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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. We are so glad

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Speaker 1: that you are with us today. My name is Rick Burgess.

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Speaker 1: I'll be walking us through the Book of Joe begin today.

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Speaker 1: We'll be in chapter thirty six. If you want to

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Speaker 1: go ahead and turn there and be set up and

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Speaker 1: ready to go. We are in the studios of my

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Speaker 1: day job, the Rick Burgess Show. You can find out

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Speaker 1: everything about that by going to Rick burgesshow dot com.

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Speaker 1: This Bible study is part of a greater strategy. It

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Speaker 1: started out now this Bible study because we're just doing

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Speaker 1: books of the Bible. Women are certainly invited to join

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Speaker 1: us on all of our different options, but here in

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Speaker 1: the room, it's all men because it started as just

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Speaker 1: a men's Bible study, which then grew into what is

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Speaker 1: now Themanchurch dot com. Over twenty four hundred churches all

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Speaker 1: the full strategy, which features high challenge in the form

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Speaker 1: of events and conferences. And we have speakers that we

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Speaker 1: curriculum and resources designed for men, men and women, of

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Speaker 1: course being equal in value but beautifully distinct. And we

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Speaker 1: have a forty week curricula. We have six of those

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Speaker 1: number of individual resources in the forms of devotionals in books.

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Speaker 1: All those can be found at the Manchurch dot com.

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to go there, you can contact us.

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Speaker 1: We'll help you with that. If you'd like to implement

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Speaker 1: a men's strategy that is sustainable and is producing great

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Speaker 1: fruit all over the country. Of course, the strategies right

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Speaker 1: out of the Bible, so no surprise that it actually

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Speaker 1: works if implemented, and it is easy to implement, so

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Speaker 1: we'll help you with that. Also our conferences, we have

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Speaker 1: two more coming up in twenty twenty six Birmingham, twenty third,

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Speaker 1: Early access is all but gone at this point, but

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Speaker 1: you can still check to see if there's still some available.

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Speaker 1: You can find those by going to Themanchurch dot com.

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Speaker 1: So let's open up in a word of prayer, and

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Speaker 1: let's jump right into job chapter thirty six. Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for today, thank you for the men that are

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Speaker 1: here in the room, and they're encouraging faces week after week,

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Speaker 1: year after year. We always welcome new faces to join

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Speaker 1: us as well. Lord, I'm so thankful for those that

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Speaker 1: are now watching this all over the world, whether that

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Speaker 1: be live or on the archive or listening to our archive,

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Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. We know that you have

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Speaker 1: orchestrated their ears to be leaning into what you have

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Speaker 1: to say today. And Lord, you are perfect. I am not,

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Speaker 1: help us to discern through that same filter, the filter

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Speaker 1: of perfection in your presence, the Holy Spirit. In the

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Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ, we pray Amen. So here we

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Speaker 1: are Alai who is still going. He is just about done.

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Speaker 1: this younger man's last attempt to persuade Job that his

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Speaker 1: him to repent. It has no recorded effect that we have.

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Speaker 1: This will prepare us and Job for the revelation of God,

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Speaker 1: and all the people are done, and then we're going

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Speaker 1: of course is sovereign. God is perfect, God is all knowing.

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Speaker 1: So what you're going to see is a lie who

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Speaker 1: And so so anyway, I think if I were just say,

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Speaker 1: he thinks that job is being his complaining against God

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Speaker 1: so I don't think this is a problem about him

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Speaker 1: going to continue. Now, Notice, go back to thirty five.

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Speaker 1: think about it. And so he continues, and he said,

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Speaker 1: That's fine, I'm okay with that. Verse three. I will

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Speaker 1: You know? I was talking about this Sunday. Yes, it

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Speaker 1: the bread is, the bread of life, life is Jesus,

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Speaker 1: God's brought him through a number of things. We know

427
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Speaker 1: that he's sold out for Jesus and Paul, apparently, because

428
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Speaker 1: God knows us better than anybody, needed this not to

429
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Speaker 1: become arrogant. He kept him down, kept him humble. Now, Now,

430
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Speaker 1: what would a lie who do with that theology? The

431
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Speaker 1: apostle Paul had to be humbled and you and I

432
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: don't think we have to be humbled sometimes. I mean,

433
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's how about it's I think it's arrogant

434
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Speaker 1: to think that you don't ever need to be humbled.

435
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Speaker 1: I mean, I look, I struggle with it, there's no

436
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Speaker 1: question and uh. And now God has taught me some

437
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Speaker 1: incredible lessons and has has broken me down to the

438
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Speaker 1: point that the thing that gets me so much, and

439
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: I think about Paul and Roman seven, it gets to

440
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Speaker 1: me so much. And maybe you're the same way I am,

441
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Speaker 1: brothers and sisters out there. God has taught me incredible

442
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Speaker 1: lessons that were crystal clear and changed my life forever.

443
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Speaker 1: But it but but as time goes on, there's days

444
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Speaker 1: that I come back and go, I cannot believe the

445
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: attitude I took today, after all you've taught me. I

446
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Speaker 1: cannot believe the way I acted today, after all you've

447
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,679
Speaker 1: taught me? How How how could I not have handled

448
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: that situation today better? After all you've taught me? And

449
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: now we're back to tewod Peter again. Because you have

450
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: a sin nature and you live in a sinful world,

451
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Speaker 1: don't ever. You know, it's just like anything you can

452
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: you can take it to the physical, but the same

453
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: thing with the spiritual. You got to keep feeding it.

454
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Speaker 1: You got to keep spiritually you got to keep spiritually healthy,

455
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: you got to keep getting stronger, you got to keep growing.

456
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Speaker 1: You haven't studied the Bible enough. You have, you haven't

457
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Speaker 1: done these spiritual disciplines enough. You got to keep doing them.

458
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Speaker 1: Not because you haven't been redeemed, because you want to

459
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Speaker 1: finish well and you don't want to compromise Christ by

460
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Speaker 1: by having bad moments, and you want to keep becoming

461
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Speaker 1: more like him. But that doesn't happen. Just kind of

462
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Speaker 1: hanging out has nothing to do with a works based redemption. No, no, no,

463
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Speaker 1: we're talking about fruitfulness. We're talking about impact. Uh, we're

464
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't go any further if you look at

465
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Speaker 1: one that's really simple. You've heard me say this a

466
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Speaker 1: thousand times, but I have to learn things simply, and

467
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Speaker 1: I think maybe the gifts that God's given me is

468
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Speaker 1: to try to simplify it for people like me. But

469
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't need to go to the seminary

470
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Speaker 1: to understand that. If Jesus told me as his disciple,

471
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Speaker 1: to teach the world all that he's commanded. I have

472
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Speaker 1: to know what he commanded. That's just simple Calhoun County

473
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: stuff right there. Right Jesus, did you say teach all

474
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Speaker 1: you commanded? I did, so I guess I need to

475
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Speaker 1: know it. Probably, I bet you do. I can't teach

476
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Speaker 1: something I don't know, right, So I guess I need

477
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Speaker 1: to know this since I'm supposed to teach it. Right.

478
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Speaker 1: So so that that's the kind of stuff that you

479
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Speaker 1: can't get around. So h a lie who continues with

480
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Speaker 1: this with his you know, his conditions and his results.

481
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Speaker 1: So he says, that's uh that that God's to teach

482
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Speaker 1: you a lesson by letting you struggle. And anybody who

483
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Speaker 1: struggles he opens their ears to instruction. I'm in verse

484
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Speaker 1: ten now and commands that they returned from iniquity. He's saying,

485
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Speaker 1: it's correction, not punishment. It's correction. It's a call for

486
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Speaker 1: you to repent and to be more obedient. Verse eleven.

487
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Speaker 1: If they listen and serve him, they complete their days

488
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Speaker 1: in prosperity and their years and pleasantness. That's a bad

489
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Speaker 1: theology right there. Now. He's showing he's orthodox on the

490
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Speaker 1: theology of the day. But this is true what he's saying.

491
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Speaker 1: That what he's saying is true of an unregenerated sinner.

492
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Speaker 1: It's just not true of Job. Now, one part about

493
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: it that he gets right that is true, and that

494
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Speaker 1: is that if a sinner listens to God and decides

495
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Speaker 1: to serve God and decides to own the problem, then

496
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: they cannot complete their days in prosperity and their years

497
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Speaker 1: in pleasantness. Their eternity would be in prosperity, and their

498
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: eternity would be in pleasantness, but not their life here

499
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Speaker 1: on earth. There's no guarantee of that. Now, you will

500
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Speaker 1: have a peace that defies all understanding. Yes, but it

501
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: doesn't mean life's going to be easy. It doesn't mean

502
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Speaker 1: that at all. And keep in mind he's saying that

503
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Speaker 1: Job needs to do this, but Job doesn't need to

504
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Speaker 1: repent of anything verse twelve. But if they don't listen,

505
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Speaker 1: they perish by the sword and they die without knowledge.

506
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Speaker 1: That's the opposite of what he presented in eleven. The

507
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: opposite then would also be true Job. If one does

508
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Speaker 1: not repent, then that means that they perish by the

509
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Speaker 1: sword and they die without knowledge. Well, It's true that

510
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: they perish, there's no doubt about that. It may or

511
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: may not be by the sword. But again, this would

512
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Speaker 1: not apply to Job. Thirteen, The godless heart cherish anger,

513
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Speaker 1: and they do not cry for help when he binds them.

514
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: The wicked are slow learners. They get angry, they won't

515
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Speaker 1: cry out for help. They're stubborn. Now, I wonder who's

516
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: directing that at I think that Job, first of all,

517
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Speaker 1: has cried out for help several times and he doesn't

518
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Speaker 1: know why he's not getting it. He is he saying

519
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Speaker 1: the godless in heart. That would not apply to Job

520
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Speaker 1: at all. Now, he is right that people who are

521
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: godless in heart, that they do tend to be angry.

522
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Speaker 1: They don't ask God for help. They are defiant when

523
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Speaker 1: he binds them. That's true. Fourteen, here comes another thing

524
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Speaker 1: that's really not true. They die in youth and their

525
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Speaker 1: life ends among the cult prostitutes. So what this means

526
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Speaker 1: the cult prostitute. There's much discussion about that. That's not

527
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Speaker 1: think that. What he's saying is those wicked people. He

528
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Speaker 1: says they die young. That's not true. I've seen wicked

529
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Speaker 1: people who live a really long time. Back to God's

530
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Speaker 1: grace on that. But in that time that theology, they

531
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Speaker 1: believed that somebody died young it was of course there

532
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Speaker 1: was something wicked about them. They thought part of living

533
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Speaker 1: the right life was a long earthly life. And then

534
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Speaker 1: what he's saying at the end about the cult prostitutes

535
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Speaker 1: is that they die in shame. That's really all he's saying.

536
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: He's not saying that they literally become cult prostitutes or

537
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Speaker 1: anything like that. This was very common in the pagan religions,

538
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: and most of these cult prostitutes when they would die,

539
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: and they died, often they were just buried off in someplace.

540
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: That he's saying, if you're unrepentant and your life ends,

541
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Speaker 1: you will die in shame, just like a cult prostitute would,

542
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: or anyone who died in shame. It's just an example

543
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: of dying in shame. So next he says he delivers

544
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Speaker 1: the afflicted by their and opens their ear by adversity. Well, yeah,

545
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: God does use difficulty to get our attention, He does

546
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: difficulty to teach us things, He does difficulty to make

547
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: us more dependent on him. Does he open our ears?

548
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: He does? Uh? And but here's here's the problem. What

549
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 1: he's saying to Job, right here, does God have your

550
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: attention yet? Are you listening yet? Because this is why

551
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: he does these things, And I want to know whether

552
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: your ears have been opened. Again, Job gives no answer.

553
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: I think Job is just done with defending himself at

554
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: this point. So now he's going to get into God's

555
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: discipline to Job. Sixteen through twenty one a lot who's

556
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: going to get tougher on Job. And it's it gets

557
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable here because now he turns and he

558
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: just says, he also allured you out of distress into

559
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: a broad place where there was no crap, and what

560
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: was set on your table was full of fatness. I'm

561
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: talking to you now, Job, he God, your troubles are

562
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: God's judgment, evil, marriage, punishment, good brings blessings. But repentance

563
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: can turn wrath into wealth, and can turn a curse

564
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: into grace, can turn death into life. All true, it

565
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: just doesn't apply to Job. So once again, I'm sure

566
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Speaker 1: Job's like, yeah, I believe all that. I hear you.

567
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. So then he goes to seventeen.

568
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: He says, but you are full of judgment on the

569
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: wicked judgment and justice have now seized you. Added now

570
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: has seized you. But no, you wouldn't repent, Joe. You

571
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: know everything I just say is true and you haven't

572
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: done any of it. So you're now in the grip

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Speaker 1: of the law of God, who always gives people what

574
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Speaker 1: they deserve. Not true, not in the New Covenant. How

575
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: many of you are glad that God didn't give you

576
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: what you deserve? Yeah, my hand is up, you know,

577
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: of course, I know Dave Ramsey's not the only person

578
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: to say that. But when he says that I'm better

579
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: than I deserve, he's He's speaking absolute truth that any

580
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Speaker 1: of us could say that on our worst day, if

581
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Speaker 1: we are redeemed, we are not getting what we deserve.

582
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: But a lot who says, now God hands out what

583
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 1: is deserved. And you had a shot and that windows

584
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: closing job. Beware, look at this, Beware less wrath entice

585
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Speaker 1: you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the

586
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: ransom turn you aside. Hey, don't let your love of

587
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: money convince you to scoff and consider wealth is or

588
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: as they answered all your problems. And he says, you know,

589
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: the ransom that God is requiring of you don't let

590
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: that make you angry at him now, don't think you

591
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: can buy him off. That's what he goes on and

592
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: says in nineteen look at this. Will you cry for help?

593
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: Will your cry for help of l to keep you

594
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Speaker 1: from distress and all the force of your strength. What

595
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: he's saying is you cannot buy your way out of

596
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Speaker 1: this job. God took away every ounce of wealth you

597
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: might have started thinking your wealth gave you confidence and

598
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: somehow you could just do anything and then buy your

599
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: way out of it. And you're not going to buy

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00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: your way out of this job. Twenty. Do not long

601
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Speaker 1: for the night when peoples vanish in their place. Don't

602
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: just long for this for it to take you into

603
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: a darkness and disappear, and then you think that's going

604
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: to have you. You know this is going to solve

605
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: your problem, which you know. Job has said that he's

606
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 1: kind of he just wants to kind of be dead,

607
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: and he says, be careful with that. What you need

608
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: to do with what's going on is not go deeper

609
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: into darkness. Job. You need to respond by returning to

610
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: the light. That's what you need to do. Don't long

611
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: for the night when when when people vanish in their place.

612
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: You don't, You shouldn't yearn for that. You've said that

613
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: a few times. What you need to do is you

614
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: need to return back to the light. Now we know

615
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: that Job doesn't need to return to the light. Certainly

616
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: he's starting to get, you know, in a place where

617
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: he longs for this just to be over. So again

618
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: he's hearing something that does not apply to him. Take care,

619
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: do not turn to iniquity for this. You have chosen

620
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: rather than affliction. Don't turn to evil by complaining about

621
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: this to God. Don't complain to God or about God.

622
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: Job would rather suffer and challenge God's justice, then simply repent.

623
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Speaker 1: Why are you choosing this? But Job knew his integrity.

624
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: Now this is where it gets real complicated here. I

625
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: want you to think for a minute. Job knows his

626
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: integrity so well he considers it a sin because think

627
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: about it. I know I have this in my life.

628
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: I have some conflicts with people in my own life,

629
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Speaker 1: in my own family that I could solve by just

630
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: compromising God. It could be over like that if I

631
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: would just tell them what they want to hear. If

632
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: I would just go ahead and give in, that would

633
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: be the end of it, as far as you know,

634
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: having this conflict. But job knows what I know. But

635
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: if I do that just to make this go away,

636
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: I don't have integrity anymore. I'm now pretending something's true

637
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Speaker 1: that isn't just to get these people off my back,

638
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: because what they're demanding of me would actually be another

639
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: way of me compromising God by giving in to it.

640
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: Think about being in that situation. So now this is

641
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: the part I was telling you about where he kind

642
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: of becomes the uh, the person who's going to introduce

643
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: Have you ever been if you've ever been anywhere, and

644
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: you've ever been in a situation where you speak before

645
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: you do things, you always get there and go okay,

646
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: am I up? After this next song? Is somebody introducing me,

647
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 1: you know? And I've had there's been so many times

648
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: that it's obvious the person introducing me has no idea

649
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: who I am, you know, and and so it's uh.

650
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 1: And I've heard some of the most interesting introductions before.

651
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: I had a funny one on Sunday night that when

652
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: I was talking about with a long friend and so

653
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: he's he's the one that had me come speaking. He's

654
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: sitting there and I said, how many? How many songs?

655
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: He said, one? Just one song? I said, okay. So

656
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,720
Speaker 1: the song starts ending, and I start getting my Bible

657
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: and I keep my phone with that stopwatch to time it.

658
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: And of course some people think I put it there

659
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:09,479
Speaker 1: for no reason. But anyway, so I'm getting I'm getting

660
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: bottle of water, and I mean, the song's ending, and

661
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: I noticed the praise team's not leaving. They're not starting

662
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: that where they pray and everybody walks off, you know,

663
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: and I kind of look at my buddy. He looks

664
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: back at me, and they start. You hear the keyboard going,

665
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: he goes are two songs. So anyway, so right now,

666
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: Ali who is starting the anticipated He didn't know it,

667
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: the anticipated appearance of God with this introduction starting in

668
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: twenty two. Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who

669
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: is a teacher like him? You know what we say

670
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: to that to young alaihu Amen, I mean he's shifting

671
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: to a description of God the creator. That God is transcendent,

672
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: God is mighty. It's impossible to explain God. There are

673
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 1: no words. Now, remember though, that he's still speaking to Job,

674
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: which is important. He's telling Job who teaches like God?

675
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: He is exalted in power, which is something job knows

676
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: twenty three who has prescribed for him his way or

677
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: who can say you have done wrong? Well, the answer

678
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: that's no one. We know that you can't question God.

679
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,479
Speaker 1: But here's the problem that Elihu has too. He's kind

680
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: of adding, unofficially, you can't question ur theology. Well, that's

681
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: actually not true, you know. It's it was one thing

682
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: that I was taught early on the by John Lennox,

683
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,959
Speaker 1: who's gone out in a great apologetic defending the faith

684
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: all over the world. And he cautioned me early on.

685
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: He said, you know, and for some reason, when someone

686
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: cautions you, you know, in an Irish accent, it just

687
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: it seems cooler and uh and and he was just saying,

688
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: you know, be real careful about making bold proclamations about

689
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: theology until you've really, really, really studied it. And uh

690
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: and he said, because you could find in your sanctification

691
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: process and your maturation you having to come back and say, oh,

692
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: by the way, I was wrong about that. I didn't

693
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: I didn't understand that. So you know, don't don't make

694
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: bold proclamations when you're new to the you know, the

695
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: process of teaching and learning. You know, give these things time, really,

696
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: really weigh them out. Be sure they're consistent with everything

697
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: that's going on with scripture, because God's not inconsistent. Now

698
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: there's gonna be and and and I was also taught

699
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: by people who taught me is there's nothing wrong with

700
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: saying I don't know, I'll try to find the answer,

701
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: or I don't think God has answered that he did.

702
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: There's some things God doesn't answer you. You we believe

703
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: by faith, and now we want to know everything He

704
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 1: has allowed to to know absolutely. But it's okay. And

705
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: of course I've already told you this one and another

706
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: great Bible teachers said it's okay to speculate. You just

707
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: need to tell everybody you're speculating. So in this case,

708
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: he Elihu is in good shape. But he's starting to

709
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: now say that the theology of the day can't be questioned,

710
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: and that's just not true. So in twenty four he says,

711
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: you know, remember to extol his work, of which men

712
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 1: have sung. His work speaks for itself. Job. We sing

713
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: about these things, We sing about these things, the things

714
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: that he's done. We sing about why are you questioning God?

715
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: Which job is not questioning who God is. He is

716
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: questioning what is God doing? Right? And that's okay. I mean,

717
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: I can remember vividly. I've told you guys this before,

718
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, right when I got the news that my

719
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: youngest son had died his earthly death. As soon as

720
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: I stepped on that plane to go home from where

721
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: I was, the first thing that I uttered in the

722
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 1: plane was not something against God. I honestly just asked

723
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: an honest question, what are you doing and what are

724
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: you trying to teach me? Man? I really, I really,

725
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: I really would like to know what's going on here.

726
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: And I know that you're you haven't abandoned us. I

727
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: know that you were there during all of this. Well,

728
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: I don't want to miss what I'm supposed to know,

729
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: you know, So what what are you doing? I didn't say, like,

730
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: what do you doing? Shaking my finger at him. I'm

731
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,760
Speaker 1: not that stupid. I was just, honestly, as a child

732
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: to a father, saying, hey, give me some help here,

733
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: give me the words I need, help me to know

734
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: what you're doing and teach me everything I'm supposed to

735
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: to learn. And how about this God did? But here

736
00:43:55,840 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: he is? That's all really job has done, and he's

737
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: kind of getting something from Elaihu that he's saying. I

738
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: thought we all agreed on the things that God has done.

739
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: And I think Job, if he would have answered here,

740
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: would have said, well, yeah, this is a different deal,

741
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: because remember, Job knows something that these other men don't know,

742
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: and that is that he's blameless. Twenty five. All mankind

743
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: has looked on it. Man beholds it from afar. We

744
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: can see everywhere his work speaks for itself. We sing

745
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: about it. Everywhere we look. We see God in his works.

746
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: And he's really going to start talking about the weather

747
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: a lot. Here is one of the things that we

748
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: would see. Look look out here, Job, look look around. Behold,

749
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: God is great twenty six and we know him not

750
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: the number of his years unsearchable. I mean, God cannot

751
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: be fathomed. He is beyond our understanding. And so this

752
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: really continues. What's next about these weather going into thirty seven?

753
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 1: But we're not going to go into thirty seven today.

754
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you just what's on this side

755
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: of thirty seven because we just don't have time. And

756
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: he says, for he draws up the drops of water,

757
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: they distill his mist in rain. God is behind the weather.

758
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: God is behind how it works. They have a little

759
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: better understanding of weather here in the Book of Job

760
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: than I would have thought. But he's saying, look, he

761
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: has the clouds, pull up the moisture. Then he lets

762
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: them know. He takes the clouds out, and he drops

763
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: the moisture on us. You know, I know some of us,

764
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know where we live, where

765
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: we're living right now, we're not sure we'll ever see

766
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: that again. We've been a little bit of a drought.

767
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: I did see rain yesterday. Did y'all see any of it.

768
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: I was at the farm and I saw the rain

769
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: come down, and that was kind of a cool feeling.

770
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: And it rained a little bit last weekend. So so,

771
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: but he's saying, look, if you watch God and all this,

772
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: you can just see him work. You ever done that?

773
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 1: You ever just looked at God in creation and said,

774
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: how can anybody not believe in him? I mean, look

775
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: at everything that's going on. So the weather is a

776
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: good thing to discuss. And they also knew that God

777
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: was on the one that could really control the weather.

778
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: Twenty eight and I'm sorry, yeah, twenty eight, which the

779
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly. Well, yes,

780
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,760
Speaker 1: sometimes abundantly, but sometimes not. But no doubt that God's

781
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: behind He brings the rain when we need it. Twenty

782
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: nine Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and

783
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: the thunderings of his pavilion? No? I mean, we have

784
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: some idea how all this works. But the bottom line

785
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: that's being asked here is he saying. He's saying, if

786
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: you look around, he's scattering all these things. Can we

787
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:51,399
Speaker 1: really understand how he makes these clouds? How he explained

788
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: how weather works. He's looking at Job and he goes,

789
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: can you Job tell us how all this works? Because

790
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: God does this? Since you know so much about God

791
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: that you're gonna question him, can you explain all the things?

792
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: What does this sound like God's resume coming up? I mean,

793
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: you see that Alai who is about to introduce God's point.

794
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: God makes all these points. We're going to go through

795
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: this again, but this time we're gonna hear him from God,

796
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,879
Speaker 1: which is a whole different deal. So he says, look

797
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: at thirty behold the scatters. He scatters his lightning about

798
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: him and covers the roots of the sea. The all

799
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: encompassing effects of a storm. It shakes the ocean, it

800
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: shakes it to its very roots, to its very core.

801
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: That look at the power job of the lightning. Look

802
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: at the power of his storms. Thirty one. For by

803
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: these he judges people's He gives food in abundance. By

804
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: controlling the weather, God exercises his dominion over the world

805
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 1: job and its inhabitants. He governs the weather, He governs

806
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: the ability to even grow food and eat it. He

807
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: is governing all of this. Who in the world are

808
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: you to have anything to say to God? Don't you

809
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: see how we are, how we look compared to him?

810
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: And I will tell you know, I agree with a

811
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: lie who here. If you've ever been in rough weather,

812
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:19,760
Speaker 1: you feel real small, real quick, real small, real quick.

813
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: The devastation of weather is overwhelming. It really, really truly

814
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: is so. Then he gets into thirty two, and he

815
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: said he covers his hands with the lightning and commands

816
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: it to strike the mark. Well, he's saying a lot

817
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 1: more here than weather. Now he's saying lightning bolts are

818
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 1: in his hands, and he releases those boats just like weapons.

819
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: And he's also saying something and if he throws one

820
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: at somebody. Then they had it coming. What happened to

821
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: all the kids destroyed by weather? Now again back in

822
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: the very beginning, if you didn't weren't here with us,

823
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: then we all sat here and kind of pondered, Okay,

824
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: if the weather killed Job's kids and Satan killed the kids,

825
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: and God drew the boundary, can Satan also control the weather?

826
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 1: You know, the boundary is set by God. But if

827
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: he allows Satan to control the weather, can he? Apparently so?

828
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: So either that or you think that God through the

829
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: storm in there and killed his kids, or do he

830
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: allow Satan to use the weather. That's the thing I

831
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: caution people about all the time because and I've heard

832
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: great teachers teach me this is and we're studying this

833
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: in the Gospel of Mark at church right now. You

834
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: got to watch the set with Signs and Wonders. We're

835
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: also doing the Strange Encounters podcast because the demons and

836
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: Satan they are supernatural as well. Now they the you know,

837
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: the there's there's hierarchy and the angels. We've studied that.

838
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: We talked about that in our study of Daniel. God

839
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: is far reaching. I mean, Satan is nothing but a

840
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: created being by God Lucifer, and he's a big problem

841
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: for us. He's not a problem for God at all.

842
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 1: There's a big gap from the creator to the created. However,

843
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: angels and demons have supernatural abilities that we don't have.

844
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: And so just remember that because sometimes signs and wonders.

845
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: If you say it's okay to say pray for miracles,

846
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: they are not all. You know, God's gonna do what

847
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do, and he does miraculous things. That's different

848
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Speaker 1: than praying for a sign for God to prove himself.

849
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: You got to show me something, because you remember when

850
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Speaker 1: Jesus the Pharisees kept prassing him on that. He was like,

851
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: no signs for you this generation, My goodness, ll y'all

852
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: have seen the virgin birth. You've seen all the things

853
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: that Isaiah told you to be looking for, and Jeremiah

854
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: told you to be looking for. I've done all those things.

855
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: Everything that Isaiah said I should be doing, I'm doing.

856
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: Y'all should know this. And you're gonna stand here and

857
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: ask me for another sign. Uh, And he says, this

858
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: generation gets no sign because y'all have had a bunch

859
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: of them. Okay, no more signs, So be careful if

860
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: you get into a I want to see this supernatural thing,

861
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: so I will believe in God. That's completely different than

862
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: praying for God to work. Okay, because be careful with that,

863
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: because Satan may hear that and say I got a

864
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: sign for you, and uh and and and before you

865
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: know it, you have seen a sign and a wonder,

866
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: but it didn't come from God. So be very careful

867
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: with that, especially if you're kind of obsessed with it.

868
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: So next he says thirty two, He covers his hands

869
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Speaker 1: with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark

870
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: thirty three. It crashes. It's crashing, declares his presence the cattle.

871
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 1: Also declare that he rises kind of an odd ad

872
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: on the cattle there, but the crashing the thunder, that's thunder.

873
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: When you hear thunder, that that's God declaring his presence.

874
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: All that thunder that we hear. Now you think is

875
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 1: he's saying in the cattle responding to the thunder. He

876
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: really isn't what he's saying here. It's kind of an

877
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: awkward move with the original language into the English. He's

878
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,720
Speaker 1: trying to also, because remember this goes on through thirty

879
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: seven for about another thirteen verses or so this same theme,

880
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: and we'll get some more of that next week. But

881
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: what he's saying is, look at all the cattle out there.

882
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: This is God again in his resume, he's talking about

883
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: animal kingdom and the thunder, the lightning and the cattle.

884
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: You know that all that shows him. He's not saying

885
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: the cattle's reaction to under He's just saying, the cattle

886
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: also represent creation, the animal kingdom. God also did that.

887
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: So really, what you have here is a lie who

888
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: saying that all this declares the majesty of God. And

889
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: he's right, He's completely right. And so next week we're

890
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 1: going to finish a lia who proclaiming God's majesty. And

891
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: then the week after that, Lord Willing, we're gonna hear

892
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: from God the and I think we need to Really

893
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: that's big that we you know, I know that he's

894
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: inspired all these words that we get. But then there's

895
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 1: places like you know, the rest of job, where it's

896
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: it's not people you know, declaring truths about God and

897
00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 1: saying here's what I've been inspired to teach you. We're

898
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: going to have a writer of the Bible that is

899
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 1: going to say I have access to God's exact words

900
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: when he decided to come on the scene and speak

901
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: directly to these people. And here's what he said directly.

902
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,399
Speaker 1: It's kind of like you think about the while we

903
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: love so much. You know, you remember we were studying

904
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: First Corinthians. How many of you in that one? And

905
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul is saying, hey, we're getting factions right now.

906
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 1: We got people more enamored with the speaker than who

907
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,279
Speaker 1: we're speaking on behalf of Some of y'all want Apollos,

908
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: and some of y'all like me, and some of y'all

909
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,919
Speaker 1: like Peter. And you remember we were trying to figure

910
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: out what all those represented, and we said Apollos represented

911
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: the eloquent speakers that we just love to hear. My goodness,

912
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: I love to hear that person. I'd like to hear

913
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: him read the phone book. That was kind of like Apollos.

914
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: And then you had Paul that that's you know, I'm

915
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: an intellect if I know what, I hang out with

916
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul, and I'm being taught by the very

917
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 1: highly educated Apostle Paul. Well, that's your intellects, your stuffies,

918
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: your you know, the people that that they want to

919
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: They want to talk about how deep and how educated

920
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: Paul was, and that's there. They preferred that teacher because

921
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: of his education. And remember us trying to figure out,

922
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 1: so what's the deal with the Fisherman celebrity. That's the

923
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: celebrity speaker. He was with Jesus. And he wasn't just

924
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: with Jesus. He wasn't just in the twelve. He was

925
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: in the three uh okay, and you could argue after

926
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: James went up pretty quick got down to the two

927
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 1: uh and uh. And he was one of Jesus's closest friends,

928
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: and he told us exactly what Jesus said and did.

929
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: So there's those things. Well we're about to hear directly

930
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: from God and uh and and coming up week after

931
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: next and and and and I will tell you that

932
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 1: it's going to be a moment when God takes ali

933
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,759
Speaker 1: whose presentation uh and says uh. I'm going to ask

934
00:55:55,880 --> 00:56:01,240
Speaker 1: everybody a question. I'd like to know. I've been sitting

935
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: here listening to you people, and I'd like to know

936
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: who in the world is questioning me. That falls under

937
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:14,359
Speaker 1: the nice little warning be careful what you ask for

938
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: and what you pray for. Let's pray, Lord, thank you

939
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: for today. Thank you for these men and how encouraging

940
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 1: they are. Thank you Lord for all those that join

941
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: us for this, and thank you for just your holy

942
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: word of God, the fact that we have a revelation

943
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 1: about you. We see a lot of flawed people, but

944
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: we see a perfect and wonderful God. Help us to

945
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: glean from it all that you intended. And may we

946
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: never forget, never forget, no matter how flawed a lie

947
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: who may be, and why he's telling Job this. He

948
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: doesn't understand Job, but he has a pretty good understanding

949
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: of the majesty of You. And may today be the

950
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: day that we sit back and we look at all

951
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: the things that were pointed out today and we cling

952
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: to that wonderful hemp. How great is our God. We

953
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: are not wonderful, but you are. And thank you for

954
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: allowing us access to you. Thank you for offering us

955
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: grace and mercy if we're willing to repent. Thank you,

956
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: Lord for being slow to anger. In your holy name,

957
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: we pray Amen.