really that kind of tone with with Job uh.
Speaker 1: And he says, you are just like you're just you're
Speaker 1: just like all the others who claim to be innocent,
Speaker 1: and we all know they're not because it is true.
Speaker 1: And you've seen this, if you, if you've talked with
Speaker 1: anyone who deals with the legal system in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. Uh, they don't get a whole lot
Speaker 1: of folks in front of them that say they're guilty.
Speaker 1: Everybody's innocent. You ever heard the joke if you, I
Speaker 1: thank god that hasn't happened. And there was a time
Speaker 1: when like it might. But I never have been put
Speaker 1: in prison. But I understand that when you get to prison,
Speaker 1: you find out everybody in they're supposed to shouldn't be
Speaker 1: in there. They're all innocent. Uh. And but but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they actually are. Uh. And so he's saying,
Speaker 1: you know, you're no different than all those people that
Speaker 1: claim to be innocent when they know they're not, and
Speaker 1: it's time for you to stop holding on to this.
Speaker 1: And then he gets in the part about where really,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a Calhoun County commentary on this verse
Speaker 1: in verse three, Why are we counted as cattle? Why
Speaker 1: are we stupid? In your sight? Calhoun County. You think
Speaker 1: we're stupid. I mean, I mean really, you've really lectured
Speaker 1: us here like we like we're dumb, like we don't
Speaker 1: have any sense. So that's what you think of us.
Speaker 1: And then he gets into verse four, you who tear
Speaker 1: yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken? For
Speaker 1: you are the rock removed out of its place. Now
Speaker 1: this is this is big here because Bill Dad's about
Speaker 1: to double down and he's gonna ask a pretty profound question.
Speaker 1: But he's also going to give us a great look
Speaker 1: into the belief system of the day. Now this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a little different because we know that some
Speaker 1: of the others and even Build Dad back the first time,
Speaker 1: they're all kind of saying, this is the theology that
Speaker 1: we've always known about God. But Bill Dad's going to
Speaker 1: do something here, and he's doing something in this verse
Speaker 1: that he's a little bit of apostle Paul here where
Speaker 1: he's kind of leaving the I believe in God, you
Speaker 1: believe in God, And he's now almost going it's so
Speaker 1: obvious that this is true. When Paul tells everyone, no
Speaker 1: one really has an excuse my goodness, look around, God
Speaker 1: reveals himself in creation. And now Bill, Dad's going to say,
Speaker 1: we know this is true. This is the law of
Speaker 1: the universe. And he's saying, you tear your own soul
Speaker 1: in anger, and you're putting out all this anguish and
Speaker 1: you can't believe you're being accused about this, And I
Speaker 1: guess what you want, Job is everything we know to
Speaker 1: be true is suddenly not true because of you. You're
Speaker 1: the one that this doesn't apply to. It's applied to
Speaker 1: everybody else. It's the law of the universe. But no,
Speaker 1: not when it not when it's an accusation of Job.
Speaker 1: When it's an accusation of Job, everything we've always believed
Speaker 1: suddenly is in question because of you. You're the one
Speaker 1: we're gonna change this about well, I mean, all theology
Speaker 1: is going to change because of Job. Let's just take
Speaker 1: the whole universe and restructure it for your benefit. I
Speaker 1: understand his point, if that, if you, if you're that
Speaker 1: locked into it. I do think that Job has made
Speaker 1: some really good points that that his friends just don't
Speaker 1: seem to acknowledge. You ever done Have you ever done
Speaker 1: that before? Have you ever had somebody come to you
Speaker 1: and say this, this, this and that, and you go,
Speaker 1: I can actually refute that. Have you considered that this
Speaker 1: happened so that that that's a that's a problem. And
Speaker 1: you remember they never have acknowledged it. When Job when
Speaker 1: we were talking on one of his narrative and he said,
Speaker 1: here's where we got a flaw and what we've always believed.
Speaker 1: There's pagans all around us. They blaspheme God, and I
Speaker 1: don't see him treating them like he is me. So
Speaker 1: maybe maybe the wicked are always punished by God because
Speaker 1: of their wickedness. We got some examples right around our
Speaker 1: neighborhood that that doesn't seem to be true. No one,
Speaker 1: none of his friends have ever said, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's something to consider. They and if you've ever been
Speaker 1: in a situation defending yourself like that and you can't
Speaker 1: you just can't get them off the narrative. You're just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't know what else to say. I've done
Speaker 1: this in theological you know things before, because you know,
Speaker 1: like I've told you many times, being in the entertainment
Speaker 1: business and being you know, I'm not I'm a Christian
Speaker 1: who does radio. I don't do Christian radio, so so
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's that horrible line that's hard to
Speaker 1: walk in the world, but not of the world. But
Speaker 1: it's what we've been called to and we're supposed to,
Speaker 1: you know, stand on our faith no matter where we are.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you that most of the problems
Speaker 1: I get are not from people who say I reject
Speaker 1: your religious views. Most of the stuff that I get
Speaker 1: is denominational arguments. And most of the complaints I get
Speaker 1: is you're not doing it right, and and you I
Speaker 1: can't believe that you're teaching that because and then you go, well,
Speaker 1: here's where I get that from. I just dealt with
Speaker 1: a guy a minute ago, and I said, the problem,
Speaker 1: the thing I find the most offensive by your your
Speaker 1: email is that you think that everything that I teaching
Speaker 1: comes from the denomination I was raised in. You're and
Speaker 1: you're making it that elementary, and you're just completely discounting
Speaker 1: the the mobs, decades of Bible study, the decades a
Speaker 1: verse by verse teaching, the curriculum, the devotions, the teaching.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're treat me like I'm somebody who just
Speaker 1: walked into, you know, a Southern Baptist church and everybody
Speaker 1: told me what I was supposed to believe, and I
Speaker 1: walked out that's the extent of my wholee of theology.
Speaker 1: And then you go, here's a verse, here's a verse,
Speaker 1: here's a verse, here's a verse, here's a verse, here's
Speaker 1: a verse, here's a verse. And they come back and
Speaker 1: they say, say, you're completely wrong, and you just go, well,
Speaker 1: there's just not much. There's nothing else I can do.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you defend yourself, and even with the best
Speaker 1: defense you can possibly come up with, some people are
Speaker 1: not coming to you for a discussion. They're coming to
Speaker 1: you to win an argument, and they've already decided that
Speaker 1: what they say must be the win. And at that
Speaker 1: point you just kind of say, I remember when I
Speaker 1: was just man. I was just so in nineteen ninety seven, Man,
Speaker 1: I was ready to go and I was ready to
Speaker 1: fight and argue on any anywhere, anytime. But I had
Speaker 1: a lot or life left inn at sixty. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can feel my life being sucked away by you.
Speaker 1: I got to move on to something else that seems
Speaker 1: a little more positive. So so I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: willing to waller around with the unreasonable, as I've told you,
Speaker 1: like I maybe once was when I was younger and
Speaker 1: maybe not as uh not as wise. All right, so
Speaker 1: now we're going to get in to retribution. Here comes Bill. Dad.
Speaker 1: He's now going to say, I'm going right back to it,
Speaker 1: retribution on the wicked. Now there's two kinds of this,
Speaker 1: and it's going to get a little different in here
Speaker 1: is he's he's going to He's going to instead of
Speaker 1: the divine retribution. You know, this is God is active
Speaker 1: in the administration of justice and the punishment of offenders.
Speaker 1: He's also going to jump over here and not the
Speaker 1: divine retribution, but the dynamistic natural system of justice. You know,
Speaker 1: it's Bill into the universe. It takes over to enforce
Speaker 1: God's laws. You know, God is doing this, but he's
Speaker 1: doing it through the universe, not just from his divine place.
Speaker 1: You know. An example would be the law of gravity.
Speaker 1: We know God still behind that, but the universe has
Speaker 1: affirmed the law of gravity, So build that seems now,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe he tried the other. And now he's
Speaker 1: just going to start saying, I mean, look all around you.
Speaker 1: I mean, the universe is telling us about the retribution
Speaker 1: for the wicked. In course, God's behind the universe. He's
Speaker 1: not denying that, but it's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: different approach. Everybody's still tracking with me on that one.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to take a turn there, but I
Speaker 1: want you to be aware of that. So we go
Speaker 1: into five and he says, Indeed, the light of the
Speaker 1: wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire
Speaker 1: does not shine. He says, look, Job, this darkness you
Speaker 1: keep talking about and you've brought this up yourself, buddy,
Speaker 1: this darkness. Do you keep talking about this darkness that
Speaker 1: you sense? It's because your light is growing dim and
Speaker 1: your light is growing dim, and this darkness is coming
Speaker 1: upon you because you're wicked. You're trying to blame it
Speaker 1: on something else. But that's what's happening. Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: And I still one of the best emails I've gotten
Speaker 1: in this study, and I shared this with you a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, as someone says, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: amazed at how everyone gets to finish their dialogue. No
Speaker 1: one's interrupting. Does Job just sit there and go, huh,
Speaker 1: here we go again. Let's let him finish and then
Speaker 1: I'll come back again. And one of the most famous
Speaker 1: coming backs that you probably are most aware of from
Speaker 1: Job comes next week in nineteen. So anyway, so he says,
Speaker 1: this is why you're this way, and I look at six.
Speaker 1: The light is dark in his tent and his lamp
Speaker 1: above him is put out again darkness here Bill Dad says,
Speaker 1: that's actually equaling death. And I'm just telling you this
Speaker 1: darkness you have that you know right now, the dark
Speaker 1: in your tent and the reason why the lamp that's
Speaker 1: usually there is being put out is I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you something. Job, you're so wicked that you are
Speaker 1: about to die because God is going to kill you.
Speaker 1: That's what all this about. Your your your life's closing
Speaker 1: on you. Your light's being put out, your tent's being
Speaker 1: filled with darkness. Now he's going to go next and
Speaker 1: he's going to talk about the wicked. Look at him
Speaker 1: in seven. His strong steps are shortened and his own
Speaker 1: schemes throw him down. Now you you what he's saying here,
Speaker 1: and this is true, by the way, the wicked are
Speaker 1: not growing stronger again. Remember he's using this, uh, this
Speaker 1: dynamistic retribution. We we've watched the wicked, and we know
Speaker 1: they don't get stronger. We know that things don't get better,
Speaker 1: they start getting weaker. You know, kind of like you,
Speaker 1: and they start to waste away in front of us,
Speaker 1: kind of like you. And so eventually all these schemes
Speaker 1: that you are hiding from us, Joe, because apparently they're
Speaker 1: there because God's punished you, and so is the universe. Eventually,
Speaker 1: these same schemes that you're protecting that you won't deal with,
Speaker 1: they're eventually going to lead to your demise. Well, that's
Speaker 1: true if they're there, right, I mean, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things. You know, if you're doing wicked and you're
Speaker 1: doing evil, there's a period of time will you almost
Speaker 1: think you're getting away with it, But the wicked don't
Speaker 1: get away with it. It appears to us they do
Speaker 1: sometimes in the short term, but in the long term
Speaker 1: they don't get away with it. And he's saying, you know,
Speaker 1: you may you were all big and strong, you were
Speaker 1: the man, but now those strong steps are shortened, and
Speaker 1: those those schemes, whatever they are, they're going to do
Speaker 1: you in. You won't be so strong. You're not so
Speaker 1: strong now, are you why? Because of your schemes again,
Speaker 1: just not even remotely veering off of the old theology.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna talk about how you've been trapped in
Speaker 1: your schemes. He's really gonna double down in verses eight
Speaker 1: through ten, He's gonna use six synonyms for a trap.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the net now. Now listen, it's
Speaker 1: a different kind of set up here. Don't put your
Speaker 1: a net that we throw into the water. It's a
Speaker 1: little different here, for he is cast into a net
Speaker 1: by his own feet, and here here's where it explains it,
Speaker 1: and he walks on its mesh. The vision you need
Speaker 1: to have here is trapping an animal. And you know
Speaker 1: how they would. They would dig these big holes and
Speaker 1: they would put mesh over the top of it, and
Speaker 1: then of course the animal trips up in the in
Speaker 1: the mesh, falls down in the hole, and they've also
Speaker 1: got the net that they can eventually get him with.
Speaker 1: This is like a net that would be over a pit,
Speaker 1: So it's thrown over a pit, not into the water.
Speaker 1: The wicked walk on that mesh and it doesn't hold
Speaker 1: them and they fall in. You're on shaky ground, Joe.
Speaker 1: You're not on a firm foundation anymore. You might as
Speaker 1: well be standing on a piece of mesh over a hole,
Speaker 1: and all this is coming down on you. We can
Speaker 1: all see that you're about to be done in. It's
Speaker 1: all coming down on you. You've set a trap, and
Speaker 1: how about this, you have snagged yourself in it. Look
Speaker 1: at nine. The trap seizes him by the heel and
Speaker 1: the snare lays hold of him. How many of you
Speaker 1: have ever set a snare and tried to catch an animal?
Speaker 1: My hands up? You know. This week he's talking about,
Speaker 1: what do you do? You kind of camouflage it, you
Speaker 1: kind of hide it. You know, you set it up
Speaker 1: and you hope the animal steps in there with what
Speaker 1: they're foot. See here the heel, it snatches them and
Speaker 1: pulls them up. He said, that's what's about to happen
Speaker 1: to you. You're about to be snatched by the heel because
Speaker 1: the lord in the universe that has laid a snare
Speaker 1: out and your wickedness has blinded you and you've walked
Speaker 1: right into it. And now this you're getting what you deserve.
Speaker 1: Look at Ten's key's caught in their own snare. But
Speaker 1: then he gets to ten and we're talking about a noose. Now,
Speaker 1: a rope is hidden for him in the ground, a
Speaker 1: trap set for him in the path. Now this one,
Speaker 1: if you look at the original language, here that we're
Speaker 1: talking about a noose now, kind of a lasso that's
Speaker 1: been camouflaged on the ground, very similar to a snare.
Speaker 1: And and of course job doesn't see it. And the
Speaker 1: reason why don't forget what Bill Dad is always insinuating
Speaker 1: the reason why you don't see this news that's clearly
Speaker 1: on the ground. You don't see it because your wickedness
Speaker 1: is blinded you. Well, again Bill Dad's talking about sin
Speaker 1: does do that, and he is right about that. I
Speaker 1: have been blinded by sin and I have not seen
Speaker 1: the trap that was set before me. And I'll go
Speaker 1: further to say this, and this what you got to
Speaker 1: watch out about. You said nature. Remember, if you're redeemed
Speaker 1: and you're in this room, or you're redeemed and you're
Speaker 1: out there, you're in a battle. You can decide you
Speaker 1: don't want to be in it. I don't lie, I
Speaker 1: want to be in about it. You're in a battle.
Speaker 1: It does it does not matter. There's a battle going
Speaker 1: on right now in the supernatural realm. There's a battle
Speaker 1: going on with you flesh. There's a battle going on
Speaker 1: with you spirit. There is a battle raging now. If
Speaker 1: you're out there and you go I don't feel a battle,
Speaker 1: then you're probably not redeemed. That means your spirit still dead. Uh,
Speaker 1: and you're not under conviction. You're not under a struggle because,
Speaker 1: let's face it, the flesh has no opponent, so it
Speaker 1: just wins. But I can remember I can't even remember
Speaker 1: the flesh being so strong when my spirit was dead.
Speaker 1: That it was it was plainly obvious that the things
Speaker 1: I was doing in the games I was, I was
Speaker 1: playing that that they were eventually going to do me in.
Speaker 1: I mean, just about every everybody who lived the way
Speaker 1: I was living got themselves in trouble. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you that was not enough to make me stop
Speaker 1: doing it. It's the reason why when we start talking
Speaker 1: about things like sexual purity. Okay, I'm just to be
Speaker 1: very frank here. If you're parenting, or you're in some
Speaker 1: leadership role, and you have a biblical world view and
Speaker 1: you've been redeemed, please don't try to get your children
Speaker 1: to stay sexually pure by trying to scare them over
Speaker 1: earthly consequences. It doesn't work. You gonna get somebody pregnant,
Speaker 1: You can get yourself pregnant. You don't catch some disease,
Speaker 1: No one thinks that's going to happen to them, and
Speaker 1: it's not enough, frankly, to overcome the desires of the flesh.
Speaker 1: What you need to teach them is God's standard is
Speaker 1: going to be violated by this, and you will sin
Speaker 1: against the one and only living God, and you will
Speaker 1: regret that. You will wish that you were standing on
Speaker 1: your wedding day and you would have done things the
Speaker 1: way God said to do them. And trust me this,
Speaker 1: if you've already messed up, you can be redeemed, then
Speaker 1: go ahead and set that right. You can be made
Speaker 1: pure again. But let me assure you that God has
Speaker 1: called us to a sexual purity that is sin. If
Speaker 1: we don't do it, and you will not be sending
Speaker 1: against your parents, certainly will be disappointed. You won't just
Speaker 1: be sinning against yourself. Certainly you'll regret it. You're sinning
Speaker 1: against the one and only living God. And if you
Speaker 1: truly want to be right with God, you don't compromise
Speaker 1: your sexual purity because that's his standard. That's such a
Speaker 1: better teaching that you're gonna get yourself pregnant, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna get somebody pregnant, or you're gonna catch some disease.
Speaker 1: Nobody listens to that. So so, and you think the
Speaker 1: people who are committing sex before marriage, you think they
Speaker 1: don't know that that that could happen. Of course they
Speaker 1: know that it's just not enough. It's just not enough.
Speaker 1: If that's all it took, everybody would be sexually pure, right,
Speaker 1: they would all wait to marriage, you know. But but
Speaker 1: people know that's they already know that's out there. And
Speaker 1: I knew the things I was doing could and likely
Speaker 1: would get me in trouble. But let me tell what
Speaker 1: the flesh says. But let's not worry about that today. Today,
Speaker 1: let's just satisfy ourselves in the moment. Let's just do
Speaker 1: what we want to do. But what's going to happen
Speaker 1: after this? Hi? Who cares? And and you've been there,
Speaker 1: I've been there. In the moment, you went all in
Speaker 1: because all you cared about was satisfying your flesh. And
Speaker 1: the minute the flesh you thought would be good, the
Speaker 1: flesh comes back and says you shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 1: And then then all of a sudden, just a minute,
Speaker 1: you feel kind of bad about it. And what happens
Speaker 1: just a little bit later, when we're gonna do it again,
Speaker 1: it's just a never end of cycle. I've told you
Speaker 1: all this years ago, but it's probably worth repeating. How
Speaker 1: many of you have ever been around been in some
Speaker 1: national park, which, by the way, can I just tell
Speaker 1: all of you out there? How many more people got
Speaker 1: to be gored by buffalo? How many more people got
Speaker 1: to be run over? Stop trying to pet the buffaloes?
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Have we not learned this bison
Speaker 1: thing yet? Don't go pet a bison. Every day on
Speaker 1: the show we get videos of more people getting knocked
Speaker 1: up in the air by bison. How many more people
Speaker 1: have to be knocked up in the air for you
Speaker 1: to go. I don't want to be knocked up in the
Speaker 1: air by bison. I'm not going near it. But if
Speaker 1: you've ever been in these parks and I'm dealing with bears, now,
Speaker 1: what are we always seeing? Do not feed the bears?
Speaker 1: Some of you are we going? I know this now,
Speaker 1: Jerix using before? Don't feed the bears. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: kind of one of these people that you know you're
Speaker 1: a little too into animals, Okay, probably more than you
Speaker 1: should be. Let's be good conservationist. Let's not worship animals.
Speaker 1: You're probably thinking, oh, they do that for the bear.
Speaker 1: They don't want the bear to have a bad diet.
Speaker 1: Marshmallows and stuff are not good for bears. That has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. The reason why they do
Speaker 1: that is because the bear will never say, twelve marshmallows
Speaker 1: are enough for me. I'm good. Hey, that water melon
Speaker 1: was great, Take the rest of it home. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't put refrigerator. Y'all can have it tomorrow when you're
Speaker 1: out of food. The bear says, where's the food? Well,
Speaker 1: I gave you all the marshmallows I had. Do you
Speaker 1: have more marshmallows? I don't. And then you know what
Speaker 1: the bear says, Well, I guess I'll just eat you.
Speaker 1: The bear never says I'm good. All that does is
Speaker 1: bring a bear into your life demand who's on fire
Speaker 1: for food. That's why you don't feed bears, because they're
Speaker 1: never satisfied. That's why you're never going to satisfy your flesh.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to satisfy mine never. I remember when
Speaker 1: I was dealing with my weight and glutt me. I
Speaker 1: remember people trying to talk about giving me things that
Speaker 1: would help my appetite. I said, that doesn't do any
Speaker 1: good that don't help me. And they said why, I said,
Speaker 1: do you think I'm fat because I stop eating when
Speaker 1: i'm full. I'm fat because I eat whether i'm full
Speaker 1: or not. Anybody ever drank a milkshake cause you were hungry.
Speaker 1: I drank a milk because it tastes good. I ate
Speaker 1: the third piece of Poe, not because I was hungry.
Speaker 1: I wanted to taste the pie some more. So that
Speaker 1: doesn't work. You know, you got to have some sort
Speaker 1: of self control where you realize I've got to be
Speaker 1: able to say I shouldn't overeat. My flesh never says
Speaker 1: we're good. The taste buds say can we get some
Speaker 1: more of that? And I'm like, tastebuds, You've had plenty
Speaker 1: of it, and taste bud say, I'd like to have
Speaker 1: some more. But see, that's what's happening with the flesh. So, yes,
Speaker 1: that's true what Bill Dad is saying. But the problem
Speaker 1: is is that friend Job is not in that situation. Okay,
Speaker 1: a nice warning and certainly true, but it's not what
Speaker 1: Job's dealing with. And somewhere there's been a breakdown in
Speaker 1: this relationship between these men and Job because Job's word
Speaker 1: to them isn't good because they're blinded by bad theology.
Speaker 1: But that sent a minute. So now we get into
Speaker 1: the verse verse eleven terrors frighten him. This is talking
Speaker 1: about the wicked and job on every side and chase
Speaker 1: him at his heels. Do you remember when did they
Speaker 1: did the hunting And this is true too, they did
Speaker 1: the hunting analogy. What's back? The wicked are constantly being harassed,
Speaker 1: being pursued of. This is an analogy here of almost
Speaker 1: like dogs chasing you. And let me tell you something
Speaker 1: I've I've I've been in some bad situations. I've got
Speaker 1: a friend of mine that he and I of course
Speaker 1: didn't live very well. Uh And he said, and this
Speaker 1: never happened to me. I will say, I'm thankful for this.
Speaker 1: We did it on the when I was doing the
Speaker 1: Rick and Bubba show. We did this with Speedy. We
Speaker 1: had him attacked by a police dog in one of
Speaker 1: the suits. And let me tell you something. They're serious there.
Speaker 1: But I had a friend of mine that that actually
Speaker 1: he got so out of hand one time in a
Speaker 1: situation and he said, let me tell you something, Burgess.
Speaker 1: He said, it's not a great feeling when all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you hear them release that dog. He said,
Speaker 1: I was running, He said, I was running down at
Speaker 1: Alley's Heart. I could go and I could hear that
Speaker 1: those dog feature and he said, you think to yourself,
Speaker 1: oh no, they've let the dog go. And you know
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time too he jumps on you.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you can't outrun him. And he said, hey,
Speaker 1: that thing will knock you on the ground before you
Speaker 1: know it. It's shaking you left and right. And he said,
Speaker 1: so just go ahead if they say they're going to
Speaker 1: release the dog, listen to him because there's no there's
Speaker 1: no outrunning the dog. And so what he's saying here
Speaker 1: to the wicked, he said, this is the life you live.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I don't wantnybody to raise your hand.
Speaker 1: I'll raise mine because I've been very frank about being
Speaker 1: delivered from from a wicked, dark life. Again, Bill, Dad
Speaker 1: is right, So let's use this when we have these moments.
Speaker 1: Even though Job's not guilty of this, these are truths
Speaker 1: as far as the wicked. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: If you're out there right now and you're living a
Speaker 1: wicked life and you've never repented, of your sin. You
Speaker 1: haven't left faith in yourself and put your faith in Christ.
Speaker 1: I've lived your life, and I know you don't ever
Speaker 1: have peace. You're constantly worried about when when something's gonna
Speaker 1: catch up to you. You can't remember who you lied to,
Speaker 1: You can't remember who you double crossed. You can't remember
Speaker 1: you know you know who that person actually had a
Speaker 1: relationship with. And they're gonna find out that you were
Speaker 1: sneaking around with them. How you took money you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have taken. Hey, in a moment, you know, you decided
Speaker 1: you did what you need to do to get through
Speaker 1: the moment. You've wronged the wrong person. Now they're after you.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you it's it's not a great life.
Speaker 1: It's not a great life. Like I've told you all before.
Speaker 1: I remember, in the center of the darkest days of
Speaker 1: my life, I was cutting grass at my house and
Speaker 1: some yellow jackets flew up out of a hole in
Speaker 1: the ground and hit me in the back of the calves.
Speaker 1: And I never thought I was getting stung by yellow jackets.
Speaker 1: I thought I'd been shot and I and I dove
Speaker 1: on the ground. God they got me, and I start
Speaker 1: rolling down the hill, and I start trying to get
Speaker 1: behind something, and then and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: how about this. This is how wicked I was. I
Speaker 1: was thankful it was yellowjackets. I was, Oh, thank god,
Speaker 1: it's just yellowjackets. I mean, because I thought I thought
Speaker 1: I'd been shot, and that was a possibility, because you
Speaker 1: just you start running in these wrong circles and you
Speaker 1: do one thing and that, and then that's not enough.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta get more wicked. Now, I gotta get
Speaker 1: more daring. And let me try to do that. It's
Speaker 1: never enough, and that flesh keeps going. Let's try something else,
Speaker 1: for you know what you are, You with the wrong people,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to be on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of them. And in that world they play, they play
Speaker 1: a serious game. And that's exactly what Bill Dad's talking about.
Speaker 1: When you're living a life that's wicked. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you the peace that you're looking for. And there's no
Speaker 1: greater feeling, even though there's always gonna be earthly repercussion.
Speaker 1: But if you'll just stop, at least they won't keep compounding.
Speaker 1: Stop it right here, redeem Maybe you can go back
Speaker 1: through there and fix some relationships I've been able to
Speaker 1: fix most of them. Some of them I couldn't fix,
Speaker 1: but I fixed all the dangerous ones. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And and but you can start a new life,
Speaker 1: you can be born again. There is a piece that
Speaker 1: comes with finally going. I'm tired of running, I'm tired
Speaker 1: of not being able to sleep. And I was talking
Speaker 1: to some young guys one night and they were and
Speaker 1: it was at an event where I spoke, and they
Speaker 1: came up and they said, we want to know more
Speaker 1: about this redemption and we want to know more about
Speaker 1: this redemption. And and I told them, I said, well,
Speaker 1: you heard me talk tonight. I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you that your life's going to get easier, but your
Speaker 1: life will get better. And they said, what do you
Speaker 1: mean by that? I said, I've still had really hard days,
Speaker 1: but when i'm my head hits up, pillow, I sleep
Speaker 1: under the piece of redemption. And if even all you
Speaker 1: got is that, that's better than anything you had before,
Speaker 1: because I sure to remember not not being that way,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that's over. And doesn't mean things have
Speaker 1: been easy, but the things that matter have been resolved.
Speaker 1: And there's a piece that comes with that. Amen And
Speaker 1: I'm not running from the dogs anymore. So, so now
Speaker 1: we go to twelve. His strength is famished and calamity
Speaker 1: is ready for his stumbling. You know what, you used
Speaker 1: to be a strong man? Job? Look at you? Now?
Speaker 1: Look at you? Now? Where's that vigor that that we
Speaker 1: were all so impressed with? It's turned into calamity, hadn't it.
Speaker 1: How about this? You're stumbling on your very wickedness. You
Speaker 1: don't look so strong, you don't look so blameless and
Speaker 1: upright now all the bigger of Job has turned into
Speaker 1: weakness and calamity. And then you know what Bill Dad's saying.
Speaker 1: And that's about the way it is for the wicked.
Speaker 1: So what other conclusion shall we come to? Job? Look
Speaker 1: like a wicked person does thirteen? It consumes the parts
Speaker 1: of his skin. The first born of death consumes his limbs. Now,
Speaker 1: hang on a minute here, because this is a phrase
Speaker 1: that we don't use anymore. And we're going to get
Speaker 1: to his kids, don't They don't think Bill Dad's gonna
Speaker 1: let that go because we know how kind and soft
Speaker 1: hearted he can be. He's saying, look at your skin,
Speaker 1: Look at you, Job. Your skin is just riddled with disease.
Speaker 1: Now this death's first born. What they mean by that,
Speaker 1: the first born of death is disease. And so they're
Speaker 1: looking at him, and he says, look at you. You
Speaker 1: are consumed. We can see it on your skin. You
Speaker 1: are consumed with the firstborn of death. Look at your limbs.
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that God would do this
Speaker 1: to you? Do you telling me that a righteous man,
Speaker 1: a blameless, an upright man would be eat up with
Speaker 1: all this disease? Is that what you want us to believe? Job,
Speaker 1: does that sound like the laws of God and the
Speaker 1: laws of the universe. Everything we've ever seen, everything we've
Speaker 1: ever known, tells us otherwise. So God would just let
Speaker 1: you be eat up with disease? Well, the answer is yes,
Speaker 1: if that's what would serve him the best, and that's
Speaker 1: what would serve you the best. But that's but they
Speaker 1: don't know that that theology is not theirs. Job is
Speaker 1: gonna learn it, and they're gonna, they're gonna the're go,
Speaker 1: They're gonna all of these people, Remember, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: dealt with. I know you're I's if you're watching this
Speaker 1: movie for the first time, you're just screaming at the screen.
Speaker 1: I hope these people get theirs. I hope this gets corrected.
Speaker 1: Does it drive you crazy to watch a movie and
Speaker 1: you're like, they don't have this information? Right? When is
Speaker 1: somebody going to clear this up? Does that drive you crazy?
Speaker 1: Like it does? But I can't stand that I'm watching
Speaker 1: the whole time and somebody's thinking, I said, that's not
Speaker 1: what happened. Somebody clear this up. You know the marriage
Speaker 1: was legitimate. I hope they find the paperwork and and
Speaker 1: so that's a movie I just saw. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: he's saying that your body and the disease is another
Speaker 1: thing that tells us about your situation. Now, listen, it's
Speaker 1: important that we know that. Listen. Don't think that this
Speaker 1: theology has gone away. Yeah, they're around. Some of them
Speaker 1: are still around. If you're sick and unhealthy and you're
Speaker 1: poor and you're broke and you're having a rough life,
Speaker 1: it's because you're not right with God. Now they have
Speaker 1: to ignore so much scriptures. I guess they didn't read
Speaker 1: this at all. Okay, And of course if you're healthy
Speaker 1: and wealthy, wow, those are the righteous. Those are the
Speaker 1: ones that are right with God, because he puts out
Speaker 1: blessings on those that are right with him, and he
Speaker 1: punishes those who are not. I will tell you it's
Speaker 1: difficult as this is, but it's important to say it,
Speaker 1: and I think enough times pasted it. It's okay, highly sensitive.
Speaker 1: When my youngest son died his earthly death, there were
Speaker 1: a lot of health, wealth and prosperity folks that were
Speaker 1: trying to pull Sherry and Eye into their world, and
Speaker 1: we kept saying he got too many inconsistencies with scripture,
Speaker 1: and they so wanted to be right. Now, I will
Speaker 1: say this, they didn't. If they did it publicly, if
Speaker 1: they did it privately, I don't know. They never did
Speaker 1: it publicly. They had watched Sherry and Either the way
Speaker 1: we lived our life, though not perfect, but they knew
Speaker 1: that we were right with God. They had acknowledged that themselves,
Speaker 1: and they honestly thought Bronner was going to live because
Speaker 1: of that. I got a call that they were literally
Speaker 1: down at the funeral home trying to get in and
Speaker 1: they were going to raise him from the dead. And
Speaker 1: I said, tell these idiots they got to go. Do
Speaker 1: not let them anywhere near that child's body. And because
Speaker 1: they couldn't let it go, they were still clinging to it.
Speaker 1: And h and I will say not all of them,
Speaker 1: but some of them left that theology after this, and
Speaker 1: they came up to us and said, hey, we were wrong,
Speaker 1: we had that wrong. But that's how that's how how
Speaker 1: much they were hanging on to it. So these things
Speaker 1: are still around, and that's why. Don't don't just sit
Speaker 1: here and roll your eyes and say, well, I'm glad
Speaker 1: none of this is around anymore. It still is okay,
Speaker 1: even though this theology has been debunked so many times,
Speaker 1: even in the life of Jesus, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: they still cling to it. I guess it is an
Speaker 1: easy sell. And I do believe that nine out of
Speaker 1: ten times they're also being misled by Charlatans who know
Speaker 1: it's not true, but they play on people for their gain.
Speaker 1: Notice where the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel usually finds
Speaker 1: itself in the poorest parts of town, in third world countries,
Speaker 1: where it's an easy sale, you know, and then you
Speaker 1: keep going, nothing's happening. I'm still sick, I'm still poor
Speaker 1: because you don't have enough faith. If you had enough faith,
Speaker 1: maybe you need to plan a seed with me, because
Speaker 1: I'm a man or woman of God and show God
Speaker 1: you're serious this. Think about how disrespectful to God that is.
Speaker 1: We played some kind of game with him. So anyway,
Speaker 1: know that some of that's still out there, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure i'll hear from them today if somebody passes this
Speaker 1: Bible study to them, because I don't think they're watching
Speaker 1: it are listening to it. Let's go to verse fourteen.
Speaker 1: He is torn from the tent which he trusted and
Speaker 1: is brought to the King of Terrors. This is saying, hey, job,
Speaker 1: you know what happens to the wicked. They eventually get arrested,
Speaker 1: and they get carried away from their home, and they
Speaker 1: get carried to their death, and they stand in front
Speaker 1: of the executioner and they receive the death penalty. You
Speaker 1: need to go ahead and confess this because that's what's
Speaker 1: going to happen to you. Job. Now, look what's going
Speaker 1: on in fifteen in his tent dwells that which none
Speaker 1: of his sulfur is scattered over his habitation. His house
Speaker 1: is burned, is what they're saying. We know that he
Speaker 1: had a house destroyed by the tornado. It's a fiery
Speaker 1: lake of destruction. The wicked is headed to doom. The
Speaker 1: very place you were so comfortable will now become a
Speaker 1: lake of fire. Sixteen His roots dry up beneath, and
Speaker 1: his branches whither above again another looking at creation. The
Speaker 1: roots below your tree, they are rotting away, and the
Speaker 1: earth brings up for the wicked, total destruction. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be bringing you know, flowers, it's not going
Speaker 1: to be bringing fruit. Those roots are destroyed. The earth
Speaker 1: is nothing but destruction for the wicked. Seventeen His memory
Speaker 1: perishes from the earth. He has no in the street. Now.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind in the ancient Near East where
Speaker 1: we think this is taking place, but even Ford and
Speaker 1: even today to the modern hebrew there is no fate.
Speaker 1: But this is a fate worse than death in the
Speaker 1: Near East, which was happening then and the Hebrews of today,
Speaker 1: the only thing worse than death was for your name
Speaker 1: to be forgotten. They they're they're huge on legacy. And
Speaker 1: if somebody were to say to you, if you want
Speaker 1: to just disrespect somebody in death, there's no greater way
Speaker 1: to do it than to say we won't remember you anymore.
Speaker 1: Your name's gone. Has it has no lasting value of
Speaker 1: any kind to say that his name was going to
Speaker 1: perish from the earth and that there would be nothing
Speaker 1: named after him going forward was about as offensive thing
Speaker 1: as you could say to someone in that culture and
Speaker 1: in the modern Hebrew culture. Eighteen he is thrust from
Speaker 1: the light into darkness and driven out of this world.
Speaker 1: That one's pretty straightforward. There's the light and darkness analogy again.
Speaker 1: This time he is thrust into darkness for his final punishment.
Speaker 1: What Bill Dad is saying right here now, I want
Speaker 1: you to think about this. This is like you looking
Speaker 1: at some friend of yours and say, I thought you
Speaker 1: were redeemed. You're going to help. That's what's about happen
Speaker 1: to you. You're about to die, and you're going to
Speaker 1: die forever. You're going to experience eternal death. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine hearing that? Don't you start looking past these three
Speaker 1: going is anybody else gonna show up? Did he just
Speaker 1: tell me that he thinks that I am not right
Speaker 1: with God to the point that I'm going to be
Speaker 1: punished in the lake of fire. I'm going to die
Speaker 1: eternally Verse nineteen. Now this is here comes Bill Dad.
Speaker 1: He's going to the kids. He has no posterity or
Speaker 1: progeny among his people, No survivor where he used to live. Well,
Speaker 1: this is another low blow. See what happens as the
Speaker 1: wicked job. You know what, you got no children. Our
Speaker 1: life and the life of our children is taken away. Job.
Speaker 1: You have no children, You are childless. You had ten children,
Speaker 1: and now because of your wickedness, you got nothing, You
Speaker 1: got zero. Your legacy dies right here. Your family don't
Speaker 1: even continue. The kids are gone. And that's what happens
Speaker 1: to the wicked. I can't imagine him sitting there listening
Speaker 1: to that, but he does. Can you imagine somebody coming
Speaker 1: to mourn with you about the death of your child
Speaker 1: or your children, and instead they walk in and say, well,
Speaker 1: this is your fault. God killed them because your wickedness,
Speaker 1: and they're probably wicked to the way they acted. Would
Speaker 1: you want that person in your house as you were
Speaker 1: sitting there weeping? Would that be what you'd want to hear?
Speaker 1: That's what he's here in and he's heard it more
Speaker 1: than once at this point verse twenty. They of the
Speaker 1: West are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them
Speaker 1: of the east. You know what he's saying there, everybody's
Speaker 1: horrified by you. I mean, there's nowhere we wouldn't go
Speaker 1: right now, that the name of Job wouldn't be bad,
Speaker 1: East West doesn't matter. Everybody is horrified at the fate
Speaker 1: of the wicked. No one feels good about the wicked.
Speaker 1: You can't go anywhere where they celebrate the wicked. All this,
Speaker 1: I'm sure very comforting for Job. And then twenty one.
Speaker 1: Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous? Such is
Speaker 1: the place of him who knows not God. Wow, I
Speaker 1: kind of was getting the picture, you know, when you
Speaker 1: were telling me basically that I was going to hell,
Speaker 1: but you just went ahead and said it. So he's saying,
Speaker 1: where you're going is where you deserve to go, and
Speaker 1: that place is where all the ungodly go, and that's
Speaker 1: where you belong. Now, I want you to think about this.
Speaker 1: He has just described Job as as someone who is
Speaker 1: un righteous, and he is looking for them to comfort him,
Speaker 1: and he can't. He can't find it. This is a
Speaker 1: this is a word that says you don't know God,
Speaker 1: and the place where you should go is the place
Speaker 1: of the ungodly. Mhm. And he's just looking at him.
Speaker 1: And really what you're seeing here is he's talking about
Speaker 1: how gaunt he looks how if you look at the
Speaker 1: words here, he's emaciated, he's he's dying, and he looks scared,
Speaker 1: he looks grotesque, and he's basically saying to job, you'll
Speaker 1: never find comfort because you're unrighteous and you know not God.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? I mean, have you ever had anyone
Speaker 1: say that to You've ever had anyone say that? But yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you claim to be redeemed, but I think
Speaker 1: I think you're going to hell. I don't think you
Speaker 1: know God. You know. It's one thing for somebody to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I didn't like something you did. I think it's something
Speaker 1: you I may I disagree on something you said. But
Speaker 1: what if somebody just looked at you and you said,
Speaker 1: I think you're lost. All this time i've known you, you've
Speaker 1: been a fraud, and I know that now because you're suffering.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought you were right with God when
Speaker 1: you were. You had all the riches, you had, all
Speaker 1: these children, you had all this stuff. But it's obvious,
Speaker 1: based on artheology, if all this has been taken away
Speaker 1: from you and you're sitting here all gaunt and diseased
Speaker 1: and ying, that God would not be doing that to
Speaker 1: people that know him, he would not be doing that
Speaker 1: to righteous people. You made a claim that you were righteous,
Speaker 1: but all I see is the evidence of the unrighteous.
Speaker 1: But the problem is their definition of righteous and unrighteous
Speaker 1: is wrong, but they don't know it. This is where
Speaker 1: you could just start screaming at the screen. You're in
Speaker 1: the story. Somebody, somebody set this right. Well, Job's faith
Speaker 1: is being tested like no other, and what he says
Speaker 1: next is going to show while God trusted him, and
Speaker 1: it's not going to get his friends to stop for
Speaker 1: a while. I guess. I guess that when we look
Speaker 1: at this, we have to say, no matter how much
Speaker 1: people bang on us and beat on us and lie
Speaker 1: about us and make accusations about us, we just can't
Speaker 1: give in. We have to keep clinging to what we
Speaker 1: know is true, and we keep having to go to
Speaker 1: God and say, I wish you would clear this up,
Speaker 1: but I have faith that at some point you will,
Speaker 1: and whatever your timeline is is okay with me. Now Again,
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask this before we close, and I'll
Speaker 1: close this in prayer. I'm fine with us being job right.
Speaker 1: Here a lot to learn, but we need to be
Speaker 1: learning from Bill Dad too, because let's be Sure, let's
Speaker 1: don't ever get to the point as we're growing spiritually. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is important, and I'm saying this to myself too.
Speaker 1: Let's don't ever get to the point that we think
Speaker 1: that we know it all. I've got God figured out,
Speaker 1: I've learned it and know what the Bible says about everything.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. But in my sanctification process,
Speaker 1: I've had to go back and clean some things up
Speaker 1: that I had wrong the more I studied the Bible.
Speaker 1: It's also a challenge that if you're not studying the Bible,
Speaker 1: you have a really good risk of being wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: you really don't need to be pontificating to somebody about
Speaker 1: something you don't know what you're talking about. And so
Speaker 1: we need to also make sure that we're not still
Speaker 1: walking around with the things that we thought, you know,
Speaker 1: from the flannel board at vacation Bible School, about these
Speaker 1: historic moments in scripture. Sure, maybe as a grown man,
Speaker 1: it's time for us to learn a little more about
Speaker 1: it so that we don't go out and see things
Speaker 1: that aren't true. Let's pray Lord, thank you for today,
Speaker 1: thank You for the ongoing teaching and sanctification. None of
Speaker 1: us have arrived. If the apostle Paul said he had
Speaker 1: not arrived, then I think that would be kind of
Speaker 1: lofty of any of us, any of us to think
Speaker 1: we have. We've been Joe, but we've also been built
Speaker 1: at and we need to assess ourselves to make sure
Speaker 1: that we are ministering to our friends the way you
Speaker 1: called us to do it, and approaching a fellow center
Speaker 1: with that mindset. Hey, I'm just a beggar, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to help you define where the bread is not
Speaker 1: the sanctimonious. I know it all, and because I know
Speaker 1: so much, you must be wrong. We're not trying to
Speaker 1: win arguments here. We're trying to all cling to good
Speaker 1: theology through the discernment of the Holy Spirit. Teach us, Lord,
Speaker 1: help us to be able to handle the word of
Speaker 1: God appropriately as a weapon against evil, but not as
Speaker 1: a weapon against our friends. May we approach them with
Speaker 1: the right attitude, humble and willing to help. In your
Speaker 1: Holy name, we pray Amen. Thanks guys,